The Contract entered into between the Company and a Customer hereunder shall provide for a mutually acceptable initial term and extension thereof, if any.

Gas service furnished hereunder shall be measured by meters to be installed by the Company. When required by the Company, the Customer shall supply a fireproof building, or a fireproof room within a building, on the Customer's premises, in accordance with plans and specifications to be furnished by the Company. Such building or room is to house the meters, regulators and any other equipment to be installed by the Company for determining the amount of gas delivered to the Customer. Such building or room is to be well ventilated and provided by the Customer with electric light and such power as required by the Company for metering purposes.

Customers served hereunder shall assume the responsibility of providing for a supply of other fuels, if necessary, for use in the Customer's plant in the event the Company shall discontinue in whole or in part the supply of gas to said plant in accordance with the rights reserved by the Company so to do, subject to notice as hereinafter provided. The Customer shall furnish and install any and all equipment that may be necessary for the utilization of the gas by the Customer after it leaves the outlet of the Company's meter.

The rate or rates of delivery of gas purchased by any Customer hereunder and the pressure at which such gas is to be delivered shall be such as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Customer and specified in the contract between them.

The Company shall notify the Customer of its intention to begin delivery of gas, to make any material changes in the rate of delivery of the gas delivered or to discontinue or resume the delivery of gas hereunder as far as is practicable in advance of, and in any event not less than thirty (30) minutes before, any such beginning of delivery, change in rate of delivery or discontinuance or resumption of delivery and, subject to the giving of such notice, shall have the right at any time and from time to time to make any such changes in rate of delivery of the gas delivered, or to begin delivery, to discontinue or to resume delivery. The Company shall not be liable for any loss of production or for any damages whatsoever by reason of any such curtailment or interruption of service, whether due to the lack of advance notice or otherwise.

It is contemplated that the supply of gas to the Customer will be curtailed or interrupted from time to time. The Company is supplying and will supply large volume gas on an interruptible basis under contracts with a limited number of parties and the Company will, so far as practicable, undertake to rotate or proportionately allocate among its interruptible Customers such interruptible gas as may be available.

Customer agrees, by taking service under this rate schedule, that it can and will promptly curtail or cease the take of gas hereunder within the above notice period.

Any quantity of gas taken during periods of curtailment when notified by the Company to curtail usage shall be subject to a penalty of $1.00 per therm, except that the charge will be $6.00 per therm during any period identified by the Company as a Critical Period, such penalty to be billed in addition to the rate charges and applicable adjustments provided for in the rate schedule.