GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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                  manner and with all reasonable dispatch, nor shall such
                  causes or contingencies affecting such performance
                  relieve Customer, in whole or in part, from its
                  obligations to pay the monthly charges provided for in
                  Section 8 of these General Terms and Conditions.
   
      10.   PRIORITY OF SERVICE REQUESTS AND SERVICE AGREEMENTS
   
            10.1  FIRM STORAGE
   
                  (a)   Priority Of Request For Initial Firm Storage
                        Agreements: After notification, pursuant to
                        Section 13 of these General Terms and Conditions
                        hereof, that Seller has available firm Storage
                        capacity which is not subject to contract or is
                        released pursuant to Section 7 of Rate Schedule
                        FS, Seller will accept requests that Seller enter
                        into an Agreement for firm Storage Service.
                        Except as provided in Section 10.1(b) below, the
                        order of priority among such requests shall be
                        based upon the economic value of the transaction
                        to Seller, with the transaction producing the
                        greatest economic value having the highest
                        priority of request, provided, however, that
                        nothing herein shall require Seller to provide
                        service at any rates less than Seller's applicable
                        Maximum Rates, and provided further, that Seller
                        shall not be required to enter into Service
                        Agreements with terms of more than one Year unless
                        Customer has a long-term debt rating of at least
                        Baa3 according to Moody's Investors Service or
                        BBB- according to Standard & Poor's Corporation or
                        if its obligations to the Seller are guaranteed by
                        a person with a long-term debt rating equal to or
                        greater than stated above.  Economic value shall
                        be determined on the basis of the product of the
                        term of service in years in the request, (using a
                        term not to exceed twenty (20) years) and the
                        Reservation Charges for each year in the life of
                        the Agreement agreed to in the request by the
                        requesting party, discounted to present value by
                        the then-current interest rate determined in
                        accordance with Section 154.501(d) of the
                        Commission's Rules and Regulations.  The sum of
                        the present value for each year in the life of the
                        Agreement shall be the economic value of the
                        Agreement. In the event two or more bids with
                        equal economic values are received for combined
                        capacity in excess of the quantity of available
                        firm capacity, the capacity will be allocated on a
                        first come first served basis.