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• <br /> 105 <br /> Environmental Benefits under this Agreement (the "Adjustment for Other Environmental <br /> Benefits"). The Parties shall jointly retain the Carbon Price Consultant,beginning on or about the <br /> date that the flare becomes operational, and the Parties shall share equally all fees and expenses <br /> payable to the Carbon Price Consultant. <br /> 122= 423:-Emission Allowance Price Adjustment. The Parties acknowledge that the <br /> Flare and Conversion Percentages have been established,in part,based on the Forecasted Carbon <br /> Prices set forth on Exhibit A. Any adjustment in the Flare and Conversion Percentages pursuant to <br /> this Paragraph shall be based on a comparison of the Average Allowance Market Prices and the <br /> Forecasted Carbon Prices performed pursuant to a methodology(the "Emission Allowance Price <br /> Methodology")developed in accordance with the provisions of this Paragraph by the Carbon Price <br /> Consultant. No adjustments to the Flare Percentage or the Conversion Percentage shall be made <br /> (i)prior to 2015,or(ii)in any month during the Term of this Agreement in which a Cap-and-Trade <br /> System has not been enacted under federal legislation in the United States. <br /> a. Emission Allowance Price Methodology. Not later than one hundred eighty days <br /> (180) before the first month in which an adjustment is made under this Paragraph <br /> 123,122, the Parties shall direct the Carbon Price Consultant to develop a <br /> methodology meeting criteria mutually acceptable to the Parties that shall permit <br /> the Parties to perform a comparison of the Average Allowance Market Prices and <br /> the Forecasted Carbon Prices by reference to (i) data showing the prices at which <br /> Emission Allowances were purchased and sold in the regulated carbon market <br /> established in the United States under federal legislation enacting a Cap-and-Trade <br /> System, and (ii) such other information that the Carbon Price Consultant <br /> determines is customary and reasonable in the carbon consulting industry. The <br /> {00022477.DOC} <br />