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                               EXHIBIT 10(b)

                            SERVICING AGREEMENT

                            SERVICING AGREEMENT

                                  between

                           CONSUMERS FUNDING LLC
                                  Issuer

                                    and

                         CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY
                                 Servicer

                       Dated as of November 8, 2001

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                             TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                 ARTICLE I

                                Definitions

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SECTION 1.01  Definitions..............................................................1
SECTION 1.02  Other Definitional Provisions............................................1

                                 ARTICLE II

                 Appointment and Authorization of Servicer

SECTION 2.01  Appointment of Servicer; Acceptance of Appointment.......................2
SECTION 2.02  Authorization............................................................2
SECTION 2.03  Dominion and Control over Transferred Securitization Property............2

                                ARTICLE III

                              Billing Services

SECTION 3.01  Duties of Servicer.......................................................3
SECTION 3.02  Collection and Allocation of the Securitization Charges..................4
SECTION 3.03  Payment of Securitization Charge Collections.............................5
SECTION 3.04  Servicing and Maintenance Standards......................................5
SECTION 3.05  Servicer's Certificates..................................................6
SECTION 3.06  Annual Statement as to Compliance........................................6
SECTION 3.07  Annual Independent Certified Public Accountants' Report..................6
SECTION 3.08  Securitization Property Documentation....................................7
SECTION 3.09  Computer Records; Audits of Documentation................................7
SECTION 3.10  Defending Transferred Securitization Property Against Claims.............8
SECTION 3.11  Opinions of Counsel......................................................8

                                 ARTICLE IV

           Services Related to Securitization Charge Adjustments

SECTION 4.01  Securitization Charge Adjustments........................................9

                                 ARTICLE V

                                The Servicer

SECTION 5.01  Representations and Warranties of Servicer...............................9
SECTION 5.02  Indemnities of Servicer; Release of Claims..............................11
SECTION 5.03  Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the Obligations of, .......13
SECTION 5.04  Assignment of Servicer's Obligations....................................14
SECTION 5.05  Limitation on Liability of Servicer.....................................14
SECTION 5.06  Consumers Not To Resign as Servicer.....................................15
SECTION 5.07  Monthly Servicing Fee...................................................15
SECTION 5.08  Servicer Expenses.......................................................15
SECTION 5.09  Subservicing............................................................15
SECTION 5.10  No Servicer Advances....................................................15
SECTION 5.11  Remittances.............................................................15
SECTION 5.12  Protection of Title.....................................................16

                                 ARTICLE VI

                              Servicer Default

SECTION 6.01  Servicer Default........................................................16
SECTION 6.02  Notice of Servicer Default..............................................18
SECTION 6.03  Waiver of Past Defaults.................................................18
SECTION 6.04  Appointment of Successor................................................18
SECTION 6.05  Cooperation with Successor..............................................19

                                ARTICLE VII

                          Miscellaneous Provisions

SECTION 7.01  Amendment...............................................................19
SECTION 7.02  Notices.................................................................20
SECTION 7.03  Limitations on Rights of Others.........................................20
SECTION 7.04  Severability............................................................20
SECTION 7.05  Separate Counterparts...................................................21
SECTION 7.06  Headings................................................................21
SECTION 7.07  GOVERNING LAW...........................................................21
SECTION 7.08  Assignment to the Trustee...............................................21
SECTION 7.09  Nonpetition Covenants...................................................21
SECTION 7.10  Termination.............................................................21

ANNEX 1       Securitization Charge Adjustment Process and Reports--
ANNEX 2       Securitization Calculation Process

APPENDIX A    Master Definitions

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         SERVICING AGREEMENT, dated as of November 8, 2001, by and between
CONSUMERS FUNDING LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as issuer (the
"Issuer"), and CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY, a Michigan corporation
("Consumers"), as the servicer of the Securitization Property hereunder
(together with each successor to Consumers (in the same capacity) pursuant
to Section 5.03, 5.04 or 6.04, the "Servicer").

                            W I T N E S S E T H:

         WHEREAS Consumers is willing to service the Transferred
Securitization Property purchased from the Seller by the Issuer pursuant to
the Sale Agreement between the Issuer and the Seller; and

         WHEREAS the Issuer, in connection with ownership of Transferred
Securitization Property, desires to engage Consumers to carry out the
functions described herein.

         NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual
covenants herein contained and other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, and intending to
be legally bound hereby, the parties hereto agree as follows:

                                 ARTICLE I

                                Definitions

         SECTION 1.01 Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in Appendix A
hereto.

         SECTION 1.02 Other Definitional Provisions.

         (a) "Agreement" means this Servicing Agreement, as the same may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.

         (b) Non-capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the
Customer Choice Act, as the context requires, have the meanings assigned to
such terms in the Customer Choice Act, but without giving effect to
amendments to the Customer Choice Act after the date hereof.

         (c) All terms defined in this Agreement have the defined meanings
when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant
hereto unless otherwise defined therein.

         (d) The words "hereof", "herein", "hereunder" and words of similar
import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole
and not to any particular provision of this Agreement; Section, Annex,
Schedule and Exhibit references contained in this Agreement are references
to Sections, Annexes, Schedules and Exhibits in or to this Agreement unless
otherwise specified; and the term "including" shall mean "including without
limitation".

         (e) The definitions contained in this Agreement are applicable to
the singular as well as the plural forms of such terms.

                                ARTICLE II

                 Appointment and Authorization of Servicer

         SECTION 2.01 Appointment of Servicer; Acceptance of Appointment.
Subject to Section 5.06 and Article VI, the Issuer hereby appoints
Consumers and Consumers hereby accepts such appointment, to perform the
Servicer's obligations pursuant to this Agreement on behalf of and for the
benefit of the Issuer in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. This
appointment and Consumers' acceptance thereof may not be revoked except in
accordance with the express terms of this Agreement.

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         SECTION 2.02 Authorization. With respect to all or any portion of
the Transferred Securitization Property, the Servicer shall be, and hereby
is, authorized and empowered by the Issuer to:

         (a) execute and deliver, on behalf of itself, the Issuer, or both,
as the case may be, any and all instruments, documents or notices, and

         (b) on behalf of itself, the Issuer, or both, as the case may be,
make any filing and participate in proceedings of any kind with any
governmental authorities, including with the MPSC.

         The Issuer shall furnish the Servicer with such documents as have
been prepared by the Servicer for execution by the Issuer, and with such
other documents as may be in the Issuer's possession, as necessary or
appropriate to enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and
administrative duties hereunder. Upon the written request of the Servicer,
the Issuer shall furnish the Servicer with any powers of attorney or other
documents necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to carry out its
duties hereunder.

         SECTION 2.03 Dominion and Control over Transferred Securitization
Property. Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the Servicer and the
Issuer agree that the Issuer shall have dominion and control over the
Transferred Securitization Property, and the Servicer, in accordance with
the terms hereof, is acting solely as the servicing agent of the Issuer
with respect to the Transferred Securitization Property. The Servicer
hereby agrees that it shall not take any action that is not authorized by
this Agreement, that is not consistent with its customary procedures and
practices, or that shall impair the rights of the Issuer with respect to
the Transferred Securitization Property, in each case unless such action is
required by law or court or regulatory order.

                                ARTICLE III

                              Billing Services

         SECTION 3.01 Duties of Servicer. The Servicer, as agent for the
Issuer (to the extent provided herein), shall have the following duties:

         (a) Duties of Servicer Generally. The Servicer will manage,
service, administer and effect collections in respect of the Securitization
Charges. The Servicer's duties will include:

               (i) obtaining meter reads, calculating and billing the
         Securitization Charges and collecting from Customers all
         Securitization Charge Collections;

               (ii) responding to inquiries by Customers, Alternative
         Electric Suppliers, if any, the MPSC, or any federal, local or
         other state governmental authority with respect to the
         Securitization Charges;

               (iii) delivering bills or arranging for delivery of bills,
         accounting for Securitization Charge Collections, investigating
         and resolving delinquencies, processing and depositing
         collections, making periodic remittances and furnishing periodic
         reports, to the Issuer, the Trustee, the Securitization
         Bondholders, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Rating
         Agencies, subject, in the case of processing and depositing
         collections, making periodic remittances and furnishing periodic
         reports, to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement;

               (iv) settling, as the agent for the Issuer, as its interest
         may appear, defaulted or written off accounts in accordance with
         the Servicer's usual and customary practices for accounts of its
         own electric service customers; and

               (v) taking action in connection with Securitization Charge
         Adjustments as is set forth herein.
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         Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, the duties of the
Servicer set forth in this Agreement shall be limited in their entirety by
the provisions of the Customer Choice Act, the Financing Order and any
applicable MPSC Regulations, as in effect at the time such duties are to be
performed. Without limiting the generality of this Section 3.01(a), in
furtherance of the foregoing, the Servicer hereby agrees that it shall also
have, and shall comply with, the duties and responsibilities relating to
Securitization Charge Adjustments, data acquisition, usage and bill
calculation, billing, customer service functions, collections, payment
processing and remittance set forth in Annex 1 hereto.

         (b) Notification of Laws and Regulations. The Servicer shall
promptly notify the Issuer, the Trustee and the Rating Agencies in writing
of any laws or MPSC Regulations hereafter promulgated that have a material
adverse effect on the Servicer's ability to perform its duties under this
Agreement.

         (c) Other Information. Upon the reasonable request of the Issuer,
the Trustee or any Rating Agency, the Servicer shall provide to the Issuer,
the Trustee or the Rating Agencies, as the case may be, any public
financial information in respect of the Servicer, or any material
information regarding the Transferred Securitization Property to the extent
it is reasonably available to the Servicer, that may be reasonably
necessary and permitted by law for the Issuer, the Trustee or the Rating
Agencies to monitor the performance by the Servicer hereunder. In addition,
so long as any of the Securitization Bonds of any Series are outstanding,
the Servicer shall provide to the Issuer and to the Trustee, within a
reasonable time after written request therefor, any information available
to the Servicer or reasonably obtainable by it that is necessary to
calculate the Securitization Charges.

         (d) Alternative Electric Suppliers. The Servicer shall not permit
Alternative Electric Suppliers to bill and collect the Securitization
Charge unless it is required to do so by law.

         SECTION 3.02 Collection and Allocation of the Securitization
Charges.

         (a) The Servicer shall use all reasonable efforts, consistent with
its customary servicing procedures, to collect all amounts owed in respect
of the Securitization Charges as and when the same shall become due and
shall follow such collection procedures as it follows with respect to
collection activities that Consumers conducts for itself or others. The
Servicer shall not change the amount of or reschedule the due date of any
scheduled payment by customers of the Securitization Charges, except as
contemplated in this Agreement or as required by law or court order or MPSC
Regulations; provided, however, that the Servicer may take any of the
foregoing actions to the extent that such action would be in accordance
with customary billing and collection practices of Consumers with respect
to billing and collection activities that it conducts for itself or others.

         (b) The amount of Securitization Charge Collections during any
Billing Month of the Servicer shall be determined in accordance with the
allocation methodology set forth in Annex 2 hereto.

         (c) Consumers' other charges may include gas charges which may be
billed together with electric charges and all other charges which Consumers
may be permitted to bill and collect from customers on their utility bills.
If there is more than one Series of Securitization Bonds, the Servicer
shall allocate Securitization Charge Collections among such Series, pro
rata, based on the respective outstanding amounts payable and scheduled to
be paid with respect to such Series.
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         (d) The Servicer is without authority or responsibility to collect
tax charges authorized by the Financing Order, nor does the Servicer have
any control over any amounts received with respect to such tax charges.

         SECTION 3.03 Payment of Securitization Charge Collections.

         (a) On each Monthly Remittance Date, for so long as the Servicer
has satisfied the conditions of Section 5.11(b), the Servicer shall remit
to the Trustee the Securitization Charge Collections in accordance with
Section 5.11(b) (each, a "Monthly Remittance"). On each Daily Remittance
Date, for so long as the Servicer has not satisfied the conditions of
Section 5.11(b), the Servicer shall remit to the Trustee the Securitization
Charge Collections in accordance with Section 5.11(a) (each, a "Daily
Remittance").

         (b) The Servicer agrees and acknowledges that it holds all
Securitization Charge Collections collected by it for the benefit of the
Issuer and that all amounts will be remitted by the Servicer in accordance
with this Agreement without any surcharge, fee (other than the Servicing
Fee under Section 5.07 hereunder), offset, charge or other deduction and
without making any claim to reduce its obligation to remit all
Securitization Charge Collections collected by it.

         SECTION 3.04 Servicing and Maintenance Standards. The Servicer
shall, on behalf of the Issuer:

         (a) manage, service, administer and make collections in respect of
the Transferred Securitization Property with reasonable care and in
material compliance with applicable law, including all applicable MPSC
Regulations, using the same degree of care and diligence that the Servicer
exercises with respect to billing and collection activities that the
Servicer conducts for itself and others;

         (b) follow standards, policies and procedures in performing its
duties as Servicer that are customary in the electric distribution
industry;

         (c) use all reasonable efforts, consistent with its customary
servicing procedures, to enforce and maintain the Issuer's and the
Trustee's rights in respect of the Transferred Securitization Property; and

         (d) calculate the Securitization Charges in compliance with the
Customer Choice Act, the Financing Order and any applicable tariffs;

except where the failure to comply with any of the foregoing would not
materially and adversely affect the Issuer's or the Trustee's interest in
the Transferred Securitization Property. The Servicer shall follow such
customary and usual practices and procedures as it shall deem necessary or
advisable in its servicing of the Transferred Securitization Property,
which, in the Servicer's judgment, may include the taking of legal action
pursuant to Section 3.10 or otherwise. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Servicer shall not change its customary and usual practices and procedures
in any manner that would materially and adversely affect the Issuer's or
the Trustee's interest in the Transferred Securitization Property unless it
shall have provided the Rating Agencies with prior written notice.

         SECTION 3.05 Servicer's Certificates. The Servicer will provide to
the Issuer and to the Trustee the statements and data specified in Annex 1.
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         SECTION 3.06 Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Servicer
shall deliver to the Issuer, the Trustee and each Rating Agency, on or
before March 31 of each year, beginning March 31, 2002 to and including
March 31 succeeding the retiring of the Securitization Bonds, an Officers'
Certificate, stating that:

         (a) a review of the activities of the Servicer during the
preceding calendar year (or relevant portion thereof in the case of the
first such Officer's Certificate) and of its performance under this
Agreement has been made under such officers' supervision, and

         (b) to the best of such officers' knowledge, based on such review,
the Servicer has fulfilled all its obligations under this Agreement
throughout such period or, if there has been a default in the fulfillment
of any such obligation, describing each such default.

         SECTION 3.07 Annual Independent Certified Public Accountants'
Report.

         (a) The Servicer shall cause a firm of independent certified
public accountants (which may also provide other services to the Servicer
or Consumers) to prepare, and the Servicer shall deliver to the Issuer, to
the Trustee and to each Rating Agency, on or before March 31 of each year,
beginning March 31, 2002 to and including the March 31 succeeding the
retirement of all Securitization Bonds, a report addressed to the Servicer
(the "Annual Accountant's Report"), which may be included as part of the
Servicer's customary auditing activities, to the effect that such firm has
performed certain procedures in connection with the Servicer's compliance
with its obligations under this Agreement during the preceding calendar
year (or, in the case of the first Annual Accountant's Report, the period
of time from the Initial Transfer Date until December 31, 2002),
identifying the results of such procedures and including any exceptions
noted. In the event such accounting firm requires the Trustee or the Issuer
to agree or consent to the procedures performed by such firm, the Issuer
shall direct the Trustee in writing to so agree; it being understood and
agreed that the Trustee will deliver such letter of agreement or consent in
conclusive reliance upon the direction of the Issuer, and the Trustee will
not make any independent inquiry or investigation as to, and shall have no
obligation or liability in respect of, the sufficiency, validity or
correctness of such procedures.

         (b) The Annual Accountant's Report shall also indicate that the
accounting firm providing such report is independent of the Servicer within
the meaning of the Code of Professional Ethics of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants in effect from time to time.

         SECTION 3.08 Securitization Property Documentation. To assure
uniform quality in servicing the Transferred Securitization Property and to
reduce administrative costs, the Servicer shall keep on file, in accordance
with its customary procedures, all Securitization Property Documentation.

         SECTION 3.09 Computer Records; Audits of Documentation.

         (a) Safekeeping. The Servicer shall maintain accurate and complete
accounts, records and computer systems pertaining to the Transferred
Securitization Property and the Securitization Property Documentation in
accordance with its standard accounting procedures and in sufficient detail
to permit calculation of the Securitization Charge Collections to be
remitted from time to time to the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.03 and to
enable the Issuer to comply with this Agreement and the Indenture. The
Servicer shall conduct, or cause to be conducted, periodic audits of the
Securitization Property Documentation held by it under this Agreement and
of the related accounts, records and computer systems, in such a manner as
shall enable the Issuer and the Trustee, as pledgee of the Issuer, to
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verify the accuracy of the Servicer's record keeping. The Servicer shall
promptly report to the Issuer and to the Trustee any failure on the
Servicer's part to hold the Securitization Property Documentation and
maintain its accounts, records and computer systems as herein provided and
promptly take appropriate action to remedy any such failure. Nothing herein
shall be deemed to require an initial review or any periodic review by the
Issuer or the Trustee of the Securitization Property Documentation. The
Servicer's duties to hold the Securitization Property Documentation on
behalf of the Issuer set forth in this Section 3.09(a), to the extent such
Securitization Property Documentation has not been previously transferred
to a successor Servicer, shall terminate three years after the earlier of
the date on which (i) the Servicer is succeeded by a successor Servicer
pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or (ii) no Securitization
Bonds of any Series are outstanding.

         (b) Maintenance of and Access to Records. The Servicer shall
maintain the Securitization Property Documentation at 212 W. Michigan
Avenue, Jackson, Michigan 49201, or at such other office as shall be
specified to the Issuer and to the Trustee by written notice not later than
30 days prior to any change in location. The Servicer shall permit the
Issuer and the Trustee or their respective duly authorized representatives,
attorneys, agents or auditors at any time during normal business hours to
inspect, audit and make copies of and abstracts from the Servicer's records
regarding the Transferred Securitization Property, the Securitization
Charges and the Securitization Property Documentation. The failure of the
Servicer to provide access to such information as a result of an obligation
or applicable law (including MPSC Regulations) prohibiting disclosure of
information regarding Customers shall not constitute a breach of this
Section 3.09(b).

         SECTION 3.10 Defending Transferred Securitization Property Against
Claims. The Servicer shall institute and maintain any action or proceeding
necessary to compel performance by the MPSC or the State of Michigan of any
of their obligations or duties under the Customer Choice Act or the
Financing Order with respect to the Transferred Securitization Property,
and the Servicer agrees to take such legal or administrative actions,
including defending against or instituting and pursuing legal actions and
appearing or testifying at hearings or similar proceedings, as may be
reasonably necessary to block or overturn any attempts to cause a repeal
of, modification of or supplement to the Customer Choice Act or the
Financing Order, as the case may be, or the rights of holders of
Transferred Securitization Property that would be adverse to Securitization
Bondholders. In any proceedings related to the exercise of the power of
eminent domain by any municipality to acquire a portion of Consumers'
electric distribution facilities, the Servicer shall assert that the court
ordering such condemnation must treat such municipality as a successor to
Consumers under the Customer Choice Act and the Financing Order. The costs
of any such action reasonably allocated by the Servicer to the Transferred
Securitization Property shall be payable from Securitization Charge
Collections as an Operating Expense in accordance with the Indenture. The
Servicer's obligations pursuant to this Section 3.10 shall survive and
continue notwithstanding the fact that the payment of Operating Expenses
pursuant to the Indenture may be delayed (it being understood that the
Servicer may be required to advance its own funds to satisfy its
obligations under this Section 3.10).

         SECTION 3.11 Opinions of Counsel. The Servicer shall deliver to
the Issuer and to the Trustee:
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         (a) promptly after the execution and delivery of this Agreement
and of the Sale Agreement and of each amendment hereto or thereto, and on
each Transfer Date, an Opinion of Counsel either:

                  (i) to the effect that, in the opinion of such counsel,
         all UCC filings that are necessary to perfect or maintain the
         perfection of the security interest of the Trustee in the
         Transferred Securitization Property have been executed and filed,
         and reciting the details of such filings or referring to prior
         Opinions of Counsel in which such details are given, or

                  (ii) to the effect that, in the opinion of such counsel,
         no such action is necessary to perfect or maintain the perfection
         of such security interest based on law in existence on the date of
         such Opinion of Counsel; and

         (b) within 90 days after the beginning of each calendar year
beginning with the first calendar year beginning more than three full
calendar months after the Initial Transfer Date, an Opinion of Counsel,
dated as of a date during such 90-day period, either:

                  (i) to the effect that, in the opinion of such counsel,
         all UCC filings have been executed and filed that are necessary to
         perfect or maintain the perfection of the security interest of the
         Trustee in the Transferred Securitization Property, and reciting
         the details of such filings or referring to prior Opinions of
         Counsel in which such details are given, or

                  (ii) to the effect that, in the opinion of such counsel,
         no such action is necessary to perfect or maintain the perfection
         of such security interest based on law in existence on the date of
         such Opinion of Counsel.

Each Opinion of Counsel referred to in clause (a) or (b) above shall
specify any action necessary (as of the date of such Opinion of Counsel) to
be taken in the following year to perfect or maintain the perfection of
such security interest based on law in existence on the date of such
Opinion of Counsel.
                                ARTICLE IV

           Services Related to Securitization Charge Adjustments

         SECTION 4.01 Securitization Charge Adjustments. The Servicer shall
perform the calculations and take the actions relating to adjusting the
Securitization Charges, as set forth in Annex 1.

                                 ARTICLE V

                                The Servicer

         SECTION 5.01 Representations and Warranties of Servicer. The
Servicer makes the following representations and warranties as of each
Transfer Date, on which the Issuer has relied and will rely in acquiring
Transferred Securitization Property and in entering into this Agreement.
The representations and warranties shall survive the execution and delivery
of this Agreement, the sale of any of the Transferred Securitization
Property to the Issuer and the pledge thereof to the Trustee pursuant to
the Indenture.

         (a) Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer is a corporation
duly organized and in good standing under the laws of the state of its
incorporation, with the corporate power and authority to own its properties
and to conduct its business as such properties are currently owned and such
business is presently conducted and to execute, deliver and carry out the
terms of this Agreement, and has the power, authority and legal right to
service the Transferred Securitization Property.

         (b) Due Qualification. The Servicer has duly qualified to do
business as a foreign corporation in good standing, and has obtained all
necessary licenses and approvals in all jurisdictions, in which the
ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its business (including
the servicing of the Transferred Securitization Property as required by
this Agreement) requires such qualifications, licenses or approvals (except
where the failure to so qualify would not be reasonably likely to have a
material adverse effect on the Servicer's business, operations, assets,
revenues, properties or prospects or adversely affect the servicing of the
Transferred Securitization Property).
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         (c) Power and Authority. The Servicer has the corporate power and
authority to execute and deliver this Agreement and to carry out its terms;
and the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement have been
duly authorized by the Servicer by all necessary corporate action.

         (d) Binding Obligation. This Agreement constitutes a legal, valid
and binding obligation of the Servicer enforceable against the Servicer in
accordance with its terms subject to bankruptcy, receivership, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights
generally from time to time in effect and to general principles of equity
(regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

         (e) No Violation. The consummation of the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement and the fulfillment of the terms hereof will
not conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions
of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time) a default
under, the articles of incorporation or by-laws of the Servicer, or any
material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument to
which the Servicer is a party or by which it is bound; or result in the
creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of its properties pursuant to
the terms of any such indenture, agreement or other instrument; or violate
any law or any order, rule or regulation applicable to the Servicer or its
properties of any court or of any federal or state regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality having
jurisdiction over the Servicer or its properties.

         (f) Approvals. Except for filings with the MPSC for adjusting the
Securitization Charges pursuant to Section 4.01 and Annex 1, filing of
financing statements under the Michigan UCC and the Delaware UCC and UCC
continuation filings, no approval, authorization, consent, order or other
action of, or filing with, any court, federal or state regulatory body,
administrative agency or other governmental instrumentality is required in
connection with the execution and delivery by the Servicer of this
Agreement, the performance by the Servicer of the transactions contemplated
hereby or the fulfillment by the Servicer of the terms hereof, except those
that have been obtained or made.

         (g) No Proceedings. There are no proceedings or investigations
pending or, to the Servicer's best knowledge, threatened before any court,
federal or state regulatory body, administrative agency or other
governmental instrumentality having jurisdiction over the Servicer or its
properties:

                  (i) seeking to prevent the issuance of the Securitization
         Bonds or the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated
         by this Agreement or any of the other Basic Documents;

                  (ii) except as disclosed in writing by the Servicer to
         the Issuer, seeking any determination or ruling that might
         materially and adversely affect the performance by the Servicer of
         its obligations under, or the validity or enforceability against
         the Servicer of, this Agreement or any of the other Basic
         Documents; or

                  (iii) relating to the Servicer and which might materially
         and adversely affect the federal or state tax attributes of the
         Securitization Bonds.

         (h) Reports and Certificates. Each report and certificate
delivered in connection with any filing made to the MPSC by the Servicer on
behalf of the Issuer with respect to the Securitization Charges or
Securitization Charge Adjustments will constitute a representation and
warranty by the Servicer that each such report or certificate, as the case
may be, is true and correct in all material respects; provided, however,
that to the extent any such report or certificate is based in part upon or
contains assumptions, forecasts or other predictions of future events, the
representation and warranty of the Servicer with respect thereto will be
limited to the representation and warranty that such assumptions, forecasts
or other predictions of future events are based upon historical
performance, current conditions and reasonable expectations.

         SECTION 5.02 Indemnities of Servicer; Release of Claims.

         (a) The Servicer shall be liable in accordance herewith only to
the extent of the obligations specifically undertaken by the Servicer under
this Agreement.

         (b) The Servicer shall indemnify the Issuer and the Trustee (for
itself and on behalf of the Securitization Bondholders) and each of their
respective trustees, members, managers, officers, directors, employees and
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agents for, and defend and hold harmless each such Person from and against,
any and all Losses that may be imposed upon, incurred by or asserted
against any such Person as a result of:

                  (i) the Servicer's wilful misconduct, bad faith or gross
         negligence in the performance of its duties or observance of its
         covenants under this Agreement or the Servicer's reckless
         disregard of its obligations and duties under this Agreement;

                  (ii) the Servicer's breach of any of its representations
         or warranties in this Agreement; and

                  (iii) litigation and related expenses relating to its
         status and obligations as Servicer,

provided, however, that the Servicer shall not be liable for any Losses
resulting from the willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence of any
Person indemnified pursuant to this Section 5.02(b) (each, an "Indemnified
Person") or resulting from a breach of a representation or warranty made by
such Indemnified Person in any of the Basic Documents that gives rise to
the Servicer's breach.

         Promptly after receipt by an Indemnified Person of notice of its
involvement in any action, proceeding or investigation, such Indemnified
Person shall, if a claim for indemnification in respect thereof is to be
made against the Servicer under this Section 5.02(b), notify the Servicer
in writing of such involvement. Failure by an Indemnified Person to so
notify the Servicer shall relieve the Servicer from the obligation to
indemnify and hold harmless such Indemnified Person under this Section 5.02
only to the extent that the Servicer suffers actual prejudice as a result
of such failure. With respect to any action, proceeding or investigation
brought by a third party against an Indemnified Person for which
indemnification may be sought under this Section 5.02, the Servicer shall
be entitled to assume the defense of any such action, proceeding or
investigation. Upon assumption by the Servicer of the defense of any such
action, proceeding or investigation, the Indemnified Person shall have the
right to participate in such action or proceeding and to retain its own
counsel (including local counsel), and the Servicer shall bear the
reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such separate counsel. The
Indemnified Person shall not settle or compromise or consent to the entry
of any judgment with respect to any pending or threatened claim, action,
suit or proceeding in respect of which indemnification may be sought under
this Section 5.02 (whether or not the Servicer is an actual or potential
party to such claim or action) unless the Servicer agrees in writing to
such settlement, compromise or consent and such settlement, compromise or
consent includes an unconditional release of the Servicer from all
liability arising out of such claim, action, suit or proceeding.

         (c) The Servicer shall indemnify the Trustee and its respective
officers, directors and agents for, and defend and hold harmless each such
Person from and against, any and all Losses that may be imposed upon,
incurred by or asserted against any such Person as a result of the
acceptance or performance of the trusts and duties contained herein and in
the Indenture, except to the extent that any such Loss is due to the wilful
misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence of the Trustee; provided,
however, that the foregoing indemnity is extended to the Trustee solely in
its individual capacity and not for the benefit of the Securitization
Bondholders or any other Person. Any such amounts payable under this
Section 5.02(c) with respect to the Trustee shall be deposited in the
General Subaccount and distributed in accordance with the Indenture.

         (d) The Servicer's indemnification obligations under Section
5.02(b) and (c) for events occurring prior to the removal or resignation of
the Trustee or the termination of this Agreement shall survive the
resignation or removal of the Trustee or the termination of this Agreement
and shall include reasonable costs, fees and expenses of investigation and
litigation (including the Issuer's and the Trustee's reasonable attorneys'
fees and expenses).

         (e) Except to the extent expressly provided for in the Basic
Documents (including the Servicer's claims with respect to the Monthly
Servicing Fees and Consumers' claim for payment of the purchase price of
the Transferred Securitization Property), the Servicer hereby releases and
discharges the Issuer (including its Member, Managers, officers, employees
and agents, if any), and the Trustee (including its respective officers,
directors and agents) (collectively, the "Released Parties") from any and
all actions, claims and demands whatsoever, which the Servicer shall or may
have against any such Person relating to the Transferred Securitization
Property or the Servicer's activities with respect thereto other than any
actions, claims and demands arising out of the willful misconduct, bad
faith or gross negligence of the Released Parties.

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         (f) The indemnification obligation of the Servicer under this
Section 5.02 shall be pari passu with all other general unsecured
obligations of the Servicer.

         SECTION 5.03 Merger or Consolidation of, or Assumption of the
Obligations of, Servicer. Any Person:

         (a) into which the Servicer may be merged or consolidated and
which succeeds to all or the major part of the electric distribution
business of the Servicer,

         (b) which results from the division of the Servicer into two or
more Persons and which succeeds to all or the major part of the electric
distribution business of the Servicer,

         (c) which may result from any merger or consolidation to which the
Servicer shall be a party and which succeeds to all or the major part of
the electric distribution business of the Servicer,

         (d) which may succeed to the properties and assets of the Servicer
substantially as a whole and which succeeds to all or the major part of the
electric distribution business of the Servicer, or

         (e) which may otherwise succeed to all or the major part of the
electric distribution business of the Servicer, which Person in any of the
foregoing cases (a) through (e) executes an agreement of assumption to
perform every obligation of the Servicer under this Agreement, shall be the
successor to the Servicer hereunder without the execution or filing of any
document or any further act by any of the parties to this Agreement,
provided that:

                  (i) immediately after giving effect to such transaction,
         no representation or warranty made pursuant to Section 5.01 shall
         have been breached and no Servicer Default, and no event that,
         after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become a Servicer
         Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;

                  (ii) the successor Servicer shall have delivered to the
         Issuer and the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
         Counsel each stating that such consolidation, merger or succession
         and such agreement of assumption comply with this Section 5.03 and
         that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
         Agreement relating to such transaction have been complied with;

                  (iii) the successor Servicer shall have delivered to the
         Issuer and to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel either:

                  (A)      stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
                           all filings to be made by the Servicer,
                           including UCC filings, that are necessary to
                           perfect or maintain the perfection of the
                           security interest of the Trustee in the
                           Transferred Securitization Property have been
                           executed and filed and reciting the details of
                           such filings, or
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                  (B)      stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no
                           such action is necessary to perfect or maintain
                           the perfection of such security interest based
                           on law in existence on the date of such opinion;

                  (iv) the Rating Agencies shall have received prior
         written notice of such transaction (although there is no
         requirement of any Rating Agency Confirmation);

                  (v) the successor Servicer shall have delivered to the
         Issuer and the Trustee an opinion of independent tax counsel (as
         selected by, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to,
         the Issuer and the Trustee), which may be based on a ruling from
         the Internal Revenue Service, to the effect that, for federal
         income tax purposes, such consolidation or merger will not result
         in a material adverse federal income tax consequence to the
         Issuer, the Trustee or the then existing Securitization
         Bondholders; and

                  (vi) any applicable requirements of the Intercreditor
         Agreement have been satisfied.

The Servicer shall not consummate any transaction referred to in subclauses
(a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above except upon execution of the above
described agreement of assumption and compliance with subclauses (i)
through (vi) above. When any Person acquires the properties and assets of
the Servicer substantially as a whole and becomes the successor to the
Servicer in accordance with the terms of this Section 5.03, then upon the
satisfaction of all of the other conditions of this Section 5.03, the
Servicer shall automatically and without further notice be released from
its obligations hereunder.

         SECTION 5.04 Assignment of Servicer's Obligations. The Servicer
may not assign its rights or obligations hereunder to any successor unless
the Rating Agency Condition and any other condition specified in the
Financing Order and the Intercreditor Agreement have been satisfied.

         SECTION 5.05 Limitation on Liability of Servicer. The Servicer
shall not be liable to the Issuer or the Trustee, except as provided under
this Agreement, for any action taken or for refraining from the taking of
any action pursuant to this Agreement or for errors in judgment; provided,
however, that this provision shall not protect the Servicer against any
liability that would otherwise be imposed by reason of willful misconduct,
bad faith or gross negligence in the performance of its duties or by reason
of reckless disregard of obligations and duties under this Agreement. The
Servicer and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Servicer may
rely in good faith on the advice of counsel reasonably acceptable to the
Trustee or on any document of any kind, prima facie properly executed and
submitted by any Person, respecting any matters arising under this
Agreement.

         Except as provided in this Agreement, the Servicer shall not be
under any obligation to appear in, prosecute or defend any legal action
that is not incidental to its duties to service the Transferred
Securitization Property in accordance with this Agreement or related to its
obligation to pay indemnification, and that in its reasonable opinion may
cause it to incur any expense or liability.

         SECTION 5.06 Consumers Not To Resign as Servicer. Subject to the
provisions of Sections 5.03 and 5.04, Consumers shall not resign from the
obligations and duties imposed on it as Servicer under this Agreement
except upon a determination that the performance of its duties under this
Agreement shall no longer be permissible under applicable law. Notice of
any such determination permitting the resignation of Consumers shall be
communicated to the Issuer, the Trustee and each Rating Agency at the
earliest practicable time (and, if such communication is not in writing,
shall be confirmed in writing at the earliest practicable time), and any
such determination shall be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel to such
effect delivered to the Issuer and the Trustee concurrently with or
promptly after such notice. No such resignation shall become effective
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until a successor Servicer has assumed the servicing obligations and duties
hereunder of the Servicer in accordance with Section 6.04.

         SECTION 5.07 Monthly Servicing Fee. The Issuer agrees to pay the
Servicer the Monthly Servicing Fee with respect to all Series of
Securitization Bonds. For so long as Consumers is the Servicer, the Monthly
Servicing Fee shall be one-twelfth times 0.25% times the total Outstanding
Amount as of the date of payment of such Monthly Servicing Fee. The
foregoing Monthly Servicing Fee constitutes a fair and reasonable price for
the obligations to be performed by the Servicer.

         SECTION 5.08 Servicer Expenses. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, the Servicer shall be required to pay all expenses
incurred by it in connection with its activities hereunder, including fees
and disbursements of independent accountants and counsel, taxes imposed on
the Servicer and expenses incurred in connection with reports to
Securitization Bondholders.

         SECTION 5.09 Subservicing. The Servicer may at any time appoint a
subservicer to perform all or any portion of its obligations as Servicer
hereunder; provided, however, that the Rating Agency Condition shall have
been satisfied in connection therewith; and provided further that the
Servicer shall remain obligated and be liable to the Issuer, the Trustee
and the Securitization Bondholders for the servicing and administering of
the Transferred Securitization Property in accordance with the provisions
hereof without diminution of such obligation and liability by virtue of the
appointment of such subservicer and to the same extent and under the same
terms and conditions as if the Servicer alone were servicing and
administering the Transferred Securitization Property. The fees and
expenses of the subservicer shall be as agreed between the Servicer and its
subservicer from time to time, and none of the Issuer, the Trustee or the
Securitization Bondholders shall have any responsibility therefor. Any such
appointment shall not constitute a Servicer resignation under Section 5.06.

         SECTION 5.10 No Servicer Advances. The Servicer shall not make any
advances of interest on or principal of the Securitization Bonds.

         SECTION 5.11 Remittances.

         (a) The Servicer shall remit Securitization Charge Collections
(from whatever source) not later than each Daily Remittance Date, and all
proceeds of other Collateral of the Issuer, if any, received by the
Servicer during the second preceding Business Day, to the Trustee for
deposit pursuant to the Indenture. The Servicer shall promptly remit any
Indemnity Amounts paid or received by it immediately to the Trustee for
deposit pursuant to the Indenture.

         (b) Notwithstanding the foregoing clause (a), as long as:

                  (i) Consumers or any successor to Consumers' electric
         distribution business remains the Servicer, and

                  (ii) no Servicer Default has occurred and is continuing,
         and

                  (A)      Consumers or such successor obtains and
                           maintains a short-term rating of "A-1"or better
                           by Standard & Poor's, "P-1" or better by Moody's
                           and "F-1" or better by Fitch (and for five
                           Business Days following a reduction in any such
                           rating), or

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                  (B)      the Rating Agency Condition has been otherwise
                           satisfied (and any conditions or limitations
                           imposed by the Rating Agencies in connection
                           therewith are complied with),

         the Servicer need not make the Daily Remittances, but in lieu
         thereof, may remit all Securitization Charge Collections (from
         whatever source), and all proceeds of other Collateral of the
         Issuer, if any, received by the Servicer during the preceding
         Billing Month, (or, in the case of the first Monthly Remittance
         following a Daily Remittance, since the second Business Day
         preceding such Daily Remittance) to the Trustee for deposit
         pursuant to the Indenture, not later than the corresponding
         Monthly Remittance Date.

         (c) If the Servicer has been making Monthly Remittances but fails
to continue to satisfy the requirements of clause (b) above, the Servicer
shall begin making Daily Remittances pursuant to clause (a) above
immediately following such failure; provided, that, on the first Daily
Remittance Date following such Monthly Remittances, the Servicer shall
remit all Securitization Charge Collections (from whatever source), and all
proceeds of other Collateral of the Issuer, if any, received by the
Servicer since the last day of the preceding Billing Month, to the Trustee
for deposit pursuant to the Indenture.

         SECTION 5.12 Protection of Title. The Servicer shall execute and
file such filings and cause to be executed and filed such filings, all in
such manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to preserve,
maintain and protect the interests of the Trustee in the Transferred
Securitization Property, including all filings required under the UCC
relating to the transfer of ownership of or a security interest in the
Transferred Securitization Property by the Seller to the Issuer or the
security interest granted by the Issuer to the Trustee in the Transferred
Securitization Property. The Servicer shall deliver (or cause to be
delivered) to the Issuer and the Trustee file-stamped copies of, or filing
receipts for, any document filed as provided above, as soon as available
following such filing.

                                ARTICLE VI

                              Servicer Default

         SECTION 6.01 Servicer Default. If any one of the following events
(a "Servicer Default") occurs and is continuing:

         (a) any failure by the Servicer to remit to the Trustee, on behalf
of the Issuer, any required remittance that continues unremedied for a
period of five Business Days after written notice of such failure is
received by the Servicer from the Issuer or the Trustee; or

         (b) any failure by the Servicer duly to observe or perform in any
material respect any other covenant or agreement of the Servicer set forth
in this Agreement, which failure:

                  (i) materially and adversely affects the Transferred
         Securitization Property or the rights of the Securitization
         Bondholders, and

                  (ii) continues unremedied for a period of 60 days after
         written notice of such failure has been given to the Servicer by
         the Issuer or by the Trustee or after discovery of such failure by
         an officer of the Servicer; or
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         (c) any representation or warranty made by the Servicer in this
Agreement proves to have been incorrect when made, which has a material
adverse effect on the Issuer or the Securitization Bondholders and which
material adverse effect continues unremedied for a period of 60 days after
the date on which written notice thereof has been given to the Servicer by
the Issuer or the Trustee or after discovery of such failure by an officer
of the Servicer, as the case may be; or

         (d) an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the Servicer;

then, and in each and every case, so long as the Servicer Default shall not
have been remedied, the Trustee, with the consent of the Holders of a
majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Securitization Bonds of
all Series, but subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement,
by notice then given in writing to the Servicer (a "Termination Notice")
may terminate all the rights and obligations (other than the
indemnification obligations set forth in Section 5.02 hereof and the
obligation under Section 6.04 to continue performing its functions as
Servicer until a successor Servicer is appointed) of the Servicer under
this Agreement. In addition, upon a Servicer Default specified in Section
6.01(a) above, the Issuer and the Trustee shall be entitled to apply to the
MPSC or any court of competent jurisdiction for sequestration and payment
to the Trustee of revenues arising with respect to the Transferred
Securitization Property.

         On or after the receipt by the Servicer of a Termination Notice,
all authority and power of the Servicer under this Agreement, whether with
respect to the Transferred Securitization Property, the related
Securitization Charges or otherwise, shall, upon appointment of a successor
Servicer pursuant to Section 6.04, without further action, pass to and be
vested in such successor Servicer and, without limitation, the Trustee is
hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of the
predecessor Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or otherwise, any and all
documents and other instruments, and to do or accomplish all other acts or
things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such Termination
Notice, whether to complete the transfer of the Securitization Property
Documentation and related documents, or otherwise. The predecessor Servicer
shall cooperate with the successor Servicer, the Trustee and the Issuer in
effecting the termination of the responsibilities and rights of the
predecessor Servicer under this Agreement, including the transfer to the
successor Servicer for administration by it of all cash amounts that shall
at the time be held by the predecessor Servicer for remittance, or shall
thereafter be received by it with respect to the Transferred Securitization
Property or the related Securitization Charges. As soon as practicable
after receipt by the Servicer of such Termination Notice, the Servicer
shall deliver the Securitization Property Documentation to the successor
Servicer. All reasonable costs and expenses (including attorneys fees and
expenses) incurred in connection with transferring the Securitization
Property Documentation to the successor Servicer and amending this
Agreement to reflect such succession as Servicer pursuant to this Section
6.01 shall be paid by the predecessor Servicer upon presentation of
reasonable documentation of such costs and expenses. Termination of
Consumers as Servicer shall not terminate Consumers' rights or obligations
under the Sale Agreement.

         SECTION 6.02 Notice of Servicer Default. The Servicer shall
deliver to the Issuer, the Trustee and each Rating Agency promptly after
having obtained knowledge thereof, but in no event later than five Business
Days thereafter, written notice in an Officer's Certificate of any event or
circumstance which, with the giving of notice or the passage of time, would
become a Servicer Default under Section 6.01. Such notice shall also be
given by publication in an Authorized Newspaper, so long as any
Securitization Bonds are listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the
rules of that exchange so require.

         SECTION 6.03 Waiver of Past Defaults. The Trustee, with the
consent of Holders of the majority of the outstanding principal amount of
the Securitization Bonds of all Series, may waive in writing any default by
the Servicer in the performance of its obligations hereunder and its
consequences, except a default in making any required remittances to the
Trustee of Securitization Charge Collections in accordance with Section
3.03. Upon any such waiver of a past default, such default shall cease to
exist, and any Servicer Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have
been remedied for every purpose of this Agreement. No such waiver shall
extend to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent
thereto.
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         SECTION 6.04 Appointment of Successor.

         (a) Upon the Servicer's receipt of a Termination Notice pursuant
to Section 6.01 or the Servicer's resignation in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement, the predecessor Servicer shall continue to perform its
functions as Servicer under this Agreement and shall be entitled to receive
the requisite portion of the Monthly Servicing Fees, until a successor
Servicer has assumed in writing the obligations of the Servicer hereunder
as described below. In the event of the Servicer's removal or resignation
hereunder, the Trustee, as assignee of the Issuer, shall appoint a
successor Servicer, with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the
outstanding principal amount of the Securitization Bonds of all Series, but
subject to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, and the successor
Servicer shall accept its appointment by a written assumption in form
acceptable to the Issuer and the Trustee. If, within 30 days after the
delivery of the Termination Notice, a new Servicer has not been appointed
and accepted such appointment, the Trustee may petition the MPSC or a court
of competent jurisdiction to appoint a successor Servicer under this
Agreement. A Person shall qualify as a successor Servicer only if:

                  (i) such Person is not prevented from performing the
         duties of the Servicer pursuant to the Customer Choice Act, the
         MPSC Regulations, the Financing Order and this Agreement;

                  (ii) the Rating Agency Condition has been satisfied; and

                  (iii) such Person enters into a servicing agreement with
         the Issuer having substantially the same provisions as this
         Agreement.

         (b) Upon appointment, the successor Servicer shall be the
successor in all respects to the predecessor Servicer under this Agreement
and shall be subject to all the responsibilities, duties and liabilities
arising thereafter relating thereto placed on the predecessor Servicer and
shall be entitled to the Monthly Servicing Fee and all the rights granted
to the predecessor Servicer by the terms and provisions of the Agreement.

         (c) The successor Servicer may resign only if it is prohibited
from serving as such by applicable law.

         SECTION 6.05 Cooperation with Successor. The Servicer covenants
and agrees with the Issuer that it will, on an ongoing basis, cooperate
with the successor Servicer and provide whatever information is, and take
whatever actions are, reasonably necessary to assist the successor Servicer
in performing its obligations hereunder, including, without limitation,
furnishing to the successor Servicer all information necessary to calculate
the Securitization Charge Collections.

                                ARTICLE VII

                          Miscellaneous Provisions

         SECTION 7.01 Amendment. This Agreement may be amended by the
Servicer and the Issuer, with the consent of the Trustee and the
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition. Promptly after the execution
of any such amendment or consent, the Issuer shall furnish written
notification of the substance of such amendment or consent to each of the
Rating Agencies.

         Prior to the execution of any amendment to this Agreement, each of
the Issuer and the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and rely upon an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amendment is
authorized or permitted by this Agreement and the Opinion of Counsel
referred to in Section 3.11. Each of the Issuer and the Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, enter into any such amendment which adversely
affects its own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or
otherwise.

         SECTION 7.02 Notices. Unless otherwise specifically provided
herein, all notices, directions, consents and waivers required under the
terms and provisions of this Agreement shall be in English and in writing,
and any such notice, direction, consent or waiver may be given by United
States first-class mail, reputable overnight courier service, facsimile
transmission or electronic mail (confirmed by telephone, United States
first-class mail or reputable overnight courier service in the case of
notice by facsimile transmission or electronic mail) or any other customary
means of communication, and any such notice, direction, consent or waiver
shall be effective when delivered or transmitted, or if mailed, five days
after deposit in the United States first-class mail with proper postage for
first-class mail prepaid,

         (a) in the case of the Servicer, at Consumers Energy Company, 212
W. Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan 49201;

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         (b) in the case of the Issuer, at Consumers Funding LLC, 212 W.
Michigan Avenue, Suite M-1029, Jackson, Michigan 49201;

         (c) in the case of the Trustee, at the address provided for
notices or communications to the Trustee in the Indenture;

         (d) in the case of Moody's, at Moody's Investors Service, Inc.,
ABS Monitoring Department, 99 Church Street, New York, New York 10007;

         (e) in the case of Standard & Poor's, at Standard & Poor's Ratings
Group, 55 Water Street, New York, New York 10041, Attention: Asset Backed
Surveillance Department; and

         (f) in the case of Fitch, at Fitch, Inc., 1 State Street Plaza,
New York, New York 10004, Attention: ABS Surveillance;

or, as to each of the foregoing, at such other address as shall be
designated by written notice to the other parties.

         SECTION 7.03 Limitations on Rights of Others. The provisions of
this Agreement are solely for the benefit of the Servicer, the Issuer and
the Trustee, on behalf of itself and the Securitization Bondholders, and
nothing in this Agreement, whether express or implied, shall be construed
to give to any other Person any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
in any Collateral or under or in respect of this Agreement or any
covenants, conditions or provisions contained herein.

         SECTION 7.04 Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and
any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not
invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other
jurisdiction.

         SECTION 7.05 Separate Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed
by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts
shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

         SECTION 7.06 Headings. The headings of the various Articles and
Sections herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not define
or limit any of the terms or provisions hereof.

         SECTION 7.07 GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, WITHOUT REFERENCE TO ITS
CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS, AND THE OBLIGATIONS, RIGHTS AND REMEDIES OF THE
PARTIES HEREUNDER SHALL BE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUCH LAWS.

         SECTION 7.08 Assignment to the Trustee. (a) The Servicer hereby
acknowledges and consents to any pledge, assignment and grant of a security
interest by the Issuer to the Trustee pursuant to the Indenture for the
benefit of the Securitization Bondholders of all right, title and interest
of the Issuer in, to and under the Transferred Securitization Property
owned by the Issuer and the proceeds thereof and the assignment of any or
all of the Issuer's rights hereunder to the Trustee.

         (b) In no event shall the Trustee have any liability for the
representations, warranties, covenants, agreements or other obligations of
the Issuer hereunder or in any of the certificates, notices or agreements
delivered pursuant hereto, as to all of which recourse shall be had solely
to the assets of the Issuer.
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         SECTION 7.09 Nonpetition Covenants. Notwithstanding any prior
termination of this Agreement or the Indenture, the Servicer hereby
covenants and agrees that it shall not, prior to the date which is one year
and one day after the termination of the Indenture and the payment in full
of the Securitization Bonds, any other amounts owed under the Indenture,
including, without limitation, any amounts owed to third-party credit
enhancers, and any amounts owed by the Issuer under any Interest Rate Swap
Agreement, acquiesce in, petition or otherwise invoke or cause the Issuer
to invoke the process of any court or government authority for the purpose
of commencing or sustaining a case against the Issuer under any Federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Issuer or any substantial part of the property of the
Issuer, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the
Issuer.

         SECTION 7.10 Termination. This Agreement shall terminate when all
Securitization Bonds have been retired, redeemed or defeased in full.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement
to be duly executed and delivered by their respective duly authorized
officers as of the date and year first above written.

                                         CONSUMERS FUNDING LLC,
                                            as Issuer

                                         By:  /s/ Thomas A. McNish
                                              ----------------------------
                                              Name:  Thomas A. McNish
                                              Title: Manager

                                         CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY,
                                            as Servicer

                                         By:  /s/ Laura L. Mountcastle
                                              -----------------------------
                                              Name:  Laura L. Mountcastle
                                              Title: Vice President and
                                                     Treasurer

                                         Acknowledged and Accepted:

                                         THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
                                               as Trustee

                                         By:  /s/ Cassandra D. Shedd
                                              ------------------------------
                                              Name:   Cassandra D. Shedd
                                              Title:  Assistant Vice President

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                                  ANNEX 1

                                     to

                            SERVICING AGREEMENT

         The Servicer agrees to comply with the following with respect to
Consumers Funding LLC (the "Issuer"):

         SECTION 1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used herein and not
otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in Appendix A to the
Servicing Agreement dated as of November 8, 2001, between the Issuer and
Consumers, as Servicer.

         SECTION 2. Trustee and Servicer Payment Date Statements. At least
one Business Day before each date on which distributions to the Trustee and
the Servicer are to be made pursuant to Sections 8.02(d) and (e) of the
Indenture, the Servicer shall provide the Trustee with a statement setting
forth the amounts to be distributed to each of the Trustee and Servicer
pursuant to such sections.

         SECTION 3. Payment Date Statements. At least one Business Day
before each Payment Date, the Servicer shall provide to the Issuer, the
Trustee, each Rating Agency and for so long as any Securitization Bonds are
listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, any listing agent in Luxembourg
and notice that such report is available shall be published in an
Authorized Newspaper, a statement indicating:

         1.    the amount to be paid to Securitization Bondholders of each
               Series and Class in respect of principal on such Payment
               Date;

         2.    the amount to be paid to Securitization Bondholders of each
               Series and Class in respect of interest on such Payment
               Date;

         3.    the Projected Securitization Bond Balance and the
               Securitization Bond Balance for each Series and Class as of
               that Payment Date (after giving effect to the payments on
               such Payment Date);

         4.    the amount on deposit in the Overcollateralization
               Subaccount for each Series and the Scheduled
               Overcollateralization Level for each Series, as of that
               Payment Date (after giving effect to the transfers to be
               made from or into the Overcollateralization Subaccount on
               such Payment Date);

         5.    the amount on deposit in the Capital Subaccount for each
               Series as of that Payment Date (after giving effect to the
               transfers to be made from or into the Capital Subaccount on
               such Payment Date);

         6.    the amount, if any, on deposit in the Reserve Subaccount as
               of that Payment Date (after giving effect to the transfers
               to be made from or into the Reserve Subaccount on such
               Payment Date);

         7.    the amount, if any, to be paid to any Swap Counterparty (on
               a gross and a net basis, separately stated) under any
               Interest Rate Swap Agreement on or before such Payment Date;
               and

         8.    the amount of any transfers and payments to be made on such
               Payment Date pursuant to Sections 8.02(d), (e), (f), (g),
               and (i) of the Indenture.
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         SECTION 4. Remittance Date Statements. At least one Business Day
before each Remittance Date, but not more frequently than monthly, the
Servicer shall prepare and furnish to the Issuer and the Trustee a
statement setting forth the amount to be remitted by the Servicer to the
Trustee for deposit on such Remittance Date pursuant to the Indenture.

         SECTION 5. Securitization Charge Adjustments.

         (a) Prior to each Calculation Date, the Servicer shall calculate

                  (i) the Securitization Bond Balance as of the Payment
         Date immediately preceding the next Adjustment Date (a written
         copy of which shall be delivered by the Servicer to the Trustee
         within five days following such Calculation Date), and

                  (ii) the revised Securitization Charges with respect to
         the Transferred Securitization Property in respect of each
         Adjustment Date such that the Servicer projects that
         Securitization Charge Collections therefrom allocable to the
         Issuer will be sufficient so that:

                  (A)      the Securitization Bond Balance on the Payment
                           Date immediately preceding the next Adjustment
                           Date will equal the Projected Securitization
                           Bond Balance as of such date, taking into
                           account any amounts on deposit in the Reserve
                           Subaccount,

                  (B)      the amount on deposit in the
                           Overcollateralization Subaccount on the Payment
                           Date immediately preceding the next Adjustment
                           Date will equal the Scheduled
                           Overcollateralization Level for such date,
                           taking into account amounts on deposit in the
                           Reserve Subaccount,

                  (C)      the amount on deposit in the Capital Subaccount
                           on the Payment Date immediately preceding the
                           next Adjustment Date will equal its required
                           level for such date, taking into account any
                           amounts on deposit in the Reserve Subaccount,

                  (D)      the amount on deposit in the Reserve Subaccount
                           on the Payment Date immediately preceding the
                           next Adjustment Date will equal zero, and

                  (E)      the Securitization Charge Collections will
                           provide for (i) amortization of the remaining
                           outstanding principal amount of each Series in
                           accordance with the Expected Amortization
                           Schedule therefor, (ii) payment of interest on
                           each Series when due, payment of any amounts
                           under any Interest Rate Swap Agreement, (iii)
                           payment of all Operating Expenses of the Issuer
                           when due in accordance with the Indenture, and
                           (iv) deposits to the Overcollateralization
                           Subaccount such that the balance therein will
                           equal the Scheduled Overcollateralization Level
                           on the Payment Date immediately preceding the
                           next Adjustment Date.

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         (b) On or before each Calculation Date, the Servicer shall file an
Adjustment Request with the MPSC. This filing shall include the data
specified in the Financing Order.

         (c) On each Adjustment Date, the Servicer shall

                  (i) take all reasonable actions and make all reasonable
         efforts to effectuate all adjustments to the Securitization
         Charges, and

                  (ii) promptly send to the Trustee copies of all material
         notices and documents relating to such adjustments.

         (d) On each Adjustment Date, the Servicer shall provide Moody's
with a schedule indicating any changes to the Securitization Charges.

         (e) If deemed appropriate by the Servicer to protect
Securitization Bondholders and to remedy a significant and recurring
variance between actual and expected Securitization Charge Collections, the
Servicer shall make "non-routine" filings with the MPSC as authorized by
the Financing Order, for adjustments to the Securitization Charge to assure
timely payment of the periodic payment requirements of the Issuer set forth
in the Indenture. Such filings shall be made at least 90 days prior to the
proposed effective date of the proposed adjustments.

                     ANNEX 2 to the Servicing Agreement
                        Dated as of November 8, 2001

                          Consumers Energy Company
                     Securitization Calculation Process

The following three processes will be used by Consumers Energy Company, as
Servicer, under the Servicing Agreement for calculating the daily amounts
of Securitization Charges to be remitted to the Trustee for deposit in the
Collection Account not later than the Remittance Date:

         Standard Process

         Initial Start-Up Process

         Process for Securitization Charge Rate Changes Resulting from a
         True-Up Adjustment

Terms are used herein as defined in Appendix A - Master Definitions to the
Servicing Agreement. The customer billing and collections referred to in
this Annex 2 are billings to and collections from Consumers' electric and
combined electric and gas customers (but not gas only customers).

Standard Process

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1.       Each business day that customer billing and collections are
         processed, a file is created from the billing systems containing
         the billing data (rate class, total charges billed, Securitization
         Charges billed and KWh delivered) and a file is created with
         collection data (collection amount by rate class).

2.       Billing Data: For an entire Billing Month the total Securitization
         Charges billed by the Servicer for each rate class are divided by
         the total charges billed by Consumers and the Servicer for each
         rate class to customers for such Billing Month, creating the
         Securitization Ratio. This information will be used for the
         subsequent Billing Month's calculation process. (Monthly Ratio
         Analysis)

3.       Collection Data: Each business day after collections are received
         the total dollar amount collected by rate class is multiplied by
         the prior Billing Month's Securitization Ratio for each rate
         class. This amount is the total Securitization Charges collected,
         which will be remitted to the Trustee on a daily basis. (Daily
         Servicer's Report)

4.       Monthly Summary: At the end of each Billing Month the total of the
         daily collections for that period are summarized and reported to
         the Trustee. (Monthly Servicer's Report)

Initial Start-Up

The standard process will be modified during the first three Billing Months
following the Transfer Date of the Initial Transferred Securitization
Property under the Sale Agreement. The first such Billing Month requires
the calculation of the amount of Securitization Charges for the prior
Billing Month and collections for all three of those Billing Months must
take into account payment history by adjustment based on the Collection
Curve for the applicable Billing Month.

First Billing Month

1.       Billing Data: The amount of Securitization Charges that would have
         been billed during the Billing Month prior to actual
         securitization billing is calculated. The total Securitization
         Charges that would have been billed for each rate class are
         divided by the total charges billed by Consumers and the Servicer
         for each rate class to provide the Securitization Ratio. This will
         be done to the input files from the billing systems and then
         processed as described above. (Monthly Ratio Analysis)

2.       Collection Data: For the first of the three Billing Months, the
         daily amounts of Securitization Charges collected are adjusted to
         reflect the time lag between the customer receiving the bill and
         the Servicer receiving payment. To accomplish this, the amounts
         collected from the billing systems will be multiplied by the First
         Billing Month's Collection Curve Percentage. Standard processing
         is then performed. (Daily Servicer's Report)

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3.       Monthly Summary: At the end of each Billing Month the total
         Securitization Charges collected are summarized and reported to
         the Trustee. (Monthly Servicer's Report)

Months Two and Three

1        Billing Data: For the preceding Billing Month the total
         Securitization Charges for each rate class are divided by the
         total charges billed by Consumers and the Servicer for each rate
         class. This billing rate information is then used for the current
         Billing Month's calculation process. (Monthly Ratio Analysis)

2.       Collection Data: For the second and third Billing Months, the
         daily amounts of Securitization Charges collected are adjusted to
         reflect the time lag between the customer receiving the bill and
         the Servicer receiving payment. To accomplish this, the amounts
         collected from the billing systems during the Second Billing Month
         are multiplied by the cumulative First and Second Billing Months'
         Collection Curve Percentage, and the amounts collected from the
         billing systems during the Third Billing Month are multiplied by
         the cumulative First, Second and Third Billing Months' Collection
         Curve Percentage. Standard processing is then performed. (Daily
         Servicer's Report)

         In the fourth Billing Month and thereafter, standard processing is
         performed based upon 100% of the amounts billed and collected.

3.       Monthly Summary: At the end of each Billing Month the total
         Securitization Charges collected are summarized and reported to
         the Trustee. (Monthly Servicer's Report)

Securitization Charge Rate Changes Resulting from a True-Up Adjustment

The first two Billing Months after a Securitization Charge Rate change
resulting from an annual or quarterly true-up, special processing is
required to (a) reflect the fact that during the Billing Month prior to the
change the Securitization Charge was billed under the prior Securitization
Charge Rate and (b) amounts collected for the first two Billing Months
after the Securitization Charge Rate change will reflect payments for both
old and new billing amounts resulting from the prior and new Securitization
Charge Rates.

First Securitization Charge Rate-Change Billing Month

To calculate the appropriate Securitization Ratio for the first Billing
Month after the Securitization Charge Rate change:

         Collections Applicable to Prior Securitization Charge Rate

         1.    Collection Data: For the first Billing Month, the daily
               amounts of Securitization Charges collected must be adjusted
               to reflect the collections of the Securitization Charges
               billed under the prior Securitization Charge Rate. To
               accomplish this, the collection amounts from the billing
               systems are multiplied by 1 minus the first Billing Month's
               Collection Curve Percentage. Standard processing is then
               performed on these amounts using the prior Billing Month's
               Securitization Ratio. (Daily Servicer's Report)

         Collections Applicable to New Securitization Charge Rate

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         2.    Billing Data: For the first Billing Month, the amount of
               Securitization Charges billed is recalculated by multiplying
               the KWh delivered for each rate class by the new
               Securitization Charge Rate. The total calculated
               Securitization Charges billed for each rate class are
               divided by the total charges billed by Consumers and the
               Servicer for each rate class. This information is then used
               for the First Billing Month's second calculation process
               (point 3 below). (Monthly Ratio Analysis)

         3.    Collection Data: For the first Billing Month, the daily
               amounts of Securitization Charges collected must be adjusted
               to reflect the collections billed under the new
               Securitization Charge Rate. To accomplish this, the
               collection amounts from the billing systems are multiplied
               by the First Billing Month's Collection Curve Percentage.
               Standard processing is then performed using the recalculated
               prior month's Securitization Ratio. (Daily Servicer's
               Report)

         4.    Summarized Collection Data: For the first Billing Month, the
               Daily Servicer's Reports (points 1 and 3 above) are
               summarized into one set of reports. This summarized amount
               is the total Securitization Charges collected, which will be
               remitted to the Trustee on a daily basis. (Daily Servicer's
               Report)

Second Securitization Charge Rate Change Month

To calculate the appropriate Securitization Ratio for the second Billing
Month after the Securitization Charge Rate change:

         Collection Applicable to Prior Securitization Charge Rate

         1.    Billing Data: For the second Billing Month, the amount of
               Securitization Charges collected is recalculated by
               multiplying the KWh billed by the prior Securitization
               Charge Rate. The total calculated Securitization Charges
               billed are divided by the total charges billed by Consumers
               and the Servicer for each rate class. This information is
               then used for the second Billing Month's second calculation
               process (point 2). (Monthly Ratio Analysis)

         2.    Collection Data: For the second Billing Month, the daily
               amounts of Securitization Charges collected must be adjusted
               to reflect the collections billed under the prior
               Securitization Charge Rate applicable to each rate class. To
               accomplish this, the collection amounts from the billing
               systems are multiplied by 1 minus the cumulative First and
               Second Billing Months' Collection Curve Percentage. Standard
               processing on these amounts is then performed using the
               recalculated prior month's Securitization Ratio. (Daily
               Servicer's Report)

         Collection Applicable to New Securitization Charge Rate

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         3.    Collection Data: For the second Billing Month, the daily
               amounts of Securitization Charges collected must be adjusted
               to reflect the collections billed under the new
               Securitization Charge Rate. To accomplish this, the
               collection amounts from the billing systems are multiplied
               by the cumulative First and Second Billing Months'
               Collection Curve Percentage. Standard processing is then
               performed using the prior month's Securitization Ratio.
               (Daily Servicer's Report)

         4.    Summarized Collection Data: For the second Billing Month,
               the Daily Servicer's Reports (points 2 and 3 above) are
               summarized into one set of reports. This summarized amount
               is the total Securitization Charges collected, which will be
               remitted to the Trustee on a daily basis. (Daily Servicer's
               Report)

                                 APPENDIX A

                             MASTER DEFINITIONS

The definitions contained in this Appendix A are applicable to the singular
as well as the plural forms of such terms.

         Act has the meaning specified in Section 11.03(a) of the
         Indenture.

         Adjustment Date means (a) the first day of the first billing cycle
         of the Servicer in December of each year through December 2013 and
         (b) thereafter, as long as the Securitization Bonds are
         outstanding, the first day of the first billing cycle of the
         Servicer in March, June, September and December of each year,
         beginning with the billing cycle for December 2014.

         Adjustment Request means an application filed by the Servicer with
         the MPSC for a Securitization Charge Adjustment pursuant to
         Section 5 of the Issuer Annex.

         Administration Agreement means the Administration Agreement dated
         as of November 8, 2001, between Consumers, as administrator, and
         the Issuer, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time
         to time.

         Administrator means Consumers, as administrator under the
         Administration Agreement, and each successor to Consumers, in the
         same capacity, pursuant to Section 14 of the Administration
         Agreement.

         Affiliate means, with respect to any specified Person, any other
         Person controlling or controlled by or under common control with
         such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
         control when used with respect to any specified Person means the
         power to direct the management and policies of such Person,
         directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting
         securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms controlling
         and controlled have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
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         Alternative Electric Suppliers means any third party, including
         any electric generation supplier, providing billing or metering
         services, licensed by the MPSC pursuant to relevant provisions of
         the Customer Choice Act, the MPSC Regulations and the Financing
         Order.

         Annual Accountant's Report has the meaning assigned to that term
         in Section 3.07 of the Servicing Agreement.

         Authorized Denominations means, with respect to any Series or
         Class of Securitization Bonds, $1,000 and integral multiples of
         $1.00 above that amount, provided, however, that one bond of each
         Class may have denomination of less than $1,000, or such other
         denominations as may be specified in the Series Supplement
         therefor.

         Authorized Newspaper means the Luxemburger Wort or any other
         newspaper published in Luxembourg on a daily basis.

         Authorized Officer means, with respect to the Issuer, a any
         Manager and, bany person designated as an "Officer" under the
         Issuer LLC Agreement and authorized thereby to act on behalf of
         the Issuer.

         Basic Documents means the Formation Documents, the Sale Agreement,
         the Intercreditor Agreement, any Bills of Sale, the Servicing
         Agreement, the Administration Agreement, the Indenture, the
         Underwriting Agreement, the Securities Account Control Agreement
         and any Interest Rate Swap Agreement, as each may be amended or
         supplemented from time to time.

         Bill of Sale means any bill of sale issued by the Seller to the
         Issuer pursuant to the Sale Agreement evidencing the sale of
         Securitization Property by the Seller to the Issuer.

         Billing Month means the schedule for current month billings (each
         billing month includes 21 billing segments regardless of the
         number of days in the current calendar month). For uniformity of
         customer billings, each customer's meter is read every 27 to 33
         days and billed in one of the 21 monthly billing segments.

         Book-Entry Securitization Bonds means beneficial interests in the
         Securitization Bonds, ownership and transfers of which shall be
         made through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in
         Section 2.11 of the Indenture.

         Business Day means any day other than a Saturday or Sunday or a
         day on which banking institutions in the City of Jackson,
         Michigan, or in the City of New York, New York or, with respect to
         any Securitization Bonds listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange,
         in Luxembourg, are required or authorized by law or executive
         order to remain closed.

         Calculation Date means the day which is a Business Day at least 45
         days before each Adjustment Date on which the Servicer files an
         Adjustment Request.
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         Capital Reserve Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section
         8.02(a) of the Indenture.

         Capital Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a) of
         the Indenture.

         Class means, with respect to any Series, any one of the classes of
         Securitization Bonds of that Series, as specified in the Series
         Supplement for that Series.

         Class Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a) of
         the Indenture.

         Clearing Agency means an organization registered as a "clearing
         agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act.

         Clearing Agency Participant means a broker, dealer, bank, other
         financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a
         Clearing Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
         securities deposited with the Clearing Agency.

         Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
         to time, and the treasury regulations promulgated thereunder.

         Collateral has the meaning specified in the Granting Clause of the
         Indenture.

         Collection Account has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a) of
         the Indenture.

         Collection Curve means, with respect to a Billing Month, the
         forecast prepared by the Servicer of the percentages of amounts
         billed in a Billing Month that are expected to be received during
         each of the Billing Months for which the Collection Curve
         Percentage will be applied to determine the amount of
         Securitization Charges collected.

         Collection Curve Percentage means the percentages of amounts
         billed in a particular Billing Month that are expected to be
         received during that month. The initial Collection Curve
         Percentages are:

                  First Billing Month's Collection Curve Percentage:   40.08%
                  Second Billing Month's Collection Curve Percentage:  45.09%
                  Third Billing Month's Collection Curve Percentage:   10.58%

         provided that the Collection Curve Percentages will be updated by
         Consumers periodically while the Securitization Bonds are
         outstanding using similar methodology.

         Commission means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and
         any successor thereof.

         Consumers means Consumers Energy Company, a Michigan corporation.

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         Corporate Trust Office means the principal office of the Trustee
         at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall
         be administered, which office at date of the execution of this
         Indenture is located at 5 Penn Plaza-16th floor, New York, New
         York 10001-1803, Attention: Corporate Trust-Asset Backed
         Securities (ABS), or at such other address as the Trustee may
         designate from time to time by notice to the Securitization
         Bondholders and the Issuer, or the principal corporate trust
         office of any successor Trustee (the address of which the
         successor Trustee will notify the Securitization Bondholders and
         the Issuer in writing).

         Covenant Defeasance Option has the meaning specified in Section
         4.01(b) of the Indenture.

         Customers means all electric customers taking delivery of
         electricity from Consumers or its successor on its MPSC-approved
         rate schedules and special contracts.

         Customer Choice Act means the Customer Choice and Electricity
         Reliability Act as set forth in Michigan Public Acts 2000 PA 141
         and 2000 PA 142 and effective on June 5, 2000.

         Daily Remittance Date means, if the Servicer has not satisfied the
         conditions of Section 5.11(b) of the Servicing Agreement, each
         Business Day commencing on the second Business Day following the
         date on which the Servicer ceases to satisfy such conditions.

         Default means any occurrence that is, or with notice or the lapse
         of time or both would become, an Event of Default.

         Defeasance Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a)
         of the Indenture.

         Definitive Securitization Bonds has the meaning specified in
         Section 2.11 of the Indenture.

         Delaware UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in
         the State of Delaware, as amended from time to time.

         DTC Agreement means the agreement between the Issuer, the Trustee
         and The Depository Trust Company, as the initial Clearing Agency,
         dated on or about November 8, 2001, relating to the Securitization
         Bonds, as the same may be amended or supplemented from time to
         time.

         Eligible Guarantor Institution means a firm or other entity
         identified in Rule 17Ad-15 under the Exchange Act as "an eligible
         guarantor institution," including (as such terms are defined
         therein):

                  (a)      a bank;

                  (b)      a broker, dealer, municipal securities broker or
                           dealer or government securities broker or
                           dealer;

                  (c)      a credit union;

                  (d)      a national securities exchange, registered
                           securities association or clearing agency; or

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                  (e)      a savings association that is a participant in a
                           securities transfer association.

         Eligible Institution means:

                  (a)      the corporate trust department of the Trustee,
                           so long as any of the securities of the Trustee
                           have a credit rating from each Rating Agency in
                           one of its generic rating categories which
                           signifies investment grade, or

                  (b)      a depositary institution organized under the
                           laws of the United States of America or any
                           State (or any domestic branch of a foreign
                           bank), which

                           (i)      has either

                                    (A)     with respect to any Eligible
                                            Investment having a maturity of
                                            greater than one month, a
                                            long-term unsecured debt rating
                                            of "AA-" by Standard & Poor's
                                            and Fitch and "Aa3" by Moody's,
                                            or

                                    (B)     with respect to any Eligible
                                            Investment having a maturity
                                            one month or less, a
                                            certificate of deposit rating
                                            of "A-1+" by Standard & Poor's,
                                            "P-1" by Moody's and "F1+" by
                                            Fitch, or any other long-term,
                                            short-term or certificate of
                                            deposit rating acceptable to
                                            the Rating Agencies, and

                           (ii)     whose deposits are insured by the FDIC.

         Eligible Investments mean book-entry securities, negotiable
         instruments or securities represented by instruments in bearer or
         registered form which evidence:

                  (a)      direct obligations of, and obligations fully and
                           unconditionally guaranteed as to timely payment
                           by, the United States of America;

                  (b)      demand deposits, time deposits or certificates
                           of deposit of any depository institution or
                           trust company (any depositary institution or
                           trust company being referred to in this
                           definition as a "financial institution")
                           incorporated under the laws of the United States
                           of America or any State thereof (or any domestic
                           branch of a foreign bank) and subject to
                           supervision and examination by Federal or State
                           banking or depositary institution authorities;
                           provided, however, that at the time of the
                           investment or contractual commitment to invest
                           therein, the commercial paper or other
                           short-term unsecured debt obligations (other
                           than such obligations the rating of which is
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                           based on the credit of a Person other than such
                           depositary institution or trust company) thereof
                           shall have a credit rating from each of the
                           Rating Agencies in the highest investment
                           category granted thereby;

                  (c)      commercial paper or other short term obligations
                           of any corporation organized under the laws of
                           the United States of America (other than
                           Consumers) whose ratings, at the time of the
                           investment or contractual commitment to invest
                           therein, from each of the Rating Agencies are in
                           the highest investment category granted thereby;

                  (d)      investments in money market funds having a
                           rating from each of the Rating Agencies in the
                           highest investment category granted thereby
                           (including funds for which the Trustee or any of
                           its Affiliates act as investment manager or
                           advisor);

                  (e)      bankers' acceptances issued by any depositary
                           institution or trust company referred to in
                           clause (b) above;

                  (f)      repurchase obligations with respect to any
                           security that is a direct obligation of, or
                           fully guaranteed by, the United States of
                           America or any agency or instrumentality thereof
                           the obligations of which are backed by the full
                           faith and credit of the United States of
                           America, in either case entered into with a
                           depositary institution or trust company (acting
                           as principal) described in clause (b) above;

                  (g)      repurchase obligations with respect to any
                           security or whole loan entered into with

                           (i)      a financial institution (acting as
                                    principal) described in clause (b)
                                    above,

                           (ii)     a broker/dealer (acting as principal)
                                    registered as a broker or dealer under
                                    Section 15 of the Exchange Act (any
                                    broker/dealer being referred to in this
                                    definition as a "broker/dealer"), the
                                    unsecured short-term debt obligations
                                    of which are rated P-1 by Moody's, A-1+
                                    by Standard & Poor's and F1+ by Fitch
                                    at the time of entering into this
                                    repurchase obligation, or

                           (iii)    an unrated broker/dealer, acting as
                                    principal, that is a wholly-owned
                                    subsidiary of a non-bank or bank
                                    holding company the unsecured
                                    short-term debt obligations of which
                                    are rated P-1 by Moody's, A-1+ by
                                    Standard & Poor's and F1+ by Fitch at
                                    the time of purchase; or
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                  (h)      any other investment permitted by each Rating Agency;

         provided, however, that, with respect to Moody's only, the obligor
         related to clauses (b), (c), (e), (f) and (g) above must have both
         a long term rating of at least A1 and a short term rating of at
         least P-1, and provided further, that, unless otherwise permitted
         by each Rating Agency, upon the failure of any Eligible
         Institution to maintain any applicable rating set forth in this
         definition or the definition of Eligible Institution, the related
         investments at such institution shall be reinvested in Eligible
         Investments at a successor Eligible Institution within 10 days,
         and provided, further, that, any Eligible Investment must not:

                  (a)      be sold, liquidated or otherwise disposed of at
                           a loss, prior to the maturity thereof, or

                  (b)      mature later than (i) the date on which the
                           proceeds of such Eligible Investment will be
                           required to be on deposit in the Collection
                           Account in order for the Trustee to make all
                           required and scheduled payments and deposits
                           into Subaccounts under the Indenture, if such
                           Eligible Investment is held by an Affiliate of
                           the Trustee, or (ii) the Business Day prior to
                           the date on which the proceeds of such Eligible
                           Investment will be required to be on deposit in
                           the Collection Account in order for the Trustee
                           to make all required and scheduled payments and
                           deposits into Subaccounts under the Indenture,
                           if such Eligible Investment is not held by an
                           Affiliate of the Trustee; provided, however that
                           with respect to the period prior to the first
                           Payment Date any Eligible Investment must not
                           have a maturity of greater than six months.

         Eligible Securities Account means either:

                  (a)      a segregated trust account with an Eligible
                           Institution or

                  (b)      a segregated trust account with the corporate
                           trust department of a depositary institution
                           organized under the laws of the United States of
                           America or any State (or any domestic branch of
                           a foreign bank), having corporate trust powers
                           and acting as trustee for funds deposited in
                           such account, so long as any of the securities
                           of such depositary institution shall have a
                           credit rating from each Rating Agency in one of
                           its generic rating categories which signifies
                           investment grade.

         Event of Default has the meaning specified in Section 5.01 of the
         Indenture.

        Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
         amended.

         Expected Amortization Schedule means, with respect to each Series
         or, if applicable, each Class of Securitization Bonds, the
         expected amortization schedule for principal thereof, as specified
         in the Series Supplement therefor.

         Expected Final Payment Date means, with respect to each Series or,
         if applicable, each Class of Securitization Bonds, the date when
         all interest and principal is scheduled to be paid with respect to
         that Series or Class in accordance with the Expected Amortization
         Schedule, as specified in the Series Supplement therefor.

         Filing Office means the Office of the of the Secretary of State of
         the State of Michigan or the Office of the Secretary of State of
         the State of Delaware, as applicable.

         Final Maturity Date means, for each Series or, if applicable, each
         Class of Securitization Bonds, the date by which all principal of
         and interest on such Series or Class of Securitization Bonds is
         required to be paid, as specified in the Series Supplement
         therefor.

         Financing Issuance means an issuance of a new Series of
         Securitization Bonds under the Indenture to provide funds to
         finance the purchase by the Issuer of Securitization Property.

         Financing Order means the Opinion and Order issued on October 24,
         2000 and the Order Granting Rehearing issued on January 12, 2001
         by the MPSC (MPSC Docket Number U-12505) with respect to
         Consumers.

         Fitch means Fitch, Inc., or its successor.

         Formation Documents means, collectively, the Issuer LLC Agreement,
         the Issuer Certificate of Formation and any other document
         pursuant to which the Issuer is formed or governed, as each may be
         amended or supplemented from time to time.

         General Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a) of
         the Indenture.

         Grant means mortgage, pledge, bargain, sell, warrant, alienate,
         remise, release, convey, assign, transfer, create, and grant a
         lien upon and a security interest in and right of set-off against,
         deposit, set over and confirm. A Grant of the Collateral or of any
         other agreement or instrument shall include all rights, powers and
         options (but none of the obligations) of the Granting party
         thereunder, including the immediate and continuing right to claim
         for, collect, receive and give receipt for principal, interest and
         other payments in respect of the Collateral and all other moneys
         payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other
         communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise
         all rights and options, to bring Proceedings in the name of the
         Granting party or otherwise and generally to do and receive
         anything that the Granting party is or may be entitled to do or
         receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

         Holder or Securitization Bondholder means the Person in whose name
         a Securitization Bond of any Series or Class is registered in the
         Securitization Bond Register.
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         Indemnified Person has the meaning specified in Section 5.02 of
         the Servicing Agreement.

         Indemnity Amount means the amount of any indemnification
         obligation payable under the Basic Documents.

         Indenture means the Indenture dated as of November 8, 2001,
         between the Issuer and the Trustee, as the same may be amended and
         supplemented from time to time by one or more Supplemental
         Indentures, and shall include each Series Supplement and the forms
         and terms of the Securitization Bonds established thereunder.

         Independent means, when used with respect to any specified Person,
         that the Person

                  (a)      is in fact independent of the Issuer, any other
                           obligor upon the Securitization Bonds,
                           Consumers, the Servicer (if different from
                           Consumers) and any Affiliate of any of the
                           foregoing Persons,

                  (b)      does not have any direct financial interest or
                           any material indirect financial interest in the
                           Issuer, any such other obligor, Consumers or any
                           Affiliate of any of the foregoing Persons, and

                  (c)      is not connected with the Issuer, any such other
                           obligor, Consumers or any Affiliate of any of
                           the foregoing Persons as an officer, employee,
                           promoter, underwriter, trustee, partner,
                           director or person performing similar functions.

         Independent Certificate means a certificate or opinion to be
         delivered to the Trustee under the circumstances described in, and
         otherwise complying with, the applicable requirements of Section
         11.01 of the Indenture, made by an Independent appraiser or other
         expert appointed by an Issuer Order and approved by the Trustee in
         the exercise of reasonable care, and such opinion or certificate
         shall state that the signer has read the definition of
         "Independent" in this Appendix A and that the signer is
         Independent within the meaning thereof.

         Independent Manager has the meaning set forth in the Issuer LLC
         Agreement.

         Initial Purchase Price has the meaning set forth in Section
         2.01(a) of the Sale Agreement.

         Initial Transfer Date means the Series Issuance Date for the first
         Series of Securitization Bonds.

         Initial Transferred Securitization Property means the
         Securitization Property sold, assigned and/or transferred by the
         Seller to the Issuer as of the Initial Transfer Date pursuant to
         the Sale Agreement and the Bill of Sale delivered on or prior to
         the Initial Transfer Date as identified in such Bill of Sale.
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         Insolvency Event means, with respect to a specified Person,

                  (a)      the filing of a decree or order for relief by a
                           court having jurisdiction in the premises in
                           respect of such Person or any substantial part
                           of its property in an involuntary case under any
                           applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
                           insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter
                           in effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator,
                           assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or
                           similar official for such Person or for any
                           substantial part of its property, or ordering
                           the winding-up or liquidation of such Person's
                           affairs, and such decree or order shall remain
                           unstayed and in effect for a period of 90
                           consecutive days or

                  (b)      the commencement by such Person of a voluntary
                           case under any applicable Federal or State
                           bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now
                           or hereafter in effect, or the consent by such
                           Person to the entry of an order for relief in an
                           involuntary case under any such law, or the
                           consent by such Person to the appointment of or
                           taking possession by a receiver, liquidator,
                           assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator or
                           similar official for such Person or for any
                           substantial part of its property, or the making
                           by such Person of any general assignment for the
                           benefit of creditors, or the failure by such
                           Person generally to pay its debts as such debts
                           become due, or the taking of action by such
                           Person in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

         Intercreditor Agreement means: (i) the Intercreditor Agreement
         dated as of November 8, 2001 (the "Initial Intercreditor
         Agreement"), among Consumers, the Trustee, the Issuer, Canadian
         Imperial Bank of Commerce and Asset Securitization Cooperative
         Corporation, as amended and supplemented from time to time; or
         (ii) any subsequent intercreditor agreement entered into by the
         Trustee pursuant to Section 18(b) of the Initial Intercreditor
         Agreement.

         Interest means, for any Payment Date for any Series or Class of
         Securitization Bonds, the sum, without duplication, of:

                  (a)      an amount equal to the amount of interest
                           accrued at the applicable Interest Rate from the
                           prior Payment Date with respect to that Series
                           or Class;

                  (b)      any unpaid interest, plus any interest accrued
                           on this unpaid interest at the applicable
                           Interest Rate, to the extent permitted by
                           applicable law;

                  (c)      if the Securitization Bonds have been declared
                           due and payable, all accrued and unpaid interest
                           thereon; and

                  (d)      with respect to a Series or Class to be redeemed
                           prior to the next Payment Date, the amount of
                           interest that will be payable as interest on
                           such Series or Class upon such redemption.

        Interest Rate means, with respect to each Series or Class of
         Securitization Bonds, the rate at which interest accrues on the
         principal balance of Securitization Bonds of such Series or Class,
         as specified in the Series Supplement therefor.

         Interest Rate Swap Agreement means any interest rate swap
         agreement entered into by the Issuer with respect to any Series or
         Class of Securitization Bonds, including, without limitation, the
         ISDA Master Agreement and the related Schedule and Confirmation
         between the Issuer and a Swap Counterparty, as same may be amended
         or supplemented from time to time.

         Issuer means Consumers Funding LLC, a Delaware limited liability
         company, or its successor under the Indenture or the party named
         as such in the Indenture until a successor replaces it and,
         thereafter, means the successor.

         Issuer Annex means Annex 1 of the Servicing Agreement.

         Issuer Certificate of Formation means the Amended and Restated
         Certificate of Formation of the Issuer which was filed with the
         Delaware Secretary of State's Office on November 6, 2001, as the
         same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

         Issuer LLC Agreement means the Amended and Restated Limited
         Liability Company Agreement between the Issuer and Consumers, as
         sole Member, dated as of November 8, 2001, as the same may be
         amended or supplemented from time to time.

         Issuer Officer's Certificate means a certificate signed by any
         Authorized Officer of the Issuer, under the circumstances
         described in, and otherwise complying with, the applicable
         requirements of Section 11.01 of the Indenture, and delivered to
         the Trustee. Unless otherwise specified, any reference in the
         Indenture to an Officer's Certificate shall be to an Officer's
         Certificate of any Authorized Officer of the Issuer.

         Issuer Opinion of Counsel means one or more written opinions of
         counsel who may, except as otherwise expressly provided in the
         Indenture, be employees of or counsel to the Issuer or the Seller
         and who shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, and which
         opinion or opinions shall be addressed to the Trustee, and shall
         be in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee.

         Issuer Order or Issuer Request means a written order or request,
         respectively, signed in the name of the Issuer by any one of its
         Authorized Officers and delivered to the Trustee.

         Legal Defeasance Option has the meaning specified in Section
         4.01(b) of the Indenture.

         Lien means a security interest, lien, charge, pledge, equity or
         encumbrance of any kind.

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         Losses means collectively, any and all liabilities, obligations,
         losses, damages, payments, costs or expenses of any kind
         whatsoever.

         Manager has the meaning set forth in the Issuer LLC Agreement.

         Member means Consumers, as the sole member of the Issuer, in its
         capacity as such member under the Issuer LLC Agreement.

         Michigan UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in
         the State of Michigan, as amended from time to time.

         Monthly Remittance Date means the 19th day of each calendar month
         (or if such day is not a Business Day, the preceding Business
         Day).

         Monthly Servicing Fee means the fee payable to the Servicer on a
         monthly basis for services rendered, in accordance with Section
         5.07 of the Servicing Agreement.

         Moody's means Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or its successor.

         MPSC means the Michigan Public Service Commission or its
         successor.

         MPSC Regulations means any regulations, orders, guidelines or
         directives promulgated, issued or adopted by the MPSC, as in
         effect from time to time.

         Officers' Certificate means, with respect to a corporation, a
         certificate signed by the chairman of the board, the president,
         the vice chairman of the board, any executive vice president, any
         vice president, the treasurer or the secretary of such company,
         and with respect to a limited liability company, any Manager.

         Operating Expenses means, with respect to the Issuer, all fees,
         costs, expenses and indemnity payments owed by the Issuer,
         including, without limitation, all amounts owed by the Issuer to
         the Trustee, the Monthly Servicing Fee, the fees and expenses
         payable by the Issuer to the Administrator under the
         Administration Agreement, the fees and expenses payable by the
         Issuer to the Independent Managers and Special Members of the
         Issuer, fees of the Rating Agencies, legal fees and expenses of
         the Servicer pursuant to Section 3.10 of the Servicing Agreement,
         legal and accounting fees, costs and expenses of the Issuer and
         legal, accounting or other fees, costs and expenses of the Seller
         (including, without limitation, any costs and expenses incurred by
         the Seller pursuant to Section 4.09 of the Sale Agreement) under
         or in connection with the Basic Documents or the Financing Order.

         Opinion of Counsel means one or more written opinions of counsel
         who may be an employee of or counsel to Consumers, the Issuer or
         any other Person (as the context may require), which counsel shall
         be reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, the Issuer or the Rating
         Agencies, as applicable, and which shall be in form reasonably
         satisfactory to the Trustee, if applicable.

         Outstanding with respect to Securitization Bonds means, as of the
         date of determination, all Securitization Bonds theretofore
         authenticated and delivered under the Indenture except:

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                  (a)      Securitization Bonds theretofore canceled by the
                           Securitization Bond Registrar or delivered to
                           the Securitization Bond Registrar for
                           cancellation;

                  (b)      Securitization Bonds or portions thereof the
                           payment for which money in the necessary amount
                           has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee
                           or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of
                           such Securitization Bonds; provided, however,
                           that if such Securitization Bonds are to be
                           redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
                           duly given pursuant to the Indenture or
                           provision therefor, satisfactory to the Trustee,
                           made; and

                  (c)      Securitization Bonds in exchange for or in lieu
                           of other Securitization Bonds which have been
                           authenticated and delivered pursuant to the
                           Indenture unless proof satisfactory to the
                           Trustee is presented that any such
                           Securitization Bonds are held by a protected
                           purchaser;

         provided that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
         Outstanding Amount of the Securitization Bonds or any Series or
         Class thereof have given any request, demand, authorization,
         direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder or under any Basic
         Document, Securitization Bonds owned by the Issuer, any other
         obligor upon the Securitization Bonds, Consumers or any Affiliate
         of any of the foregoing Persons shall be disregarded and deemed
         not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the
         Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request,
         demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
         Securitization Bonds that the Trustee knows to be so owned shall
         be so disregarded. Securitization Bonds so owned that have been
         pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the
         pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
         pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Securitization
         Bonds and that the pledgee is not the Issuer, any other obligor
         upon the Securitization Bonds, Consumers or any Affiliate of any
         of the foregoing Persons.

         Outstanding Amount means the aggregate principal amount of all
         Outstanding Securitization Bonds or, if the context requires, all
         Outstanding Securitization Bonds of a Series or Class Outstanding
         at the date of determination.

         Overcollateralization means, with respect to any Payment Date, an
         amount that, if deposited to the Overcollateralization Subaccount,
         would cause the balance in such subaccount to equal the Scheduled
         Overcollateralization Level for such Payment Date, without regard
         to investment earnings.

         Overcollateralization Amount means, with respect to any Series of
         Securitization Bonds, the amount specified as such in the Series
         Supplement therefor.

         Overcollateralization Subaccount has the meaning specified in
         Section 8.02(a) of the Indenture.

         Paying Agent means the Trustee or any other Person, including any
         Person appointed pursuant to Section 3.02(b) of the Indenture,
         that meets the eligibility standards for the Trustee specified in
         Section 6.11 of the Indenture and is authorized by the Issuer to
         make the payments of principal of or premium, if any, or interest
         on the Securitization Bonds on behalf of the Issuer.

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         Payment Date means, with respect to each Series or Class of
         Securitization Bonds, each date or dates respectively specified as
         Payment Dates for such Series or Class in the Series Supplement
         therefor.

         Person means any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
         joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust (including
         any beneficiary thereof), business trust, limited liability
         company, unincorporated organization or government or any agency
         or political subdivision thereof.

         Predecessor Securitization Bond means, with respect to any
         particular Securitization Bond, every previous Securitization Bond
         evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by
         such particular Securitization Bond; and, for the purpose of this
         definition, any Securitization Bond authenticated and delivered
         under Section 2.06 of the Indenture in lieu of a mutilated, lost,
         destroyed or stolen Securitization Bond shall be deemed to
         evidence the same debt as the mutilated, lost, destroyed or stolen
         Securitization Bond.

         Principal means, with respect to any Payment Date and each Series
         or Class of Securitization Bonds:

                  (a)      the amount of principal scheduled to be paid on
                           such Payment Date in accordance with the
                           Expected Amortization Schedule;

                  (b)      the amount of principal due on the Final
                           Maturity Date of any Series or Class if such
                           Payment Date is the Final Maturity Date;

                  (c)      the amount of principal due as a result of the
                           occurrence and continuance of an Event of
                           Default and acceleration of the Securitization
                           Bonds;

                  (d)      the amount of principal and premium, if any, due
                           as a result of a redemption of Securitization
                           Bonds on such Payment Date; and

                  (e)      any overdue payments of principal.

         Pro Rata has the meaning set forth in Section 8.02(l) of the
         Indenture.

         Proceeding means any suit in equity, action at law or other
         judicial or administrative proceeding.

         Projected Securitization Bond Balance means, as of any date, the
         sum of the amounts provided for in the Expected Amortization
         Schedules for each Outstanding Series of Securitization Bonds as
         of such date.

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         Rating Agency means, as of any date, any rating agency rating the
         Securitization Bonds of any Class or Series at the time of
         issuance thereof at the request of the Issuer. If no such
         organization or successor is any longer in existence, "Rating
         Agency" shall be a nationally recognized statistical rating
         organization or other comparable Person designated by the Issuer,
         notice of which designation shall be given to the Trustee, the
         Member and the Servicer.

         Rating Agency Condition means, with respect to any action, the
         notification by the Trustee to each Rating Agency of such action
         and the notification from each of Fitch and S&P to the Trustee and
         the Issuer that such action will not result in a reduction or
         withdrawal of the then current rating by such Rating Agency of any
         Outstanding Series or Class of Securitization Bonds.

         Record Date has the meaning set forth in each Supplemental
         Indenture.

         Redemption Date means, with respect to each Series or Class of
         Securitization Bonds, the date for the redemption of the
         Securitization Bonds of such Series or Class pursuant to Sections
         10.01 or 10.02 of the Indenture or the Series Supplement for such
         Series or Class, which in each case shall be a Payment Date.

         Redemption Price has the meaning set forth in Section 10.01 of the
         Indenture.

         Refunding Issuance means an issuance of a new Series of
         Securitization Bonds under the Indenture to pay the cost of
         refunding, through redemption or payment on the Expected Final
         Payment Date for a Series or Class of Securitization Bonds, all or
         part of the Securitization Bonds of such Series or Class to the
         extent permitted by the terms thereof.

         Released Parties has the meaning specified in Section 5.02(e) of
         the Servicing Agreement.

         Remittance Date means a Daily Remittance Date or a Monthly
         Remittance Date, as applicable.

         Required Capital Amount means with respect to any Series, the
         amount required to be deposited in the Capital Subaccount on the
         Series Issuance Date of such Series, as specified in the related
         Series Supplement.

         Reserve Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a) of
         the Indenture.

         Responsible Officer means, with respect to the Trustee, any
         officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Division (or any successor
         thereto), including any vice president, assistant vice president,
         trust officer, secretary, assistant secretary, or any other
         officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to
         those performed by any of the above designated officers, in each
         case having direct responsibility for the administration of the
         Indenture.

         Retiring Trustee has the meaning specified in Section 6.08(b) of
         the Indenture.

         Sale Agreement means the Sale Agreement dated November 8, 2001
         between the Seller and the Issuer, as the same may be amended or
         supplemented from time to time.

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         Scheduled Overcollateralization Level means, with respect to each
         Series and any Payment Date, the amount with respect to such
         Series set forth as such in Schedule B of the Series Supplement.

         Secured Obligations has the meaning set forth in the Granting
         Clause of the Indenture.

         Securities Account Control Agreement means the securities account
         control agreement dated as of November 8, 2001, by and between
         Consumers Funding LLC, as debtor, the Trustee as the secured party
         and The Bank of New York, in its capacity as securities
         intermediary thereunder.

         Securitization Bond means any of the Securitization Bonds (as
         defined in the Customer Choice Act) issued by the Issuer pursuant
         to the Indenture.

         Securitization Bond Balance means, as of any date, the aggregate
         Outstanding Amount of all Series of Securitization Bonds on such
         date.

         Securitization Bond Register has the meaning specified in Section
         2.05(a) of the Indenture.

         Securitization Bond Registrar has the meaning specified in Section
         2.05(a) of the Indenture.

         Securitization Charge means the nonbypassable amounts to be
         charged for the use or availability of electric services (but does
         not include tax charges authorized by the Financing Order),
         approved by the MPSC under the Financing Order, to fully recover
         qualified costs, to be collected by Consumers, its successors,
         assignees or other collection agents, as provided for in the
         Financing Order.

         Securitization Charge Adjustment means each adjustment to the
         Securitization Charge related to the Transferred Securitization
         Property made in accordance with Section 4.01 of the Servicing
         Agreement, the Issuer Annex and the Financing Order.

         Securitization Charge Rate means the amount of the surcharge
         applied to all kilowatt-hours (KWh) billed to determine the amount
         of the Securitization Charges.

         Securitization Charge Collections means amounts received by the
         Servicer in respect of the Securitization Charge as determined by
         the Servicer in accordance with the allocation methodology set
         forth in Annex 2 to the Servicing Agreement.

         Securitization Property has the meaning assigned to that term in
         the Customer Choice Act and as approved with respect to Consumers
         in the Financing Order.
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         Securitization Property Documentation means all documents relating
         to the Transferred Securitization Property, including copies of
         the Financing Order and all documents filed with the MPSC in
         connection with any Securitization Charge Adjustment.

         Securitization Ratio means for an entire Billing Month the total
         Securitization Charges billed by the Servicer for each rate class
         divided by the total charges billed by Consumers and the Servicer
         for each rate class to customers for such Billing Month. Customers
         for this purpose refers to Consumers' electric and combination
         electric and gas customers (and not gas only customers).

         Seller means Consumers, in its capacity as seller of the
         Securitization Property to the Issuer pursuant to the Sale
         Agreement.

         Series means any series of Securitization Bonds issued by the
         Issuer and authenticated by the Trustee pursuant to the Indenture,
         as specified in the Series Supplement therefor.

         Series Capital Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section
         8.02(a) of the Indenture.

         Series Issuance Date means, with respect to any Series, the date
         on which the Securitization Bonds of such Series are to be
         originally issued in accordance with Section 2.10 of the Indenture
         and the Series Supplement for such Series.

         Series Overcollateralization Subaccount has the meaning specified
         in Section 8.02(a) of the Indenture.

         Series Subaccount has the meaning specified in Section 8.02(a) of
         the Indenture.

         Series Supplement means an indenture supplemental to the Indenture
         that authorizes a particular Series of Securitization Bonds, as
         the same may be amended or supplemented from time to time.

         Servicer means Consumers, as the servicer of the Securitization
         Property, and each successor to Consumers (in the same capacity)
         pursuant to Section 5.03, 5.04 or 6.04 of the Servicing Agreement.

         Servicer Default means an event specified in Section 6.01 of the
         Servicing Agreement.

         Servicing Agreement means the Servicing Agreement dated as of
         November 8, 2001 between the Issuer and the Servicer, as the same
         may be amended and supplemented from time to time.

         Special Member has the meaning set forth in the Issuer LLC
         Agreement.

         Standard & Poor's, or S&P, means Standard & Poor's Ratings Group,
         a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, or its successor.

         State means any one of the 50 states of the United States of
         America or the District of Columbia.

         Subaccount means any of the subaccounts of the Collection Account
         specified in Section 8.02 of the Indenture.

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         Subsequent Sale means the sale of additional Securitization
         Property by the Seller to the Issuer after the Initial Transfer
         Date, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions specified in
         the Sale Agreement and the Indenture.

         Subsequent Transfer Date means the date that a sale of Subsequent
         Transferred Securitization Property will be effective, as
         specified in a written notice provided by the Seller to the Issuer
         pursuant to the Sale Agreement.

         Subsequent Transferred Securitization Property means
         Securitization Property sold by the Seller to the Issuer as of a
         Subsequent Transfer Date pursuant to the Sale Agreement and the
         Bill of Sale delivered on or prior to the Subsequent Transfer Date
         as identified in such Bill of Sale.

         Successor Servicer has the meaning specified in Section 3.19(i) of
         the Indenture.

         Supplemental Indenture means a supplemental indenture entered into
         by the Issuer and the Trustee pursuant to Article IX of the
         Indenture.

         Swap Counterparty means, with respect to any Interest Rate Swap
         Agreement, the swap counterparty under that Interest Rate Swap
         Agreement.

         Termination Notice has the meaning specified in Section 6.01(d) of
         the Servicing Agreement.

         Transfer Date means the Initial Transfer Date or any Subsequent
         Transfer Date, as applicable.

         Transferred Securitization Property means Securitization Property
         which has been sold, assigned and/or transferred to the Issuer
         pursuant to the Sale Agreement and the Bill of Sale.

         Trust Indenture Act or TIA means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
         as in force on the date hereof, unless otherwise specifically
         provided.

         Trustee means The Bank of New York, a New York banking
         corporation, or its successor, as trustee under the Indenture, or
         any successor Trustee under the Indenture.

         UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect in the
         relevant jurisdiction, as amended from time to time.

         Underwriting Agreement means the Underwriting Agreement dated as
         of October 31, 2001 among the Seller, the Issuer and Morgan
         Stanley & Co. Incorporated, on behalf of itself and as the
         representative of the several underwriters named therein.

         U.S. Government Obligations means direct obligations (or
         certificates representing an ownership interest in such
         obligations) of the United States of America (including any agency
         or instrumentality thereof) for the payment of which the full
         faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged and
         which are not callable at the issuer's option.<PAGE>

                                                              EXHIBIT 10(c)

                          INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT

                  INTERCREDITOR AGREEMENT dated as of November 8, 2001
among CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE, a banking institution chartered
under the Bank Act of Canada with an office at 425 Lexington Avenue, New
York, New York ("CIBC" and as Servicing Agent under the RPA's referred to
below, the "Servicing Agent"), ASSET SECURITIZATION COOPERATIVE
CORPORATION, a California cooperative corporation with an office at 425
Lexington Avenue, New York, New York ("ASCC"), THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New
York banking corporation, with an office at 5 Penn Plaza, 16th Floor, New
York, New York 10001 (as Trustee under the Indenture referred to below, the
"Bond Trustee"), CONSUMERS FUNDING LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company with an office at 212 W. Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan (the
"Bond Issuer"), and CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY, a Michigan corporation with
an office at 212 W. Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan ("Consumers").

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to (i) the Receivables Sale Agreement,
dated as of December 20, 1996, as amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, between Consumers, as Seller and as
Collection Agent, and CIBC, as Purchaser and as Servicing Agent, and (ii)
the Receivables Sale Agreement, dated as of December 20, 1996, as amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, among
Consumers, as Seller and as Collection Agent, ASCC, as Purchaser, and CIBC,
as Servicing Agent (collectively, the "RPA's"), Consumers has sold and may
hereafter sell interests in its Receivables (as defined in the RPA's) to
CIBC, ASCC and/or other persons that may from time to time become parties
to one or both of the RPA's as purchasers (collectively, the "Purchasers");
and

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the Sale Agreement, dated as of
November 8, 2001, between Consumers and the Bond Issuer (the "Sale
Agreement"), Consumers has sold all of its Securitization Property (which
includes the Securitization Charge) to the Bond Issuer, and pursuant to the
Servicing Agreement, dated as of November 8, 2001, between Consumers and
the Bond Issuer (the "Servicing Agreement"), Consumers has agreed to
service the Securitization Property on behalf of the Bond Issuer; and

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of the Indenture dated as
of November 8, 2001 between the Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee, as
supplemented by one or more Series Supplements (collectively, the
"Indenture"), the Bond Issuer, among other things, has granted to the Bond
Trustee a security interest in the Securitization Property and certain of
its other assets to secure the Secured Obligations, which include, among
other things, the Securitization Bonds issued pursuant to the Indenture
(the "Securitization Bonds"); and

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the Servicing Agreement, Consumers'
obligations as the servicer under the Servicing Agreement on behalf of the
Bond Issuer (the "Bond Servicer") include the collection of the
Securitization Charge; and

                  WHEREAS, pursuant to the RPA's, Consumers as Collection
Agent on behalf of the Purchasers has agreed to provide servicing functions
with respect to Collections of the Receivables; and

                  WHEREAS, Collections with respect to Receivables and
Securitization Charge Collections and related bank accounts in which the
same may be deposited are the subject of the RPA's, the Sale Agreement, the
Indenture and the Servicing Agreement; and

                  WHEREAS, the parties hereto wish to agree upon their
respective rights relating to such Collections, Securitization Charge
Collections and bank accounts, as well as other matters of common interest
to them under the RPA's, the Sale Agreement, the Indenture and the
Servicing Agreement; and
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                  WHEREAS, defined terms used but not otherwise defined
herein have the meaning set forth in the RPA's or in Annex A to the Sale
Agreement, the Indenture and the Servicing Agreement;

                      NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and
the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

                  1. The Purchasers hereby acknowledge the ownership
interest of the Bond Issuer in the Transferred Securitization Property
including revenues, collections, payments, money and proceeds arising
therefrom (the "Bond Issuer Assets") and the security interest in favor of
the Bond Trustee in such assets (the "Bond Trustee Collateral"). The Bond
Trustee and the Bond Issuer hereby acknowledge the ownership interest of
the Purchasers in the Receivables. The Purchasers further acknowledge that,
notwithstanding anything in the RPA's to the contrary, none of them has any
interest in the Bond Issuer Assets or the Bond Trustee Collateral, and each
of the Bond Trustee and the Bond Issuer further acknowledges that,
notwithstanding anything in the Sale Agreement or the Indenture to the
contrary, it has no interest in the Receivables. Each of the parties hereto
agrees that the determination of the assets that constitute Securitization
Charge Collections in respect of the Transferred Securitization Property
shall be made in accordance with the allocation methodology set forth in
Annex 2 to the Servicing Agreement. It is understood and agreed that such
Annex 2 will not be amended or modified without the prior written consent
of each of the parties hereto.

                  2. (a) The Purchasers, the Bond Issuer and the Bond
Trustee acknowledge that Collections with respect to Receivables and
Securitization Charge Collections will be deposited into either

         (i) account no. 10132-33 at Bank One, Detroit, Michigan, ABA
         #072000326, or

         (ii) account no. 4825285820 at Standard Federal Bank, Troy,
         Michigan, ABA #072000805

(each, together with any additional or replacement account agreed to in
writing by the Servicing Agent and the Bond Trustee subject to the Rating
Agency Condition (as defined below), an "Account") held by Consumers.
Consumers in its respective capacities as Collection Agent and as Bond
Servicer, and on behalf of its successors and assigns in such capacities,
agrees that it will (i) allocate amounts in the Accounts on a daily basis
between Collections with respect to Receivables and Securitization Charge
Collections in accordance with the allocation methodology set forth in
Annex 2 to the Servicing Agreement and (ii) thereafter (x) allocate and
apply Collections with respect to Receivables in accordance with the RPA's
and (y) allocate and apply Securitization Charge Collections in accordance
with the Servicing Agreement.
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                     (b) The Bond Trustee and the Bond Issuer waive any
interest in deposits to the Accounts to the extent that they are properly
allocable to Collections with respect to Receivables, and the Purchasers
waive any interest in deposits to the Accounts to the extent that they are
properly allocable to Securitization Charge Collections. Each of the
parties hereto acknowledges the respective security interests of the others
in the Accounts to the extent of their respective interests as described in
this Agreement.

                  3. (a) The Purchasers hereby acknowledge that,
notwithstanding anything in the RPA's to the contrary, all Securitization
Charge Collections are property of the Bond Issuer pledged to the Bond
Trustee, subject to the terms of the Indenture, the Sale Agreement and the
Servicing Agreement. Each of the Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee hereby
acknowledges that, notwithstanding anything in the Sale Agreement or the
Indenture to the contrary, all Collections with respect to the Receivables
are the property of the Purchasers, subject to the terms of the respective
RPA.

                     (b) Each of the Purchasers hereby releases all liens
and security interests of any kind whatsoever which any Purchaser (or any
trustee or agent acting on its behalf) may hold in the Transferred
Securitization Property. Each of the Purchasers agrees, upon the reasonable
request of Consumers or the Bond Trustee, to execute and deliver to the
Bond Trustee such UCC partial release statements and other documents and
instruments, and do such other acts and things, as the Consumers or Bond
Trustee may reasonably request in order to evidence the release provided
for in this Section 3(b) and/or to execute and deliver to the Bond Trustee
UCC financing statement amendments to exclude the Transferred
Securitization Property from the assets covered by any existing UCC
financing statements relating to the Receivables; provided, however, that
failure to execute and deliver any such partial release statements,
financing statement amendments, documents or instruments, or to do such
acts and things, shall not affect or impair the release provided for in
this Section 3(b).

                     (c) Each of the Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee
hereby releases all liens and security interests of any kind whatsoever
which either of them may hold in the Receivables. Each of the Bond Issuer
and the Bond Trustee agrees, upon the reasonable request of the Servicing
Agent, to execute and deliver to the Servicing Agent such UCC partial
release statements and other documents and instruments, and do such other
acts and things, as the Servicing Agent may reasonably request in order to
evidence the release provided for in this Section 3(c) and/or to execute
and deliver to the Servicing Agent UCC financing statement amendments to
exclude such Receivables from the assets covered by any existing UCC
financing statements relating to the Transferred Securitization Property;
provided, however, that failure to execute and deliver any such partial
release statements, financing statement amendments, documents or
instruments, or to do such acts and things, shall not affect or impair the
release provided for in this Section 3(c).

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                  4. The acknowledgments contained in Sections 1, 2 and 3
of this Agreement are applicable irrespective of the time or order of
attachment or perfection of security or ownership interests or the time or
order of filing or recording of financing statements or mortgages.

                  5. (a) Subject to the remaining provisions of this
Section 5(a), the Purchasers recognize the existence of rights in favor of
the Bond Trustee under the Indenture to replace Consumers as Bond Servicer
under the Servicing Agreement, and the Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee
recognize the existence of rights in favor of the Servicing Agent under the
RPA's to replace Consumers as Collection Agent under the RPA's. If the Bond
Trustee is entitled to and desires to exercise its right to replace
Consumers or its successor as Bond Servicer under the Servicing Agreement,
or the Servicing Agent is entitled to and desires to exercise its right to
replace Consumers or its successor as Collection Agent under the RPA's, the
party desiring to exercise such right shall give written notice to the
other party and shall consult with the other party with respect to the
person which would replace Consumers or its successor in such capacities.
Any successor in such capacities shall be agreed to by both the Bond
Trustee and the Servicing Agent within ten Business Days of the date of
such notice and shall be subject to the Rating Agency Condition (as defined
below). In recognition of the fact that the rights and duties of the Bond
Servicer under the Servicing Agreement and of the Collection Agent under
the RPA's overlap in certain circumstances, the parties agree that, except
as provided in Section 5(b) below, the Bond Servicer and the Collection
Agent shall be the same person. The person named as replacement Bond
Servicer and replacement Collection Agent in accordance with this Section
5(a) is referred to herein as the "Replacement Servicer".

                     (b) In the event that either the Bond Trustee is
entitled to and desires to exercise its rights to take control of
Securitization Charge Collections, or the Servicing Agent is entitled to
and desires to exercise its rights to take control of Collections with
respect to the Receivables, then the parties hereto agree that CIBC, if and
for so long as it is rated not less than A+ by S&P, A1 by Moody's and, if
rated by Fitch, A+ by Fitch (each as defined in the Indenture), or, if CIBC
is unable or unwilling to act in that capacity, such other financial
institution as is selected by the Bond Trustee and the Servicing Agent
subject to satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition (the "Designated
Account Holder") shall (i) use commercially reasonable efforts to take
control of the Accounts (by delivering to the Lock-Box Banks notice in the
form of Exhibit E to the RPA's), (ii) cooperate with the Bond Trustee and
provide to the Bond Trustee any necessary information in the Designated
Account Holder's possession in connection with the delivery by the Bond
Trustee to the obligors under the Receivables and the Securitization
Charges of a notification to the effect that the Securitization Charge
Collections are owned by the Bond Issuer and have been pledged to the Bond
Trustee, (iii) allocate Collections of Receivables and Securitization
Charge Collections in accordance with Section 2(a)(i) hereof in accordance
with the allocation methodology set forth in Annex 2 to the Servicing
Agreement on the basis of billing information provided to the Designated
Account Holder by Consumers or the Replacement Servicer, as applicable,
provided that if Consumers or the Replacement Servicer, as applicable,
fails to provide such billing information for any billing month, the
Designated Account Holder shall make such allocation on the basis of the
billing information for the last month for which such information was
provided, (iv) remit Collections of Receivables in accordance with the
instructions of the Collection Agent and remit Securitization Charge
Collections in accordance with the instructions of the Bond Servicer, and
(v) maintain records as to the amounts deposited into the Accounts, the
amounts remitted therefrom and the application and allocation of such
amounts as provided in clauses (iii) and (iv) above; provided that the
Designated Account Holder shall not be required to take any action at the
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request of the Servicing Agent or the Bond Trustee unless the Designated
Account Holder has been assured to its satisfaction that it will be
indemnified by Consumers against any and all liability and expense which it
may incur in taking or continuing to take such action. The fees and
expenses of the Designated Account Holder shall be payable from amounts
deposited into the Accounts on a pro rata basis as between Collections of
Receivables and Securitization Charge Collections, provided that that
portion of those fees and expenses allocable to Securitization Charge
Collections shall be payable by the Bond Servicer from the servicer fees
provided for in the Servicing Agreement. The Bond Trustee, the Bond Issuer,
the Servicing Agent, and the Purchasers shall each have the right to
require an accounting from time to time (but not more frequently than
monthly) of collections, allocations and remittances by the Designated
Account Holder.

                     (c) Subject to the provisions of this Section 5, the
parties hereto recognize the existence of rights in favor of the Bond
Trustee under the Indenture to assume control of Securitization Charge
Collections as provided in the Indenture, the Servicing Agreement, the Act
and the Financing Order (whether by means of court ordered sequestration or
otherwise), and of the Servicing Agent under the RPA's to assume control of
Collections with respect to the Receivables as provided in the RPA's.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event may the Bond Trustee take any
action with respect to the Securitization Charge Collections in a manner
that would result in the Bond Trustee obtaining possession of, or any
control over, Collections of Receivables or any Account. In the event that
the Bond Trustee obtains possession of any Collections related to the
Receivables, the Bond Trustee shall notify the Servicing Agent of such
fact, shall hold them in trust and shall promptly deliver them to the
Servicing Agent upon request. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event
may the Servicing Agent take any action with respect to the Collection of
Receivables in a manner that would result in the Servicing Agent obtaining
possession of, or any control over, Securitization Charge Collections or
any Account, except as provided in Section 5(b) above. In the event that
the Servicing Agent obtains possession of any Securitization Charge
Collections, the Servicing Agent shall notify the Bond Trustee of such
fact, shall hold them in trust and shall promptly deliver them to the Bond
Trustee upon request.

                     (d) Anything in this Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding, any action taken by either the Bond Trustee or the
Servicing Agent pursuant to Section 5(a) hereof shall be subject to the
Rating Agency Condition and the consent, if required by law, regulation or
regulatory order, of the Michigan Public Service Commission. For the
purposes of this Agreement, the "Rating Agency Condition" means, with
respect to any such action, notification to each rating agency then rating
any class or series of the Securitization Bonds of such action, and the
receipt of notification from each of Fitch and S&P that such action will
not result in a reduction or withdrawal of its rating on such
Securitization Bonds. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the
approval or the consent of the rating agencies which is required in order
to satisfy the Rating Agency Condition is not subject to any standard of
commercial reasonableness, and the parties are bound to satisfy this
condition whether or not the rating agencies are unreasonable or arbitrary.

                  6. (a) Subject to Section 5(c) hereof, none of the
Purchasers or the Servicing Agent, in their respective capacities as such,
is the agent of, or owes any fiduciary obligation to, the Bond Trustee, the
Bond Issuer, the Securitization Bondholders or any other party under this
Agreement. Each of the Bond Trustee (on behalf of itself and the
Securitization Bondholders), the Bond Issuer and Consumers hereby waives
any right that it may now have or hereafter acquire to make any claim
against the Purchasers or the Servicing Agent, in their respective
capacities as such, on the basis of any such fiduciary obligation
hereunder. Subject to Section 5(c) hereof, neither the Bond Trustee nor the
Bond Issuer is the agent of, or owes any fiduciary obligation to, any of
the Purchasers or any other party under this Agreement. Each of the
Purchasers and Consumers hereby waives any right that it may now have or
hereafter acquire to make any claim against the Bond Trustee or the Bond
Issuer on the basis of any such fiduciary obligation hereunder.
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                     (b) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary,
none of the Purchasers, the Servicing Agent, the Bond Trustee or the Bond
Issuer shall be required to take any action that exposes it to personal
liability or that is contrary to the Indenture, the Servicing Agreement,
the RPA's or applicable law.

                     (c) None of the Purchasers, the Servicing Agent, the
Bond Trustee or the Bond Issuer nor any of their respective directors,
officers, agents or employees shall be liable for any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it or them under or in connection with this
Agreement, except for its or their own gross negligence, bad faith or
willful misconduct. Without limiting the foregoing, each of the Purchasers,
the Servicing Agent, the Bond Trustee and the Bond Issuer: (i) may consult
with legal counsel, independent public accountants and other experts
selected by it and shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to
be taken in good faith by it in accordance with the advice of such counsel,
accountants or experts; (ii) makes no warranty or representation to any
party and shall not be responsible to any party for any statements,
warranties or representations made by any other party in connection with
this Agreement or any other agreement; (iii) shall not have any duty to
ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the
terms, covenants or conditions of this Agreement or any other agreement on
the part of any other party; and (iv) shall incur no liability under or in
respect of this Agreement by acting upon any writing (which may be by
facsimile) believed by it in good faith to be genuine and signed or sent by
the proper party or parties.

                  7. The Servicing Agent, the Purchasers, Consumers, the
Collection Agent and the Bond Servicer agree that the Lock-Box Agreements
in the form attached to the RPA's as Exhibit F shall not be amended,
altered or supplemented in any material respect or terminated without the
prior written consent of the Bond Trustee.

                  8. The Servicing Agent, the Bond Trustee and Consumers
agree to cooperate with each other and to make available to each other or
any Replacement Servicer any and all records and other data relevant to the
Bond Issuer Assets and the Receivables which it may from time to time
receive from Consumers (or its successor) including, without limitation,
any and all computer programs, data files, documents, instruments, files
and records and any receptacles and cabinets containing the same.

                  9. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed as effecting
a joint venture among the Purchasers, the Servicing Agent, Consumers, the
Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee.

                  10. For the purpose of this Agreement, the Purchasers
hereby consent and agree to the method of adjustment of the Securitization
Charge set forth in Section 4.01 of the Servicing Agreement and irrevocably
waive any right to object to or enjoin such adjustment.

                  11. This Agreement shall terminate upon the payment in
full of either the Securitization Bonds or the termination of both RPA's in
accordance with their respective terms, except that the understandings and
acknowledgments contained in Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 16 shall survive
the termination of this Agreement.

                  12. (a) This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of
the State of New York.

                      (b) In connection with any suit, claim, action or
proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated hereby, each party hereto hereby consents to the
in personam jurisdiction of any court of the State of New York or any U.S.
federal court located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York,
State of New York; each party hereto agrees that service by registered
mail, or any other form equivalent thereto (or, in the alternative, by any
other means sufficient under applicable law, rules and regulations) at the
addresses set forth in Section 19 hereof shall be valid and sufficient for
all purposes; and each party hereto agrees to, and irrevocably waives any
objection based on forum non conveniens or venue not to, appear in such
state or U.S. federal court located in the Borough of Manhattan.
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Each of Consumers and the Bond Issuer irrevocably designates CT Corporation
System, 111 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10011, as its agent and
attorney-in-fact for the acceptance of service of process and making an
appearance on its behalf in any such action or proceeding and taking all
such acts as may be necessary or appropriate in order to confer
jurisdiction over it by such state or U.S. federal court in the Borough of
Manhattan, and each of such parties stipulates that such appointment is
irrevocable and coupled with an interest.

                      (c) EACH OF THE PARTIES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING
RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM THEREIN.

                  13. The Purchasers, Consumers, the Bond Issuer, the Bond
Trustee, the Bond Servicer and the Collection Agent agree to execute any
and all agreements, instruments, financing statements, releases and any and
all other documents reasonably requested by any other party hereto in order
to effectuate the intent of this Agreement. In each case where a release is
to be given pursuant to this Agreement, the term release shall include any
documents or instruments necessary to effect a release, as contemplated by
this Agreement. All releases, subordinations and other instruments
submitted to the executing party are to be prepared at the expense of
Consumers.

                  14. This Agreement is solely for the benefit of the
Purchasers, the Servicing Agent, Consumers, the Bond Issuer, the Bond
Trustee (individually and for the benefit of the Securitization
Bondholders), the Bond Servicer and the Collection Agent, and no other
person or entity shall have any rights, benefits, priority or interest
under or because of the existence of this Agreement.

                  15. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each
of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original
and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same
instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this
Agreement by telecopier shall be effective as delivery of a manually
executed counterpart of this Agreement.

                  16. Notwithstanding any prior termination of this
Agreement or the Indenture, each of the parties hereto hereby covenants and
agrees that it shall not, prior to the date which is one year and one day
after the termination of the Indenture and the payment in full of the
Securitization Bonds, any other amounts owed under the Indenture,
including, without limitation, any amounts owed to third-party credit
enhancers or under any interest rate swap agreement, acquiesce, petition or
otherwise invoke or cause the Bond Issuer to invoke the process of any
court or government authority for the purpose of commencing or sustaining a
case against the Bond Issuer under any federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar law or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee,
trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other similar official of the Bond
Issuer or any substantial part of the property of the Bond Issuer, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Bond Issuer.
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                  17. Each of the Purchasers and the Servicing Agent agrees
that it will not (i) challenge the transfer of Bond Issuer Assets from
Consumers to the Bond Issuer, whether on the grounds that such transfer was
a disguised financing or a fraudulent conveyance or otherwise, so long as
such transfer is carried out in all material respects in accordance with
the Sale Agreement and related documents, or (ii) assert that Consumers and
the Bond Issuer should be substantively consolidated. The Bond Trustee
agrees that it will not challenge any transfer of the Receivables from
Consumers to the Purchasers, whether on the grounds that such transfer was
a disguised financing or a fraudulent conveyance or otherwise, so long as
such transfer is carried out in all material respects in accordance with
the RPA's and related documents.

                  18. (a) Consumers hereby represents and warrants to the
Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee that the forms of the RPA's delivered to
the Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee concurrently herewith are the RPA's as
amended (to reflect the provisions specified in Exhibit A hereto) and as in
effect on the date hereof. Consumers hereby covenants to the Bond Issuer
and the Bond Trustee that it will not (i) amend, supplement or terminate
any of the provisions of either of the RPA's specified in Exhibit A hereto
without the prior written consent of the Bond Trustee and satisfaction of
the Rating Agency Condition, as well as delivery to each Rating Agency of
the form of the proposed amendment or supplement, or (ii) agree to any
additional person becoming a purchaser under either of the RPA's unless
such person has theretofore agreed, in a written instrument delivered to
the Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee and satisfactory to the Bond Trustee,
to be bound by the terms of, and to become a party as a "Purchaser" to,
this Agreement.

                      (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement
to the contrary, upon the termination, substitution or assignment of the
RPA's in connection with a restructuring of Consumers' Receivables
securitization program, upon the written request of Consumers, the Bond
Issuer and the Bond Trustee agree to enter into a replacement intercreditor
agreement with the parties to such restructured Receivables program having
substantially the same terms and provisions as this Agreement upon (i)
receipt by the Trustee of an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Bond
Trustee to the effect that the substitution of such replacement
intercreditor agreement and such restructured Receivables program and the
related documentation will not adversely affect the rights and interests of
the Transition Bondholders, the Bond Issuer or the Bond Trustee and (ii)
satisfaction of the Rating Agency Condition.

                  19. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, all
notices, directions, consents and waivers required under the terms and
provisions of this Agreement shall be in writing, and any such notice,
direction, consent or waiver may be given by United States first- class
mail, reputable overnight courier service, facsimile transmission or
electronic mail (confirmed by telephone, United States first-class mail or
reputable overnight courier service in the case of notice by facsimile
transmission or electronic mail) or any other customary means of
communication, and any such notice, direction, consent or waiver shall be
effective when delivered or transmitted, or if mailed, five days after
deposit in the United States first-class mail with proper postage for
first-class mail prepaid,

         in the case of Consumers, at Consumers Energy Company, 212 W.
         Michigan Avenue, Jackson, Michigan 49201; telephone:(800)
         477-5050; fax: (517) 788-2186; email:customer@consumersenergy.com;

         in the case of the Bond Issuer, at Consumers Funding LLC, 212 W.
         Michigan Avenue, Suite M-1029, Jackson, Michigan 49201; telephone:
         (517) 788-0179; fax: (517) 788- 0768; email:
         mdvanhem@cmsenergy.com;

         in the case of the Bond Trustee, at 5 Penn Plaza, 16th Floor, New
         York, New York 10001-1803, Attention: Asset Backed Securities
         (ABS); telephone: (212) 328-7543; fax: (212) 328-7623; email:
         cdshedd@bankofny.com;

         in the case of CIBC, Attention: R. Santos, at 425 Lexington
         Avenue, New York, New York 10017; telephone: (212) 856-3811; fax:
         (212) 856-3643; email: richard.santos@us.cibc.com;
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         in the case of ASCC, Attention: R. Santos, at 425 Lexington
         Avenue, New York, New York 10017; telephone: (212) 856-3811; fax:
         (212) 856-3643; email: richard.santos@us.cibc.com;

         in the case of Moody's, at Moody's Investors Service, Inc., ABS
         Monitoring Department, 99 Church Street, New York, New York 10007;
         telephone: (212) 553-0300; fax: (212) 553-4642; email:
         fabrikant@moodys.com;

         in the case of Standard & Poor's, at Standard & Poor's Ratings
         Group, 55 Water Street, New York, New York 10041, Attention: Asset
         Backed Surveillance Department; telephone: (212) 438-2000; fax:
         (212) 438-2655; email: Tom_currie@standardandpoors.com; and

         in the case of Fitch, at Fitch, Inc., 1 State Street Plaza, New
         York, New York 10004, Attention: ABS Surveillance; telephone:
         (212) 908-0500; fax:(212) 480-4438;
         email:James.grady@fitchratings.com;

or, as to each of the foregoing, at such other address as shall be
designated by written notice to the other parties.

                  20. No delay upon the part of any party to this Agreement
in the exercise of any right, power or remedy shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise by any such party of any
right, power or remedy preclude other or further exercise thereof, or the
exercise of any other right, power or remedy. No waiver, amendment or other
modification, or consent with respect to, any provision of this Agreement
shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and shall be signed
by each of the parties hereto.

                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this
Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized, as of the date first above written.

                                        CANADIAN IMPERIAL BANK OF COMMERCE
                                        Individually and as Servicing Agent

                                        By: /s/ Robert L. Stern Jr.
                                        ---------------------------------------
                                        Name: Robert L. Stern Jr.
                                        Title: Authorized Signatory

                                        ASSET SECURITIZATION COOPERATIVE
                                        CORPORATION

                                        By: /s/ Joyce Pernin
                                        ---------------------------------------
                                        Name: Joyce Pernin
                                        Title: Vice President

                                        CONSUMERS ENERGY COMPANY
                                        Individually, as Collection Agent
                                        and as Bond Servicer

                                        By: /s/ Laura L. Mountcastle
                                        ---------------------------------------
                                        Name: Laura L. Mountcastle
                                        Title: Vice President and Treasurer

                                        THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
                                          as Bond Trustee

                                        By: /s/ Cassandra D. Shedd
                                        ---------------------------------------
                                        Name: Cassandra D. Shedd
                                        Title: Assistant Vice President

                                        CONSUMERS FUNDING LLC

                                        By: /s/ Laura L. Mountcastle
                                        ---------------------------------------
                                        Name: Laura L. Mountcastle
                                        Title: President, Chief Executive
                                               Officer, Chief Financial Officer
                                               and Treasurer

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         [THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS TO APPEAR IN THE AMENDED RPA'S]

Article I:        [Definition of Receivable:]

                  "Receivable" means the obligation of an Obligor to pay
                  for electricity, natural gas, electric and natural gas
                  power or other energy products or merchandise sold or
                  services rendered by the Seller, and includes the
                  Seller's rights to payment of any interest, financing
                  charges or late fees and the merchandise (including
                  returned goods) and contracts relating to such
                  Receivable, all security interests, guaranties and
                  property securing or supporting payment of such
                  Receivable, all books and records relating to the
                  Receivables and all proceeds of the foregoing.
                  Notwithstanding the foregoing, "Receivable" does not
                  include (i) Transferred Securitization Property or (ii)
                  the books and records relating solely to the Transferred
                  Securitization Property, provided that the determination
                  of what constitutes collections of the Securitization
                  Charge in respect of Transferred Securitization Property
                  shall be made in accordance with the allocation
                  methodology specified in Annex 2 to the Servicing
                  Agreement.

                  [Additional Definitions:]

                  "Financing Order" means the financing order issued by the
                  Michigan Public Service Commission on October 24, 2000,
                  as amended.

                  "Intercreditor Agreement" means the Intercreditor
                  Agreement dated as of November 8, 2001 among Canadian
                  Imperial Bank of Commerce, Asset Securitization
                  Cooperative Corporation, The Bank of New York, as
                  trustee, Consumers Funding LLC, and Consumers Energy
                  Company.

                  "Securitization Charge" has the meaning specified in
                  Appendix A to the Servicing Agreement.

                  "Securitization Charge Collections" has the meaning
                  specified in Appendix A to the Servicing Agreement.

                  "Securitization Property" means "securitization property"
                  within the meaning of the Michigan Customer Choice and
                  Electricity Reliability Act, 2000 PA 141 and 2000 PA 142
                  as approved in the Financing Order

                  "Transferred Securitization Property" has the meaning
                  specified in Appendix A to the Servicing Agreement.

                  "Servicing Agreement" means the Servicing Agreement dated
                  as of November 8, 2001 between Consumers Funding LLC and
                  Consumers Energy Company, as the same may be amended and
                  supplemented from time to time with the consent of the
                  Purchaser (to the extent such consent is required by the
                  terms of this Agreement).

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Section 7.2:      Application of Collections. The Collection Agent shall,
                  upon receipt of payments of amounts billed and collected
                  from customers of Consumers on their utility bills,
                  allocate those receipts on a daily basis between
                  Collections of Receivables and Securitization Charge
                  Collections in accordance with the allocation methodology
                  specified in Annex 2 to the Servicing Agreement.

Section 10.1(h):      Instruct all Obligors to cause all Collections and
                      Securitization Charge Collections to be deposited
                      directly into a Lock-Box.

Section 10.3(e):      Deposit or otherwise credit, or cause or permit to be
                      so deposited or credited, to any Lock-Box cash or
                      cash proceeds other than Collections and
                      Securitization Charge Collections.

Section 11.1(h):      the commingling of Collections with other funds of
                      the Seller other than Securitization Charge
                      Collections;

Exhibit E:        [New clauses (iii) and (iv) at the end of the first
                  paragraph:]

                  and (iii) The Bank of New York, or any successor thereto,
                  as trustee (the "Bond Trustee") under the Indenture dated
                  as of November 8, 2001 between the Seller and the Bond
                  Trustee, as supplemented, and (iv) Consumers Funding LLC,
                  as issuer of the Securitization Bonds.

Exhibit F:        [New clause at the end of the first sentence of the second
                  paragraph:]

                  and for the benefit of The Bank of New York, as trustee
                  (the "Bond Trustee") under the Indenture dated as of
                  November 8, 2001 between the Seller and the Bond Trustee,
                  as supplemented, and for the benefit of Consumers Funding
                  LLC, as Issuer of the Securitization Bonds (the "Bond
                  Issuer").

                  [New clause (iii) at the end of the first paragraph of
                  Attachment A to Lock Box Agreement:]

                  and (iii) for the benefit of The Bank of New York, as
                  trustee (the "Bond Trustee") under the Indenture dated as
                  of November 8, 2001 between the Seller and the Bond
                  Trustee, as supplemented, and for the benefit of
                  Consumers Funding LLC, as Issuer of the Securitization
                  Bonds.

Exhibit F:        [Fourth line of the third paragraph:]

                  of the Purchasers, the Bond Issuer and the Bond Trustee and
                  all instructions and thereafter regarding the

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