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A. Metropolitan's Storage Account Rights During any fiscal year of the term of this Agreement, Metropolitan may deliver up to 15,000 AF of Program Water for storage in the Program Basin with an equivalent amount to be accounted for in the Metropolitan Storage Account pursuant hereto; provided, however, that total Program Water stored on behalf of Metropolitan in the Program Basin, pursuant to this Agreement, shall never exceed the Maximum Storage Amount unless approved by the Program Agency. Deliveries shall be subject to the prior approval of the Program Agency pursuant to the policies described in subsection 5 below. Metropolitan shall not be obligated to pay any fees associated with basin utilization. 2. Metropolitan may make such deliveries to MWDOC, Anaheim and/or Santa Ana as provided in the Annual Operating Plan adopted by the Operating Committee on fifteen (15) days advance notice to both Member Agency and Program Agency. Program Agency will credit the Metropolitan Storage Account by the amount of Program Water delivered to MWDOC, Anaheim and/or Santa Ana. Upon notification by Metropolitan pursuant to Section VII(A)(2), Program Agency will either: (a) directly store the amount of any such delivery of Program Water in the Program Basin (e.g., by injection or spreading); or (b) store the amount of any such delivery of Program Water in the Program Basin by in lieu storage, i.e., by reducing pumping from the Program Basin by the amount of such delivery. 4. The quantity of Program Water delivered to the Metropolitan Storage Account in any given month shall be determined in accordance with the accounting methodology set forth in Exhibit F. 5. Metropolitan hereby acknowledges and agrees that (i) the Program Basin is not an adjudicated basin and this Agreement does not create any storage rights with respect to the Program Basin, and (ii) the Parties will not treat this Agreement as creating any storage right with respect to the Program Basin. B. Certification of Deliveries to Metropolitan Storage Account Metropolitan shall deliver available Program Water to MWDOC, Anaheim and/or Santa Ana at the appropriate service connection(s) for storage in the Metropolitan Storage fitter Account. MWDOC shall be responsible to coordinate submittal of all certifications for storage in the Basin and to certify the facts concerning the quantities of such deliveries to MWDOC. Anaheim and Santa Ana shall copy MWDOC on all certifications of water stored the Metropolitan Storage Account.All certifications of service connection deliveries to the Metropolitan Storage Account shall be provided to Metropolitan in writing or electronically in a format satisfactory to Metropolitan by a responsible officer of MWDOC, Anaheim, and Santa Ana. *"° ""°~"°~ ^ ~-°~°~~ 2. Metropolitan will credit the MWDOC, Anaheim and/or Santa Ana invoice at the applicable rate for each acre-foot of water certified by each respective agency t#e "=e::"°v`. T °° ~ for that service connection. 250-6