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• Optional Prepayments of Loans The Borrower may prepay Loans, (i) upon at least two Business Days’ notice, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Revolving Loans, and (ii) upon notice not later than 12:00 noon (New York City Time) on the date of prepayment, in the case of Base Rate Revolving Loans, to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and, if such notice is given, the Borrower shall prepay the outstanding principal amount of the Loans comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, without penalty, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid; provided, however, that (x) each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof and (y) in the event of any such prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the Lenders in respect thereof pursuant to Section 8.04(c).

• Optional Prepayment of Loans (a) The Borrower shall have the right to prepay the Loans on not less than three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Senior Facility Agent. (b) Any partial prepayment of the Loans under this Section 4.04 shall be in an amount that is not less than twenty million Dollars ($20,000,000). (c) All prepayments under this Section 4.04 shall be made by the Borrower to the Senior Facility Agent for the account of the Senior Lenders and shall be applied by the Senior Facility Agent in accordance with Section 4.04(d). Each notice of optional prepayment shall indicate whether the Loan being prepaid (i) was used for Gas Working Capital Purposes, General Working Capital Purposes or DSR Purposes and (ii) was a Working Capital Loan, Swing Line Loan or an LC Loan. Each notice of optional prepayment will be irrevocable, except that such notice given by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities and/or the issuance of other debt, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Senior Facility Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. The Borrower shall pay any Break Costs incurred by any Senior Secured Party as a result of such notice and revocation. (d) With respect to each prepayment to be made pursuant to this Section 4.04, on the date specified in the notice of prepayment delivered pursuant to Section 4.04(a), the Borrower shall pay to the Senior Facility Agent the sum of the following amounts: (i) the principal of, and accrued but unpaid interest on, the Loans to be prepaid; (ii) any additional amounts required to be paid under Section 5.05 (Funding Losses); and (iii) any other Obligations due to the respective Senior Lenders in connection with any prepayment under the Financing Documents.

• Term Loan Prepayments (A) On each occasion that a Prepayment Event occurs, the Borrower shall, within three Business Days after its receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds of a Debt Incurrence Prepayment Event and within seven Business Days after the occurrence of any other Prepayment Event (or, in the case of Deferred Net Cash Proceeds, within seven Business Days after the Deferred Net Cash Proceeds Payment Date), prepay, in accordance with clause (c) below and subject to clause (B) of this Section 5.2(a)(i), Term Loans with a Dollar Equivalent principal amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds from such Prepayment Event; provided that, with respect to the Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale Prepayment Event, Casualty Event or Permitted Sale Leaseback, in each case solely to the extent with respect to any Collateral, the Borrower may use a portion of such Net Cash Proceeds to prepay or repurchase Permitted Other Indebtedness (and with such prepaid or repurchased Permitted Other Indebtedness permanently extinguished) with a Lien on the Collateral ranking pari passu with the Liens securing the Obligations to the extent any applicable Permitted Other Indebtedness Document requires the issuer of such Permitted Other Indebtedness to prepay or make an offer to purchase such Permitted Other Indebtedness with the proceeds of such Prepayment Event, in each case in an amount not to exceed the product of (x) the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds multiplied by (y) a fraction, the numerator of which is the outstanding principal amount of the Permitted Other Indebtedness with a Lien on the Collateral ranking pari passu with the Liens securing the Obligations and with respect to which such a requirement to prepay or make an offer to purchase exists and the denominator of which is the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Permitted Other Indebtedness and the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans. (B) In the event that any Tranche B-2 Term Loans are repaid (the “Repaid Tranche B-2 Loans”) prior to the third anniversary of the Original Closing Date pursuant to this Section 5.2(a)(i), the Borrower shall pay to the Lenders having such Repaid Tranche B-2 Loans, a prepayment premium as follows: (x) 3.00% of such amount so repaid if such prepayment occurs on or after the Original Closing Date but prior to the first anniversary of the Original Closing Date, (y) 2.00% of such amount so repaid if such prepayment occurs on or after the first anniversary of the Original Closing Date but prior to the second anniversary of the Original Closing Date and (z) 1.00% of such amount so repaid if such prepayment occurs on or after the second anniversary of the Original Closing Date but on or prior to the third anniversary of the Original Closing Date. (ii) Not later than the date that is ninety days after the last day of any fiscal year (commencing with and including the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008), the Borrower shall prepay, in accordance with clause (c) below, Term Loans with a Dollar Equivalent principal amount equal to (x) 50% of Excess Cash Flow for such fiscal year, provided that (A) the percentage in this Section 5.2(a)(ii) shall be reduced to 25% if the ratio of Consolidated Total Debt on the date of prepayment (prior to giving effect thereto and as certified by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower) to Consolidated EBITDA for the most recent Test Period ended prior to such prepayment date is less than or equal to 7.0 to 1.0 but greater than 6.0 to 1.0 and (B) no payment of any Term Loans shall be required under this Section 5.2(a)(ii) if the ratio of Consolidated Total Debt on the date of prepayment (prior to giving effect thereto and as certified by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower) to Consolidated EBITDA for the most recent Test Period ended prior to such prepayment date is less than or equal to 6.0 to 1.00, minus (y) the Dollar Equivalent principal amount of Term Loans voluntarily prepaid pursuant to Section 5.1 during such fiscal year. (iii) On each occasion that Permitted Other Indebtedness is issued or incurred pursuant to Section 10.1(aa), Borrower shall within three Business Days of receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds of such Permitted Other Indebtedness prepay, in accordance with clause (c) below, Term Loans with a Dollar Equivalent principal amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds from such issuance or incurrence of Permitted Other Indebtedness.

• Optional and Mandatory Prepayments of Loans (a) The Borrower shall ------------------------------------------- have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Loan, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty (but in any event subject to Section 2.13), upon prior written, telecopy or telephonic notice to the Agent given no later than 2:00 p.m., Philadelphia time, one Business Day before any proposed prepayment. (b) If a certificate delivered pursuant to subsection 5.2(b) shows that during the period since the date of acquisition of all Acquired Eligible Portfolios which have been owned by the Borrower for at least six months and not transferred by the Borrower in connection with a Securitized Offering, the Net Proceeds received by the Borrower on account of the Receivables in all such Acquired Eligible Portfolios is less than seventy percent (70%) of the XXX Recovery Estimate for all such Acquired Eligible Portfolios for such period, then Borrower shall prepay to the Agent for the account of the Lenders, an amount equal to the product of (x) one percent (1%) times (y) the aggregate amount of the Loans made by the Lenders and applied toward the Portfolio Purchase Price of all such Acquired Eligible Portfolios, times (z) the difference (rounded to the nearest whole number) between (i) seventy and (ii) the percentage of Net Proceeds actually collected on all such Acquired Eligible Portfolios during such period. Such amount shall be applied as a prepayment of such Loans and shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitment Percentages and shall be applied to installments due on such Loans in inverse order of maturity. (c) Upon the sale or transfer by the Borrower of all or any part of the Receivables in an Acquired Eligible Portfolio in connection with a Securitized Offering, whether pursuant to a Receivables Purchase Agreement or otherwise, the Borrower shall immediately repay to the Agent for the account of the Lenders the outstanding principal amount of, and accrued interest on, the Loan related to such Acquired Eligible Portfolio. (d) Each notice of prepayment shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Loan to be prepaid. All prepayments under this Section on other than Base Rate Borrowings shall be accompanied by accrued interest on the principal amount being prepaid to the date of prepayment. (e) No payment on account of principal or interest shall be due in connection with, or as a condition to, the sale or transfer by Borrower in the ordinary course of its business of any Receivables which are not part of an Acquired Eligible Portfolio, or any other Collateral sold or disposed of by Borrower in the ordinary course of business for fair consideration in accordance with the provisions of the Loan Documents.

• Optional Prepayments with Make-Whole Amount The Company may, at its option, upon notice as provided below, prepay at any time all, or from time to time any part of, the Notes, in an amount not less than 5% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding in the case of a partial prepayment, at 100% of the principal amount so prepaid, and the Make-Whole Amount determined for the prepayment date with respect to such principal amount. The Company will give each holder of Notes written notice of each optional prepayment under this Section 8.2 not less than 10 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for such prepayment unless the Company and the Required Holders agree to another time period pursuant to Section 17. Each such notice shall specify such date (which shall be a Business Day), the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be prepaid on such date, the principal amount of each Note held by such holder to be prepaid (determined in accordance with Section 8.3), and the interest to be paid on the prepayment date with respect to such principal amount being prepaid, and shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Senior Financial Officer as to the estimated Make-Whole Amount due in connection with such prepayment (calculated as if the date of such notice were the date of the prepayment), setting forth the details of such computation. Two Business Days prior to such prepayment, the Company shall deliver to each holder of Notes a certificate of a Senior Financial Officer specifying the calculation of such Make-Whole Amount as of the specified prepayment date.

• Optional Prepayments of Advances The Borrower may, upon at least two Business Days’ notice, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances, and upon notice not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the date of prepayment, in the case of Base Rate Advances, to the Administrative Agent stating the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and, if such notice is given, the Borrower shall prepay the outstanding principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid; provided, however, that (x) each partial prepayment shall be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (y) in the event of any such prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Advance, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the Lenders in respect thereof pursuant to Section 8.04(c).

• Optional Prepayments The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with Section 3.04(b).

• Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans (a) Each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the Company’s irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 p.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans and (ii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. Each telephonic notice by the Company pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $3,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $50,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Company is requesting a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Company fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Company fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans. If the Company requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Swing Line Loan may not be converted to a Eurodollar Rate Loan. (b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage of Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Company, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans, as described in Section 2.02(a). Each Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 2:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Company in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Company on the books of Bank of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Company; provided, however, that if, on the date a Committed Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Credit Borrowing is given by the Company, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second, shall be made available to the Company as provided above. (c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan. During the existence of a Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans without the consent of the Required Lenders, and the Required Lenders may demand that any or all of the then outstanding Eurodollar Rate Loans made to the Company be converted to Base Rate Loans on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto. (d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders of any change in Bank of America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change. (e) After giving effect to all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than fifteen (15) Interest Periods in effect in respect of the Aggregate Commitments.

• Repayment and Prepayment (a) Unless a prepayment in full under this Section 2.03 or Section 2.07, has occurred, the Borrower shall repay to the Lender the entire outstanding amount of the Loan on the Final Maturity Date. (b) At any time and from time to time the Borrower may voluntarily prepay any outstanding Loan in whole or in part, but if in part, subject to a minimum prepayment amount of $5,000,000, by sending a notice to the Administrative Agent at least two (2) Business Days prior to the day of such prepayment (an "Early Repayment"), which notice shall state the proposed date and aggregate principal amount of such prepayment. (c) If a Borrower Change of Control or Guarantor Change of Control has occurred and is continuing, the Lender shall give notice thereof to the Borrower, and the Borrower shall within one (1) Business Day prepay in full the then outstanding and unpaid principal amount of the Loan plus any other amounts owing to the Lender under the Loan Documents. (d) If the Liens in the Collateral created under the Collateral Documents cease to be enforceable first priority Liens in favor of the Lender (except to the extent expressly permitted thereunder) ("Unenforceability Event"), the Lender shall give notice thereof to the Borrower, and the Borrower shall on the date of receipt of such notice prepay in full the then outstanding and unpaid principal amount of the Loan plus any other amounts owing to the Lender under the Loan Documents. (e) The Borrower may voluntarily prepay the outstanding Loans in whole at any time without prior notice within thirty (30) days after the occurrence of (i) the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lender or the Custodian failing to maintain its registration in good standing with the New York Department of Financial Services, (ii) the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lender or the Custodian ceasing, or announcing its intention to cease, conducting business in the State of New York or (iii) an Insolvency Event occurs with respect to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lender or the Custodian. (f) If at any time (whether or not it is a Business Day or within normal business hours) the Actual LTV Ratio is equal to or in excess of the Liquidation LTV, the Administrative Agent may deliver a LTV Breach Notice to the Borrower (which may be by e-mail), with a copy to each party hereto, and, if the Borrower does not deposit sufficient additional Collateral in the Collateral Account within 24 hours after the receipt of such LTV Breach Notice to cause the Actual LTV Ratio, after taking into account such additional Collateral, to be less than or equal to the Initial LTV, the outstanding Loan shall become immediately due and payable in full (whether or not it is a Business Day or within normal business hours) and the Borrower shall immediately prepay the outstanding Loan together with any other amounts owed to the Lender under the Loan Documents. (g) On the first Drawdown Date, the Borrower shall pay to the Lender by way of upfront fee, an amount equal to 0.8% of the Commitment (being US$400,000). Such amount may be netted against and deducted from Loan A and the Lender shall only be obliged to advance the resulting net amount of US$14,600,000 in respect of Loan A. (h) If the Loan is to be repaid or prepaid by the Borrower at any time prior to the Final Maturity Date, any such repayment or prepayment shall be accompanied by payment of accrued interest to the date of such repayment or prepayment on the principal amount repaid or prepaid together with, if applicable pursuant to Section 2.03(i) below, the Early Termination Fee. The parties agree that any Early Termination Fee payable hereunder is intended to compensate the Lender for lost anticipated profits as a result of such early repayment or prepayment and shall not be considered as a penalty. (i) If the Loan is repaid or prepaid by the Borrower at any time prior to the Final Maturity Date other than pursuant to Section 2.03(e), Section 2.03(f) and Section 2.12(d) (including without limitation pursuant to Section 2.03(b), Section 2.03(c), Section 2.03(d) or Section 2.07), the prepayment shall be accompanied by an amount equal to the Early Termination Fee, save where the Borrower gives notice to prepay the Loan in full within 24 hours after the commencement of a Deleveraging Trigger Period in which case no Early Termination Fee shall be payable. (j) If the Loan is prepaid pursuant to Section 2.03(f), no Early Termination Fee shall be payable.

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