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PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
dated as of August 12, 1986
among
XXXXXXX LEASING CORPORATION
as Owner Participant
FIRST PV FUNDING CORPORATION,
as Loan Participant
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON,
in its individual capacity and as Owner Trustee
under a Trust Agreement,
dated as of August 12, 1986,
with Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, as Owner Trustee
CHEMICAL BANK,
in its individual capacity and as Indenture Trustee under a Trust Indenture,
Mortgage, Security Agreement and Assignment of Rents, dated as of August 12,
1986,
with the Owner Trustee, as Indenture Trustee
and
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO,
as Lessee
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Sale and Leaseback of an Undivided Interest
in Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2
and an undivided interest in
certain Common Facilities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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SECTI0N 1 Definitions ............................................. 2
SECTION 2 Participation by the
Loan Participant;
Releveraging; Refunding ................................. 2
SECTION 3 Participation by the
Owner Participant
Partial Refund of the
Investment .............................................. 5
SECTION 4 Purchase, Sale,
Financing and Lease of
the Undivided Interest;
Purchase, Sale and Lease
of the Real Property
Interest ................................................ 6
SECTION 5 Notice of Closing;
Closing ................................................. 7
SECTION 6 Representations;
Warranties, Agreements and Directions of the
Loan Participant ........................................ 7
SECTION 7 Representations,
Warranties and
Agreements of the Owner
Participant ............................................. 11
SECTION 8 Representations,
Warranties and
Agreements of the Owner
Trustee and FNB ......................................... 17
SECTION 9 Representations,
Warranties and
Agreements of Chemical .................................. 23
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SECTION 10 Representations, Warranties and
Agreements of the Lessee ................................ 25
SECTION 11 Conditions Precedent .................................... 51
SECTION 12 Consent to Assignment of
the Facility Lease;
Consent to Indenture;
Consent to Assignment of
Notes ................................................... 67
SECTION 13 Lessee's Indemnities .................................... 68
SECTION 14 Transaction Expenses .................................... 82
SECTION 15 Owner Participant's
Transfers .............................................. 84
SECTION 16 Brokerage and Finders'
Fees and Commissions .................................... 87
SECTION 17 Survival of
Representations and
Warranties; Binding
Effect .................................................. 87
SECTION 18 Notices ................................................. 88
SECTION 19 Miscellaneous ........................................... 89
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SCHEDULES
Schedule I Notice of Closing
Schedule Pricing Assumptions
Schedule 3 Recordations and Filings
Schedule 4 Opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, as counsel
for the Loan Participant
Schedule 5 Opinion of Milbank, Tweed,
Xxxxxx & XxXxxx, as special
counsel for the Owner
Participant
Schedule 6 Opinion of Csaplar & Bok, as
counsel for the Owner Trustee
Schedule 7 Opinion of Shaw, Pittman,
Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, as special
NRC counsel for the Owner
Participant
Schedule 8 Opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, as special
counsel for the Lessee
Schedule 9 Opinion of Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A.,
as general counsel for the Lessee
Schedule 10 Opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxxx, as special
Arizona counsel for the Lessee
Schedule 11 Opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, P.C.,
as special FERC counsel for the Lessee
Schedule 12 Opinion of Meyer, Hendricks, Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, as special Arizona
counsel for the Owner Participant
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Schedule 13 Opinion of Xxxxx, Dickason,
Sloan, Akin & Xxxx, P.A., as
special New Mexico counsel
the Owner Participant
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A Form of Xxxx of Sale and
Assignment
Exhibit B Affidavit of Owner Trustee
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PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT, dated as of August 12, 1986, among
XXXXXXX LEASING CORPORATION, a New York corporation (the Owner Participant),
FIRST PV FUNDING CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the Loan Participant), THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, a national banking association, in its individual
capacity (FNB) and as Owner Trustee (the Owner Trustee) under a Trust Agreement,
dated as of August 12, 1986, with Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, CHEMICAL BANK, a
New York banking corporation, in its individual capacity (Chemical) and as
Indenture Trustee (the Indenture Trustee) under a Trust Indenture, Mortgage,
Security Agreement and Assignment of Rents, dated as of August 12, 1986, with
the Owner Trustee, and PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO, a New Mexico
corporation (the Lessee)
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Owner Participant desires to cause the Trust to
acquire the Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest and to lease the
Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest to the Lessee under the
Facility Lease;
WHEREAS, the Lessee desires to sell the Undivided Interest and
the Real Property Interest to the Trust and lease the Undivided Interest and the
Real Property Interest back from the Trust under the Facility Lease 7
WHEREAS, the Owner Trustee and the Lessee will enter into the
Purchase Documents with respect to the sale and purchase of the Undivided
Interest and the Real Property Interest;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Indenture,
the Owner Trustee will authorize the creation, issuance, sale and delivery of
the Initial Series Note and the granting of the security therefor, and the
Indenture Trustee will authenticate the Initial Series Note; and
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WHEREAS, the Loan Participant is willing to purchase the Initial
Series Note on the terms and conditions set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of other
good and valuable consideration, receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Definitions.
For the purposes hereof, capitalized terms used herein shall
have the meanings assigned to such terms in Appendix A, as amended from time to
time in conjunction with the amendment of this Participation Agreement or, if
the Lessee, the Owner Participant, the Loan Participant and the Owner Trustee
shall have consented to such amendment, any other Transaction Document;
provided, however, that if such amendment to Appendix A made in connection with
the amendment of any other Transaction Document adversely affects the Indenture
Trustee under this Participation Agreement such amendment to Appendix A shall
not be effective as to the Indenture Trustee unless the Indenture Trustee also
consents thereto. References in this Participation Agreement to sections,
paragraphs and clauses are to sections, paragraphs and clauses in this
Participation Agreement unless otherwise indicated.
SECTION 2. Participation by the Loan Participant; Releveraging;
Refunding.
(a) Loan Participant's. Commitment Subject to the satisfaction
of the conditions in Sections 5(a) and 11(a), on the Closing Date the Loan
Participant agrees to lend to the Owner Trustee, on a non-recourse basis, an
amount (the Loan) equal to the Loan Percentage of the Purchase Price.
(b) Payment; Term of the Initial Series Note.
(I) Payment. Proceeds of the Loan shall be paid directly to the
Indenture Trustee, for the account of the Owner Trustee, in immediately
available funds, at the Indenture' Trustee's Office.
(2) Terms of the Initial Series Note. The Loan shall be
evidenced by the Initial Series Note.
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The Initial Series Note shall be issued by the Owner Trustee under and
pursuant to the Indenture, shall be in the principal amount of the Loan
and shall bear interest at the rate or rates per annum and shall be
payable as set forth in the Indenture.
(c) Releveraging. Upon the occurrence of an adjustment of Basic
Rent and the schedules of Casualty Values, Special Casualty Values and
Termination Values pursuant to Section 3 (d) of the Facility Lease, subject to
the conditions set forth in Section 11(c) and the following sentence, on the
Releveraging Date the Loan Participant agrees to lend to the Owner Trustee, on a
non-recourse basis, an additional amount (the Releveraging Loan) equal to the
Releveraging Amount. There may be up to two Releveraging Loans under this
Section.2(c), the Releveraging Date or Dates of which shall be mutually
acceptable to the Lessee, the Owner Participant and the Loan Participant
provided, however, that (i) any modifications of the Transaction Documents to
effect a Releveraging Loan shall satisfy the provisions of Revenue Procedure
75-21, Revenue Procedure 75-28 and any other applicable statute, regulation,
revenue procedure, revenue ruling or technical information release relating to
the subject matter of such revenue procedures and (ii) such modifications (after
giving effect to any adjustments pursuant to Section 3(d) of the Facility Lease)
shall not, in the opinion of Shearman & Sterling, adversely affect the tax
benefits contemplated by the Owner Participant in entering into the transactions
contemplated by this Participation Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents. Proceeds of a Releveraging Loan shall be paid directly to the
Indenture Trustee, in immediately available funds, at the Indenture Trustee's
Office, and such proceeds shall be applied as a partial refund of the
Investment. Each Releveraging Loan shall be evidenced by a Releveraging Note,
which Note shall be issued by the Owner Trustee under and pursuant to the
Indenture, be in the principal amount of the Releveraging Loan, bear interest at
the rate or rates per annum and be payable, in each case as set forth in, or
determined under, the Indenture.
(d) Refunding of the Initial Series Note and any Releveraging
Notes Subject to. the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 11(d),
on the Refunding Date the Loan Participant agrees to lend to the Owner Trustee,
on a non-recourse basis, an amount (the Refunding Loan) equal to the sum of (i)
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the amount necessary to refund the Initial Series Note and any Releveraging
Notes theretofore issued and (ii) an amount equal to the Releveraging Amount.
Proceeds of the Refunding Loan shall be paid directly to the Indenture Trustee
(i) to the extent necessary to refund the Initial Series Note and any
Releveraging Notes theretofore issued in immediately available funds, at the
Indenture Trustee's Office and (ii) to the extent of the Releveraging Amount,
for the account of the Owner Trustee is a partial refund of the Investment, in
immediately available funds, at the Indenture Trustee's Office. The Refunding
Loan shall be represented by the Fixed Rate Note, which Note shall be issued by
the Owner Trustee under and pursuant to the Indenture and shall be in the
principal amount of the Refunding Loan and shall bear interest at the rates per
annum and shall be payable as set forth in the Indenture. On the Refunding Date
the Fixed Rate Note shall be exchanged by the Owner Trustee for the Initial
Series Note and any Releveraging Notes theretofore issued. Not less than 1
Business Day prior to the Refunding Date, the Loan Participant shall deliver to
the Owner Participant and the Lessee a certificate setting forth the information
necessary to complete the form of Fixed Rate Note (including any schedule
thereto) set forth in the Indenture. Upon such delivery, and upon approval by
the Lessee and the Owner Participant of the terms thereof, the Owner Participant
and the. Lessee shall cause the form of Fixed Rate Note to be. completed. The
parties hereto shall make a good faith effort to cooperate to effect such
amendments to the Transaction Documents as may be necessary or appropriate to
effect such refunding. The refunding contemplated by this Section 2(d) shall be
effected at the request of the Lessee given in writing at least 2 Business Days
prior to the Refunding Date; provided, however, that (i) no such request shall
be made or refunding occur while an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing; (ii) unless waived in writing by the Owner Participant, Net Economic
Return shall not be adversely affected thereby (or appropriate adjustments shall
have been made or shall be made on the Refunding Date pursuant to Section 3(e)
of the Facility Lease to preserve Net Economic Return); (iii) unless waived in
writing by the Owner Participant, any modifications of the Transaction Documents
shall satisfy the provisions of Revenue Procedure 75-21, Revenue Procedure 75-28
and any other applicable statute, regulation, revenue procedure, revenue ruling
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or technical information release relating to the subject matter of such revenue
procedures; and (iv) unless waived in writing by the Owner Participant, such
modifications (after giving effect to any adjustments pursuant to clause (ii)
above) shall not, in the opinion of the Owner Participant's special tax counsel,
adversely affect the tax benefits contemplated by the Owner Participant in
entering into. the transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement and
the other Transaction Documents. In setting the terms or the Fixed Rate Notes,
the Lessee in its sole discretion may determine the number of tranches of debt
and the interest rates applicable thereto and, based on such determination, the
Owner Participant may in its sole discretion determine the principal amount, the
amortization schedule and the average life applicable to each tranche of the
Fixed Rate Notes, and the debt amortization schedules for the Fixed Rate Notes,
including the final maturities thereof, shall be satisfactory to the Owner
Participant; provided, however1 that in each case such determination shall be
made with a view to providing an optimal debt structure consistent with normal
commercial leasing practice (taking into account the limitations on rent
adjustments in respect of Changes in Tax Law).
SECTION 3. Participation by the Owner Participant; Partial
Refund of the Investment.
(a) Owner Participant's Commitment Subject to satisfaction of
the conditions in Sections 5(a) and 11(a), on the Closing Date the Owner
Participant agrees to (i) make an equity investment with respect to the
Undivided Interest in an amount (the Investment) equal to the Investment
Percentage of the Purchase Price, (ii) make an equity investment with respect to
the Real Property Interest in the amount set forth in Schedule 2 as the "Real
Estate Investment" (the Real Estate Investment), and (iii) provide to the Owner
Trustee an amount equal to the Estimated Transaction Expenses. Proceeds of the
Investment and the Real Estate Investment shall be paid directly to the
Indenture Trustee, in immediately available funds, at the Indenture Trustee's
Office. The Estimated Transaction Expenses shall be paid to the Owner Trustee,
in immediately available funds, at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
00000, Attention: Manager, Corporate Trust Department.
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(b) Partial Refund. In the event that the Indenture Trustee
shall have received the proceeds of a Releveraging Loan or that portion of the
Refunding Loan equal to the Releveraging Amount used in calculating the amount
of the Refunding Loan, the Indenture Trustee shall, as soon as practicable (but
in any event within 2 Business Days or receipt thereof), return the same to the
Owner Participant as a partial refund of the Investment, and for purposes hereof
the "Investment" shall thereupon be, and the Owner Participant agrees that such
"Investment" may be, reduced accordingly. If the Indenture Trustee fails to
return to the Owner Participant such partial refund on the day the Indenture
Trustee receives the same, the Lessee shall pay interest thereon, until the same
is received by the Owner Participant, at a rate per annum equal to the Prime
Rate.
SECTION 4. Purchase, Sale, Financing and Lease of the Undivided
Interest; Purchase, Sale and Lease of the Real Property Interest.
(a) The Undivided Interest. Subject to (w) the satisfaction of
the conditions in Sections 5(a) and 11(a), (x) the satisfaction or waiver of the
conditions in Section 11(b), (y) receipt from the Owner Participant of the
Investment and an amount equal to the Estimated Transaction Expenses and (z)
receipt from the Loan Participant of the proceeds of the Loan, on the closing
Date the Owner Trustee shall (i) cause the Trust to purchase the Undivided
Interest from the Lessee for the amount specified in Schedule 2 as the "Purchase
Price" (the Purchase Price), and (ii) disburse the Estimated Transaction
Expenses as contemplated by Section 14. Subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions in Section 11(b), on the Closing Date the Lessee shall sell the
Undivided Interest to the Trust for the Purchase Price. Concurrently with such
purchase and sale, the Trust shall lease the Undivided Interest to the Lessee,
and the Lessee shall lease the Undivided Interest from the Trust, pursuant to
the Facility Lease.
(b) The Real Property Interest. Subject to (w) the satisfaction
of the conditions in Sections 5(a) and 11(a), (x) the satisfaction or waiver of
the conditions in Section 11(b), (y) receipt from the Owner Participant of the
Real Estate Investment and (z) receipt from the Loan Participant of the proceeds
of the Loan, on the closing Date the Owner Participant shall cause the Trust to
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purchase the Real Property Interest from the Lessee for a purchase price equal
to the amount set forth in Schedule 2 as the "Real Estate Investment". Subject
to the satisfaction of the conditions in Section 11(b), on the Closing Date the
Lessee shall sell the Real Property Interest to the Trust for a purchase price
equal to the Real Estate Investment. Concurrently with such purchase and sale,
the Trust shall lease the Real Property Interest to the Lessee, and the Lessee
shall lease the Real Property Interest from the Trust, pursuant to the Facility
Lease.
SECTION 5. Notice of Closing; Closing.
(a) Notice of Closing. Not later than the Closing Date, the
Lessee shall deliver to the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, the Loan
Participant, the Collateral Trust Trustee and the Indenture Trustee a notice,
substantially in the form of Schedule 1 (the Notice of dosing), which shall (i)
state that the Closing Date shall occur on the date specified therein, (ii) list
the then known Transaction Expenses payable by the Owner Trustee pursuant to
Section 14(a)(the Estimated Transaction Expenses) and (iii) provide payment
instructions in respect of the disposition of the Purchase Price and the amount
of the Real Estate Investment.
(b) Closing. Upon satisfaction of the conditions in Section 5(a)
and Section 11(a) and upon receipt from the Owner Participant of the Investment,
the Real Estate Investment and the amount of the Estimated Transaction Expenses
and from the Loan Participant of the Loan, on the Closing Date the Owner Trustee
shall (i) instruct the Indenture Trustee to pay to the Lessee an amount equal to
the Purchase Price and the amount of the Real Estate Investment and (ii)
disburse the Estimated Transaction Expenses as contemplated by Section 14. Upon
satisfaction of the conditions in Section 11(b), on the Closing Date the Lessee
shall deliver to the Owner Trustee the Xxxx of Sale, the Deed and the Assignment
of Beneficial Interest.
SECTION 6. Representations, Warranties, Agreements and
Directions of the Loan Participant.
(a) Representations and Warranties. The Loan Participant
represents and warrants that:
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(1) Due Organization. The Loan Participant is a corporation duly
organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the
State of Delaware and has the corporate power and authority to carry on
its business as presently conducted, own its properties, and enter into
and perform its obligations under this Participation Agreement and each
other Transaction Document and each Financing Document to which it is,
or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party.
(2) Due Authorization. This Participation Agreement and each
other Transaction Document and each Financing Document to which it is,
or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party, has been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Loan
Participant and does not require the consent or approval of its
stock-holder or any trustee or holder of any of its indebtedness or
other obligations, except such as have been, or on or before the Closing
Date will have been, duly obtained, given or accomplished.
(3) Execution. This Participation Agreement, each other
Transaction Document and each Financing Document to which the Loan
Participant is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party,
have been, or on or before the Closing Date will have been, duly
executed and delivered by the Loan Participant and constitutes, or upon
execution and delivery thereof will constitute, its legal, valid and
binding agreements, enforceable against it in accordance with their
respective terms.
(4) No Violation. Neither the execution, delivery or performance
by the Loan Participant of this Participation Agreement, any other
Transaction Document or any Financing Document to which it is, or is to
become on or before the Closing Date, a party, nor the consummation by
the Loan Participant of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby,
nor compliance by the Loan Participant with the pro-visions hereof or
thereof, conflicts or will conflict with, or results or will result in
the breach of any provision of, or is inconsistent with, the Certificate
of Incorporation or By-Laws of the Loan Participant or contravenes any
Federal, Delaware, New Mexico, Arizona or New York law applicable to it,
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or any indenture, mortgage or agreement to which the Loan Participant is
a party or by which it or its property is bound, or requires any
Governmental Action with respect to the Loan Participant under Federal,
Delaware, New Mexico, Arizona or New York law on or before the Closing
Date, except such as have been, or on or before the Closing Date will
have been, duly obtained, given or accomplished.
(5) No Other Business. Except as contemplated by this
Participation Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and the
Financing Documents and except as otherwise contemplated by the Section
6(c) Application, the Loan Participant has not engaged in any business
or activity of any type or kind whatever.
(6) ERISA The Loan Participant is not acquiring, and will not
acquire, any Note with the "plan assets" of any "employee benefit plan"
within the meaning of section 3(3) of ERISA or any "plan'1 within the
meaning of section 4975(e)(l) of the Code.
(7) Securities Act; Investment Representation. The Loan
Participant understands that (i) none of the Notes to be acquired by it
has been registered under the Securities Act and (ii) each such Note
will bear the legend set forth in the form of such Note. The Loan
Participant will acquire each Note to be acquired by it hereunder and
under the Indenture solely for purposes of pledging such Notes to the
Collateral Trust Trustee to secure Bonds issued from time to time under
the Collateral Trust Indenture.
(b) Agreements. The Loan Participant agrees that:
(1) Transfers of Notes. Any transfer or assignment of any Note
or of all or any part of the Loan Participant's interest hereunder or
under any other Transaction Document or any Financing Document shall be
effected in a transaction constituting an exempted transaction under the
Securities Act and on the express condition that the transferee,
assignee or participant shall agree to be bound by the terms and
provisions hereof and thereof. Neither the Loan Participant nor any
subsequent Holder of a Note may sell, exchange or transfer any Note to
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any other Person (other than the Collateral Trust Trustee) unless such
transferee delivers to the other parties hereto a representation and
warranty (and an opinion of counsel satisfactory to each of the other
parties hereto) to the effect that neither the transfer of such Note to,
nor the ownership of such Note by, such transferee will cause such
transferee, or any other party hereto, to be engaged in a "prohibited
transaction", as defined in section 406 of ERISA or section 4975 of the
Code, which is not at such time subject to an exemption contained in
ERISA or in the rules, regulations, releases or bulletins adopted
thereunder.
(2) Quiet Enjoyment. The Loan Participant acknowledges Section
6(a) of the Facility Lease.
(3) No Other Business. During such time as any Note is
outstanding and held by the Loan Participant or the Collateral Trust
Trustee, the Loan Participant will not (i) engage in any business or
activity other than (1) in connection with the Transaction Documents or
the Financing Documents or as otherwise contemplated by the Section 6(c)
Application or (ii) amend, or engage in any activity or take any action
not permitted by, Article THIRD, FOURTH or SIXTH of its Certificate of
Incorporation, as in effect on the date of execution and delivery
hereof, without, in each case, the consent of the other parties hereto.
(c) Direction to the Indenture Trustee. The Loan Participant, as
purchaser of the Initial Series Note, (i) hereby authorizes and directs the
Indenture Trustee to execute, deliver and perform this Participation Agreement,
(ii) hereby authorizes and directs the Indenture Trustee to register such Note
in the name of the Loan Participant and, upon authentication and delivery
thereof pursuant to this Participation Agreement and the Indenture, to deliver
such Note (upon completion by the Loan Participant of the assignment attached to
the Initial Series Note) to the Collateral Trust Trustee pursuant to the
Collateral Trust Indenture, (iii) acknowledges and agrees that, in connection
with this Participation Agreement, the Indenture Trustee shall have the benefits
and protections of Article VIII of the Indenture and (iv) agrees that, in the
event of a conflict between the provisions of this Participation Agreement and
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the Indenture, the Indenture Trustee shall, as between the Indenture Trustee and
the Loan Participant, be fully protected in relying on the express terms of the
Indenture.
SECTION 7. Representations, Warranties and Agreements of the
Owner Participant.
(a) Representations and Warranties. The Owner Participant
represents and warrants that:
(1) Organization. The Owner Participant is a corporation duly
organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the
state of its incorporation and has the corporate power and authority to
enter into and perform its obligations under this Participation
Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is, or is to
become on or before the Closing Date, a party.
(2) Due Authorization. This Participation Agreement and each
other Transaction Document to which the Owner Participant is, or is to
become on or before the Closing Date, a party have been duly authorized
by all necessary corporate action on the part of the Owner Participant
and do not require the consent or approval of its stockholders or any
trustee or holder of any of its indebtedness or other obligations,
except such as have been, or on or before the Closing Date will have
been, duly obtained, given or accomplished.
(3) Execution and Enforceability. This Participation Agreement
and each other Transaction Document to which the Owner Participant is,
or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party have been, or on
or before the Closing Date will have been, duly executed and delivered
by the Owner Participant and constitute, or upon execution and delivery
thereof will constitute, its legal, valid and binding agreements,
enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms (except
as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws
affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally).
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(4) No Violation. Neither the execution, delivery or performance
by the Owner Participant of this Participation Agreement or any other
Transaction Document to which it is, or is to become on or prior to the
closing Date, a party, nor the consummation by the Owner Participant of
the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, nor compliance by the
Owner Participant with the provisions hereof or thereof, conflicts with,
or results in the breach of any provision of, or is inconsistent with,
its documents of incorporation or By-Laws or contravenes any Applicable
Law applicable to it or any of its Affiliates, or any indenture,
mortgage or agreement for borrowed money to which the Owner Participant
is a party or any other agreement or instrument to which the Owner
Participant is a party or by which it or its property is bound or
requires any Governmental Action with respect to the Owner Participant
under Federal law or the law of the States of New York or Delaware on or
before the Closing Date, except such as are contemplated by the
Transaction Documents or the Financing Documents or such as have been,
or on or before the Closing Date will have been, duly obtained, given or
accomplished; provided, however, that the Owner Participant makes no
representation or warranty as to any Applicable Law or Governmental
Action relating to the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act, the
Trust Indenture Act, the Federal Power Act, the Atomic Energy Act, the
Nuclear Waste Act, the Holding company Act, the New Mexico Public
Utility Act or other New Mexico law, the Arizona Public Utility Act or
other Arizona law, energy or nuclear matters, public utilities, the
environment, health and safety or Unit 2.
(5) No Owner Participant's Liens. Neither the execution and
delivery by the Owner Participant of this Participation Agreement or any
other Transaction Document to which the Owner Participant is, or is to
become on or before the closing Date, a party, nor the performance by
the Owner Participant of its obligations hereunder or thereunder, will
subject the Trust Estate or the Lease Indenture Estate, or any portion
of either thereof, to any Owner Participant's Lien.
(6) Acquisition for Investment. The Owner Participant is
acquiring the beneficial interest in the Trust and the Trust Estate for
its own account, for investment and not with a view to, or for sale in
connection with, any distribution thereof in violation of Section 5 of
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the Securities Act, but subject, nevertheless, to any requirement of law
that the disposition of the Owner Participant's property shall at all
times be within its control.
(7) No Prior Security Interest. There exists no security
interest in or other Lien on the Lease Indenture Estate in the States of
New Mexico, Arizona, New York or Delaware arising as a result of claims
against the Owner Participant unrelated to the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction Documents or the Financing Documents which is prior
to the Indenture Trustee's security interest in the Lease Indenture
Estate.
(8) Securities Act. Neither the Owner Participant nor anyone
authorized to act on its behalf has directly or indirectly offered or
sold any security issued or to be issued to finance Unit 2, or any
security the offering of which for the purposes of the Securities Act
would be deemed to be part of the offerings contemplated by the
Transaction Documents and the Financing Documents, or solicited any
offer to acquire any such security from any Person, in violation of
Section 5 of the Securities Act.
(9) ERISA. The Owner Participant is not acquiring its interest
in the Trust with the "plan assets'9 of any "employee benefit plan"
within the meaning of section 3(3) of ERISA or any "plan" within the
meaning of section 4975(e) (1) of the Code.
(b) Agreements. The Owner Participant agrees that:
(1) No Owner Participant's Liens. The Owner Participant will not
create or permit to exist, and, at its own cost and expense, will
promptly take such action as may be necessary duly to discharge, all
Owner Participant's Liens.
(2) Quiet Enjoyment. The Owner Participant acknowledges the
provisions of Section 6(a) of the Facility Lease and Section 8(c) of
this Participation Agreement.
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(3) No-Petition Agreement. Prior to the 181st day following the
payment in full of the Bonds and the discharge in accordance with its
terms of the Collateral Trust Indenture, the Owner Participant agrees
that it will not file a petition, or join in the filing of a petition,
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of, or in
respect of, the Loan Participant under the Bankruptcy Code, or any other
applicable Federal or state law or the law of the District of Columbia.
(4) Transfer of Interest in the Estate. (a) Unless the Lessee
shall have assumed the Notes as contemplated by Section 3.9(b) of the
Indenture, upon receipt by the Owner Participant under Section 5.2 of
the Indenture of the payments to be made to the Lessor as provided in
Section 9(c), 9(d), 13(c) or 16(e) of the Facility Lease and, if
applicable, compliance in full by the Lessee with Section 9(f) of the
Facility Lease, the Owner Participant shall (so long as no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing), and (b) at any
time following the occurrence of an Event of Loss, Deemed Loss Event,
Special Purchase Event or event giving rise to the Cure Option or a
Default or an Event of Default, the Owner Participant may, assign,
convey and transfer to the Lessee all of the Owner Participant's right,
title and interest in, to and under the Trust Estate (except the right
to receive Excepted Payments), such transfer (~) to be free and clear of
Owner Participant's Liens but otherwise without recourse, representation
or warranty and (ii) if the Owner Participant so elects, to be effected
by the execution and delivery by the Owner Participant to the Lessee of
a Xxxx of Sale and Assignment substantially in the form of Exhibit A
(and such transfer shall be and become effective automatically and
without further action by the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, the
Lessee, the Lessor, the Indenture Trustee or any other Person). The
Lessee hereby agrees to accept the transfer contemplated by this Section
7(b)(4) and the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that at the time of
such transfer the Lessee shall be deemed to be a Transferee that has
satisfied all conditions set forth in Section 15(a) of this
Participation Agreement and Section 11.09 of the Trust Agreement.
If, in accordance with the preceding paragraph, the Owner
Participant shall assign, convey and transfer to the Lessee all of the
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Owner Participant's right, title and interest in, to and under the Trust
Estate (except the right to receive Excepted Payments) following the
occurrence of an Event of Loss, Deemed Loss Event, Special Purchase
Event or event giving rise to the Cure Option or a Default or an Event
of Default in accordance with the preceding paragraph but the
transferring Owner Participant shall not have received under Section 5.2
of the Indenture the payments to be made to the Lessor as provided in
Section 9(c), 9(d), 13(c) or 16 of the Facility Lease, as the case may
be, the obligation of the Lessee to make such payments (together with
interest thereon in accordance with Section 3(b) (iii) of the Facility
Lease) (or to make other payments in a like amount with respect to Basic
Rent or Supplemental Rent paid by application of such payments (and in
which Owner Trustee has thereby acquired an interest) pursuant to
Section 5.1 or 5.3 of the Indenture) shall not be deemed to be cancelled
or discharged but shall continue until all such amounts are so received
by the Lessee, as successor Owner Participant, or by the transferring
Owner Participant pursuant to the following provisions of this Section
7(b)(4). The Lessee as successor Owner Participant hereby agrees to pay
to the transferring Owner Participant on the date of transfer an amount
equal to the amount of the payments to be made to the Lessor as provided
in Section 9(c), 9(d), 13(c) or 16 of the Facility Lease together with
interest thereon at the Penalty Rate (computed in accordance with the
Facility Lease) from the date of transfer, such payments (the Secured
Obligations) to be made only from amounts payable to the Owner
Participant from the Trust Estate and the Lessee shall make such payment
to the Lessor in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents.
The Secured Obligations shall be secured by (and the Lessee hereby
grants to the transferring Owner Participant a security interest in and
general lien upon) all of the right, title and interest of the Lessee as
successor Owner Participant in, to and under the Trust Estate. In
connection therewith, the Lessee as successor Owner Participant hereby
agrees as follows:
1. The transferring Owner Participant shall have all of
the rights and remedies of a secured party under the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York (as such
law may at any time be amended).
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2. Upon the occurrence of such transfer, the Lessee as
successor Owner Participant shall appoint, and hereby does
appoint, the transferring Owner Participant its
attorney-in-fact, irrevocably, with full power of substitution,
to the exclusion of the Lessee, as successor Owner Participant,
to ask for, require, demand, receive and give acquittance for
any and all moneys and claims for moneys due and to become due
to the Lessee as successor Owner Participant under or arising
out of the Trust Estate, to endorse any checks or other
instruments or orders in connection therewith, and to take any
action (including the filing of financing statements or other
documents and the delivery of written instructions to the Owner
Trustee and the Indenture Trustee specifying that all payments
to be made to the Lessee as successor Owner Participant under
the Trust Agreement and the Indenture shall be made directly to
the transferring Owner Participant so long as any portion of the
Secured Obligations remains outstanding) or institute any
proceedings which the transferring Owner Participant may deem
necessary or appropriate to protect and preserve the security
interest of the transferring Owner Participant in the Trust
Estate and the rights of the transferring owner Participant to
receive payments thereunder.
3. Upon the occurrence of such transfer, and until the
Secured Obligations have been paid in full, the Lessee (in its
capacity as such and as successor Owner Participant) shall not;
without the prior written consent of the transferring Owner
Participant (i) take any action or deliver any instruction
under, any Transaction Document the effect of which would be to
(A) relieve or otherwise affect the obligation of the Lessee to
make such payments, (B) terminate the Trust Agreement, (C)
terminate or rescind the Facility Lease, (D) sell, assign,
transfer or deliver the Trust Estate to any Person (except, in
the case of the Trust Estate, as contemplated by Section 9(j) of
the Facility Lease) or (ii) accept, or approve, any amendment to
any Transaction Document.
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4. The Lessee (as such and as successor Owner
Participant) covenants and agrees to do all such acts and
execute all such instruments of further assurance as shall be
reasonably requested from time to time by the transferring Owner
Participant for the purpose of fully carrying out and
effectuating the provisions of this Section 7(b)(4) and the
intent thereof.
Upon the payment in full of the Secured Obligations, the security interest
hereinabove provided shall terminate and the transferring Owner Participant, at
the request of the Lessee as successor Owner Participant, shall execute and
deliver to the Lessee as successor Owner Participant such termination
statements, releases or other instruments presented to the transferring Owner
Participant as shall be reasonably required to effect such termination.
SECTION 8. Representations Warranties and Agreements of the
Owner Trustee and FNB.
(a) Representations and Warranties; FNB as Owner Trustee and
(except as otherwise provided in the last sentence of this Section 8(a)) in its
individual capacity, represents and warrants that:
(1) Due Organization. FNB is a national banking association
duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of
the United States of America and has all requisite corporate power and
authority to enter into and perform its obligations under (x) the Trust
Agreement and, to the extent it is a party hereto in its individual
capacity, this Participation Agreement and (y) acting as Owner Trustee,
this Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document to
which FNB is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party as
Owner Trustee.
(2) Due Authorization; Enforceability; etc. This Participation
Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which FNB is, or is to
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become on or before the Closing Date, a party have been duly authorized
by all necessary corporate action of FNB (in its individual capacity or
as Owner Trustee, as the case may be) and, upon execution and delivery
hereof and thereof, this Participation Agreement and each such other
Transaction Document will have been duly executed and delivered and will
be legal, valid and binding agreements of FNB (in its respective
capacities), enforceable against it (in its respective capacities) in
accordance with their respective terms (except as may be limited by
bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar laws affecting the enforcement
of creditors' rights generally); it being understood that FNB making any
representation or warranty as to the priorities of the Liens created or
to be created under any Transaction Document, title to the Trust Estate
or recordings or filings necessary in connection therewith.
(3) Notes. Upon execution of each Note to be issued by the Owner
Trustee hereunder and under the Indenture, authentication thereof by the
Indenture Trustee pursuant to the Indenture and delivery thereof against
payment therefor in accordance with this Participation Agreement, such
Note will be a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Owner Trustee,
enforceable against the Owner Trustee in accordance with its terms
(except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar
laws affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights generally).
(4) No Violation. Neither the execution and delivery by (x) FNB
of the Trust Agreement and, to the extent FNB is a party hereto in its
individual capacity, this Participation Agreement and (y) the Owner
Trustee of this Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document (other than the Trust Agreement) to which the Owner Trustee is,
or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party, nor the
performance by FNB, in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as
the case may be, of its obligations under each, conflicts with, or
results in the breach of any provision of, its Articles of Association
or By-Laws and does not contravene any Applicable Law of the United
States of America or The Commonwealth of Massachusetts governing the
banking or trust powers of FNB, and does not contravene any provision
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of, or constitute a default under, any indenture, mortgage, contract or
other instrument to which FNB is a party or by which it is bound or
require any Governmental Action with respect to the Owner Trustee under
any Federal or Massachusetts law, except such as are contemplated by the
Transaction Documents or the Financing Documents or such as have been,
or on or before the Closing Date will have been, duly obtained, given or
accomplished; provided1 however, that no representation or warranty is
made with respect to the right, power or authority of FNB or the Owner
Trustee to act under the ANPP Participation Agreement or the License in
respect of the Undivided Interest or Xxxx 0, and the Owner Trustee makes
no representation or warranty as to any Applicable Law or Governmental
Action relating to the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act, the
Trust Indenture Act, the Nuclear Waste Act, the Federal Power Act, the
Atomic Energy Act, the Holding Company Act, the New Mexico Public
Utility Act, the Arizona Public Utility Act, energy or nuclear matters,
public utilities, the environment, health and safety or Unit 2.
(5) Defaults. To the best knowledge of the Owner Trustee, no
Indenture Default or Indenture Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Owner Trustee is not in Violation of any of the terms of
this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which
it is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party.
(6) Litigation. There is no action, suit, investigation or
proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of FNB, threatened against FNB
(in any capacity) before any court, arbitrator or administrative or
governmental body and which relates to its banking or trust powers
which, individually or in the aggregate, if decided adversely to the
interests of FNB in such capacity, would have a material adverse effect
upon the ability of FNB (in any capacity) to perform its obligations
under this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to
which it is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party.
(7) Location of the Chief Place of Business and Chief Executive
Office, etc. The chief place of business and chief executive office of
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the Owner Trustee and the office where its records concerning the
accounts or contract rights relating to the transactions contemplated
hereby are kept are located in Boston, Massachusetts.
(8) No Prior Security Interest. There exists no security
interest in the Lease Indenture Estate in the States of New Mexico, New
York or Arizona or in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts arising as a
result of any claim against FNB unrelated to the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the Financing Documents
which is prior to the Indenture Trustee 'S security interest in the
Lease Indenture Estate.
(9) No Owner Trustee's Liens. Neither the execution by FNB (in
any capacity) of this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction
Document to which it (in any capacity) is, or is to become on or before
the Closing Date, a party, nor the performance in such capacity by it of
its obligations hereunder or thereunder, will subject the Trust Estate
or the Lease Indenture Estate, or any portion thereof, to any Owner
Trustee's Lien.
The representations and warranties in Section 8(a) (2) and Section 8(a)(3), as
to Transaction Documents and the Initial Series Note being legal, valid and
binding obligations enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, are
given only by FNB in its capacity as Owner Trustee and not in its individual
capacity, except that FNB does represent in its individual capacity that it is
authorized under the laws of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts to execute and
deliver the Transaction Documents to which it is a party.
(b) Agreements. FNB agrees, in its individual capacity, that:
(1) Discharge of Liens. FNB will not create or permit to exist,
and will, at its own cost and expense, promptly take such action as may
be necessary duly to discharge, all Owner Trustee's Liens.
(2) Certain Amendments. FNB agrees that, unless a Default or an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or an Event of Loss or
Deemed Loss Event has occurred, FNB will not amend any of the payment
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terms of any Note, or take any action to refund any Note after the date
of issue thereof pursuant to the terms of this Participation Agreement
and the Indenture without the prior written consent of the Lessee. FNB
agrees that, except for amendments or supplements, if any, made pursuant
to Article X of the Trust Agreement or contemplated by Section 7(b)(4),
FNB will not amend or supplement, or consent to any amendment of or
supplement to, the Trust Agreement without the prior written consent of
the Lessee unless a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing or the Lease Termination Date has occurred, if such amendment
would materially and adversely affect the rights of the Lessee under the
Facility Lease or this Participation Agreement.
(3) Change in Location of Chief Place of Business and Chief
Executive Office, etc. PNM shall notify the Lessee, the Loan Participant
and the Indenture Trustee promptly after any change in its chief
executive office, principal and chief place of business or place where
its records concerning the accounts or contract rights relating to the
transactions contemplated hereby are kept.
(4) No Petition Agreement. Prior to the 181st day following the
payment in full of the Bonds and the discharge in accordance with its
terms of the Collateral Trust Indenture, FNB (in all capacities) agrees
that it will not file a petition, or join in the filing of a petition,
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in
respect of the Loan Participant under the Bankruptcy Code or any other
applicable Federal or state law or the law of the District of Columbia.
(5) Quiet Enjoyment. F.NB acknowledges Section 6(a) of the
Facility Lease.
(C) Agreements. The Owner Trustee agrees that:
(1) Rights in Relation to ANPP Participants. The rights and
remedies of the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant in the Undivided
Interest and the related Generation Entitlement Share and in the Real
Property Interest are subject and subordinate to the rights and remedies
of the ANPP Participants (other than (i) the Lessee or (ii) any Person
who shall become an ANPP Participant in respect of the Lessor's
Interest) under the ANPP Project Agreements
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(2) Lessee to be an ANPP Participant. Except as provided in
Sections 15.2.2, 15.6.4 and 15.10 (or any comparable successor
provisions) of the ANPP Participation Agreement, the Lessee shall be and
remain the sole "Participant" for all purposes of the ANPP Participation
Agreement and the sole representative (with power to bind the Lessor and
the Indenture Trustee) in all dealings with the other ANPP Participants
in relation to the property, rights, titles and interests of the Lessee
transferred to the Lessor pursuant to the Transaction Documents;
provided, however, that the foregoing shall not limit in any way any
liability or obligation that the Lessee may incur to the Owner Trustee
or the Owner Participant under any Transaction Document as a result
thereof.
(3) Cash Bids. On the Lease Termination Date and upon the
Lessee failing to purchase or otherwise reacquire all the right, title
and interest in PVNGS and contractual rights related thereto necessary
for the operation of the interest (the Lessor's Interest) acquired by
the Lessor pursuant to the Transaction Documents, the Lessor shall
entertain cash bids from each ANPP Participant for the Lessor's
Interest.
(4) Survival. The provisions of Sections 8(c)(l), (2) and (3)
and this paragraph (4) shall remain in full force and effect until such
time as the ANPP Administrative Committee or the ANPP Participants shall
otherwise consent.
(5) License Matters. The Owner Trustee acknowledges that before
taking possession of the Undivided Interest or any part thereof or of
any other interest in PVNGS, either of the following may be required:
(i) the issuance of an appropriate license from the NRC, whether by
amendment to the License or otherwise, or (ii) a partial transfer of the
License authorizing the Lessor to possess its interest in PVNGS, to the
extent 6f the Undivided Interest, upon application for partial transfer
of such License to such extent filed pursuant to Applicable Law. Neither
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the Owner Trustee nor the Owner Participant shall have any
responsibility whatsoever to take, or initiate the taking of, any action
with respect to NRC licensing matters or any other matters relating to
the nuclear nature of Unit 2. Any failure by the Lessee, the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant to secure any Governmental Action by
the NRC or otherwise relating to the nuclear nature of Unit 2 shall not
reduce or limit any obligation of the Lessee under Section 5 of the
Facility Lease or any right or remedy of the Lessor under Section 16 of
the Facility Lease.
(6) Acknowledgment and Agreement. The Owner Trustee hereby
acknowledges and agrees to the provisions of Section 7(b)(4) of this
Participation Agreement. The Owner Trustee hereby agrees, upon the
request of the Owner Participant, to execute and cause to be filed with
the County Recorder, Maricopa County, Arizona, a duly completed
affidavit in substantially the form of Exhibit B.
(7) Reoptimization of the Fixed Rate Notes. After the Refunding
Note, the Owner Participant may in its sole discretion increase or
decrease the average life of each tranche of the Fixed Rate Notes by six
months with a view to providing an optimal debt structure consistent
with normal commercial leasing practice. If the Owner Participant, in a
timely manner, provides the Owner Trustee with information sufficient
for the Owner Trustee to direct the adjustments described in Section
3.12 of the Indenture, together with a certificate (in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Lessee) to the effect that such adjustments minimize
the aggregate increase in Basic Rent occurring as a result of the
operation of Section 3(d) of the Facility Lease, the Owner Trustee shall
deliver to the Indenture Trustee a certificate pursuant to such Section
3.12. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Indenture Trustee and the Owner
Trustee may rely on such certificate and shall have no obligation to
verify the same.
SECTION 9. Representations, Warranties and Agreements of
Chemical.
(a) Representations and Warranties. Chemical represents and
warrants that:
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(I) Due Organization. Chemical is a banking corporation duly
organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws of the
State of New York and has the corporate power and authority and legal
right to enter into and perform its obligations under the Indenture,
this Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document to
which it is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party.
(2) Due Authorization; Enforceability, etc. This Participation
Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which Chemical is, or
is to become on or before the closing Date, a party has been or will be
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of Chemical (in its
respective capacities)
(3) Authentication of the Initial Series Note. The officer of
Chemical who shall authenticate the Initial Series Note to be issued
pursuant to the Indenture shall be, at the time of such authentication,
an Authorized Officer.
(4) No Violation. Neither the execution and delivery by Chemical
of this Participation Agreement or the Indenture, nor the authentication
by it of the Initial Series Note, nor the consummation by it of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, nor the compliance by it
with the provisions hereof or thereof will contravene any Applicable Law
governing its banking or trust powers, or contravene or result in a
breach of, or c6nstitute a default under, its Articles of Incorporation
or By-laws, or require any Governmental Action under any Federal or New
York law, except such as have been, or on or before the Closing Date
will have peen, duly obtained, given or accomplished,' provided,
however, that no representation or warranty is made as to (i) any
Applicable Law or Governmental Action relating to the Securities Act,
the Securities Exchange Act, the Trust Indenture Act, the Nuclear Waste
Act, the Federal Power Act, the Atomic Energy Act, the Holding Company
Act, the New Mexico Public Utility Act, the Arizona Public Utility Act,
energy or nuclear matters, public utilities, the environment, health and
safety or Unit 2 or (ii) the Lease Indenture Estate to the extent it may
constitute real property under Applicable Law.
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(b) Agreements. The Indenture Trustee agrees that:
(1) Agreement to Discharge Liens. The Indenture Trustee will not
create or permit to exist, and will promptly take such action as may be
necessary duly to discharge, all Indenture Trustee's Liens.
(2) No petition Agreement. Prior to the 181st day following the
payment in full of the Bonds and the discharge in accordance with its
terms of the Collateral Trust Indenture, the Indenture Trustee agrees
that it will not file a petition, or join in the filing of a petition,
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in
respect of the Loan Participant under the Bankruptcy Code or any other
applicable Federal or state law or the law of the District of Columbia.
(3) Quiet Enjoyment. The Indenture Trustee agrees to be bound by
Section 6(a) of the Facility Lease.
(4) Acknowledgment. The Indenture Trustee hereby acknowledges
the provisions of Section 7(b)(4) of this Participation Agreement.
SECTION 10. Representations, Warranties and Agreements of the
Lessee.
(a) Representations and Warranties. The Lessee represents and
warrants that:
(1) Due Organization. PNM is a corporation duly organized and
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the State of New
Mexico and has the corporate power and authority to carry on its
business as presently conducted, to own or hold under lease its
properties and to enter into and perform its obligations under this
Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it
is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party. PNM is duly
qualified and in good standing to do business as a foreign corporation
in the State of Arizona and has not failed to qualify to do business or
to be in good standing in any other jurisdiction where failure so to
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qualify or be in good standing would materially and adversely affect the
financial condition of PNM or its ability to perform any obligations
under this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to
which it is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date, a party.
(2) Due Authorization. The execution, delivery and performance
by PNM of this Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document to which it is, or is to become on or before the Closing Date,
a party, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on
the part of PNM and do not, and will not, require the consent or
approval of the stockholders of PNM or any trustee or holder of any
indebtedness or other obligation of PNM, other than (i) the Mortgage
Release, (ii) the finding of the ANPP Administrative Committee described
in Section 15.6.2 of the ANPP Participation Agreement and (iii) such
other consents and approvals as have been, or on or before the Closing
Date will have been, duly obtained, given or accomplished, with true
copies thereof delivered to the Owner Participant.
(3) Execution. This Participation Agreement and each other
Transaction Document to which the Lessee is, or is to become a party,
have been or on or before the Closing Date will have been duly executed
and delivered by PNM, and this Participation Agreement constitutes, and
upon execution and delivery thereof, each such Transaction Document and
each such Financing Document will constitute, the legal, valid and
binding agreement of PNM, enforceable against it in accordance with
their respective terms.
(4) No Violation, etc. Neither the execution, delivery or
performance by the Lessee of this Participation Agreement or any other
Transaction Document to which it is, or is to become, a party, nor the
consummation by the Lessee of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby, nor compliance by the Lessee with the provisions hereof or
thereof, conflicts or will conflict with, or results or. will result in
a breach or contravention of any of the -.provisions of, the Restated
Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of PNM, or any Applicable Law, or
any indenture, mortgage, lease or any other agreement or instrument to
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which PNM or any Affiliate of PNM is a party or by which the property of
PNM or any Affiliate of PNM is bound, or results or will result in the
creation or imposition of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any
property of PNM or any Affiliate of PNM. There is no provision of the
Restated Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of PNM, or any Applicable
Law, or any such indenture, mortgage lease or other agreement (other
than the ANPP Participation Agreement) or instrument which materially
adversely affects, or in the future is likely (so far as the Lessee can
now foresee) to materially adversely affect, the business, operations,
affairs, condition, properties or assets of the Lessee, or its ability
to perform its obligations under this Participation Agreement or any
other Transaction Document to which it is, or is to become, a party. The
Lessee represents and warrants that the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents meet the conditions set forth in Section 15.6 of
the ANPP Participation Agreement.
(5) Governmental Actions. No Governmental Action is or will be
required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by
the Lessee of, or the consummation by the Lessee of the transactions
contemplated by, this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction
Document or Financing. Document to which it is, or is to become on or
before the closing date, a party, except such Governmental Actions (i)
as have been, or on or before the closing Date will have been, duly
obtained, given or accomplished, with true copies thereof delivered to
the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee and the Loan Participant (ii)
as may be required under existing Applicable Law to be obtained, given
or accomplished from time to time after the closing Date in connection
with the maintenance, use, possession or operation of Unit 2 or
otherwise with respect to Unit 2 and the Lessee's or the operating
Agent's involvement therewith and which are, for PVNGS; routine in
nature and which the Lessee has no reason to believe will not be timely
obtained and (iii) as may be required under Applicable Law not now in
effect. No Governmental Action (except Governmental Action as may be
required by any Governmental Authority of or in the states of the
principal place of business or of incorporation of the Owner
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Participant) is or will I be required (a) in connection with the
participation by the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner
Participant or the Loan Participant in the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement, any other
Transaction Document or any Financing Document or (b) to be obtained by
any of such Persons during the Lease Term, except such Governmental
Actions (i) as have been, or on or before the Closing Date will have
been, duly obtained, given or accomplished, with true copies thereof
delivered to the Owner Participant and the Loan Participant, (ii) as may
be required by Applicable Law not now in effect, (iii) as may be
required of the Holder thereof in consequence of any transfer of
ownership of any Note or Bond, or any transfer (other than to the
Lessee) of the beneficial interest in the Trust by the Owner
Participant, or the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest by
the Owner Trustee under Applicable Law other than the law of the State
of Arizona, (iv) as may be required of the Holder thereof in consequence
of the issuance, sale or exchange and delivery of any Note (other than
the Initial Series Note) or any obligations issued under and pursuant to
the Collateral Trust Indenture (other than the Initial Series Bonds),
(V) as would be required by existing Applicable Law on the Lease
Termination Date in connection with taking possession of an interest in
Unit 2, (vi) as may be required by existing Applicable Law if, after the
Lease Termination Date, the Lessee should provide transmission services
for the Owner Trustee or cease to be agent for the Owner Trustee as
provided under the Assignment and Assumption, or (vii) as may be
required in consequence of any exercise of remedies or other rights by
any such Person in connection with taking possession of an interest in
Unit 2.
(6) Securities Act. Neither PNM nor anyone acting on its behalf
has directly or indirectly offered or sold any Bond, any interest in any
Note, any note issued with respect to any other undivided interest in
Unit 2, the Undivided Interest or any other undivided interest in Unit
2, the Facility Lease or any other lease of an undivided interest in
Unit 2, or any similar security or lease, or any interest in any
security or lease the offering of which, for purposes of the Securities
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Act, would be deemed to be part of the same offering as the offering of
the aforementioned securities or leases, or solicited any offer to
acquire any of the aforementioned securities or leases in violation of
Section 5 of the Securities Act, and except as contemplated by this
Participation Agreement, neither the Lessee nor any one authorized to
act on its behalf will take any action which would subject the issuance
or sale of any Note or any interest in the Facility Lease or any other
debt instrument (other than the Refunding Bonds) issued or to be issued
to finance the Undivided Interest to the registration requirements of
such Section 5.
(7) Title to the Undivided Interest and Real Property Interest;
Security Interest. On the Closing Date, (i) good and marketable title to
the Undivided Interest and the related Generation Entitlement Share will
be duly, validly and effectively conveyed and transferred to the Owner
Trustee, free and clear of all Liens, except Permitted Liens (other than
those described in clause (ii) of the definition of such term and that
portion of clause (iv) of such definition relating to Liens for Taxes
being contested), (ii) good and marketable title to the Real Property
Interest will be duly, validly and effectively conveyed and transferred
to the Owner Trustee, as provided in the Deed and the Assignment of
Beneficial Interest, (iii) PNM will have good and marketable title to
its ownership interest in the Retained Assets, free and clear of all
Liens except Permitted Liens, the Lien of the Existing Mortgage and
matters disclosed in the title report referred to in Section 11 (a)
(34), (iv) the Lessee will have good and valid title to its ownership
interest in the PVNGS Site, (v) Unit 2 will be wholly located on the
PVNGS Site without any material encroachments by any portion thereof on
any other property, (vi) all filings and recordings necessary or
advisable to perfect the Owner Trustee's right, title and interest in
and to the Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement Share
and the Real Property Interest, and to perfect for the benefit of the
Indenture Trustee and the holders of the Notes the first priority
security interest, mortgage and assignment of rents provided for in the
Indenture, will have been duly made and (vii) no other action, including
any action under any fraudulent conveyance statute, will be required to
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protect the title and interests of the Owner Trustee in and to the
Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement Share and the
Real Property Interest against the claims of all Persons other than the
ANPP Participants in accordance with the terms of the ANPP Project
Agreements, or to perfect such first priority security interest,
mortgage and assignment of rents in favor of the Indenture Trustee.
(8) Non-Interference. None of the Permitted Liens described in
clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vii), (viii) and (xii) of the
definition of such Term will, on and after the Closing Date, materially
interfere with the use or possession of the Undivided Interest, the
related Generation Entitlement Share or the Real Property Interest or
the use of or the exercise by the Owner Trustee of its rights under the
Xxxx of Sale, the Deed, the Assignment of Beneficial Interest and the
Assignment and Assumption with respect to, the interests in PVNGS
granted or to be granted under the Xxxx of Sale, the Deed, the
Assignment of Beneficial Interest and the Assignment and Assumption.
(9) Personal Property. Unit 2, based on the agreements of PNM
and the other ANPP Participants in the ANPP Participation Agreement and
of the Lessee and the Owner Trustee herein and in the other Transaction
Documents, is personal property under the laws of the State of Arizona.
(10) Location of Chief Executive Office. The chief executive
office and place of business of the Lessee and the office where it keeps
its records concerning its accounts or contract rights is located at
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000.
(11) Financial Statements. The consolidated balance sheets of
the Lessee and subsidiaries (A) as of December 31, 1985 and 1984,
respectively, and the related consolidated statements of earnings,
retained earnings and changes in financial position for each of the
years in the three-year period ended December 31, 1985, together with
the notes accompanying such financial statements, all certified by Peat,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Co., and (B) as of June 30, 1986 and 1985,
respectively, and the related consolidated statements of earnings,
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retained earnings and changes in financial position for the six-month
period ended June 30, 1986 and June 30, 1985, respectively, all certified
by the Controller or an Assistant Controller of the Lessee, as furnished
to the Owner Participant, fairly present the financial position of the
Lessee and its subsidiaries taken as a whole at each such date and the
results of their operations for each of the periods then ended, in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a
consistent basis, subject in the case of the consolidated balance sheets
and the related consolidated statements described in clause (B) above to
the condensation of certain financial information and the omission of
certain footnote disclosures as permitted by the rules and regulations of
the SEC and to year-end audit adjustments. The Lessee knows of no such
adjustments which would, if made on the date hereof, be material.
(12) Disclosure None of the financial statements to which
reference is made in paragraph 11 above, nor the reports to which
reference is made in this paragraph 12, nor any certificate, written
statement or other document (other than any document published by any
Governmental Authority other than with respect to PVNGS or Unit 2, any
press report, any insurance report (furnished pursuant to Section 11
hereof) or any appraisal) and furnished to the Owner Participant by the
Lessee in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby (under
the circumstances at the time and for the purposes for which any
statement made therein was made) contains any untrue statement of a
material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements therein not misleading. There is no fact known to the Lessee
that materially and adversely affects or, so far as the Lessee can now
reasonably foresee, is likely to materially and adversely affect, the
business or financial condition of PNM or any material portion of its
properties or the ability of the Lessee to perform its obligations under
this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document or
Financing Document to which the Lessee is, or is to become on or before
the Closing Date, a party. PNM has heretofore delivered to the Owner
Participant PNM' 5 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 1985, PNM's Quarterly Reports on Form l0-Q for the quarters
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ended March 31 and June 30, 1986 and the Current Reports on Form 8-K
filed on January 14, March 3, June 30, July 16 and July 31, 1986.
(13) Litigation. There is no action, suit, investigation or
proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Lessee, threatened
against PNM before any court, arbitrator or administrative or
governmental body which questions the validity or enforceability of this
Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the
Lessee is, or is to become, a party, or (except as described in the
reports to which reference is made in the last sentence of paragraph
(12) above) which, individually or in the aggregate, if decided
adversely to the interests of the Lessee, would have a material adverse
effect on the business or financial condition of PNM or materially and
adversely affect the ability of the Lessee to perform its obligations
under this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to
which it is, or is to become, a party.
(14) Tax Returns. The Lessee has filed all Federal, state, local
and foreign, if any, tax returns which were required to be filed, and
has paid all Taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns and has
paid all other Taxes in respect of the Lessee's interest in Unit 2 and
in the PVNGS Site which are payable by PNM to the extent the same have
become due and payable and before they have become delinquent, except
for (i) any Taxes the amount, applicability or validity of which may be
in dispute and which are currently being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and with respect to which PNM has set aside on
its books reserves (segregated to the extent required by generally
accepted accounting principles) deemed by it to be adequate and (ii) any
Taxes relating to PVNGS in respect of which the Operating Agent has not
given notice to PNM that the same are due and payable. The Federal
income tax returns of PNM have been audited by the IRS for taxable years
through 1980.
(15) ERISA. In reliance upon, and subject to the accuracy of the
representations made by the Loan Participant in Section 6(a)(6) and the
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Owner Participant in Section 7(a)(9), the execution and delivery by the
Lessee of this Participation Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents and Financing Documents to which the Lessee is, or is to
become on or before the Closing Date, a party will not involve any
prohibited transaction within the meaning of ERISA or Section 4975 of
the Code.
(16) Regulation. So long as the Facility Lease is in effect,
assuming the proper filing of Form U-7D with the SEC on or within 30
days after the Closing Date, under Applicable Law now in effect, neither
the Loan Participant, the Owner Participant, FNB nor the Owner Trustee
will be or become, solely by reason of either its entering into this
Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which any
of them is, or is to become, a party, or the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby, subject to regulation (i) as an "electric utility",
an "electric utility company", a "public utility", a "public utility
company", a "holding company", or a "public utility holding company" by
any Federal, state (other than, as to the Owner Participant, the laws of
the states of its principal place of business and of its incorporation,
as to which no representation or warranty is given) or local public
utility commission or other regulatory body, authority or group
(including, without limitation, the SEC, the FERC, the NMPSC or the
Arizona Corporation Commission) or (ii) in any manner by the NRC. The
Lessee is not, and covenants that (except in connection with a
transaction permitted by Section 10(b) (3) (ii) hereof) it will not
become, a "holding company" or a "subsidiary company" of a "holding
company" or an "affiliate" of a "holding company" within the meaning of
the Holding Company Act. The Lessee is not subject to regulation by the
Arizona Corporation Commission as a public utility or a public service
corporation.
(17) Authorizations, etc. PNM has not failed to obtain any
Governmental Action or other authorization, license, approval, permit,
consent, right or interest, where a failure to obtain such would
materially and adversely affect the ability of PNM to carry on its
business as presently conducted.
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(18) No Default, etc. PNM is not in default, and no condition
exists that, with the giving of notice or lapse of time or both, would
constitute a default by PNM, under the Existing Mortgage or any other
material mortgage, deed of trust, indenture, lease, contract or other
instrument or agreement to which PNM is a party or by which it or any of
its properties or assets may be bound.
(19) Certain Documents. True and correct copies of the ANPP
Participation Agreement, the Material Project Agreements (other than
those referred to in clauses (x) through (xiv) of the definition of such
term, true and correct copies of which will be delivered promptly
following the closing Date) and the Existing Mortgage have been
delivered to Milbank, Tweed, Xxxxxx & XxXxxx. No ANPP Project Agreement
will, on and after the Closing Date, materially and adversely interfere
with (i) (except for the ANPP Participation Agreement, in the case of
the Generation Entitlement Share only) the title of the Owner Trustee to
the Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement Share or the
Real. Property Interest or (ii) except for the ANPP Participation
Agreement, the use of, or the exercise by the Owner Trustee of its
rights under the Facility Lease, the Deed, the Assignment of Beneficial
Interest and the Assignment and Assumption with respect to, the
Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement Share, and the
interests in the PVNGS Site (including the Real Property Interest)
granted or to be granted under the Deed, the Assignment of Beneficial
Interest and the Assignment and Assumption.. No payment default or other
default of a material nature by the Lessee has occurred and is
continuing under the Existing Mortgage or any ANPP Project Agreement.
The ANPP Participation Agreement and each other ANPP Project Agreement
is in full force and effect and no breach of any thereof, to the
Lessee's knowledge, by any other party thereto has occurred and is
continuing, except where the failure to be in force and effect or such
breach would not have a material and adverse effect on the Undivided
Interest, the related Generation Entitlement Share, the Real Property
interest, Unit 2 or the rights, interests and benefits of the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant under any Transaction Document. Upon
execution and delivery of the Mortgage Release and the recordation
thereof or of UCC releases in respect thereof, (i) the mortgagee and
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secured party thereunder will have released the lien of the Existing
Mortgage on the Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement
Share and the Real Property Interest and (ii) the rights of the Owner
Trustee in the Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest and the
related Generation Entitlement Share will not be, and will not become,
subject or subordinate to the rights of any Person, except the Indenture
Trustee under the Indenture and the ANPP Participants under, and to the
extent expressly set forth in, the ANPP Participation Agreement (as in
effect on the closing Date) and except as may otherwise expressly be
permitted by the Facility Lease. The lien of the Existing Mortgage does
not extend to rights of PNM under the Transaction Documents (other than
the Lessee's leasehold interest under the Facility Lease), or to the
Generation Entitlement Share related to the Undivided Interest. Neither
the Owner Trustee nor the Owner Participant shall, by virtue of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, be a
"Transferee" under Section 15.10 of the ANPP Participation Agreement.
(20) Unit 2. The description of Unit 2 set forth in Exhibit B to
the Xxxx of Sale, as delivered on the closing Date, will be correct and
sufficiently complete to identify such property.
(21) Investment Company Act. PNM is not an "investment company",
or a company "controlled" by an "investment company", within the meaning
of the Investment company Act.
(b) Agreements.
(1) Delivery of Documents. The Lessee agrees that it will
deliver to the Owner Participant and the Loan Participant (and, in the
case of Sections 10(b) (1) (iii) and (v), the Owner Trustee):
(i) Financial Statements: (A) as soon as practicable, and
in any event within 120 days, after the end of each fiscal year
of PNM, a consolidated balance sheet of PNM and subsidiaries as
of the end of such fiscal year and related consolidated
statements of earnings, retained earnings and changes in
financial position for such year, all in reasonable detail and
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certified in an opinion I by a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants, and the annual and interim
reports of PNM to its stockholders as soon as the same have been
mailed to such stockholders, (3) as soon as practicable, and in
any event within 60 days, after the end of each fiscal quarter
(other than the last fiscal quarter) of each fiscal year of PNM,
a consolidated balance sheet of PNM and subsidiaries as of the
end of said period and a related consolidated statement of
earnings, retained earnings and changes in financial position
for said period, all in reasonable detail, and certified by the
Chief Financial Officer, the Controller or an Assistant
Controller of PNM and (C) as soon as practicable after the same
have been filed, a copy of all documents filed by PNM with the
SEC pursuant to the reporting requirements of the Securities
Exchange Act;
(ii) Other Reports: promptly upon their becoming available,
any registration statement, offering statement, investment
memorandum or prospectus prepared by PNM in connection with the
public offering of securities (other than public offerings of
securities under employee stock option, consumer stock or
dividend reinvestment plans);
(iii) Notice of Default: promptly upon the Lessee becoming
aware of the existence there-of, written notice specifying any
condition which constitutes a Default or an Event of Default or
a default by any ANPP Participant under the ANPP Participation
Agreement and, in each case, the nature and status thereof;
(iv) Annual Certificate: within 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year of PNM, a certificate of the Lessee, signed by
the Chief Financial Officer, the Controller or an Assistant
Controller of PNM, to the effect that such officer has reviewed,
or caused to be reviewed by individuals under his supervision,
this Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document
and each Financing Document to which the Lessee is a party and
has made, or caused to be made under his supervision, a review
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of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and the
condition of PNM during such preceding fiscal year, and such
review has not disclosed the existence during such fiscal
period, nor does such officer have knowledge of the existence as
at the date of such certificate, of any condition or event that
constitutes a Default or Event of Default or, if any such
condition or event exists, specifying the nature and period of
existence thereof and any action the Lessee has taken, is
taking, or proposes to take with respect thereto;
(v) Opinion of Counsel: within 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year of the Lessee, an opinion or opinions,
satisfactory to the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee, the
Collateral Trust Trustee and the Indenture Trustee, of Xxxxxxx &
XxXxxx, P.A., as general counsel for PNM, Xxxxx & Xxxxxx, as
special Arizona counsel for the Lessee, and/or other counsel
acceptable to the Owner Participant (A) either to the effect
that (1) all filings and recordations (or refilings and
rerecordations) required to (i) convey to the Owner Trustee, and
establish, preserve, protect and perfect the title of the Owner
Trustee to, the Undivided Interest, the related Generation
Entitlement Share and the Real Property Interest and establish,
preserve and protect the Owner Trustee's rights under this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, and, (ii) so long
as any Note is Outstanding grant, perfect, and preserve the
security interest of the Indenture Trustee in the Lease
Indenture Estate, have been duly made, or (2) no such additional
filings, recordations, refilings or rerecordations are
necessary, to (i) convey to the Owner Trustee, and establish,
preserve, protect and perfect the title of the Owner Trustee to,
the Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement Share
and the Real Property Interest and establish, preserve and
protect the Owner Trustee's rights under this Agreement and the
other Transaction Documents, and (ii) so long as any Note is
Outstanding, grant, perfect and preserve the security interest
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of the Indenture Trustee in the Lease Indenture Estate and (B)
specifying the particulars of all action required during the
period from the date of such opinion through the last day of the
next succeeding calendar year, including, in the case of each
UCC continuation statement required to be filed during such
period, the office in which each such continuation statement is
to be filed and the filing date and filing number of the
original financing statement or fixture filing to be continued,
and the dates within which such continuation statement may be
filed under Applicable Law;
(vi) ANPP Information: upon receipt by the Lessee, copies
of all material notices, data, information and other written
communications received by the Lessee under or pursuant to any
ANPP Project Agreement or otherwise with respect to Unit 2,
PVNGS or the PVNGS Site, subject in each case to applicable
confidentiality undertakings with respect there-to, unless
prohibited by Applicable Law;
(vii) Other PVGS Information: the Lessee having by letter dated
on or prior to the Closing Date described its internal
procedures for monitoring PVNGS and reporting to the Owner
Participant with respect thereto, prior written notice of any
material change in such procedures; and copies of all notices of
violation or other material communications from the NRC and all
notices of Nuclear Incidents or other material occurrence given
to the NRC (including, without limitation, all "Licensee Event
Reports", Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance (SALP)
reports and all other NRC audit reports) in each case with
respect to PVNGS or Unit 2;
(viii) Annual PVNGS Report: within 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year of the Lessee, a certificate of the Lessee
with respect to the status and operations of Unit 2 for such
fiscal year and current information respecting the status of
decommissioning funding arrangements for Xxxx 0,
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(ix) Information Relating to Weighted Factor through the
Refunding Date, promptly after any change (other than a change
resulting from changes in the interest rate borne from time to
time by the Initial Series Note and the initial series notes
issued in connection with other sale and leaseback transactions
with respect to undivided interests in Unit 2 entered into by
PNM on the Closing Date) in the Weighted Factor, a notice
specifying the amount of such change, the amount of the Weighted
Factor after giving effect to such change and the event or
events which resulted in such change and, promptly following the
Owner Participant's request therefor, from time to time, such
other information regarding such factor and any events which
have resulted or may result in a change there-in; and
(x) Requested Information: with reasonable promptness,
unless prohibited by Applicable Law, such other data and
information as to the business and properties of PNM or as to
Unit 2, PVNGS or the PVNGS Site as from time to time may be
reasonably requested by the Owner Participant, subject, however,
to applicable confidentiality undertakings with respect thereto.
(2) Further Assurances. The Lessee will cause to be promptly and
duly taken, executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further acts,
documents and assurances as the Owner Participant may from time to time
reasonably request in order to carry out more effectively the intent and
purposes of this Participation Agreement, the other Transaction
Documents and the Financing Documents, and the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby. The Lessee will cause the financing statements (and
continuation statements with respect thereto) and the documents
enumerated and described in Schedule 3, and all other documents
necessary or advisable in that connection, to be recorded or filed at
such places and times, and in such manner, and will take all such other
actions or cause such actions to be taken, as may be necessary or
reasonably requested by the Owner Participant, the Collateral Trust
Trustee, the Owner Trustee or the Indenture Trustee,
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in order to establish, preserve, protect and perfect the title of the
Owner Trustee to the Undivided Interest, the related Generation
Entitlement Share and the Real Property Interest, and the Owner Trustee's
rights and interests under this Participation Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents and, so long as any Note is Outstanding, the first
and prior security interest of the Indenture Trustee in the Lease
Indenture Estate and the Indenture Trustee's rights under this
Participation Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, all referred
to and included under the granting clause of the Indenture.
(3) Covenants. The Lessee covenants and agrees as follows:
i) Maintenance of Corporate Existence, etc. The Lessee
shall at all times maintain its existence as a corporation under
the laws of the State of flew Mexico, except as permitted by
paragraph (ii) below (including any consent given by the Owner
Participant pursuant to such paragraph (ii)). The Lessee will do
or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in
full force and effect its rights (charter and statutory) and
franchises; provided, however, that the Lessee may discontinue
any right or franchise its board of directors shall determine
that such discontinuance is necessary or desirable in the
conduct of its business and does not materially and adversely
affect or diminish any right of the Owner Participant or the
Loan Participant.
(ii) Merger, Sale, etc.: Owner Participant. Without the
consent of the Owner Participant, the Lessee shall not (I)
consolidate with any Person, (2) merge with or into any Person,
or (3) subject to the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
Facility Lease and except in connection with normal dividend
policy of PNM, convey, transfer, lease, or dividend to any
Person more than 5% of its assets, including cash, in any single
transaction or series of related transactions, unless,
immediately after giving effect to such transaction:
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(A) the person who is the Lessee immediately following such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease (the
Surviving Lessee) shall be a corporation or (with the prior
written consent of the Owner Participant, which consent shall
not be unreasonably withheld) other legal entity which (i) is
organized under the laws of the United States of America, a
state thereof or the District of Columbia, (ii) is a "public
utility" under applicable state and Federal laws, (iii) is an
ANPP Participant under the ANPP Participation Agreement with
respect to Unit 2 (including the Undivided Interest), (iv) if
other than the Lessee immediately prior to such transaction,
shall have assumed each covenant and condition of the Lessee
under the ANPP Participation Agreement and each other ANPP
Project Agreement and (V) holds a valid and subsisting license
from the NRC to possess Unit 2 (including the Undivided
Interest);
(B) the Surviving Lessee, if other than the Lessee
immediately prior to such transaction, shall execute and deliver
to the Owner Participant an agreement, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Participant, containing the
assumption by the Surviving Lessee of each covenant and
condition of this Participation Agreement, each other
Transaction Document and each Financing Document to which the
Lessee immediately prior to such transaction was a party
immediately preceding such transaction;
(C) no Default (other than a failure to deliver documents and
other information specified in Section l0(b)(1)(vi), (vii) or
(viii) hereof) , Event of Default, Event of Loss or Deemed Loss
Event shall have occurred and be continuing;
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(D) the Bonds (or, if the Bonds are not then rated, the
preferred stock of the Surviving Lessee) after giving effect to
such transaction, (1) shall be rated at least "investment grade"
by Standard & Poor's Corporation and Xxxxx'x Investors Service,
Inc. and (2) shall have an investment rating by Standard &
Poor's Corporation and Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc. not less
than one "smallest notch" below the rating assigned to the Bonds
(or, if the Bonds are not then rated, the preferred stock of the
Surviving Lessee) immediately prior to such transaction (or, if
neither of such rating organizations shall rate the Bonds (or,
if applicable, the preferred stock of the Surviving Lessee) at
the time, by any nationally recognized rating organization in
the United States of America);
(E) the Surviving Lessee shall have a Minimum Net Worth;
(F) the Surviving Lessee shall have delivered to the Owner
Participant and the Indenture Trustee an Officers' Certificate
and an opinion of counsel (if other than Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx or Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A., such counsel to be
reasonably satisfactory to the Owner Participant) to the
Surviving Lessee, each stating that (1) such transaction
complies with this subparagraph (ii) and (2) all conditions
precedent to the consummation of such transaction have been
satisfied and any Governmental Action required in connection
with such transaction has been obtained, given or accomplished;
(G) the Surviving Lessee shall have delivered to the Owner
Participant an opinion, reasonably satisfactory to the Owner
Participant, of independent counsel to the Surviving Lessee
stating that such transaction does not and will not cause a Tax
Loss (as defined in the Tax Indemnification Agreement)
(H) such transaction is otherwise permitted by and is in
accordance with the ANPP Participation Agreement; and
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(I) the Coverage Ratio of the Surviving Lessee shall be at
least 1.6 to 1.
Upon the consummation of such transaction the Surviving Lessee,
if other than the Lessee, shall succeed to, and be substituted
for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Lessee
immediately prior to such transaction under this Participation
Agreement and each other Transaction Document and each Financing
Document to which the Lessee immediately prior to such
transaction was a party immediately prior to such transaction,
with the same effect as if the Surviving Lessee had been named
herein and therein.
(iii) Merger, Sale, etc.: Bondholders. The Lessee shall not
enter into any transaction constituting a consolidation1 merger,
conveyance, transfer, lease or dividend not permitted by Section
l0(b)(3)(ii), irrespective of any consent or waiver of the Owner
Participant, unless immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, the Bonds (or, if the Bonds are not then rated, the
preferred stock of the Surviving Lessee) shall be rated at least
"investment grade" by Standard & Poor's Corporation and Xxxxx'x
Investors Service, Inc.
(iv) Prior Notice to Rating Agencies. Prior to entering into
any transaction as to which the conditions set forth in
paragraphs (ii) and (iii) above shall be applicable, the Lessee
shall give notice thereof to the rating agencies specified in
such paragraphs, such notice to be sufficiently in advance of
such transaction to enable the rating agencies to respond
thereto prior to consummation thereof.
(V) Incurrence of Debt. Without the consent of the Owner
Participant, the Lessee shall not issue or assume any secured or
unsecured indebtedness maturing more than eighteen months after
the date of issuance thereof, if, immediately after such issue
or assumption, the total amount of all secured and unsecured
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indebtedness of the Lessee maturing more than one year after the
date of such issue or assumption, exceeds 65% of the aggregate
of (x) such total amount and (y) the total capital and surplus
of the Lessee, in each case as shown on the Lessee's pro forma
consolidated balance sheet on and as of the date of such issue
or assumption.
(vi} Change in Chief Executive Office. The Lessee will notify
the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant, the Loan Participant
and the Indenture Trustee promptly after any change in the
location of its chief executive office and place of business,
principal place of business or place where the Lessee maintains
its business records.
(vii) No Petition Agreement. Prior to the 181st day following
the payment in full of the Bonds and the discharge in accordance
with its terms of the Collateral Trust Indenture, PNM will not
file a petition, or join in the filing of a petition, seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in
respect of the Loan Participant under the Bankruptcy Code or any
other applicable Federal or state law or the law of the District
of Columbia.
(viii) ANPP Project Agreements. Except where the failure to
do so would not have a material and adverse effect on the
Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest, Unit 2 or the
rights, interests and benefits of the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Participant under any Transaction Document, the Lessee (without
limiting its obligations under the next sentence) at all times,
unless the Owner Participant shall otherwise consent, will (1)
perform its obligations under and comply with the terms of each
ANPP Project Agreement to be complied with by it, (2) exercise
its rights under the ANPP Participation Agreement to maintain
each ANPP Project Agreement in full force and effect, (3) keep
unimpaired all of the Lessee's rights, powers and remedies under
each ANPP Project Agreement and prevent any forfeiture or
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impairment thereof, (4) enforce the ANPP Participation Agreement
in accordance with its terms and (5) not take, fail to take or
join in (i) any action with respect to, nor accept or approve
any amendment or any other change in, the ANPP Participation
Agreement or any other ANPP Project Agreement or (ii) any action
or change the effect of which would be to relieve the Lessee of
any obligation under the ANPP Participation Agreement on or
after the Closing Date. The Lessee will not, unless the Owner
Participant otherwise consents, accept or approve any amendment
to any ANPP Project Agreement the effect of which would be to
(A) reduce the Generation Entitlement Share related to the
Undivided Interest, (B) impose, directly or indirectly, on the
Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant any obligations, (C)
discriminate against (x) the Owner Trustee or the Owner
Participant in its capacity as lessor in a sale and leaseback
transaction or (y) any present or future ANPP Participant
because such ANPP Participant derived or will derive its status
as "Participant" under the ANPP Participation Agreement from a
lessor in a sale and leaseback transaction, or (D) deprive the
owner Trustee or the Owner Participant, as the case may be, of
the benefit of Sections 15.2.2, 15.10 and 32.1 of the ANPP
Participation Agreement (or any comparable successor
provisions). The Lessee shall (X) provide copies of any proposed
amendment to or modification of the ANPP Participation Agreement
to the Owner Participant not less than 45 days prior to the
execution thereof by the Lessee (except where the Lessee is
unaware thereof 45 days prior to such execution, in which case
the Lessee shall provide notice thereof as promptly as possible
after becoming so aware) and (Y) upon such execution furnish to
the Owner Participant a copy of any such amendment or
modification as executed. The Lessee will not, except as
permitted by paragraph (ii) above, sell, transfer, assign or
otherwise dispose of, except in the ordinary course of operation
of PVNGS, all or any of its rights or interests in and to PVNGS.
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(ix) Notes and Bonds. The Lessee will not, and will not
permit any of its Affiliates to, acquire any of the Notes or,
except in connection with the selection of Bonds for redemption
pursuant to the Collateral Trust Indenture, the Bonds. The
Lessee agrees that (1) neither it nor any of its Affiliates
shall purchase any Bond more than 180 days in advance of the
date of the mandatory sinking fund redemption applicable
thereto, (2) the aggregate of Bonds of any one series so
purchased shall not exceed the amount of the, next succeeding
sinking fund payment applicable thereto and (3) any Bonds so
purchased shall be the subject of a request by the Lessee
pursuant to the provisions of the commitment agreement
applicable to such series of Bonds.
(x) Cooperation. The Lessee will cooperate with the Owner
Participant and the Owner Trustee in obtaining the valid and
effective issue, or, as the case may be, transfer or amendment
of all Governmental Actions (including, but without limitation,
the License) necessary or, in the opinion of the Owner
Participant, desirable for the ownership, operation and
possession of the Undivided Interest (including the related
Generation Entitlement Share), the Real Property Interest or any
portion of Xxxx 0 represented thereby by the Owner Trustee or
any transferee, lessee or assignee thereof for the period from
and after the Lease Termination Date to the Final Shutdown.
(xi) Decommissioning. (A) The Lessee will comply with its
obligations under Applicable Law concerning the Decommissioning
of Unit 2. If Applicable Law or Governmental Action shall not,
on or before December 31, 1990, impose upon the Lessee the
obligation to create and maintain an external reserve fund
(which may be a fund which qualifies under Section 468A of the
Code) dedicated to paying all Decommissioning Costs relating to
the Undivided Interest, then the Lessee will create and maintain
such a fund on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Owner
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Participant; if Applicable Law or Governmental Action shall
thereafter impose upon the Lessee an obligation to create and
maintain such a fund, any fund in compliance with Applicable Law
or such Governmental Action shall be deemed satisfactory to the
Owner Participant for purposes of the preceding sentence. (B)
Except to the extent provided in clauses (C) and (D) below, as
between the Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant and
any transferee (including by way of lease) or assignee of any of
the Lessor's or the Owner Participant's right, title or interest
in Unit 2, the Lessee agrees to pay, or cause to be paid, and to
indemnify such parties against, all Decommissioning Costs,
notwithstanding (i) the occurrence of the Lease Termination
Date, any Event of Default, Default, Event of Loss, Deemed Loss
Event or any other event or occurrence, (ii) any provision of
any Transaction Document, or other document, instrument or
agreement, including the ANPP Participation Agreement, (iii) any
provision of the License or any other license or permit, or (iv)
any Applicable Law, charter or by-law provision, Governmental
Action or other impediment, including, without limitation, the
bankruptcy or insolvency of the Lessee, either now or hereafter
in effect; it being understood that the obligations of the
Lessee under this clause (B) are and shall be a~so1ute and
unconditional. (C) In the event that (i) the Facility Lease
shall have expired upon expiration (or early termination
pursuant to Section 14(e) of the Facility Lease) of the Lease
Term (other than in connection with an Event of Loss, Deemed
Loss Event or Event of Default) and (ii) thereafter the Lessor
shall (I) re-lease the Undivided Interest to any Person or (2)
retain the Undivided Interest and sell power and energy from its
Generation Entitlement Share, then after the Lessor has received
(x) in the case of clause (1) above, gross rents in an aggregate
amount (when discounted back to such Lease Termination Date at a
rate per annum equal to the Prime Rate) equal to 20% of Facility
Cost, or (y) in the case of clause (2) above, net electric
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revenues in an aggregate amount (discounted as I aforesaid)
equal to 20% of Facility Cost, the Lessor shall thereafter
reimburse the Lessee for any expenditures incurred by the Lessee
under clauses (A) and (B) of this Section 10(b) (3) (xi) in an
amount equal to any further rent received or proceeds received
from the sale of power and energy to the extent that such rent
or proceeds are attributable to the decommissioning obligation
of the Lessee under this Section 10(b) (3) (xi) with respect to
the period from and after such Lease Termination Date (payable
on an annual basis with respect to each year or portion thereof
during the term of such lease referred to in clause (1) above or
such period referred to in clause (2) above during which the
Lessor retains the Undivided Interest); provided, however, that
when such amount has been paid the Lessor shall be relieved of
all obligations to make further reimbursement to the Lessee for
such purpose. (D) In the event that (i) the Facility Lease shall
have expired upon the expiration (or early termination pursuant
to Section 14(e) of the Facility Lease) of the Lease Term (other
than in connection with an Event of Loss1 Deemed Loss Event or
Event of Default, (ii) the Lessor shall sell (other than in
connection with the termination by the Lessee of the Facility
Lease for obsolescence pursuant to Section 14 of the Facility
Lease) the Undivided interest to any Person (including the
Lessee in connection with the exercise by the Lessee of the
purchase option provided by Section 13(b) of the Facility
Lease), and (iii) the net sales proceeds (discounted back to
such Lease Termination Date at a rate per annum equal to the
Prime Rate) received by the Lessor in connection therewith shall
exceed 20% of Facility Cost (reduced by the percentage of
Facility Cost, if any, actually realized by the Lessor pursuant
to clause (C) above), then the Lessor shall reimburse the Lessee
for any expenditures incurred by the Lessee under clauses (A)
and (B) of this Section 10(b)(3)(xi) in an amount equal to any
net proceeds of such sale, to the extent that such proceeds are
attributable to the decommissioning obligation of the Lessee
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under this Section 10(b) (3) (xi) with respect to the period
from and after the date of such sale through the remaining
useful life of Unit 2 (whereupon the reimbursement obligations
of the Lessor under this Section 10(b) (3) (xi) shall
terminate); provided, however, that any such reimbursement shall
not reduce the amount of such net sales proceeds retained by the
Lessor to an amount (discounted as aforesaid) equal to less than
20% of Facility Cost (reduced by the percentage of Facility
Cost, if any, actually realized by the Lessor pursuant to clause
(C) above). The reimbursement obligations of the Lessor under
clauses (C) and (D) above are for the sole benefit of the
Lessee, and no other Person shall be a third party beneficiary
with respect thereto. In the event that the Lessee and the
Lessor shall not agree as to the amount of gross rents, net
electric revenues or net sales proceeds attributable to the
decommissioning obligation of the Lessee under this Section
l0(b)(3)(xi), such amount shall be determined by the Appraisal
Procedure. For purposes of determining Facility Cost under
clauses (C) and (0) of this Section l0(b)(3)(xi), Facility Cost
shall be adjusted to reflect inflation or deflation from the
Closing Date to the time of determination.
(xii) Other Leases with Respect to PVNGS. The Lessee agrees
that it will deliver to the Owner Participant, promptly
following execution and delivery thereof by the, Lessee, all
transaction documents pertaining to any sale and leaseback
transaction that the Lessee or any Affiliate of the Lessee may
enter into with respect to PVNGS. The Lessee agrees, upon the
written request of the Owner Participant delivered within 60
days of receipt of transaction documents with respect to each
such transaction, to enter (within a reasonable time as
specified in such request) into an amendment to the Facility
Lease as necessary to incorporate therein (in substitution for
the definitions of such terms theretofore appended thereto) and
at the option of the Owner Participant, any one or more of the
following three alternatives: (I) the definitions of "Deemed
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Loss Event" and "Event of Loss", (II) the definition of "Final
Shutdown", or (III) that portion of "Deemed Loss Event" as
relates to changes in the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act, the Atomic Energy
Act or any other Applicable Law relating to the matters set
forth in clause (2) of the definition of "Deemed Loss Event"
contained in Appendix A hereto, in each case as appended to or
contained in the Facility Lease entered into in connection with
such transaction (the Subject Lease). For purposes of the
foregoing, the definitions of any of such terms shall include
such other terms as may be used in such transaction to connote
events similar to those contained in any of the definitions
referred to above. In connection with any such amendment, the
Owner Participant shall submit (subject to review by the
Lessee's financial advisors) new Schedules of Special Casualty
Values and/or casualty Values, in each case calculated on the
same assumption as the comparable schedules appended to the
Subject Lease. In connection with any such amendment, such
substituted definitions shall include and be subject to, mutatis
mutandis, the same qualifications and waivers and incorporate,
mutatis mutandis, the same definitions as shall be provided in
the Subject Lease or related transaction documents with respect
to any of the definitions referred to above which shall be
substituted.
(xiii) Acknowledgment and Agreement. The Lessee hereby
acknowledges and agrees to the provisions of Section 7(b) (4) of
this Participation Agreement.
(xiv) Real Estate Matters. The Lessee agrees that upon
request of the Owner Participant and at the expense of the
Lessee, the Lessee (if permitted by Applicable Law and the ANPP
Participation Agreement) will enter into amendments to the
Transaction Documents as necessary to reflect reasonable
alternative arrangements with respect to the Real Property
Interest involving the transfer of the Real Property to the
Lessee, the grant to the Lessor of easements, an option to
purchase a ground lease or other rights (or a combination
thereof) with respect to the Real Property
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Interest and, (ii) if necessary or desirable to effect such
arrangements and if requested by the Owner Participant,
repurchase the Real Property Interest from the Lessor at the
higher of Fair Market Sales Value thereof and an amount equal
to the Real Estate Investment; provided, however, the Lessee
will not be obligated to accept any alternative arrangements
unless the Lessee shall have determined, based upon an opinion
of counsel, that such arrangements will not materially
adversely affect the status of the Owner Participant as owner
of the Undivided Interest for Federal income tax purposes.
(xv) Amendment of Subject and Subordinate Provisions. The
Lessee shall not unreasonably withhold its consent to any
proposed amendment to the ANPP Participation Agreement which
would have the effect of eliminating the provisions thereof
under which the rights of the Owner Trustee and the Owner
Participant hereunder shall be subject and subordinate to the
rights of the ANPP Participants, provided that the Lessee shall
have no obligations to initiate any such amendment.
SECTION 11. Conditions Precedent.
(a) Owner Participant and Loan Participant Conditions. The
obligation of (x) the Loan Participant to make the Loan on the Closing Date, and
(y) the Owner Participant to make the Investment and the Real Estate Investment
on the Closing Date, shall (except as provided below) be subject to the
fulfillment, on or prior to the Closing Date, of the following conditions
precedent (each instrument, document, certificate or opinion referred to below
to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Loan Participant and the Owner
Participant):
(1) Notice of Closing; Transaction Documents. Each shall have
received executed copies, or sets of executed counterparts, of (x) the
Notice of Closing, and (y) each Transaction Document (other than the Tax
Indemnification Agreement), the Mortgage Release, each Financing
Document being executed on the Closing Date and such other documents as
are contemplated by this Participation Agreement.
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(2) Tax Indemnification Agreement. The Owner Participant shall
have received an executed copy of the Tax Indemnification Agreement.
(3) Authentication Request, etc. The Owner Trustee shall have
delivered to the Indenture Trustee (x) a request, dated the Closing
Date, authorizing the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver the
Initial Series Note to the Loan Participant upon its payment to the
Indenture Trustee, for the account of the Owner Trustee/ of the proceeds
of the Loan, and (y) the Original of the Facility Lease.
(4) Due Authorization, Execution and Delivery. All of the
documents described in clauses (1) and (2) of this Section 11(a) shall
have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the respective
parties thereto and shall be in full force and effect on the Closing
Date, and the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant shall have
received evidence as to such authorization, execution and delivery.
(5) Initial Series Note and Bond Transactions; Investment. In
the case of the Loan Participant, (A) the Loan Participant shall have
received the proceeds from the sale of the Initial Series Bonds as a
result of the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Term
Loan Agreement, (B) the Owner Trustee shall have executed, and the
Indenture Trustee shall have authenticated and delivered to the Loan
Participant, the Initial Series Note evidencing the Loan made on the
Closing Date, (C) the Collateral Trust Trustee shall have accepted the
Term Note Supplemental Indenture and shall have released the amount of
the Loan from the lien of the Collateral Trust Indenture, and (D) the
Owner Participant shall have made the Investment and the Real Estate
Investment.
(6) Loan. In the case of the Owner Participant, the Loan
Participant shall have made the Loan.
(7) ANPP Administrative Committee. the ANPP Administrative
Committee shall have made the finding required by Section 15.6.2 of the
ANPP Participation Agreement and the Lessee shall have delivered
evidence thereof to the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant.
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(8) No Violation. The making by the Owner Participant of the
Investment and the Real Estate Investment and by the Loan Participant of
the Loan shall not violate any Applicable Law.
(9) No Default. No Default, Event of Default, Indenture Default
or Indenture Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(10) Recording and Filing. The financing statements and fixture
filings under the Uniform Commercial Code and certain Transaction
Documents, in each case as enumerated and described in Schedule 3, shall
have been duly filed or recorded in the respective places or offices set
forth in such Schedule and all recording and filing fees with respect
thereto shall have been paid.
(11) Representation. and Warranties of the Loan Participant. In
the case of the Owner Participant, the representations and warranties of
the Loan Participant set forth in Section 6(a) shall be true and correct
on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as though made on and
as of the Closing Date, and the Owner Participant shall have received an
Officers' Certificate of the Loan Participant, dated the Closing Date,
to such effect.
(12) Opinion of the Loan Participant's Counsel. In the case of
the Owner Participant, it shall have received a favorable opinion of
Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, as counsel for the Loan
Participant, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Owner
Participant, to the effect set forth in Schedule 4.
(13) Representation. and Warranties of the "Owner Participant."
In the case of the Loan Participant, the representations and warranties
of the Owner Participant set forth in Section 7 (a) shall be true and
correct on and as of the Closing Date with the same effect as though
made on and as of the Closing Date, and the Loan Participant shall have
received a certificate of an officer of the Owner Participant, dated the
Closing Date, to such effect.
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(14) Opinion of the Owner Participant's Special Counsel and
Other Counsel. In the case of the Loan Participant, it shall have
received favorable opinions of counsel and special counsel for the Owner
Participant, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Loan
Participant, to the effect set forth in Schedule 5.
(15) Representations and Warranties of the Owner Trustee. The
representations and warranties of FNB and the Owner Trustee set forth in
Section 8(a) shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing Date
with the same effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date, and
the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant shall have received a
certificate of an officer of FNB and a certificate of the Owner Trustee,
dated the Closing Date, to such effect..
(16) Opinion of the Owner Trustee's Counsel. The Loan
Participant and the Owner Participant shall have received a favorable
opinion of Csaplar & Bok, as counsel for the Owner Trustee, dated the
Closing Date and addressed to each such Person, to the effect set forth
in Schedule 6.
(17) Representations and Warranties of the Indenture Trustee.-
The representations and warranties of Chemical and the Indenture Trustee
set forth in Section 9(a) shall be true and correct on and as of the
Closing Date with the same effect as though made on and as of the
Closing Date, and the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant shall
have received a certificate of an officer of chemical and the Indenture
Trustee, dated the Closing Date, to such effect.
(18) Opinion of the Owner participant's Special NRC Counsel. The
Owner Participant shall have received a favorable opinion of Shaw,
Pittman, Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, as special NRC counsel for the Owner
Participant, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Owner
Participant, to the effect set forth in Schedule 7.
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(19) Representations and Warranties of the Lessee. (A) The
representations and warranties of the Lessee set forth in Section 10(a),
in each other Transaction Document, in the Term Loan Agreement and in
each certificate or other document to which the Lessee is a party
executed or delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby shall be true and correct on and as of the Closing
Date with the same effect as though made on and as of the Closing Date
and (B) no Deemed Loss Event or Event of Loss shall have occurred and.
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and
the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant shall have received an
Officers' Certificate of the Lessee, dated the Closing Date, to such
effect. Such Officers' Certificate shall state that, except as may be
disclosed in the Lessee's reports on Form l0-Q and 8-K (which shall have
been delivered to the Owner Participant prior to the Closing Date),
there has been no material adverse change in the properties, business,
prospects or financial condition of the Lessee since December 31, 1985,
and no event has occurred since that date which would materially
adversely affect the ability of the Lessee to perform its obligations
under this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to
which it is, or is to become, a party.
(20) Opinion of the Lessee's Special Counsel. The Loan
Participant and the Owner Participant shall have received a favorable
opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, as special counsel for
the Lessee, dated the Closing Date and addressed to each such Person, to
the effect set forth in Schedule 8.
(21) Opinion of Lessee's General Counsel. The Loan Participant
and the Owner Participant shall have received a favorable opinion of
Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A., dated the Closing Date and addressed to each
such Person, to the effect set forth in Schedule 9.
(22) Opinion of Lessee's Arizona Counsel. The Loan Participant
and the Owner Participant shall have received a favorable opinion of
Xxxxx & Xxxxxx, dated the Closing Date and addressed to each such
Person, to the effect set forth in Schedule 10.
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(23) Opinion of Special FERC Counsel. The Owner Participant
shall have received a favorable opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, P.C.,
dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Owner Participant, to the
effect set forth in Schedule 11.
(24) Opinion of Owner Participant's Special Arizona Counsel. The
Owner Participant shall have received a favorable opinion of Meyer,
Hendricks, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx, dated the Closing Date and
addressed to the Owner Participant, to the effect set forth in Schedule
12.
(25) Opinion of Owner Participant's Special New Mexico Counsel.
The Owner Participant shall have received a favorable opinion of Xxxxx,
Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Xxxx, P. A. dated the Closing Date and addressed
to the Owner Participant, to the effect set forth in Schedule 13.
(26) Opinion of the Owner Participant's Special Counsel. The
Owner Participant shall have received a favorable opinion of Shearman &
Sterling, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Owner Participant,
with respect to such Federal tax and other tax matters as the Owner
Participant may reasonably request.
(27) Opinion of the Loan Participant's Counsel. The Loan
Participant shall have received a favorable opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, dated the Closing Date and addressed to it,
to the effect set forth in Schedule 4.
(28) Taxes. All Taxes, if any, payable in connection with the
execution, delivery, recording and filing of the Transaction Documents
and all the documents and instruments enumerated and described in
Schedule 3, or in connection with the issuance and sale of the Initial
Series Note and the Initial Series Bonds and the making by the Owner
Participant of the Investment and the Real Estate Investment, and all
Taxes payable in connection with the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and by the other Transaction Documents, shall have
been duly paid in full by the Lessee.
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(29) Form U-7D. A certificate on Form U-7D with respect to the
Facility Lease shall have been duly executed and delivered by the Owner
Trustee and the Owner Participant and shall be in due form for filing.
(30) Appraisal. The Owner Participant shall have received a
letter, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Owner Participant,
from Ebasco Business Consulting Company, as the appraiser heretofore
selected by the Owner Participant, in form and substance satisfactory to
the Owner Participant, containing an appraisal of the Undivided
Interest, which appraisal shall reflect such appraiser's reasonable
conclusion that (w) the fair market value in the hands of the Owner
Trustee of the Undivided Interest on the Closing Date, taking into
account the effect and existence of the Real Property Interest, the
Assignment and Assumption and the ANPP Participation Agreement, is equal
to the Purchase Price as set forth in the Notice of Closing, (x) the
estimated remaining economic useful life of Unit 2 (including the
Undivided Interest) is at least 39.309 years, (y) at the expiration of
the Renewal Term the Undivided Interest will have an estimated residual
value taking into account the effect and the existence of this
Participation Agreement, the Real Property Interest, the Assignment and
Assumption and the ANPP Participation Agreement, in the hands of the
Owner Trustee or a Person (unrelated to the Lessee) who could lease or
purchase the Undivided Interest from the Owner Trustee for commercial
use, equal to at least 20% of the Purchase Price, determined without
including in such value any increase or decrease for inflation or
deflation during the period from the Closing Date through the expiration
of the Renewal Term, and (z) taking into account the effect and the
existence of the Real Property Interest, the Assignment and Assumption
and the ANPP Participation Agreement, the use of the Undivided Interest
at the Lease Termination Date by any User is feasible from an
engineering and economic point of view and is commercially reasonable.
(31) Offering and Sale of Interest. The Loan Participant, the
Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant shall have received a letter
from Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx & Co. Incorporated, Xxxxxxx, Sachs & Co., Citibank,
N.A. and Mellon Bank, N.A., with respect to the offering and sale of the
equity interests in the transactions contemplated by this Participation
Agreement.
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(32) Extension Letter. The Extension Letter shall have been duly
executed by the respective parties thereto and delivered to the
Collateral Trust Trustee.
(33) Governmental Action. The Lessee shall have obtained all
Governmental Actions (including, without limitation, the New Mexico
Order, which order shall be final and non-appealable, and any amendments
to the License) required or, in the opinion of the Owner Participant,
advisable for the consummation of all the transactions contemplated by
this Participation Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and the
Financing Documents in accordance with their respective terms.
(34) Title Report; Title Insurance. The Owner Participant shall
have received (i) an updated title report, dated the Closing Date, with
respect to the PVNGS Site, which report does not disclose any exceptions
materially adverse to the possession or operation of Unit 2 or the
performance by the Lessee of its obligations under this Participation
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which the Lessee is a
party; and (ii) such title insurance policies with respect to the PVNGS
Site and improvements thereon (including the Owner Trustee's interests
therein) as it shall have reasonably requested, such policies to be in
form and substance satisfactory to the Owner Participant.
(35) No Change or Proposed Change in Tax laws. No change shall
have occurred or been proposed in the Code or any other tax statute, the
regulations thereunder or any interpretation thereof that would
adversely affect the tax consequences anticipated by the Owner
Participant with respect to the transactions contemplated by the
Transaction Documents, unless the effect of such change or proposed
change is provided for in Section 3(d) of the Facility Lease.
(36) Insurance. The Owner Participant shall have received a
written report from its independent insurance consultant in form and
substance satisfactory to the Owner Participant.
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(37) Site Arrangement Plan. The Owner Participant shall have
received a site arrangement plan of the nuclear plant site prepared
subsequent to January 1, 1979.
(38) Special Certificate of the Lessee. The Owner Participant
shall have received a certificate of the Lessee, dated the Closing Date,
to the effect that, except as set forth on the Schedule thereto, (A)
Unit 2 has been in all material respects completed in a good and
workmanlike manner and in accordance with the plans and specifications
relating thereto (as the same may have been modified from time to time
to reflect Unit 2 as actually completed), Applicable Law (including, but
without limitation, the regulations of the NRC), the License and the
ANPP Participation Agreement, (B) all Governmental Action necessary for
the commercial operation of Unit 2 (including the Undivided Interest)
has been received, other than Governmental Action that is routine in
nature for PVNGS or that cannot be obtained under Applicable Law, or is
typically not applied for, prior to the time it is required, and that
the Lessee reasonably expects to be obtained in due course, (C) the
plans and specifications relating to Unit 2 are complete in all material
respects (modified or to be modified as aforesaid) and consistent with
prudent engineering practice, (D) the testing and startup procedures for
Unit 2 and the operation and maintenance programs for Unit 2 are
consistent with such plans and specifications, Applicable Law and
prudent engineering practice, (E) Unit 2 has been tested in accordance
with all customary testing and startup procedures which would have been
performed on or prior to the Closing Date, and such tests and procedures
indicate that Unit 2 will have the capacity and functional ability to
perform in commercial operation, on a continuing basis, the function for
which it is designed in accordance with such plans and specifications
and has a nominal capacity of 1,270 megawatts electric, (F) all material
Governmental Actions relating to the construction, operation or
maintenance of Unit 2 are listed in a schedule thereto, (G) there is no
present event or condition which would materially adversely affect the
capability of Unit 2 to operate in accordance with such plans and
specifications and (H) based upon the Lessee's present reasonable
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expectations, and I subject to Applicable Law, the rights and interests
made available to the ANPP Participants (including the Lessee) pursuant
to the ANPP Participation Agreement, as such rights and interests are
made available to the Owner Trustee, any successor or assign of the
Owner Trustee or any "Transferee" of the Owner Trustee under Section
15.10 of the ANPP -Participation Agreement, under and pursuant to this
Participation Agreement, the Deed, the Assignment of Beneficial Interest
or the Assignment and Assumption, together with the rights to be made
available under and pursuant to the Assignment and Assumption, are
adequate to permit, during the period following the Lease Termination
Date or the taking of possession of the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property Interest in the exercise of remedies under Section 16 of the
Facility Lease, in accordance with the ANPP Project Agreements (i) the
construction, location, occupation, connection, maintenance,
replacement, renewal, repair or removal of Unit 2, (ii) the use,
operation and possession of Unit 2, (iii) the construction, use,
operation, possession, maintenance, replacement, renewal and repair of
all alterations, modifications, additions, accessions, improvements,
appurtenances, replacements and substitutions thereof and thereto, (iv)
adequate ingress to and egress from Unit 2for any reasonable purpose in
connection with the exercise of rights under the Assignment and
Assumption and the Owner Trustee's ownership and possession of the
Undivided Interest and (v) the obtaining of nuclear fuel, of water and
of transmission services to the ANPP Switchyard sufficient to enable
delivery of the Generation Entitlement Share related to the Undivided
Interest in a commercially efficient manner and on commercially
reasonable terms. Nothing in the foregoing clause (H) shall be deemed to
be or be construed as a warranty by the Lessee as to the performance by
the Operating Agent of its obligations under the ANPP Participation
Agreement. Such certificate shall also be attested to by X.X. Xxxxxx,
Group Manager, Environmental and Resources Management, PNM Electric, who
shall state that (i) he is a qualified engineer, and that he has made
such investigation, inspection and review as he deems necessary to make
the statements in such certificate and (ii) to the best of his
knowledge, the statements of the Lessee in such certificate are true and
correct.
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(39) Real Estate Appraisal. The Owner Participant shall have
received an appraisal of the Real Property Interest, which appraisal
shall reflect the appraiser's reasonable conclusion that the fair market
value in the hands of the Owner Trustee of the Real Property Interest on
the Closing Date is equal to the Real Estate Investment as set forth in
the Notice of closing. Such appraisal shall have covered such other
matters as the Owner Participant shall have requested.
(40) Nuclear Matters. There shall have been no change in the
circumstances involving the condition, nature, operation or value of
Xxxx 0, xx xx xxx xxxxxxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx domestic nuclear
industry.
(41) Independent Engineer. The Owner Participant shall have
received a report from its nuclear engineer with respect to the status
and condition of Unit 2.
(42) Certain Unit 1 Leases. The Lessee shall have obtained the
consent required by Section 10(b) (3) (xii) of each of the three
Participation Agreements dated as of December 16, 1985, relating to
separate sale and leaseback transactions involving undivided interests
in Unit 1 in respect of which the Lessee is lessee.
(43) Other Matters. The Loan Participant and the Owner
Participant shall have received such other documents, certificates and
opinions as the Loan Participant or the Owner Participant, or their
respective counsel, shall reasonably request.
(b) Lessee Conditions. The obligation of the Lessee to sell and
lease back the Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest on the Closing
Date pursuant to Section 4 shall be subject to the fulfillment on or prior to
the Closing Date of the following conditions precedent, in each case in form and
substance satisfactory to the Lessee:
(1) Paragraph (a) Documents. The Lessee, the Owner Trustee and
the Indenture Trustee shall have received executed copies of the
documents, certificates, opinions (other than the opinion referred to in
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Section 11(a)(26)), appraisals, letters and forms described in paragraph
(a) of this Section 11. All such opinions shall be addressed to the
Lessee, the Indenture Trustee, the Loan Participant and the Owner
Trustee, except the opinions or documents to which reference is made in
clauses (18), and (26) of said paragraph (a), and the opinions referred
to in clauses (14), (16), (20), (21), (22) and (27) will be addressed to
the Collateral Trust Trustee as provided in Section 2.04(5) of the
Collateral Trust Indenture.
(2) Payment of Purchase Price. The Owner Trustee shall have paid
to the Lessee an amount, in immediately available funds, equal to the
Purchase Price and the purchase price of the Real Property Interest.
(3) Special Opinion of the Lessee's Special Counsel. The Lessee
shall have received a favorable opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
& Xxxxxx, dated the Closing Date and addressed to the Lessee, with
respect to such Federal tax and other matters as the Lessee may
reasonably request.
(4) Accountant's Letter. The Lessee shall have received a letter
satisfactory to it from Peat, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx & Co., to the effect
that, under generally accepted accounting principles and SFAS No. 13,
the Facility Lease is an "operating lease".
(5) Order. The NMPSC Order shall be in form and substance
satisfactory to the Lessee.
(6) Weighted Factor. The weighted Factor shall not exceed 11.7%
of the Purchase Price.
(c) Conditions to Re1everaging. The obligation of the Loan
Participant to make, and the Owner Trustee to borrow the proceeds of, a
Releveraging Loan on the Releveraging Date shall be subject to the fulfillment
on or prior to such Releveraging Date of the following conditions precedent
(each instrument, document, certificate or opinion to be in form and substance
satisfactory to the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant):
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(1) Authentication Request, etc. The Owner Trustee shall have
delivered to the Indenture Trustee a request, dated the Releveraging
Date, authorizing the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver the
Releveraging Note to the Loan Participant upon its payment to the
Indenture Trustee, for the account of the Owner Trustee, of the proceeds
of the Releveraging Loan.
(2) Releveraging Note and Bond Transaction. (A) The Loan
Participant shall have received the proceeds from the sale of
Releveraging Bonds in an amount at least sufficient to make the
Releveraging Loan, (B) the Owner Trustee shall have executed, and the
Indenture Trustee shall have authenticated and delivered to the Loan
Participant, the Releveraging Note evidencing the Releveraging Loan made
on the Releveraging Date and (C) the collateral Trust Trustee shall have
accepted a supplement to the Collateral Trust Indenture subjecting the
Releveraging Note to the lien of the Collateral Trust Indenture and
shall have released the amount of the Releveraging Loan from the lien of
the Collateral Trust Indenture.
(3) No Violation. The return to, the Owner Participant of a
portion of the Investment and the making by the Loan Participant of the
Releveraging Loan shall not violate any Applicable Law.
(4) No Indenture Default. No Indenture Default or Indenture
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(5) Representations and Warranties of the Owner Participant. In
the case of the Loan Participant, the representations and warranties of
the Owner Participant set forth in Section 7(a) shall be true and
correct on and as of the Releveraging Date with the same effect as
though made on and as of the Releveraging Date (with all references to
the Closing Date in such representations and warranties being changed to
references to the Releveraging Date), and the Loan Participant shall
have received a certificate of the Owner Participant, dated the
Releveraging Date, to such effect.
(6) Representations and Warranties of the Owner Trustee. In the
case of the Loan Participant, the representations and warranties of FNB
and the Owner Trustee set forth in Section 8(a) shall be true and
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correct on and as of the Releveraging Date I with the same effect as
though made on and as of the Releveraging Date (with all references to
the Closing Date in such representations and warranties being changed to
references to the Releveraging Date), and the Loan Participant shall
have received a certificate from an officer of the and a certificate of
the Owner Trustee, dated the Releveraging Date, to such effect.
(7) Representations and Warranties of the Lessee. In the case of
the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant, (A) the representations
and warranties of the Lessee set forth in Section 10(a) shall be true
and correct on and as of the Releveraging Date with the same effect as
though made on and as of the Releveraging Date (with all references to
the Closing Date in such representations and warranties being changed to
references to the Releveraging Date) and (B) no Deemed Loss Event or
Event of Loss shall have occurred and no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing and the Loan Participant and the
Owner Participant shall have received an Officers' Certificate of the
Lessee, dated the Releveraging Date, to such effect.
(8) Opinions of Counsel.The Loan Participant shall have received
a favorable opinion of each of special counsel for the Owner
Participant, Csaplar & Bok, as counsel for the Owner Trustee, Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, as special general counsel for the Lessee,
and Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A., as general counsel for the Lessee, each
dated the Releveraging Date and addressing such matters relating to the
transactions in connection with the Releveraging Loan as the Loan
Participant may reasonably request.
(9) Opinions of Counsel. The Owner Participant shall have
received a favorable opinion of each of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx &
Xxxxxx, as special Counsel for the Lessee, and Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A.,
as general counsel for the Lessee, each dated the Releveraging Date and
addressing such matters relating to the transactions in connection with
the Releveraging Loan as the Owner Participant may reasonably request.
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(10) Weighted Factor. If such Releveraging Date occurs after the
Refunding Date, the weighted Factor shall not be increased as a result
of such Releveraging Loan and the Owner Participant shall have received
a certificate from the Lessee to such effect and setting forth the
calculation of such weighted Factor, in form and substance satisfactory
to the Owner Participant.
(d) Conditions to Refunding. In addition to the limitations set
forth in Section 2(d), the obligation of the Owner Participant and the Loan
Participant to participate in a refunding of the Initial Series Note (and the
Releveraging Notes, if any, theretofore issued) as provided in Section 2(d)
shall be subject to the fulfillment on or before the Refunding Date of the
following Conditions precedent (each instrument, document, certificate or
opinion to be in form and substance satisfactory to the Loan Participant and the
Owner Participant):
(1) Authentication Request, etc. The Owner Trustee shall have
delivered to the Indenture Trustee a request, dated the Refunding Date,
authorizing the Indenture Trustee to authenticate and deliver the Fixed
Rate Note to the Loan Participant against redelivery of the Initial
Series Note (and the Releveraging Notes, if any, theretofore issued) to
the Indenture Trustee for cancellation.
(2) Fixed Rate Note and Bond Transaction. (A) The Loan
Participant shall have received the proceeds from the sale of Refunding
Bonds in an amount at least sufficient to make the Refunding Loan, (B)
the Owner Trustee shall have executed, and the Indenture Trustee shall
have authenticated and delivered to the Loan Participant, the Fixed Rate
Note evidencing the Refunding Loan made on the Refunding Date and (C)
the Collateral Trust Trustee shall have accepted the Refunding
Supplemental Indenture subjecting the Fixed Rate Note to the lien of the
Collateral Trust Indenture and shall have released the Initial Series
Note (and the Releveraging Notes, if any, theretofore issued) from the
lien of the Collateral Trust Indenture.
(3) No Default. No Default or Event of Default or Indenture
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
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(4) Representations and Warranties of the Owner Participant. The
representations and warranties of the Owner Participant set forth in
Section 7(a) shall be true and correct on and as of the Refunding Date
with the same effect as though made on and as of the Refunding Date
(with all references to the closing Date in such representations and
warranties being changed to references to the Refunding Date), and the
Loan Participant shall have received a certificate of the Owner
Participant, dated the Refunding Date, to such effect.
(5) Representations and Warranties of the Owner Trustee. The
representations and warranties of FNB and the Owner Trustee set forth in
Section 8(a) shall be true and correct on and as of the Refunding Date
with the same effect as though made on and as of the Refunding Date
(with all references to the Closing Date in such representations and
warranties being changed to references to the Refunding Date), and the
Loan Participant and the Owner Participant shall have received a
certificate from an officer of FNB and a certificate of the Owner
Trustee, dated the Refunding Date, to such effect.
(6) Representations and Warranties of the Lessee. (A) The
representations and warranties of the Lessee set forth in Section 10(a)
shall be true and correct on and as of the Refunding Date with the same
effect as though made on and as of the Refunding Date (with all
references to the Closing Date in such representations and warranties
being changed to references to the Refunding Date), (B) no Event of
Default, Deemed Loss Event or Event of Loss shall have occurred and be
continuing and the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant shall have
received an Officers' certificate of the Lessee, dated the Refunding
Date, to such effect and (C) on the date it became effective and on the
Refunding Date, the Registration Statement did not and will not contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading, and
the Final Prospectus did not and will not contain any untrue statement
of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements contained therein not misleading under the circumstances
under which any such shall have been made.
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(7) Opinions of Counsel The Loan Participant shall have received
a favorable opinion of each of special counsel for the Owner
Participant, Csaplar & Bok, as counsel for the Owner Trustee, Xxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, as special counsel for the Lessee, and
Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A., as general counsel for the Lessee, each dated
the Refunding Date and addressing such matters relating to the
transactions in connection with the Refunding Loan as the Loan
Participant may reasonably request.
(8) Opinions of Counsel. The Owner Participant shall have
received a favorable opinion of each of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx &
Xxxxxx, as special counsel for the Lessee, and Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A.,
as general counsel for the Lessee, each dated the Refunding Date and
addressing such matters relating to the transactions in connection with
the Refunding Loan as the Owner Participant may reasonably request.
(9) Weighted Factor. The Weighted Factor would not, after giving
effect to an assumed 11% increase in the Basic Rent (excluding any Rent
Differential) which would have been payable on the Basic Rent Payment
Date immediately prior to the Refunding Date had no adjustments been
made pursuant to Section 3(d) or Section 3(e) of the Facility Lease
(other than adjustments to reflect actual Transaction Expenses),
adjusted to reflect the rate of interest on the Notes if such rate is
higher than 10.5% and any additional Transaction Expenses actually paid,
exceed 11.08%, and the Loan Participant and the Owner Participant shall
have received a certificate from the Lessee to such effect and setting
forth the calculation of such Weighted Factor, in form and substance
satisfactory to the Owner Participant.
SECTION 12. Consent to Assignment of the Facility Lease;
Consent to Indenture; Consent to Assignment of Notes.
(a) Consent to Assignment of Facility Lease. The Lessee hereby
acknowledges, and consents in all respects to, the partial assignment of the
Facility Lease by the Owner Trustee to the Indenture Trustee under and pursuant
to the Indenture and agrees:
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(i) to make each payment of Basic Rent and Supplemental
Rent due or to become due thereunder to the extent constituting
Assigned Payments (excluding, in any event, all Excepted
Payments) directly to the Indenture Trustee at the Indenture
Trustee's Office, so long as any of the Notes shall be
Outstanding and unpaid: and
(ii) not to seek to recover any payment (other than a
payment that both the owner Trustee and the Lessee agree was
made in mistake) made to the Indenture Trustee in accordance
with the Indenture once such payment is made.
(b) Consent to Indenture. The Lessee hereby consents in all
respects to the execution and delivery of the Indenture, and to all of the terms
thereof, and the Lessee acknowledges receipt of an executed counterpart of the
Indenture; it being understood that such consent shall not be construed to
require the Lessee's consent to any future supplement to, or amendment, waiver
or modification of the terms of, the Indenture or any Note, except to the extent
expressly provided for therein.
(c) Consent to Assignment by Loan Participant. Each of the
parties hereto acknowledges that the Loan Participant is assigning its right,
title and interest in and to the Notes to the collateral Trust Trustee as
security for the Bonds to the extent set forth in the Collateral Trust
Indenture, and each of the parties hereto consents to such assignment.
SECTION 13. Lessee's Indemnities.
(a) General Indemnity. The Lessee agrees, whether or not any of
the transactions contemplated hereby shall be consummated and whether or not the
Facility Lease, any other Transaction Document or any Financing Document shall
have expired or have been terminated, to assume liability for, and the Lessee
does hereby agree to indemnify, protect, defend, save and keep harmless each
Indemnitee, on an After-Tax Basis, from and against, any and all Claims which
may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee (whether
because of act or omission by such Indemnitee or otherwise and whether or not
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such Indemnitee shall also be indemnified as to any such Claim by any other
Person) in any way relating to or arising out of (i) Xxxx 0, the Undivided
Interest, the Real Property Interest, PVNGS or the PVNGS Site, or any part of
any thereof 1 any ANPP Project Agreement, the issuance or payment of the Bonds
or the Notes, this Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document or
any Financing Document (including, without limitation, the performance or
enforcement of any of the obligations and terms hereunder or thereunder), (ii) a
disposition of all or any part of the Undivided Interest, the Real Property
Interest, Unit 2 or any other interest of the Owner Trustee in connection with
any termination of the Facility Lease, or (iii) the design, manufacture,
financing, erection, purchase, acceptance, rejection, ownership, acquisition,
delivery, non delivery, lease, sublease, preparation, installation, repair,
transfer of title, abandonment, Decommissioning, possession, use, operation,
maintenance, condition, sale, return, storage or disposition of the Undivided
Interest, Unit 2, the Real Property Interest, any Capital Improvement, the PVNGS
Site, any other facilities on the PVNGS Site or any other interest of the Owner
Trustee in any thereof or any accident, nuclear incident or extraordinary
nuclear occurrence in connection therewith (including, without limitation, (A)
claims or penalties arising from any violation of law (subject, however, to the
proviso to clause (E) below) or liability in tort (strict or otherwise) or from
the active or passive negligence of any Indemnitee, (B) loss of or damage to any
property or the environment or death or injury to any Person, (C) latent and
other defects, whether or not discoverable, (D) any claim for patent, trademark,
service-xxxx or copyright infringement and (E) any claim of any Indemnitee
incurred in the administration of this Participation Agreement, any other
Transaction Document or any Financing Document and not paid as Transaction
Expenses or included in Facility Cost and, if not included in Transaction
Expenses, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel and other
professionals incurred in connection therewith); provided, however, that the
Lessee shall not be required to indemnify any Indemnitee pursuant to this
Section 13(a), (1) for any Claim in respect of Xxxx 0, the Undivided Interest or
the Real Property Interest arising from acts or events not attributable to the
Lessee or Decommissioning (including any defects, errors, or omissions with
respect thereto) which occur after redelivery of the Undivided Interest to the
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Owner Trustee in accordance with Section 5 of the Facility Lease, except to the
extent expressly provided in any Transaction Document, the ANPP Participation
Agreement or any other agreement or undertaking of the Lessee, (2) for any Claim
against such Indemnitee resulting solely from acts which would constitute the
willful misconduct or gross negligence of such Indemnitee (unless imputed to
such Indemnitee by reason of Xxxx 0, the Undivided Interest, the Real Property
Interest, PVNGS, the PVNGS Site or any other facilities at the PVNGS Site or any
occurrence in connection with any thereof or by reason of any act or omission of
the Lessee, whether as agent for such Indemnitee or otherwise), (3) for any
Transaction Expense to be paid by the Owner Trustee pursuant to Section 14(a) or
(4) for any Claim resulting solely from a transfer by the Owner Trustee or the
Owner Participant of all or part of its interest in the Facility Lease, Xxxx 0,
the Real Property Interest or the Undivided Interest other than in connection
with any early termination of the Facility Lease or any exercise of remedies
under Section 16 thereof or the transfer contemplated by Section 7(b)(4) or the
first transfer by the Owner Participant to an Affiliate of the Owner Participant
or (5) for any Claim based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
or omission or alleged omission in the Registration Statement or any document or
agreement in connection with the sale of the Bonds which is based upon
information furnished to the Lessee or its agents by such Indemnitee expressly
for use therein. To the extent that an Indemnitee in fact receives
indemnification payments from the Lessee under the indemnification provisions of
this Section 13(a), the Lessee shall be subrogated, to the extent of such
indemnity paid, to such Indemnitee's rights with respect to the transaction or
event requiring or giving rise to such indemnity, but only so long as such
subrogation shall not materially adversely affect the rights of such Indemnitee
or any other Indemnitee hereunder. Nothing herein or elsewhere contained shall
be construed as constituting a guaranty by the Lessee of the principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on the Notes or the Bonds or of the residual value
or useful life of the Undivided Interest.
(b) General Tax Indemnity.
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(1) Indemnity. All payments by the Lessee in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents shall be free of
expense to each Indemnitee for collection or other charges. All such
payments shall be free of withholdings of any nature whatsoever (and at
the time that the Lessee is required to make any payment upon which any
withholding is required, the Lessee shall pay an additional amount such
that the net amount actually received by the Person entitled to receive
such payment will, after such withholding, equal the full amount of the
payment then due). If, for any reason, the Lessee is required to make
any payment to a taxing authority with respect to, or as a result of,
any withholding tax imposed on any Indemnitee in respect of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, which
withholding tax is not the responsibility of the Lessee under this
Section 13(b) as determined pursuant to this Section 13(b) but without
regard to the immediately preceding sentence of this Section 13(b)(l),
then such Indemnitee shall pay to the Lessee on an After-Tax Basis an
amount which equals the amount paid by the Lessee with respect to, or as
a result of, such withholding tax. Whether or not any of the
transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, except as provided in
Section 13(b)(2)1 the Lessee shall pay, and shall indemnify, defend and
hold each Indemnitee harmless, on an After-Tax Basis, from and against,
any and all Taxes howsoever imposed (whether imposed on or with respect
to the Indemnitee, the Lessee, Xxxx 0, the Undivided Interest, the Real
Property Interest, any Capital Improvement or the PVNGS Site or any part
thereof or interest therein or otherwise) by any Federal, state or local
government or subdivision thereof or taxing authority in the United
States or by any foreign country or subdivision thereof or by any
foreign or international taxing authority in connection with or relating
to (A) the design, construction, financing, purchase, acquisition,
acceptance, rejection, delivery, nondelivery, transport, ownership,
assembly, possession, repossession, operation, use, condition,
maintenance, repair, improvement, sale, return, abandonment,
preparation, installation, storage, replacement, redelivery,
manufacture, insuring, leasing, subleasing, modification, transfer of
title, rebuilding, rental, importation, exportation or other application
or disposition of, or the imposition of any Lien other than Owner
Participant's Liens and Owner Trustee's Liens (or incurrence of any
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liability to refund or pay over any amount as a result of any Lien other
than Owner Participant's Liens and Owner Trustee's Liens) on, Xxxx 0,
the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest, any Capital
Improvement or the PVNGS Site, or any part thereof or interest therein,
(B) the payment of Rent or the receipts or earnings arising from or
received with respect to, and the indebtedness with respect to, Xxxx 0,
the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest or any Capital
Improvement, or any part thereof, interest therein or application or
disposition thereof, (C) any amount paid or payable pursuant to this
Participation Agreement, any other Transaction Document or any Financing
Document or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby (D) Xxxx 0,
the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest, any Capital
Improvement or the PVNGS Site, or any part thereof, or interest therein,
or the applicability of the Facility Lease to the Undivided Interest or
any Capital Improvement, or any part thereof or interest therein, (E)
this Participation Agreement, any other Transaction Document or any
Financing Document or (F) otherwise with respect to or in connection
with the transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement, any
other Transaction Document or any Financing Document.
(2) Exclusions from General Tax Indemnity. Section 13(b)(l)
(except for the first two sentences thereof) shall not apply to:
(i) Taxes based on, or measured by, net income imposed by
the United States federal government (including, without
limitation, any minimum Taxes, capital gains Taxes, withholding
Taxes, any Taxes on, or measured by, items of tax preference1
surcharges, additions to tax, penalties, fines or other charges
in respect thereof)
(ii) Taxes (other than sales, use or rental Taxes) imposed
by any state or local government or subdivision thereof or
taxing authority in the United States or by any foreign country
or subdivision thereof or by any foreign or international taxing
authority that are based on, or measured by, the net income,
items of tax preference, net worth or capital of an Indemnitee,
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or any franchise or other taxes imposed in substitution for any
such Taxes, except, with respect to the Owner Trustee, the
Trust, the Trust Estate, the Owner Participant and any Affiliate
of any thereof, any such Taxes imposed by a jurisdiction as a
result of a relation or asserted relation of such jurisdiction
to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or
the Financing Documents or as a result of the activities of the
Lessee, any ANPP Participant or any Affiliate of any thereof in
such jurisdiction; provided, however, that the amount of any
such excepted Taxes shall be calculated (i) on a pro forma basis
assuming that such Indemnitee has no other taxable income or
loss in the taxing jurisdiction imposing the Tax (provided that
such calculation shall take into account any allocation or
apportionment method used by such jurisdiction except to the
extent that such method takes into account the income or
activities of business entities organized outside the United
States) and is able to use any net operating loss carryovers
based on such pro forma calculation to the fullest extent
allowed by law and (ii) by taking into account any actual
reduction in Taxes in any other jurisdiction in which such
Indemnitee is subject to tax (whether such reduction results
from the operation of allocation or apportionment formulas, from
credits or otherwise) which reduction results from the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the
Financing Documents; provided further, however, that, with
respect to any Tax based on, or measured by, capital or net
worth, the Lessee's indemnity obligation shall not exceed the
incremental portion of such Tax attributable to the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents;
(iii) Taxes that are imposed with respect to any period
after (a) the Lease Termination Date and (b) the date possession
of the Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest has
been delivered to the Lessor as provided in Section 5(a) of the
Facility Lease, but excluding the Agency Period, if any, unless
such Taxes relate to events occurring or matters arising prior
to or simultaneously with such date;
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(iv) Taxes on or with respect to an Indemnitee arising
from any voluntary transfer by such Indemnitee of any interest
in the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest, the Trust
Estate, the Indenture Estate, the Notes or any other right or
interest arising under the Transaction Documents or the
Financing Documents, unless an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, or Taxes arising from an involuntary transfer by
such Indemnitee of any such interest arising from a bankruptcy
or similar proceeding in which such Indemnitee is the debtor
unless such bankruptcy or other proceeding was caused by a
Default or Event of Default by the Lessee or an Affiliate.
thereof;
(v) Taxes based on or measured by any fees, commission or
compensation received by an Indemnitee for acting as trustee, or
for other services rendered, in connection with any of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the
Financing Documents;
(vi) Taxes on or with respect to an Indemnitee arising by
reason of such Indemnitee's failure to file proper and timely
reports or returns (unless the filing of such reports or returns
is the obligation of the Lessee under the Transaction Documents
or the Financing Documents) and any penalties or additions to
tax imposed by reason of such Indemnitee's failure to comply
with the laws imposing such Tax or its material failure to
comply with its obligations under Section 13(b)(6), unless such
failure results from any action of the Lessee or failure by the
Lessee to comply with any provision of the Transaction Documents
or the Financing Documents, including the failure to provide
necessary information;
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(vii) Taxes on or with respect to an Indemnitee arising as
a result of a material failure of such Indemnitee to fulfill its
obligations with respect to the contest of any claim in
accordance with Section l3(b)(4) of this Participation
Agreement;
(viii) Taxes imposed on or with respect to a transferee
(or subsequent transferee) of an original Indemnitee (other than
a transferee or subsequent transferee either of which is an
Affiliate of the original Indemnitee) to the extent that the
amount of such Taxes exceeds the amount of taxes that would have
been imposed on or with respect to such original Indemnitee but
for the transfer to such transferee or, if imposed, would not
have been subject to indemnification under this Section 13(b);
provided, however, that the exception in this clause shall not
apply to any transferee where such transfer shall have occurred
during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(ix) any Taxes imposed on the Lessor or the Owner
Participant resulting from, or which would not have occurred but
for, Lessor's Liens or Owner Participant's Liens and any Taxes
imposed on the Indenture Trustee which would not have occurred
but for Indenture Trustee's Liens;
(x) any Tax that results solely from the activities of an
Indemnitee in any taxing jurisdiction which activities are
unrelated to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents or the Financing Documents:
(xi) any Tax on or with respect to an Indemnitee resulting
from any amendment or modification entered into by such
Indemnitee to any Transaction Document or Financing Document if
the Lessee is not a party to such amendment or modification or
has not consented to such amendment or modification, in each
case unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing; and
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(xii) any Tax on or with respect to an Indemnitee
resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of
such Indemnitee (it being understood that no Indemnitee is
responsible for determining whether a Tax is payable if such Tax
is the responsibility of the Lessee under this Section 13(b)).
provided, however, that the foregoing subdauses (i) through (xii) shall not
apply to any Tax imposed on the Loan Participant or the indenture estate under
the Collateral Trust Indenture.
(3) Calculation of General Tax Indemnity Payments. If any
Indemnitee realizes a net permanent tax benefit by reason of the payment
of any indemnity under Section 13(b)(l), such Indemnitee shall pay the
Lessee, but not before the Lessee shall have made all payments
theretofore due to such Indemnitee pursuant to this Section 13(b), an
amount equal to the lesser of (x) the sum of such tax benefit plus any
other net tax benefit realized by such Indemnitee as the result of any
payment made by such Indemnitee pursuant to this sentence (determined in
a manner consistent with the definition of After Tax Basis set forth in
Appendix A and with the last sentence of Section 13(b)(6) hereof), and
(y) the amount of such payment by the Lessee to such Indemnitee and any
other payment by the Lessee to such Indemnitee theretofore made pursuant
to this Section 13(b) less the aggregate amount of all prior payments by
such Indemnitee to the Lessee pursuant to this clause (y) with respect
to amounts paid pursuant to Section 13(b)(l), it being intended that no
Indemnitee should realize a net tax benefit pursuant to this Section
13(b) unless the Lessee shall first have been made whole for any
payments by it to such Indemnitee pursuant to this Section 13(b);
provided, however, that in computing any permanent tax benefit, such
Indemnitee shall be deemed first to have utilized all deductions and
credits available to it otherwise than by reason of any payment by the
Lessee pursuant to this Section 13(b); provided further, however, that
notwithstanding the provisions of this clause (3), such Indemnitee shall
not be obligated to make any payment to the Lessee pursuant to this
clause (3) if at the time such payment shall be due an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing.
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(4) General Tax Indemnity Contests. If a written claim shall be
made against any Indemnitee for any Tax for which the Lessee is
obligated pursuant to this Section 13(b), such Indemnitee shall notify
the Lessee promptly of such claim, but the failure so to notify the
Lessee shall not affect any obligation of the Lessee pursuant to this
Section 13(b) except as provided in Section 13(b)(2)(vii). If the Lessee
shall request in writing within 30 days after receipt of such notice,
such Indemnitee shall in good faith and at the Lessee's expense contest
the imposition (including the amount) of such Taxes; provided, however,
that such Indemnitee may in its sole discretion select the forum for
such contest and determine whether any such contest shall be by (A)
resisting payment of such Taxes, (B) paying such Taxes under protest or
(C) paying such Taxes and seeking a refund thereof; provided further,
however, that (W) such Indemnitee shall not be obligated to contest any
claim in which the amount in question is less than $125,000, (X) at such
Indemnitee's option, such contest shall be conducted by the Lessee in
the name of such Indemnitee (subject to the preceding proviso) and (Y)
in no event shall such Indemnitee be required or the Lessee permitted to
contest the imposition of any Taxes for which the Lessee is obligated
pursuant to this Section 13(b) unless (u) the Lessee shall have
acknowledged its liability to such Indemnitee for an indemnity payment
pursuant to this Section 13(b) as a result of such claim if and to the
extent such Indemnitee or the Lessee, as the case may be, shall not
prevail in the contest of such claim; (v) such Indemnitee shall have
received from the Lessee (i) satisfactory indemnity for any liability,
expense or loss arising out of or relating to such contest including,
but not limited to, (A) all reasonable legal, accountants' and
investigatory fees and disbursements, (B) the amount of. any interest,
additions to tax or penalty that may be payable as a result of
contesting such claim and (C) if such contest is to be initiated by the
payment of, and the claiming of a refund for such Tax, sufficient funds
to make such payment on an After Tax Basis and (ii) an opinion of
independent tax counsel selected by the Lessee and approved by such
Indemnitee (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld) and
furnished at the Lessee's sole expense to the effect that a Reasonable
Basis exists for contesting such claim or, in the event of an appeal,
that there exists a substantial possibility that an appellate
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court or an administrative agency with appellate jurisdiction, as the
case may be, will reverse or substantially modify the adverse
determination; (w) the Lessee shall have agreed to pay such Indemnitee on
demand all reasonable costs and expenses that such Indemnitee may incur
in connection with contesting such claim (including, without limitation,
all costs, expenses, losses, reasonable legal and accounting fees,
disbursements, penalties, interest and additions to tax); (x) such
Indemnitee shall have reasonably determined that the action to be taken
will not result in any danger of sale, forfeiture or loss of, or the
creation of any Lien (except if the Lessee shall have adequately bonded
such Lien or otherwise made provision to protect the interests of such
Indemnitee in a manner satisfactory to such Indemnitee) on, Xxxx 0, any
part thereof, the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest, or any
interest in any of the foregoing; and (y) if such contest shall be
conducted in a manner requiring the payment of the claim, the Lessee
shall have paid the amount required. The Lessee agrees to give such
Indemnitee reasonable notice of any contest prior to the commencement
thereof. If any Indemnitee shall obtain a refund of all or any part of
any Taxes paid by the Lessee, or if any such refund would be payable to
the Indemnitee in the absence of an offsetting liability for Taxes
payable to the taxing authority in question, such Indemnitee shall pay
the Lessee, but not before the Lessee shall have made all payments
theretofore due to such Indemnitee pursuant to this Section 13 (b), an
amount equal to the lesser of (xx) the amount of such refund so received
or receivable, including interest received or receivable and attributable
thereto, plus any net permanent tax benefit realized by such Indemnitee
(determined in a manner consistent with the definition of After Tax Basis
set forth in Appendix A and with the last sentence of Section 13(b)(6)
hereof) as a result of any payment by such Indemnitee made pursuant to
this sentence (after taking into account the tax consequences of the
receipt of such refund and such interest) or (yy) such tax payment by the
Lessee to such Indemnitee plus any other payment by the Lessee to such
Indemnitee theretofore made pursuant to this Section 13(b), in either
case, net of any expenses not already paid or incurred by the Lessee;
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provided, however, that in computing any tax benefit, such Indemnitee
shall be deemed first to have utilized all deductions and credits
available to it otherwise than by reason of any payment by the Lessee
pursuant to this Section 13(b); provided, further, however, that
notwithstanding the provisions of this clause (4), such Indemnitee shall
not be obligated to make any payment to the Lessee pursuant to this
clause (4) if at the time such payment shall be due a Default or
an-Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing under the
Facility Lease. An Indemnitee shall not be required to make any payment
pursuant to this clause (4) before such time as the Lessee shall have
made all payments and indemnities then due under the Transaction
Documents to such Indemnitee. Notwithstanding anything contained in this
clause (4) to the contrary, no Indemnitee shall be required to contest
any claim if the subject matter thereof shall be of a continuing nature
and shall have previously been decided pursuant to the contest
provisions of this clause (4) unless there shall have been a change in
the law (including, without limitation, amendments to statutes or
regulations, administrative rulings and court decisions) after such
claim shall have been so previously decided, and such Indemnitee shall
have received an opinion of independent tax counsel selected by the
Lessee and approved by such Indemnitee (which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld) and furnished at the Lessee's sole expense to the
effect that such change provides a Reasonable Basis for the position
which such Indemnitee and the Lessee, as the case may be, had asserted
in such previous contest or for an alternative position based upon such
change that the Lessee now desires to assert. Nothing contained in this
Section 13(b) shall require any Indemnitee to contest or permit the
Lessee to contest a claim which it would otherwise be required to
contest pursuant to this Section 13(b) if such Indemnitee shall waive
payment by the Lessee of any amount that might otherwise be payable by
the Lessee under this Section 13(b) by way of indemnity in respect of
such claim.
(5) General Tax indemnity Reports. If any report, return or
statement is required to be filed with respect to any obligations of the
Lessee under or arising out of this Section 13(b), the Lessee shall
timely file the same, except for any such report, return or statement
which such Indemnitee has notified the Lessee that it intends to file.
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The Lessee shall either file such report, return or statement so as to
show the ownership of the Undivided Interest or the Real Property
Interest, as the case may be, in the Owner Trustee and send a copy of
such report, return or statement to the Owner Trustee and such Indemnitee
or, where not so permitted, notify the Owner Trustee and such Indemnitee
of such requirement and prepare and deliver such report1 return or
statement to the Owner Trustee and such Indemnitee in a manner
satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and such Indemnitee within a reasonable
time prior to the time such report, return or statement is to be filed
or, where such return, statement or report shall be required to reflect
items in addition to any obligations of the Lessee under or arising out
of this Section 13(b), provide the Owner Trustee and such Indemnitee with
information sufficient to permit such return, statement or report
properly to be made with respect to any obligations of the Lessee under
or arising out of this Section 13(b) (and the Lessee shall hold each
Indemnitee harmless from and against any liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, suits and reasonable costs
arising out of any insufficiency or inaccuracy in any such return,
statement, report or information). The Lessee shall not have any right to
examine the tax returns of any Indemnitee.
(6) General Tax Indemnity-Payment. All Taxes shall be paid when
due and payable (except with respect to Arizona real property taxes,
which shall be paid before they become delinquent) and, unless otherwise
requested by the appropriate Indemnitee, the Lessee shall pay any Taxes
for which it is liable pursuant to this Section 13(b) directly to the
appropriate taxing authority and shall pay such appropriate Indemnitee
promptly on demand in immediately available funds any amount due such
Indemnitee pursuant to this Section 13(b) with respect to such Taxes.
Any such demand shall specify in reasonable detail the payment and the
facts upon which the right to payment is based. Each Indemnitee shall
promptly forward to the Lessee any notice, xxxx or advice received by it
concerning any Taxes. Within 30. days after the date of each payment by
the Lessee of any Taxes, the Lessee shall furnish the appropriate
Indemnitee the original or a certified copy of a receipt for the
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Lessee's payment of such Taxes or such other evidence of payment of such
Taxes as is acceptable to such Indemnitee. The Lessee shall also furnish
promptly upon request such data as any Indemnitee may require to enable
such Indemnitee to comply with the requirements of any taxing
jurisdiction. Whenever any payment is to be made by the Lessee under
this Section 13(b) and it shall be necessary, in calculating the After
Tax Basis amount of such payment, to compute the amount of any liability
for federal, state or local tax imposed on or measured by the net income
of any Indemnitee, such computation shall be based on the assumption
that such taxes shall be payable at the highest marginal statutory rate
in effect for the relevant period.
(7) Definition of Indemnitee. For purposes of this Section
13(b), the term Indemnitee shall mean and include the successors and
assigns of each respective Indemnitee, and for purposes of federal
income taxes, the affiliated group of corporations and each member
thereof (within the meaning of Section 1504 of the Code) of which such
Indemnitee is a member, if such group shall file a consolidated United
States federal income tax return, and, for purposes of income or
franchise taxes imposed by a particular state or 16ca1 taxing
jurisdiction, shall mean and include any consolidated or combine group
of which such Indemnitee is or shall be a member that is treated as such
by such state or local taxing jurisdiction.
(c) Supporting Material. Each Indemnitee shall provide to the
Lessee such supporting material (other than tax returns) as the Lessee shall
reasonably request in connection with the matters set forth in Section 13(b).
The Lessee shall reimburse to any Indemnitee any expenses incurred in providing
requested supporting material to the Lessee.
(d) Cooperation. The Owner Participant shall cooperate and shall
cause the Owner Trustee to cooperate with and consider in good faith any request
by, the Lessee, upon the written request and at the expense (including a
reasonable allowance for internal legal costs) of the Lessee, in order to avoid
or minimize any taxes for which the Lessee is responsible under Section 13(b)
hereof.
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SECTION 14. Transaction Expenses.
(a) Transaction Expenses. Subject to the pro-visions of
paragraph (C) below, with funds provided by the Owner Participant, the Owner
Trustee hereby agrees that it will pay when due an appropriate portion of the
following costs and expenses (Transaction Expenses):
(i) the reasonable legal fees and disbursements of Xxxxx
Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx (as counsel for the Loan
Participant), Milbank, Tweed, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx &
Sterling, Cravath, Swaine & Xxxxx, Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxx & XxXxxx,
Csaplar & Bok, Shaw, Pittman, Xxxxx & Trowbridge, Meyer,
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Maledon, Rodey, Dickason, Sloan,
Akin & Xxxx, P.A. and Wilikie, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxxx (as counsel for
the Indenture Trustee) for their services rendered in connection
with the execution and delivery of this Participation Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents and all fees, expenses and
disbursements incurred by them in connection with such
-transactions; reasonable legal fees, expenses and disbursements
of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx and Xxxxx & Xxxxxx in
connection with NRC and ANPP Participant approvals in connection
with such transactions; and (if agreed to in writing by the
Lessee) the internal charges of attorneys employed by the Owner
Participant or any Affiliate of the Owner Participant incurred
in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transact
ion Documents;
(ii) the initial (but not the ongoing) fees and expenses
of the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee;
(iii) all stenographic, printing, reproduction, and other
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (other than investment banking
or brokerage fees) incurred in connection with the execution and
delivery of this Participation Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents and all other agreements, documents or
instruments prepared in connection therewith (including all
computer analysis and travel related costs);
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(iv) the fees of Ebasco Business Consulting Company for
services rendered as contemplated by Section ll(a)(30), the fees
of the special nuclear consultants to the Owner Participant, the
fees of the appraiser for services rendered as contemplated by
Section ll(a)(39) and the fees of the insurance consultant for
services rendered as contemplated by Section 11 (a) (36);
(V) all costs of issue of the Initial Series Bonds and
the Refunding Bonds including, without limitation, the costs of
preparing the Financing Documents, filing fees relating to the
Registration Statement and the fees, expenses and disbursements
of Wilikie, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxxx, as counsel for the Collateral
Trust Trustee and the banks party to the Term Loan Agreement,
Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, as counsel for the Loan
Participant, the Loan Participant's special Arizona and New
Mexico counsel, Willkie, Xxxx & Xxxxxxxxx, as counsel for the
underwriters of the Refunding Bonds, the initial fees of the
Collateral Trust Trustee and its out-of-pocket expenses through
the Refunding Date, rating agency fees, the fees and commissions
of the underwriters of the Refunding Bonds and the fees,
expenses and disbursements of the Loan Participant;
(vi) the fees and out-of-pocket expenses of Xxxxxx,
Peabody & Co., Incorporated, and Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx & Co. in
connection with the placement of the beneficial interest in the
Trust; and
(vii) the commitment fees payable to the banks party to
the Term Loan Agreement.
Subject to the provisions of paragraph (c) below, funds for the payment of
Transaction Expenses will be provided by the Owner Participant to the Owner
Trustee and the Owner Trustee will promptly disburse such funds.
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(b) Post-Closing Expenses. The Lessee will pay, Supplemental
Rent, (i) the ongoing fees, expenses, disbursements and costs (including legal
and other professional fees and expenses) of or incurred by the Owner Trustee,
the Indenture Trustee and the Collateral Trust Trustee, including in connection
with the issue, sale and purchase of Notes and Bonds after the Closing Date, and
(ii) all fees, expenses, disbursements and costs (including legal and other
professional fees and expenses) incurred by the Loan Participant, the Owner
Participant, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the Collateral Trust
Trustee in connection with (a) any Default, Event of Default, Indenture Default
or Indenture Event of Default, (b) the entering into or giving or withholding of
any amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent with respect to any
Transaction Document or Financing Document, (c) any Event of Loss or Deemed Loss
Event, (d) any transfer of all or any part of the right, title and interest of
the Indenture Trustee in, to and under the Transaction Documents, (e) any
transfer of all or any part of the right, title and interest of the Owner
Trustee in the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest or in, to and
under the Transaction Documents, (f) any transfer contemplated by Section
7(b)(4) and (g) any releveraging or refunding referred to in Section 2(c) or
2(d) (except to the extent constituting Transaction Expenses)
(c) Lessee's Obligation. Notwithstanding Section 14(a) hereof,
(i) in the event the transactions contemplated by this Participation Agreement
shall not be consummated, the Lessee shall pay or cause to be paid, and shall
indemnify and hold harmless the Loan Participant, the Indenture Trustee, the
Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant in respect of all Transaction Expenses
unless such failure to consummate shall result solely from the Owner
Participant's default in making its Investment hereunder and (ii) the Lessee
shall pay or cause ~o be paid that portion of the Transaction Expenses which
exceeds 2% of the Purchase Price.
SECTION 15. Owner Participant's Transfers.
(a) Transfers. After the Closing Date, except as contemplated
by Section 7(b)(4) or by the Facility Lease, the Owner Participant shall not
assign, convey or otherwise transfer all or any part of (including, without
limitation, an undivided interest in) its right, title or interest in and to
this Participation Agreement, any of the other Transaction Documents or the
Trust Estate (except its right to receive Excepted Payments) to any Person (a
Transferee) except on the following conditions:
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(i) the Transferee shall enter into an agreement or
agreements whereby such Transferee confirms that (1) it shall be
bound by the terms of this Participation Agreement and each
other Transaction Document, to the extent of the interest
transferred, as if it had been originally named as the Owner
Participant hereunder and thereunder and (2) if such Transferee
is a public utility company, it shall have waived its right to
claim Special Casualty Value upon the occurrence of a Deemed
Loss Event (of the type specified in clause (1) of the
definition thereof) under the Facility Lease;
(ii) the Transferee shall be either (A) a financial
institution, a corporation or a partnership with a net worth or
capital and surplus of at least $25,OOO,OOO (or, in the case of
a partnership, at least one of whose general partners has such a
net worth or capital and surplus), or a direct or indirect
wholly-owned subsidiary of such a financial institution or
corporation, (B) a direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of
(1) the Owner Participant or (2) any direct or indirect parent
of the Owner Participant, (C) the Lessee or any Affiliate of the
Lessee, (D) such other Person as shall have been approved by the
Lessee or (E) any Person; provided, however, that if the
Transferee is a subsidiary referred to in clause (A) above or a
Person referred to in clause (E) above, the transferring Owner
Participant (and any parent thereof secondarily liable pursuant
to this Section 15(a) (ii)) shall continue to be liable for (or
the parent of such Transferee, which shall otherwise be a
permitted Transferee, shall enter into an agreement whereby such
parent confirms that it shall be secondarily liable for) the
obligations of such Transferee under Section 7(b) (i)
notwithstanding such transfer; and
(iii) such transfer shall not violate the Securities Act
or any provision of, or create a relationship which would be in
violation of, any Applicable Law or agreement to which the
transferring Owner Participant or the Transferee is a party or
by which its property is bound.
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Upon any transfer permitted pursuant to the foregoing provisions, the
transferring Owner Participant shall, except as expressly provided in clause
(ii) above, be released from its obligations under this Participation Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents (including, without limitation, the Trust
Agreement) to the extent of the interest transferred. An agreement to transfer
shall not in and of itself constitute a transfer for purposes of this Section
15.
(b) Procedure. If the Owner Participant transfers all or any
part of its interest hereunder pursuant to this Section 15, it shall give
written notice thereof to the Lessee, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
and the Loan Participant, specifying the name and address for notices to the
Transferee, such other information and evidence as shall be necessary to
establish compliance with this Section 15 and the extent of the interest
transferred to such Transferee. If, as a result of any such transfer, the
original Owner Participant is not to continue to receive all payments to be made
by the Indenture Trustee to the "Owner Participant" under the Indenture, the
original Owner Participant shall from time to time, by notice to the Indenture
Trustee, with copies to the Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Collateral Trust
Trustee, designate the manner in which any such payments to the "Owner
Participant" are to be allocated, and the Indenture Trustee shall be entitled to
rely on such notice for all purposes. This Section 15 (other than the notice
provisions contained in the first sentence of this Section 15(c)) is for the
benefit of the Lessee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant and may not
be enforced by any other party hereto. The Owner Participant agrees that it will
use reasonable efforts to provide (or cause to be provided) such information as
the Lessee may reasonably request to comply with requests for information
received from the NRC with respect to the Transferee (provided that the Owner
Participant shall not be required to provide (or cause to be provided) any
information of a confidential or proprietary nature).
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SECTION 16. Brokerage and Finders' Fees and Commissions.
Except to the extent of amounts payable by the Owner
Participant pursuant to Section 14, the Lessee will indemnify and hold harmless
the Loan Participant, the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee and the Owner
Participant in respect of any commissions, fees, judgments or other expenses of
any nature and kind which any of them may become liable to pay by reason of any
claims by or on behalf of brokers, finders, agents, advisors or investment
bankers in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Participation
Agreement, any other Transaction Document or any Financing Document, or any
litigation or similar proceeding arising from any such claim, other than claims
arising out of written undertakings of the party claiming indemnification under
this Section 16 or any Affiliate or shareholder (or Affiliate of such
shareholder) of such Person with any such broker, finder, agent, advisor or
investment banker.
SECTION 17. Survival of Representations and Warranties;
Binding Effect.
(a) Survival. All indemnities, Representations and warranties
contained in this Participation Agreement, in any other Transaction Document, in
any Financing Document and in any agreement, document or certificate delivered
pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith, shall
survive, and shall continue in effect following, the execution and delivery of
this Participation Agreement, the making of the investments and the loans
referred to herein, any disposition of any interest in the Undivided Interest,
Unit 2 or any other property referred to in this Participation Agreement and the
expiration or other termination of any of the Transaction Documents or Financing
Documents and shall be and continue in effect notwithstanding (i) any
investigation made by the Owner Participant or the Loan Participant or (ii) the
fact that any of the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Trustee, the Loan Participant
or the Owner Participant may waive compliance with any of the other terms,
provisions or conditions of any of the Transaction Documents or Financing
Documents. The obligations of the Lessee under Sections 10(b) (2), 10(b) (3)
(vii) , 10(b) (3) (x) l0(b)(3)(xi), 13, 14, 16 and 19(f) shall survive the
expiration or other termination of this Participation Agreement or any other
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Transaction Document or Financing Document. The modification by law of any
statute of limitations, or the waiver or extension of any statute of limitations
by the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Lessee, the Owner Participant,
the Loan Participant or any Indemnitee shall not affect such survival.
(b) Binding Effect. All agreements, representations and
warranties in this Participation Agreement, the other Transaction Documents and
the Financing Documents and in any agreement, document or certificate delivered
concurrently with the execution of this Participation Agreement or from time to
time thereafter, shall bind the party making the same and its successors and
permitted assigns and shall inure to the benefit of each party for whom made and
its successors and permitted assigns, and, to the extent provided in the next
sentence, each Indemnitee and its successors and assigns. The obligations of the
Lessee under Section 13 hereof and Section 20 of the Facility Lease are
expressly made for the benefit of, and shall be enforce-able by, any Indemnitee,
separately or together, without declaring the Facility Lease to be in default
and notwithstanding any assignment by the Lessor of the Facility Lease or any of
its rights thereunder or any disposition of all or any part of any interest in
the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest, Unit 2 or any other property
referred to in this Participation Agreement, or in any Transaction Document or
any Financing Document. All payments required to be made pursuant to Section 13
shall be made directly to, or as otherwise requested by, the Indemnitee entitled
thereto upon written demand by such Indemnitee. The Lessee shall not assign any
of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the
Owner Participant and the Owner Trustee. Except as otherwise indicated, all
references herein to any party to this Participation Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents shall include the permitted successors and assigns of such
party.
SECTION 18. Notices.
All communications, notices and consents provided for herein
shall be in writing, and sent by telex, telecopy or other wire transmission
containing a request for assurance of receipt in a manner typical with respect
to communications of that type, or mailed by registered or certified mail,
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personally delivered or delivered by express delivery service, and shall be
addressed (i) if to the Owner Participant, at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx 00000, Attention: Assistant Treasurer; (ii) if to the Loan Participant, at
Corporation Trust Center, 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: President; (iii) if to FNB, or the Owner Trustee, at 000 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Division (TWX
No. 940581); (iv) if to the Indenture Trustee, at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx
Xxxx 00000: Attention of Corporate Trustee Administration; and (v) if to the
Lessee, at Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000, Attention: Secretary;
or at such other address as any party hereto may from time to time designate by
notice duly given in accordance with the provisions of this Section to the other
parties hereto. All such communications, notices and consents given in the
manner provided above shall be effective on the date of receipt of such
communication or notice.
SECTION 19. Miscellaneous.
(a) Execution. This Participation Agreement may be executed in
any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate
counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument. Although this Participation Agreement is dated as of the date
first above written for convenience, the actual dates of execution hereof by the
parties hereto are respectively the dates set forth under the signatures hereto,
and this Participation Agreement shall be effective on the latest of such dates.
(b) Intention of the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant.
Each of the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant intends to exercise its
rights and carry out its obligations hereunder and under the other Transaction
Documents solely with a view to furthering its own best interests and does not
have, and does not expect to have, any form of joint profit motive with any
other Person. The Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant shall not be required
to share any Rent to which they are entitled under the Facility Lease, or the
residual value of the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest, with any
other Person. The Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant are not under the
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control of nor shall they be deemed to be under the control of any other Person
having any interest in Unit 2, and shall not be the agent of or have a right or
power to bind any such Person (other than the Owner Participant as regards the
Owner Trustee) without its express written consent. The Owner Trustee (on behalf
of the Owner Participant) and the owner Participant (on its own behalf) have and
at all times shall retain the right separately to take or dispose of the
Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest, subject only to the rights of
the Lessee and the Loan Participant under the Transaction Documents. The Owner
Trustee and the Owner Participant accordingly do not intend to create any form
of partnership or joint venture with any other Person by virtue of the
transactions contemplated hereby or by any of the Transaction Documents. In the
event that it is determined, contrary to the intent of the Owner Trustee and the
Owner Participant, that, for purposes of the Code or any other income tax law, a
form of partnership or joint venture exists between the Owner Trustee or the
Owner Participant and any other Person, the Owner Trustee and the Owner
Participant hereby elect to the extent permitted by law (i) not to have the
partnership provisions of the Code or such other income tax law apply to any of
the transactions contemplated hereby or by any of the Transaction Documents and
(ii) to be treated solely as owning the Undivided Interest and the Real Property
Interest.
(c) Governing Law. This Participation Agreement has been
negotiated and delivered in the State of New York and shall be governed
by, and be construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New
York.
(d) Amendments, Supplements, etc. Neither this Participation
Agreement nor any of the terms hereof may be amended, supplemented,
waived or modified orally, but only by an instrument in writing signed
by the party against which enforcement of such change is sought.
(e) Headings. The headings of the sections and paragraphs of
this paragraphs of this Participation Agreement have been inserted for
convenience of reference only and shall in no way restrict or otherwise
modify any of the terms or provisions hereof.
(f) Bankruptcy of Owner Participant. If (a) the Owner
Participant or the Owner Trustee becomes a debtor subject to the
reorganization provisions of the Bankruptcy Code, or any successor
provision,
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(b) pursuant to such reorganization provisions the Owner Participant or the
Owner Trustee is required, by reason of the Owner Participant being held to have
recourse liability directly or indirectly to the Holder of any Note or the
Indenture Trustee, to make payment on account of any amount payable as principal
or interest on such Note and (c) such Holder or the Indenture Trustee actually
receives any Excess Amount which reflects any payment by the Owner Participant
on account of clause (b) of this Section1 then such Holder or the Indenture
Trustee, as the case may be, shall promptly refund to the Owner Participant such
Excess Amount. For purposes of this Section, "Excess Amount means the amount by
which such payment exceeds the amount which would have been received on or prior
to the date of such payment by such Holder or the Indenture Trustee if the Owner
Participant or the Owner Trustee had not become subject to the recourse
liability referred to in clause (b) of this Section, Nothing contained in this
Section shall prevent such Holder or the Indenture Trustee from enforcing any
personal recourse obligation (and retaining the proceeds thereof) of the Owner
Participant expressly provided for under this Participation Agreement.
(g) Entire Agreement. This Participation Agreement (including
the Schedules hereto and the waiver letter dated as of the Closing Date), the
other Transaction Documents and the Financing Documents supersede all prior
agreements, written or oral, between or among any of the parties hereto relating
to the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and each of the parties
hereto represents and warrants to the others that this Participation Agreement
and the other Transaction Documents and the Financing Documents constitute the
entire agreement among the parties relating to the transactions contemplated
hereby and thereby.
(h) Publicity. Each party hereto agrees that it will not issue
or release for external publication any article or advertising or publicity
matter relating to the transaction contemplated hereby or any similar
transaction mentioning or implying the identity of the Owner Participant without
the prior written consent of the Owner Participant; provided, however, that the
Owner Participant agrees that such written consent shall not be withheld if such
disclosure is required by Applicable Law.
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(i) Section 48(d) Election. Neither the Owner participant nor
the Owner Trustee makes any representation or warranty to the Lessee or any
other Person as to the availability or amount of any investment tax credits with
respect to the Undivided Interest. The Owner Participant hereby agrees with the
Lessee that:
(1) Within a reasonable time after the execution of this
participation Agreement (but in no event later than the date required by
the Regulations under Section 48(d) of the Code), the Owner participant
will execute and file with the Lessee and will cause the common parent
(the "Common Parent") of the affiliated group of corporations of which
the owner Participant is a member (the "Group") and the Owner Trustee to
execute and file with the Lessee a statement in the form of Exhibit C
hereto (the section 48(d) Election);
(2) The Owner Participant will attach and will cause the common
parent and the Owner Trustee to attach to their respective Federal
income tax returns and to the consolidated Federal income tax return of
the Group for their respective taxable years in which the Facility Lease
commences a summary statement in the form of Exhibit D hereto (the
Summary Statement; and
(3) The Owner Participant will keep and will cause the Common
Parent and the Owner Trustee to keep the Section 48(d) Election as part
of their respective records.
To the best of the Owner Participant's knowledge, the
information set forth in clauses (i)(a), (i) (b) , (ii) (a) and (ii) (b) of the
Section 48(d) election is true and correct, and the information set forth in
clauses (i)(a) and (i)(k) of the Summary Statement is true and correct. The
owner Participant has no present intention to take any action that would render
clause (vii) of the Section 48(d) Election incorrect at any time during the
continuance of the Facility Lease, The Owner Participant has no present
intention to become, at any time during the continuance of the Facility Lease
when a loss or recapture described herein would result, a Person who may not
make a valid election under Section 48(d) of the Code or a Person whose status
as a lessor of the Undivided Interest would result in the loss or recapture of
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any investment-tax credits claimed by the Lessee with respect to the Undivided
Interest under Sections 46(d) or 48(d) of the Code. The Owner Participant has no
present intention to make a disposition of its interest in the Trust State at
any time during the continuance of the Facility Lease when a loss or recapture
would result, to a Person described in the preceding sentence.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have each caused this
Participation Agreement to be duly executed by their respective officers
thereunto duly authorized as of the dates set forth below.
XXXXXXX LEASING CORPORATION
By ____________________________
Assistant Treasurer
Date: August 18, 1986
FIRST PV FUNDING CORPORATION
By_________________________
Vice President
Date: August 18, 1986
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF
NEW MEXICO
By_____________________
Date: August 18, 1986
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, in its
individual capacity and as
Owner Trustee
By:_____________________________
AUTHORIZATION OFFICER
Date: August 18, 1986
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CHEMICAL BANK, in its
individual capacity and as
Indenture Trustee
By
----------------------------
Vice President
Date: August 18, 1986
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Schedule 1
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING
STATION UNIT 2
NOTICE OF CLOSING
XXXXXXX LEASING CORPORATION
Pursuant to Section 5(a) of the Participation Agreement, dated
as of August 12, 1986 (the Participation Agreement), among Xxxxxxx Leasing
Corporation, as Owner Participant (the Owner Participant), First PV Funding
Corporation, as Loan Participant, The First National Bank of Boston, as Owner
Trustee, Chemical Bank, as Indenture Trustee, and Public Service Company of New
Mexico (PNM), PNM hereby gives notice of a Closing to occur at 10:00 a.m. on
August 18, 1986 (the Closing Date). The Closing will be held at the offices or
in the hallway of Messrs. Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, 000 Xxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
(i) Based upon information supplied to PNM, Estimated
Transaction Expenses are an aggregate of $10,077,400. A list of such
expenses is attached hereto.
(ii) Payment of the Purchase Price and the Real Estate
Investment shall be made pursuant to (i) that certain Owner Participant
Escrow Letter, dated August 18, 1956, between the Owner Participant and
Chemical Bank, and (ii) that certain Collateral Trust Escrow Agreement,
dated August 18, 1986, between Chemical Bank and Chemical Bank, as
Collateral Trust Trustee.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise specifically
defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Appendix A to the
Participation Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Public Service Company of New Mexico has
executed this Notice of Closing this 18th day of August, 1986.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO
By___________________________
Vice President, Revenue
Management
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Schedule 2
PRICING ASSUMPTIONS
Basic Rent, Casualty Values, Special Casualty Values and
Termination Values, as set forth in the Facility Lease as originally executed,
have been computed on the basis of the fol1owing pricing assumptions:
1. Investment Percentage: 26.03987685%
2. Loan Percentage: 73.96012315%
3. Interest Rate on Initial
Series Note: 10.5% per annum.
4. Federal ACRS Deductions: 10-year public utility
property deductions on the basis
of 95% of Purchase
Price allocated to
Xxxx 0 and 100% of
Purchase Price allocated to Common
Facilities.
5. Investment Tax Credit
Retained by the Lessor: 10% of Purchase
Price Allocated to
Unit 2.
6. Owner Participant's Tax
Year-End: December 31.
7. Purchase Price: $100,000,000
a. Purchase Price
Allocated to Unit 2: $87,000,000
b. Purchase Price
Allocated to Common
Facilities: $13,000,000
8. Closing Date: August 18, 1986.
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9. Transaction Expenses: 0.8% of Purchase
Price paid by the
Owner Participant in
addition to its
Investment
(amortized on a
straight-line basis
during the basic
lease term and
interim period).
10. Real Estate Investment: $47,000.00
11. Basic rent payment dates: January 15 and July 15
of each year (rent
payable in arrears).
12. First basic rent payment
date: July 15, 1987.
13. Last basic rent payment
date: January 15, 2016.
14. Interim rent payment
date: January 15, 1987.
15. Marginal Composite Tax
Rate: 46%
16. First Estimated Tax
Payment Date: September 15, 1986.
17. Tax Accounting Method: Accrual.
18. Amortization of Initial
Series Note: See schedule
attached thereto.
19. Tax Estimation Method: 90% current estimate;
10% make-up
payment in March of
the following year.
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Schedule 3
Recordations and Filings
Part I. Recordations in Respect of the Sale of, and the Owner Trustee' 5
Title to, the Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest.
County Recorder, Maricopa County, Arizona:
(i) Deed;
(ii) Xxxx of Sale;
(iii) Assignment and Assumption;
(iv) Facility Lease;
(v) Indenture;
(vi) Indenture of Partial
Release/Facility; and
(vii) Indenture of Partial Release/Real Property.
Part II. UCC-1 Financing Statements.
A. County Recorder, Maricopa County, Arizona:
(i) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming PNM, as
lessee, the Owner Trustee, as lessor, and the Indenture Trustee,
as assignee of the Owner Trustee, in respect of the Facility
Lease;
(ii) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming the Owner
Trustee1 as debtor, and the Indenture Trustee, as secured party,
in respect of the Lease Indenture Estate; and
(iii) A financing statement amendment on form UCC-2 naming
the Loan Participant, as debtor, and the Collateral Trust
Trustee, as secured party, in respect of the Pledged Property
(as defined in the Collateral Trust Indenture) with respect to
the Term Note Supplemental Indenture.
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B. Secretary of State, Arizona:
(i) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming PNM, as
lessee, the Owner Trustee, as lessor, and the Indenture Trustee,
as assignee of the Owner Trustee, in respect of the Facility
Lease;
(ii) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming PNM, as
lessee, the Owner Trustee, as lessor and the Indenture Trustee,
as assignee of the Owner Trustee, in respect of the Facility
Lease [Filed as a public utility filing];
(iii) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming the Owner
Trustee, as debtor, and the Indenture Trustee, as secured party,
in respect of the Lease Indenture Estate; and
(iv) A financing statement amendment on form UCC-2 naming
the Loan Participant, as debtor, and the Collateral Trust
Trustee, as secured party, in respect of the Pledged Property
(as defined in the Collateral Trust Indenture) with respect to
the Term Note Supplemental Indenture.
C. Office of County Clerk, Bernalillo County, New Mexico:
(i) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming PNM, as
lessee, the Owner Trustee, as lessor, and the Indenture Trustee,
as assignee of the Owner Trustee, in respect of the Facility
Lease;
(ii) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming the Owner
Trustee, as debtor and the Indenture Trustee, as secured party,
with respect to the Lease Indenture Estate; and
(iii) A UCC financing statement amendment naming the Loan
Participant, as debtor, and the Collateral Trust Trustee, as
secured party, with respect to the Pledged Property (as defined
in the Collateral Trust Indenture) in respect of the Term Note
Supplemental Indenture.
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D. Secretary of State, New Mexico:
(i) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming PNM, as
lessee, the Owner Trustee, as lessor, and the Indenture Trustee,
as assignee of the Owner Trustee, in respect of the Facility
Lease;
(ii) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming the Owner
Trustee, as debtor, and the Indenture Trustee, as secured party,
in respect of the Lease Indenture Estate; and
(iii) A UCC financing statement amendment naming the Loan
Participant, as debtor, and the Collateral Trust Trustee, as
secured party, with respect to the Pledged Property (as defined
in the Collateral Trust Indenture) in respect of the Term Note
Supplemental Indenture.
E. Secretary of State, Massachusetts:
(i) A financing statement on form UCC-l naming the
Owner Trustee, as debtor, and the Indenture Trustee, as
secured party, in respect of the Lease Indenture Estate.
Part III. Other Filings:
Filing of the Indenture with the Secretary of State of the State
of New Mexico pursuant to the New Mexico Public Utility Act.
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SCHEDULE 4
[Letterhead of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as counsel for First PV Funding Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (Funding Corp.), in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August 12, 1986 (the
Participation Agreement), among Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, a New York
corporation, as Owner Participant, The First National Bank of Boston, a national
banking association, individually and as Owner Trustee, Funding Corp., Chemical
Bank, a New York banking corporation, individually and as Indenture Trustee and
Public Service Company of New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation. All capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set
forth in Appendix A to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is being
delivered pursuant to Sections 11(a) (12) and 11(a) (27) of the Participation
Agreement.
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As such counsel we have examined originals or copies, certified
or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate records,
agreements and other instruments., certificates, orders, opinions,
correspondence with public officials, certificates of officers and
representatives of Funding Corp. and other documents, as we have deemed
necessary or advisable for the purposes of rendering the opinions set forth
herein.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
(1) Funding Corp. is a corporation duly organized and validly
existing in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and
has the corporate power and authority to carry on its business as
presently conducted, own its properties, and enter into and perform its
obligations under the Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document and each Financing Document to which it is a party.
(2) The execution, delivery and performance by Funding Corp.
of the Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document and
each Financing Document to which it is a party, have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of Funding
Corp. and do not require the consent or approval of the stockholder of
Funding Corp. The Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document and each Financing Document to which Funding Corp. is a party
have been duly executed and delivered by Funding Corp. and, assuming due
authorization, execution and delivery by each other party thereto,
constitute legal, valid and binding agreements of Funding Corp.
enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms.
(3) Neither the execution, delivery or performance by Funding
Corp. of the Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document
or any Financing Document to which it is a party, nor the consummation
by Funding Corp. of the transactions contemplated thereby, nor
compliance by Funding Corp. with the provisions thereof conflicts with,
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or results in the breach of any provision of, the Certificate of
Incorporation or By-Laws of Funding Corp. or any Federal, Delaware or
New York law or any indenture, mortgage or agreement to which Funding
Corp. is a party or by which it or its property is bound or requires any
Governmental Action with respect to Funding Corp. under Federal,
Delaware or New York law, except such as have been, duly obtained, given
or accomplished.
The opinions set forth above are subject to the qualifications
that enforceability of the Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document and each Financing Document to which Funding Corp. is a party in
accordance with their respective terms may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting enforcement of
creditors' rights generally, as well as the general principles of equity and the
availability of equitable remedies.
This opinion is limited to the Federal laws of the United
States, the laws of the State of New York and the corporate law of the State of
Delaware.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
First PV Funding Corporation,
as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
Public Service Company of New Mexico,
as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
The First National Bank of Boston,
as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and Collateral "Trust Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
609l.XXXXXXX.1l06.08:l
Schedule 5
[Letterhead of Milbank, Tweed, Xxxxxx & XxXxxx]
To Each Person Listed on
The Attached Schedule
August 18, 1986
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as special New York counsel for Xxxxxxx Leasing
Corporation, a New York corporation (the Owner Participant), in connection with
the transactions contemplated by the Participation Agreement1 dated as of August
12, 1986, (the Participation Agreement), among the Owner Participant, The First
National Bank of Boston, a national banking association, individually and a
Owner Trustee, First PV Funding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Chemical
Bank, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee and Public Service
Company 6f New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation. All capitalized terms used
herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in
Appendix A to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is being delivered
pursuant to Section 11(a) (14) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies,
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate
records, agreements and other instruments, certificates; orders, opinions,
correspondence with public officials, certificates of officers and
representatives of the Owner Participant, and other documents, as we have deemed
necessary or advisable for the purposes of rendering the opinions set forth
herein.
Based upon the foregoing, we are of opinion that:
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(1) The Owner Participant is a corporation validly existing and
in good standing under the laws of its state of incorporation and has
the corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its
obligations under the Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document to which it is a party.
(2) The making and performance by the Owner Participant of
the Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document to
which the Owner Participant is a party have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action on the part of the Owner Participant and do
not require the consent or approval of its stockholders (except for any
such consents or approvals as have been obtained).
(3) The Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document to which the Owner Participant is a party have been duly
executed and delivered by the Owner Participant and constitute legal,
valid and binding agreements of the Owner Participant, enforceable
against it in accordance with their respective terms, subject, as to
enforceability, to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar laws affecting the enforceability of
creditors' rights generally and to general principles of equity
(regardless of whether an enforcement action is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law). In addition, we wish to point out that
provisions in the Participation Agreement and in the other Transaction
Documents to which the Owner Participant is a party which permit the
Owner Participant to make determinations or take actions may be subject
to a requirement that such determinations be made and such actions be
taken on a reasonable basis and in good faith.
(4) Neither the execution, delivery or performance by the
Owner Participant of the Participation Agreement or any other
Transaction Document to which it is a party, nor the consummation by
the Owner Participant of the transactions contemplated thereby, nor
compliance by the Owner Participant with the provisions thereof,
conflicts with, or results in the breach of any provision of the
corporate charter or the by-laws of the Owner Participant or
contravenes any agreement or instrument to which the Owner Participant
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is a party of which we are aware, or requires any Governmental Action
with respect to the Owner Participant under Federal or New York law,
except such as are contemplated by the Transaction Documents (including
the filing of Form U-7D with the SEC within 30 days of the date hereof)
or the Financing Documents or such as have been duly obtained, given or
accomplished.
We are members of the Bar of the State of New York and we
express no opinion with regard to any law other than the laws of the State of
New York and the Federal laws of the United States of America. We do not hold
ourselves out as experts on the laws of the State of Arizona or the State of New
Mexico, and to the extent such laws may be relevant to any opinion herein
expressed, we have, with your permission, relied upon the opinions dated this
date of Meyer, Hendricks, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxx; Xxxxx & Xxxxxx; Xxxxx,
Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Xxxx, P.A.; and Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A., without
independently considering the matters covered thereby. Further, we express no
opinion as to matters governed by the Atomic Energy Act or the Nuclear Waste
Act.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
First PV Funding Corporation,
as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Public Service Company of New Mexico,
as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
The First National Bank of Boston,
as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and Collateral Trust Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
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SCHEDULE 6
(Letterhead of Csaplar & Bok]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to The First National Bank of
Boston, a national banking association (FNB) in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August 12, 1986 (the
Participation Agreement), among Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, a New York
corporation (the Owner Participant), First PV Funding Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, FNB, in its individual capacity and as Owner Trustee under a Trust
Agreement dated as of August 12, 1986, with the Owner Participant (in such
fiduciary capacity, the Owner Trustee), Chemical Bank, a New York banking
corporation, as Indenture Trustee and Public Service Company of New Mexico, a
New Mexico corporation. All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Appendix A to the
Participation Agreement. This opinion is being delivered pursuant to Section
11(a) (16) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies, certified
or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate records,
agreements and other instruments, certificates, orders, opinions, correspondence
with public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of FNB, and
other documents, as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of
rendering the opinions set forth herein. With respect to our opinion set forth
in paragraph 6 hereof, we have assumed that, for federal income tax purposes,
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the trust created by the Trust Agreement will be treated as a grantor trust
subject to section 671 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended. We have
also assumed that each of the Transaction Documents is legal, valid, binding and
enforceable under the laws of the State of New York, subject only to such
limitations as are set forth below.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
(1) FNB is a national banking association duly organized and
validly existing in good standing under the laws of the United States of
America and has all requisite corporate power and authority to enter
into and perform its obligations under (x) the Trust Agreement and, to
extent it is a party to the Participation Agreement in its individual
capacity, the Participation Agreement and (y) acting as Owner Trustee,
the Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which
FNB is a party as Owner Trustee.
(2) The Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document to which FNB is a party have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action of FNB (in its individual capacity or as
Owner Trustee, as the case may be) and, upon execution and delivery
thereof, the Participation Agreement and each such other Transaction
Document will be duly executed and delivered and will be legal, valid
and binding agreements of FNB (in its respective capacities),
enforceable against it (in its respective capacities) in accordance with
their respective terms except as enforcement thereof may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar
laws affecting the rights of creditors generally and general principles
of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law) and except that the enforceability of
certain of the remedial provisions in the Indenture may be limited by
applicable state laws, which laws, however, do not in our opinion make
the remedies provided in such documents inadequate for the practical
realization of the benefits provided thereby.
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(3) Neither the execution and delivery by (X) of the Trust
Agreement and, to the extent FNB is a party thereto in its individual
capacity, the Participation Agreement and (y) the Owner Trustee of the
Participation Agreement and each other Transaction Document (other than
the Trust Agreement) to which the Owner Trustee is a party, nor the
performance by FNB, in its individual capacity or as Owner Trustee, as
the case may be, of its obligations under each, conflicts with, or
results in the breach of any provision of, its Charter or By-Laws and
does not contravene any Applicable Law of the United States of America
or The Commonwealth of Massachusetts governing the banking or trust
powers of FNB, and does not contravene any provision of, or constitute a
default under, any indenture, mortgage, contract or other instrument,
known to us, to which FNB is a party or by which it is bound or require
any Governmental Action with respect to the Owner Trustee under any
Federal or Massachusetts law except such as are contemplated by the
Transaction Documents or the Financing Documents or such as have been
duly obtained, given or accomplished.
(4) To the best of our knowledge, after due inquiry, no
Indenture Default or Indenture Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and the Owner Trustee is not in violation of any of the terms
of the Participation Agreement or of any other Transaction Document to
which it is a party.
(5) To the best of our knowledge, but without independent
investigation, there is no action, suit, investigation or proceeding
pending, or to our knowledge, threatened against FNB (in either such
capacity) before any court, arbitrator or administrative or governmental
body and which relates to its banking or trust powers which,
individually or in the aggregate, if decided adversely to the interests
of FNB (in either such capacity), would have an adverse effect upon the
ability of FNB (in either such capacity) to perform its obligations
under the Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document to
which it is a party (in any capacity).
(6) Neither the execution by FNB (in any capacity) of the
Participation Agreement, the Initial Series Note or any other
Transaction Document to which it (in any capacity) is a party, nor the
performance in any capacity by it of its obligations thereunder, will
subject the Trust Estate or the Lease Indenture Estate, or any portion
thereof, to any Owner Trustee's Lien.
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(7) Other than any tax imposed on FNB in its individual capacity
or the Owner Trustee in respect of any compensation to which FNB or the
Owner Trustee, as the case may be, is entitled or receives for its
services in connection with the performance of its duties under the
Trust Agreement or the Indenture, no taxes, fees or other charges will
be imposed by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts or any political
subdivision thereof on or with respect to the execution, delivery or
performance of any of the Transaction Documents or with respect to the
issuance of the Initial Series Note, except such taxes, fees or other
charges which would have been imposed had FNB or the Owner Trustee, as
the case may be, not performed in The Commonwealth of Massachusetts its
duties under the Trust Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.
The opinions expressed herein are limited to 1aws of The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Federal laws of the United States of
America relating to the banking and trust powers of FNB.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
First PV Funding Corporation,
as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx. Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Public Service Company of New Mexico,
as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and Collateral Trust Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
The First National Bank of Boston
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
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SCHEDULE 7
[Letterhead of Shaw, Pittman, Xxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Gentlemen:
We have acted as special NRC counsel for Xxxxxxx Leasing
Corporation, a New York corporation (the Owner Participant), in connection with
the transactions contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August
12, 1986, (the Participation Agreement), among the Owner Participant, The First
National Bank of Boston, a national banking association, individually and as
Owner Trustee (the Owner Trustee), First PV Funding Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, Chemical Bank, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee
and Public Service Company of New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation. All
capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings set forth in Appendix A to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is
being delivered pursuant to Section 11(a)(18) of the Participation Agreement.
The Owner Participant and Owner Trustee have requested our
opinion with respect to three related issues: (1) whether the NRC Order issued
December 12, l986, by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC"), which
authorizes PNM to proceed with the proposed transaction without requiring the
Owner Participant or Owner Trustee to become NRC licensees during the term of
the Facility Lease of the Undivided Interest, is a final order; (2) whether the
Owner Participant or Owner Trustee would have any licensing or reporting
obligations during the Lease Term under any nuclear-related statute or
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regulation; and (3) whether the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act, 42 U.S.C. 5 2210, would
protect the Owner Participant and Owner Trustee against liability with respect
to any "nuclear incident" (as defined by the Act) and whether the Act would
impose any financial obligations on the Owner Participant and Owner Trustee
during the lease term.
In reaching the opinions on these issues set forth below, we
have reviewed and relied upon the NRC Order and the SECY-85-367 NRC staff
document to which the NRC Order refers. We also have reviewed PNM's Application
to the NRC for approval of the transaction and various materials submitted in
support of that Application, including the Arizona Nuclear Power Plant ("ANPP")
Project Participation Agreement and Amendment No. 10 thereto. Finally, we have
reviewed successive drafts (dated _____, _____ and _____ of the relevant
transaction documents, in particular the Participation Agreement among the Owner
Participant, Owner Trustee PNM and others, Appendix A thereto (Definition of
Terms)' and the Facility Lease between the Owner Trustee and PNM. We have
assumed for purposes of our opinions that the final versions of these documents
will not differ materially from the _________ draft versions.
The Finality of the NRC Order
The NRC Order constitutes final agency action, pursuant to 42
U.S.C. 2239(a), on PNM's application for a license amendment. The Xxxxx Act, 28
U.S.C. ss. 2344, permits any party aggrieved" by the NRC Order to petition for
review in the appropriate court of appeals within sixty (60) days of its entry.
Since no person intervened in the NRC proceeding to oppose PNM' 5 application,
however, an appeal from the Order by any person other than PNM would be
dismissed on standing grounds. E.g., American Civil Liberties Union v F.C.C.,
774 X.0x 00, 00 (0xx Xxx. 1985) ("The courts have consistently interpreted the
term "party aggrieved" to require that a petitioner have participated in the
agency proceedings"); Gage v. AEC, 479 F.2d 1214, 1218 (D.C. Cir. 1973).
Section 2.206 of the NRC Rules of Practice (l0 C.F.R. ss. 2.206)
provides that "[a]ny person may file a request for [the appropriate NRC office]
to institute a proceeding pursuant to ss. 2.202 to modify, suspend or revoke a
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license, or for such other action as may be appropriate." This provision would
permit any person to request the NRC during the term of the Facility Lease to
reconsider its Order and amend the License so as to add the Owner Participant
and Owner Trustee as licensees. The likelihood that such a request would be
filed, or that if filed it would be granted, appears to be extremely remote. In
any event, this would not affect the "finality" of the NRC Order.
Similarly, Section 2.204 of the Rules of Practice (10 C.F.R.
2.204) authorizes the NRC to take action of its own accord to modify a license
"by issuing an amendment on notice to the licensee that the licensee may demand
a hearing with respect to all or any part of the amendment." It seems equally
unlikely that the NRC would take such action during the Lease Term to add the
Owner Participant or Owner Trustee as a licensee of the Palo Verde facility.
License and Reporting Obligations of the Owner Participant and
Owner Trustee
The NRC Order includes the condition requested by PNM that "the
lessor and anyone else who may acquire an interest under the transaction which
is the subject of this application are prohibited from exercising directly or
indirectly any control over the licensees of the Palo Verde nuclear facility,"
and therefore concludes that the proposed sale-leaseback transaction "shall have
no effect on the Palo Verde nuclear facility throughout the term of the
license." The SECY-85-367 staff recommendation adopted by the Order further
states:
[W]here as here, the sale of the facility is simply a step in a
transaction involving only the refinancing of capital, and where the
investor owner only serves in a passive role with no authority or
control over the nuclear facility, the Staff can perceive of no
regulatory purpose which would be served by an interpretation of Section
101 of the Atomic Energy Act the source of the NRC's licensing
authority], which requires the licensing of such financial investors.
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The effect of this analysis and the NRC Order is that the Owner
Participant and Owner Trustee are not required to become licensees during the
Lease Term and therefore will incur no obligations as licensees during that
period. By the same token, we believe that the Arizona Public Service Company,
as Project Manager and Operating Agent under the ANPP Participation Agreement,
and PNM, as lessee of the undivided interest from the Owner Trustee, will remain
during the Lease Term the relevant licensees under Facility Operating License
No. NPF-51 subject to all license obligations with respect to the management and
operation of the PVNGS. Such license obligations include the costs and
responsibilities of decommissioning the facility.
In addition, it is our opinion that the Owner Participant and
Owner Trustee will have no reporting obligations during the Lease Term under any
nuclear-related law or regulation. With one exception, such reporting
obligations are limited to licensees or holders of construction permits for
nuclear facilities. The exception is Section 206 of the Energy Reorganization
Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. 5846, which provides that each director and "responsible
officer" of any firm "constructing, owning, operating, or supplying the
components of any facility or activity which is licensed or otherwise regulated"
by the NRC, "who obtains information reasonably indicating that such facility or
activity or basic components supplied to such facility" fails to comply with
nuclear laws or regulations relating to substantial safety hazards or contains a
defect that could create a substantial safety hazard, shall immediately notify
the NRC of the failure to comply or the defect." Although the literal language
of Section 206 would encompass even unlicensed owners of nuclear facilities, the
NRC regulations implementing this provision (10 C.F.R. Part 21) make clear that
its reporting requirements. extend only to licensees and to firms (including
directors and responsible officers thereof) that construct or supply components
to licensed facilities. 10 C.F.R. 21.2. Just as the NRC Order in this case
reflects the agency's understanding that despite the literal language of Section
101 of the Atomic Energy Act the sale of an ownership interest in a nuclear
facility does not require licensing of the passive investor owner, Part 21 of
the NRC Regulations reflects the agency's understanding that the reporting
requirements established by Section 206 were not intended to reach passive
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investors or-lenders and make sense only if applied to those persons actually
involved in the management operation or construction of a nuclear facility or in
the supply of components for such facilities. Accordingly, it is our opinion
that neither Section 206 nor its implementing regulations would impose any
reporting requirements on the Owner Participant or Owner Trustee during the
Lease Term.
The Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act
Section 170 of the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act, in its present form,
requires "licensees" of nuclear facilities to maintain financial protection in
specified amounts against liability for "nuclear incidents" (as that term is
defined in the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act, 42 U.S.C. 2014(q)), which protection includes
both mandatory insurance coverage and retroactive premium assessments of
$5,000,000 per facility for each nuclear incident. 42 U.S.C. 2210(a) & (b). The
Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act also protects all "persons indemnified" against liability for
nuclear incidents beyond the sum of the amount covered by the required financial
protection and the limits of indemnification provided by the NRC. 42 U.S.C.
2210(e).. The Act defines the term "persons indemnified" to include both persons
who are required to maintain financial protection, i.e., licensees, and "any
other person who may be liable for public liability." 42 U.S.C. 2014(t). The
term public liability," in turn, is defined to mean "any legal liability arising
out of or resulting from a nuclear incident" (emphasis added), except for
workers' compensation claims of persons employed at the site where the incident
occurs, claims arising out of an act of war, and claims relating to loss of or
damage to property located at the site of and used in connection with the
activity where the incident occurs. 42 U.S.C. 2014(w).
In light of the NRC Order holding that PNM remains the licensee
of the Palo Verde facility during the lease term, in our opinion the Owner
Participant and Owner Trustee will have no obligation under the Price Xxxxxxxx
Act or its implementing regulations to maintain financial protection during the
lease term. In addition, the terms of the Act described above extend full
financial protection to the Owner Participant and Owner Trustee against
liability for nuclear incidents.
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In summary, it is our opinion that: (1) the NRC Order issued
December 12, 1985, is final subject only to reconsideration at the instance of
the NRC or some other person under Sections 2.204 and 2.206 of the NRC'S Rules
of Practice; (2) under the terms of the NRC Order and under a proper reading of
Section 101 of the Atomic Energy Act and its implementing regulations in their
present form, the Owner Participant and Owner Trustee will not have any license
or reporting obligations during the lease term under any nuclear-related law or
regulation; and (3) the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act in its present form protects the
Owner Participant and Owner Trustee against financial exposure from any
liability for nuclear incidents and does not require the Owner Participant or
Owner Trustee to maintain financial protection during the lease term against
liability for such nuclear incidents.
Sincerely,
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SCHEDULE
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
The First National Bank of Boston,
as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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SCHEDULE 8
[Letterhead of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule:
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as special counsel for Public Service Company of
New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation (PNM), in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August 12, 1986 (the
Participation Agreement), among Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, a New York
corporation, as Owner Participant, First PV Funding Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, The First National Bank of Boston, a nationa1 banking association,
individually and as Owner Trustee, Chemical Bank, a New York banking
corporation, individually and as Indenture Trustee, and PNM. All capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set
forth in Appendix A to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is being
delivered pursuant to Section 11(a) (20) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies,
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate
records, agreements and other instruments, certificates, opinions,
correspondence with public officials, certificates of officers, management
personnel and representatives of PNM, and such other documents, as we have
deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of rendering the opinions set
forth herein.
6091.XXXXXXX.1106.08:l
Based on the foregoing and subject to the qualifications set
forth below, we are of the opinion that:
(1) The Participation Agreement and each other Transaction
Document to which PNM is a party have been duly executed and delivered
by PNM, and, assuming the due authorization, execution and delivery
thereof by the other parties thereto, the Participation Agreement and
each other Transaction Document to which PNM is a party constitute the
legal, valid and binding agreements of PNM, enforceable against PNM in
accordance with their respective terms.
(2) Neither the execution, delivery or performance by PNM of the
Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document or any
Financing Document to which PNM is a party, nor the consummation by PNM
of the transactions contemplated thereby, nor compliance by PNM with the
provisions thereof, conflicts with, or results in a breach or
contravention of any of the provisions of, the Restated Articles of
Incorporation or By-Laws of PNM, or any Federal or New York Applicable
Law.
(3) No Federal or New York Governmental Action under any
Applicable Law now in effect is required in connection with the
execution, delivery or performance by PNM of, or the consummation by PNM
of the transactions contemplated by, the Participation Agreement or any
other Transaction Document in effect on the date hereof to which PNM is
a party, except such Federal and New York Governmental Actions (i) as
have been duly obtained, given or accomplished, (ii) as are routine in
nature and that cannot be obtained, or are not normally applied for,
prior to the time they are required, (iii) as may be required under the
Holding Company Act, (iv) as may be required to be obtained, given or
accomplished from time to time in connection with the maintenance, use,
possession, operation or improvement of Unit 2 or otherwise with respect
to Unit 2 and PNM's or the operating Agent's involvement therewith, (V)
as may be required in consequence of any transfer of ownership of any
Note or Bond by the Holder thereof, the beneficial interest in the Trust
by the Owner Participant, or the Undivided Interest or the Real Property
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Interest by ,the Owner Trustee, (vi) as may be required in consequence
of the issuance, sale or exchange and delivery of or any obligations
issued under and pursuant to any Collateral Trust Indenture (other than
the Initial Series Note), (vii) as may be required by existing
Applicable Law if, after termination or expiration of the Facility
Lease, PNM should provide transmission services for the Owner Trustee or
(viii) as may be required under Federal or New York law not now in
effect. No Federal or New York Governmental Action is or will be
required (a) in connection with the participation by the Owner Trustee,
the Indenture Trustee, the Owner Participant or the Loan Participant in
the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Participation
Agreement, any other Transaction Document in effect on the date hereof
or any Financing Document in effect on the date hereof or (b) to be
obtained by any of such Persons during the term of the Facility Lease
with respect to Unit 2 except such Federal or New York Governmental
Actions (i) as have been duly obtained, given or accomplished, (ii) as
may be required by Applicable Law not now in effect, (iii) as may be
required in consequence of any transfer of ownership of any Note or Bond
by the Holder thereof, the beneficial interest in the Trust by the Owner
Participant, or the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest by
the Owner Trustee, (iv) as may be required in consequence of the
issuance, sale or exchange and delivery of or any obligations issued
under and pursuant to any Collateral Trust Indenture (other than the
Initial Series Note), (v) as would be required by existing Applicable
Law upon termination or expiration of the Facility Lease in connection
with taking possession of an interest in Unit 2, (vi) as may be required
by existing Applicable Law if, after termination or expiration of the
Facility Lease, PNM should provide transmission services for the Owner
Trustee or cease to be agent for the Owner Trustee as provided under the
Assignment and Assumption, or (vii) as may be required in consequence of
any exercise of remedies or other rights by any such Person in
connection with taking possession of an interest in Unit 2.
(4) So long as the Facility Lease is in effect, assuming the
proper filing of Form U-7D with the SEC on or within 30 days after the
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date hereof, under Federal law now in effect, neither the Loan
Participant, the Owner Participant, FNB nor the Owner Trustee will be or
become, solely by reason of either its entering into the Participation
Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which any of them is a
party, or the transactions contemplated thereby, subject to regulation
(including, without limitation, as an electric utility company, an
electric utility, a public-utility company or corporation, a public
utility, a holding company, a public utility holding company, an
electric corporation, or a utility company or corporation) by any
Federal or New York public utility commission or other regulatory body,
authority or group (including, without limitation, the SEC and the
FERC). PNM is not a "holding company" or a "subsidiary company" of a
"holding company" or an "affiliate" of a "holding company" within the
meaning of the Holding Company Act.
(5) PNM is not an "investment company", or a company
"controlled" by an "investment company", within the meaning of the
Investment Company Act.
The opinions set forth above are subject to the qualifications
that (i) enforceability of the Participation Agreement and the other Transaction
Documents to which PNM is a party in accordance with their respective terms may
be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other
similar laws affecting enforcement of creditors' or lessors' rights generally,
as well as the general principles of equity and the availability of equitable
remedies, and (ii) certain laws and judicial decisions may affect the
enforceability against PNM of certain rights and remedies provided in the
Transaction Documents. With respect to the latter qualification, however, we are
of the opinion that none of such laws now in effect and none of such judicial
decisions make the rights and remedies provided in the Transaction Documents,
taken as a whole, inadequate for the realization of the benefits of the
Transaction Documents.
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Our opinion is limited to the laws of the State of New York and
the Federal laws of the United States of America, however we express no opinion
as to any matters relating to the Atomic Energy Act or the Nuclear Waste Act.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
Public Service Company of New Mexico,
as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
First PV Funding Corporation,
as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
The First National Bank of Boston,
as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and Collateral Trust Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A.
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx; X.X.
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
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SCHEDULE 9
[Letterhead of Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A.]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as general counsel for Public Service Company of
New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation (PNM), in connection with the transactions
contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August 12, 1986 (the
Participation Agreement), among Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, a New York
corporation, as Owner Participant, The First National Bank of Boston, a national
banking association, individually and as Owner Trustee, First PV Funding
Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Chemical Bank, a New York banking
corporation, as Indenture Trustee, and PNM. All capitalized terms used herein
and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Appendix A
to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is being delivered pursuant to
Section 11(a) (21) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies, certified
or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate records,
agreements and other instruments, certificates, orders, opinions, correspondence
with public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of PNM, and
other documents, as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of
rendering the opinions set forth herein.
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Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
(1) PNM is a corporation duly organized and validly existing in
good standing under the laws of the State of New Mexico and has the
corporate power and authority to carry on its business as presently
conducted, to own or hold under lease its properties and to enter into
and perform its obligations under the Participation Agreement, each
other Transaction Document to which PNM is a party, and each Financing
Document to which PNM is a party. PNM is duly qualified and in good
standing to do business as a foreign corporation in the State of Arizona
and has not failed to qualify to do business or to be in good standing
in any other jurisdiction where failure so to qualify or be in good
standing would materially and adversely affect the financial condition
of PNM or its ability to perform any of its obligations under the
Participation Agreement, any other Transaction Document to which PNM is
a party, or any Financing Document to which PNM is a party.
(2) The execution, delivery and performance by PNM of the
Participation Agreement, each other Transaction Document to which PNM is
a party, and each Financing Document to which PNM is a party have been
duly authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part of PNM and
do not require the consent or approval of the stockholders of PNM or any
trustee or holder of any indebtedness or other obligation of PNM, other
than (i) the Mortgage Release, (ii) the finding of the ANPP
Administrative Committee described in Section 15.6.2 of the ANPP
Participation Agreement, and (iii) such other consents and approvals as
have been duly obtained, given or accomplished.
(3) The Participation Agreement, each other Transaction Document
to which PNM is a party, and each Financing Document to which PNM is a
party have been duly executed and delivered by PNM, and, assuming the
due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the other parties
thereto, the Participation Agreement, each such other Transaction
Document and each such Financing Document constitutes the legal, valid
and binding agreement of PNM, enforceable against PNM in accordance with
their respective terms.
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(4) Neither the execution, delivery or performance by PNM of the
Participation Agreement, any other Transaction Document to which PNM is
a party, or any Financing Document to which PNM is a party, nor the
consummation by PNM of the transactions contemplated thereby, nor
compliance by PNM with the provisions thereof, conflicts with, or
results in a breach or contravention of any of the provisions of, the
Restated Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of PNM or any Affiliate of
PNM, or any Applicable Law, or any indenture, mortgage, lease or any
other agreement or instrument, known to us, to which PNM or any
Affiliate of PNM is a party or by which the property of PNM or any
Affiliate of PNM is bound, or results in the creation or imposition of
any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any property of PNM or any
Affiliate of PNM.
(5) No New Mexico Governmental Action under Applicable Law now
in effect is required in connection with the execution, delivery or
performance by PNM of, or the consummation by PNM of the transactions
contemplated by, the Participation Agreement, any other Transaction
Document to which PNM is a party, or any Financing Document to which PNM
is a party, except such New Mexico Governmental Actions (i) as have been
duly obtained, given or accomplished, and (ii) as may be required under
existing New Mexico Applicable Law to be obtained, given or accomplished
from time to time after the date hereof in connection with the
maintenance, use, possession or operation of Unit 2 or otherwise with
respect to Unit 2 and PNM's involvement therewith and which are, for
PVNGS, routine in nature and which we have no reason to believe will not
be timely obtained. No New Mexico Governmental Action is required (a) in
connection with the participation by the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee, the Owner Participant or the Loan Participant in the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Participation
Agreement, any other Transaction Document in effect on the date hereof
or any Financing Document in effect on the date hereof or (b) to be
obtained by any of such Persons during the term of the Facility Lease
with respect to Unit 2 except such New Mexico Governmental Actions (i)
as have been duly obtained, given or accomplished, (ii) as may be
required by Applicable Law not now in effect, (iii) as may be required
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in consequence of any transfer of ownership of the Undivided Interest or
the Real Property Interest by the Owner Trustee, (iv) as would be
required by existing Applicable Law upon termination or expiration of
the Facility Lease in connection with taking possession of an interest
in Unit 2, (v) as may be required by existing Applicable Law if, after
termination or expiration of the Facility Lease, PNM should provide
transmission services for the Owner Trustee or cease to be agent for the
Owner Trustee as provided under the Assignment and Assumption, or (vi)
as may. be required in consequence of any exercise of remedies or other
rights by any such Person in connection with taking possession of an
interest in Unit 2.
(6) Except as disclosed in the financial statements to which
reference is made in Section l0(a)(ll) of the Participation Agreement
and in the reports to which reference is made in Section 10 (a) (12) of
the Participation Agreement, there is no action, suit, investigation or
proceeding pending or, to our knowledge, threatened against PNM before
any Federal or New Mexico court, arbitrator or administrative or
governmental body which questions the validity or enforceability of the
Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document or any
Financing Document in effect on the date hereof or which, individually
or in the aggregate, if decided adversely to the interests of PNM, would
have a material adverse effect on the business or financial condition of
PNM or materially and adversely affect the ability of PNM to perform its
obligations under the Participation Agreement or any other Transaction
Document or any Financing Document in effect on the date hereof to which
PNM is a party.
(7) The lien of the Existing Mortgage does not extend to
contract rights of PNM under the Transaction Documents (other than the
Facility Lease) or to the Generation Entitlement Share related to the
Undivided Interest.
The opinions set forth above are subject to the qualifications
that (i) enforceability of the Participation Agreement, the other Transaction
Documents to which PNM is a party, and the Financing Documents to which PNM is a
party in accordance with their respective terms may be limited by bankruptcy,
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insolvency, reorganization, moratorium of other similar laws affecting
enforcement of creditors' or lessors' rights generally, as well as the general
principles of equity and the availability of equitable remedies, and (ii)
certain laws and judicial decisions may affect the enforceability of certain
rights and remedies provided in the Transaction Documents. With respect to the
latter qualification, however, we are of the opinion that none of such laws now
in effect and none of such judicial decisions make the rights and remedies
provided in the Transaction Documents, taken as a whole, inadequate for
enforcing payment of the Initial Series Note and the security interest provided
by the Indenture or the realization of the benefits of the Transaction
Documents.
In rendering the opinions set forth above, we have relied as to
all matters relating to (A) the law of the State of New York, solely upon the
opinion of Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx, Special Counsel for PNM,
delivered pursuant to Section 11(a) (20) of the Participation Agreement, as to
which law we have, with your consent, made no independent investigation, (B) the
laws of the State of Arizona, the Atomic Energy Act and the Nuclear Waste Act,
solely upon the opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxxx, PNM's Special Arizona Counsel,
delivered pursuant to Section 11(a) (22) of the Participation Agreement, as to
which we have, with your consent, made no independent investigation, and (C) the
Federal Power Act, upon the opinion of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, P.C., PNM's Special
FERC Counsel, delivered pursuant to Section 11(a) (23) of the Participation
Agreement, as to which we have, with your consent, made no independent
investigation. Each such opinion is satisfactory to us in form and scope, and we
believe you and we are justified in relying thereon.
For purposes of this opinion we have assumed that the Owner
Participant and the Lessor will exercise their rights, and that PNM will perform
its obligations, under Section 13(c) of the Facility Lease if it becomes
necessary to do so to remain in compliance with the New Mexico Order. We have
further assumed that no Lease Transaction (as that term is used in the New
Mexico Order) entered into by PNM subsequent to the date hereof will result in a
violation of the New Mexico Order.
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In rendering the opinions set forth in paragraphs (4) and (5)
above, we have not passed upon and do not purport to pass upon the application
of so-called "blue sky" or securities laws of any jurisdiction.
Very truly yours,
XXXXXXX & XXXXXX, P.A.
By__________________
Xxxxx X. X'Xxxxxx
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SCHEDULE
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
First PV Funding Corporation,
as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx and Collateral Trust Trustee
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
The First National Bank of Boston,
as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and Collateral Trust Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Public Service Company of New Mexico,
as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx
000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Milbank, Tweed, Xxxxxx & XxXxxx
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
6091.XXXXXXX.1106.08:1
SCHEDULE 10
[Letterhead of Xxxxx & Xxxxxx]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as Special Arizona counsel for Public Service
Company of New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation (PNM), in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August 12,
1986 (the Participation Agreement), among Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, a New
York corporation, as Owner Participant, The First National Bank of Boston, a
national banking association (FNB), individually and as Owner Trustee, First PV
Funding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Chemical Bank, a New York banking
corporation, as Indenture Trustee, and PNM. All capitalized terms used herein
and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in Appendix A
to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is' being delivered pursuant to
Section 11(a) (22) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies, certified
or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate records,
agreements and other instruments, certificates, orders, opinions, correspondence
with public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of PNM, and
other documents, as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of
rendering the opinions set forth herein.
6091.XXXXXXX.1106.08:1.
In rendering our opinions, we have also reviewed the Special
Order of Exemption, issued December 26, 1985, by the Arizona Department of Real
Estate with respect to PVNGS, together with two (2) Xxxxx & Xxxxxx petition
letters to the Arizona Department of Real Estate, dated December 19, 1985 and
December 23, 1985 (the Special Order of Exemption and the petition letters being
collectively referred to herein as the "Exemption Documents").
In rendering our opinions, we have relied as to certain factual
matters on the documents we have examined, on certificates of public officials,
and on the Certificate attached as Exhibit A, and we have assumed:
(1) Lessee is a corporation duly organized and validly existing
in good standing under the laws of the State of New Mexico and has the
corporate power and authority to carry on its business as presently
conducted, to own or hold under lease its properties and to enter into
and perform its obligations under each Transaction Document to which it
is a party.
(2) The execution, delivery and performance by Lessee of each
Transaction Document to which it is a party have been duly authorized by
all necessary corporate action on the part of Lessee and do not, and
will not, require the consent or approval of the stockholders of Lessee.
(3) Each Transaction Document to which Lessee is a party has
been duly executed and delivered by Lessee, and each such Transaction
Document (excluding the Facility Lease) to which Lessee is a party is
the legal, valid and binding obligation of Lessee, enforceable against
Lessee in accordance with its terms.
(4) Each party to each Transaction Document, other than Lessee,
is duly organized and validly existing in good standing under the laws
of the jurisdiction of its organization, is duly registered, licensed or
authorized to transact business in each other jurisdiction in which such
registration, licensing or authorization is required, and has the power
and the authority to enter into and to perform its obligations under
each Transaction 'Document to which it is a party.
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(5) The execution, delivery and performance by each party to
each Transaction Document, other than Lessee, have been duly authorized
by all necessary action by such party and do not require the consent or
approval of any of the stockholders of such party. Each Transaction
Document has been duly executed and delivered by each party thereto,
other than Lessee, and constitutes the legal, valid and binding
obligation of such party, enforceable against such party in accordance
with its terms.
(6) The trusts of which the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee
and the Collateral Trust Trustee are the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee and the Collateral Trust Trustee, respectively, were duly formed
and are validly existing under the laws of the jurisdiction governing
such trusts. Each of the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee and the
Collateral Trust Trustee has the power and authority under the trust
agreement for its respective trust to enter into and perform its
obligations under each Transaction Document to which it is a party.
(7) The execution, delivery and performance by the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, and the Collateral Trust Trustee of each
Transaction Document to which it is a party are authorized by the trust
agreement of its respective trust and do not require the consent or
approval of any other Person. Each Transaction Document to which the
Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Collateral Trust Trustee is
a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Owner Trustee, the
Indenture Trustee or the Collateral Trust Trustee, respectively, and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Owner
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee or the Collateral Trust Trustee,
respectively, enforceable against the Owner Trustee, the Indenture
Trustee or the Collateral Trust Trustee, respectively, in accordance
with its terms.
(8) Lessee's past, present and proposed activities in the State
of Arizona (including, without limitation, Lessee's ownership and
operation of electrical facilities in the State of Arizona) consist of,
and are limited to, Lessee's ownership of an undivided interest in PVNGS
(including the plant site) the ANPP Switchyard and associated
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transmission facilities therefor, and its ownership interest in, and
operation of a certain portion of, certain transmission lines, facilities
and control equipment located on real property owned by Lessee and/or
other corporations and on easements owned by Lessee and/or other
corporations in Xxxxxxxx County, Arizona. Lessee is not making, nor
presently proposing to make, any sales of electricity in the State of
Arizona (other than sales to or exchanges with other electric generating
or distributing entities).
(9) The Owner Participant, FNB, (in its individual capacity and
as the Owner Trustee), and the Indenture Trustee, and each of them, will
not, by reason either of entering into the Participation Agreement, the
Facility Lease, the Assignment and Assumption, the Indenture, or any
other Transaction Document, consummation of the transactions
contemplated thereby or otherwise, engage in any activity in Arizona
involving the ownership and operation of electrical facilities, other
than those presently conducted by the Lessee, as set forth in Paragraph
8 above;
(10) Immediately prior to the execution and delivery of the
Transaction Documents, Lessee owned the property to be transferred by
Lessee to Owner Trustee under the Transaction Documents. Immediately
after the execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents, Owner
Trustee will own the property to be transferred by the Lessee to the
Owner Trustee under the Transaction Documents. The assumptions in this
Paragraph 10 do not apply to the opinion in the first sentence of
Section 9 of this legal opinion.
(11) Amendment Number 10 to the ANPP Participation Agreement has
been duly authorized, executed and delivered by, constitutes the legal,
valid and binding agreement of, and is enforceable against, each of the
parties thereto. The transactions contemplated by the Transaction
Documents are authorized and permitted to be performed pursuant to, and
do not conflict with, the terms and conditions of any ANPP Project
Agreement, including, without limitation, Amendment Number 10 to the
ANPP Participation Agreement.
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(12) The sale and conveyance of the Undivided Interest, the Real
Property Interest and any other property or interest in property
transferred by Lessee under the Transaction Documents will not render
Lessee insolvent nor is it being made in contemplation of Lessee's
insolvency; the property remaining in the hands of Lessee after such
sale, conveyance and transfer is not an unreasonably small capital;
Lessee does not intend to or believe that it will incur debts beyond its
ability to pay as they mature; and Lessee has no actual intent to
hinder, delay or defraud either present or future creditors.
(13) On the date of execution of the Transaction Documents and
on the date hereof, there was adequate consideration for the execution
and delivery by Lessee of the Transaction Documents to which it is a
party and for Lessee entering into the transaction described in the
Transaction Documents.
(14) The chief executive office and the place of business of the
Lessee and the office where it keeps its records concerning its accounts
or contract rights is located at Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxx,.
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000.
(15) The Transaction Documents accurately and completely set
forth all agreements, arrangements and understandings of the parties
thereto with respect to the transaction described in and contemplated by
the Transaction Documents and the Transaction Documents accurately and
completely reflect the intentions of the parties with respect to such
transaction.
(16) The Facility Lease is a "lease" for Federal income tax
purposes and an "operating lease" and not a "capital lease" for
financial reporting purposes under Financial Accounting Standards Board
Statement 13 and will be so treated and reported for such purposes by
Lessee and Owner Trustee.
(17) The form of the Transaction Documents executed and
delivered by the parties thereto conforms to the drafts of the
Transaction Documents described above.
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Based on the foregoing and subject to the qualifications set
forth herein, we are of the opinion that:
(1) Lessee is authorized to transact business and is in good
standing as a foreign corporation under the General Corporation Law of
the State of Arizona, Chapter 1, Title 10, Arizona Revised Statutes
("A.R.S.").
(2) Lessee has the power and authority, and is not required to
obtain any franchises, licenses or permits not already obtained, to
engage in the State of Arizona in the business and activities now
conducted by it therein, except that certain minor defects and
exceptions may exist which, individually and in the aggregate, are not,
in our judgment, material.
(3) Lessee is not a public utility or public service corporation
under Arizona Applicable Law.
(4) Under Arizona Applicable Law the Owner Participant, FNB (in
its individual capacity and as Owner Trustee) and each of them, will not
be, by reason of entering into any Transaction Document or by reason of
the activities contemplated by the Transaction Documents prior to the
expiration or termination of the Facility Lease, subject to regulation
as a public service corporation, public utility, or public utility
holding company by any Arizona public utility commission or other
Arizona regulatory body, authority or group (including, without
limitation, the Arizona Corporation Commission), provided, however, we
express no opinion regarding the effect of (i) Applicable Law not now in
effect, (ii) any transfer of ownership of the Undivided Interest by the
Owner Trustee, (iii) termination or expiration of the Facility Lease and
the taking of possession by the Owner Trustee or any other Person of an
interest in Unit 2, (iv) Lessee's providing of transmission services to
the Owner Trustee or any other Person owning the Undivided Interest or
the Real Property Interest, or (v) any exercise of remedies or other
rights by any Person in connection with taking possession of an interest
in Unit 2.
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(5) All Governmental Action by the State of Arizona or any
political subdivision thereof which is or will be required on or before
the date hereof in connection with the execution and delivery by Lessee
of each Transaction Document to which Lessee is a party and in
connection with the performance by Lessee of those of its obligations
pursuant to any Transaction Document to which Lessee is a party which
are to be performed on or before the date hereof, have been duly
obtained, given or accomplished, except that our opinion in this Section
5 does not relate to (i) any governmental Action required in connection
with construction, improvement, maintenance, use, possession, operation,
decommissioning or retirement from service of any portion of Unit 2 or
PVNGS or otherwise with respect to Unit 2 or PVNGS or Lessee's or the
Operating Agent's involvement therewith, Lessee's duties and obligations
as a Participant under any of the ANPP Project Agreements, or Lessee's
duties and obligations as Agent under the Assignment and Assumption;
(ii) securities and taxation laws of any Arizona Governmental Authority;
and (iii) the recording or filing of any Transaction Document; and (iv)
the transfer of the "Assigned Project Agreements" (as that term is
defined in the Deed) pursuant to the Deed.
(6) The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction
Documents by the parties thereto do not violate the Atomic Energy Act,
as now in effect, the NRC regulations now in effect, any order of the
NRC now in effect, or the Nuclear Waste Act, as now in effect, provided
that such parties comply with the terms and conditions of the License
and the NRC Order. No Governmental Action by or with respect to the NRC
is or will be required in connection with the execution, delivery or
performance by Lessee of the Participation Agreement, the Facility
Lease, the Assignment and Assumption or any other Transaction Document
to which it is a party, except (i) such Governmental Actions as may be
required pursuant to the terms of the License; (ii) such Governmental
Actions as may be required pursuant to the terms of the NRC Order; (iii)
such other Governmental Actions by or with respect to the NRC as have
been duly obtained, given or accomplished on or before the date hereof;
(iv) such Governmental Actions of or with respect to the NRC as may be
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required under existing law or regulation to be obtained, given or
accomplished from time to time after the Closing Date in connection with
the construction, improvement, maintenance, operation, decommissioning
or retirement from service of any portion of Unit 2 or PVNGS or
otherwise with respect to Unit 2 or PVNGS and Lessee's or the Operating
Agent's involvement therewith; and (v) such other Governmental Actions
as may be required under law or regulation not now in effect.
(7) The transfer of property and interest in property by Lessee
to the Owner Trustee pursuant to the Participation Agreement, the Xxxx
of Sale, the Deed, the Trust Assignment, and the Assignment and
Assumption is not a fraudulent conveyance under the law of the State of
Arizona, provided, however, that this opinion, in so far as it relates
to A.R.S. Section 44-1061 and any common law vendor-in-possession
fraudulent conveyance doctrine, is subject to the following comments.
Section 44-1061 provides:
"A. A sale made by a vendor of goods and chattels in
his possession or under his control, or an assignment
of goods and chattels, unless the sale or assignment is
accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an
actual and continued change of possession of the things
sold or assigned, is prima facie evidence of fraud
against creditors of the vendor, or creditors of the
person making the assignment, or subsequent purchasers
in good faith.
"B. The term 'creditors' includes all persons who are
creditors of the vendor or assignor at any time while
such goods and chattels are in his possession or under
his control."
The Arizona court decisions interpreting Section 44-1061 arose
in the context of tangible property in the actual possession of the
seller. These decisions suggest that open, visible and unequivocal
indications that there has been a change
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of ownership would be sufficient to overcome the prima fade evidence of
fraud established by Section 44-1061. See, e.g., Xxxxx V. Winstayley, 16
Ariz. 327, 145 Pac. 246 (1914). Unfortunately, this precedent is not very
helpful in the context of the present transaction. In addition, the court
decisions under Section 44-1061 are equivocal as to the effect of
recording or filing transfer documents. Xxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx, supra; and
Liebes X. Xxxxxx, 4 Ariz. 11, 32 Pac. 261 (1893). Notwithstanding this
equivocation, as to a subsequent encumbrancer of any personal property
which is subject to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect
in Arizona, which is described in the three (3) UCC-1 Financing
Statements, dated December 31, 1985 between Lessee, as lessee, and Owner
Trustee, as lessor filed with the Secretary of State of Arizona and the
County Recorder, Maricopa County, State of Arizona (Lease Financing
Statements) and in which a security interest may be perfected by filing
of a financing statement within Arizona, we believe that the filing of
the Lease Financing Statements should be sufficient to overcome the prima
facie evidence of fraud to the extent the description of such property in
the Lease Financing Statements is accurate, complete, and legally
adequate. In addition, as to future creditors with actual knowledge of
the transfers in the Deed, the Xxxx of Sale, the Trust Assignment and the
Assignment and Assumption prior to extending or committing to extend.
credit, we believe that such knowledge should overcome the prima facie
evidence of fraud in Section 44-1061.
(8) Neither the execution and delivery by Lessee, nor the
performance by Lessee, of any Transaction Document to which it is a
party, conflicts with, or results in a breach of any statute, ordinance,
governmental rule or regulation of the State of Arizona or Maricopa
County, except that our opinion does not relate to any conflict or
breach as a result of (i) construction, improvement, maintenance, use,
possession, operation, decommissioning or retirement from service of any
portion of Unit 2 or PVNGS or otherwise with respect to Unit 2 or PVNGS
or the Lessee's or the operating Agent's involvement therewith, Lessee's
duties and obligations as a Participant under any of the ANPP Project
Agreements, or Lessee's duties and obligations as Agent under the
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Assignment and Assumption; (ii) Applicable Law not now in effect; (iii)
securities and taxation laws of any Arizona Governmental Authority;
((iv) any Refunding described in Section 2(c) of the Participation
Agreement, any assumption by Lessee pursuant to Section 3.9 of the
Indenture or any other similar or related provision in the Indenture or
any of the other Transaction Documents, a transfer of the interest in
the Trust Estate pursuant to Section 7(b) (4) of the Participation
Agreement and any security interest granted pursuant to said Section
7(b)(4), the conversion of the Facility Lease to a security agreement
pursuant to Section 9(c), Section 9(d), or Section. 16(e) of the
Facility Lease or any other similar or related provisions in the
Facility Lease or any of the other Transaction Documents, the subjection
of the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest to the lien of
the Indenture pursuant to Section 9(j) of the Facility Lease, any
Supplemental Financing pursuant to Section 8(f) of the Facility Lease,
or the transfer of the Assigned Project Agreements pursuant to the
Deed;] (v) any action taken by Lessee pursuant to Section 10(b) (2) of
the Participation Agreement or any similar provision in the
Participation Agreement or any other Transaction Document; (vi) any
involvement by Lessee in connection with any transfer of ownership of
the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest by the Owner
Trustee or the taking of possession of the Undivided Interest or the
Real Property interest by Owner Trustee or any other Person upon
expiration or termination of the Facility Lease; (vii) Lessee providing
transmission services for the Owner Trustee or any other Person owning
the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest or ceasing to serve
as Agent pursuant to the Assignment or Assumption, (viii) any action by
Lessee pursuant to Article VI of the Assignment and Assumption, or (ix)
Lessor or any other Person, other than Lessee, receiving the Generation
Entitlement Share of Lessee pursuant to Section 19 of the Facility Lease
or any other provision of any Transaction Document.
(9) Assuming that any choice of law provision in favor of the
law of a state other than the State of Arizona is disregarded therein,
the Deed, the Xxxx of Sale and the Assignment and Assumption are in
sufficient form to convey from Lessee to Owner Trustee the interests in
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property described therein and for recording under the law of the State
of Arizona, except that our opinion in this sentence and in the
remainder of this Section 9 does not relate to the transfer of the
Assigned Project Agreements pursuant to the Deed. The Trust Assignment
is in sufficient form to convey from Lessee to Owner Trustee the
interests in property therein described. The Deed, the Xxxx of Sale, the
Assignment and Assumption and the Facility Lease when duly executed,
acknowledged and delivered, each must be recorded in the Office of the
Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona, together with an [Affidavit of
Legal Value] pursuant to A.R.S. Section 42-1612 with respect to any such
document transferring title to real estate (other than leases or
easements). Precautionary financing statements pursuant to A.R.S.
Section 47-9408 must be filed in the office of the Arizona Secretary of
State and the Office of the Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona. Upon
the completion of such recordings and filings, no other filings or
recordings in Arizona are required to establish, preserve, perfect, and
protect the Owner Trustee's rights and interests (including, without
limitation1 any security interest which may be deemed to be created by
the Facility Lease) in and to the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property Interest (other than the interests transferred under the
Assignment of Beneficial Interest), and no additional recordation is
required to continue the effectiveness of such recordings, provided that
our opinion in this Section 9 is limited to property constituting the
Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest that is either real
property under the law of the State of Arizona or property subject to
Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (as in effect in Arizona) in
which a security interest may be perfected by the filing of a financing
statement within the State of Arizona. In addition, no additional
financing statements, other than those filed with the Secretary of State
of Arizona and in the Office of the County Recorder of Maricopa County,
Arizona, are required to be filed in order to continue the effectiveness
thereof except that continuation statements are required to be filed
with respect to such financing statements within each of the six-month
periods preceding the expiration of each six-year period after the
respective dates of filing. We express no opinion regarding the form
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for conveyance, the transfer or the perfection of rights in any Capital
Improvements or regarding filings or recordings that may be required
under the laws of any other state, under federal law or by reason of the
application of the conflict of laws rules set forth in A.R.S. Section
47-9103. To the extent any recorded or filed Transaction Document refers
to or incorporates by reference any other Transaction Document (for
definitional purposes or otherwise) not recorded or filed in the same
location or, if recorded [or] filed, not identifying the date and
instrument or file number of such document incorporated by reference, our
opinion in this Section 9 excludes the effect, if any, of such reference
or incorporation by reference. In giving our opinion in this Section 9 we
have assumed that the description of the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property Interest in the Lease Financing Statements is accurate, complete
and legally adequate.
(10) You have requested that we advise you whether an Arizona
court would give effect to the choice of law provision in favor of the
law of the State of New York in each Transaction Document, other than
the Deed, the Xxxx of Sale, the Trust Assignment, the Assignment and
Assumption, and the Facility Lease. There is no Arizona case stating
that an Arizona court will follow the choice of law provision of the
parties to a contract. However, the Supreme Court of Arizona has
consistently ruled that where it is not bound by a previous decision or
by legislative enactment it will follow the rules in the Restatements of
the Law including the Restatements of Conflict of Laws. Xxxxx v. Normat,
51 Ariz. 134, 75 P.2d 38 1938); Western Coal & Min. Co. X. Xxxxxxx, 66
Ariz. 171, 160 P.2d 331 (1945); and Xxxxxx V. Security National Bank, 20
Ariz. App. 504, 514 P.2d 257 (1973). Section 187 of the Restatement
(Second) Conflict of laws provides that the parties to a contract may
stipulate to their choice of law t9 govern the contract and that the
laws of the state chosen will be applied unless (i) the particular issue
is one which the parties could not have resolved by an explicit
provision in their agreement directed to that issue, and (ii) either:
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"(a) the chosen state has no substantial relationship
to the parties or the transaction and there is no other
reasonable basis for the parties' choice; or
"(b) application of the law of the chosen state would
be contrary to a fundamental policy of a state which
has a materially greater interest than the chosen state
in the determination of the particular issue and which,
under the rule of Section 188, would be the state of
the applicable law in the absence of an effective
choice of law by the parties."
We believe that the State of New York has a "substantial
relationship" to the parties or the transaction with respect to the
documents covered by the opinion in this Section 9 and that with respect
to such documents there is a reasonable basis for the choice of law of
the State of New York because at least one of the parties to such
documents is located in the State of New York and such documents have
been substantially negotiated within and from the State of New York and
have been executed and delivered within the State of New York. Thus, the
effectiveness of the choice of law provisions in these documents will
depend upon whether, as to the particular issue in question, (i) there
would be a difference in the applicable substantive law of the State of
New York, on the one hand, and the law of the State of Arizona or
another state1 on the other hand, (ii) the resolution of such issue
under the law of the State of New York would be contrary to a
fundamental policy of the State of Arizona or such other state, (iii)
the State of Arizona or such other state would have a materially greater
interest than the State of New York in the determination of the
particular issue and (iv) under Section 188 of the Restatement (Second)
Conflict of Laws, the law of the State of Arizona or such other state
would be the applicable law.
(11) Assuming an Arizona court were not to give effect to the
choice of law provision in the Facility Lease in favor of the law of the
State of New York and were to apply the law of the State of Arizona
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(other than choice of law rules), the Facility Lease is the legal,
valid, and binding obligation of Lessee and is duly enforceable against
Lessee in accordance with its terms:
(a) Except as limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, moratorium, reorganization, and similar laws of
general application;
(b) Except as limited by equitable principles of
general application; and
(c) Except as limited by other applicable laws or
general principles of law that may render unenforceable certain
provisions of the Facility Lease, provided, however, that (i) if
Owner Trustee does not violate its obligations under the
Facility Lease (including, without limitation, the covenant of
quiet enjoyment), such limitations will not interfere with the
enforcement by Owner Trustee of the obligations of Lessee to pay
Basic Rent as provided in Section 3(a) of the Facility Lease as
the payments of Basic Rent become due on each Basic Rent Payment
Date prior to termination of the Facility Lease and without
acceleration or advancement thereof and (ii) Owner Trustee may
obtain the return of the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property interest upon termination or expiration of the Facility
Lease, except in the case of each of (i) and (ii) for the
economic consequences of any procedural delays that may result
from such limitations.
Anything in this opinion to the contrary notwithstanding, we
express no opinion concerning (i) the ownership of, or legal or equitable title
to, any property, (ii) whether the property described and referred to in the
Transaction Documents is personal property or real property or whether any
severance or other provision in the Transaction Documents purporting to make
certain property personal property is effective, or (iii) the priority of the
interest of any person in any property or interest in property.
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The above opinions are limited to the laws of the State of
Arizona as in effect on the date of this opinion and we express no opinion as to
the applicability or effect of federal law, except as set forth in Section 6 of
this opinion and as federal law is in effect on the date of this opinion, or the
law of any state other than Arizona. This opinion is rendered to you solely in
connection with the transactions described in and contemplated by the
Transactions Documents. This opinion is not to be referred to, or quoted in, any
document, report, or financial statement or filed with, or delivered to, any
governmental entity or other person or entity, without our prior written
consent.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
First PV Funding Corporation,
as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Public Service Company of New Mexico,
as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
The First National Bank of Boston,
as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and Collateral Trust Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx
000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A.
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, XX.
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
The Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association)
0 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Chemical Bank
000 Xxxx-Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Bank of America National Trust &
Savings Association
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Utilities No. 5164
Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Mellon Bank, N.A.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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EXHIBIT A
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO, a New Mexico corporation
(the "Lessee"), hereby certifies the following to Xxxxx & Xxxxxx in connection
with their giving a legal opinion ("Legal Opinion") with respect to the sale and
lease-back transaction that is the subject matter of the Participation Agreement
("Participation Agreement"), dated as of August 12, 1986, among Xxxxxxx Leasing
Corporation, a New York corporation, as Owner Participant, FIRST PV FUNDING
CORPORATION, The First National Bank of Boston (in its individual capacity and
as Owner Trustee), Chemical Bank (in its individual capacity and as Indenture
Trustee), and Lessee (all capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein will have the meanings ascribed to them in the Legal Opinion):
(1) The relationship of Lessee and Owner Trustee in respect of
each of the following Transaction Documents intended, agreed to, and
understood by Lessee, Owner Trustee, and each other party to any of the
Transaction Documents is as follows:
(a) The relationship of Lessee and Owner Trustee in respect of
the Deed, the Deed and Xxxx of Sale, the Deed and Assignment
of Beneficial Interest, and the Assignment and Assumption is
one of seller and purchaser, respectively; and
(b) The relationship of Owner Trustee and Lessee in respect of
the Facility Lease is one of lessor and lessee,
respectively.
(2) Each and all of the operative provisions of the Transactions
Documents, in general, and the following basic aspects of the
transaction described in and contemplated by the Transaction Documents,
in particular, are intended, agreed to, and understood by each and all
of Lessee, Owner Trustee, Owner Participant, and each other party to any
of the Transaction Documents:
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(a) The Deed, the Deed and Xxxx of Sale, the Deed and Assignment
of Beneficial Interest and the Assignment and Assumption are
absolute, unconditional and indefeasible transfers of the
property and interests in property described therein;
(b) The Undivided Interest is leased back by Owner Trustee to
Lessee for an extendable term as provided in the Facility
Lease, subject to the early termination and other provisions
of the Facility Lease;
(c) Lessee's obligation to pay rent under the Facility Lease is
absolute and unconditional as set forth in Section 4 of the
Facility Lease; and
(d) The property and interests in property transferred by Lessee
to Owner Trustee by the Deed, the Deed and Xxxx of Sale, the
Deed and Assignment of Beneficial Interest and the
Assignment and Assumption are to be owned by Owner Trustee
upon expiration or earlier termination of the Facility Lease
without further consideration passing from Owner Trustee to
Lessee.
(3) The Transaction Documents are an accurate and complete
statement of the agreements, arrangements and understandings of the
parties thereto with respect to the transaction described in and
contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
(4) From the first contact of Lessee, Owner Participant and each
other party to any Transaction Document and continuing through all
discussions and negotiations among the parties to the Transaction
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Documents, the transaction described in and contemplated by the
Transaction Documents has been intended and understood by Lessee, Owner
Participant, and each other such party to be a sale and lease-back
transaction.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Lessee has caused this Certificate to be
executed on its behalf by its duly authorized officer as of August 18, 1986.
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO,
a New Mexico corporation
By: ______________________
X.X. Xxxxxx
Vice President,
Revenue Management
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SCHEDULE 11
[Letterhead of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxxx, P.C.]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST
IN PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as Special FERC counsel for Public Service Company
of New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation (PNM) in connection with the
transactions contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August 12,
1986 (the Participation Agreement), among Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, a New
York corporation (the Owner Participant), The First National Bank of Boston, a
national banking association, individually and as Owner Trustee, First PV
Funding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Chemical Bank, a New York banking
corporation, as Indenture Trustee and PNM. All capitalized terms used herein and
not otherwise defined shall have the meanings set forth in Appendix A to the
Participation Agreement. This opinion is being delivered pursuant to Section
11(a)(23) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies, certified
or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of all corporate records,
agreements and other instruments, certificates, opinions and correspondence with
public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of PNM, and other
documents as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of rendering
the opinions set forth herein.
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As to matters of fact relevant to our opinion, we have relied
upon the representations of the parties as set forth in the Participation
Agreement, including the supporting documentation related thereto and PNM's
October 18, 1985 petition to the FERC for an order (1) disclaiming jurisdiction
over its proposed sale and leaseback of a portion of its interest in Unit 1 of
the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, (2) disclaiming jurisdiction over the
Equity Investors and Lessors of such interest, and (3) determining that the
Owner Participants and Lessors would not become public utilities as defined in
Section 201(e) of the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 824(e) (1982) solely by
reason of their participation in the proposed sale and leaseback arrangements.
We have also relied upon the requested FERC Order Disclaiming Jurisdiction
issued on December 5, 1985.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that:
(a) So long as the Lease shall be in effect, neither
the Owner Participant nor the Owner Trustee will be or become a
"public utility" within the meaning of Section 201(e) of the
Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 824(e) (1982), solely by reason of
its participation in the transactions contemplated by the
Participation Agreement; and
(b) PNM does not require authorization pursuant to
Section 203(a) of the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. ss.824b(a)
(1982), to sell the interest contemplated by the Participation
Agreement to the Trust in accordance with the terms and
conditions set forth in the Participation Agreement.
There are no court cases on point with respect to our opinion
expressed in paragraph (a). However, the FERC and its predecessor have
consistently found that it would be inconsistent with the intent of the Federal
Power Act for it to find that investors or trustees participating in financing
transactions similar to those contemplated by the Participation Agreement would
be public utilities under Section 201(e) of the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C.
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824(e) (1982) solely by reason of such participation, a finding in which we
concur. The FERC previously made such a finding with respect to PNM's sale of a
part of its ownership interest in Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Unit 1
in its December 5, 1985 order. The most recent FERC order containing such a
finding related to El Paso Electric Company's proposed sale of all or a portion
of its ownership interest in Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2.
We express no opinion as to the status of' the Owner Participant
or the Owner Trustee upon termination of the Lease, the occurrence of an Event
of Default, or the occurrence of any circumstance or event whereby the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant may be in possession of, or control the
operation of, the Undivided Interest or any interest therein. We also express no
opinion as to any other aspects of the transactions contemplated by the
Participation Agreement that are governed by any statute other than the Federal
Power Act.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
Public Service Company of New Mexico,
as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
The First National Bank of Boston, as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee and Collateral Trust Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
First PV Funding Corporation,
as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Xxxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxx
000 Xxxxxx Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Xxxxxxx & XxXxxx, P.A.
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, X.X.
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
The Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association)
The Chase Manhattan Bank
(National Association)
Chemical Bank
000 Xxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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Bank of America National Trust &
Savings Association
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Utilities No. 5164
Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
Mellon Bank, N.A.
000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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SCHEDULE 12
(Letterhead of Meyer, Hendricks, Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx &
Xxxxxxx]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK 0F AN UNDIVIDED INTEREST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as special Arizona counsel for Xxxxxxx Leasing
Corporation, a New York corporation (the Owner Participant, in connection with
the transactions contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August
12, 1986 (the Participation Agreement), among Public Service Company of New
Mexico, a New Mexico corporation (PNM), The First National Bank of Boston, a
national banking association (FNB), individually and as Owner Trustee (the Owner
Trustee), First PV Funding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Chemical Bank, a
New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee, and PNM. All capitalized
terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set
forth in Appendix A to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is being
delivered pursuant to Section 11(a) (24) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies, certified
or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate records,
agreements and other instruments, certificates, orders, opinions, correspondence
with public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of PNM, and
other documents, as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of
rendering the opinions set forth herein.
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Certain facts particularly relevant to our opinion may be
summarized as follows. The proposed transaction contemplates the sale of part of
PNM's undivided 10.2% interest in Unit 2 and certain common facilities (the
Facilities) to the Owner Trustee for the Owner Participant. The Owner Trustee,
will lease the purchased interest in the Facilities back to PNM on a long-term
net lease basis. The purchase of PNM's interest in the Facilities by the Owner
Trustee will be financed in part by a loan made by the Loan Participant and
evidenced by a non-recourse obligation (the Initial Series Note) of the Owner
Trustee.
The Initial Series Note will be issued by FNB under a lease
indenture, for which Chemical Bank will serve as Indenture Trustee. Upon the
closing of the lease indenture, the Initial Series Note will be pledged and
assigned to the Collateral Trust Trustee. The Initial Series Note will not be
secured by the property subject to the Lease, but instead will be secured by an
assignment of the rights of the Owner Trustee, as lessor, to receive rentals and
certain other payments under the Lease with PNM.
First PV Funding Corporation, as the Loan Participant, will
obtain funds for the purchase of the Initial Series Note by borrowing from
commercial banks under a Term Loan Agreement and, in connection therewith, by
the sale of debt securities.
Based on the sale and leaseback transaction as described in this
letter, and as qualified below, we are of the opinion that:
(i) the transaction will not be a fraudulent
conveyance under Arizona law;
(ii) the Trust will not be subject to regulation as a
public service corporation by the Arizona Corporation
Commission, at least unless and until the Trust actually assumes
possession of the Facilities;
(iii) the Conveyance Documents, as identified below,
are sufficient under Arizona law to convey such title as PNM has
in the Facilities; and
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(iv) Arizona law does not prohibit FNB or Chemical
Bank from serving, respectively, as Owner Trustee or Indenture
Trustee and does not require either bank, based solely on its
involvement in the Palo Verde sale and leaseback, to qualify to
do business in Arizona.
These conclusions are based on our understanding of the sale and
leaseback transaction as stated in this letter and our analysis of authorities
deemed by us to be analogous or otherwise relevant and briefly described in part
below.
1. Fraudulent Conveyance.
We understand that: (i) before the closing of the transaction, an
independent appraisal will confirm that the aggregate purchase price to be paid
for the Facilities is a reasonable estimate of their fair market value, and (ii)
the proposed sale and leaseback as described in the Transaction Documents will
be approved pursuant to a Final Order of the New Mexico Public Utility
Commission (the "Final Order") and (ii;) such transactions will not render PNM
insolvent or otherwise impair its financial condition.
Our review of Arizona statutes and case law has revealed no
authorities that directly address a sale and leaseback and suggest that the
proposed transaction would be prohibited or fraudulent. Moreover, we believe
that the transfer of PNM's interest in PVNGS as contemplated would be for "fair
consideration" within the meaning of Arizona's Fraudulent Conveyance Act and
therefore would not be fraudulent under Ariz. Rev. Stat. Section 44-1004
(conveyance without fair consideration rendering transferor insolvent) ; id.
Section 44-1005 (conveyance without fair consideration leaving transferor in
business with unreasonably small capital); or id. Section 44-1006 (conveyance
without fair consideration by transferor about to incur debts).
Arizona case law indicates that even if a conveyance is for fair
consideration, it may be found fraudulent under Ariz. Rev. Stat. Section 44-1007
if made with actual intent -- as distinguished from an intent presumed at law --
to hinder, delay or defraud creditors. Xxxxxx v. Scottsdale Plumbing Co., Inc.,
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Ariz. App. 591, 557 .P.2d 190 (i976). We note that the proposed sale and
leaseback will have been reviewed and approved in at least two public regulatory
hearings. Based on our review of Arizona law and the facts as described, we see
no basis for a successful claim that the transaction involves an actual intent
to defraud PNM's creditors.
Arizona also has a venerable statute that predates statehood and
adoption of the Fraudulent Conveyance Act and provides that:
A sale made by a vendor of goods and chattels in his possession
or under his control, or an assignment of goods and chattels, unless the sale or
assignment is accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and
continued change of possession of things sold or assigned, is prima facie
evidence of fraud against creditors of the vendor, or creditors of the person
making the assignment, or subsequent purchasers in good faith. Ariz. Rev. Stat.
Section 44-1061.A.
Our research has not revealed any reported Arizona court
decision in the last fifty years that relies upon this statute. The few old
cases applying the statute make clear that failure of immediate delivery is not
conclusive that a sale was fraudulent. Instead, the statute is held to create a
presumption of fraud that may be overcome by proof that a transfer was made in
good faith and for fair consideration. Xxxxx x. Xxxxxxxxxx, 16 Ariz. 327, 145 P.
246 (1914); Liebes X. Xxxxxx, 4 Ariz. 11, 32 P. 261 (1893). If the statute
applies to the proposed-sale and leaseback, it would seem relatively easy to
rebut the presumption of fraud under the circumstances.
Moreover, we believe that there are plausible arguments that
Ariz. Rev. Stat. ss. 44-1061.A does not apply to the sale of PNM's interest in
the Facilities. Although Arizona cases provide little guidance on the issue,
such an interest arguably is not "goods and chattels" within the meaning of the
statute. We note in this regard that, even if the interest being transferred is
characterized as involving in part "personal property," Arizona by statute
defines personal property to include interests other than goods and chattels.
Ariz. Rev. Stat. ss. 1-215.25. Thus, even if PNM's interest in PVNGS is not real
property, such interest would not necessarily constitute "goods and chattels."
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The few reported Arizona cases applying Ariz. Rev. Stat.
ss.44-1061.A also do not foreclose an argument that "delivery" will in fact be
made under the circumstances of the transaction. We note in this regard that
ownership of PVNGS is governed by the ANPP Participation Agreement, which
provides that Arizona Public Service Company is authorized to act as agent for
the owners of PVNGS, and has responsibility and control over construction,
operation, and maintenance of PVNGS.
Gant v. Broadway, 2 Ariz. 315, 15 P. 862 (1887), which
considered a predecessor statute to Ariz. Rev, Stat. ss. 44-1061.A, states that
the acts which constitute delivery will depend upon the character of the
property sold and the circumstances of each particular case. More specifically,
Gant approved a jury instruction indicating that where property remains in
possession of a third party, "delivery" can in some circumstances take place
when the vendor, purchaser, and third party agree that the goods shall be
subsequently held for the purchaser. Whether Gant would guide an Arizona court
in applying Ariz. Rev. Stat. ss.44-1061.A is unclear, because the statute
considered in that case differs textually from the current statute, i.e. ~ the
earlier statute provided for a conclusive presumption of fraud and did not refer
to assignment, and later cases apparently have not discussed Gant.
Based on Gant, one could argued that any required "delivery"
will occur with respect to the transfer of PNM's undivided interest in the
Facilities because of the unusual nature of the property transferred, the fact
that the transaction will have been subjected to prior review and approval in
public regulatory hearings, and the seemingly indisputable point that the
transaction simply does not involve the sort of surreptitious transfer that the
statute intends to reach. Whether Arizona courts would be receptive to such an
argument is difficult to predict, given the paucity of cases applying Ariz. Rev.
Stat. Section 44-1061.A.
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2. Arizona Utility Regulation.
Based on our review of the Participation Agreement, other
Transaction Documents, and the ANPP Participation Agreement, as amended, we do
not believe that the Trust will become subject to Arizona utility
Section 40-284.A of the Ariz. Rev. Stat. prohibits a foreign
corporation from transacting "public service business" in Arizona unless
authorized to do so. Moreover, Ariz. Rev. Stat. ss. 40-284.B prohibits a
"license, permit or franchise to own, control, operate or manage any
public service business [from being) granted or transferred, directly or
indirectly, to any foreign corporation not lawfully transacting within
this state a public service business of like character."
Violation of the provisions regulating a foreign corporation with regard to
transacting a public service business can result in criminal and civil
liability.
Arizona law indicates that the provisions of Ariz. Rev. Stat. ~
40-284 will not apply to the Trust as a result of the proposed sale and
leaseback because PNM is not a public service corporation, nor is it currently
transacting "public service business" within Arizona (for which conclusions we
rely on the opinion of Xxxxx & Xxxxxx of even date) and the Trust will not,
during the term of the Facility Lease, transact such business in this state.
The Arizona Constitution defines public service corporations to
include corporations "furnishing electricity for light, fuel or power" without
expressly indicating whether the electricity must be provided to the public in
Arizona. The constitutional provision empowering the Arizona Corporation
Commission to regulate rates and charges of public service corporations extends
that power only to services rendered to the public in Arizona. Arizona statutes
and case law conform to this limitation.
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Because PNM is not now operating as a public service corporation
in Arizona in connection with its interest in PVNGS under the ANPP Participation
Agreement and in any event will retain control, at least until default or other
termination of the Facility Lease, of its Arizona business, we believe that the
proposed sale and leaseback will not violate Ariz. Rev. Stat. Section 40-284.
Moreover, because the Trust will not furnish electricity for sale to the public
in Arizona during the term of the Facility Lease, we believe that the Owner
Trustee and the Owner Participant will not be subject to regulation as public
service corporations by the Arizona Corporation Commission. If the Owner Trustee
did take possession, depending upon the manner and then current structure of the
ANPP Participation Agreement, it is possible that the Trust could then become a
public service corporation subject to regulation by the Corporation Commission.
3. Sufficiency of the Documents to Convey Title.
Subject to the assumptions, exceptions and qualifications
expressed below, we are of the opinion that the Deed, the Deed and Xxxx of Sale,
and the Deed and Assignment of Beneficial Interest (all of the above instruments
being collectively referred to herein as the "Conveyance Documents") of even
date herewith executed in connection with the transaction, each of which names
PNM as grantor and FNB in its capacity as Owner Trustee as grantee, are
sufficient under Arizona law to convey to FNB as Owner Trustee all of the right,
title and interest of PNM in and to the real and personal property constituting
the Facilities and as identified in the Conveyance Documents.
Our opinion is subject to the following assumptions, exceptions
and qualifications. We assume that each of the Conveyance Documents has been:
duly authorized and executed by appropriate action of each of the parties
thereto; duly delivered by PNM; and filed or recorded in the appropriate public
records. We express no opinion as to the condition of title or concerning the
nature or existence of the interest of PNM in the real and personal property
constituting the Facilities and as identified in the Conveyance Documents. We
note that the Conveyance Documents do not convey any portion of PNM's interest
in certain common facilities of PVNGS, certain ANPP Project Agreements, and the
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Unit 2 Retained Assets, and certain warranties related to the Facilities.
Finally, we are assuming that an appropriate amendment of the trust disclosure
affidavit relating to Title USA Trust No. 530 will be recorded under Ariz. Rev.
Stat. ss. 33-401 with respect to the transfer under the Deed and Assignment of
Beneficial Interest.
4. Activities of the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.
Our research has revealed no Arizona statute or case law that
would prohibit FNB or Chemical Bank from serving, respectively, as Owner Trustee
or Indenture Trustee in the proposed transaction merely because of its status as
an out-of-state bank. Moreover, we do not believe that either bank will be
required, solely as result of its participation in the sale and leaseback
transaction, to qualify to do business in Arizona.
Our conclusion in this regard is qualified as follows. First, we
understand that the Trust for which FNB will serve as trustee and the indenture
trust for which Chemical Bank will serve as trustee will be formed exclusively
for the purpose of the lease financing of the Palo Verde transaction. Second,
the Owner Participant has informed us and we assume, that the Owner Participant
has no interest in property located in Arizona except its beneficial interest as
Owner Participant in the assets held by the Trust and that the Owner Participant
engages in no business or other activities within this state, except the
activities contemplated by the Participation Agreement. Third, FNB and Chemical
Bank have participated previously in four sale and leaseback transactions
substantially similar to that contemplated by the Participation Agreement and
may participate in a limited number of substantially similar transactions in the
future with respect to interests in PVNGS. Fourth, we do not offer any opinion
whether activities of Chemical Bank or FNB within this state not described in
this letter would require either bank to qualify to do business in this state
when considered along with participation in the Palo Verde sale and leaseback.
Finally, we do not offer any opinion whether qualification would be necessary if
the Owner Participant or either bank, in its capacity as trustee, assumed actual
possession of any portion of PVNGS upon default by PNM or upon other termination
of the Facility proposed sale and leaseback and the property is located in
Arizona.
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Apart from the case law described above, Ariz. Rev. Stat. ss.
l0-106.B provides that, "(without excluding other activities which may not
constitute transacting business in this state, foreign corporations shall not be
considered to be transacting business by reason of carrying on in this state any
one or more of the following activities." The specified activities include
"(creating as a borrower or lender, or acquiring, indebtedness, mortgages or
other security interests in real or personal property, "id. ss. 44-106.B.7, and
"[s]ecuring or collecting debts or enforcing any rights in property securing the
same," Id. ss. 44-106.B.8.
Our research has revealed no reported Arizona cases that apply
the statutory provisions described in the preceding paragraph in circumstances
that are directly on point with respect to the proposed sale and leaseback. At
the same time, we note that Arizona case law does pot suggest the statutory
provisions will be applied other than in accord with their plain language. That
language, we believe, indicates that certain actions by FNB and Chemical Bank
will not constitute transacting business within Arizona.
The statutory provisions indicate that FNB will not be transacting
business in the state by virtue of its issuance of the Initial Series Note
secured by assignment of the lease payments because this action, even if deemed
to be carried on in Arizona, involves the creation as a borrower of indebtedness
or other security interests in real or personal property. We note in this regard
that Arizona case law indicates that the right to future payments under a real
property lease is an incorporeal hereditament that constitutes and interest in
land. Valley National Bank v. Avco Development Co., 14 Ariz. App. 56, 480 P.2d
671 (1971).
The statutory provisions also suggest that Chemical Bank, as
Collateral Trust Trustee, will not be transacting business within Arizona by
virtue of its acceptance of the Initial Series Note or its receipt of the
assigned rental payments because these actions constitute securing or collecting
debts or enforcing any rights in property securing the same.
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Assets, and certain warranties related to the Facilities. Finally, we are
assuming that an appropriate amendment of the trust disclosure affidavit
relating to Title USA Trust No. 530 will be recorded under Ariz. Rev. Stat. ~
33-401 with respect to the transfer under the Deed and Assignment of Beneficial
Interest.
4. Activities of the Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.
Our research has revealed no Arizona statute or case law that
would prohibit FNB or Chemical Bank from serving, respectively, as Owner Trustee
or Indenture Trustee in the proposed transaction merely because of its status as
an out-of-state bank. Moreover, we do not believe that either bank will be
required, solely as result of its participation in the sale and leaseback
transaction, to qualify to do business in Arizona.
Our conclusion in this regard is qualified as follows. First, we
understand that the Trust for which FNB will serve as trustee and the indenture
trust for which Chemical Bank will serve as trustee will be formed exclusively
for the purpose of the lease financing of the Palo Verde transaction. Second,
the Owner Participant has informed us and we assume, that the Owner Participant
has no interest in property located in Arizona except its beneficial interest as
Owner Participant in the assets held by the Trust and that the Owner Participant
engages in no business or other activities within this state, except the
activities contemplated by the Participation Agreement. Third, FNB and Chemical
Bank have participated previously in four sale and leaseback transactions
substantially similar to that contemplated by the Participation Agreement and
may participate in a limited number of substantially similar transactions in the
future with respect to interests in PVNGS. Fourth, we do not offer any opinion
whether activities of Chemical Bank or FNB within this state not described in
this letter would require either bank to qualify to do business in this state
when considered along with participation in the Palo Verde sale and leaseback.
Finally, we do not offer any opinion whether qualification would be necessary if
the Owner Participant or either bank, in its capacity as trustee, assumed actual
possession of any portion of PVNGS upon default by PNM or upon other termination
of the Facility.
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The opinion stated in this letter is limited to matters of
Arizona law and federal laws of general applicability as they exist on this
date.
We have not been asked to, and we expressly do not, render any
opinion pertaining to any matter not specifically set forth herein.
This opinion is being delivered to you solely for your use in
connection with the proposed sale and leaseback contemplated by the Transaction
Documents. This opinion may not be used or relied upon by you for any other
purpose and may not be relied upon for any purpose by any person or entity other
than you; provided, however, that your respective counsel may rely upon this
opinion, but only to the extent that any opinion given by them in connection
with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents may concern
matters of Arizona law. Except for the use permitted herein, this opinion is not
to be quoted or reproduced in whole or in part or otherwise issued, circulated
or referred to in any manner, nor is it to be filed with any governmental agency
or delivered to any other person without our prior written consent.
Very truly yours,
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SCHEDULE
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation,
as Owner Participant
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Assistant Treasurer
The First National Bank of Boston, as Owner Trustee
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000
Chemical Bank,
as Indenture Trustee
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Public Service Company of New Mexico, as Lessee
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
First PV Funding Corporation, as Loan Participant
Corporate Trust Center
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
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SCHEDULE 13
[Letterhead of Xxxxx, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Xxxx, P.A]
August 18, 1986
To Each Person Listed on
The Attached Schedule
SALE AND LEASEBACK OF AN UNDIVIDED INTEEEST IN
PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION UNIT 2
AND CERTAIN COMMON FACILITIES
Dear Sirs:
We have acted as special New Mexico counsel for Xxxxxxx Leasing
Corporation, a New York corporation (the Owner Participant), in connection with
the transactions contemplated by the Participation Agreement, dated as of August
12, 1986, (the Participation Agreement), among the Owner Participant, The First
National Bank of Boston, a national banking association, individually and as
Owner Trustee, First PV Funding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Chemical
Bank, a New York banking corporation, as Indenture Trustee and Public Service
Company of New Mexico, a New Mexico corporation (PNM). All capitalized terms
used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth
in Appendix A to the Participation Agreement. This opinion is being delivered
pursuant to Section 11(a)(25) of the Participation Agreement.
As such counsel we have examined originals or copies, certified
or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of such corporate records,
agreements and other instruments, certificates, orders, opinions, correspondence
with public officials, certificates of officers and representatives of PNM, and
other documents, as we have deemed necessary or advisable for the purposes of
rendering the opinions set forth herein.
Based on the foregoing, we are of the opinion that :under New
Mexico Applicable Law now in effect:
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(1) Each Transaction Document to which PNM is a party, assuming
the due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by each party
thereto, constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of PNM,
enforceable against PNM in accordance with its terms
(2) Neither the execution, delivery or performance by PNM of any
Transaction Document to which it is a party, nor the consummation by PNM
of the transactions contemplated thereby, nor the compliance by PNM with
the provision thereof, conflicts with or results in a breach of any
Applicable Law of any state, county, municipal, regional or other
governmental authority, agency, board, body, instrumentality or court of
New Mexico ("New Mexico Governmental Authority").
(3) No Governmental Action of or with any New Mexico
Governmental Authority is required in connection with the execution,
delivery or performance by PNM of, or the consummation by PNM of the
transaction contemplated by, any Transaction Document to which PNM is a
party, except the New Mexico Order, which has been duly issued by the
NMPSC, and such other New Mexico Governmental Actions (i) as have been
duly obtained, given or accomplished, and (ii) as may be required to be
obtained, given or accomplished from time to time after the date hereof
in connection with the maintenance, use, possession or operation of Unit
2 or otherwise with respect to Unit 2 and PNM's involvement therewith
and which are, for PVNGS, routine in nature and which we have no reason
to believe will not be timely obtained.
(4) Assuming that all filings required to be made in other
jurisdictions have been duly made, upon (a) the filing of UCC-l
financing statements in appropriate form relating to the Indenture and
the Collateral Trust Indenture with the Secretary of State of New Mexico
and the County Clerk of Bernalillo County, New Mexico and the filing of
the Indenture and the Collateral Trust Indenture with the Secretary of
State of New Mexico pursuant to the New Mexico Public Utility Act, (b)
the delivery of the Original of the Facility Lease to, and so long as
the same is retained by, the Indenture Trustee, and (c) the delivery of
the Pledge Lessor Notes (as defined in the Collateral Trust Indenture)
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to, and so long as the same are retained by, the Collateral Trust
Trustee, the Indenture Trustee will have a perfected UCC security
interest in the Lease Indenture Estate pursuant to, and to the extent
provided in, the Indenture, and the Collateral Trust Trustee will have a
perfected UCC security interest in the Pledged Property (as defined in
the Collateral Trust Indenture), pursuant to, and to the extent provided
in, the Collateral Trust Indenture, and no filing or recording of any
document (except those enumerated above and the filing of continuation
statements in appropriate form with respect to the UCC-l financing
statements referred to above at the time and in the matter provided
under the laws of New Mexico) will be necessary or appropriate under the
laws of New Mexico to establish, preserve, protect and perfect the
security interests referred to above.
(5) So long as the Facility Lease is in effect, and in reliance
upon the New Mexico Order, neither the Owner Trustee, the Owner
Participant, nor the Indenture Trustee, will, by reason either of its
entering into any Transaction Document or its performance of any
transaction contemplated thereby, be subject to regulation as an
"electric utility," a "public utility," or a "public utility holding
company" by the NMPSC or any other New Mexico Governmental Authority.
(6) Neither the Owner Trustee nor the Indenture Trustee is
required to qualify to do business in New Mexico in order to serve in
such capacity.
(7) No New Mexico Tax will be imposed upon payments of Rent by
PNM to the Owner Trustee under the Facility Lease or in connection with
the transfer of the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest by
PNM to the Owner Trustee.
The opinions expressed herein are subject in each> case (a) as
to enforceability, to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and
other similar laws heretofore or hereafter enacted affecting creditors' or
lessors' rights generally, general principles of equity, and the availability of
specific performance and other equitable remedies, (b) to the qualification that
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any provision in the Transaction Documents which purports to permit any Person
to make determinations, take actions or require payments under indemnity and
similar provisions may be subject to requirements that such determinations be
made, such actions be taken and such payments required on a reasonable basis and
in good faith, (c) to possible limitations upon the exercise of certain
indemnity, remedial or procedural provisions contained in the Transaction
Documents, which limitations do not in our opinion make such indemnity, remedial
or procedural provisions, taken as a whole, inadequate for the practical
realization of the benefits provided by the Transaction Documents, (d) as to the
perfection of UCC security interests in proceeds, to the qualification that such
perfection is limited to the degree set forth in Section 9-306 of the UCC, and
(e) as to the perfection of UCC security interests in money, to the
qualification that such perfection is limited to money in the possession of the
secured party.
For purposes of this opinion we have assumed that the Owner
Participant and the Lessor will exercise their rights, and that PNM will perform
its obligations, under Section 13(c) of the Facility Lease if it becomes
necessary to do so to remain in compliance with the New Mexico Order. We have
further assumed that no Lease Transaction (as that term is used in the New
Mexico Order) entered into by PNM subsequent to the date hereof will result in a
violation of the New Mexico Order.
We do not purport to be experts in the laws of any jurisdictions
other than New Mexico and the United States. The opinions expressed herein
relate only to the existing laws of New Mexico, and we express no opinion with
respect to the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction other than New
Mexico. Our opinions do not cover any matter relating to the "blue sky" or
securities laws of New Mexico or any other jurisdiction.
Yours very truly,
XXXXX, DICKASON, SLOAN, AKIN & ROBS, P.A.
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Exhibit A
to
Participation Agreement
XXXX OF SALE AND ASSIGNMENT
================================================================================
XXXX OF SALE AND ASSIGNMENT
dated as of __________, 19
from
[XXXXXXX LEASING CORPORATION]
to
PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO
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XXXX OF SALE AND ASSIGNMENT, dated as of ________ 19__, from
[XXXXXXX LEASING CORPORATION3, a [New York corporation (the Owner Participant),
to PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NEW MEXICO, a New Mexico corporation (PNM)
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 7(b)(4) of the Participation
Agreement dated as of August 12, 1986 among the Owner Participant, First PV
Funding Corporation, as Loan Participant, The First National Bank of Boston, in
its individual capacity and as Owner Trustee, Chemical Bank, in its individual
capacity and as Indenture Trustee and PNM, as, Lessee, (the Participation
Agreement), the Owner Participant desires to sell and PNM desires to buy the
Assigned Property (as hereinafter defined);
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of other
good and valuable consideration, receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. For purposes hereof, capitalized terms used herein
shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Participation Agreement.
References in this Agreement to articles, sections and clauses are to articles,
sections and clauses in this Agreement unless otherwise indicated.
ARTICLE II
ASSIGNMENT OF TRUST ESTATE
SECTION 2.01. Assignment. The Owner Participant does hereby
grant, bargain, convey, sell, assign, transfer and set over to PNM, without
recourse, representation or warranty, express and implied, of any nature
whatsoever (except as set forth in the next succeeding sentence), all of the
Owner Participant's right, title and interest in, to and under the Trust Estate
except the Owner Participant's right to receive Excepted Payments (the Assigned
Property) [subject to the Owner
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Participant's security interest in, and general lien upon all of the right,
title, and interest of PNM, as successor Owner Participant in, to and under the
Assigned Property*]. The Owner Participant hereby represents and warrants to PNM
that the Owner Participant has good and valid title to the Assigned Property
free and clear of all Owner Participant's Liens.
[Insert the following provision if the Owner Participant has not
received under Section 5.2 of the Indenture the payments provided for in Section
9(c), 9(d),1(c) or 16 of the Facility Lease, as the case may be:
SECTION 2.02. No Release of PNM Notwithstanding the transfer of
the Assigned Property to PNM pursuant to Section 2.01 hereof, the obligation of
PNM to make the payments as provided in Section [insert applicable section:
9(c), 9(d), 13(c) or 16] of the Facility Lease (together with interest thereon
in accordance with Section 3(b) (iii) of the Facility Lease) (or to make other
payments in a like amount with respect to Basic Rent or Supplemental Rent paid
by application of such payments (and in which the Owner Trustee has thereby
acquired an interest pursuant to Section 5.1 or 5.3 of the Indenture) shall not
be deemed to be cancelled or discharged but shall continue until all such
amounts are so received by PNM, as successor Owner Participant, or by the
transferring Owner Participant pursuant to the provisions of Section 7(b)(4) of
the Participation Agreement.
(Insert following if the Owner Participant has received under
Section 5.2 of the Indenture the payments provided for in Section
9(c),9(d),13(c) or 16 of the Facility Lease, as the case may be:
SECTION 2.03. Acknowledgment. The Owner Participant hereby
acknowledges receipt of $_________ representing payment in full of all amounts
due to the Owner Participant under Section [9(c), 9(d), 13(c) or 16] of the
Facility Lease.]
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*To be inserted if on the date of the transfer the Owner Participant
has not received under Section 5.2 of the Indenture the payments provided for in
Section 9(c), 9(d), 13(c) or 16(e) of the Facility Lease, as the case may be.
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ARTICLE III
EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANSFER
SECTION 3.01. Effectiveness of Transfer. The transfer of the
Assigned Property shall become effective without further action upon the
execution and delivery by the Owner Participant to the Lessee of this Xxxx of
Sale and Assignment and the furnishing of a counterpart of this Xxxx of Sale and
Assignment to the Owner Trustee.
ARTICLE IV
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 4.01. Successors and Assigns. This Xxxx of Sale and
Assignment shall be binding upon the Owner Participant and its successors and
shall inure to the benefit of PNM and its successors and assigns.
SECTION 4.02. Governing Law. This Xxxx of Sale and Assignment
shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the law of
the State of New York.
SECTION.4.03. Headings. The division of this Xxxx of Sale and
Assignment into sections, and the insertion of headings are for convenience of
reference only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this
Xxxx of Sale and Assignment.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Xxxx of Sale
and Assignment to be duly executed as of the day and year written above.
[XXXXXXX LEASEING CORPORATION]
By____________________________
Title:
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Exhibit B
to
Participation Agreement
AFFIDAVIT OF TRUSTEE
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON,
as Owner Trustee under that
certain Trust Agreement dated as of
August 12, 1986, with
Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation
The undersigned, being a duly authorized representative of The
First National Bank of Boston, a national banking association, as Trustee under
the above-captioned Trust Agreement (the Trust Agreement), does hereby affirm
and acknowledge that The First National Bank of Boston, as Trustee, holds legal
title to certain real (and other) property on behalf of a certain beneficiary,
such property and beneficiary being more particularly described in that certain
Deed recorded August 18, 1986, as instrument No. 86- records of Maricopa County,
Arizona; being further described in that certain Deed and Xxxx of Sale recorded
August 18, 1986, as instrument No. 86-, records of Maricopa County, Arizona;
being further described in that certain Assignment, Assumption and Further
Agreement recorded August 18, 1986, as instrument Xx. 00- , xxxxxxx xx Xxxxxxxx
xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx; and being further described in that certain Deed and Assignment
of Beneficial Interest dated as of August 18, 1986, and that certain related
Third Amended Affidavit of Trustee executed by Title USA Company of Arizona as
Trustee of its Trust No. 530 and recorded August 18, 1986, as instrument Xx. 00-
, xxxxxxx xx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx; the property descriptions and beneficiary
disclosures contained in or incorporated into each of said instruments being
incorporated herein by this reference as if fully set forth herein.
A certain change in ownership of the beneficial interest in the
Trust Agreement has occurred since the recordation of the above-described
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instruments. As now reflected in the records of The First National Bank of
Boston, the sole beneficiary of the Trust Agreement is:
Public Service Company of Xxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxx 00000
A copy of the Trust Agreement is available for inspection at the
offices of The First National Bank of Boston, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx 00000.
DATED THIS____________ day of _________ _____
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON, not in its individual
capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee under the Trust
Agreement dated as of August 12, 1986, with Xxxxxxx
Leasing Corporation
By:______________________________
STATE OF __________ )
)SS.
COUNTY OF __________)
The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this _____
day of __________, __________, by __________, of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BOSTON,
a national banking association, under that certain Trust Agreement dated as of
August 12, 1986 with Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation.
Notary Public
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Appendix A
DEFINITION OF TERMS
The terms defined herein relate to the Participation Agreement
(as defined below) and certain Transaction Documents executed, or to be
executed, in connection with the Participation Agreement. Such terms include the
plural as well as the singular. Any agreement defined or referred to below shall
include each amendment, modification and supplement thereto and waiver thereof
as may become effective from time to time, except where otherwise indicated. Any
term defined below by reference to any agreement shall have such meaning whether
or not such document is in effect. The terms "hereof", "herein", "hereunder" and
comparable terms refer to the entire agreement with respect to which such terms
are used and not to any particular article, section or other subdivision
thereof.
If, and to the extent that, either, the Participation Agreement
or any other Transaction Document which incorporates this Appendix shall be
amended from time to time pursuant to the respective terms thereof, this
Appendix shall be, or be deemed to have been, amended concurrently with the
execution and delivery of each such amendment in. order to conform the
definitions herein to the new or amended definitions set forth in or required by
each such amendment.
Additional Bonds shall mean Bonds in addition to the Initial
Series Bonds.
Additional Equity Investment shall. have the meaning specified
in Section 8(f) of the Facility Lease.
Additional Notes shall have the meaning set forth in the
recitations in the Indenture, which Additional Notes shall be issued, if at all,
pursuant to Section 3.5 of the Indenture.
Affiliate, with respect to any Person, shall mean any other
Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under direct or
indirect common control with such Person. For purposes of this definition, the
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term "control" (including the correlative meanings of the terms "controlled by"
and "under common control with"), as used with respect to any Person, shall mean
the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise.
After-Tax Basis shall mean, with respect to any payment received
or deemed to have been received by any Person, the amount of such payment
supplemented by a further payment to that Person so that the sum of the two
payments shall, after deduction of all taxes and other charges (taking into
account any credits or deductions arising therefrom and the timing thereof)
computed at the highest marginal statutory tax rate resulting from the receipt
(actual or constructive) of such two payments imposed under any Applicable Law
or by any Governmental Authority, be equal to such payment received or deemed to
have been received.
Agent and Agency Period shall have the respective meanings set
forth in Section 7.01 of the Assignment and Assumption.
ANPP Administrative Committee shall mean the committee
established pursuant to Section 6.1.1 of the ANPP Participation Agreement (or
any comparable successor provision).
ANPP Operating Committee shall mean the committee established
pursuant to Section 6.1.2 of the ANPP Participation Agreement (or any comparable
successor provision).
ANPP Participants shall have the meaning assigned to the word
Participant under the ANPP Participation Agreement.
ANPP Participation Agreement shall mean the Arizona Nuclear
Power Project Participation Agreement, dated as of August 23, l973, among APS,
Salt River, Southern California, PNM, El Paso, LADWP and SCPPA, as heretofore
and hereafter amended pursuant to the terms thereof.
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ANPP Project Agreements shall mean the ANPP Participation
Agreement and the other Project Agreements (as such term is defined in the ANPP
Participation Agreement).
ANPP Switchyard shall mean the ANPP High Voltage Switchyard
located at the PVNGS Site, the owner-ship, construction, operation and
maintenance of which are governed by the ANPP High Voltage Switchyard
Participation Agreement executed as of August 20, 1981 (APS Contract No.
2252-419,00), the parties to which are APS, PNM, Salt River, El Paso1 LADWP and
Southern California.
ANPP Transferee shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.01
of the Assignment and Assumption.
Applicable law shall mean all applicable laws, statutes,
treaties, rules, codes, ordinances, regulations, permits, certificates, orders,
licenses and permits of any Governmental Authority, interpretations of any of
the foregoing by a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction, and judgments,
decrees, injunctions, writs, orders or like action of any court, arbitrator or
other judicial or quasi judicial tribunal (including those pertaining to health,
safety, the environment or otherwise)
Appraisal Procedure shall mean a procedure whereby two
independent appraisers, one chosen by the Lessee and one by the Lessor, shall
mutually agree upon the value, period or amount (including economic Useful Life)
then the subject of an appraisal. If either the Lessor or the Lessee, as the
case may be, shall determine that a value, period or amount to be determined
(other than fair market value under Section 5(b) of the Facility Lease) under
the Facility Lease or any other Transaction Document cannot be established
promptly by mutual agreement, such party shall appoint its appraiser and deliver
a written notice thereof to the other party. Such other party shall appoint its
appraiser within 15 days after receipt from the other party of the foregoing
written notice. If within 20 days after appointment of the two appraisers, as
described above, the two appraisers are unable to agree upon the value, period
or amount in question, a third independent appraiser shall be chosen within ten
days thereafter by the mutual consent of such first two appraisers or, if such
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first two appraisers fail to agree upon the appointment of a third appraiser
within such period, such appointment shall be made by the American Arbitration
Association, or any organization successor thereto, from a panel of arbitrators
having experience in the business of operating a nuclear electric generating
plant and a familiarity with equipment used or operated in such business. The
decision of the third appraiser so appointed and chosen shall be given within
ten days after the selection of such third appraiser. If three appraisers shall
be so appointed and the determination of one appraiser is disparate from the
middle determination by more than twice the amount, period or value by which the
third determination is disparate from the middle determination, then the
determination of such appraiser shall be excluded, the remaining two
determinations shall be averaged and such average shall be binding and
conclusive on the Lessor and the Lessee; otherwise the average of all three
determinations shall be binding and conclusive on the Lessor and the Lessee. The
fees and expenses of appraisers incurred in connection with any Appraisal
Procedure relating to any transaction contemplated by any provision of any
Transaction Document shall be divided equally between the Lessor and the Lessee
(except pursuant to Section 16 of the Facility Lease, which shall be paid solely
by the Lessee).
APS shall mean Arizona Public Service Company, an Arizona
corporation.
Arizona Public Utility Act sha11 mean Chapter 2, Title 40,
Arizona Revised Statutes.
Assigned Payments shall have the meaning specified in Section
2.1(1) of the Indenture.
Assignment and Assumption shall mean the Assignment, Assumption
and Further Agreement, dated as of August 12, 1986, between PNM and the Owner
Trustee.
Assignment of Beneficial Interest shall mean the Deed and
Assignment of Beneficial Interest under Title USA Company of Arizona Trust No.
530, dated as of August 18, 1986, from PNM to the Owner Trustee.
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Assumption Agreement shall mean the Assumption Agreement of PNM
substantially in the form of Exhibit B to the Indenture.
Assumptions shall mean the Pricing Assumptions and the Tax
Assumptions.
Atomic Energy Act shall mean the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended, and regulations from time to time issued published or promulgated
pursuant thereto.
Authorized Officer shall mean, with respect to the Indenture
Trustee, any officer of the Indenture Trustee who shall be duly authorized by
appropriate corporate action to authenticate a Note and shall mean, with respect
to the Owner Trustee, any officer of the Owner Trustee who shall be duly
authorized by appropriate corporate action to execute any Transaction Document.
Bankruptcy Code shall mean the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1973, as
amended, and any law with respect to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization
successor thereto.
Basic Lease Tern shall mean the initial term of the Facility
Lease, which shall begin on the Closing Date and end on January 15, 2016, unless
earlier terminated.
Basic Rent shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3(a) o~
the Facility Lease.
Basic Rent Payment Dates shall mean and include January 15,
1987, and each January 15 and July 15 of each year thereafter through and
including January 15, 2016, and, if the Lessee shall elect the Renewal Term,
each January 15 and July 15 of each year during the Renewal Term, commencing
July 15, 2016 and ending on the last day of the Renewal Term.
Xxxx of Sale shall mean the Deed and Xxxx of Sale, dated as of
August 18, 1986, between PNM and the Owner Trustee.
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Bonds shall mean all bonds, notes and other evidences of
indebtedness from time to time issued and outstanding under the Collateral Trust
Indenture, including, but without limitation, the Initial Series Bonds, the
Releveraging Bonds, the Refunding Bonds and any other Additional Bonds.
Business Day shall mean any day other than a Saturday or Sunday
or other day on which banks in Albuquerque, New Mexico, New York, New York or
Boston, Massachusetts are authorized or obligated to be closed.
Capital Improvement shall mean (a) the addition, betterment or
enlargement of any property constituting part of Unit 2 or the Common Facilities
or the replacement of any such property with other property, irrespective of
whether (i) such replacement property constitutes an enlargement or betterment
of the property which it replaces, (ii) the cost of such addition, betterment,
enlargement or replacement is or may be capitalized, or charged to maintenance
or repairs, in accordance with the Uniform System of Accounts or (iii) such
addition, betterment or enlargement is or is not included or reflected in the
plans and specifications for Unit 2 or the Common Facilities, as built, and (b)
any alteration, modification, addition or improvement to Unit 2, other than
original, substitute or replacement parts incorporated into Unit 2 or the Common
Facilities.
Casualty Value, as of any Basic Rent Payment Date, shall mean
the percentage of Facility Cost set forth opposite such date in Schedule I to
the Facility Lease. Casualty Value as of any Basic Rent Payment Date during the
Renewal Term shall mean the unamortized portion as of such Basic Rent Payment
Date of the Fair Market Sales Value of. the Undivided Interest, determined by
the straight-line amortization of such Fair Market Sales Value at the
commencement of the Renewal Term over the period from such commencement date
through the remaining term of the License determined pursuant to the Appraisal
Procedure undertaken in accordance with the last sentence of Section 13(a) of
the Facility Lease. Anything contained in the Participation Agreement or the
Facility Lease to the contrary notwithstanding, Casualty Value shall be, when
added to all other amounts which the Lessee is required to pay under Section
9(c) of the Facility Lease (taking into account any assumption of Notes by the
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Lessee), under any circumstances and in any event, in an amount at least
sufficient to pay in full, as of any Basic Rent Payment Date, the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of all Notes Outstanding at the close of business on
such date, together with accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes.
Change in Tax Law shall mean any change in the Code or successor
legislation enacted by either the Ninety-ninth or the One Hundredth Congress
(other than a change in respect of an alternative minimum tax or an add-on
minimum tax having the same effect as an alternative minimum tax), or if prior
to January 15, 1997 (i) there is enacted any technical correction thereto, or
(ii) there are adopted, promulgated, issued or published any proposed, temporary
or final Regulations resulting therefrom (regardless of the effective date of
such technical corrections or Regulations, but only if such technical
corrections or Regulations would affect Net Economic Return), provided, however,
that a Change in Tax Law shall occur in the event the provision set forth in
Section 1509(b) of H.R. 3838 as passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on
December 17, 1985 and Section 1809(b) of H.R 3838 as passed by the U.S. Senate
on June 24, 1986 shall fail to be enacted into law in the form therein set forth
or, if such provision is so enacted into law, it shall not apply to the Common
Facilities
Chemical Bank shall mean Chemical Bank, a New York banking
corporation.
Chief Financial Officer shall mean the person designated by the
Board of Directors of PNM as the chief financial officer of PNM.
Claims shall mean liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, claims (including, without limitation, claims involving liability in
tort, strict or otherwise), actions, suits, judgments, costs, interest, expenses
and disbursements, whether or not any of the foregoing shall be founded or
unfounded (including, without limitation, legal fees and expenses and costs of
investigation) of any kind and nature whatsoever without any limitation as to
amount.
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Closing shall mean the proceedings which are contemplated by
Section 4 of the Participation Agreement.
Closing Date sha1l mean August 8, 1986.
Code shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended,
or any comparable successor law.
Collateral Trust Indenture shall mean the Collateral Trust
Indenture, dated as of December 16, 1985, among PNM, Funding Corp. and the
Collateral Trust Trustee.
Collateral Trust Indenture Supplement shall mean a supplement to
the Collateral Trust Indenture.
Collateral Trust Trustee shall mean Chemical Bank, not in its
individual capacity, but solely as Collateral Trust Trustee under the Collateral
Trust Indenture, and the successors or assigns of such Trustee.
Common Facilities shall mean all PVNGS common facilities, as set
forth in Item B of Exhibit B to the Xxxx of Sale, other than common facilities
excluded therefrom in said item B.
Common Facilities Interest shall mean the Owner Trustee's
portion of the Lessee's original 10.2% undivided interest in all Common
Facilities at PVNGS, the percentage of which is set forth in Schedule 2 to the
Participation Agreement.
Coverage Ratio shall mean the fraction (i) denominator of which
shall be the sum (calculated as of a date no earlier than 135 days prior to the
date of calculation) of (x) the interest that will be payable during the
twelve-month period following the date of the transaction with respect to which
a calculation is required to be made on the debt (both long-term and short-term)
of the Surviving Lessee, and (y) the interest portion of payments due during the
twelve-month period following the date of such transaction on lease obligations
of the Surviving Lessee with a term in excess of one year, and (ii) the
numerator of which shall be the sum of (x) the pro forma net earnings (before
taxes and excluding allowance for funds used during construction) of the
Surviving Lessee for a twelve-month period ending no earlier than 135 days prior
to the date of such transaction, and (y) such denominator.
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Cure Option shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16(e) of
the Facility Lease.
Debt shall mean (A) indebtedness for borrowed money, (B)
obligations as lessee under leases and (C) obligations under direct or indirect
guarantees in respect of, and obligations (contingent or otherwise) to purchase
or otherwise acquire or otherwise to assure a creditor against loss in respect
of, indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds referred to in clause (A)
or (B) above, if the principal amount (or equivalent) thereof is greater than
$20,000,000 for any one item of Debt or $30,000,000 in the aggregate for all
items of Debt of the Lessee);
Decommissioning shall mean the decommissioning and retirement
from service of Xxxx 0, and the related possession, maintenance and disposal of
radioactive material used in or produced incident to the possession and
operation of Unit 2, including, without limitation, (i) placement and
maintenance of Unit 2 in a state of protective storage, (ii) in-place entombment
and maintenance of Xxxx 0, (xxx) xxxxxxxxxxxxx xx Xxxx 0, (xx) any other form of
decommissioning and retirement from service required by or acceptable to the NRC
and (v) all activities undertaken incident to the implementation thereof and to
the obtaining of NRC authority therefor, including, without limitation,
maintenance, storage, custody, removal, decontamination, and disposition of
materials, equipment and fixtures, razing of Unit 2, removal and disposition of
debris from the PVNGS Site, and restoration of the PVNGS Site related to Xxxx 0
for unrestricted use.
Decommissioning Costs shall mean all costs, liabilities and
expenses relating or allocable to, or incurred in connection with, the
Decommissioning of Unit 2, including, without limitation, (i) any and all costs
of activities undertaken to terminate NRC licensing authority and requirements
to own, operate and possess Xxxx 0 and to possess radioactive material used in
or produced incident to the possession and operation of Unit 2; and (ii) any and
all costs of activities undertaken, prior to termination of all NRC licensing
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authority and requirements with respect to Unit 2 and the radioactive material
used in or produced incident to the possession and operation of Unit 2, to
possess, maintain, and dispose of radioactive material used in or produced
incident to the possession and operation of Unit 2.
Deed shall mean the Deed, dated as of August 12, 1986, from PNM
to the Owner Trustee.
Deemed Loss Event shall mean any of the following events (unless
waived by the Owner Participant, which waiver shall be in writing and may be
either indefinite or for a specified period):
(1) Regulation. If at any time after the Closing Date and before
the Lease Termination Date, the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant,
by reason of the ownership of the Undivided Interest or the Real
Property Interest or any part thereof by the Owner Trustee (or any
beneficial interest therein by the Owner Participant) or the lease of
the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest to the Lessee or
any of the other transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents
(the term Ownner Participant, as used in this definition, not including
any Transferee who at the time of transfer to such Transferee is a
non-exempt entity of the type referred to in this clause (1), whether by
reason of such ownership or lease transactions, or otherwise) shall be
deemed by any Governmental Authority having jurisdiction to be, or shall
become subject to regulation (other than Non-Burdensome Regulation) as,
an "electric utility" or a "public utility" under any Applicable Law or
a holding company under the Holding company Act, or as a consequence of
any Governmental Action, and the effect thereof on the Owner Trustee or
the Owner Participant would be, in the sole judgment of either such
Person, acting on advice of counsel, adverse, and the Owner Trustee and
the Owner Participant have not waived application of this definition,
except that if the Lessee, at its sole cost and expense, is contesting
diligently and in good faith any action by any Governmental Authority
which would otherwise constitute a Deemed Loss Event under this clause
(1), such Deemed Loss Event shall be deemed not to have occurred so long
as (i) such contest does not involve any danger of the foreclosure,
sale, forfeiture or loss of, or the creation of any Lien
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on, the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest or any part
thereof or any interest there-in, (ii) such contest does not adversely
affect the Undivided Interest, the Real Property Interest or any part
thereof or any other property, assets or rights of the Owner Trustee or
the Owner Participant or the Lien of the Indenture thereon, (iii) the
Lessee shall have furnished the Owner Trustee, the Owner Participant,
and the Indenture Trustee with an opinion of independent counsel
satisfactory to each such Person to the effect that there exists a
reasonable basis for contesting such determination and the effects
thereof, (iv) such determination and the effects thereof shall be
effectively stayed or with-drawn during such contest (and shall not be
subject to retroactive application at the conclusion of such contest) in
a manner satisfactory to the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant,
and the Owner Participant shall have determined that the Owner Trustee's
continued ownership of the Undivided Interest and the Real Property
Interest during the pendency of such contest or such contest will not
adversely affect its or its Affiliates' business, and (V) the Lessee
shall have indemnified the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant in a
manner satisfactory to each such Person for any liability or loss which
either such Person may incur as a result of the Lessee's contest;
(2) Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act Change. If there shall be, at any time
during the Lease Term, any change in the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act, the Atomic
Energy Act or the regulations of the NRC, or any other Applicable Law,
in each case as in effect on the Closing Date, as a result of which, in
the opinion of independent counsel for the Owner Participant, (i) the
aggregate liability for a single Nuclear Incident of "persons
indemnified" (as each such term is defined in the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act) is
increased, unless the change is such that neither the Owner Trustee nor
the Owner Participant may be exposed, either during or subsequent to the
Lease Term, to any increased real or potential liability in respect of a
Nuclear Incident, (ii) the aggregate liability for a single Nuclear
Incident of "persons indemnified" (as such term is defined in the
Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act) exceeds the amount of financial protection
established by the NRC as a condition to the License, unless the change
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is such that neither the Owner Trustee nor the Owner Participant may be
exposed, either during or subsequent to the Lease Term, to any increased
real or potential liability in respect of a Nuclear Incident, (iii) the
amount of financial protection required, including but not limited to
the limitation on the amount of deferred premiums for such financial
protection, is increased, unless the change is such that neither the
Owner Trustee nor the Owner Participant may be exposed, either during or
subsequent to the Lease Term, to any increased real or potential
liability in respect of a Nuclear Incident, or (iv) either the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant may be exposed to any other increase in
its real or potential liability in respect of a Nuclear Incident, either
during or subsequent to the Lease Term, it being understood for purposes
of this definition that the requirement or existence of insurance,
retrospective premiums, indemnities (whether by the Lessee or any other
person) or other forms of financial protection (similar or dissimilar to
the foregoing) shall not be deemed to reduce or eliminate any exposure
of the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant to real or potential
liability in respect of a Nuclear Incident except to the extent (x) such
financial protection is provided by the United States Government under
Congressional action which does not require any further appropriation or
other act of Congress or any other Governmental Authority, (y) the terms
of such financial protection are otherwise satisfactory to the Owner
Trustee and the Owner Participant, and (z) the Owner Trustee or Owner
Participant may not otherwise be exposed, either during or subsequent to
the Lease Term, to any increased real or potential liability in respect
of a Nuclear Incident; provided, however, that such change shall not
constitute a "Deemed Loss Event" if such change shall include a
provision drafted in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Owner
Participant which exempts the Owner Trustee and the Owner Participant
from all real and potential liability in respect of a Nuclear Incident
so long as neither the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant is in
actual possession and control of Unit 2 or the Undivided Interest,
unless (in the opinion of independent counsel to the Owner Participant)
a court could reasonably hold that the statute incorporating such
provision is unconstitutional;
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(3) Liability far Termination Obligation. If there shall be any
change in Applicable Law as a result of which the Owner Trustee shall
become liable in its individual capacity, or the Owner Participant shall
become liable in any capacity, in respect of any portion of the
Termination Obligation (as defined in the ANPP Participation Agreement)
or Decommissioning Costs or, during the Lease Term, any other liability
or obligation imposed as of the date hereof on licensees of the NRC;
(4) Illegality. If there shall be any change in Applicable Law
or any Governmental Action the effect of which is to make the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents unauthorized,
illegal or otherwise contrary to Applicable Law;
(5) Limitation on Exercise of Rights. My change in, or new
interpretation by Governmental Authority having jurisdiction of, the
License and the License Amendment (each as in effect on the Closing
Date) constituting an assertion to the effect that the exercise by the
Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant of any right (irrespective of the
event giving rise to such right) under any Transaction Document would
constitute impermissible control over Unit 2 or the licensees of Unit 2,
other than an assertion that affects such rights in a manner consistent
with the second sentence of Section 184 of the Atomic Energy Act and the
NRC's regulations thereunder (including, without limitation, 10 CFR
Section 50.81, as now and hereafter in effect);
(6) Early Licensee Status. If as a result of any expiration,
revocation, suspension, amendment or interpretation by any Governmental
Authority of the License, the License Amendment or any other
Governmental Action or change in Applicable Law, either the Owner
Trustee or the Owner Participant shall be required to become a licensee
of the NRC prior to the Lease Termination Date;
(7) Suspension or Termination of Insurance. If any policy of
liability insurance with respect to Unit 2 shall be 5uupended or
terminated, or the coverage thereunder reduced, for any reason
whatsoever or shall be amended or supplemented, in either case in a
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manner which may expose the Owner Trustee or the Owner Participant,
either during or subsequent to the Lease Term, to any increased real or
potential liability in respect of a Nuclear Incident and such policy of
insurance shall not be immediately replaced by insurance or other
financial protection satisfactory to the Owner Participant effective
immediately upon such suspension, termination, reduction, amendment or
supplementation which, in the reasonable opinion of the Owner
Participant, is at least as protective of it (in all respects deemed by
it to be material) as the policy of insurance so terminated, suspended,
reduced, amended or supplemented, unless the aggregate liability for a
Nuclear Incident of "persons indemnified" (as such term is defined in
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended) is reduced by an amount equal
to the amount of liability insurance so terminated, suspended, reduced,
amended or supplemented and, in the reasonable opinion of the Owner
Participant, it may not otherwise be exposed, either during or
subsequent to the Lease Term, to any increased real or potential
liability in respect of a Nuclear Incident as a consequence of such
suspension, termination, reduction, amendment or supplementation.
Default shall mean an event or condition which, with the giving
of notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
Directive shall mean an instrument in writing executed in
accordance with the terms and provisions of the Indenture by the Holders, or
their duly authorized agents or attorneys-in-fact, representing a Majority in
Interest of Holders of Notes, directing the Indenture Trustee to take or refrain
from taking the action specified in such instrument.
Early Termination Date shall have the meaning specified in
Section 14(d) of the Facility Lease.
Early Termination Notice shall have the meaning specified in
Section 14(d) of the Facility Lease.
Economic Useful Life shall mean that period (commencing on the
date as of which the determination of Economic Useful Life is to be made as
provided in Section 8(g) of the Facility Lease and ending on the date upon which
either of the states of affairs described in clauses (i) and (ii) below cease to
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apply, or can reasonably be expected to cease to apply, to Unit 2) during which
(i) Xxxx 0 will be useful to, and usable by, any owner or lessee thereof as a
facility for the generation of electric power and (ii) Unit 2 is an economic and
commercially practical facility for the generation of electric power capable of
producing (after taking into account costs of capital) a reasonable economic
return to the owner thereof. For the purposes of determinations under clauses
(i) and (ii) above, the following factors, among others, shall be taken into
account (as such factors obtain on the date of determination and as such factors
are reasonably expected to obtain in the future): (a) provisions of the ANPP
Project Agreements (including, without limitation, the ANPP Participation
Agreement and the Material Project Agreements (or substitutes for such Material
Project Agreements in effect on the date of determination)); (b) the actual
condition and performance of Unit 2; (C) the actual condition and performance of
such other facilities constituting PVNGS (including, without limitation, the
Common Facilities) as are integral to the operation of Unit 2; (d) the actual
condition of, and access of the ANPP Participants to, the ANPP Switchyard and
such other transmission facilities as are available and necessary to permit the
transmission of the maximum amount of power generated by PVNGS; (e) the cost of
obtaining, handling, storing and disposing of nuclear fuel for Unit 2; (f) the
projected cost (including, without limitation, costs attributable to obligations
to fund any reserve fund maintained (or funded) by licensed owners and/or
lessees of Unit 2 to the extent dedicated to (or attributable to and freely
available with respect to) Xxxx 0 (xxx Xxxx 0 Fund)) or the Decommissioning or
retirement from service of Unit 2 including, without limitation, Decommissioning
Costs (taking into account the balance (plus projected investment earnings
thereon) of the Unit 2 Fund); (g) the cost of Capital Improvements to Unit 2
then planned to be made, or reasonably expected to be made; (h) the cost of
acquiring or leasing the Unit 2 Retained Assets; (i) the current status of all
Governmental Action with respect to Unit 2 (including, without limitation, the
License) required to permit licensed owners and/or lessees to possess and (in
the case of the Operating Agent) to operate Unit 2 and such other facilities
constituting PVNGS. (including, without limitation, the Common Facilities) as
are integral to the operation of unit 2; and (j) the relative cost of producing
an amount of electric power and energy equivalent to the generating capacity of
Unit 2 from other facilities then available in the region serviced, or
reasonably expected to be serviced, by PVNGS.
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El Paso shall mean El Paso Electric Company,a Texas corporation.
ERISA shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
1974, as amended.
Estimated Transaction Expenses shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 5(a) of the Participation Agreement.
Event of Default shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15
of the Facility Lease.
Event of Loss shall mean any of the following events: (a) a
Final Shutdown, (b) a Requisition of Title, or (c) a Requisition of Use for an
indefinite period which can be reasonably expected to exceed, or a stated period
which ends on the last day of or after, the Lease Term (including the Renewal
Term only if the Renewal Term shall have been elected prior to such Requisition
of Use by the exercise of the renewal option provided in Section 12 of the
Facility Lease).
Excepted Payments shall mean (i) all payments of Supplemental
Rent, other than payments by the Lessee (x) of Casualty Value, Termination Value
or Special Casualty Value or in connection with the exercise of the Cure Option
or the occurrence of the Special Purchase Event or (y) of indemnity payments to
which either the Loan Participant or any Indemnitee other than the Owner Trustee
or the Owner Participant or any of their respective Affiliates (or the
respective successors, assigns, agents, officers, directors or employees
thereof) is entitled; (ii) any amounts payable under any Transaction Document t9
reimburse the Lessor or the Owner Participant or any of their respective
Affiliates (including the reasonable expenses of the Lessor or the Owner
Participant incurred in connection with any such payment) for performing or
complying with any of the obligations of the Lessee under and as permitted by
any Transaction Document, (iii) any amount payable to the Owner Participant by
any Transferee as the purchase price of the Owner Participant's interest in the
Trust Estate, (iv) so long as no Indenture Default or Indenture Event of Default
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shall have occurred and be continuing, all payments of Basic Rent in excess of
amounts then due and owing in respect of the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest on all Notes Outstanding; (v) any insurance proceeds with respect
to an Event of Loss in excess of amounts then due and owing in respect of the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on all Notes Outstanding, (vi)
any insurance proceeds (or payments with respect t6 risks self-insured) under
liability policies and (vii) any payments in respect of interest to the extent
attributable to payments referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) above.
Existing Mortgage shall mean the Indenture of Mortgage and Deed
of Trust dated as of June 1, 1947, between PNM and Irving Trust Company, as
heretofore supplemented by all Supplemental Indentures thereto.
Expenses shall mean liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
taxes (other than taxes on income), claims, actions, suits, costs, expenses and
disbursements (including legal fees and expenses) of any kind -and nature
whatsoever.
Extension Letter shall mean the Extension Letter, dated August
18, 1986 and addressed to the Collateral Trust Trustee by the parties to the
Participation Agreement.
Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence shall have its meaning as
defined in Section 11 of the Atomic Energy Act and the related NRC regulations,
as amended to the date hereof, and as the meaning of such term shall be expanded
from time to time by future amendments thereof. The definition of "extraordinary
nuclear occurrence" contained in Section 11 of the Atomic Energy Act on the date
hereof is: "any event causing a discharge or dispersal of source, special
nuclear, or by-product material from its intended place of confinement in
amounts offsite, or causing radiation levels offsite, which the Commission
determines to be substantial, and which the Commission determines has resulted
or will probably result in substantial damages to persons off-site or property
offsite. Any determination by the Commission that such an event has, or has not,
occurred shall be final and conclusive, and no other official or any court shall
have power or jurisdiction to review any such. determination. The Commission
shall establish criteria in writing setting forth the basis upon which such
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determination shall be made. As used in this subsection, 'offsite' means away
from 'the location' or 'the contract location' as defined in the applicable
Commission indemnity agreement, entered into pursuant to section 2210 of this
title.
Facility Cost shall mean the Purchase Price plus the sum of (x) all
Supplemental Financing Amounts, and (y) all Additional Equity Investment
amounts.
Facility Lease shall mean the Facility Lease, dated as of August
12, 1986, between PNM, as Lessee, and the Owner Trustee, as Lessor.
Fair Market Rental Value or Fair Market Sales Value of any
property or service shall mean (other than for purposes of Section 5(b) of the
Facility Lease) the value of such property or service for lease or sale
determined on the basis of an arm's-length transaction for cash between an
informed and willing lessee or purchaser (under no compulsion to lease or
purchase) and an informed and willing lessor or seller (under no compulsion to
lease or sell), and shall take into account the Lessor's rights and obligations
under the Assignment and Assumption and the Assignment of Beneficial Interest
and rights under the Deed and the Xxxx of Sale, but shall be without regard to
any rights of the Lessee (including any renewal options) under the Facility
Lease. Except pursuant to Section 6.01 of the Assignment and Assumption, Fair
Market Rental Value and Fair Market Sales Value of the Undivided Interest and
the Real Property Interest shall be determined on the assumption that (i) Unit 2
has been maintained in accordance with, and the Lessee has complied with, the
requirements of the Facility Lease, the other Transaction Documents and the ANPP
Participation Agreement, and (ii) the Lessee or PNM, as possessor of the
Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest, is otherwise in compliance
with the requirements of all Transaction Documents. Fair Market Rental Value
shall be determined on the assumption that rent will be payable in equal
semi-annual installments in arrears.
Federal Power Act shall mean the Federal Power Act, as amended.
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Federal Securities shall have the meaning set forth in Section
2.3(c) of the Indenture.
FERC shall mean the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission of the
United States of America or any successor agency.
Final Prospectus shall mean the Prospectus included in the
Registration Statement on the date the same becomes effective, including
documents incorporated into said Prospectus by reference, including any
applicable prospectus supplements.
Final Shutdown shall mean the earlier to occur of:
(1) the or expiration revocation of the license or that portion
of the License that permits the operation of Unit 2 or the expiration,
suspension or revocation of the License or that portion of the License that
permits the possession by the Lessee of the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property Interest; or
(2) the suspension (pursuant to 10 C.F.R. Section 2.202, as
amended, and any successor provision) of the License or that portion of the
License that permits the operation of Unit 2, which suspension remains in effect
for three consecutive calendar months; or
(3) the permanent or temporary cessation of operation of Unit 2
as a result of a Nuclear Incident at Unit 2 (or if Unit 2 is not in operation
immediately prior to the occurrence of such Nuclear Incident, the failure to
resume operation thereof as a result of such Nuclear Incident) if (A) the Period
of such cessation or failure equals or exceeds twenty-four consecutive calendar
months, or (B) such Nuclear Incident causes the radiation level in the
containment building of Unit 2, as measured by the average of two high range
radiation monitors in such containment building of Unit 2 (or if only one such
monitor is operating at such time1 such monitor) over one hour to equal or
exceed 500 rads per hour; provided, however, this subsection (B) shall not apply
in respect of a Nuclear Incident arising solely from a fuel handling accident;
or
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(4) the permanent or temporary cessation of operation of Unit 2
as a result of a Nuclear Incident at Unit 1 or 3 (the Affected Unit) (or if Unit
2 is not in operation immediately prior to the occurrence of such Nuclear
Incident, the failure to resume operation thereof as a result of such Nuclear
Incident) if (A) the Period of such cessation or failure equals or exceeds
thirty-six consecutive calendar months; or (B) such Nuclear Incident causes the
radiation level in the containment building of the Affected Unit, as measured by
the average of two high range radiation monitors in such containment building
(or if only one such monitor is operating at such time, such monitor) over one
hour to equal or exceed 500 rads per hour; provided, however, this subsection
(B) shall not apply in respect of a Nuclear Incident arising solely from a fuel
handling accident;
(5) the occurrence of a Nuclear Incident at Unit 1, 2 or 3
causing (A) substantial injury or death to any person on or off the PVNGS Site
or (B). a discharge or dispersal of Source, Special Nuclear or Byproduct
Material from its intended place of confinement in amounts off the PVNGS Site or
causing radiation levels off the PVNGS Site such that, in the case of (B) above
(x) the NRC declares the occurrence of an Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence or
declares any other event connoting an equivalent level of accident or (y) the
surface contamination dose rate measured off the PVNGS Site by a radiation
monitor at 1 meter above the surface level equals or is greater at any time than
10 millirads/hour (0.10 milligray/hour) or in the case of noble gas plume
passage, the radiation dose rate equals or is greater than 10 rads (0.10 xxxx)
integrated over 24 hours, (or if the NRC shall at any time lower the radiation
levels required for the occurrence of an Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence, such
lower levels as shall be consistent with such change by the NRC); or
(6) damage to or destruction of any portion of Unit 2 and,
un1ess the Lessee theretofore shall have exercised its purchase option under
Section 13(b) of the Facility Lease, the failure of the Lessee, or of. the
Lessee and one or more other ANPP Participants, (A) to agree within eighteen
calendar months of such damage or destruction (or prior to such earlier date as
of which one or more other ANPP Participants shall agree to restore or
reconstruct any damaged portion of Unit 2 in accordance with Section 16.2 of the
ANPP Participation Agreement) to restore or reconstruct Unit 2 to completion
prior to the day sixty calendar months after the date of such agreement and (B)
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thereafter to complete the restoration and reconstruction of Unit 2 within a
period of sixty calendar months after the date of such agreement, provided that
no Final Shutdown shall be deemed to have occurred pursuant to this clause (6)
if and so long as Unit 2 is in operation at a rated core power level of at least
1900 megawatts thermal; or
(7) the non-operation of Unit 2 or the operation of Unit 2 at a
net rated power level below 630 megawatts electric or any combination thereof
for any reason (including, without limitation, the occurrence of any Nuclear
Incident at any generating facility located anywhere in the world) for a Period
of thirty-six consecutive calendar months (or a period through the penultimate
day of the Lease Term if the Lessee shall have given notice of its intent to
exercise the purchase option permitted by Section 13(b) of the Facility Lease)
other than as a result of damage to or destruction of Unit 2.
For purposes of this definition, a Final Shutdown resulting from the occurrence
of an event described in clause (5) above shall be deemed to have occurred
immediately and automatically upon the decline of the water coolant within Unit
2 to a level three feet above the nuclear fuel.
Financing Documents shall mean the Collateral Trust Indenture,
the Term Note Supplemental Indenture, the Underwriting Agreement, the Term Loan
Agreement, the Supplemental Indenture of Pledge and the Refunding Supplemental
Indenture.
Fixed Rate Note shall mean the non-recourse promissory note or.
notes to be issued by the Owner Trustee and authenticated by the Indenture
Trustee on the Refunding Date to refund the Initial Series Note.
Fixed Rate Renewal Term shall have the meanings set forth in
Section 12 of the Facility Lease.
FNB shall mean The First National Bank of Boston, in its
individual capacity, and its successors and assigns.
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Form U-7D shall mean the certificate to be filed pursuant to
Rule 7(d) of the Holding Company Act for the purpose of exempting the Owner
Participant and the Owner Trustee from registration under the Molding Company
Act.
Funding Corp. shall mean First PV Funding Corporation, a
Delaware corporation.
Generating Unit shall mean Unit 1, 2, or 3.
Generation Entitlement Share shall have the meaning assigned
thereto in the ANPP Participation Agreement and (i) when used in reference to
Unit 2, shall mean the Generation Entitlement Share of PNM as the ANPP
Participant with respect to its interest in Unit 2, (ii) when used in reference
to the Undivided Interest, shall mean that portion of the Generation Entitlement
Share attributable to the Undivided Interest and (iii) when used in Section 19
of the Facility Lease, shall refer to the Generation Entitlement Share of the
Lessee in all Generating Units as PVNGS.
Governmental Action shall mean all authorizations, consents,
approvals, waivers, exceptions, variances, orders, licenses, exemptions,
publications, filings, notices to and declarations of or with any Governmental
Authority (other than routine reporting requirements the failure to comply with
which will not affect the validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction
Documents or have a material adverse effect on the transactions contemplated by
any Transaction Document or any Financing Document) or any other action in
respect of any Governmental Authority and shall include, without limitation, all
siting, environmental and operating permits and licenses which are required for
the use and operation of Unit 2, including the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property Interest.
Governmental Authority shall mean any Federal, state, county,
municipal, foreign, international, regional or other governmental authority,
agency, board, body, instrumentality or court, and the staff thereof pursuant to
their official responsibilities.
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Holders shall mean the holders of the Notes or the Bonds, as the
case may be.
Holding Company Act shall mean the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 1935, as amended.
Indemnitee shall mean the Owner Participant, the Owner Trustee,
FNB, the Loan Participant, the stock-holder of Funding Corp. and its officers
and directors, Chemical Bank, the Indenture Trustee, each Holder of a Not. from
time to time Outstanding, the Collateral Trust Trustee, the Trust, the Trust
Estate, the Lease Indenture Estate, the indenture estate under the Collateral
Trust Indenture, any Affiliate of any of the foregoing and the respective
successors, assigns, agents, officers, directors or employees of the foregoing,
excluding, however, any ANPP Participant other than the Owner Trustee or the
Owner Participant.
Indenture shall mean the Trust Indenture, Mortgage, Security
Agreement and Assignment of Rents, dated as of August 12, 1986, between the
Owner Trustee and the Indenture Trustee.
Indenture Default shall mean an event which, after giving of
notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Indenture Event of Default.
Indenture Event of Default shall mean any of the events
specified in Section 6.2 of the Indenture.
Indenture Trustee shall mean Chemical Bank, a New York banking
corporation, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Indenture Trustee
under the Indenture and each successor trustee and co-trustee thereunder.
Indenture Trustee's Liens shall mean Liens against the Lease
Indenture Estate which result from acts of, or any failure to act by, or as a
result of claims against, the Indenture Trustee, in its individual capacity,
unrelated to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
Indenture Trustee's Office shall mean the office of the
Indenture Trustee located at 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, or such
other office as may be designated by the Indenture Trustee to the Owner Trustee
and each Holder of a Note Outstanding under the Indenture.
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Initial Series Bonds shall mean the promissory notes of Funding
Corp. evidencing the loans made to Funding Corp. under the Term Loan Agreement,
issued, authenticated and delivered under the Term Loan Agreement and the
Collateral Trust Indenture, as supplemented by the Term Note Supplemental
Indenture.
Initial Series Note shall mean the nonrecourse promissory note,
substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the Indenture, to be issued by the
Owner Trustee and authenticated by the Indenture Trustee on the Closing Date to
finance a portion of the Purchase Price
Investment shall have the meaning set forth in Section 3 of the
Participation Agreement.
Investment Company Act shall mean the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended.
Investment Percentage shall mean the percentage identified as
such in Schedule 2 to the Participation Agreement.
IRS shall mean the Internal Revenue Service of the United States
Department of the Treasury or any successor agency.
LADWP shall mean the Department of Water and Power of The City
of Los Angeles, a department organized and existing under the charter of the
City of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation of the State of California.
Lease Indenture Estate shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1 of the Indenture.
Lease Term shall mean the aggregate of the Basic Lease Term and
the Renewal Term, if any.
Lease Termination Date shall mean the last day of the Lease
Term (whether occurring by reason of a termination or expiration of the Lease
Term).
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Lessee shall mean Public Service Company of New Mexico, a New
Mexico corporation, and its successors and assigns, as lessee under the Facility
Lease and as party to the other Transactions Documents and Financing Documents
to which it is. a signatory.
Lessee Request shall mean a request of the Lessee delivered
pursuant to Section 6.03 of the Collateral Trust Indenture.
Lessor shall mean the Owner Trustee, as lessor under the
Facility Lease (and for purposes of the definition of "Deemed Loss Event" and
where the context 0therwise so requires, the Owner Trustee in its individual
capacity), and its successors and assigns.
Lessor's Interest shall have the meaning set forth in Section
8(c)(3) of the Participation Agreement.
Lessor's Liens or Owner Trustee's Liens shall mean Liens
against the Trust Estate or the Lease Indenture Estate (other than Permitted
Liens described in the definition of such term, except "Lessor's Liens" and
"Owner Participant's Liens" referred to in clause (vi) of such definition) for
which the Lessee is not responsible and which result from acts of, or any
failure to act by, or as a result of claims against, FNB or the Lessor,
unrelated to the ownership of the Undivided Interest or the Real Property
Interest, the administration of the Trust Estate or the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the Financing Documents.
Lessor's Portion shall mean the Owner Trustee's portion of the
original lO.2% undivided interest of the Lessee in Unit 2, the percentage of
which is set forth in Schedule 2 to the Participation Agreement.
License shall mean NRC Facility Operating License No. NPF-51,-
issued April 24, 1986 (superseding NRC Facility Operating License No. NPF-46,
issued on December 9, 1985), as the same may be amended, modified, extended,
renewed or superseded from time to time.
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License Amendment shall mean amendment number No. 2 to the
License, issued August 12, 1986, approving the sale and leaseback transaction
contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
License Expiration Date shall mean December 9, 2025, or any
later or earlier date on which the License shall expire or be terminated.
Lien shall mean any mortgage, pledge, security interest,
encumbrance, lien, easement, servitude or charge of any kind, including, without
limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any lease
in the nature thereof or the filing of, or agreement to give, any financing
statement under the Uniform Commercial Code of any jurisdiction.
Loan shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a) of the
Participation Agreement.
Loan Participant shall mean Funding Corp.
Loan Percentage shall mean the percentage identified as such in
Schedule 2 to the Participation Agreement.
Majority in Interest of Holders of Notes shall mean Holders of a
majority in principal amount of all Notes Outstanding under the Indenture at the
time of any such determination.
Material Project Agreement shall mean (i) Nuclear Fuel Contract
between Arizona Nuclear Power Project and Combustion Engineering, Inc. (CE),
dated as of August 20, 1973, (ii) Nuclear Steam Supply Contract between APS and
CE, dated as of August 20, 1973, as amended (iii) Turbine Generator Contract
between APS and General. Electric Company, dated as of March 21, 1974, as
amended (iv) Uranium Enrichment Services Contract between the United States of
America (USA) and APS, dated November 15, 1984, as amended and the Associated
Supplemental Agreement of Settlement between USA and APS, dated November 15,
1984, (v) Contract between APS and Westinghouse Electric Corporation for fuel
fabrication services for reload batches of nuclear fuel, dated August 7, 1974,
as amended, (vi) Agreement for the Sale and Purchase of Waste Water Effluent
between the City of Xxxxxxxx, APS and Salt River, dated June 12, 1981, as
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amended (vii) Agreement for Construction of Arizona Nuclear Power Project
between Xxxxxxx Power Corporation (Bechtel) and APS, dated January 15, 1973,
(viii) Agreement for Engineering and Procurement Services between APS and
Bechtel, dated January 15, 1973, (ix) Option and Purchase of Effluent dated
April 23, 1973, among the Cities of Phoenix, Glendale, Mesa, Tempe and
Scottsdale1 the Town of Youngtown, APS and Salt River, APS, and Salt River,
dated April 23 1973, (x) Agreement for Conversion Services between Allied
Chemical Corporation and APS, dated November 17, 1975, as amended, (xi) Uranium
Concentrate Sales Agreement between Energy Fuels Exploration Company and APS,
dated as of December 1, 1983, (xii) Uranium Concentrate Sales Agreement between
Energy Fuels Exploration and APS, dated as of October 23, 1981, as amended,
(xiii) Agreement for Sale of Uranium Concentrates between Pathfinder Mines
Corporation and APS, dated December 1, 1983, (xiv) Contract for Disposal of
Spent Nuclear Fuel and/or High Level Radioactive Waste between USA and APS,
dated July 21, 1984, and the ANPP Participation Agreement.
Minimum Net Worth means a Net Worth equal to the greater of (x)
$700,000,000 and (y) (1) $950,000,000 less (2) with respect to each Generating
Unit as to which PNM shall have entered into one or more transactions
constituting sale and leaseback transactions under the ANPP Participation
Agreement (including, but without limitation, the transaction contemplated by
the Participation Agreement), (A) $50,000,000 (in the case of Unit 1) and
$100,000,000 (in the case of each other Generating Unit) times (B). the
aggregate percentage of the Lessee's undivided interest in such PVNGS unit
subject to such transactions.
Mortgage Release shall mean the Indentures of Partial Release,
each dated August 18, 1986, under and with respect to the Existing Mortgage.
Net Economic Return shall mean the after-tax economic yield and
periodic after-tax cash flows (after all Federal, state and local taxes) and the
periodic return on investment and the timing of recognition of income originally
expected by the Owner Participant with respect to the Undivided Interest,
utilizing the same assumptions as used by the Owner Participant in making the
original computation upon which its evaluation of investment in the Undivided
Interest and the initial computation of Basic Rent, Casualty Value, Special
Casualty Value and Termination Value were based.
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Net Worth means the excess of assets over liabilities determined
by the Lessee's auditors on the basis of generally accepted accounting
principles.
New Mexico Public Utility Act shall mean the New Mexico Public
Utility Act, as amended.
NMPSC shall mean the New Mexico Public Service Commission
established pursuant to Section 62-5-1 of New Mexico Statutes Annotated, 1978.
NMPSC Order shall mean the order issued by the NMPSC on July 8,
1986, in Case No. 2019 (Phase I), approving, among other things; the terms of
the Facility Lease and the execution and delivery of the Facility Lease by PNM.
Non-Burdensome Regulation sha11 mean (i) regulation to which the
Owner Participant or the Owner Trustee is otherwise subject by reason of its
lease financing or other activities unrelated to the transactions contemplated
by the Transaction Documents, (ii) ministerial regulatory requirements which do
not impose limitations or regulatory requirements on the business or activities
of the Owner Participant and which are deemed, in the reasonable discretion of
the Owner Participant, not to be burdensome, (iii) regulation resulting from any
possession of the Undivided Interest on or after the Lease Termination Date or
(iv) regulation of the Owner Trustee which would be terminated by the
appointment of a successor Owner Trustee or a co-Owner Trustee pursuant to the
terms of the Trust Agreement.
Nonseverable, when used with respect to any Capital Improvement,
shall mean any Capital Improvement which is not a Severable Capital Improvement.
Noteholder shall mean any Holder from time to time of a Note
Outstanding under the Indenture.
Notes shall mean the Initial Series Note and the Fixed Rate
Note, the Releveraging Note and any other Additional Notes.
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Notice of Closing shall have the meaning set forth in Section
5(a) of the Participation Agreement.
NRC shall mean the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of the United
States of America or any successor agency.
Nuclear Incident shall have its meaning as defined in Section 11
of the Atomic Energy Act, as amended to the date hereof and as the meaning of
such term may be expanded from time to time by future amendments thereof. The
definition of "nuclear incident" contained in the Atomic Energy Act on the date
hereof is: "any occurrence, including an extraordinary nuclear occurrence,
within the United States causing, within or outside the United States, bodily
injury, sickness, disease, or death, or loss of or damage to property, or loss
of use of property, arising out of or resulting from the radioactive, toxic,
explosive, or other hazardous properties of source, special nuclear, or
byproduct material: Provided, however, that as the term is used in section
22l0(1) of title, it shall include any such occurrence outside the United
States: And provided further, That as the term is used in section 2210(d) of
this title, it shall include any such occurrence outside the United States if
such occurrence involves source, special nuclear, or byproduct material owned
by, and used by or under contract with, the United States: And provided further,
That as the term is used in section 2210(c) of this title, it shall include any
such occurrence outside both the United States and any other nation if such
occurrence arises out of or results from the radioactive, toxic, explosive, or
other hazardous properties of source, special nuclear, or byproduct material
licensed pursuant to subchapters V, VI, VII, and IX of this chapter, which is
used in connection with the operation of a licensed stationary production or
utilization facility or which moves outside the territorial limits of the United
States in transit from one person licensed by the Commission to another person
licensed by the Commission."
Nuclear Waste Act shall mean the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of
1982, as amended, or any comparable successor law.
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Officers' Certificate sha11 mean a certificate signed by the
President or any Vice President and by the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer,
the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Person with respect to which
such term is used operating Agent shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the
ANPP Participation Agreement.
Original of the Facility Lease shall mean the fully executed
counterpart of the Facility Lease, marked "This Counterpart is the Original
Counterpart", pursuant to Section 22(e) of the Facility Lease and containing the
receipt of the Indenture Trustee.
Outstanding, when used with respect to the Notes, shall mean, as
of the date of determination, all such Notes theretofore issued, authenticated
and delivered under the Indenture, except (a) Notes theretofore cancelled by the
Indenture Trustee or delivered to the Indenture Trustee for cancellation, (b)
Notes or portions thereof for the payment of which the Indenture Trustee holds
(and has notified the holders thereof that it holds) in trust for that purpose
an amount sufficient to make full payment thereof when due, (c) Notes or
portions thereof which have been pledged as collateral for any obligations of
the obligor thereof to the extent that an amount sufficient to make full payment
of such obligations when due has been deposited with the pledgee of such Notes
for the purpose of holding such amount in trust for the payment of such
obligations in accordance with the indenture or agreement under which such
obligations are secured and (d) Notes in exchange for, or in lieu of, which
other Notes have been issued, authenticated and delivered pursuant to the
Indenture, provided, however, that any Note owned by the Lessee or the Owner
Trustee or any Affiliate of either thereof shall be disregarded and deemed not
to be Outstanding for the purpose of any Directive.
Overdue Interest Rate shall mean the weighted average rate per
annum of interest payable with respect to overdue payments of. principal on the
Notes Outstanding, computed as set forth in such Notes.
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Owner Participant shall mean Xxxxxxx Leasing Corporation, and
the successors and assigns of such Person in accordance with the Trust Agreement
and the Participation Agreement.
Owner Participant's Liens shall mean Liens against the Trust
Estate or the Lease Indenture Estate (other than Permitted Liens described in
the definition of such term, except "Lessor's Liens" and "Owner Participant's
Liens" referred to in clause (vi) of such definition) for which the Lessee is
not responsible and which result from acts of, or any failure to act by, or as a
result of claims against, the Owner Participant unrelated to the transactions
contemplated by the Transaction Documents or the Financing Documents.
Owner Trustee shall mean The First National Bank of Boston, a
national banking association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as
Owner Trustee under the Trust. Agreement (unless the context otherwise
requires), and each successor as trustee, separate trustee and co-trustee
thereunder.
Participation Agrees shall mean the Participation Agreement,
dated as of August 12, 1986, among the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trust,
Funding Corp., the Owner Participant and PNM.
Penalty Rate shall mean 2% per annum in excess of the Prime
Rate.
Period of a stated duration in respect of any event shall mean
an indefinite period which can reasonably be expected to exceed the lesser of
such duration and the period remaining to the date which is three years prior to
the end of the remaining Basic Lease Term (or if such event occurs after the
date three years prior to the end of the remaining Basic Lease Term, the lesser
of six months and the period remaining to the day next preceding the end of the
Basic Lease Term) or a stated period in excess of the lesser thereof or an
actual period which continues in excess of the lesser thereof.
Permitted Liens shall mean (i) the respective rights and
interests of the Lessee, the Owner Participant, the Lessor, the Loan Participant
and the Indenture Trustee, as provided in the Transaction Documents; (ii) the
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rights of any sublessee or assignee under a sublease or an assignment permitted
by the terms of the Facility Lease; (iii) the Lien of the Existing Mortgage on
the leasehold state under the Facility Lease; (iii) Liens for taxes either not
yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings diligently conducted, so long as such proceedings shall not (x)
involve any danger of the sale, forfeiture or lass of the Undivided Interest or
the Real Property Interest or any part thereof or interest therein of the Lessor
or the Owner Participant, (y) interfere with the use, possession or disposition
of the Undivided Interest or the Real Property Interest, or any part thereof or
interest therein, or (z) impair payment of Rent; (V) inchoate materialmen's,
mechanics', workmen's, repairmen's, employees', carriers', warehousements, or
other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business for PVNGS, and not
delinquent; (vi) Lessor's Liens, Owner Participant's Liens and Indenture
Trustee's Liens; (vii) xxxxxx Liens that have been bonded for the full amount in
dispute or as to which other satisfactory security arrangements shall have been
made and which are being contested diligently by the appropriate party in good
faith and by appropriate proceedings so long as such proceedings shall not
violate clause (x), (y) or (z) of clause (iv) above; (viii) xxxxxx Liens of any
of the types described in clause (v) above that have been bonded for the full
amount in dispute or as to which other satisfactory security arrangements shall
have been made and which arise out of judgments or awards and with respect to
which (A) an appeal or proceeding for review is being prosecuted in good faith
and for the payment of which adequate reserves shall have been provided as
required by generally accepted accounting practice and (B) there shall have been
secured a stay of execution pending such appeal or proceeding for review, so
long as such proceedings shall not violate clause (x), (y) or (z) of clause (iv)
above; (ix) the rights and interests of the Lessee under the Assignment and
Assumption; (x) the rights of the NRC under the License; (xi) the rights of the
ANPP Participants (other than (i) the Lessee and (ii) any Person who shall
become an ANPP Participant in respect of the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property Interest) under the ANPP Participation Agreement or any other ANPP
Project. Agreement; (xii) Liens on the undivided ownership interests in Unit 2
of the ANPP Participants and other Persons (other than the Lessee) and (xiii)
any Liens arising by virtue of the ANPP Participation Agreement.
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Person shall mean any individual, partnership, corporation,
trust, unincorporated association or joint venture, a government or any
department or agency thereof, or any other entity.
PNM shall mean Public Service Company of New Mexico, a New
Mexico corporation.
Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act shall mean the Xxxxx-Xxxxxxxx Act, Pub. L.
No. 85-256, 71 Stat. 576 (1957), as amended to the Closing Date.
Pricing Assumptions shall mean the pricing assumptions set forth
in Schedule 2 to the Participation Agreement.
Prime Rate shall mean the rate of interest publicly announced
from time to time by Chemical Bank at its principal office in New York City as
its prime or base lending rate. Any change in the Prime Rate shall be effective
on the date such change in the Prime Rate is announced.
Project Insurance shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the
ANPP Participation Agreement.
Project Manager shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the
ANPP Participation Agreement.
Purchase Documents shall mean the Xxxx of Sale, the Deed and the
Assignment of Beneficial Interest and such other documents as the Owner
Participant, the Owner Trustee, the Indenture Trustee, the Loan Participant or
their respective counsel shall deem desirable to convey good and marketable
title to the Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest to the Trust.
Purchase Price shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4(a)
of the Participation Agreement.
PVNGS shall mean the Arizona Nuclear Power Project, as that term
is defined in the ANPP Participation Agreement.
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PVNGS Site shall mean the beneficial interest in the Arizona
land trust and the real property described in Exhibit A to the Xxxx of Sale.
Real Estate Investment shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3(a) of the Participation Agreement.
Real Property Interest shall mean the right, title and interest
of the Owner Trustee acquired pursuant to the Deed and the Assignment of
Beneficial Interest.
Reasonable Basis for a position shall exist if tax counsel may
properly advise reporting such position on a tax return in accordance with
Formal Opinion 85-352 issued by the Standing Committee on Ethics and
Professional Responsibility of the American Bar Association.
Refunding Bonds shall mean Funding Corp.'s Lease Obligation
Bonds Series 1986B, issued, authenticated and delivered under the Collateral
Trust Indenture, as supplemented by. the Refunding Supplemental Indenture, as
described in the Underwriting Agreement.
Refunding Date shall mean the date of issuance of the
Refunding Bonds.
Refunding Loan shall have the meaning set forth in Section
2(d) of the Participation Agreement.
Refunding Supplemental Indenture shall mean the Refunding Bond
Supplemental Indenture, among PNM, Funding Corp. and the Collateral Trust
Trustee, supplementing the Collateral Trust Indenture and providing, among other
things, for the issuance of the Refunding Bonds.
Registration Statement shall mean the registration statement on
Form S-3, as amended, and any other similar registration statement, including
all exhibits and all documents incorporated therein by reference, filed with the
SEC under the Securities Act in connection with the offer, issue and sale of the
Refunding Bonds.
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Regulations shall mean the income tax regulations issued,
published or promulgated under the Code.
Releveraging Amount shall (i) mean the initial principal amount
of each series of Releveraging Bonds, but only in an amount equal to the amount
of the related Note or Notes issued in connection with such Bonds, or (ii) the
initial principal amount of the Refunding Bonds to the extent such amount is in
excess of the Initial Series Bonds being refunded, but only in an amount equal
to the amount that. the related Fixed Rate Note or Notes exceed the aggregate
amount of the Initial Series Note and any Releveraging Xxxxx theretofore issued.
Releveraging Bonds shall mean a series of securities issued,
authenticated and delivered under the Collateral Trust Indenture in accordance
with Section 2.03 thereof, part of the proceeds of which is used to refund to
the Owner Participant a portion of its Investment as provided in Section 3(b) of
the Participation Agreement.
Releveraging Date shall mean the date of issuance of the
Releveraging Bonds.
Releveraging Loan shall have the meaning specified in Section
2(c) of the Participation Agreement.
Releveraging Note shall mean the non-recourse promissory note,
substantially in the form of the Initial Series Note or, if the Refunding Date
shall have occurred, the Fixed Rate Note, to be issued by the Owner Trustee and
authenticated by the Indenture Trustee on the Releveraging Date to refund to the
Owner Trustee a portion of the Investment.
Renewal Term shall mean the Fixed Rate Renewal Term as provided
in Section 12 of the Facility Lease.
Rent shall mean Basic Rent and Supplemental Rent.
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Rent Differential shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3(h) of the Facility Lease.
Requisition of Title shall mean any circumstance or event in
consequence of which Unit 2 or the Undivided Interest shall be condemned or
seized or title thereto shall be requisitioned or taken by any Governmental
Authority under power of eminent domain or otherwise and all administrative or
judicial appeals opposing such condemnation, seizure or taking shall have been
exhausted or the period for such appeal shall have expired.
Requisition of Use shall mean any circumstance or event in
consequence of which the use of Unit 2 or the Undivided Interest shall be
requisitioned or taken by any Governmental Authority under power of eminent
domain or otherwise, other than a Requisition of Title.
Responsible Officer shall mean, with respect to the subject
matter of any covenant, agreement or obligation of any party contained in any
Transaction Document, the President, or any Vice President, Assistant Vice
President, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer or other officer who in the normal
performance of his operational responsibility would have knowledge of such
matter and the requirements with respect thereto.
Retained Assets shall mean (i) the Lessee's interest in PVNGS
(other than the Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement Share,
and the Real Property Interest), (ii) Severable Capital Improvements title to
the undivided interest in which is retained by the Lessee in accordance with
Section 8(e) of the Facility Lease, and (iii) any additional interest in and to
PYNGS (other than the Undivided Interest, the related Generation Entitlement
Share and the Real Property Interest) to which the Lessee becomes entitled in
consequence of Sections 16.2 or 23.5 of the ANPP Participation Agreement (except
as otherwise provided in Section 5(a) or 19 of the Facility Lease).
Sale Proceeds shall mean, with respect to any sale of the
Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest by the Lessor to any Person
other than the Lessee, the gross proceeds of such sale payable in cash, less all
costs and expenses whatsoever incurred by the Lessor and the Owner Participant
in connection therewith.
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Salt River shall mean Salt River Project Agricultural
Improvement and Power District, an Arizona agricultural improvement district.
SCPPA shall mean Southern California Public Power Authority, a
California joint powers agency (doing business in Arizona as Southern California
Public Power Authority Association).
SEC shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission of the
United States of America, or any successor agency.
Section 6(c) Application shall mean Funding Corp.'s Application
for an Order under Section 6(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 exempting
First PV Funding Corporation from all provisions of such Act, as filed with the
SEC on September 20, 1985, as amended.
Secured Obligations shall have the meaning set forth in Section
7(b)(4) of the Participation Agreement.
Securities Act shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended.
Securities Exchange Act shall mean the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended.
Severable, when used with respect to any Capital Improvement,
shall mean any Capital Improvement which can readily be removed from Unit 2 or
the Common Facilities without materially damaging Unit 2 or the Common
Facilities or materially diminishing or impairing the value, utility or
condition of Unit 2 or the Common Facilities.
Source, Special Nuclear or Byproduct Material shall have their
respective defined meanings as defined in Section 11 of the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, as amended to the date hereof and as the meanings of such terms may be
expanded by future amendments thereof.
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Southern California shall mean Southern California Edison
Company, a California corporation.
Special Casualty Value as of any date, shall mean (i) during the
Basic Lease Term, the percentage of Facility Cost set forth opposite such date
in Schedule 2 to the Facility Lease, and (ii) during the Renewal Term, if any,
the unamortized portion of the Fair Market Sales Value of the Undivided Interest
determined by amortizing ratably the Fair Market Sales Value of the Undivided
Interest as of the day following the last day of the Basic Lease Term in
semi-annual steps over the period from such date to the License Expiration Date.
Anything contained in the Facility Lease to the contrary notwithstanding,
Special Casualty Value shall be, when added to all other amounts which the
Lessee is required to pay under Section 9(d) of the Facility Lease (taking into
account any assumption of Notes by the Lessee), under any circumstances and in
any event, in an amount at least sufficient to pay in full, as of any date of
payment, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Notes Outstanding at the
close of business on such date, together with accrued and unpaid interest on
such Notes.
Supplemental Financing shall mean a financing of the
Supplemental Financing Amount of Capital Improvements made pursuant to Section
8(f) of the Facility Lease.
Special Purchase Event shall have the meaning specified in
Section 13(c) of the Facility. Lease.
Substituted lessee shall have the meaning specified in Section
6.8(c) of the Indenture.
Supplemental Financing Amount shall mean a Unit 2 Interest in
the cost of a Capital Improvement to Xxxx 0, and a Common Facilities Interest in
the cost of a Capital Improvement to the Common Facilities, or that portion of
such interest in such cost which shall not exceed (i) the amount of the
increase, if any, in the Owner Participant's basis in the Undivided Interest for
purposes of section 1012 or 1016 of the Code as a result of such Capital
Improvement less (ii) the amount of the related Additional Equity Investment of
the Lessor, if any.
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Supplemental Indenture of P1edge shall have the meaning
specified in the Term Note Supplemental Indenture.
Supplemental Rent shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3(b) of the Facility Lease.
Surviving lessee shall have the meaning specified in Section
10(b) (3) (ii) of the Participation Agreement.
Tax shall mean any and all fees (including, without limitation,
documentation, recording, license and registration fees), taxes (including,
without limitation, net income, franchise, value added, ad valorem, gross
income, gross receipts, sales, use, property (personal or real, tangible or
intangible) excise and stamp taxes), levies, imposts, duties,. charges,
assessments, or withholdings of any nature whatsoever, general or special,
ordinary or extraordinary, together with any and all penalties, fines, additions
to tax and interest thereon.
Tax Assumptions shall mean the assumptions set forth in Section
1(a) of the Tax Indemnification Agreement, with respect to the Federal income
tax consequences of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.
Tax Indemnification Agreement shall mean the Tax Indemnification
Agreement, dated as of August 12, 1986, between PNM and the Owner Participant.
Term Loan Agreement shall mean the Term Loan Agreement dated as
of August 12, 1986 among Funding Corp., PNM and the banks named on the signature
pages thereto.
Term Note Supplemental Indenture shall mean the Series 1986B
Term Note Supplemental Indenture dated as of August 12, 1986 among PN1I, Funding
Corp. and the Collateral Trust Trustee, supplementing the Collateral Trust
Indenture and providing, among other things, for the issuance of the Initial
Series Bonds.
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Termination Date shall have the meaning set forth in Section
14(a) of the Facility Lease.
Termination Event shall mean any early termination of the
Facility Lease in accordance with Section 14 thereof.
Termination Notice shall have the meaning set forth in Section
14(a) of the Facility Lease.
Termination Obligation shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 15.10.2 of the ANPP Participation Agreement (or any comparable successor
provision).
Termination Value, as of any Basic Rent Payment Date during the
Basic Lease Term, shall mean the percentage of Facility Cost set forth opposite
such date in Schedule 3 to the Facility Lease. Anything contained in the
Facility Lease to the contrary notwithstanding, Termination Value shall be, when
added to all other amounts which the Lessee is required to pay under Section 14
of the Facility Lease, under any circumstances and in any event, in an amount at
least sufficient to pay in full as of any Basic Rent Payment Date the aggregate
unpaid principal amount of all Notes Outstanding at the close of business on
such date, together with accrued and unpaid interest on such Notes.
Transaction Documents shall mean the Participation Agreement,
the Facility Lease, the Trust Agreement, the Indenture, the Extension Letter,
the Tax Indemnification Agreement, the Mortgage Release, the Assignment and
Assumption, each Purchase Document and the Notes.
Transaction Expenses shall have the meaning set forth in Section
14(a) of the Participation Agreement.
Transfer shall mean the transfer, by xxxx of sale or otherwise,
by the Lessor of all the Lessor's right, title and interest in and to the
Undivided Interest and the Real Property Interest and under the Assignment and
Assumption on an "as is, where is" basis, free and clear of all Lessor's Liens
and Owner Participants Liens, but otherwise without recourse, representation or
warranty (including an express disclaimer of representations and warranties in a
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manner comparable to that set forth in the second sentence of Section 6(b) of
the Facility Lease)1 together with the due assumption by the transferee of, and
the due release of the Lessor from, all of the Lessor's obligations under the
Assignment and Assumption and the Assignment of Beneficial Interest by an
instrument or instruments satisfactory in form and substance to the Lessor and
the Owner Participant.
Transferee shall have the meaning assigned thereto in Section l5
of the Participation Agreement.
Trust shall mean the trust created by the Trust Agreement.
Trust Agreement shall mean the Trust Agreement, dated as of
August 12, 1986, between Xxxxxxx Leasing corporation and FNB.
Trust Estate shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.03 of
the Trust Agreement.
Trust Indenture Act shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended.
Trustee's Expenses shall mean any and all liabilities,
obligations, costs, compensation, fees, expenses and disbursements (including,
without limitation, legal fees and expenses) of any kind and nature whatsoever
(other than such amounts as are included in Transaction Expenses) which may be
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Indenture Trustee or any of its
agents, servants or personal representatives, in any way relating to or arising
out of the Indenture, the Lease Indenture Estate, the Participation Agreement or
the Facility Lease, or any document contemplated thereby, or the performance or
enforcement of any of the terms thereof, or in any way relating to or arising
out of the administration of such Lease Indenture Estate or the action or
inaction of the Indenture Trustee under the Indenture; provided, however, that
such amounts shall not include any Taxes or any amount expressly excluded from
the Lessee's indemnity obligations pursuant to Section 13(a) or 13(b) of the
Participation Agreement.
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UCC or Uniform Commercial Code shall mean the Uniform Commercial
Code as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.
Underwriting Agreement shall mean the agreement with the
underwriters named therein relating to the purchase, sale and delivery of the
Refunding Bonds.
Undivided Interest shall mean the Xxxx 0 Xxxxxxxx xx Xxxx 0 and
the Unit 2 Common Facilities Interest in the Common Facilities. Where the
context so requires, the Undivided Interest includes the related Generation
Entitlement Share.
Undivided Interest Indenture Supplement shall mean the
supplement to the Indenture, substantially in the form of Exhibit C thereto,
pursuant to which the Owner Trustee causes the Undivided Interest and the Real
Property Interest to be subjected to the Lien of the Indenture.
Uniform System of Accounts shall mean the Uniform System of
Accounts prescribed for Public Utilities and Licensees subject to the provisions
of the Federal Power Act (Class A and Class B), 18 CFR 101, as in effect on the
date of execution of the Participation Agreement, as amended or modified from
time to time after such date.
Unit 1 and Unit 3 shall mean the Generating Units bearing such
designations at PVNGS.
Unit 2 shall mean the 1,270 megawatt unit, commonly known as
Unit 2, at PVNGS, all as more fully describe4 in. Item A of Exhibit B to the
Xxxx of Sale, together with all Capital Improvements thereto, but excluding all
Common Facilities.
Unit 2 Common Facilities Interest shall mean the Owner Trustee's
0.7555556% undivided interest in all Common Facilities.
Unit 2 Interest shall mean a percentage equal to the Owner
Trustee's 2.2666667% undivided interest in all of Unit 2.
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Unit 2 Retained Assets shall mean (i) all resident fuel
assemblies, equipment and personal property constituting part of the Generating
Unit (as defined in the ANPP Participation Agreement) designated as Palo Verde
Nuclear Generating Station Unit 2 (other than common facilities) but excluded
from Unit 2 as set forth in Item A of. Exhibit B to the Xxxx of Sale and (ii)
all equipment and personal and real property constituting PVNGS common
facilities under the ANPP Participation Agreement but excluded from the Common
Facilities as set forth in Item B of Exhibit B to the Xxxx of Sale.
User shall mean a Person unrelated to PNM (within the meaning of
Section 318 of the Code) possessing the Undivided Interest after the Lease
Termination Date.
Weighted Factor means the weighted average of the annual
percentage rates (averaged over the Basic Lease Term and (x) if the Pricing
Assumptions contemplate the Lessor claiming investment tax credits, the basic
term of all other leases so contemplating (the ITC Leases) entered into by PNM
pursuant to the authority granted by the NMPSC Order or (y} if the Pricing
Assumptions do not contemplate the Lessor claiming investment tax credits, the
basic term of all other leases not so contemplating (the Non-ITC Leases) entered
into by PNM pursuant to the authority granted by the NMPSC Order) (i) as such
percentage rates may be adjusted from time to time pursuant to the terms of the
Facility Lease and the ITC Leases or the Non-ITC Leases, as the case may be, but
excluding any such adjustments in connection with supplemental financing of
capital improvements, and (ii) adjusted to reflect the amortization over the
Basic Lease Term and the basic term of the ITC Leases or the Non-ITC Leases, as
the case may be, of any gain or loss to the Lessee from any hedging or interest
protection program implemented by the Lessee with respect to the Notes and with
respect to the comparable notes to be issued with respect to the ITC Leases or
the Non-ITC Leases, as the case may be, which, when multiplied by the aggregate
of the Purchase Price and the. comparable purchase prices payable by the lessors
under the ITC Leases or the Non-ITC Leases, as the case may be, determines,
respectively, the amount of Basic Rent payable under the Facility Lease and the
comparable basic rent payable under the ITC Leases or the Non-ITC Leases, as the
case may be.
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