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• Bridge Financing The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions and do or cause to be done, and to assist and cooperate with the other parties in doing, all things necessary, proper or advisable to obtain no later than October 30, 2004 a commitment letter (the “Bridge Financing Commitment Letter”) expiring no earlier than January 30, 2005, from a reputable financial institution in substantially the same form and substance as Exhibit F attached hereto, to provide financing on terms and conditions no less favorable than those described on Exhibit F attached hereto.

• Pre-financing Pre-financing is intended to provide the beneficiary with a float. Where required by the provisions of Article I.4 on pre-financing, the beneficiary shall furnish a financial guarantee from a bank or an approved financial institution established in one of the Member States of the European Union. The guarantor shall stand as first call guarantor and shall not require the Commission to have recourse against the principal debtor (the beneficiary). The financial guarantee shall remain in force until final payments by the Commission match the proportion of the total grant accounted for by pre-financing. The Commission undertakes to release the guarantee within 30 days following that date.

• Bank Financing The Buyer’s ability to purchase the Property is contingent upon the Buyer’s ability to obtain financing under the following conditions: (check one) ☐ - Conventional Loan ☐ - FHA Loan (Attach Required Addendums) ☐ - VA Loan (Attach Required Addendums) ☐ - Other:

• Financing Commitment For the period commencing on the date hereof and ending on the fifth anniversary hereof, Atlas America and Resource Energy agree to provide to the MLP funding of up to an aggregate of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000) per annum to finance the cost of expanding the Gathering System or constructing new additions to the Gathering System. Atlas America and Resource Energy, jointly and severally, commit to provide such funding, upon the MLP's written request therefor, by purchasing Common Units at a price equal to the arithmetic average of the closing prices of the Common Units on the American Stock Exchange, or, if the American Stock Exchange is not the principal trading market for such security, on the principal trading market for such security, for the twenty consecutive trading days ending on the trading day prior to the purchase, or, if the fair market value of the Common Units cannot be calculated for such period on any of the foregoing bases, the average fair market value during such period as reasonably determined in good faith by the members of the managing board of the General Partner.

• Equity Financing If there is an Equity Financing before the termination of this Safe, on the initial closing of such Equity Financing, this Safe will automatically convert into the number of shares of Safe Preferred Stock equal to the Purchase Amount divided by the Conversion Price. In connection with the automatic conversion of this Safe into shares of Safe Preferred Stock, the Investor will execute and deliver to the Company all of the transaction documents related to the Equity Financing; provided, that such documents (i) are the same documents to be entered into with the purchasers of Standard Preferred Stock, with appropriate variations for the Safe Preferred Stock if applicable, and (ii) have customary exceptions to any drag-along applicable to the Investor, including (without limitation) limited representations, warranties, liability and indemnification obligations for the Investor.

• Debt Financing (a) The Company, MCK and Echo Holdco and their respective Subsidiaries shall use their reasonable best efforts to assist the Company to arrange and obtain the Debt Financing on the terms and conditions described in the Debt Commitment Letters as promptly as practicable after the date hereof, including their reasonable best efforts to (i) maintain in effect the Debt Commitment Letters, (ii) negotiate and enter into definitive agreements with respect thereto on the terms and conditions contained in the Debt Commitment Letters (including any flex provisions) or on other terms no less favorable to the Company, (iii) satisfy on a timely basis all conditions in the Debt Commitment Letters that are within their control and (iv) upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters, consummate the Debt Financing at or prior to the Closing; it being understood that, if any portion of the Debt Financing to be provided as contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters pursuant to a public offering, private offering under Rule 144A or otherwise has not been provided, and all conditions precedent to the Parties’ obligations hereunder shall have been satisfied or waived (other than receipt of the Debt Financing and those conditions which by their nature will not be satisfied except by actions taken at the Closing, but subject to the their satisfaction at the Closing), the Company shall draw upon the commitments under the Debt Commitment Letters to provide the bridge financing contemplated by and on the terms and conditions (including any applicable “flex” provisions) set forth in the Debt Commitment Letters. Each of the Company, MCK and Echo Holdco shall keep each other reasonably informed with respect to all material activity concerning the status of the Debt Financing contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters and shall give each other notice of any material adverse change with respect to such Debt Financing as promptly as practicable. (b) In the event that any portion of the Debt Financing becomes unavailable on the terms and conditions contemplated by the Debt Commitment Letters (including any flex provisions), the Company, MCK and Echo Holdco and their respective Subsidiaries shall use their reasonable best efforts to assist the Company to arrange and obtain any such portion from alternative sources, on terms, taken as whole, that are no less favorable than the terms contained in the Debt Commitment Letters, as promptly as practicable following the occurrence of such event. (c) The Company, MCK and Echo Holdco shall use their reasonable best efforts to, and shall cause their respective Subsidiaries and their respective Representatives to use their reasonable best efforts to, provide all cooperation in connection with the arrangement of the Debt Financing as may be reasonably requested, including: (i) participation in meetings, due diligence sessions, drafting sessions, presentations, “road shows” and sessions with prospective Financing Sources, investors and ratings agencies, and reasonably cooperating with the marketing efforts of the Company and its Financing Sources, in each case in connection with the Debt Financing; (ii) assisting with the preparation of materials for rating agency presentations, offering documents, private placement memoranda, bank information memoranda (including a bank information memorandum that does not include material non-public information and the delivery of customary authorization letters with respect to the bank information memoranda and consents of accountants for use of their reports in any materials relating to the Debt Financing), prospectuses and similar documents required in connection with the Debt Financing; (iii) timely furnishing financial and other pertinent information regarding the Company, the Core MTS Business and/or the Echo Business, including financial statements, pro forma financial information, financial data, audit reports and other information of the type required by Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K under the Securities Act and other information of the type customarily (A) included in a bank information memorandum (including pro forma financial information) and (B) a registered offering of debt securities by Regulation S-X and Regulation S-K under the Securities Act and of the type and form that are customarily included in a private placement of debt securities pursuant to Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act and including, in any event, all information and data necessary to satisfy the conditions set forth in paragraphs 8, 9 and 12 of Exhibit D to the Debt Commitment Letters (collectively, the “Required Information”), all of which shall be provided by the Company, MCK and Echo Holdco or their respective Affiliates as promptly as practicable after the date hereof; (iv) obtaining (x) accountants’ comfort letters, legal opinions, surveys and title insurance, certificates and insurance endorsements and (y) other reasonably requested documents at least 10 days prior to the Closing to the extent required under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations including the USA PATRIOT Act in order to satisfy the conditions set forth in paragraph 13 of Exhibit D to the Debt Commitment Letters; (v) facilitating the granting of a security interest (and perfection thereof) at Closing in collateral as security for the Debt Financing; and (vi) (x) taking corporate actions reasonably necessary to permit the consummation of the Debt Financing and to permit the proceeds thereof to be made available to the Company and (y) executing and delivering any commitment letters, underwriting or placement agreements, registration statements, credit agreements, indentures, pledge and security documents, other definitive financing documents or other requested certificates or documents, including a customary solvency certificate by the chief financial officer or person performing similar functions of the Company in the form of Annex I to Exhibit D to the Debt Commitment Letters (provided that (A) none of the letters (except the authorization letters contemplated by clause (ii) above), agreements, registration statements, documents and certificates shall be executed and delivered by any such Persons (other than the Company and its Subsidiaries) except at the Closing and their respective Representatives executing any such letters, agreements, registration statements, documents and certificates shall remain as officers of the Company, (B) the effectiveness thereof (other than with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries) shall be conditioned upon, or only become operative after, the occurrence of the Closing and (C) no personal liability shall be imposed on the officers or employees involved); provided, that nothing in this Section 5.03 shall require MCK, or the Echo Parties (or any of their respective Subsidiaries, other than the Company and its Subsidiaries and, subject to the consummation of the Closing, Echo Holdco and its Subsidiaries and the MCK Contributed Entities) to (1) pledge or cause or permit any Lien to be placed on any of their respective assets in connection with the Debt Financing,(2) guarantee any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ indebtedness or (3) incur any liability in connection with the Debt Financing. (d) All material non-public information provided by MCK or the Echo Parties or any of their respective Subsidiaries or Representatives pursuant to this Section 5.03 shall be kept confidential in accordance with the Confidentiality Agreement, except that the Parties shall be permitted to disclose such information to the Financing Sources and other potential sources of capital, rating agencies and prospective lenders (but not prospective investors in any debt securities offering) during syndication of the Debt Financing or any permitted replacement, amended, modified or alternative financing subject to the potential sources of capital, ratings agencies and prospective lenders and investors entering into customary confidentiality undertakings with respect to such information (including through a notice and undertaking in a form customarily used in confidential information memoranda for senior credit facilities). (e) The Company, MCK and Echo Holdco and their respective Subsidiaries shall cooperate with, and take all actions reasonably required by, the other Parties in order to facilitate the termination and payoff of the commitments under the Echo Holdco Debt at or prior to Closing (including the repayment in full of all obligations then outstanding thereunder and the release of all encumbrances, security interests and collateral and the termination of all guaranties and the agreements evidencing subordination in connection therewith at or prior to the Closing).

• Purchaser Financing Purchaser assumes full responsibility to obtain the funds required for settlement, and Purchaser’s acquisition of such funds shall not be a contingency to the Closing.

• Financing Commitments Parent has delivered to the Company a true and complete copy as of the date hereof of the executed financing commitment letter, dated September 9, 2015, by and among Parent and Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx Senior Funding, Inc. and the other financial institutions party thereto from time to time, including all exhibits, schedules, annexes and amendments to such letter in effect on the date hereof (the “Commitment Letter”) and a true and correct copy of any related fee letter (collectively, the “Ancillary Letters”) (provided that percentages and amount of (i) the fees, (ii) the economic provisions of the market flex, (iii) the fee-related provisions of the alternate transaction provisions and (iv) the successful syndication definition in the Ancillary Letters may be redacted). The Commitment Letter is in full force and effect as of the date of this Agreement, and the commitments contained in the Commitment Letter have not been withdrawn, modified, rescinded or terminated or otherwise amended, supplemented or modified in any respect prior to the date of this Agreement. The Commitment Letter, in the form so delivered, is a legal, valid and binding obligation of Parent and, to the knowledge of Parent, the other parties thereto (subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and general principles of equity whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). Assuming the Financing is received as contemplated by the Commitment Letter, the aggregate amount of net proceeds from the Financing, together with cash, cash equivalents and current financial assets of Parent and its Subsidiaries on hand, will be, as of the Closing Date, sufficient to satisfy all of the Parent’s obligations under this Agreement, including the payment of any Subject Indebtedness required to be repaid, redeemed, retired, cancelled, terminated or otherwise satisfied or discharged in connection with the Offer or the Merger and all other costs and expenses required to be paid or satisfied by Parent in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. There are no side letters or other agreements, contracts or arrangements relating to the Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter other than the Ancillary Letters and customary engagement letters, which engagement letters do not contain any condition to the availability or timing of the Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter. As of the date of this Agreement, (A) no event has occurred that, with or without notice, lapse of time or both, would constitute a default or breach by the Parent and (B) subject to the satisfaction of the conditions contained in Section 5.1 and Annex A hereof, Parent does not have any reason to believe that the Financing contemplated by the Commitment Letter will not be available to Parent or Merger Sub at the Closing. Parent has fully paid all commitment fees or other fees, if any, required by the Commitment Letter to be paid prior to the date of this Agreement. There are no conditions precedent or other contingencies related to the funding of the full amount of the Financing, other than as expressly set forth in the Commitment Letter.

• Financing Fee In the event of any debt financing obtained by or for the Company, the Company will pay to the Advisor or its assignees upon the closing of such debt financing a fee (a “Financing Fee”) equal to (i) 0.75% of the amount available under such debt financing, whether at the Company, Partnership, or any direct or indirect subsidiary level, and (ii) 0.75% of the portion that is attributable to the Company’s or the Partnership’s direct or indirect investment in a Joint Venture or partnership in which the Company or the Partnership is, directly or indirectly, a co-venturer or partner. The Advisor (or Sub-advisor) may reallow all or a portion of any Financing Fee to reimburse a non-Affiliated third party with whom it may subcontract to procure any such debt financing. All or any portion of the Financing Fees not taken as to any fiscal year shall be deferred without interest and may be paid in such other fiscal year as the Advisor shall determine.

• Additional Financing 2.15.1 In the event that the PIPE Closing does not occur prior to or concurrently with the Closing as a result of the failure of any of the conditions to the PIPE Closing under the Stock Purchase Agreement to have been satisfied or waived or because the Stock Purchase Agreement has been terminated, ECP shall be required to provide $150 million to DYN or the Buyer, as applicable, through one of the following options (provided that if (x) the First Buyout Condition fails to occur (other than in the circumstances described in clause (z) below), ECP can elect either option in its sole discretion, (y) the First Buyout Condition occurs, only the provisions of clause (i) below shall apply and (z) in the event that the First Buyout Condition fails to occur and the PIPE Closing has not occurred or does not occur as a result of the failure of the condition set forth in Section 2.04(g) of the Stock Purchase Agreement, only the provisions of clause (ii) below shall apply): (i) ECP and DYN shall enter into a loan agreement, the specific terms of which shall include the ability of DYN to repay all or a portion of the loan at any time without penalty and shall otherwise be agreed by ECP and DYN, acting reasonably and in good faith, prior to the Closing, pursuant to which ECP shall loan DYN $150 million (the “ECP Loan”), which DYN shall use to fund the Buyer Subsidiary’s obligations under the Purchase Agreement or (ii) (a) ECP’s Commitment shall be increased by $150 million and DYN’s Commitment shall be decreased by $150 million, (b) each Sponsor’s Commitment Percentage shall be increased or decreased, as the case may be, in accordance with the $150 million increase or decrease contemplated by the foregoing clause (a), and (c) ECP shall be required to contribute such additional $150 million to the Buyer at the Closing, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the ECP Equity Commitment Letter; provided that, in each case in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), each of DYN and Terawatt shall continue to comply with its obligations set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement (including effecting the PIPE Closing, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in the Stock Purchase Agreement), and provided further that if any of the conditions to the PIPE Closing under the Stock Purchase Agreement are not satisfied or the Stock Purchase Agreement is terminated, in either case due to a material breach of, or material default under, the Stock Purchase Agreement by DYN, ECP shall not be required to provide the ECP Loan, ECP’s Commitment shall not be increased pursuant to clause (ii)(a) above and ECP shall not be required to contribute the additional $150 million to the Buyer at the Closing pursuant to clause (ii)(c) above, unless ECP elects, in its sole discretion, to either provide the ECP Loan or contribute such additional $150 million to the Buyer. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that ECP contributes an additional $150 million to the Buyer pursuant to this Section 2.15.1, such contribution shall not constitute a Bridge Portion and shall instead be deemed an equity contribution by ECP to the Buyer under the ECP Equity Commitment Letter. 2.15.2 In the event that the PIPE Closing occurs after the actions contemplated in clauses (i) or (ii) of Section 2.15.1 have occurred, the Sponsors hereby agree that (a) ECP shall be deemed to have paid $150 million of DYN’s Commitment on DYN’s behalf, (b) such payment by ECP on DYN’s behalf shall be offset against, and shall be treated as satisfying, Terawatt’s obligation to pay the Purchase Price (as defined in the Stock Purchase Agreement) at the PIPE Closing, (c) in the case of clause (i) of Section 2.15.1, $150 million of the outstanding principal of the ECP Loan shall have been deemed repaid but any accrued and unpaid interest thereon shall be paid to ECP in full by DYN, and (d) in the case of clause (ii) of Section 2.15.1, for purposes of determining the ownership of Units (as defined in the LLC Agreement Form) and the Capital Contributions (as defined in the LLC Agreement Form) of each Sponsor, the actions set forth in clauses (ii)(a) and (ii)(b) of Section 2.15.1 shall be deemed to have not occurred and DYN shall be deemed to have funded DYN’s Commitment as contemplated as of the date hereof (for the avoidance of doubt, at the price per Unit paid by the Sponsors at the Closing).