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3.6 Notice of Improvements. The City must give Company reasonable notice of plans for improvements to Public Ways or Public Ground where the City has reason to believe that Gas Facilities may affect or be affected by the improvement. The notice must contain: (i) the nature and character of the improvements, (h) the Public \rays and Public Grounds upon which the improvements are to be made, (ill) the extent of the improvements, (iv) the time when the City will start the work, and (v) if more than one Public Way or Public Ground is involved, the order in which the work is to proceed. The notice must be given to Company a sufficient length of time in advance of the actual commencement of the work to permit Company to make any necessary addkions, alterations or repairs to its Gas Facilities. 3.7 Mapping Information. The Company must promptly provide mapping information for any of its underground Gas Facilities in accordance with Mkmesota Rules parts 7819.4000 and 7819.4100. SECTION 4. RELOCATIONS. 4.1 Relocation of Gas Facilities in Public Ways. If the City determines to vacate a Public Way for a City improvement project, or at City’s cost to grade, regrade, or change the line of any Public Way, or constmct or reconstruct any City Utility System in any Public Way, it may order Company to relocate its Gas Facilities located therein if relocation is reasonably necessary to accomplish the City’s proposed public improvement. Except as provided in Section 4.3, Company shall relocate its Gas Facilities at its own expense. The City shall give Company reasonable notice of plans to vacate for a City improvement project, or to grade, regrade, or change the line of any Public Way or to construct or reconstruct any City Utility Systerr~ If a relocation is ordered within five years of a prior relocation of the same Gas Facilities, which was made at Company expense, the City shall reimburse Company for Non-Betterment Costs on a time and material basis, provided that if a subsequent relocation is required because of the extension of a City Utility System to a previously unserved area, or to avoid interference with a joint project of the City with another governmental unit, Company may be requked to make the subsequent relocation at its expense. Nothing in this Ordinance requires Company to relocate, remove, replace or reconstruct at its own expense its Gas Fac~ties where such relocation, removal, replacement or reconstmction is solely for the convenience of the City and is not reasonably necessary for the constmctlon or reconstruction of a Public Way or City Utility System or other Cityimprovement. 4.2 Relocation of Gas Facilities in Public Ground. City may reqttire Company at Company’s expense to relocate or remove its Gas Facilities from Public Ground upon a finding by City that the Gas Facilities have become or will become a substantial impairment to the existing or proposed public use of the Public Ground. Such relocation shall comply with applicable City ordinances consistent with hw. 4.3 Projects with Federal Funding. Relocation, removal, or rearrangement of any Company Gas Facilities made necessary because of the extension into or through City of a federally-aided highway project shall be governed by the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Section 161.46, as supplemented or amended. It is understood that the right herein granted to Companyis a valuable right. City sha~ not order Company to remove or relocate its Gas Facilities when a Public Way is vacated, improved or realigned because of a renewal or a redevelopment phn which is financially subsidized in whole or in part bythe Federal Government or any agencythereof, unless the reasonable non-betterment Costs of such relocation and the loss and expense resulting therefrom are 4