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• Banking Facilities Schedule 3.25 sets forth a complete and correct list of: (a) each bank, savings and loan or similar financial institution in which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries has an account or safety deposit box and the numbers of such accounts or safety deposit boxes maintained thereat; and (b) the names of all persons authorized to draw on each such account or to have access to any such safety deposit box, together with a description of the authority (and conditions thereto, if any) of each person with respect thereto.

• Facility Prudential is willing to consider, in its sole discretion and within limits which may be authorized for purchase by Prudential Affiliates from time to time, the purchase of Shelf Notes pursuant to this Agreement. The willingness of Prudential to consider such purchase of Shelf Notes is herein called the “Facility”. At any time, the aggregate principal amount of Shelf Notes stated in Section 1.2, minus the aggregate principal amount of Shelf Notes purchased and sold pursuant to this Agreement prior to such time, minus the aggregate principal amount of Accepted Notes (as hereinafter defined) which have not yet been purchased and sold hereunder prior to such time, is herein called the “Available Facility Amount” at such time. NOTWITHSTANDING THE WILLINGNESS OF PRUDENTIAL TO CONSIDER PURCHASES OF SHELF NOTES BY PRUDENTIAL AFFILIATES, THIS AGREEMENT IS ENTERED INTO ON THE EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING THAT NEITHER PRUDENTIAL NOR ANY PRUDENTIAL AFFILIATE SHALL BE OBLIGATED TO MAKE OR ACCEPT OFFERS TO PURCHASE SHELF NOTES, OR TO QUOTE RATES, SPREADS OR OTHER TERMS WITH RESPECT TO SPECIFIC PURCHASES OF SHELF NOTES, AND THE FACILITY SHALL IN NO WAY BE CONSTRUED AS A COMMITMENT BY PRUDENTIAL OR ANY PRUDENTIAL AFFILIATE.

• Commitments to Lend (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Lender severally agrees to lend to each Borrower (other than a Borrower that is an Affiliate Advised Borrower with respect to such Lender), and such Borrower may borrow, repay, and reborrow from time to time during the Revolving Credit Period, upon notice by such Borrower to Operations Agent given in accordance with SECTION 2.02, such Revolving Credit Loans as are requested by such Borrower up to a maximum aggregate amount outstanding to such Borrower and all other Borrowers (after giving effect to all amounts requested) at any one time equal to such Lender's Commitment Amount, provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of all Loans outstanding (after giving effect to all amounts requested) to any Borrower shall not exceed at any time the Maximum Amount for such Borrower at such time and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of all Loans outstanding to all Borrowers (after giving effect to all amounts requested) shall not exceed at any time the aggregate Commitment Amounts. Each Borrowing under this SECTION 2.01(A) shall be in an aggregate principal amount of not less than $100,000 or a larger whole multiple of $10,000 and shall, subject to SECTION 2.01(C), be made from the several Lenders pro rata in accordance with each Lender's Commitment Percentage. Each Revolving Credit Loan shall mature and become due and payable as provided in SECTION 2.05. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of SECTION 2.01(A) and subject to the terms of this Agreement, each Borrower (other than a Borrower that is an Affiliate Advised Borrower with respect to Swing Line Lender) may request Loans (Swing Line Advances) in an aggregate principal amount of not less than $50,000 or a larger integral multiple of $10,000, and if: (i) the aggregate principal amount of such requested Loans (Swing Line Advances) to such Borrower and of all other Loans outstanding to all Borrowers which were made pursuant to the operation of this SECTION 2.01(B) do not exceed $50,000,000; (ii) the aggregate principal amount of all Loans outstanding from Swing Line Lender (after giving effect to all amounts requested) does not exceed Swing Line Lender's Commitment Amount; (iii) the aggregate principal amount of all Loans outstanding to such Borrower (after giving effect to all amounts requested) does not exceed the Maximum Amount for such Borrower; and (iv) the aggregate principal amount of all Loans outstanding to all Borrowers (after giving effect to all amounts requested) does not exceed the aggregate Commitment Amounts, then Swing Line Lender (subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement) shall make all of such Loans (each, a "SWING LINE ADVANCE," and collectively, the "SWING LINE ADVANCES"). Each Borrower promises to pay any Swing Line Advance made to it in full (together with any accrued and unpaid interest thereon) on the earliest of (A) 10 days after the date such Swing Line Advance was made, (B) the date of the next Loan made to such Borrower by Lenders pursuant to SECTION 2.01(A), and (C) the Termination Date. If:

• Revolving Facility (a) As of the Effective Date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Existing Revolving Loans, other than, for the avoidance of doubt, any “Swing Line Loans” (under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) is set forth on Schedule 2.1. 1. The Existing Revolving Loans are held by the Existing Lenders in the amounts set forth on Schedule 2.1. 1. Subject to the terms of this Agreement and in reliance on the representations and warranties of the Borrowers herein, each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that (A) the Existing Revolving Loans shall be, from and following the Effective Date, continued and outstanding as the Revolving Loans under this Agreement, (B) concurrently therewith, the Extending Lenders shall have assigned their Existing Revolving Loans and Existing Commitments among themselves and to the New Lenders and hereby direct the Administrative Agent to re-allocate all Existing Revolving Loans and Existing Commitments and require the extension of new Revolving Loans, such that, after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby the Revolving Loans and Commitments (prior to giving effect to any Advances to be made on the Effective Date) shall be allocated among the Lenders as set forth in Schedule 2.1.1, (C) all “Swing Line Loans” (under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) and “Letters of Credit” (under and as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) outstanding and issued under the Existing Credit Agreement immediately prior to the Effective Date shall continue to be outstanding and issued under this Agreement, and (D) on and after the Effective Date the terms of this Agreement shall govern the rights and obligations of the Borrowers, the other Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender, the LC Issuers and the Administrative Agent with respect thereto. (b) From and including the Effective Date and prior to the Facility Termination Date, each Lender severally agrees, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, to make Revolving Loans to the Borrowers in Agreed Currencies, participate in Facility LCs issued in Agreed Currencies, and participate in Facility LCs issued in Discretionary Currencies at the discretion of an LC Issuer, in each case upon the request of the Borrowers; provided, that (i) after giving effect to the making of each such Revolving Loan and the issuance of each such Facility LC, the Dollar Amount of each Lender’s Outstanding Revolving Credit Exposure shall not exceed its Revolving Commitment, and (ii) all Base Rate Loans shall be made in Dollars. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, each Borrower may borrow, repay and reborrow the Revolving Loans at any time prior to the Facility Termination Date; provided, that a Foreign Borrower may only borrow in its respective Designated Currencies. The Revolving Commitments shall expire on the Facility Termination Date. The LC Issuer will issue Facility LCs hereunder on the terms and conditions set forth in Section 2.19.

• Notice to Lenders; Funding of Loans (a) Upon receipt of a Notice of Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the contents thereof and of such Lender's share (if any) of such Borrowing and such Notice of Borrowing shall not thereafter be revocable by the Borrower. (b) Not later than 11:00 A.M. (California local time) on the date of each Borrowing, if such Borrowing is to be made in Dollars, each Lender participating therein shall (except as provided in subsection (c) of this Section) make available its share of such Borrowing in Dollars, in federal or other funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent at its address referred to in Section 9.01. Unless the Administrative Agent determines that any applicable condition specified in Article III has not been satisfied, the Administrative Agent will make the funds so received from the Lenders available to the Borrower at the Administrative Agent's aforesaid address or place. (c) If any Lender makes a new Loan hereunder on a day on which the Borrower is to repay all or any part of an outstanding Loan from such Lender, such Lender shall apply the proceeds of its new Loan to make such repayment and only an amount equal to the difference (if any) between the amount being borrowed and the amount being repaid shall be made available by such Lender to the Administrative Agent as provided in subsection (b), or remitted by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent as provided in Section 2.17, as the case may be. (d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of this Section 2.06 and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall not have so made such share available to the Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, a rate per annum equal to the higher of the Federal Funds Rate and the interest rate applicable thereto pursuant to Section 2.08 and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Federal Funds Rate. If such Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall constitute such Lender's Loan included in such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement. If the Borrower pays interest under this subsection (d) at the Federal Funds Rate and the Federal Funds Rate is higher than the interest rate applicable thereto pursuant to Section 2.08, the applicable Lender shall pay the Borrower the difference between such rates.

• CONDITIONS OF LENDING AND ISSUANCE OF LETTERS OF CREDIT The obligation of each Lender to make Loans and of the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit hereunder is subject to the performance by each of the Loan Parties of its Obligations to be performed hereunder at or prior to the making of any such Loans or issuance of such Letters of Credit and to the satisfaction of the following further conditions:

• Refinancing Facilities (a) On one or more occasions after the Effective Date, the Borrower may obtain, from any Lender or any other bank, financial institution or other institutional lender or investor that agrees to provide any portion of Refinancing Term Loans pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment in accordance with this Section 2.22 (each, an “Additional Refinancing Lender”) (provided that the Administrative Agent shall have consented (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) to such Lender’s or Additional Refinancing Lender’s making such Refinancing Term Loans to the extent such consent, if any, would be required under Section 9.04(b) for, and to the extent that such Additional Refinancing Lender is a Purchasing Borrower Party or an Affiliated Lender, the requirements of Section 9.04(g) and 9.04(f), respectively, shall be satisfied as if such Refinancing Term Loan were, an assignment of Term Loans to such Lender or Additional Refinancing Lender), Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of all or any portion of Term Loans then outstanding under this Agreement, in the form of Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Term Commitments pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment; provided that no Lender is obligated hereunder to provide such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness. (b) The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, receipt by the Administrative Agent of (i) customary legal opinions, board resolutions and officers’ certificates consistent with those delivered on the Effective Date other than changes to such legal opinion resulting from a change in law, change in fact or change to counsel’s form of opinion reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (ii) reaffirmation agreements and/or such amendments to the Security Documents as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent in order to ensure that such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is provided with the benefit of the applicable Loan Documents. (c) Each issuance of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness under Section 2.22(a) shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (x) not less than $50,000,000 and (y) an integral multiple of $10,000,000 in excess thereof. (d) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, without the consent of any other Lenders, to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to (i) reflect the existence and terms of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant thereto and (ii) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.22, including any amendments necessary to treat the applicable Loans and/or Commitments established under the Refinancing Amendment as a new Class of Loans and/or Commitments hereunder, and the Lenders hereby expressly authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any such Refinancing Amendment. (e) This Section 2.22 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.17 or Section 9.02 to the contrary solely to the extent provided in this Section 2.22.

• Existing Facilities Each of the Existing Facilities shall be repaid in full and terminated and all collateral security therefor shall be released, and the Administrative Agent shall have received pay-off letters in form and substance satisfactory to it evidencing such repayment, termination and release.

• Trading Facilities Most open-outcry and electronic trading facilities are supported by computer-based component systems for the order-routing, execution, matching, registration or clearing of trades. As with all facilities and systems, they are vulnerable to temporary disruption or failure. Your ability to recover certain losses may be subject to limits on liability imposed by the system provider, the market, the clearing house and/or member firms. Such limits may vary; you should ask the firm with which you deal for details in this respect.

• Commitment to Lend Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each Bank severally agrees to make Committed Credit Loans to each Borrower from time to time on any Banking Day during the period from the date hereof to but not including the Expiration Date, as may be requested by such Borrower in accordance with Section 2.04 hereof, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any one time outstanding the amount of such Bank's Commitment. Each Committed Credit Loan made by the Banks to a Borrower hereunder shall be in an amount of $1,000,000 or an integral multiple thereof; PROVIDED that (i) at no time shall any Bank be obligated to fund or maintain Committed Credit Loans in excess of such Bank's Commitment; (ii) at no time shall State Street Bank be obligated to fund or maintain Committed Credit Loans to the extent that the principal amount of such Committed Credit Loans, together with the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans outstanding to the Borrowers hereunder, exceeds State Street Bank's Commitment; (iii) at no time shall the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Committed Credit Loans made to the Borrowers hereunder exceed the Maximum Committed Credit Amount; (iv) at no time shall the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Loans made to the Borrowers hereunder exceed the Maximum Credit Amount; and (v) at no time shall the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Loans made to any Borrower hereunder exceed such Borrower's Borrowing Base. Each request for a Committed Credit Loan by a Borrower shall constitute a representation by such Borrower that the conditions set forth in Section 6.02 hereof have been satisfied on the date of such request. Within the limits of the provisions of this Section 2.01, each Borrower may borrow, prepay pursuant to Section 4.01, and reborrow under this Section 2.01.