Service hereunder is available to Customers for firm or interruptible, service, and full or partial requirements for natural gas as stated in the Customer's Service Agreement. Customers requesting service for partial requirements must take the remainder of their gas requirements under the Company's applicable rate schedules for gas service. For Customers taking service hereunder in conjunction with any of the Company's transportation rate schedules, any gas served to the Customer under this Rate Schedule shall be considered first through the meter for billing purposes, unless otherwise agreed to between the Customer and the Company.

In order for the Company to properly arrange for procurement of supply, price and manage the daily supply for Customers for receiving service hereunder, the Company shall require that the Customer provide to the Company, as part of the Service Agreement under this rate schedule, Operating Plans and Average Daily Contract Quantities for each month of the contract period for service hereunder. The operating plans will consist of a schedule of daily volumes of gas to be supplied to the Customer by the Company under this rate schedule for each day of each month of the contract period. The Average Daily Contract Quantity will be a calculated value for each month of the contract period based on the submitted operating plans and number of days in the month.

Customers may submit changes to the monthly operating plans five (5) days prior to the time that nominations are required by the Company's delivering pipelines. Daily changes in operating plans must be supplied to the Company no later than the time required for nominations by the delivering pipeline(s). Operating plans must be resubmitted by Customers thirty (30) days prior to the beginning of each year that contracts are renewed for service under this Rate Schedule.