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1.5 "Groundwater Withdrawal Permit" means a permit issued by the EAA under Section 1.15(b) of the EAA Act authorizing the withdrawal of groundwater from the Aquifer. 1.6 "Non- Contributing Participant" means the holder of Permitted Edwards Groundwater Rights, or the Transferor of an Exempt Well, who has not entered into an initial commitment contract with the EAA, but subsequently participates in the Conservation Program by implementing one or more of the conservation services, techniques or measures identified in Section 5.1.3.2 of the HCP, and has been determined by the Board, after consultation with the Committee, to have conserved Edwards groundwater in the previous calendar year. 1.7 "Permitted Edwards Groundwater Rights" or ( "Permit ") means Initial Regular Permits or Regular Permits issued by the EAA for municipal or industrial use. For purposes of this definition, "Initial Regular Permit" means a Groundwater Withdrawal Permit issued by the EAA under Section 1.16(d) of the EAA Act. For purposes of this definition, "Regular Permit" means a Groundwater Withdrawal Permit issued by the EAA after August 12, 2008, resulting from a sale or amendment of an Initial Regular Permit, or the consolidation of two or more such Permits. 1.8 "Regional Conservation Monitoring Committee" or "Committee" means the committee established by the EAA pursuant to Section 5.1.3.1 of the HCP. 1.9 "Trust Portion of the Permit" means the portion of the Permit transferred into the Groundwater Trust pursuant to Section 4.0(a), except as may have been released pursuant to Section 9.0. 2.0 Term 2.1 In General This Contract is effective and commences on September 15, 2013 and terminates on September 15, 2023, subject only to the provisions of Section 2.2. No later than August 1, 2023, the Parties agree to consult with each other in good faith for the purpose of evaluating the effectiveness of the Contract and determining if the term of the Contract should be extended by mutual agreement of the Parties, and to make any other changes that the Parties determine to be appropriate. 2.2 Early Termination (a) This Contract may be terminated prior to the term stated in Section 2.1 due to decisions made pursuant to the Adaptive Management Process of the FMAI only as follows: ` For purposes of this Contract, "FMA" means the Funding and Management Agreement by and among the Edwards Aquifer Authority, the City of New Braunfels, the City of San Marcos, the City of San Antonio, acting by and through its San Antonio Water System Board of Trustees, and Texas State University to fund and manage the Habitat Conservation Plan for the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (eff. Jan. 1, 2012). "Adaptive Management Process" or "AMP" means the iterative process designed to develop information through monitoring and research, and the review and use of the