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<br />City of San Marcos/Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority <br />Water Treatment Facilities <br /> <br />Service Contract <br />Article I - Definitions and Interpretation <br /> <br />Fees and Costs, except as explicitly excluded or limited under any provision of this Service <br />Contract. <br /> <br />"Major Maintenance Repair and Replacement Schedule" has the meaning <br />specified in subsection 8.1(C). <br />"Materially" III the context of Changes in Law and Uncontrollable <br />Circumstances, means having a cost consequence to a party during a Contract Year of $1,500 <br />or more. Such costs will be subject to Cost Substantiation as described in Section 14.7. <br />"Operation and Maintenance Manual" means the manual and related computer <br />programs prepared by the Authority in accordance with Good Industry Practice, and generally <br />containing operating and maintenance procedures and other instructions, policies, directives, <br />routines, schedules and other matters relating to the Contract Services, maintained and <br />updated as required by Article VI and Appendix 3. <br />"Overdue Rate" means the maximum rate of interest permitted by the laws of the <br />State, if applicable, or the Prime Rate, whichever is lower. <br />"Pass-through Cost Component" has the meaning set forth in Section 10.4. <br />"Performance Guarantees" means the guarantees of performance made by the <br />Authority set forth in Article VII. <br />"Permits" means [1] the TCEQ authorization to operate the Plant and [2] the <br />Edwards Aquifer Authority permits for withdrawal of Edwards Aquifer water through the City's <br />wells. <br /> <br />"Plant" means the San Marcos Surface Water Treatment Plant and the real <br />property on which it is located described in Appendix 1, consisting generally of that separate <br />and contiguous part of the Water Treatment System comprising buildings, structures and <br />equipment, and the roads, grounds, fences and landscaping appurtenant thereto, utilized for <br />treatment of Raw Water, laboratory functions and administration and management of the <br />Facilities, including any Capital Modifications made thereto from time to time. The Plant is <br />located at 91 Old Bastrop Highway, San Marcos, Texas. <br />"Plant Site" means the parcel of real property described or referred to in <br />Appendix 1 on which the improvements constituting the Plant are located. <br />"PPI" means the Producer Price Index-Commodities published by the BLS, Not <br />Seasonally Adjusted, Finished Goods, Series I.D. WPUSOP3000, or similar data if the BLS <br />ceases to publish this index. <br />"Pre-Existing Environmental Condition" means, and is limited to, (1) the <br />presence anywhere in, on or under the Facilities on the Contract Date of undisclosed <br />underground storage tanks (for the storage of chemicals or petroleum products) that are not <br />then in use; and (2) the presence of Hazardous Materials or Regulated Substances in <br /> <br />11 <br />