18 Schedules Sample Clauses

18 Schedules. On or before October 1 of each year, concurrently with the schedule submitted pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, the contractor shall submit in writing to the State a preliminary water delivery schedule, indicating the desired amounts of surplus water for each month of the subsequent six-year period beginning January 1 of the next succeeding year. The last five years of this preliminary surplus water delivery schedule shall be used by the State for planning and operations studies. If a contractor commits itself in writing at the time it submits its October 1 18 Added Amendment 10 (Amd 15 would have amended, but provision in that amd not met) schedule to guarantee payment of the cost of power required in the judgment of the State to furnish surplus water to it, the contractor shall have a prior right to have such power utilized for furnishing surplus water otherwise available to it pursuant to this article at a cost no higher than that which the State is obligated to pay at the time it orders such power, but it shall have no greater right or priority to receive surplus water. A contractor’s commitment may be for any part of the six-year period of its schedule, and the contractor will become bound by such commitment and become entitled to the prior right provided for in the preceding sentence only when the State, after consultation with the contractor, notifies the contractor in writing that it has ordered power based on the contractor’s commitment.