ENVIRONMENTAL INDEMNITY AGREEMENT
Exhibit
10.27
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, namely the loans,
lines of credit, letters of credit or other financing arrangements provided by
TD BANK, N.A., a banking corporation organized under the laws of the United
States of America, with a place of business at Xxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxx, and a mailing address of X.X. Xxx 0000, Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000-0000, (the
"Bank") to FLOTATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a Maine corporation, whose address is
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000, under the terms and provisions of the
Loan Documents, as described in and secured by a Mortgage and Security
Agreement, of even date, given to the Bank on certain premises located at and
near 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx, (the "Premises"), the undersigned hereby
unconditionally and irrevocably agrees to pay on demand to the Bank, and to
reimburse defend, hold harmless and indemnify the Bank for, any and all
liabilities, executions, awards, judgments, claims, damages, demands, penalties,
actions, debts, suits, expenditures, indemnities, losses, charges or other
amounts that are or may become due from the Bank in connection with, or arising
directly or indirectly out of, any hazardous, toxic, dangerous, radioactive,
noxious or unhealthful materials, substances, objects, gases, and/or wastes,
including without limitation all of the following: (a) asbestos in
any form; (b) urea formaldehyde foam insulation; (c) transformers or other
equipment which contain dielectric fluid containing any level of
polychllorinated biphenyls; (d) underground or above ground storage tanks for
oil or other potentially harmful substances or (e) any other chemical, material,
gas or substance which is prohibited, limited, or regulated by any federal,
state, county, regional, local, or other governmental authority or which, even
if not so regulated, may or could pose a hazard to or be injurious to the health
or safety of the occupants of the Premises or the owners of property adjacent to
the Premises or which, even though not posing a danger to hinder health or
safety, may or could constitute a pollutant that could be required to be cleaned
up by any governmental authority, (all of which are hereinafter referred to
collectively as "Hazardous Materials") situated in, over, upon, or under said
Premises mortgaged to the Bank under the terms of the aforementioned Mortgage
and Security Agreement; meaning and intending hereby to assume the obligation to
pay, and to indemnify and hold harmless the Bank for, without limitation, (1)
all costs incurred or expended by the Bank in connection with the removal of all
Hazardous Materials from said Premises, including without limitation all costs
of investigation, monitoring, remedial response, removal, restoration,
feasibility studies, remedial work, cleanup, engineering reports, and permit
acquisitions incurred in connection therewith; (2) all costs incurred and sums
expended by the Bank in determining the compliance of such removal with all
applicable regulations and standards; (3) all liability of, or expense to, the
Bank incurred as a result of the improper removal or disposal of Hazardous
Materials from said Premises, by whomever performed, or arising out of exposure
to Hazardous Materials of any individual while in or on said Premises, or
otherwise in connection with the existence or removal of, or failure to remove,
any and all Hazardous Materials, on or from said Premises, together with (4) all
of the Bank's costs of defending against any proceedings brought by or on behalf
of any individual or entity allegedly injured as a result of the presence of
Hazardous Materials on said Premises, or emanating therefrom in any manner,
whether such claim is decided adversely to or in favor of the Bank, and (5) any
reasonable attorney's fees incurred in connection with any of the foregoing
matters; and the undersigned do hereby further unconditionally assume and agree
to indemnify
and make
the Bank whole if the Bank should incur any liability whatsoever under the
Uncontrolled Hazardous Substance Sites Act, 38 M.R.S.A. § 1361 et seq. (1989), or the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980,
42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq. (1983)
("CERCLA"), or the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
("XXXX"), or the Federal Waste Pollution Control Act (the "Clean Water Act"), 33
U.S.C. § 1251 et seq. and 33 U.S.C. §
1342 et seq., or the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"), 42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq., or the Safe
Drinking Water Act, 14 U.S.C. §§ 1401-1450, or the Toxic Substances Control Act,
15 U.S.C.§§ 2601-2629, or the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act,
49 U.S.C. § 1801 et seq., or the Resource
Conservation Recovery Act, as amended by the Hazardous and Solid Waste
Amendments of 1984, 42 U.S.C. § 6902 et seq., or the Clean
Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq., or the State of
Maine statutory provisions relating to underground Storage Facilities and Ground
Water Protection, 38 M.R.S.A. § 561 et seq., or any
regulation promulgated under any of the foregoing, or any other local, state or
federal regulation, law or ordinance relating in any way to any Hazardous
Materials, or any successor provision, because of or in connection with the
Bank's connection with said Premises. The Bank shall not be required
to pursue or exhaust its remedies against the maker of said note, or against any
other party liable for the payment of any amounts or for any performance for
which the undersigned herein agrees to indemnify the Bank, or for which the
undersigned herein assumes liability or which the undersigned hereby guaranties,
or against the property mortgaged or pledged as security for the payment of said
note, but upon the incurring of any obligation, damage, penalty, loss, charge,
expense, execution, penalty, debt, claim, suit, expenditure, cost or liability,
may immediately demand and enforce payment or performance from the undersigned
pursuant to this indemnity agreement. The obligations of the
undersigned hereunder shall survive the repayment in full of the above mentioned
loan, and shall remain in full force and effect for all time. The
obligations of the undersigned hereunder shall bind the undersigned's estate and
administrators, executors and personal representatives and, to the maximum
extent permitted by law, the heirs and successors of the
undersigned. The undersigned hereby waives demand, notice and
protest, and waives all recourse to suretyship and guarantorship defenses
generally, including, but not limited to, any extensions of time for payment or
performance which may be granted to any other liable party, any modifications or
amendments to any of the documents executed in connection with said loan, any
act or omission to act by or on behalf of the Bank, its successors and assigns,
any release of security, any release of a liable party or parties, and all other
indulgences of any type which may be granted by the Bank, its successors and
assigns, to any other party liable for the obligations assumed by the
undersigned herein, and does also agree to pay all costs of enforcement hereof,
and all costs of collection of amounts due hereunder, including reasonable
attorneys' fees incurred in connection therewith hereby meaning to waive any and
all matters whatsoever whereby the undersigned would or might be released, in
whole or in part, from the obligations hereof. All amounts due
hereunder from the undersigned shall bear interest from the date demanded by the
Bank until paid, at the highest rate per annum (including any default interest
rate). This shall be a continuing indemnity agreement, which shall
not be terminated or otherwise affected by payment in full of said promissory
note, or by any other matter, unless and until this agreement is waived or
released, in writing, by the Bank.
If more than one person or entity
executes this Agreement in favor of the Bank, all obligations shall be joint and
several with respect to each. This Agreement shall be construed in
accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Maine. If
any other provision of this Agreement shall be prohibited by, unenforceable or
invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent
of such prohibition, unenforceability or invalidity, without invalidating the
remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of this
Agreement. This Agreement may be modified or amended only by a
writing signed by Bank and the undersigned.
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The undersigned hereby irrevocably
agrees that any legal action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this
Indemnity Agreement may be brought in any state or federal court in the State of
Maine, at the election of the Bank, its successors and assigns. By the execution
and delivery hereof, each of the undersigned hereby irrevocably submits to the
nonexclusive jurisdiction of any such court in any such action or proceeding,
and hereby waives the benefit of jurisdiction derived from present or future
domicile, and further waives personal service of any and all process upon the
undersigned in connection herewith, and consents that any or all such service of
process be made by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested,
postage prepaid, directed to the undersigned at the address given below (or such
other address as the undersigned may from time to time provide to the Bank in
writing), and any service so made shall be deemed to have been completed five
(5) days after the same shall have been so mailed. Final judgment against the
undersigned in any such action, suit or proceeding shall be conclusive and may
be enforced in any other jurisdiction by suit on the judgment, a certified or
exemplified copy of which shall be conclusive evidence of the fact.
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Dated:
February 13, 2009
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FLOTATION
TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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_________________________
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By: /s/ Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Witness
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Its
President
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