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ARTICLE 5. METER DEPLOYMENT PLAN 5.01 General. (1) National shall provide the Services and Documents for the deployment and installation of AMR Meters (the "Deployment") in accordance with the deployment and installation plan (the "Deployment Plan") as described in Section 5.02. (2) IRC shall perform the IRC Responsibilities in accordance with the Deployment Plan. 5.02 Contents of Deployment Plan. The Deployment Plan shall, as a minimum, include the following information: (1) a detailed description of the strategy, approach and activities that National will undertake to deploy, install and test the AMR Meters, including specifics as to (a) mapping and scheduling; (b) route saturation, route acceptance, route commissioning and AMR Meter commissioning; (c) accommodating IRC constraints (e.g., labor constraints, operations schedules and plans, scheduled meter readings (blackout periods) and planned outages); (d) identifying AMR Meter inventories required to support deployment/installation schedules and coordinating with IRC personel on purchases; (e) warehousing of AMR Meters (including quarantine procedures), transporting IRC accepted AMR Meters to warehouse, and returning Rejected Meters to AMR Meter supplier(s) for replacement; allocation of warehouse by service territory administrative regions (including details regarding start-up, duration of operation, close-out and relocation of cross -docks); (f) transportation of AMR Meters and fleet management; (g) work order management (e.g., National's methodology to manage individual customer installations from a scheduling, completion and close out perspective); (h) transfer or hand-off of responsibility for AMR Meters from the manufacturer/vendor to National; (i) meter asset tracking (e.g., inventory control procedures) of AMR Meters, including use of barcodes ; 0) quality assurance and quality control procedures to ensure that employees are adequately trained to follow procedures, and perform accurate and quality installations; (k) removal and disposal of Replaced Meters, including temporary storage and transfer of such Replaced Meters to disposal sites; (I) procedures for the handoff of non -accessible meters to IRC (m) performance of On -Site Repairs and removal and re -installation, or installation, of lock rings; (n) National's proposed management and administration of the Deployment, including National's organization structure, National's procedures for interfacing/interaction with IRC's AMR field deployment organization, National's procedures for ensuring coordination, maintaining up-to-date operating plans, 11