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EXHIBIT I MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT MONITORING AND MAINTENANCE SPECIFICATIONS AND PROCEDURES 1. GENERAL Chesapeake shall monitor and maintain its Fiber, including the Delivered Facilities used by Portsmouth, and Portsmouth shall monitor and maintain its Fiber, including the Delivered Facilities used by Chesapeake. This Exhibit describes the policies and procedures that will be utilized to monitor and maintain the Delivered Facilities. Each Party shall ensure that its respective facilities are maintained according to the monitoring and maintenance specifications and procedures specified herein through the application of commercially reasonable and accepted industry standards and in accordance with manufacturers' specifications. The purpose and result of monitoring and maintenance shall be to assure, in the case of routine maintenance, or restore, in the case of non - routine maintenance, the functionality of the Chesapeake and the Portsmouth Fiber. The Parties reserve the right to mutually modify procedures as appropriate to ensure that performance specifications are achieved. Each Party may provide the resources and services described below either directly or through a sub - contracted entity. 2. RESOURCES Each Party will perform cable and conduit maintenance and repair around the clock, on a twenty - four (24) hour per day, seven (7) days per week basis (24x7). Each Party shall be available during normal business hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) and during off -hours (before 8:00 a.m., after 5:00 p.m., weekends and holidays). Each Party shall provide maintenance services and be responsible for ensuring that preventative, corrective, and emergency maintenance activities are carried out in a timely fashion and that maintenance activities are coordinated with the other Party. Each Party shall provide qualified personnel, office services, vehicles, and all tools and materials required for the safe and proper performance of maintenance procedures. Specifically, each Party shall retain and maintain all appropriate equipment necessary for routine and preventative maintenance as well as corrective maintenance and emergency restoration. 3. ROUTINE MAINTENANCE Each Party shall perform routine and preventative maintenance of the system, including the following: a. Each Party shall inspect the route of the Delivered Facilities it owns at least once annually and provide the other Party a summary report. The Owner and Contractor agree that disruption to public services shall be avoided whenever possible and minimized when it is not avoidable. In cases where the disruption of existing facilities could adversely impact public service delivery, acceptable duration(s) and time(s) of the outages shall be coordinated between the Contractor and Owner, so as to explicitly minimize disruption to public service delivery.