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diff --git a/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java b/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java
index 51409b6f7..fa23f4a31 100644
--- a/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java
+++ b/PolicyEngineUtils/src/main/java/org/onap/policy/utils/PolicyUtils.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class PolicyUtils {
     public static String[] decodeBasicEncoding(String encodedValue) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
         if(encodedValue!=null && encodedValue.contains("Basic ")){
             String encodedUserPassword = encodedValue.replaceFirst("Basic"  + " ", "");
-            String usernameAndPassword = null;
+            String usernameAndPassword;
             byte[] decodedBytes = Base64.getDecoder().decode(encodedUserPassword);
             usernameAndPassword = new String(decodedBytes, "UTF-8");
             StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(usernameAndPassword, ":");