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Plant Capacity Charges set forth herein may be automatically escalated based upon increases in utility construction index published in Engineering News Record Magazine (ENR), If ENR goes out of business an equivalent index will be determined and used by the County, entitled "20 cities construction cost index", using as a base, the published index for the quarter ending June 30, 1980. The County shall auto- matcially adjust the plant capacity construction charges set forth herein semi-annually, with the first such adjustment to be not earlier than December 31, 1980. Any automatic escalation shall not exceed the percentage difference between said construction cost index for the base period as compared with the period of comparison. SECTION 3. ESCALATION BY THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS. Separate and apart from the automatic escalation provisions set forth above, the Utilities Department of the County may file with the Commission a higher or lower assessment schedule, and in support of that schedule, detail the reasons requiring such increased assessments. Such reasons may include and be related in increasing standards of service; inadequate or incorrect estimates of the total anticipated assessments versus the actual investment levels required by the County for water or sewer plant treatment facilities; actual experience with regard to matters of service area density having a direct bearing upon assessments received versus the cost of construction of the facilities; matters of net investment bearing upon rates and charges required of consumers and/or such other matters which may reasonably bear upon the needs, necessities or consideration requiring such change. SECTION 4. USE OF PLANT CAPACITY FUNDS All Plant Capacity Fees paid to the County shall be deposited in the appropriate fund to be held and used only for the purposes of expansion of Idian River County's water supply system and waste water treatment system or for the payment of the debt service on loans issued for the acquisition or expansion of such systems (either as the original bond issue or any refunding thereof). Any funds or deposit in said funds which are not immediately necessary for expendi- ture may be invested as permitted by Florida Statutes and all income -4-