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Exhibit 10.17

FOR OFFICE USE ONLY 

User No.  1-86-80-19-24-               

 X Water Connection                     Sewer Connection

           Sent 6-21-06

2” Turbo Meter —  50,000 gallon a month minimum

WATER USER’S MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made in Jasper County, Iowa between Iowa Regional Utilities Association,
d.b.a. Central Iowa Water Association, an Iowa nonprofit corporation, (the “Association”), and the
person(s), firm or corporation first named above and/or signing below, jointly and severally, as a
Member of the Association, (the “Member”), and PROVIDES AS FOLLOWS:

1. At the location shown above, the Association shall provide Member as soon as practicable with
such quantity of potable water for domestic and farm purposes as the Member reasonably may require
in connection with Member’s use or occupancy of such real estate, subject to the conditions and
limitations below.

2. Immediately upon execution of this Agreement, the Member shall convey to the Association as a
part of the consideration for this Agreement a Limited Easement suitable to the Association
concerning real estate described above and shall pay to the Association at this time a
non-refundable fee of $ 4,000.00 to connect to the Association’s existing or planned
water distribution system. The Member may not allow any other person,
firm or corporation to receive water supplied to the Member by the Association without prior written
approval from the Association’s Board of Directors. The Association shall provide, at or near the
final delivery point and at the Association’s expense, an appropriate cutoff valve and water meter
on the Association’s distribution system, which shall be and remain the sole property of the
Association and be for its use only. Any failure of Member to pay sums due for more than thirty
days or (immediately) for any other breach of contract of this Agreement or any other Rule or
Regulation or Policy of the Association shall result in a disconnection of service and forfeiture
of Association membership without any further notice. If a water shortage should develop at any
location within the Association’s distribution system, Member consents to an allocation of water by
the Association’s Board of Directors on such basis as the Directors may deem equitable in
consideration of the following order of priority uses: basic and necessary domestic purposes,
livestock watering purposes, lawn and garden purposes, all other purposes. Due to presently limited
design and capacity, the Association cannot and will not ever guarantee to any Member that any
future increases in water demand will be met. Member further agrees to comply with the terms and
provisions of the Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Rates, Rules and Regulations and Policies of
the Association, as such now exist and as such may be from time to time amended. Only one
household dwelling may be served from each Central Iowa Water Association connection.

3. Beginning from the Association’s final delivery point upon the real estate described above as
determined by the Association’s Engineers, Member shall have a qualified person install and
maintain, at Member’s sole expense, appropriate water service piping and apparatus to meet Member’s
present water needs; provided, however, that such shall not be connected in any manner to any
source of water other than the Association’s distribution system.

4. Water charges to the member shall commence on the date water service is made available
to the member’s property. Such receipt of services from the Association shall be and remain
subject to all policies, rules and regulations of the Association and such rates as are from time
to time established by the Board of Directors. Such policies, rules, regulations and rates may be
amended from time to time.

5. In addition to any and all other remedies available to the Association, if Member fails to fully
and timely pay all water charges duly imposed, then and without further notice to Member, all or
any combination of the following remedies may be invoked by the Association: (a) Non-payment within
ten days from the due date will result in a penalty up to 10% of the sum then due and unpaid;
and/or (b) Non-payment within thirty days from the due date will automatically result in a shutoff
of water by the Association to the Member; and/or (c) Non-payment within sixty days of the due date
shall, at the sole option of the Board of Directors of the Association, result in termination of
membership in the Association of the Member; and/or (d) Such other legal and equitable remedies as
allowed by law may be pursued by the Association. In the event of any suit between parties brought
by the Association or any Member to enforce this Agreement or any Rule, Rate, Regulation, Bylaw
provision or Policy of the Association, then and in any such event each undersigned Member agrees
to pay all reasonable costs and expenses, including reasonable attorney fees as allowed by the
Court, to the Association. Any owner, who allows his/her tenant to pay the water bill directly to
the Association, is responsible for any and all charges should the tenant fail to pay. A minimum
monthly bill is due each month even if no water has been used.

Signed
this
29th day of June , 2006.

                (date)                 (month)

	 	 	 	 	 
	CENTRAL IOWA WATER ASSOCIATION:	 	MEMBER SIGNATURE IS FOR WATER

AND/OR SEWER AGREEMENT:
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	/s/ James J. Johnston, Chairman 6-26-06
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Member
	 
	 	 	 	 
	By:

	/s/ Ronald Dunsberger
	 	/s/ Tim S. Farver
	 

	 
	 	 
	 

	Ronald Dunsberger, its President
	 	Member

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND PROVIDER

(See Reverse Side for Sanitary Sewer User’s Membership Agreement)

 

 

SANITARY SEWER USER’S MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is made in Jasper County, Iowa between Iowa Regional Utilities Association,
d.b.a. Central Iowa Water Association, an Iowa nonprofit corporation, (the “Association”), and the
person(s), firm or corporation listed on reverse side, jointly and severally, as a Member of the
Association, (the “Member”), and PROVIDES AS FOLLOWS:

1. The Association shall provide sanitary sewer service to Member in accordance with this
Agreement, and the Association’s rules and regulations now in force and as may hereafter be
adopted.

2. Member shall have sanitary sewer service piping installed and maintained by a qualified person
or plumber, and Member shall at all times be responsible for all piping and plumbing from the point
of connection to the Association’s sanitary sewer system to and inside Member’s property.

3. Member shall not permit the connection or the draining in a manner of ground water, surface
water, unlawful substances, storm water, foundation or roof drains into the sanitary sewer system
of Member or the Association.

4. Members shall not permit or discharge any hazardous waste, toxic material, flammable material,
corrosive waste, toxic chemical, toxic material, solid or viscous substance, excessive biological
oxygen demand or excessive suspended solids.

5. Member shall pay for sanitary sewer service at such rates as the Association shall adopt from
time to time.

6. If initialed, Member acknowledges that this Agreement is without any force and effect
unless Member has executed a Water User’s Agreement and has (or has applied for) an active water
service under such Agreement with the Assocation for the same location as the sewer service has
been applied for. For Initials:                     

7. The Association shall have final jurisdiction over any connections to its sanitary sewer
system.

8. In the event of non-payment of sewer use charges, or violation of the Association’s rules and
regulations, or any Member activity which may cause any risk to health or any damage to the
Association’s sanitary sewer system, any provisions of this Agreement or Member’s Water User’s
Agreement, the Association may cancel this Agreement and/or the Water User’s Agreement of a Member,
without recourse.

9. In consideration of the Agreement, Member agrees to provide the Association easements and
right-of-way to install, operate, maintain, remove and relocate the sanitary sewer system of the
Association upon property of Member as may be required by the Association from time-to-time and
Member shall provide easements and right-of-way in writing to the Association upon request of the
Association.

10. In addition to any and all other remedies available to the Association, if Member fails to
fully and timely pay all water/sewer charges duly imposed, then and without further notice to
Member, all or any combination of the following remedies may be invoked by the Association:

(a) Non-payment within ten days from the due date will result in a penalty of up to 10% of the
sum then due and unpaid; and/or,

(b) Non-payment within thirty days from the due date will automatically result in a shutoff of
water/sewer services by the Association to the member; and/or,

(c) Non-payment within sixty days from the due date shall, at the sole option of the Board of
Directors of the Association, at the connection location, result in the termination of
membership in the Association of the Member, and/or,

(d) Such other legal and equitable remedies as allowed by law may be pursued by the
Association. In the event of any suit between the parties brought by the Association or any
Member to enforce this Agreement or any Rate, Rule, Regulation, Bylaw or Policy of the
Association, then and in any such event each undersigned Member agrees to pay all reasonable
costs and expenses, including a reasonable attorney’s fee and costs as allowed by the Court, to
the Association.

(e) Any owner who allows his/her tenant to pay the sewer bill directly to the
Association, is responsible for any and all charges should the tenant fail to pay. A
minimum monthly bill is due each month even if no sewer has been used.

NOTE: By signing the front of this agreement, you are agreeing to the above if you are or become a
sanitary sewer user/member at this location.

(Please turn over and sign the front)exv10w18

 

Exhibit 10.18

IOWA INTERSTATE RAILROAD, LTD.

INDUSTRIAL TRACK AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 8th day of December 11, 2006 by and between
IOWA INTERSTATE RAILROAD, LTD. (hereinafter called the “Company) and CENTRAL IOWA ENERGY.
(hereinafter called the “Industry”).

WITNESSETH:

WHEREAS, the Industry desires the maintenance and operation of track to serve the Industry and be
located In Newton, Iowa, as illustrated in Exhibit “A” (Industry Track); and

WHEREAS, the Company is willing that said Industry Track shall be maintained and operated upon the
terms and conditions herein set forth;

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, it is hereby agreed between the parties hereto as
follows:

	1.	 	RIGHT OF WAY AND PUBLIC AUTHORITY AND AUTHORITY AND ASSESSMENTS. The Industry shall
procure and furnish, without expense to the Company, all necessary right of way, including all
necessary authority and permission, public or private, for the maintenance and operation of
the Industry Track, and shall pay all compensation and assessments required at any time by any
municipality, governmental agency, or person for the privilege of maintaining and operating
said track, and all special assessments, taxes and the expense of all requirements in
connections with any public improvements, levied or made against, upon, or on account of the
Industry Track.
	 
	2.	 	MAINTENANCE. The Industry shall bear and pay the cost and expense of maintenance of
that part of the Industry Track extending between point lettered “A” being the point
of switch and point lettered “C“ being the end of track, all as shown on said Exhibit “A”.
The term “maintenance” as used in this paragraph is intended to and shall include, in addition
to repairs, all additions, betterments, and changes to said track, and the removal of snow,
ice, weeds, and other obstructions therefrom. The necessity for such maintenance shall be
determined by the Company. In addition, the Company reserves the right to install, maintain,
and operate such derails, signals, and other safety devices (wheresoever located) and to
employ such flagmen or other employees, as in its judgement may be necessary to safe operation
of said track, or as may be required by public authority, and the Industry agrees to pay to
the Company the cost and expense thereof.
	 
	3.	 	CHANGES AND ADDITIONS. The Company shall bear and pay the cost and expense of all
present and future changes in the Industry Track rendered necessary by changes in other
tracks, or in the Company’s property, or operating requirements. The Industry shall bear and
pay the cost and expense of all present or future changes in or additions to all tracks and
property, regardless of the ownership thereof, and also of all construction, made necessary by
the maintenance or operation of the Industry Track of any changes thereon. This paragraph
shall apply to electrification, track elevation or depressions, and grade separation, as well
as any other repairs, additions, betterments, or changes whatsoever.

 

 

	4.	 	PAYMENT IN ADVANCE FOR ITEMS TO BE FURNISHED BY THE COMPANY. (Not applicable).
	 
	5.	 	SERVICE. The Company shall, during the period this Agreement is in effect, deliver
on the Industry Track all freight in carload lots consigned to the Industry, and shall place
thereon cars for loading and unloading of freight in carload lots by the Industry. All such
service is to be performed subject to legal requirements and in conformity with rates, rules,
and regulations contained in lawfully published tariffs.
	 
	6.	 	OBSTRUCTIONS AND CLEARANCES, CHANGES AND OPERATING RULES. The Industry shall not
place, or permit to be placed any equipment, material, structure, pole, or other obstruction,
or any excavation within 9.0 feet, on straight track or 10.5 feet on curved track, laterally
of the center, or within 23 feet vertically from the top of the rail of the Industry Track.
The Company’s knowledge of any obstruction and the Company’s continued operation on said Track
shall not constitute a waiver of this covenant. The number of feet of clearance herein
specified may be changed by the Company at any time to meet new operating or legal
requirements, by giving written notice thereof to the Industry. Within ten (10) days after
receipt of such notice, the Industry and Company shall proceed to jointly prepare and file
with the applicable government authorities a written application for waiver as to the Industry
Track of any such legal requirements. The Industry shall observe and comply with all rules
and regulations of the Company concerning the use and operation of the Industry Track and the
loading, unloading, and movement of cars thereon.
	 
	7.	 	USE OF THE TRACK. The Company shall have the right to use the Industry Track, or any
extension thereof, for any and all purposes which do not unreasonably interfere with service
to the Industry.
	 
	8.	 	FIRE INDEMNITY CLAUSE. It is understood that the movement of railroad locomotives
involves some risk of fire, and the Industry assumes all responsibility for and agrees to
indemnify the Company against loss or damage to property of the Industry or to property upon
its premises, arising from fire caused by locomotives operated by the Company on the Industry
Track, or in its vicinity for the purpose of serving said Industry.
	 
	9.	 	GENERAL INDEMNITY CLAUSE. The Industry agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the
Company for loss, damage, or injury from any act or omission of the Industry, its employees,
or agents, to the person or property of the parties hereto and their employees, and to the
person or property of any other person or corporation, while on or about the Industry Track;
and if any claim or liability other than from fire shall arise from the joint or concurring
negligence of both parties hereto, it shall be borne by them equally.
	 
	10.	 	ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL INDEMNITY CLAUSE. Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, Industry agrees that in the maintenance of the Industry Track, it will comply
with applicable laws, including, but not limited to, any laws, standards, regulations, or
permit requirements relating to environmental pollution or contamination or to occupational
health and safety; and Industry agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company any and all
claims, demands, lawsuits, or liability for loss, fines, damage, injury, and death and all
expenses and costs, including attorneys’ fees, resulting from or arising out of the
maintenance of the Industry Track, including any discharge or emission therefrom or for the
violation of any law, standard, regulation, or permit requirement relating to environmental
pollution or contamination or to occupational health and safety.

 

 

	11.	 	END CLEARANCE. In the event any equipment, material, structure, pole, or other
article or obstruction shall be placed within fifteen (15) feet of the end of the Industry
Track by the Industry, then the Industry hereby assumes all responsibility for and agrees to
indemnify the Company against all liability on account of loss or damage to property (except
to property of the Company), and injury to or death of any person or persons whatsoever
(except employees of the Company), caused by engines, cars, trains, or other equipment running
off the end of the Industry Track.
	 
	12.	 	COMPANY MAY TERMINATE. The Company shall have the right, at its option, to terminate
this Agreement, discontinue operation over the Industry Track for serving the Industry and
thereafter, at any time, at the expense of the Industry and disconnect said Track and take up
and remove all or any part thereof owned by the Company (including and restoration of the
property upon which same is located to its former condition), if the Industry shall
discontinue the use of the Industry Track, shall make any assignment of rights hereunder
without the Company’s written consent, shall fail to pay when due any amount owing to the
Company under this Agreement, or shall fail or refuse to perform any other obligation hereto,
on the part of the Industry to be kept or performed. Additionally, the Company may terminate
this Agreement in the event that service upon the Industry Track cannot be continued because
of changes in other tracks or in the Company’s operating requirements or because of the sale
of Company’s properties upon which the Industry Track or any part thereof or any connection
thereto is located.
	 
	13.	 	OWNERSHIP AND PAYMENT OF SALVAGE. The Company shall own Track extending between
point lettered “A” and point lettered “B”, located on its right of way, (however, the Industry
shall have salvage equity and the Industry shall own track extending between point lettered
“B” and point lettered “C”. as shown on said Exhibit “A”). Upon the termination of this
Agreement, the Industry shall, at the option of the Company, pay the cost and expense of
removing said track owned by the Company and restoring the Company’s tracks and property and
public property to the condition in which it would have been had not said track been
constructed. (At the election of the Industry, the Company shall pay to the Industry the
salvage value of usable material paid for by the Industry in that part of said track owned by
the Company (less fifteen percent (15%) thereof to cover transportation and handling) or
deliver said material to the Industry, unless the Industry no longer has any equity interest
in that part of said Track).
	 
	14.	 	ASSIGNMENT. The Industry shall not assign this Agreement, or any interest therein,
without the written consent of the Company. Subject to the above limitation, this Agreement
shall be binding upon the respective parties, and their respective heirs, executors,
administrators, successors, and assigns.
	 
	15.	 	PERFORMANCE. In the event any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement have been
carried out or performed prior to the date o execution hereof, it is understood and agreed
that this Agreement shall nevertheless be of the same force and effect as though same had been
executed by the parties prior to such performance.
	 
	16.	 	FORCE MAJEURE. The Company shall not be obligated to operate on the Industry Track
if it shall be prevented or hindered from doing by acts of God, public authority, strikes,
riots, labor disputes, or any cause beyond its control.
	 
	17.	 	INTEREST OF IOWA INTERSTATE RAILROAD, LTD. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit
of and be binding upon (i) the parties hereto, (ii) the successors and assigns of the

 

 

	 	 	parties herein, including without limitation, Iowa Interstate Railroad, Ltd. (IAIS) and IAIS’s
successors and assigns, in recognition that IAIS is the owner of the Industry Track and lines
of railroad immediately adjacent to the Industry Track, and (iii) the person, firm,
partnership, or corporation other than the Company that may be duly designated by IAIS or
future owner of the aforesaid lines of railroad and Industry Track as the one (1) sole operator
designated to conduct freight operations over the lines of railroad and the Industry Track.
	 
	18.	 	SUBORDINATION. This Agreement is and shall be subordinate to any mortgage or
mortgages which now encumber the Industrial Track; and the Industry agrees to execute and
deliver any instruments which may be required to further effect such subordination.
	 
	19.	 	GOVERNING LAW AND PERFORMANCE. This Agreement shall be performed by the Industry in
Coralville Newton, Johnson Jasper County, Iowa. In the event the Industry is non-resident of
the State of Iowa, said performance of this Agreement shall be deemed as doing business in
Iowa, shall be deemed to constitute the appointment of the Secretary of State of Iowa to be
said non-resident’s true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served process under Section
617.3 Code of Iowa (1985) and any process or original notice served under said statute
shall be of the same legal force and effect as of served personally upon the Industry within
the State of Iowa. The parties intend this Agreement to be executed in, and interpreted,
construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Iowa. (24)
	 
	20.	 	LEGAL FEES. In case of any action, claim or any proceeding in which a dispute arises
concerning this Agreement, the Industry shall pay all reasonable costs and expenses in
connection therewith, including reasonable attorney’s fees incurred by or billed against the
Company.
	 
	21.	 	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this agreement to be executed as of the
day and year herein above stated.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	IOWA INTERSTATE RAILROAD, LTD.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By
	 	/s/ Patrick H. Sheldon
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	          Vice President Engineering
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ATTEST:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	/s/ Illegible
 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Assistant Secretary
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	           CENTRAL IOWA ENERGY.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By
	 	/s/ Derek Winkel
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ATTEST:
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title
	 	 General Manager
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	/s/ Phil Abels
 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Secretary Operations Manager

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