AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT among PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, as Borrower, The Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto, CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., as Administrative Agent, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Syndication Agent,...
Exhibit
10.2
Execution
Copy
$2,000,000,000
AMENDED
AND RESTATED
among
PACIFIC
GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
as
Borrower,
The
Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto,
CITICORP
NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
as
Administrative Agent,
JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as
Syndication Agent,
and
BARCLAYS
BANK Plc, BNP PARIBAS and DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
as
Documentation Agents
Dated
as of February 26, 2007
CITIGROUP
GLOBAL MARKETS, INC.
and
X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES INC.,
as
Joint Lead Arrangers and
Joint
Bookrunners
LOSANGELES
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TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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SECTION
1.
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DEFINITIONS
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1
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1.1
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Defined
Terms
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1
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1.2
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Other
Definitional Provisions
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16
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SECTION
2.
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AMOUNT
AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
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17
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2.1
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Commitments
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17
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2.2
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Procedure
for Revolving Loan Borrowing
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17
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2.3
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Commitment
Increases.
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18
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2.4
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Swingline
Commitment
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19
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2.5
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Procedure
for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline Loans
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20
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2.6
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Facility
Fees, Utilization Fees, etc
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21
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2.7
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Termination
or Reduction of Commitments; Extension of Termination Date
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22
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2.8
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Optional
Prepayments
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24
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2.9
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Conversion
and Continuation Options
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24
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2.10
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Limitations
on Eurodollar Tranches
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25
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2.11
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Interest
Rates and Payment Dates
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25
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2.12
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Computation
of Interest and Fees
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25
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2.13
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Inability
to Determine Interest Rate
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26
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2.14
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Pro
Rata Treatment and Payments; Notes
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26
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2.15
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Requirements
of Law
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27
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2.16
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Taxes
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29
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2.17
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Indemnity
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31
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2.18
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Change
of Lending Office
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31
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2.19
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Replacement
of Lenders
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31
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SECTION
3.
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LETTERS
OF CREDIT
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32
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3.1
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L/C
Commitment
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32
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3.2
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Procedure
for Issuance of Letters of Credit
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33
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3.3
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Fees
and Other Charges.
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33
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3.4
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L/C
Participations.
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33
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3.5
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Reimbursement
Obligation of the Borrower
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35
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3.6
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Obligations
Absolute
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35
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3.7
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Letter
of Credit Payments
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36
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3.8
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Applications
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36
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3.9
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Actions
of Issuing Lenders
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36
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3.10
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Borrower’s
Indemnification
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36
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3.11
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Lenders’
Indemnification
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37
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SECTION
4.
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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37
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4.1
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Financial
Condition
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37
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4.2
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No
Change
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38
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4.3
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Existence;
Compliance with Law
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38
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4.4
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Power;
Authorization; Enforceable Obligations
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38
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4.5
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No
Legal Bar
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38
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4.6
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Litigation
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39
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4.7
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No
Default
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39
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4.8
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Taxes
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39
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4.9
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Federal
Regulations
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39
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4.10
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ERISA
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39
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4.11
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Investment
Company Act; Other Regulations
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40
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4.12
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Use
of Proceeds
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40
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4.13
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Environmental
Matters
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40
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4.14
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Accuracy
of Information, etc
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41
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4.15
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Regulatory
Matters
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42
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SECTION
5.
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CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
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42
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5.1
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Conditions
to the Effective Date
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42
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5.2
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Conditions
to Each Credit Event
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43
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SECTION
6.
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AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
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44
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6.1
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Financial
Statements
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44
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6.2
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Certificates;
Other Information
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44
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6.3
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Payment
of Taxes
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45
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6.4
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Maintenance
of Existence; Compliance
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45
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6.5
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Maintenance
of Property; Insurance
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45
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6.6
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Inspection
of Property; Books and Records; Discussions
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45
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6.7
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Notices
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46
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6.8
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Maintenance
of Licenses, etc
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46
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SECTION
7.
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NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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46
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7.1
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Consolidated
Capitalization Ratio
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47
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7.2
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Liens
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47
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7.3
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Fundamental
Changes
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47
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SECTION
8.
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EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
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47
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SECTION
9.
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THE
AGENTS
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50
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9.1
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Appointment
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50
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9.2
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Delegation
of Duties
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50
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9.3
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Exculpatory
Provisions
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50
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9.4
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Reliance
by Administrative Agent
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51
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9.5
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Notice
of Default
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51
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9.6
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Non-Reliance
on Agents and Other Lenders
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51
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9.7
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Indemnification
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52
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9.8
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Agent
in Its Individual Capacity
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52
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9.9
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Successor
Administrative Agent
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52
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9.10
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Documentation
Agents and Syndication Agent
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53
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SECTION
10.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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53
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10.1
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Amendments
and Waivers
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53
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10.2
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Notices
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55
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10.3
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No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
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56
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10.4
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Survival
of Representations and Warranties
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56
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10.5
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Payment
of Expenses and Taxes
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56
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10.6
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Successors
and Assigns; Participations and Assignments
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57
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10.7
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Adjustments;
Set off
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60
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10.8
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Counterparts
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61
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10.9
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Severability
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61
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10.10
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Integration
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61
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10.11
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GOVERNING
LAW
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61
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10.12
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Submission
To Jurisdiction; Waivers
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61
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10.13
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Acknowledgments
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62
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10.14
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Confidentiality
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62
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10.15
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WAIVERS
OF JURY TRIAL
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63
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10.16
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USA
Patriot Act
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63
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10.17
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Judicial
Reference
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SCHEDULES:
1.1A
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Commitments
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EXHIBITS:
A
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Form
of New Lender Supplement
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B
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Form
of Commitment Increase Supplement
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C
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Form
of Compliance Certificate
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D
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Form
of Closing Certificate
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E
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Form
of Assignment and Assumption
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F
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Form
of Legal Opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx
LLP
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G
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Form
of Exemption Certificate
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H
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Form
of Note
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LOSANGELES
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AMENDED
AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of February
26, 2007, among PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, a California corporation
(the
“Borrower”), the several banks and other financial institutions or
entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (the “Lenders”),
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS, INC. and X.X. XXXXXX SECURITIES INC., as joint
lead
arrangers and joint bookrunners (together and in such capacities, the
“Arrangers”), JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as syndication agent (in such
capacity, the “Syndication Agent”), BARCLAYS BANK Plc, BNP PARIBAS and
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., as documentation agents (together and in such
capacities, the “Documentation Agents”), and CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.
(“Citicorp”), as administrative agent (in such capacity, together with
any successor thereto, the “Administrative Agent”).
W
I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Arrangers
and
certain of the Lenders have previously entered into a Credit Agreement, dated
as
of April 8, 2005, as amended by the First Amendment, dated as of
November 30, 2005 (collectively, the “Existing Credit Agreement”),
pursuant to which such Lenders made available to the Borrower (i) a
facility permitting the issuance, for the Borrower’s account, of letters of
credit to provide for payment under energy procurement contracts and (ii) a
facility permitting the issuance, for the Borrower’s account, of letters of
credit for purposes other than energy procurement and revolving credit loans
and
swingline loans; and
WHEREAS,
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Arrangers
and
the Lenders wish to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement upon
the
terms and conditions set forth herein;
NOW,
THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED THAT the Existing Credit Agreement shall be amended
and
restated in its entirety to read as follows:
SECTION
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1 Defined
Terms. As used in this Agreement, the terms listed in this
Section 1.1 shall have the respective meanings set forth in this
Section 1.1.
“ABR”: for
any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16
of
1%) equal to the greater of (a) the Base Rate in effect on such day and
(b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus½ of
1%. For purposes hereof, “Base Rate” shall mean the rate of
interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by the Administrative
Agent as its base rate in effect at its principal office in New York City
(the
Base Rate not being intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged by
the
Administrative Agent in connection with extensions of credit to
debtors). Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Base Rate or
the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective as of the opening of
business on the effective day of such change in the Base Rate or the Federal
Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“ABR
Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based
upon the ABR.
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“Act”: as
defined in Section 10.16.
“Administrative
Agent”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Agents”: the
collective reference to the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agents and
the
Administrative Agent.
“Agreement”: as
defined in the preamble hereto.
“Applicable
Margin”: for any day, the applicable rate per annum set forth
under the relevant column heading below, based upon the Ratings then in
effect:
Level
|
Rating
S&P/Xxxxx’x
|
Applicable
Margin
for
ABR
Loans
|
Applicable
Margin
for
Eurodollar
Loans
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1
|
A+/A1
or higher
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0%
|
0.105%
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2
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A/A2
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0%
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0.150%
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3
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A-/A3
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0%
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0.190%
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4
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BBB+/Baa1
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0%
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0.280%
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5
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BBB/Baa2
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0%
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0.360%
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6
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BBB-/Baa3
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0%
|
0.425%
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7
|
BB+/Ba1
or lower
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0%
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0.600%
|
Subject
to the provisions of this paragraph regarding split ratings, changes in the
Applicable Margins shall become effective on the date on which S&P and/or
Xxxxx’x changes its relevant Rating. In the event the Ratings of
S&P and Xxxxx’x are in different levels set forth in the grid above, the
higher of the two Ratings (i.e., the Rating set forth in the grid above
opposite the lower numerical level number) shall govern. In the event
that, at any time, a Rating is not available from one of such rating agencies,
the Applicable Margins shall be determined on the basis of the Rating from
the
other rating agency. In the event that, at any time, Ratings from
each such rating agency are not available for companies generally, the
Applicable Margins shall be determined on the basis of the last Rating(s)
made
available. In the event that, at any time, such Ratings are not
available for the Borrower but are generally available for other companies,
then
the Applicable Margins shall be those set forth above opposite
level 7.
“Application”: an
application, in such form as the relevant Issuing Lender may reasonably specify
from time to time, requesting such Issuing Lender to issue a Letter of
Credit.
“Arrangers”: as
defined in the preamble hereto.
“Assignee”: as
defined in Section 10.6(b).
“Assignment
and Assumption”: an Assignment and Assumption, substantially in
the form of Exhibit E.
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“Available
Commitment”: as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the
excess, if any, of (a) such Lender’s Commitment then in effect over
(b) such Lender’s Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
“Beneficial
Owner”: as defined in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the
Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any
particular “person” (as that term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the
Exchange Act), such “person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all
securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise
of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is
exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition. The
terms “Beneficially Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” have correlative
meanings.
“Benefitted
Lender”: as defined in Section 10.7(a).
“Board”: the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States (or
any
successor).
“Borrower”: as
defined in the preamble hereto.
“Borrowing
Date”: any Business Day specified by the Borrower as a date on
which the Borrower requests the Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
“Business”: as
defined in Section 4.13(b).
“Business
Day”: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City or San Francisco, California are authorized
or
required by law to close, provided, that with respect to notices and
determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest
on,
Eurodollar Loans, such day is also a day for trading by and between banks
in
Dollar deposits in the London interbank eurodollar market.
“Capital
Stock”: any and all shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and
all
equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and
any
and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the
foregoing.
“Change
of Control”: PCG and its Subsidiaries shall at any time not be
the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of at least 80% of the common
stock or 70% of the voting Capital Stock of the Borrower; provided that
any such event shall not constitute a Change of Control if, after giving
effect
to such event, the Borrower’s senior, unsecured, non credit-enhanced debt
ratings shall be at least the higher of (1) Baa3 from Xxxxx’x and
BBB- from S&P and (2) the ratings by such rating agencies of such debt
in effect immediately before the earlier of the occurrence or the public
announcement of such event.
“Citicorp”: as
defined in the preamble hereto.
“Code”: the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
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“Commitment”: as
to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make Revolving Loans
and participate in Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit in an aggregate
principal and/or face amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the
heading “Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1A or in
the Assignment and Assumption or New Lender Supplement pursuant to which
such
Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time
pursuant to the terms hereof. The original amount of the Total
Commitments is $2,000,000,000.
“Commitment
Increase Notice”: as defined in Section 2.3(a).
“Commitment
Increase Supplement”: as defined in Section 2.3(c).
“Commitment
Period”: the period from and including the Effective Date to the
Termination Date.
“Commonly
Controlled Entity”: an entity, whether or not incorporated, that
is under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001
of
ERISA or is part of a group that includes the Borrower and that is treated
as a
single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“Compliance
Certificate”: a certificate duly executed by a Responsible
Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
“Conduit
Lender”: any special purpose corporation organized and
administered by any Lender for the purpose of making Loans otherwise required
to
be made by such Lender and designated by such Lender in a written instrument;
provided, that the designation by any Lender of a Conduit Lender shall
not relieve the designating Lender of any of its obligations to fund a Loan
under this Agreement if, for any reason, its Conduit Lender fails to fund
any
such Loan, and the designating Lender (and not the Conduit Lender) shall
have
the sole right and responsibility to deliver all consents and waivers required
or requested under this Agreement with respect to its Conduit Lender, and
provided, further, that no Conduit Lender shall (a) be
entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to Section 2.15, 2.16, 2.17
or 10.5 than the designating Lender would have been entitled to receive in
respect of the extensions of credit made by such Conduit Lender or (b) be
deemed to have any Commitment.
“Consolidated
Capitalization”: on any date of determination, the sum of (a) Consolidated
Total Debt on such date, plus without duplication, (b) (i) the amounts
set forth opposite the captions “common shareholders’ equity” (or any similar
caption) and “preferred stock” (or any similar caption) on the consolidated
balance sheet, prepared in accordance with GAAP, of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as of such date, and (ii) the outstanding principal amount of
any
junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures or other similar securities
issued by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the Effective
Date.
“Consolidated
Capitalization Ratio” means, on any date of determination, the ratio of (a)
Consolidated Total Debt to (b) Consolidated Capitalization.
“Consolidated
Total Debt”: at any date, the aggregate principal amount of all
obligations of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries at such date
that
in accordance with
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GAAP
would be classified as debt on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower,
and
without duplication all Guarantee Obligations of the Borrower and its
Significant Subsidiaries at such date in respect of obligations of any other
Person that in accordance with GAAP would be classified as debt on a
consolidated balance sheet of such Person; provided that, the
determination of “Consolidated Total Debt” shall exclude, without
duplication, (a) the Securitized Bonds, (b) Indebtedness of the Borrower
and its
Significant Subsidiaries in an amount equal to the amount of cash held as
cash
collateral for any fully cash collateralized letter of credit issued for
the
account of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary, (c) imputed Indebtedness
of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary incurred in connection with
power
purchase agreements, (d) any junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures
or other similar securities issued by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
after the Effective Date and (e) as of a date of determination, the amount
of
any securities included within the caption “preferred stock” (or any similar
caption) on the consolidated balance sheet, prepared in accordance with GAAP,
of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such date.
“Continuing
Lender”: as defined in Section 2.7.
“Contractual
Obligation”: as to any Person, any provision of any security
issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking
to
which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is
bound.
“CPUC”: the
California Public Utilities Commission or its successor.
“Credit
Event”: as defined in Section 5.2.
“Default”: any
of the events specified in Section 8, whether or not any requirement for
the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been
satisfied.
“Disposition”: with
respect to any property, any sale, lease, sale and leaseback, assignment,
conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof. The terms
“Dispose” and “Disposed of” shall have correlative
meanings.
“Documentation
Agents”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Dollars”
and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United
States.
“Effective
Date”: the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in
Section 5.1 shall have been satisfied or waived.
“Eligible
Assignee”: (a) any commercial bank or other financial
institution having a senior unsecured debt rating by Xxxxx’x of A3 or better and
by S&P of A- or better, which is domiciled in a country which is a member of
the OECD or (b) with respect to any Person referred to in the preceding
clause (a), any other Person that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding
or investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary
course of business all of the Capital Stock of which is owned, directly or
indirectly, by such Person; provided that in the case of clause (b),
the Borrower and the Issuing Lender shall have consented to the designation
of
such Person as an Eligible Assignee (such consent of the Borrower not to
be
unreasonably withheld).
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“Environmental
Laws”: any and all foreign, Federal, state, local or municipal
laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees,
requirements of any Governmental Authority or other Requirements of Law
(including common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability or
standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the environment,
as now or may at any time hereafter be in effect.
“ERISA”: the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time.
“Eurocurrency
Liabilities”: as defined in Regulation D of the
Board.
“Eurocurrency
Reserve Requirements”: of any Lender for any Interest Period as
applied to a Eurodollar Loan, the reserve percentage applicable during such
Interest Period (or if more than one such percentage shall be so applicable,
the
daily average of such percentages for those days in such Interest Period
during
any such percentage shall be so applicable) under any regulations of the
Board
or other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction with respect to determining
the maximum reserve requirement (including basic, supplemental and emergency
reserves) for such Lender with respect to liabilities or assets consisting
of or
including Eurocurrency Liabilities having a term equal to such Interest
Period.
“Eurodollar
Base Rate”: with respect to each day during each Interest Period
pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum determined on the basis
of
the rate for deposits in Dollars for a period equal to such Interest Period
commencing on the first day of such Interest Period appearing on Page 3750
of
the Telerate screen as of 11:00 A.M., London time, two Business Days prior
to the beginning of such Interest Period. In the event that such rate
does not appear on Page 3750 of the Telerate screen (or otherwise on such
screen), the “Eurodollar Base Rate” shall be determined by reference to
such other comparable publicly available service for displaying eurodollar rates
as may be selected by the Administrative Agent or, in the absence of such
availability, by reference to the rate at which the Administrative Agent
is
offered Dollar deposits at or about 11:00 A.M., New York City time, two
Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period in the interbank
eurodollar market where its eurodollar and foreign currency and exchange
operations are then being conducted for delivery on the first day of such
Interest Period for the number of days comprised therein.
“Eurodollar
Loans”: Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based
upon the Eurodollar Rate.
“Eurodollar
Rate”: with respect to each day during each Interest Period
pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, a rate per annum determined for such day
in
accordance with the following formula (rounded upward to the nearest 1/100th of
1%):
Eurodollar
Base Rate
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1.00
- Eurocurrency Reserve
Requirements
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“Eurodollar
Tranche”: the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans the then
current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date
and
end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have
been
made on the same day).
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“Event
of Default”: any of the events specified in Section 8,
provided that any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of
time, or both, has been satisfied.
“Exchange
Act”: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Existing
Credit Agreement”: has the meaning set forth in the first recital
paragraph.
“Existing
Issuing Lender”: JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (successor by merger
to Bank One, NA).
“Existing
Letters of Credit”: each of the letters of credit issued by the
Existing Issuing Lender under the Existing Credit Agreement and outstanding
on
the Effective Date.
“Extension
Notice”: as defined in Section 2.7(b).
“Extensions
of Credit”: as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the
sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans held by
such Lender then outstanding, (b) such Lender’s Percentage of the L/C
Obligations then outstanding and (c) such Lender’s Percentage of the
aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then outstanding.
“Facility
Fee Rate”: for any day, the rate per annum determined pursuant to
the grid set forth below, based upon the Ratings then in effect:
Level
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Rating
S&P/Xxxxx’x
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Facility
Fee Rate
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1
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A+/A1
or higher
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0.045%
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2
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A/A2
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0.050%
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3
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A-/A3
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0.060%
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4
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BBB+/Baa1
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0.070%
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5
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BBB/Baa2
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0.090%
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6
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BBB-/Baa3
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0.125%
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7
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BB+/Ba1
or lower
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0.150%
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Subject
to the provisions of this paragraph regarding split ratings, changes in the
Facility Fee Rate shall become effective on the date on which S&P and/or
Xxxxx’x changes its relevant Rating. In the event the Ratings of
S&P and Xxxxx’x are in different levels set forth in the grid above, the
higher of the two Ratings (i.e., the Rating set forth in the grid above
opposite the lower numerical level number) shall govern. In the event
that, at any time, a Rating is not available from one of such rating agencies,
the Facility Fee Rate shall be determined on the basis of the Rating from
the
other rating agency. In the event that, at any time, Ratings from
each such rating agency are not available for companies generally, the Facility
Fee Rate shall be determined on the basis of the last Rating(s) made
available. In the event that, at any time, such Ratings are not
available for the Borrower but are generally available for other companies,
then
the Facility Fee Rate shall be that set forth above opposite
level 7.
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“Federal
Funds Effective Rate”: for any day, the weighted average of the
rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next
succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such
rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the average
of the
quotations for the day of such transactions received by the Administrative
Agent
from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by
it.
“Fee
Payment Date”: (a) the fifth Business Day following the last
day of each March, June, September and December during the Commitment Period,
(b) the last day of the Commitment Period and (c) the last day of each
March, June, September and December after the last day of the Commitment
Period,
so long as any principal amount of the Loans or any Reimbursement Obligations
remain outstanding after the last day of the Commitment Period.
“FPA”: the
Federal Power Act, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“Funding
Office”: the office of the Administrative Agent specified in
Section 10.2 or such other office as may be specified from time to time by
the
Administrative Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower
and
the Lenders.
“GAAP”: generally
accepted accounting principles in the United States as in effect from time
to
time, except as noted below. In the event that any “Change in
Accounting Principles” (as defined below) shall occur and such change results in
a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or
terms
in this Agreement, then, upon the request of the Borrower or the Required
Lenders, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into
negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to
reflect equitably such Change in Accounting Principles with the desired result
that the criteria for evaluating the Borrower’s financial condition shall be the
same after such Change in Accounting Principles as if such Change in Accounting
Principles had not been made. Until such time as such an amendment
shall have been executed and delivered by the Borrower, the Administrative
Agent
and the Required Lenders, all financial covenants, standards and terms in
this
Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed as if such Change
in
Accounting Principles had not occurred. “Change in Accounting
Principles” refers to changes in accounting principles required by the
promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants or any successor thereto, the SEC or, if applicable, the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board.
“Governmental
Authority”: any nation or government, any state or other
political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality,
regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of
or
pertaining to government, any securities exchange and any self-regulatory
organization (including the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners).
“Guarantee
Obligation”: as to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”),
any obligation, including a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar
obligation, of the guaranteeing person that guarantees any Indebtedness,
leases,
dividends or other obligations (the “primary obligations”) of any other
third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether
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dirrectly
or indirectly, including any obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether
or
not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property
constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or
supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation
or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor
or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor,
(iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the
purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability
of
the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation,
(iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary
obligation against loss in respect thereof or (v) to reimburse or indemnify
an issuer of a letter of credit, surety bond or guarantee issued by such
issuer
in respect of primary obligations of a primary obligor other than the Borrower
or any Significant Subsidiary; provided, however, that the term Guarantee
Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or
collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any
Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the
lower
of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary
obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and
(b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable
pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation,
unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such
guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which
case
the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the
Borrower in good faith.
“Indebtedness”: of
any Person at any date, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such
Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such Person for the
deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade payables,
including under energy procurement and transportation contracts, incurred
in the
ordinary course of such Person’s business), (c) all obligations of such
Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments,
(d) all indebtedness created or arising under any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement with respect to property acquired by such Person
(even
though the rights and remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement
in
the event of default are limited to repossession or sale of such property),
(e) all obligations of such Person as lessee which are capitalized in
accordance with GAAP, (f) all obligations of such Person, contingent or
otherwise, as an account party or applicant under or in respect of acceptances,
letters of credit, surety bonds or similar arrangements (other than
reimbursement obligations, which are not due and payable on such date, in
respect of documentary letters of credit issued to provide for the payment
of
goods and services in the ordinary course of business), (g) the liquidation
value of all mandatorily redeemable preferred Capital Stock of such Person,
(h) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of obligations of
the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (g) above, (i) all
obligations of the kind referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above
secured by (or for which the holder of such obligation has an existing right,
contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including
accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, whether or not such Person
has assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligation
(provided, that if such Person is not liable for such obligation, the
amount of such Person’s Indebtedness with respect thereto shall be deemed to be
the lesser of the stated amount of such obligation and the value of the property
subject to such Lien), and (j) for the purposes of Section 8(e) only,
all obligations of such Person in respect of Swap Agreements, provided
that Indebtedness as used in this Agreement shall exclude any Non-Recourse
Debt. The Indebtedness of any Person shall
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include
the Indebtedness of any other entity (including any partnership in which
such
Person is a general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor
as a
result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other relationship with such
entity, except to the extent the terms of such Indebtedness expressly provide
that such Person is not liable therefor.
“Indenture”: the
Indenture, dated as of April 22, 2005, which supplemented, amended and restated
the Indenture of Mortgage, dated as of March 11, 2004, between the Borrower
and the Indenture Trustee, as supplemented by the First Supplemental Indenture,
dated as of March 23, 2004, the Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of
April 12, 2004, and as further supplemented or amended from time to
time.
“Indenture
Trustee”: The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A., as successor
to BNY Western Trust Company, and any successor thereto as trustee under
the
Indenture.
“Information
Memorandum”: the information memorandum dated January 2007, and
furnished to certain Lenders in connection with the syndication of the
Commitments, as supplemented by each and all Specified Exchange Act Filings
filed by the Borrower during the period from September 30, 2006 through the
date of this Agreement.
“Insolvency”: with
respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is insolvent
within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.
“Insolvent”: pertaining
to a condition of Insolvency.
“Interest
Payment Date”: (a) as to any ABR Loan (other than any
Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December
to
occur while such Loan is outstanding and the final maturity date of such
Loan,
(b) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period of three months or
less, the last day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any Eurodollar Loan
having an Interest Period longer than three months, each day that is three
months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such Interest
Period
and the last day of such Interest Period, (d) as to any Eurodollar Loan,
the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect thereof and (e) as
to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be
repaid.
“Interest
Period”: as to any Eurodollar Loan, (a) initially, the
period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be,
with
respect to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one, two, three or six or (if
available to all Lenders) nine or twelve months thereafter, as selected by
the
Borrower in its notice of borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case
may be,
given with respect thereto; and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on
the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar
Loan and ending one, two, three or six or (if available to all Lenders) nine
or
twelve months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower by irrevocable notice
to
the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on
the
date that is three Business Days prior to the last day of the then current
Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that, all of the foregoing
provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the
following:
(i) if
any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day,
such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business
Day
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unless
the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into
another
calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately
preceding Business Day;
(ii) the
Borrower may not select an Interest Period that would extend beyond the
Termination Date;
(iii) any
Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month
(or on
a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar
month
at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of
a
calendar month; and
(iv) the
Borrower shall select Interest Periods so as not to require a payment or
prepayment of any Eurodollar Loan during an Interest Period for such
Loan.
“Issuing
Lender”: (a) in respect of the Existing Letters of Credit,
the Existing Issuing Lender and (b) in respect of any Letters of Credit
issued hereunder on or after the Effective Date, (i) JPMorgan Chase Bank,
N.A. or any affiliate thereof selected by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. with
the
consent of the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) and
(ii) any other Lender selected by the Borrower as an Issuing Lender with
the consent of such Lender and the Administrative Agent.
“L/C
Commitment”: $950,000,000.
“L/C
Obligations”: at any time, an amount equal to the sum of
(a) the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding
Letters of Credit and (b) the aggregate amount of drawings under issued
Letters of Credit that have not then been reimbursed pursuant to
Section 3.5.
“L/C
Participants”: in respect of any Letter of Credit, the collective
reference to all the Lenders other than the Issuing Lender that issued such
Letter of Credit.
“Lenders”: as
defined in the preamble hereto; provided, that unless the context
otherwise requires, each reference herein to the Lenders shall be deemed
to
include any Conduit Lender.
“Letters
of Credit”: as defined in Section 3.1.
“Lien”: any
mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance,
lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any preference,
priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind
or
nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement and any capital lease having substantially the same economic effect
as
any of the foregoing).
“Loan”: any
loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement, including Swingline Loans
and Revolving Loans.
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“Loan
Documents”: this Agreement, the Notes and the Applications and,
in each case, any amendment, waiver, supplement or other modification to
any of
the foregoing.
“Material
Adverse Effect”: (a) a change in the business, property,
operations or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken
as
a whole that could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect
the
Borrower’s ability to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents or
(b) a material adverse effect on the validity or enforceability of this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents.
“Materials
of Environmental Concern”: any gasoline or petroleum (including
crude oil or any fraction thereof) or petroleum products or any hazardous
or
toxic substances, materials or wastes, defined or regulated as such in or
under
any Environmental Law, including asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and
urea-formaldehyde insulation.
“Moody’s”: Xxxxx’x
Investors Service, Inc.
“Mortgaged
Property”: as defined in the Indenture.
“Multiemployer
Plan”: a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section
4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“New
Lender Supplement”: as defined in Section 2.3(b).
“New
Revolving Credit Lender”: as defined in Section
2.3(b).
“Non-Excluded
Taxes”: as defined in Section 2.16(a).
“Non-Extending
Lender”: as defined in Section 2.7.
“Non-Procurement
Facility Limit”: $1,050,000,000.
“Non-Procurement
Letter of Credit”: a Letter of Credit issued for any purpose
other than energy procurement.
“Non-Recourse
Debt”: Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries that is incurred in connection with the acquisition, construction,
sale, transfer or other disposition of specific assets, to the extent recourse,
whether contractual or as a matter of law, for non-payment of such Indebtedness
is limited (a) to such assets, or (b) if such assets are (or are to
be) held by a Subsidiary formed solely for such purpose, to such Subsidiary
or
the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary.
“Non-U.S.
Lender”: as defined in Section 2.16(d).
“Notes”: as
defined in Section 2.14(g).
“Obligations”: the
unpaid principal of and interest on (including, without limitation, interest
accruing after the maturity of the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and
interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the
commencement of any
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insolvency,
reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Borrower, whether or not
a
claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding)
the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and all other obligations and
liabilities of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or to the Issuing
Lender
or to any Lender, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due
or to
become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under,
out
of, or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any
other
document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, whether
on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities,
costs, expenses (including, without limitation, all fees, charges and
disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender that
are
required to be paid by the Borrower pursuant hereto) or otherwise.
“OECD”: the
countries constituting the “Contracting Parties” to the Convention on the
Organisation For Economic Co-operation and Development, as such term is defined
in Article 4 of such Convention.
“Other
Taxes”: any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes
or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising
from
any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement
of, or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
“Participant”: as
defined in Section 10.6(c).
“PBGC”: the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of
Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).
“PCG”: PG&E
Corporation, a California corporation and the holder of approximately 89%
of the
issued and outstanding voting Capital Stock of the Borrower.
“Percentage”: as
to any Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lender’s Commitment then
constitutes of the Total Commitments or, at any time after the Commitments
shall
have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate principal
amount
of such Lender’s Revolving Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate
principal amount of the Revolving Loans then outstanding, provided, that,
in the event that the Revolving Loans are paid in full prior to the reduction
to
zero of the Total Extensions of Credit, the Percentages shall be determined
in a
manner designed to ensure that the other outstanding Extensions of Credit
shall
be held by the Lenders on a comparable basis.
“Person”: an
individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business
trust,
joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture,
Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
“Plan”: at
a particular time, any employee benefit plan that is covered by ERISA and
in
respect of which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or, if
such
plan were terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed
to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
“Procurement
L/C Facility Limit”: $950,000,000.
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“Properties”: as
defined in Section 4.13(a).
“Rating”: each
rating announced by S&P and Moody’s in respect of the Borrower’s senior
unsecured, non credit-enhanced debt.
“Refunded
Swingline Loans”: as defined in Section 2.5.
“Register”: as
defined in Section 10.6(b).
“Regulation U”: Regulation U
of the Board as in effect from time to time.
“Reimbursement
Obligation”: the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse each
Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.5 for amounts drawn under Letters of
Credit issued by such Issuing Lender.
“Reorganization”: with
respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such plan is in
reorganization within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA.
“Reportable
Event”: any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA,
other than those events as to which the thirty-day notice period is waived
under
subsections .27, .28, .29, .30, .31, .32, .34 or .35 of PBGC Reg. §
4043.
“Required
Lenders”: at any time, the holders of more than 50% of the Total
Commitments then in effect or, if the Commitments have been terminated, the
Total Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
“Requirement
of Law”: as to any Person, the Articles of Incorporation and
By-Laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and
any
law, treaty, rule or regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court
or
other Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon
such
Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property
is
subject.
“Responsible
Officer”: the chief executive officer, president, chief financial
officer, treasurer or assistant treasurer of the Borrower, but in any event,
with respect to financial matters, the chief financial officer, treasurer
or
assistant treasurer of the Borrower.
“Revolving
Credit Offered Increase Amount”: as defined in Section
2.3(a).
“Revolving
Credit Re-Allocation Date”: as defined in Section
2.3(d).
“Revolving
Loans”: as defined in Section 2.1(a).
“S&P”: Standard &
Poor’s Ratings Services.
“SEC”: the
Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any analogous
Governmental Authority.
“Securitized
Bonds”: any securitized bonds or similar asset-backed securities
that are non-recourse to the Borrower, are issued by a special purpose
subsidiary of the Borrower and
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are
payable from a specific or dedicated rate component, including the approximately
$2,900,000,000 in rate reduction certificates backed by transition property
that
were issued in 1997 and the approximately $2,700,000,000 in energy recovery
bonds backed by energy recovery property that the Borrower issued in
2005.
“Significant
Subsidiary”: as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02(w) of
Regulation S-X of the Exchange Act as of the Effective Date,
provided that notwithstanding the foregoing, none of PG&E Funding
LLC, PG&E Accounts Receivable LLC, PG&E Energy Recovery Funding LLC or
any other special purpose finance subsidiary shall constitute a Significant
Subsidiary. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a
“Significant Subsidiary” or to “Significant Subsidiaries” in this Agreement
shall refer to a Significant Subsidiary or Significant Subsidiaries of the
Borrower.
“Single
Employer Plan”: any Plan that is covered by Title IV of
ERISA, but that is not a Multiemployer Plan.
“Specified
Exchange Act Filings”: the Borrower’s Form 10-K annual report for
the year ended December 31, 2005 and each and all of the Form 10-Ks, Form
10-Qs and Form 8-Ks (and to the extent applicable proxy statements) filed
by the
Borrower or PCG with the SEC after December 31, 2005 and prior to the date
that is one Business Day before the date of this Agreement.
“Subsidiary”: as
to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other
entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary
voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such
power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority
of
the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership
or
other entity are at the time owned, or the management of which is otherwise
controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or
both,
by such Person. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a
“Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary
or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“Swap
Agreement”: any agreement with respect to any swap, forward,
future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving,
or
settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or
debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices
or
measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar
transaction or any combination of these transactions; provided that no phantom
stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services
provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants
of
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a “Swap
Agreement”.
“Swingline
Commitment”: the obligation of the Swingline Lender to make
Swingline Loans pursuant to Section 2.4 in an aggregate principal amount at
any one time outstanding not to exceed $200,000,000.
“Swingline
Lender”: Citicorp, in its capacity as the lender of Swingline
Loans.
“Swingline
Loans”: as defined in Section 2.4.
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“Swingline
Participation Amount”: as defined in
Section 2.5.
“Syndication
Agent”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Termination
Date”: the date that is the fifth anniversary of the Effective
Date or such later date as may be determined pursuant to Section 2.7(b) or
such
earlier date as otherwise determined pursuant to Section 2.7.
“Total
Commitments”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Commitments of all Lenders at such time.
“Total
Extensions of Credit”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Extensions of Credit of all Lenders at such time.
“Transferee”: any
Assignee or Participant.
“Type”: as
to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.
“United
States”: the United States of America.
“Utilization
Fee Rate”: for any day, 0.050% per annum.
1.2 Other
Definitional Provisions. (a) Unless otherwise
specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined
meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any certificate or other
document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b) As
used herein and, except as otherwise provided therein, in the other Loan
Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant
hereto or thereto, (i) accounting terms relating to the Borrower and its
Significant Subsidiaries defined in Section 1.1 and accounting terms partly
defined in Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under GAAP, (ii) the words “include”,
“includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without
limitation”, (iii) the word “incur” shall be construed to mean incur,
create, issue, assume or become liable in respect of (and the words “incurred”
and “incurrence” shall have correlative meanings), (iv) the words “asset”
and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to
refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including
cash, Capital Stock, securities, revenues, accounts, leasehold interests
and
contract rights, and (v) references to agreements or other Contractual
Obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such
agreements or Contractual Obligations as amended, supplemented, restated
or
otherwise modified from time to time.
(c) The
words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import, when used
in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit
references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
(d) The
meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both
the
singular and plural forms of such terms.
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(e) The
Borrower shall not be required to perform, nor shall it be required to guarantee
the performance of, any of the affirmative covenants set forth in Section 6
that apply to any of its Significant Subsidiaries nor shall any of the
Borrower’s Significant Subsidiaries be required to perform, nor shall any of
such Significant Subsidiaries be required to guarantee the performance of,
any
of the Borrower’s affirmative covenants set forth in Section 6 or any of
the affirmative covenants set forth in Section 6 that apply to any other
Significant Subsidiary; provided, that nothing in this Section 1.2(e)
shall prevent the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default arising
out of
the Borrower’s failure to cause any Significant Subsidiary to comply with the
provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Significant
Subsidiary.
SECTION
2. AMOUNT
AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
2.1 Commitments. (a) Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to make
revolving credit loans (“Revolving Loans”) to the Borrower from time to
time on or after the Effective Date and during the Commitment Period in an
aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding which, when added
to such
Lender’s Percentage of the sum of (i) the L/C Obligations then outstanding
and (ii) the aggregate principal amount of the Swingline Loans then
outstanding, does not exceed the amount of such Lender’s Commitment;
provided that, (x) subject to Section 10.1, the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of all Loans plus the aggregate outstanding
amount
of L/C Obligations in respect of Non-Procurement Letters of Credit may not
at
any time exceed the Non-Procurement Facility Limit and (y) after giving
effect to the Revolving Loans requested to be made, the aggregate amount
of the
Available Commitments shall not be less than zero. During the
Commitment Period, the Borrower may use the Commitments by borrowing, prepaying
the Revolving Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance
with
the terms and conditions hereof. The Revolving Loans may from time to
time be Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrower and
notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and
2.9.
(b) The
Borrower shall repay all outstanding Revolving Loans on the Termination
Date.
2.2 Procedure
for Revolving Loan Borrowing. The Borrower may borrow under the
Commitments during the Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided
that the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice
(which
notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 12:00 Noon,
New
York City time, (a) three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing
Date, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, or (b) one Business Day prior to the
requested Borrowing Date, in the case of ABR Loans) specifying (i) the
amount and Type of Revolving Loans to be borrowed, (ii) the requested
Borrowing Date and (iii) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, the respective
amounts of each such Type of Loan and the respective lengths of the initial
Interest Period therefor. Each borrowing under the Commitments shall
be in an amount equal to $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess
thereof (or, if the then aggregate Available Commitments are less than
$1,000,000, such lesser amount); provided, that the Swingline Lender may
request, on behalf of the Borrower, borrowings under the Commitments that
are
ABR Loans in other amounts pursuant to Section 2.5. Upon receipt
of any such notice from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly
notify each Lender thereof. Each Lender will make the amount of its
pro rata share of each borrowing available to the Administrative Agent
for the account of the Borrower at the Funding Office prior to
12:00
Noon,
New York City time, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower in funds
immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Such borrowing
will then be made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent
crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of such office with the
aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the
Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.
2.3 Commitment
Increases.
(a) In
the event that the Borrower wishes to increase the Total Commitments at any
time
when no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (or shall
result of such increase) and subject to obtaining all necessary regulatory
approvals, it shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of the amount
(the “Revolving Credit Offered Increase Amount”) of such proposed
increase (such notice, a “Commitment Increase Notice”) which
shall be in a minimum amount equal to $10,000,000 and shall not exceed, in
the
aggregate, $1,000,000,000. The Borrower shall offer each of the
Lenders the opportunity to provide such Lender’s Percentage of the Revolving
Credit Offered Increase Amount, and if any Lender declines such offer, in
whole
or in part, the Borrower may offer such declined amount to (i) other
Lenders and/or (ii) other banks, financial institutions or other entities
with the consent of the Administrative Agent and, unless any such other bank,
financial institution or other entity would qualify as an Eligible Assignee,
the
Issuing Lender (which consents of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing
Lender shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). The Commitment
Increase Notice shall specify the Lenders and/or banks, financial institutions
or other entities that will be requested to provide such Revolving Credit
Offered Increase Amount. The Borrower or, if requested by the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent will notify such Lenders, and/or banks,
financial institutions or other entities of such offer.
(b) Any
additional bank, financial institution or other entity which the Borrower
selects to offer a portion of the increased Total Commitments and which elects
to become a party to this Agreement and obtain a Commitment in an amount
so
offered and accepted by it pursuant to Section 2.3(a) shall execute a new
lender
supplement (the “New Lender Supplement”) with the Borrower, the Issuing
Lender and the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form of
Exhibit A, whereupon such bank, financial institution or other entity
(herein called a “New Revolving Credit Lender”) shall become a Lender for
all purposes and to the same extent as if originally a party hereto and shall
be
bound by and entitled to the benefits of this Agreement, provided that
the Commitment of any such New Revolving Credit Lender shall be in an amount
not
less than $5,000,000.
(c) Any
Lender which accepts an offer to it by the Borrower to increase its Commitment
pursuant to Section 2.3(a) shall, in each case, execute a Commitment Increase
Supplement with the Borrower, the Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent,
substantially in the form of Exhibit B, whereupon such Lender shall be
bound by and entitled to the benefits of this Agreement with respect to the
full
amount of its Commitment as so increased.
(d) If
any bank, financial institution or other entity becomes a New Revolving Credit
Lender pursuant to Section 2.3(b) or any Lender’s Commitment is increased
pursuant to Section 2.3(c), additional Revolving Loans made on or after the
effectiveness thereof (the “Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date”) shall
be made pro rata based on the Percentages in
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effect
on and after such Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date (except to the extent
that
any such pro rata borrowings would result in any Lender making an
aggregate principal amount of Revolving Loans in excess of its Commitment,
in
which case such excess amount will be allocated to, and made by, such New
Revolving Credit Lenders and/or Lenders with such increased Commitments to
the
extent of, and pro rata based on, their respective Commitments
otherwise available for Revolving Loans), and continuations of Eurodollar
Loans
outstanding on such Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date shall be effected
by
repayment of such Eurodollar Loans on the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto and the making of new Eurodollar Loans pro rata
based on such new Percentages. In the event that on any such
Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date there is an unpaid principal amount of
ABR
Loans, the Borrower shall make prepayments thereof and borrowings of ABR
Loans
so that, after giving effect thereto, the ABR Loans outstanding are held
pro
rata based on such new Percentages. In the event that on any
such Revolving Credit Re-Allocation Date there is an unpaid principal amount
of
Eurodollar Loans, such Eurodollar Loans shall remain outstanding with the
respective holders thereof until the expiration of their respective Interest
Periods (unless the Borrower elects to prepay any thereof in accordance with
the
applicable provisions of this Agreement), and interest on and repayments
of such
Eurodollar Loans will be paid thereon to the respective Lenders holding such
Eurodollar Loans pro rata based on the respective principal amounts
thereof outstanding.
(e) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Section 2.3, (i) no Lender shall have
any obligation to increase its Commitment unless it agrees to do so in its
sole
discretion and unless the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender consent
to
such increase (which consents of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing
Lender
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and (ii) in no event shall
any transaction effected pursuant to this Section 2.3 (A) cause the Total
Commitments to exceed $3,000,000,000 or (B) occur at a time at which a Default
or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
(f) The
Administrative Agent shall have received on or prior to the Revolving Credit
Re-Allocation Date, for the benefit of the Lenders, (i) a legal opinion of
counsel to the Borrower covering such matters as are customary for transactions
of this type as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent,
which
opinions shall be substantially the same, to the extent appropriate, as the
opinions rendered by counsel to the Borrower on the Effective Date and
(ii) certified copies of resolutions of the board of directors of the
Borrower authorizing the Borrower to borrow the Revolving Credit Offered
Increase Amount.
2.4 Swingline
Commitment. (a) Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, the Swingline Lender agrees to make a portion of the credit
otherwise available to the Borrower under the Commitments from time to time
on
or after the Effective Date during the Commitment Period by making swingline
loans (“Swingline Loans”) to the Borrower; provided that
(i) the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans outstanding at any
time shall not exceed the Swingline Commitment then in effect (notwithstanding
that the Swingline Loans outstanding at any time, when aggregated with the
Swingline Lender’s other outstanding Revolving Loans, may exceed the Swingline
Commitment or the Swingline Lender’s Commitment then in effect) and
(ii) the Borrower shall not request, and the Swingline Lender shall not
make, any Swingline Loan if, after giving effect to the making of such Swingline
Loan, (x) the aggregate amount of the Available Commitments would be less
than zero or (y) subject to Section 10.1, the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of all Loans plus the aggregate outstanding amount of
L/C
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Obligations
in respect of Non-Procurement Letters of Credit would exceed the Non-Procurement
Facility Limit. During the Commitment Period, the Borrower may use
the Swingline Commitment by borrowing, repaying and reborrowing, all in
accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. Swingline Loans
shall be ABR Loans only.
(b) The
Borrower shall repay to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount
of
each Swingline Loan on or prior to the date that is the earlier of
(i) 30 days after the date such Swingline Loan is made and
(ii) the Termination Date; provided that on each date on which a
Revolving Loan is borrowed, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans
then
outstanding.
2.5 Procedure
for Swingline Borrowing; Refunding of Swingline
Loans. (a) Whenever the Borrower wishes to borrow
Swingline Loans, it shall give the Swingline Lender irrevocable telephonic
notice confirmed promptly in writing (which telephonic notice must be received
by the Swingline Lender not later than 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on
the proposed Borrowing Date), specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed and
(ii) the requested Borrowing Date (which shall be a Business Day during the
Commitment Period). Each borrowing under the Swingline Commitment
shall be in an amount equal to $100,000 or a whole multiple
thereof. Not later than 2:00 P.M., New York City time, on the
Borrowing Date specified in a notice in respect of Swingline Loans, the
Swingline Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent at the
Funding
Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the amount of the
Swingline Loan to be made by the Swingline Lender. The Administrative
Agent shall make the proceeds of such Swingline Loan available to the Borrower
on such Borrowing Date by depositing such proceeds in the account of the
Borrower with the Administrative Agent on such Borrowing Date in immediately
available funds.
(b) The
Swingline Lender, at any time and from time to time in its sole and absolute
discretion may, on behalf of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably directs
the
Swingline Lender to act on its behalf), on one Business Day’s notice given by
the Swingline Lender no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, request
each
Lender to make, and each Lender hereby agrees to make, a Revolving Loan,
in an
amount equal to such Lender’s Percentage of the aggregate amount of the
Swingline Loans (the “Refunded Swingline Loans”) outstanding on the date
of such notice, to repay the Swingline Lender. Each Lender shall make
the amount of such Revolving Loan available to the Administrative Agent at
the
Funding Office in immediately available funds, not later than 10:00 A.M.,
New York City time, one Business Day after the date of such
notice. The proceeds of such Revolving Loans shall be immediately
made available by the Administrative Agent to the Swingline Lender for
application by the Swingline Lender to the repayment of the Refunded Swingline
Loans. The Borrower irrevocably authorizes the Swingline Lender to
charge the Borrower’s accounts with the Administrative Agent (up to the amount
available in each such account) in order to immediately pay the amount of
such
Refunded Swingline Loans to the extent amounts received from the Lenders
are not
sufficient to repay in full such Refunded Swingline Loans.
(c) If
prior to the time a Revolving Loan would have otherwise been made pursuant
to
Section 2.5(b), one of the events described in Section 8(f) shall have
occurred and be continuing with respect to the Borrower or if for any other
reason, as determined by the Swingline Lender in its sole discretion, Revolving
Loans may not be made as contemplated by
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Section
2.5(b), each Lender shall, on the date such Revolving Loan was to have been
made
pursuant to the notice referred to in Section 2.5(b), purchase for cash an
undivided participating interest in the then outstanding Swingline Loans
by
paying to the Swingline Lender an amount (the “Swingline Participation
Amount”) equal to (i) such Lender’s Percentage times
(ii) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of Swingline Loans then
outstanding that were to have been repaid with such Revolving
Loans.
(d) Whenever,
at any time after the Swingline Lender has received from any Lender such
Lender’s Swingline Participation Amount, the Swingline Lender receives any
payment on account of the Swingline Loans, the Swingline Lender will distribute
to such Lender its Swingline Participation Amount (appropriately adjusted,
in
the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which
such
Lender’s participating interest was outstanding and funded and, in the case of
principal and interest payments, to reflect such Lender’s pro rata
portion of such payment if such payment is not sufficient to pay the principal
of and interest on all Swingline Loans then due); provided,
however, that in the event that such payment received by the Swingline
Lender is required to be returned, such Lender will return to the Swingline
Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swingline
Lender.
(e) Each
Lender’s obligation to make the Loans referred to in Section 2.5(b) and to
purchase participating interests pursuant to Section 2.5(c) shall be absolute
and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including
(i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such
Lender or the Borrower may have against the Swingline Lender, the Borrower
or
any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or
continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy
any of
the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change
in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower, (iv) any breach
of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the Borrower or any other
Lender
or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or
not similar to any of the foregoing.
2.6 Facility
Fees, Utilization Fees, etc. (a) The Borrower agrees
to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a facility
fee
for the period from and including the date hereof to the last day of the
Commitment Period, computed at the Facility Fee Rate on the Commitment of
such
Lender during the period for which payment is made, payable quarterly in
arrears
on each Fee Payment Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after
the
date hereof. In addition, if the principal amount of any Loan, or any
Reimbursement Obligations, shall remain outstanding and unpaid after the
last
day of the Commitment Period, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of each Lender, a facility fee for the period from
the
last day of the Commitment Period until the date on which such amounts are
repaid in full, computed at the Facility Fee Rate on such amounts, payable
quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date, commencing on the first such
date
after the last day of the Commitment Period.
(b) If
the average daily aggregate principal amount of the Loans and L/C Obligations
outstanding for the calendar quarter preceding a Fee Payment Date (or such
shorter period beginning with the date hereof or ending with the Termination
Date) is greater than 50% of the daily average Total Commitments for such
calendar quarter or period, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each Lender a utilization fee at the
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Utilization
Fee Rate on such average daily aggregate principal amount of the Loans and
the
L/C Obligations outstanding during such calendar quarter (or shorter period),
payable in arrears on each Fee Payment Date.
(c) The
Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent the fees in the amounts
and
on the dates as set forth in any written, duly executed fee agreements with
the
Administrative Agent and to perform any other obligations contained
therein.
2.7 Termination
or Reduction of Commitments; Extension of Termination
Date. (a) The Borrower shall have the right,
upon not less than three Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent, to
terminate the Commitments or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of
the
Commitments; provided that no such termination or reduction of
Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any
prepayments of the Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans made on the effective
date thereof, the Total Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total
Commitments. Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to
$1,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and shall reduce permanently the
Commitments then in effect.
(b) The
Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent (such notice
being
an “Extension Notice”) given no more frequently than once in each
calendar year, request the Lenders to consider an extension of the then
applicable Termination Date to a later date. The Administrative Agent
shall promptly transmit any Extension Notice to each Lender. Each
Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent whether it wishes to extend
the
then applicable Termination Date not later than 30 days after the date of
such Extension Notice, and any such notice given by a Lender to the
Administrative Agent, once given, shall be irrevocable as to such
Lender. Any Lender which does not expressly notify the Administrative
Agent prior to the expiration of such thirty-day period that it wishes to
so
extend the then applicable Termination Date shall be deemed to have rejected
the
Borrower’s request for extension of such Termination Date. Lenders
consenting to extend the then applicable Termination Date are hereinafter
referred to as “Continuing Lenders”, and Lenders declining to consent to
extend such Termination Date (or Lenders deemed to have so declined) are
hereinafter referred to as “Non-Extending Lenders”. If the
Required Lenders have elected (in their sole and absolute discretion) to
so
extend the Termination Date, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify
the
Borrower of such election by the Required Lenders, and effective on the date
which is 30 days after the date of such notice by the Administrative Agent
to the Borrower, the Termination Date shall be automatically and immediately
so
extended. No extension will be permitted hereunder without the
consent of the Required Lenders. Upon the delivery of an Extension
Notice and upon the extension of the Termination Date pursuant to this Section,
the Borrower shall be deemed to have represented and warranted on and as
of the
date of such Extension Notice and the effective date of such extension, as
the
case may be, that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing. Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement to
the contrary, no Lender shall have any obligation to extend the Termination
Date, and each Lender may at its option, unconditionally and without cause,
decline to extend the Termination Date.
(c) If
the Termination Date shall have been extended in accordance with this Section,
all references herein to the “Termination Date” (except with respect to any
Non-Extending Lender) shall refer to the Termination Date as so
extended.
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(d) If
any Lender shall determine (or be deemed to have determined) not to extend
the
Termination Date as requested by any Extension Notice given by the Borrower
pursuant to this Section, the Commitment of such Non-Extending Lender (including
the obligations of such Lender under Section 2.5 and 3.4) shall terminate
on the Termination Date without giving any effect to such proposed extension,
and the Borrower shall on such date pay to the Administrative Agent, for
the
account of such Non-Extending Lender, the principal amount of, and accrued
interest on, such Non-Extending Lender’s Loans and outstanding Reimbursement
Obligations, together with any amounts payable to such Lender pursuant to
Section 2.17 and any and all fees or other amounts owing to such Non-Extending
Lender under this Agreement; provided that if the Borrower has replaced
such Non-Extending Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) below then the
provisions of such paragraph shall apply. The Total Commitments (but
not, for the avoidance of doubt, except as hereinafter provided, the L/C
Commitment) shall be reduced by the amount of the Commitment of such
Non-Extending Lender to the extent the Commitment of such Non-Extending Lender
has not been transferred to one or more Continuing Lenders pursuant to
paragraph (e) below, provided that, if the Total Commitments, after
giving effect to the reduction in the Total Commitments due to Non-Extending
Lenders which are not replaced pursuant to paragraph (e) below, is less
than the L/C Commitment, the L/C Commitment shall be reduced by an amount
equal
to such excess.
(e) A
Non-Extending Lender shall be obligated, at the request of the Borrower and
subject to (i) payment by the successor Lender described below to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Non-Extending Lender of the
principal amount of, and accrued interest on, such Non-Extending Lender’s Loans,
and (ii) payment by the Borrower to such Non-Extending Lender of any
amounts payable to such Non-Extending Lender pursuant to Section 2.17 (as
if the
purchase of such Non-Extending Lender’s Loans constituted a prepayment thereof)
and any and all fees or other amounts owing to such Non-Extending Lender
under
this Agreement, to transfer without recourse, representation, warranty (other
than a representation that such Lender has not created an adverse claim on
its
Loans) or expense to such Non-Extending Lender, at any time prior to the
Termination Date applicable to such Non-Extending Lender, all of such
Non-Extending Lender’s rights and obligations hereunder to another financial
institution or group of financial institutions nominated by the Borrower
and
willing to participate as a successor Lender in the place of such Non-Extending
Lender; provided that, if such transferee is not already a Lender,
(1) such transferee satisfies all the requirements of this Agreement, and
(2) the Administrative Agent and, with respect to any replacement Lender
that is not an Eligible Assignee, each Issuing Lender shall have consented
to
such transfer, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed. Each such transferee successor Lender shall be deemed to be
a Continuing Lender hereunder in replacement of the transferor Non-Extending
Lender and shall enjoy all rights and assume all obligations on the part
of such
Non-Extending Lender set forth in this Agreement. Each such transfer
shall be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption.
(f) If
the Termination Date shall have been extended in respect of Continuing Lenders
in accordance with this Section, any notice of borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.2 or 2.5 specifying a Borrowing Date occurring after the
Termination Date applicable to a Non-Extending Lender or requesting an Interest
Period extending beyond such date shall (i) have no effect in respect of
such Non-Extending Lender and (ii) not specify a requested
aggregate
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principal
amount exceeding the aggregate Available Commitments (calculated on the basis
of
the Commitments of the Continuing Lenders).
2.8 Optional
Prepayments. The Borrower may at any time and from time to time
prepay the Loans, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty, upon
irrevocable notice delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than 12:00
Noon, New York City time, three Business Days prior thereto, in the case
of
Eurodollar Loans, and no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, one Business
Day prior thereto, in the case of ABR Loans, which notice shall specify the
date
and amount of prepayment and whether the prepayment is of Eurodollar Loans
or
ABR Loans; provided, that if a Eurodollar Loan is prepaid on any day
other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, the Borrower
shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.17. Upon
receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify
each
relevant Lender thereof. If any such notice is given, the amount
specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein,
together with (except in the case of Revolving Loans that are ABR Loans and
Swingline Loans) accrued interest to such date on the amount
prepaid. Partial prepayments of Revolving Loans which shall be in an
aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000
in
excess thereof. Partial prepayments of Swingline Loans shall be in an
aggregate principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple thereof.
2.9 Conversion
and Continuation Options. (a) The Borrower may
elect from time to time to convert Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans by giving
the
Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than
12:00 Noon, New York City time, on the Business Day preceding the proposed
conversion date, provided that any such conversion of Eurodollar Loans may
only
be made on the last day of an Interest Period with respect
thereto. The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert ABR
Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the Administrative Agent prior irrevocable
notice of such election no later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on
the
third Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date (which notice shall
specify the length of the initial Interest Period therefor), provided that
no
ABR Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan when any Event of Default
has
occurred and is continuing and the Required Lenders have determined in their
sole discretion not to permit such conversions. Upon receipt of any
such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant
Lender
thereof.
(b) Any
Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the then
current
Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower giving irrevocable notice
to the Administrative Agent, in accordance with the applicable provisions
of the
term “Interest Period” set forth in Section 1.1, of the length of the next
Interest Period to be applicable to such Loans, provided that no
Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such when any Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing and the Required Lenders have determined in their sole
discretion not to permit such continuations, and provided,
further, that if the Borrower shall fail to give any required notice
as
described above in this paragraph or if such continuation is not permitted
pursuant to the preceding proviso such Loans shall be automatically converted
to
ABR Loans on the last day of such then expiring Interest Period. Upon
receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify
each
relevant Lender thereof.
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2.10 Limitations
on Eurodollar Tranches. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
in this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of Eurodollar
Loans and all selections of Interest Periods shall be in such amounts and
be
made pursuant to such elections so that (a) after giving effect thereto,
the aggregate principal amount of the Eurodollar Loans comprising each
Eurodollar Tranche shall be equal to $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000
in excess thereof and (b) no more than 15 Eurodollar Tranches shall be
outstanding at any one time.
2.11 Interest
Rates and Payment Dates. (a) Each
Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest for each day during each Interest Period
with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate determined
for such day plus the Applicable Margin.
(b) Each
ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the ABR plus the
Applicable Margin.
(c) (i) If
all or a portion of the principal amount of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation
shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration
or
otherwise), such overdue amount shall bear interest at a default rate per
annum
equal to (x) in the case of the Loans, the rate that would otherwise be
applicable thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section
plus 2% or (y) in the case of Reimbursement Obligations, the rate
applicable to ABR Loans plus 2%, and (ii) if all or a portion of any
interest payable on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation or any facility
fee,
utilization fee, letter of credit fee, or any other fee payable (excluding
any
expenses or other indemnity) hereunder shall not be paid when due (whether
at
the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall
bear interest at a default rate per annum equal to the rate then applicable
to
ABR Loans plus 2%, in each case, with respect to clauses (i) and
(ii) above, from the date of such non-payment until such amount is paid in
full
(as well after as before judgment).Interest shall be payable in arrears on
each
Interest Payment Date, provided that interest accruing pursuant to
paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable from time to time on
demand.
2.12 Computation
of Interest and Fees. (a) Interest and
fees payable pursuant hereto shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day
year
for the actual days elapsed, except that, with respect to ABR Loans the rate
of
interest on which is calculated on the basis of the Base Rate, the interest
thereon shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case
may be)
day year for the actual days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall
as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of each
determination of a Eurodollar Rate. Any change in the interest rate
on a Loan resulting from a change in the ABR or the Eurocurrency Reserve
Requirements shall become effective as of the opening of business on the
day on
which such change becomes effective. The Administrative Agent shall
as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the relevant Lenders of the
effective date and the amount of each such change in interest rate.
(b) Each
determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
any
provision of this Agreement shall constitute prima facie evidence of such
amounts. The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the
Borrower or any Lender, deliver to the Borrower or such Lender a statement
showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any
interest rate pursuant to Section 2.11(a).
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2.13 Inability
to Determine Interest Rate. If prior to the first day of any
Interest Period:
(a) the
Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be
conclusive and binding upon the Borrower) that, by reason of circumstances
affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist
for
ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period, or
(b) the
Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Required Lenders
that
the Eurodollar Rate determined or to be determined for such Interest Period
will
not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (as conclusively
certified by such Lenders) of making or maintaining their affected Loans
during
such Interest Period,
the
Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to
the
Borrower and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable
thereafter. If such notice is given (x) any Eurodollar Loans
requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be made
as
ABR Loans, (y) any Loans that were to have been converted on the first day
of such Interest Period to Eurodollar Loans shall be continued as ABR Loans
and
(z) any outstanding Eurodollar Loans shall be converted, on the last day of
the then-current Interest Period, to ABR Loans. Until such notice has
been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent, no further Eurodollar Loans shall
be
made or continued as such, nor shall the Borrower have the right to convert
Loans to Eurodollar Loans.
2.14 Pro
Rata Treatment and Payments;
Notes. (a) Each borrowing by the Borrower
from the Lenders hereunder, each payment by the Borrower on account of any
commitment fee and any reduction of the Commitments of the Lenders shall
be made
prorata according to the respective Percentages of the
Lenders.
(b) Each
payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal
of
and interest on the Revolving Loans shall be made prorata
according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Revolving
Loans
then held by the Lenders. Each payment in respect of Reimbursement
Obligations in respect of any Letter of Credit shall be made to the Issuing
Lender that issued such Letters of Credit.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, all payments (including prepayments) to
be made
by the Borrower hereunder, whether on account of principal, Reimbursement
Obligations, interest, fees or otherwise, shall be made without setoff or
counterclaim and shall be made prior to 4:00 P.M., New York City time, on
the due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the
Lenders
or the Issuing Lenders, as applicable, at the Funding Office, in Dollars
and in
immediately available funds. The Administrative Agent shall
distribute such payments to the Lenders promptly upon receipt in like funds
as
received. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on the
Eurodollar Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business
Day,
such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business
Day. If any payment on a Eurodollar Loan becomes due and payable on a
day other than a Business Day, the maturity thereof shall be extended to
the
next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be
to
extend such payment into another calendar
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month,
in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business
Day. In the case of any extension of any payment of principal
pursuant to the preceding two sentences, interest thereon shall be payable
at
the then applicable rate during such extension.
(d) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Lender
prior
to a borrowing that such Lender will not make the amount that would constitute
its share of such borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the
Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender is making such amount available
to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance
upon
such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding
amount. If such amount is not made available to the Administrative
Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such Lender shall
pay
to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon,
at a
rate equal to the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and
(ii) a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with
banking industry rules on interbank compensation, for the period until such
Lender makes such amount immediately available to the Administrative
Agent. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any
Lender with respect to any amounts owing under this paragraph shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. If such Lender’s share
of such borrowing is not made available to the Administrative Agent by such
Lender within three Business Days after such Borrowing Date, the Administrative
Agent shall also be entitled to recover such amount with interest thereon
at the
rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans from the Borrower within 30 days
after written demand therefor.
(e) Unless
the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by the Borrower
prior to the date of any payment due to be made by the Borrower hereunder
that
the Borrower will not make such payment to the Administrative Agent, the
Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower is making such payment,
and
the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required to, in reliance upon
such assumption, make available to the Lenders their respective pro
rata shares of a corresponding amount. If such payment is not
made to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower within three Business Days
after such due date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover,
on
demand, from each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant
to the preceding sentence, such amount with interest thereon at the rate
per
annum equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective
Rate. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit the rights of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender against the Borrower.
(f) The
Borrower agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any
Lender, the Borrower will promptly execute and deliver to such Lender a
promissory note (a “Note”) of the Borrower evidencing any Revolving Loans
of such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit H, with appropriate
insertions as to date and principal amount; provided, that delivery of
Notes shall not be a condition precedent to the occurrence of the Effective
Date
or the making of Loans on the Effective Date.
2.15 Requirements
of Law. (a) If the adoption of or any
change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application
thereof
or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not
having
the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority made
subsequent to the date hereof:
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(i) shall
subject any Lender to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this
Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any Application or any Eurodollar Loan made
by
it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender in respect
thereof (except for Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes covered by Section 2.16
and net income taxes and franchise taxes imposed in lieu of net income
taxes);
(ii) shall
impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory
loan
or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities
in
or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or
any
other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender that is not otherwise
included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate, which requirements are
generally applicable to loans made by such Lender; or
(iii) shall
impose on such Lender any other condition that is generally applicable to loans
made by such Lender;
and
the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender,
by an
amount that such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into,
continuing or maintaining Eurodollar Loans or issuing or participating in
Letters of Credit, or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect
thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender,
within ten Business Days after its demand, any additional amounts necessary
to
compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduced amount
receivable. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional
amounts pursuant to this paragraph, it shall promptly notify the Borrower (with
a copy to the Administrative Agent) of the event by reason of which it has
become so entitled; provided, however, that no Lender shall be
entitled to demand such compensation more than 90 days following
(x) the last day of the Interest Period in respect of which such demand is
made or (y) the repayment of the Loan or Swingline Loan in respect of which
such demand is made, and no Issuing Lender shall be entitled to demand such
compensation more than 90 days following the expiration or termination (by
drawing or otherwise) of the Letter of Credit issued by it in respect of which
such demand is made.
(b) If
any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of or any change in any
Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or in the interpretation or
application thereof or compliance by such Lender or any corporation controlling
such Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether
or
not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority made subsequent
to
the date hereof shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such
Lender’s or such corporation’s capital as a consequence of its obligations
hereunder or under or in respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that
which such Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such adoption,
change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such
corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by
such Lender to be material, then from time to time, after submission by such
Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written
request therefor, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount
or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such corporation for such
reduction.
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(c) A
certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this Section
submitted by any Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent) shall constitute prima facie evidence of such costs or
amounts. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section,
the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this
Section for any amounts incurred more than six months prior to the date that
such Lender notifies the Borrower of such Lender’s intention to claim
compensation therefor; provided that, if the circumstances giving rise to
such claim have a retroactive effect, then such six-month period shall be
extended to include the period of such retroactive effect not to exceed twelve
months. The obligations of the Borrower pursuant to this Section
shall survive for 90 days after the termination of this Agreement and the
payment of the Loans and all other amounts then due and payable
hereunder.
2.16 Taxes. (a) All
payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement shall be made free and clear
of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present
or
future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees,
deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected,
withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding (i) net
income taxes and franchise taxes (imposed in lieu of net income taxes) imposed
on the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of a present or former
connection between the Administrative Agent or such Lender and the jurisdiction
of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any political subdivision
or
taxing authority thereof or therein (other than any such connection arising
solely from the Administrative Agent or such Lender having executed, delivered
or performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document) and (ii) any branch profits tax
imposed by the United States. If any such non-excluded taxes, levies,
imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings (“Non-Excluded
Taxes”) or Other Taxes are required to be withheld from any amounts payable
to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder, the amounts so payable
to
the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent
necessary to yield to the Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment
of
all Non-Excluded Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder
at
the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement, provided,
however, that the Borrower shall not be required to increase any such
amounts payable to any Lender with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes
(i) that are attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the
requirements of paragraph (d) or (e) of this Section or (ii) that
are United States withholding taxes imposed on amounts payable to such Lender
at
the time such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement, except to the extent
that such Lender’s assignor (if any) was entitled, at the time of assignment, to
receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such Non-Excluded
Taxes pursuant to this paragraph.
(b) In
addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental
Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Whenever
any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by the Borrower, as promptly
as possible thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent
for
its own account or for the account of the relevant Lender, as the case may
be, a
certified copy of any original official receipt received by the Borrower showing
payment thereof. If the Borrower fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes
or Other Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority, the Borrower shall
indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any
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incremental
taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the Administrative
Agent
or any Lender as a result of any such failure.
(d) Each
Lender (or Transferee) that is not a “U.S. Person” as defined in Section
7701(a)(30) of the Code (a “Non-U.S. Lender”) shall deliver to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, to
the
Lender from which the related participation shall have been purchased) two
copies of either U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or Form W-8ECI,
or,
in the case of a Non U.S. Lender claiming exemption from U.S. federal
withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to
payments of “portfolio interest”, a statement substantially in the form of
Exhibit G and a Form W-8BEN, or any subsequent versions thereof or
successors thereto, properly completed and duly executed by such Non U.S. Lender
claiming complete exemption from, or a reduced rate of, U.S. federal withholding
tax on all payments by the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. Such forms shall be delivered by each Non-U.S. Lender on
or before the date it becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of
any
Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchases the related
participation). In addition, each Non U.S. Lender shall deliver such
forms promptly upon the obsolescence or invalidity of any form previously
delivered by such Non U.S. Lender. Each Non-U.S. Lender shall
promptly notify the Borrower at any time it determines that it is no longer
in a
position to provide any previously delivered certificate to the Borrower (or
any
other form of certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such
purpose). Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, a
Non U.S. Lender shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this
paragraph that such Non U.S. Lender is not legally able to deliver;
provided, however, if any Non-U.S. Lender fails to file forms with
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant,
with the Lender from which the related participation was purchased) on or before
the date the Non-U.S. Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the
case
of a Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchased the related
participation) entitling the Non-U.S. Lender to a complete exemption from United
States withholding taxes at such time, such Non-U.S. Lender shall not be
entitled to receive any increased payments from the Borrower with respect to
United States withholding taxes under paragraph (a) of this Section, except
to the extent that the Non-U.S. Lender’s assignor (if any) was entitled, at the
time of the assignment to the Non-U.S. Lender, to receive additional amounts
from the Borrower with respect to United States withholding taxes.
(e) A
Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of non-U.S.
withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which the Borrower is
located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect
to
payments under this Agreement shall deliver to the Borrower (with a copy to
the
Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or
reasonably requested by the Borrower, such properly completed and executed
documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to
be
made without withholding or at a reduced rate, provided that such Lender
is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such documentation and
in
such Lender’s judgment such completion, execution or submission would not
materially prejudice the legal position of such Lender.
(f) If
the Administrative Agent or any Lender determines, in its sole discretion,
that
it has received a refund of any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes as to which
it
has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the Borrower
has
paid amounts pursuant to this Section 2.16, it shall pay over such refund to
the
Borrower (but only to the extent of
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indemnity
payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower under this Section
2.16 with respect to the Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such
refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such
Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant
Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided, that the
Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agrees
to
repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any penalties, interest
or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender in the event the Administrative Agent or
such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental
Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require the
Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any
other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to the
Borrower or any other Person.
(g) The
agreements in this Section shall survive for one year after the termination
of
this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
2.17 Indemnity. The
Borrower agrees to indemnify each Lender for, and to hold each Lender harmless
from, any loss (other than the loss of Applicable Margin) or expense that such
Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) default by the Borrower
in making a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of Eurodollar Loans
after the Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with
the
provisions of this Agreement, (b) default by the Borrower in making any
prepayment of or conversion from Eurodollar Loans after the Borrower has given
a
notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or
(c) the making of a prepayment of Eurodollar Loans on a day that is not the
last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto. A certificate as
to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the Borrower by
any
Lender shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This
covenant shall survive for 90 days after the termination of this Agreement
and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
2.18 Change
of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence
of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.15 or 2.16(a) with
respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrower, use reasonable
efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate
another lending office for any Loans affected by such event with the object
of
avoiding the consequences of such event; provided, that such designation
is made on terms that, in the sole but reasonable judgment of such Lender,
cause
such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no unreimbursed economic
disadvantage or any legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided,
further, that nothing in this Section shall affect or postpone any
of the
obligations of the Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Section
2.15
or 2.16(a).
2.19 Replacement
of Lenders. The Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender
that (a) requests (on its behalf or any of its Participants) reimbursement
for amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.15 or 2.16(a) or (b) defaults in
its obligation to make Loans hereunder, with a replacement financial
institution; provided that (i) such replacement does not conflict
with any Requirement of Law, (ii) no Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing at the time of such replacement, (iii) prior to any such
replacement, such Lender shall have taken no action under Section 2.18 which
eliminates the continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section
2.15 or 2.16(a), (iv) the replacement financial institution
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shall
purchase, at par, all Loans and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender
on
or prior to the date of replacement, (v) the Borrower shall be liable to
such replaced Lender under Section 2.17 if any Eurodollar Loan owing to such
replaced Lender shall be purchased other than on the last day of the Interest
Period relating thereto, (vi) the replacement financial institution, if not
already a Lender, shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
(vii) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.6 (provided that the
Borrower shall be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee referred
to therein), (viii) until such time as such replacement shall be
consummated, the Borrower shall pay all additional amounts (if any) required
pursuant to Section 2.15 or 2.16(a), as the case may be, and (ix) any such
replacement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights that the Borrower,
the Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall have against the replaced
Lender.
SECTION
3. LETTERS
OF CREDIT
3.1 L/C
Commitment. From and after the Effective Date, each Existing
Letter of Credit shall, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, constitute
a
Letter of Credit hereunder. Subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, each Issuing Lender, in reliance on the agreements of the other Lenders
set forth in Section 3.4(a), agrees to issue standby and commercial letters
of
credit (the letters of credit issued on and after the Effective Date pursuant
to
this Section 3, together with the Existing Letters of Credit, collectively,
the “Letters of Credit”) for the account of the Borrower on any Business
Day on or after the Effective Date and during the Commitment Period in such
form
as may be approved from time to time by such Issuing Lender; provided,
that no Issuing Lender shall issue, amend, extend or renew any Letter of Credit
(and no Existing Letter of Credit may become a Letter of Credit hereunder)
if,
after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, extension or renewal (or to
the
transfer of such Existing Letter of Credit hereunder, as the case may be),
(i) the L/C Obligations would exceed the L/C Commitment, (ii) the
aggregate amount of the Available Commitments would be less than zero,
(iii) if the purpose of such Letter of Credit is energy procurement, the
aggregate outstanding amount of L/C Obligations in respect of Letters of Credit
issued for energy procurement purposes would exceed the Procurement L/C Facility
Limit or (iv) subject to Section 10.1, if such Letter of Credit is a
Non-Procurement Letter of Credit, the aggregate outstanding amount of L/C
Obligations in respect of Non-Procurement Letters of Credit (A) plus the
aggregate outstanding amount of L/C Obligations in respect of Letters of Credit
issued for energy procurement purposes would exceed the L/C Commitment or (B)
plus the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all Loans would exceed the
Non-Procurement Facility Limit. The Administrative Agent, the Issuing
Lenders and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely conclusively on the Borrower’s
statements in determining whether the limitation set forth in clauses (iii)
and (iv) of the preceding sentence are satisfied; and the Administrative Agent,
the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders shall not be required to maintain any
records with respect to whether or not the Procurement L/C Facility Limit is
exceeded at any time. Each Letter of Credit shall (i) be
denominated in Dollars and (ii) expire no later than the earlier of
(x) the first anniversary of its date of issuance and (y) the date
which is five Business Days prior to the Termination Date; provided that
any Letter of Credit with a oneyear term may provide for the renewal thereof
for
additional one-year periods (which shall in no event extend beyond the date
referred to in clause (y) above).
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(b)
No Issuing Lender shall at any time be obligated to issue, amend, extend or
renew any Letter of Credit hereunder if such issuance, amendment, extension
or
renewal would conflict with, or cause such Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant
to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law.
3.2 Procedure
for Issuance of Letters of Credit. The Borrower may from time to
time request that an Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering
to
such Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein an Application
therefor, completed to the satisfaction of such Issuing Lender, and such other
certificates, documents and other papers and information as such Issuing Lender
may request. Concurrently with the delivery of an Application to an
Issuing Lender, the Borrower shall deliver a copy thereof to the Administrative
Agent and the Administrative Agent shall provide notice of such request to
the
Lenders. Upon receipt of any Application, an Issuing Lender will
process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and
information delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with its
customary procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested
thereby by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary
thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by such Issuing Lender and the Borrower
(but in no event shall any Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of
Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application
therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and
information relating thereto). Promptly after issuance by an Issuing
Lender of a Letter of Credit, such Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such
Letter of Credit to the Borrower. Each Issuing Lender shall promptly
give notice to the Administrative Agent of the issuance of each Letter of Credit
issued by such Issuing Lender (including the amount thereof), and shall provide
a copy of such Letter of Credit to the Administrative Agent as soon as possible
after the date of issuance.
3.3 Fees
and Other Charges.
(a) The
Borrower will pay a fee on the aggregate drawable amount of all outstanding
Letters of Credit at a per annum rate equal to the Applicable Margin then in
effect with respect to Eurodollar Loans, shared ratably among the Lenders in
accordance with their respective Percentages and payable quarterly in arrears
on
each Fee Payment Date after the issuance date. In addition, the
Borrower shall pay to the relevant Issuing Lender for its own account a fronting
fee on the aggregate drawable amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit issued
in an amount to be agreed between the Borrower and such Issuing Lender, payable
quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date after the issuance
date.
(b) In
addition to the foregoing fees, the Borrower shall pay or reimburse each Issuing
Lender for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or
charged by such Issuing Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under,
amending, renewing or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit.
3.4 L/C
Participations.
(a) Each
Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C
Participant, and, to induce each Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit
hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and
hereby accepts and purchases from each Issuing Lender, on the terms and
conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C
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Participant’s
own account and risk, an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s
Percentage in each Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under each Letter of
Credit issued by such Issuing Lender hereunder and the amount of each draft
paid
by such Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C Participant
unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with each Issuing Lender that, if a
draft
is paid under any Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender for which
such
Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower in accordance with
the
terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of such Issuing Lender upon demand at such Issuing
Lender’s address for notices specified herein (and thereafter the Administrative
Agent shall promptly pay to such Issuing Lender) an amount equal to such L/C
Participant’s Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, that
is not so reimbursed. Each L/C Participant’s obligation to pay such
amount shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any
circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense
or other right that such L/C Participant may have against the Issuing Lender,
the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the
occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure
to
satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any
adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrower,
(iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the
Borrower, any other Borrower or any other L/C Participant or (v) any other
circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any
of
the foregoing.
(b) If
any amount (a “Participation Amount”) required to be paid by any L/C
Participant to an Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a) in respect of any
unreimbursed portion of any payment made by such Issuing Lender under any Letter
of Credit is paid to such Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the
date such payment is due, such Issuing Lender shall so notify the Administrative
Agent, which shall promptly notify the L/C Participants, and each L/C
Participant shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such
Issuing Lender, on demand (and thereafter the Administrative Agent shall
promptly pay to such Issuing Lender) an amount equal to the product of
(i) such Participation Amount, times (ii) the daily average
Federal Funds Effective Rate during the period from and including the date
such
payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available
to such Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is
the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which
is 360. If any Participation Amount required to be paid by any L/C
Participant pursuant to Section 3.4(a) is not made available to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Issuing Lender by such
L/C
Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due,
the
Administrative Agent on behalf of such Issuing Lender shall be entitled to
recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such Participation Amount with
interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum applicable
to ABR Loans. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted on
behalf of an Issuing Lender to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts
owing under this Section shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest
error.
(c) Whenever,
at any time after an Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit
and has received from the Administrative Agent any L/C Participant’s pro
rata share of such payment in accordance with Section 3.4(a), such Issuing
Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly
from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of collateral applied thereto
by such Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, such
Issuing Lender will distribute to the Administrative Agent for
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the
account of such L/C Participant (and thereafter the Administrative Agent will
promptly distribute to such L/C Participant) its pro rata share
thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such
payment received by such Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by
such
Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to the Administrative Agent
for the account of such Issuing Lender (and thereafter the Administrative Agent
shall promptly return to such Issuing Lender) the portion thereof previously
distributed by such Issuing Lender.
3.5 Reimbursement
Obligation of the Borrower. The Borrower agrees to reimburse each
Issuing Lender on (i) the Business Day on which the Borrower receives
notice from an Issuing Lender of a draft drawn on a Letter of Credit issued
by
such Issuing Lender and paid by such Issuing Lender, if such notice is received
on such Business Day prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, or
(ii) if clause (i) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately
following the day on which the Borrower receives such notice, for the amount
of
(a) such draft so paid and (b) any taxes, fees, charges or other costs
or expenses incurred by such Issuing Lender in connection with such payment
which are obligations of the Borrower hereunder (the amounts described in the
foregoing clauses (a) and (b) in respect of any drawing, collectively, the
“Payment Amount”). Each such payment shall be made to such
Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein in lawful money
of
the United States of America and in immediately available
funds. Interest shall be payable on each Payment Amount from the date
of the applicable drawing until payment in full at the rate set forth in
(i) until the second Business Day following the date of the applicable
drawing, Section 2.11(b) and (ii) thereafter, Section
2.11(c). Each drawing under any Letter of Credit shall (unless an
event of the type described in clause (i) or (ii) of Section 8(f)
shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Borrower, in which
case the procedures specified in Section 3.4 for funding by L/C
Participants shall apply) constitute a request by the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent for a borrowing pursuant to Section 2.1 of ABR Loans
(or, at the option of the Administrative Agent and the Swingline Lender in
their
sole discretion, a borrowing pursuant to Section 2.4 of Swingline Loans) in
the amount of such drawing. The Borrowing Date with respect to such
borrowing shall be the first date on which a borrowing of Revolving Loans (or,
if applicable, Swingline Loans) could be made, pursuant to Section 2.1 (or,
if applicable, Section 2.4), if the Administrative Agent had received a
notice of such borrowing at the time the Administrative Agent receives notice
from the relevant Issuing Lender of such drawing under such Letter of
Credit.
3.6 Obligations
Absolute. The Borrower’s obligations under this Section 3
shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and
irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that the Borrower
may have or have had against any Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of a Letter
of
Credit or any other Person; other than with respect to any action taken or
omitted by an Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit
issued by it or the related drafts or documents found to constitute gross
negligence or willful misconduct or not in accordance with the standards of
care
specified in the Uniform Commercial ode of the State of New York. The
Borrower also agrees with each Issuing Lender that such Issuing Lender shall
not
be responsible for, and the Borrower’s Reimbursement Obligations under
Section 3.5 shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or
genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such
documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any
dispute between or among the Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of
Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred
or
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any
claims whatsoever of the Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter of
Credit or any such transferee. No Issuing Lender shall be liable for
any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery
of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter
of
Credit, except for errors or omissions which resulted from the gross negligence
or willful misconduct of such Issuing Lender. The Borrower agrees
that any action taken or omitted by an Issuing Lender under or in connection
with any Letter of Credit issued by it or the related drafts or documents,
if
done in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct and in accordance
with the standards or care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the
State
of New York, shall be binding on the Borrower and shall not result in any
liability of such Issuing Lender to the Borrower.
3.7 Letter
of Credit Payments. If any draft shall be presented for payment
under any Letter of Credit, the relevant Issuing Lender shall promptly notify
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent of the date and amount
thereof. The responsibility of the relevant Issuing Lender to the
Borrower in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter
of
Credit, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such
Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender, shall be limited, in the absence
of gross negligence or willful misconduct or failure to act in accordance with
the standards of care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State
of
New York, to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered
under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment appear on their
face to be in conformity with such Letter of Credit.
3.8 Applications. To
the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit
is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3, the provisions of this
Section 3 shall apply.
3.9 Actions
of Issuing Lenders. Each Issuing Lender shall be entitled to
rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any draft, writing,
resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, cablegram,
telegram, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement, order or other
document believed by it in good faith to be genuine and correct and to have
been
signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and
statements of legal counsel, independent accountants and other experts selected
by such Issuing Lender. Each Issuing Lender shall be fully justified
in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement unless it shall
first have received such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders as it
reasonably deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its reasonable
satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which
may
be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such
action. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, as
between the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders, each Issuing Lender shall in all
cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this
Agreement in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders, and such request
and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon
the Lenders and any future holders of a participation in any Letter of
Credit.
3.10 Borrower’s
Indemnification. The Borrower hereby agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless each Lender, each Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent, and
their respective directors, officers, agents and employees from and against
any
and all claims and damages, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses which such
Lender, such Issuing Lender or the
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Administrative
Agent may incur (or which may be claimed against such Lender, such Issuing
Lender or the Administrative Agent by any Person whatsoever) by reason of or
in
connection with the issuance, execution and delivery or transfer of or payment
or failure to pay under any Letter of Credit or any actual or proposed use
of
any Letter of Credit, including, without limitation, any claims, damages,
losses, liabilities, costs or expenses which such Issuing Lender may incur
by
reason of or in connection with (i) the failure of any other Lender to
fulfill or comply with its obligations to an Issuing Lender hereunder (but
nothing herein contained shall affect any rights the Borrower may have against
any defaulting Lender) or (ii) by reason of or on account of an Issuing
Lender issuing any Letter of Credit which specifies that the term “Beneficiary”
included therein includes any successor by operation of law of the named
Beneficiary, but which Letter of Credit does not require that any drawing by
any
such successor Beneficiary be accompanied by a copy of a legal document,
satisfactory to such Issuing Lender, evidencing the appointment of such
successor Beneficiary; provided that the Borrower shall not be required
to indemnify any Lender, any Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent for
any
claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses to the extent, but
only
to the extent, caused by (x) the willful misconduct or gross negligence of
such Issuing Lender in determining whether a request presented under any Letter
of Credit complied with the terms of such Letter of Credit and in accordance
with the standards of care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the
State
of New York or (y) such Issuing Lender’s failure to pay under any Letter of
Credit after the presentation to it of a request strictly complying with the
terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit. Nothing in this
Section is intended to limit the obligations of the Borrower under any other
provision of this Agreement.
3.11 Lenders’
Indemnification. Each Lender shall, ratably in accordance with
its Percentage, indemnify each Issuing Lender, its affiliates and their
respective directors, officers, agents and employees (to the extent not
reimbursed by the Borrower) against any cost, expense (including reasonable
counsel fees and disbursements), claim, demand, action, loss or liability
(except such as result from such indemnitees’ gross negligence or willful
misconduct or failure to comply with the standard of care specified in the
Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York or such Issuing Lender’s
failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it of a
request strictly complying with the terms and conditions of the Letter of
Credit) that such indemnitees may suffer or incur in connection with this
Section or any action taken or omitted by such indemnitees
hereunder.
SECTION
4. REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
To
induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement,
to
amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement and to make the Loans and issue
or participate in the Letters of Credit, the Borrower hereby represents and
warrants to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, on the Effective Date
and,
except as provided in Section 5.2(b), on the date of each Credit Event hereunder
after the Effective Date, that:
4.1 Financial
Condition. The audited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower
and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2006, and the related
consolidated statement of operations and cash flows for the fiscal year ended
on
such date, reported on by Deloitte & Touche LLP, present fairly in all
material respects the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and
its
consolidated Subsidiaries as of such date, and the consolidated
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results
of its operations and its consolidated cash flows for the respective fiscal
year
then ended. All such financial statements, including the related
schedules and notes thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied
consistently throughout the periods involved.
4.2 No
Change. Since December 31, 2006, there has been no
development or event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect, except as disclosed in the Specified Exchange Act
Filings.
4.3 Existence;
Compliance with Law. Each of the Borrower and its Significant
Subsidiaries (a) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization, (b) has the corporate
power and corporate authority to own and operate its property, to lease the
property it operates as lessee and to conduct the business in which it is
currently engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a foreign corporation or other
organization and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where its
ownership, lease or operation of property or the conduct of its business
requires such qualification except to the extent that the failure to so qualify
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and
(d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law except to the extent that
the failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.4 Power;
Authorization; Enforceable Obligations. The Borrower has the
corporate power and corporate authority to make, deliver and perform the Loan
Documents and to obtain extensions of credit hereunder. The Borrower
has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery
and performance of the Loan Documents and to authorize the extensions of credit
on the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No consent or
authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of,
any
Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the
extensions of credit hereunder or with the execution, delivery, performance,
validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the Loan Documents (other
than the Indenture), except (i) consents, authorizations, filings and
notices which have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect,
(ii) any consent, authorization or filing that may be required in the
future the failure of which to make or obtain could not reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect and (iii) applicable regulatory
requirements (including the approval of the CPUC) prior to foreclosure under
the
Indenture. This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document upon
execution and delivery will be, duly executed and delivered. This
Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document upon execution will
constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable
against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability
may
be limited by (x) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights
generally, laws of general application related to the enforceability of
securities secured by real estate and by general equitable principles (whether
enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law) and
(y) applicable regulatory requirements (including the approval of the CPUC)
prior to foreclosure under the Indenture.
4.5 No
Legal Bar. The execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the issuance of Letters of Credit,
the
borrowings hereunder and the use of the proceeds thereof will not violate in
any
material respect any Requirement of Law or any Contractual Obligation of the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries and will not result in, or
require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on any of their respective
properties
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or
revenues pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation
(other than the Liens created by the Indenture).
4.6 Litigation. (a) No
litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or
Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower,
threatened in writing by or against the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or against any of their material respective properties or revenues
with respect to any of the Loan Documents.
(b) No
litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or
Governmental Authority is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower,
threatened in writing by or against the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries or against any of their material respective properties or revenues,
except as disclosed in the Specified Exchange Act Filings, that could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
4.7 No
Default. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing.
4.8 Taxes. The
Borrower and each of its Significant Subsidiaries has filed or caused to be
filed all Federal and state returns of income and franchise taxes imposed in
lieu of net income taxes and all other material tax returns that are required
to
be filed and has paid all taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns
or
with respect to any claims or assessments for taxes made against it or any
of
its property by any Governmental Authority (other than (i) any amounts the
validity of which are currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have
been
provided on the books of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries,
as
applicable, and (ii) claims which could not reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect). No tax Liens have been filed against the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries other than (A) Liens for
taxes which are not delinquent or (B) Liens for taxes which are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which
reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower
or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, as applicable.
4.9 Federal
Regulations. No part of the proceeds of any Loans, and no other
extensions of credit hereunder, will be used for “buying” or “carrying” any
“margin stock” within the respective meanings of each of the quoted terms under
Regulation U as now and from time to time hereafter in effect or for any
purpose that violates the provisions of the Regulations of the
Board.
4.10 ERISA. Neither
a Reportable Event (other than the Post-event Notices of Reportable Events
filed
with the PBGC on May 2, 2001, in respect of the April 6, 2001,
bankruptcy filing of the Borrower, on July 16, 2003, in respect of the
July 8, 2003, bankruptcy filing of National Energy & Gas
Transmission (“NEGT”), and on November 4, 2004, in respect of the
departure of NEGT from the Borrower controlled group of companies on
October 29, 2004) nor an “accumulated funding deficiency” (within the
meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) has
occurred during the five year period prior to the date on which this
representation is made or deemed made with respect to any Plan, and each Plan
has complied with the applicable provisions of ERISA and the Code, except,
in
each case, to the extent that any such Reportable Event, “accumulated funding
deficiency” or failure to comply with the
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applicable
provisions of ERISA or the Code could not reasonably be expected to result
in a
Material Adverse Effect. No termination of a Single Employer Plan has
occurred, and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan has arisen, during such
five-year period. The present value of all accrued benefits under
each Single Employer Plan (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plans)
did not, as of the last annual valuation date prior to the date on which this
representation is made or deemed made, exceed the value of the assets of such
Plan allocable to such accrued benefits by a material amount. Neither
the Borrower nor any Commonly Controlled Entity has had a complete or partial
withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that has resulted or could reasonably
be
expected to result in a material liability under ERISA, and neither the Borrower
nor any Commonly Controlled Entity would become subject to any material
liability under ERISA if the Borrower or any such Commonly Controlled Entity
were to withdraw completely from all Multiemployer Plans as of the valuation
date most closely preceding the date on which this representation is made or
deemed made. No such Multiemployer Plan is in Reorganization or
Insolvent.
4.11 Investment
Company Act; Other Regulations. The Borrower is not an
“investment company”, or a company “controlled” by an “investment company”,
within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended. On the date hereof, the Borrower is not subject to
regulation under any Requirement of Law (other than (a) Regulation X of the
Board and (b) Sections 817-830, and Sections 701 and 851 of the California
Public Utilities Code) that limits its ability to incur Indebtedness under
this
Agreement.
4.12 Use
of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Revolving Loans, the Swingline
Loans and the Letters of Credit shall be used (i) to refinance any debt
outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement, (ii) for working capital
purposes and (iii) for general corporate purposes, including commercial
paper back-up.
4.13 Environmental
Matters. Except as (i) disclosed in the Specified Exchange
Act Filings or (ii) in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a) the
facilities and properties owned, leased or operated by the Borrower and its
Significant Subsidiaries (the “Properties”) do not contain, and, to the
Borrower’s knowledge, have not previously contained, any Materials of
Environmental Concern in amounts or concentrations or under circumstances that
constitute or constituted a violation of, or, to the Borrower’s knowledge, would
give rise to liability under, any Environmental Law;
(b) neither
the Borrower nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has received or is aware
of
any notice of violation, alleged violation, non-compliance, liability or
potential liability regarding environmental matters or compliance with
Environmental Laws with regard to any of the Properties or the business operated
by the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries (the “Business”), nor
does the Borrower have knowledge or reason to believe that any such notice
will
be received or is being threatened;
(c) Materials
of Environmental Concern have not been transported or disposed of from the
Properties in violation of, or in a manner or to a location that, to the
Borrower’s
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knowledge,
would give rise to liability under, any Environmental Law, nor have any
Materials of Environmental Concern been generated, treated, stored or disposed
of at, on or under any of the Properties in violation of, or in a manner that,
to the Borrower’s knowledge, would give rise to liability under, any applicable
Environmental Law;
(d) no
judicial proceeding or governmental or administrative action is pending or,
to
the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, under any Environmental Law to which
the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is or will be named as
a
party with respect to the Properties or the Business, nor are there any consent
decrees or other decrees, consent orders, administrative orders or other orders,
or other administrative or judicial requirements outstanding under any
Environmental Law with respect to the Properties or the Business;
(e) there
has been no release or threat of release of Materials of Environmental Concern
at or from the Properties, or arising from or related to the operations of
the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries in connection with the
Properties or otherwise in connection with the Business, in violation of or
in
amounts or in a manner that, to the Borrower’s knowledge, would give rise to
liability under Environmental Laws;
(f) the
Properties and all operations at the Properties are in compliance, and have
in
the last five years been in compliance, with all applicable Environmental Laws,
and there is no contamination at, under or about the Properties or violation
of
any Environmental Law with respect to the Properties or the Business;
and
(g) neither
the Borrower nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has assumed any liability
of any other Person under Environmental Laws.
4.14 Accuracy
of Information, etc. No statement or information (other than
projections, if any, and proforma information) contained
in this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Information Memorandum or any
other document, certificate or statement furnished by or on behalf of the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or any of them, for use
in
connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents, contained as of the date such statement, information, document
or certificate was so furnished (or, in the case of the Information Memorandum,
as of the date of this Agreement), any untrue statement of a material fact
or
omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained
herein or therein not misleading when taken as a whole. The
projections, if any, and proforma financial information contained
in the materials referenced above are based upon good faith estimates and
assumptions believed by management of the Borrower to be reasonable at the
time
made, it being recognized by the Lenders that such financial information as
it
relates to future events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results
during the period or periods covered by such financial information may differ
from the projected results set forth therein by a material amount. As
of February 26, 2007, there is no fact known to the Borrower that could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect that has not been
expressly disclosed herein, in the other Loan Documents, in the Information
Memorandum (including any attachments thereto), the Specified Exchange Act
Filings or in any other documents, certificates and statements furnished to
the
Administrative Agent and the
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Lenders
for use in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and by the
other
Loan Documents.
4.15 Regulatory
Matters. Solely by virtue of the execution, delivery and
performance of, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement, no Lender shall be or become subject to regulation (a) under the
FPA or (b) as a “public utility” or “public service corporation” or the
equivalent under any Requirement of Law.
SECTION
5. CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
5.1 Conditions
to the Effective Date. The occurrence of the Effective Date and
the amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement is subject to
the
satisfaction of the following conditions precedent on or before March 5,
2007:
(a) Credit
Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received this
Agreement, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower
and
each Person listed on Schedule 1.1A.
(b) Financial
Statements. The Lenders shall have received the financial
statements described in Section 4.1; provided, however, that
this condition shall be satisfied if the financial statements described in
Section 4.1 have been filed with the SEC prior to the Effective
Date.
(c) Consents
and Approvals. All governmental and third party consents and
approvals necessary in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby shall have been obtained
and
be in full force and effect; and the Administrative Agent shall have received
a
certificate of a Responsible Officer to the foregoing effect.
(d) Fees. The
Lenders, the Arrangers and the Administrative Agent shall have received all
fees
required to be paid, and all expenses for which invoices have been presented
(including the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel), on or before
the
Effective Date.
(e) Closing
Certificate; Certified Articles of Incorporation; Good Standing
Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have received
(i) a certificate of the Borrower, dated the Effective Date, substantially
in the form of Exhibit D, with appropriate insertions and attachments,
including the articles of incorporation of the Borrower certified by the
Secretary of State of the State of California, and (ii) a good standing
certificate for the Borrower from the Secretary of State of the State of
California; such closing certificate shall contain a confirmation by the
Borrower that the conditions precedent set forth in this Section 5.1 have
been satisfied.
(f) Legal
Opinion. The Administrative Agent shall have received the legal
opinion of Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx & Xxxxxxxxx LLP, counsel to the Borrower,
substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
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(g) Representations
and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made
by the Borrower in this Agreement that does not contain a materiality
qualification shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as
of
the Effective Date, and each of the representations and warranties made by
the
Borrower in this Agreement that contains a materiality qualification shall
be
true and correct on and as of the Effective Date (or, to the extent such
representations and warranties specifically relate to an earlier date, that
such
representations and warranties were true and correct in all material respects,
or true and correct, as the case may be, as of such earlier date).
(h) No
Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing.
5.2 Conditions
to Each Credit
Event. The agreement of each Lender to make any Loan or to issue
or extend the expiry date under, or participate in, a Letter of Credit (other
than the extension of a Letter of Credit pursuant to the evergreen provisions
therein) (each, a “Credit Event”), including each Issuing Lender to issue
a Letter of Credit, on any date (including any Credit Event to occur on the
Effective Date) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions
precedent:
(a) Satisfaction
of Conditions Precedent in Section 5.1. The conditions
precedent set forth in Section 5.1 shall have been satisfied or waived in
accordance with this Agreement as of the Effective Date.
(b) Representations
and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made
by the Borrower in this Agreement that does not contain a materiality
qualification (other than, with respect to any Credit Event after the Effective
Date, the representations and warranties set forth in Section 4.2, 4.6(b)
and 4.13) shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the
date of such Credit Event as if made on and as of such date, and each of the
representations and warranties made by the Borrower in this Agreement that
contains a materiality qualification (other than, with respect to any Credit
Event after the Effective Date, the representations and warranties set forth
in
Sections 4.2, 4.6(b) and 4.13) shall be true and correct on and as of such
date
(or, to the extent such representations and warranties specifically relate
to an
earlier date, that such representations and warranties were true and correct
in
all material respects, or true and correct, as the case may be, as of such
earlier date).
(c) No
Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing on the date of such Credit Event or after giving effect to the
Credit Event requested to be made on such date.
Each
borrowing of Loans hereunder, and each request by the Borrower for the issuance
of or extension of an expiry date under a Letter of Credit hereunder (other
than
the extension of a Letter of Credit pursuant to the evergreen provisions
therein), shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as
of
the date of such Credit Event that the conditions contained in this
Section 5.2 have been satisfied.
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SECTION
6. AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
The
Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, or
any
Letter of Credit, any Loan, any interest on any Loan or any fee payable to
any
Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder remains outstanding, or any other
amount then due and payable is owing to any Lender or the Administrative Agent
hereunder, the Borrower shall and, with respect to Sections 6.3 and 6.6(b),
shall cause its Significant Subsidiaries to:
6.1 Financial
Statements. Furnish to the Administrative Agent with a copy for
each Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall deliver to each
Lender:
(a) as
soon as available, but in any event within 120 days after the end of each fiscal
year of the Borrower, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the
Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the
related audited consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for such
year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the
previous year, reported on without a “going concern” or like qualification or
exception, or qualification arising out of the scope of the audit, by
Deloitte & Touche LLP or other independent certified public accountants
of nationally recognized standing; and
(b) as
soon as available, but in any event not later than 60 days after the end of
each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the Borrower,
the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited
consolidated statements of operations and cash flows for such quarter and the
portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in
each case in comparative form the figures for the previous year, certified
by a
Responsible Officer as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject
to
normal year-end audit adjustments).
All
such financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material respects
and shall be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance with GAAP applied
(except as approved by such accountants or officer, as the case may be, and
disclosed in reasonable detail therein) consistently throughout the periods
reflected therein and with prior periods. The Borrower shall be
deemed to have delivered the financial statements required to be delivered
pursuant to this Section 6.1 upon the filing of such financial statements
by the Borrower through the SEC’s XXXXX system or the publication by the
Borrower of such financial statements on its website.
6.2 Certificates;
Other Information. Furnish to the Administrative Agent with a
copy for each Lender (or, in the case of clause (c), the relevant Lender),
and the Administrative Agent shall deliver to each Lender:
(a) within
two days after the delivery of any financial statements pursuant to
Section 6.1, (i) a certificate of a Responsible Officer stating that
such Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge of any Default or Event
of
Default except as specified in such certificate and (ii) in the case of
quarterly or annual financial statements, a Compliance Certificate,
substantially in the form of Exhibit C, containing all information and
calculations reasonably necessary for determining compliance by the Borrower
with the
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provisions
of this Agreement referred to therein as of the last day of the fiscal quarter
or fiscal year of the Borrower, as the case may be;
(b) within
five days after the same are sent, copies of all financial statements and
reports that the Borrower sends to the holders of any class of its debt
securities or public equity securities, provided that, such financial
statements and reports shall be deemed to have delivered upon the filing of
such
financial statements and reports by the Borrower through the SEC’s XXXXX system
or publication by the Borrower of such financial statements and reports on
its
website; and
(c) promptly,
such additional financial and other information as any Lender, through the
Administrative Agent, may from time to time reasonably request.
6.3 Payment
of Taxes. Pay all taxes due and payable or any other tax
assessments made against the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries
or
any of their respective property by any Governmental Authority (other than
(i) any amounts the validity of which are currently being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in
conformity with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower or any
of
its Significant Subsidiaries, as applicable or (ii) where the failure to
effect such payment could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect).
6.4 Maintenance
of Existence; Compliance. (a)(i) Preserve, renew and keep in
full force and effect its organizational existence and (ii) take all
reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary
or
desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except, in each case, as
otherwise permitted by Section 7.3 and except, in the case of
clause (ii) above, to the extent that failure to do so could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (b) comply with all
Contractual Obligations except to the extent that failure to comply therewith
could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect and (c) comply with all Requirements of Law except for any Requirements
of Law being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and except
to
the extent that failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.5 Maintenance
of Property; Insurance. (a) Keep all property useful and
necessary in its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear
and
tear excepted, except to the extent that failure to do so could not, in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and
(b) maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies
insurance on all its material property in at least such amounts and against
at
least such risks as are usually insured against in the same general area by
companies engaged in the same or a similar business of comparable size and
financial strength and owning similar properties in the same general areas
in
which the Borrower operates, which may include self-insurance, if determined
by
the Borrower to be reasonably prudent.
6.6 Inspection
of Property; Books and Records; Discussions. (a) Keep proper
books of records and account in which full, true and correct entries in
conformity with GAAP and all Requirements of Law shall be made of all dealings
and transactions in relation to its business and activities and (b) unless
a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
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continuing,
not more than once a year and after at least five Business Days’ notice,
(i) permit representatives of any Lender to visit and inspect any of its
properties and examine and make abstracts from any of its books and records
at
any reasonable time to discuss the business, operations, properties and
financial and other condition of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries
with officers and employees of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries
and
(ii) use commercially reasonable efforts to provide for the Lenders (in the
presence of representatives of the Borrower) to meet with the independent
certified public accountants of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;
provided, that any such visits or inspections shall be subject to such
conditions as the Borrower and each of its Significant Subsidiaries shall deem
necessary based on reasonable considerations of safety and security; and
provided, further, that neither the Borrower nor any
Significant Subsidiary shall be required to disclose to any Lender or its agents
or representatives any information which is subject to the attorney-client
privilege or attorney work-product privilege properly asserted by the applicable
Person to prevent the loss of such privilege in connection with such information
or which is prevented from disclosure pursuant to a confidentiality agreement
with third parties.
6.7 Notices. Promptly
give notice to the Administrative Agent with a copy for each Lender of, and
the
Administrative Agent shall deliver such notice to each Lender:
(a) when
known to a Responsible Officer, the occurrence of any Default or Event of
Default;
(b) any
change in the Rating issued by either S&P or Xxxxx’x; and
(c) the
following events, as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days after
the Borrower knows thereof: (i) the occurrence of any Reportable
Event with respect to any Plan, a failure to make any required contribution
to a
Plan, the creation of any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan or any withdrawal
from, or the termination, Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Multiemployer
Plan or (ii) the institution of proceedings or the taking of any other
action by the PBGC or the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity or any
Multiemployer Plan with respect to the withdrawal from, or the termination,
Reorganization or Insolvency of, any Plan.
6.8 Maintenance
of Licenses, etc. Maintain in full force and effect any
authorization, consent, license or approval of any Governmental Authority
necessary for the conduct of the Borrower’s business as now conducted by it or
necessary in connection with this Agreement, except to the extent the failure
to
do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
SECTION
7. NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
The
Borrower hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, or
any
Letter of Credit, any Loan, or any interest on any Loan or any fee payable
to
any Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder remains outstanding, or any
other amount then due and payable is owing to any Lender or the Administrative
Agent hereunder, the Borrower shall not and, with respect to Section 7.2,
shall not permit its Significant Subsidiaries to:
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7.1 Consolidated
Capitalization Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Capitalization
Ratio on the last day of any fiscal quarter, from and after the last day of
the
first fiscal quarter ending after the Effective Date, to exceed 0.65 to
1.0.
7.2 Liens. Create,
incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any assets of the Borrower or
any
Significant Subsidiary, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except for
(i) Liens securing the Borrower’s obligations to the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and
(ii) Liens permitted by the Indenture.
7.3 Fundamental
Changes. Enter into any merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or
liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation or
dissolution), or Dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business
(including, without limitation, rental equipment or leasehold interests and
excluding the sale or transfer of any accounts receivable or of any amounts
that
are accrued and recorded in a regulatory account for collections by the
Borrower, in each case, in connection with a securitization transaction), except
that the Borrower may be merged, consolidated or amalgamated with another Person
or Dispose of all or substantially all of its property or business so long
as,
after giving effect to such transaction, (a) no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, (b) either (i) the Borrower is
the continuing or surviving corporation of such merger, consolidation or
amalgamation or (ii) the continuing or surviving corporation of such
merger, consolidation or amalgamation, if not the Borrower or the purchaser,
shall have assumed all obligations of the Borrower under the Loan Documents
pursuant to arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
and
(c) the ratings by Xxxxx’x and S&P of the continuing or surviving
corporation’s or purchaser’s senior, unsecured, non credit-enhanced debt shall
be at least the higher of (1) Baa3 from Xxxxx’x and BBB- from S&P and
(2) the ratings by such rating agencies of the Borrower’s senior,
unsecured, non credit-enhanced debt in effect before the earlier of the
occurrence or the public announcement of such event.
SECTION
8. EVENTS
OF DEFAULT
If
any of the following events shall occur and be continuing on or after the
Effective Date:
(a) the
Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation
when due in accordance with the terms hereof; or the Borrower shall fail to
pay
any interest on any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation, or any other amount
payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document, within five Business Days
after any such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance with the
terms
hereof; or
(b) any
representation or warranty made or deemed made by the Borrower herein or in
any
other Loan Document or that is contained in any certificate, document or
financial or other statement furnished by it at any time under or in connection
with this Agreement or any such other Loan Document shall prove to have been
inaccurate in any material respect on or as of the date made or deemed made,
unless, as of any date of determination, the facts or circumstances to which
such representation or warranty relates have changed with the result that such
representation or warranty is true and correct in all material respects on
such
date; or
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(c) the
Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any agreement
contained in Section 7.1 or Section 7.3 of this Agreement;
or
(d) the
Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any other agreement
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than as provided
in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this Section), and such default shall continue
unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice to the Borrower from the
Required Lenders; or
(e) the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall (i) default in making
any payment of any principal of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee
Obligation, but excluding the Loans) on the due date with respect thereto (after
giving effect to any period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or
agreement under which such Indebtedness was created); or (ii) default in
making any payment of any interest on any such Indebtedness beyond the period
of
grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which such
Indebtedness was created; or (iii) default in the observance or performance
of any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or
contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating
thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which
default or other event or condition is to cause, or (in the case of all
Indebtedness other than Indebtedness under any Swap Agreement) to permit the
holder or beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf
of
such holder or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required,
such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity or (in the case
of
any such Indebtedness constituting a Guarantee Obligation) to become payable;
provided, that a default, event or condition described in clause (i), (ii)
or (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall not at any time constitute an Event of
Default unless, at such time, one or more defaults, events or conditions of
the
type described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (e)
shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to Indebtedness the
outstanding principal amount of which exceeds in the aggregate $100,000,000;
provided further, that unless payment of the Loans hereunder has already been
accelerated, if such default shall be cured by the Borrower or such Significant
Subsidiary or waived by the holders of such Indebtedness and any acceleration
of
maturity having resulted from such default shall be rescinded or annulled,
in
each case, in accordance with the terms of such agreement or instrument, without
any modification of the terms of such Indebtedness requiring the Borrower or
such Significant Subsidiary to furnish security or additional security therefor,
reducing the average life to maturity thereof or increasing the principal amount
thereof, or any agreement by the Borrower or such Significant Subsidiary to
furnish security or additional security therefor or to issue in lieu thereof
Indebtedness secured by additional or other collateral or with a shorter average
life to maturity or in a greater principal amount, then any Default hereunder
by
reason thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been thereupon cured or waived;
or
(f) (i) the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall commence any case,
proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any
jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered
with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment,
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winding
up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it
or
its debts, or (B) seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial
part
of its assets, or the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall
make
a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (ii) there shall
be commenced against the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries any
case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause (i)
above that (A) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such
adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed, undischarged or
unbonded for a period of 60 days; or (iii) there shall be commenced
against the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries any case, proceeding
or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution,
distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets
that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that shall not have
been vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days
from the entry thereof; or (iv) the Borrower or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries shall generally not, or shall be unable to, or shall admit in
writing its inability to, pay its debts as they become due; or
(g) a
trustee shall be appointed to administer any Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA,
or the PBGC shall institute proceedings to terminate, or to have a trustee
appointed to administer any Plan and such proceedings shall continue undismissed
or unstayed and in effect for a period of 30 days, and any such event could
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or
(h) one
or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against the Borrower or any of
its
Significant Subsidiaries involving in the aggregate a liability (not paid or,
subject to customary deductibles, fully covered by insurance as to which the
relevant insurance company has not denied coverage) of $100,000,000 or more,
and
all such judgments or decrees shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed
or
bonded pending appeal within 30 days from the entry thereof;
or
(i) there
shall have occurred a Change of Control.
then,
and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified
in clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (f) above with respect to the
Borrower, automatically the Commitments shall immediately terminate and the
Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including all amounts of L/C
Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters
of
Credit shall have presented the documents required thereunder) shall immediately
become due and payable, and (B) if such event is any other Event of
Default, either or both of the following actions may be
taken: (i) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Borrower declare the Commitments
to
be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Commitments shall immediately terminate;
and (ii) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent
may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent
shall, by notice to the Borrower, declare the Loans (with accrued interest
thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents (including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the
beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have
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presented
the documents required thereunder) to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon
the same shall immediately become due and payable. With respect to
all Letters of Credit with respect to which presentment for honor shall not
have
occurred at the time of an acceleration pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower
shall at such time deposit in a cash collateral account opened by the
Administrative Agent an amount equal to the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired
amount of such Letters of Credit. Amounts held in such cash
collateral account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to the payment
of drafts drawn under such Letters of Credit, and the unused portion thereof
after all such Letters of Credit shall have expired or been fully drawn upon,
if
any, shall be applied to repay other obligations of the Borrower hereunder
and
under the other Loan Documents. After all such Letters of Credit
shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, all Reimbursement Obligations
shall
have been satisfied and all other obligations of the Borrower hereunder and
under the other Loan Documents shall have been paid in full, the balance, if
any, in such cash collateral account shall be returned to the Borrower (or
such
other Person as may be lawfully entitled thereto). Except as
expressly provided above in this Section, presentment, demand, protest and
all
other notices of any kind are hereby expressly waived by the
Borrower.
SECTION
9. THE
AGENTS
9.1 Appointment. Each
Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the Administrative Agent
as
the agent of such Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
and
each such Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent, in such
capacity, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform
such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers
as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision
to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall
not
have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein,
or
any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions,
responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the
Administrative Agent.
9.2 Delegation
of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents by or through agents or
attorneys in fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all
matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not
be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in
fact selected by it with reasonable care.
9.3 Exculpatory
Provisions. Neither any Agent nor any of their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys in fact or affiliates shall
be
(i) liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or
such Person under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan
Document (except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final
and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from its or such Person’s own gross negligence or willful misconduct) or
(ii) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals,
statements, representations or warranties made by the Borrower or any officer
thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any
certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for
in,
or received
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by
the Agents under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability
or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for any failure
of the Borrower to perform its obligations hereunder or
thereunder. The Agents shall not be under any obligation to any
Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any
of
the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other
Loan
Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of the
Borrower.
9.4 Reliance
by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be
entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument,
writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy,
telex or teletype message, statement, order or other document or conversation
believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made
by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel
(including counsel to the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts
selected by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may
deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes
unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall
have been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative
Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under
this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such
advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this
Agreement, all Lenders) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified
to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense
that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such
action. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully
protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and
the
other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or,
if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders), and such request and any action
taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders
and all future holders of the Loans.
9.5 Notice
of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have
knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless
the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Lender or the Borrower
referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and
stating that such notice is a “notice of default”. In the event that
the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall
give notice thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall
take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall
be
reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this
Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative
Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from
taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it
shall
deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
9.6 Non-Reliance
on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly acknowledges
that neither the Agents nor any of their respective officers, directors,
employees, agents, attorneys in fact or affiliates have made any representations
or warranties to it and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including
any
review of the affairs of the Borrower or any of its affiliates, shall be deemed
to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent to any
Lender. Each Lender represents to the Agents that it has,
independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and
based
on such documents and information as it has
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deemed
appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business,
operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of
the
Borrower and its affiliates and made its own decision to make its Loans
hereunder and enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also represents
that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other
Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate
at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions
in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself
as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and
creditworthiness of the Borrower and its affiliates. Except for
notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to
the
Lenders by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall
not have any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or
other information concerning the business, operations, property, condition
(financial or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of the Borrower or
any
of its affiliates that may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent
or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys in fact or
affiliates.
9.7 Indemnification. The
Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent in its capacity as such (to the extent
not
reimbursed by the Borrower and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower
to do so), ratably according to their respective Percentages in effect on the
date on which indemnification is sought under this Section (or, if
indemnification is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have
terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance
with such Percentages immediately prior to such date), from and against any
and
all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments,
suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at
any
time (whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred
by or asserted against such Agent in any way relating to or arising out of,
the
Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents
contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent
under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender
shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court
of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent’s gross negligence or
willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive for
two years after repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
9.8 Agent
in Its Individual Capacity. Each Agent and its affiliates may
make loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business
with the Borrower as though such Agent were not an Agent. With
respect to its Loans made or renewed by it and with respect to any Letter of
Credit issued or participated in by it, each Agent shall have the same rights
and powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender
and
may exercise the same as though it were not an Agent, and the terms “Lender” and
“Lenders” shall include each Agent in its individual capacity.
9.9 Successor
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign as
Administrative Agent upon 10 days’ notice to the Lenders and the
Borrower. If the Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative
Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then the Required
Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor
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agent
for the Lenders, which successor agent shall (unless an Event of Default under
Section 8(f) with respect to the Borrower shall have occurred and be
continuing) be subject to approval by the Borrower (which approval shall not
be
unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall succeed
to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative Agent, and the term
“Administrative Agent” shall mean such successor agent effective upon
such appointment and approval, and the former Administrative Agent’s rights,
powers and duties as Administrative Agent shall be terminated, without any
other
or further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any
of
the parties to this Agreement or any holders of the Loans. If no
successor agent has accepted appointment as Administrative Agent by the date
that is 10 days following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of
resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless
thereupon become effective, and the Lenders shall assume and perform all of
the
duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the
Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for
above. After any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation as
Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Section 9 shall inure to its
benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was
Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents.
9.10 Documentation
Agents and Syndication Agent. None of the Documentation Agents or
the Syndication Agent shall have any duties or responsibilities hereunder in
its
capacity as such.
SECTION
10. MISCELLANEOUS
10.1 Amendments
and Waivers. Neither this Agreement, any other Loan Document, nor
any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except
in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.1. The
Required Lenders and the Borrower may, or, with the written consent of the
Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may, from time
to
time, (a) enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications
hereto and to the other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions
to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any manner the
rights of the Lenders or of the Borrower hereunder or thereunder or
(b) waive, on such terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or the
Administrative Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any
of
the requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default
or
Event of Default and its consequences; provided, however,
that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or modification
shall:
(i) forgive
the principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any
Loan,
reduce the stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder (except in
connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in
interest rates (which waiver shall be effective with the consent of the Required
Lenders)) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase
the
amount or extend the expiration date of any Lender’s Commitment, in each case
without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby (except
that only the Lenders who are increasing their Commitments are required to
consent to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.3 to increase the
Total Commitments);
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(ii) eliminate
or reduce the voting rights of any Lender under this Section 10.1 or
Section 10.6(a)(i) without the written consent of such Lender;
(iii) reduce
any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to
the
assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its rights and obligations
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, in each case without the
written consent of all Lenders;
(iv) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 2.14 related to pro rata
treatment without the consent of each Lender directly affected
thereby;
(v) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 9 without the written consent of
the Administrative Agent;
(vi) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 2.4 or 2.5 without the written
consent of the Swingline Lender;
(vii) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 5.1 without the consent of all the
Lenders; or
(viii) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 3 or any other provision affecting
the Issuing Lenders without the written consent of each Issuing Lender affected
thereby.
Any
such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or modification shall apply
equally to each of the Lenders and shall be binding upon the Borrower, the
Lenders, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the
Loans. In the case of any waiver, the Borrower, the Lenders and the
Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights
hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of
Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such
waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default,
or
impair any right consequent thereon.
If
the Required Lenders shall have approved any amendment which requires the
consent of all of the Lenders, the Borrower shall be permitted to replace any
non-consenting Lender with another financial institution, provided that,
(i) the replacement financial institution shall purchase at par, all Loans
and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or prior to the date of
replacement, (ii) the Borrower shall be liable to such replaced Lender
under Section 2.17 if any Eurodollar Loan owing to such replaced Lender shall
be
purchased other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto
(as
if such purchase constituted a prepayment of such Loans), (iii) such
replacement financial institution, if not already a Lender, shall be reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and, with respect to any replacement
financial institution that is not an Eligible Assignee, each Issuing Lender,
(iv) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in
accordance with the provisions of Section 10.6 (provided that the Borrower
shall
be obligated to pay the registration and processing fee referred to therein)
and
(v) any such replacement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any rights
the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall have against
the replaced Lender.
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Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein but subject to obtaining all necessary
regulatory approvals, in addition to the amendments described above, each of
the
Procurement L/C Facility Limit and the Non-Procurement Facility Limit may be
changed by the Borrower by written notice to the Administrative Agent and the
Issuing Lenders and no consent of any other party shall be required;
provided that, (a) the aggregate amount of L/C Obligations may not
exceed the L/C Commitment and (b) the sum of the Procurement L/C Facility
Limit and the Non-Procurement Facility Limit may not exceed the Total
Commitments; provided that any notice delivered pursuant to
Section 2.1 or Section 2.4 which would, after giving effect to the
Loans requested to be made, cause the aggregate outstanding principal amount
of
the Loans plus the aggregate outstanding amount of L/C Obligations in respect
of
Non-Procurement Letters of Credit to exceed the Non-Procurement Facility Limit
shall be deemed to be a notice by the Borrower hereunder.
10.2 Notices. All
notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto to be
effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and, unless otherwise
expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made
when
delivered, or three Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage
prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when received, addressed as follows
in the case of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and as set forth
in an
administrative questionnaire delivered to the Administrative Agent in the case
of the Lenders, or to such other address as may be hereafter notified by the
respective parties hereto:
Borrower:
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Gas and Electric Company
c/o PG&E Corporation
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
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Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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Attention: Assistant
Treasurer
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000-0000/7268
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Telephone: (000)
000-0000/(000) 000-0000
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a copy to:
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Gas and Electric Company
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PG&E Corporation
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Xxxxxx
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Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
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Xxxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxx 00000
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Counsel, Corporate
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000-0000
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000-0000
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Administrative
Agent:
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North America, Inc.
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Xxxxx Xxx
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Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
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notified by each Issuing Lender to the Administrative Agent and the
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provided
that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent, the
Issuing Lenders or any Lender shall not be effective until
received.
Notices
and other communications to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders or
the
Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communications
pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided
that the foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Section 2 unless
otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, the applicable Issuing Lender
and
each Lender. The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its
discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder
by
electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided
that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications.
10.3 No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay
in exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, any right,
remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall
operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any
right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or
privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein
provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and
privileges provided by law.
10.4 Survival
of Representations and Warranties. All representations and
warranties made hereunder, in the other Loan Documents and in any document,
certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith
shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of
the
Loans and other extensions of credit hereunder.
10.5 Payment
of Expenses and Taxes. The Borrower agrees (a) to pay or
reimburse the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and the Lenders for
all
their respective reasonable out of pocket costs and expenses incurred in
connection with the development, preparation and execution of, and any
amendment, supplement or modification to, this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith,
and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby,
including the reasonable fees and disbursements of only one counsel and special
California regulatory counsel to the Administrative Agent and filing and
recording fees and expenses, with statements with respect to the foregoing
to be
submitted to the Borrower prior to the Effective Date (in the case of amounts
to
be paid on the Effective Date) and from time to time thereafter on a quarterly
basis or such other periodic basis as the Administrative Agent shall deem
appropriate, (b) to pay or reimburse each Lender, each Issuing Lender and
the Administrative Agent for all its costs and expenses incurred in connection
with the enforcement or preservation of any rights under this Agreement, the
other Loan Documents and any such other documents, including the fees and
disbursements of only one counsel to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders
and
the Issuing Lenders, (c) to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender, each
Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent harmless from, any and all recording
and filing fees and any and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from
any delay in paying, stamp, excise and Other Taxes, if any, that may be payable
or determined to be payable in connection
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with
the execution and delivery of, or consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated by, or any amendment, supplement or modification of, or any waiver
or consent under or in respect of, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents
and
any such other documents, and (d) to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender,
each Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent and their respective officers,
directors, employees, affiliates, agents and controlling persons (each, an
“Indemnitee”) harmless from and against any and all other liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever with respect to
the
execution, delivery, enforcement and performance of this Agreement, the other
Loan Documents and any such other documents, including any of the foregoing
relating to the use of proceeds of the Loans or the violation of, noncompliance
with or liability under, any Environmental Law applicable to the operations
of
the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries or any of the Properties and
the
reasonable fees and expenses of one legal counsel in connection with claims,
actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against the Borrower under any Loan
Document (all the foregoing in this clause (d), collectively, the
“Indemnified Liabilities”), provided, that the Borrower shall have
no obligation hereunder to any Indemnitee with respect to Indemnified
Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities resulted from the gross
negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee. Without limiting
the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower
agrees not to assert and to cause its Significant Subsidiaries not to assert,
and hereby waives and agrees to cause its Significant Subsidiaries to waive,
all
rights for contribution or any other rights of recovery with respect to all
claims, demands, penalties, fines, liabilities, settlements, damages, costs
and
expenses of whatever kind or nature, under or related to Environmental Laws,
that any of them might have by statute or otherwise against any
Indemnitee. All amounts due under this Section 10.5 shall be payable
not later than 30 days after written demand therefor, subject to the
Borrower’s receipt of reasonably detailed invoices. Statements
payable by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 10.5 shall be submitted to
Assistant Treasurer (Telephone No. (000) 000-0000/(000) 000-0000)
(Telecopy No. (000) 000-0000/7268), at the address of the Borrower set
forth in Section 10.2 with a copy to Chief Counsel, Corporate (Telephone No.
(000) 000-0000) (Telecopy No. (000) 000-0000), at the address of the
Borrower set forth in Section 10.2, or to such other Person or address as may
be
hereafter designated by the Borrower in a written notice to the Administrative
Agent. The agreements in this Section 10.5 shall survive for two
years after repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable
hereunder.
10.6 Successors
and Assigns; Participations and Assignments. (a) The
provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit
of
the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby
(including any affiliate of the Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of
Credit), except that (i) the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer
any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent
of
each Lender (and any attempted assignment or transfer by the Borrower without
such consent shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or
otherwise transfer its rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance
with
this Section 10.6.
(b) (i) Subject
to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any Lender may
assign to one or more assignees (each, an “Assignee”) all or a portion of
its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion
of
its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior written
consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) of:
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(A) the
Borrower, provided that no consent of the Borrower shall be required for
an assignment to a Lender, an Eligible Assignee that is an affiliate of any
Lender party to this Agreement on the Effective Date or, if an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, any other Person;
(B) the
Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the Administrative
Agent shall be required for an assignment of any Commitment to an assignee
that
is a Lender (or an affiliate of a Lender) with a Commitment immediately prior
to
giving effect to such assignment; and
(C) each
Issuing Lender, provided that no consent of any Issuing Lender shall be
required for any assignment to an Eligible Assignee.
(ii) Assignments
shall be subject to the
following additional conditions:
(A) except
in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Eligible Assignee that is an
affiliate of any Lender party to this Agreement on the Effective Date or an
assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitments
or Loans, the amount of the Commitments or Loans of the assigning Lender subject
to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption
with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall
not be less than $10,000,000 unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent otherwise consent, provided that (1) no such consent of the
Borrower shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
and (2) with respect to any Lender party to this Agreement on the Effective
Date, such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of such Lender and any
affiliate of such Lender that is an Eligible Assignee;
(B) the
parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative
Agent
an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee
of
$3,500; and
(C) the
Assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative
Agent
an administrative questionnaire.
(iii) Subject
to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (b)(iv) below, from
and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption the
Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest
assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations
of a
Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to
the
extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released
from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment
and
Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under
this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue
to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 10.5 but shall
be subject to the limitations set forth therein). Any assignment or
transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does
not
comply with this Section 10.6 shall be treated for purposes of
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this
Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and
obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section.
(iv) The
Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower,
shall
maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and Assumption
delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses
of
the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans and
L/C
Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to
time
(the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be
conclusive, in the absence of manifest error, and the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lenders and the Lenders may treat each Person
whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender
hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the
contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by the
Borrower, each Issuing Lender and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from
time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v) Upon
its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed by an
assigning Lender and an Assignee, the Assignee’s completed administrative
questionnaire (unless the Assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the
processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section
and any written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of
this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and
Assumption and record the information contained therein in the
Register. No assignment shall be effective for purposes of this
Agreement unless it has been recorded in the Register as provided in this
paragraph.
(c) (i) Any
Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent,
sell participations to one or more banks or other entities (a
“Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitments
and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s
obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender
shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance
of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the
Issuing Lender and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly
with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under
this Agreement. Any agreement pursuant to which a Lender sells such a
participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to
enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver
of
any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement may provide
that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to
any
amendment, modification or waiver that (1) requires the consent of each
Lender directly affected thereby pursuant to the proviso to the second sentence
of Section 10.1 and (2) directly affects such
Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the
Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and
had
acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
Section.
(ii) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, a Participant shall not be entitled to receive
any greater payment under Section 2.15 or 2.16 than the applicable Lender would
have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such
Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such Participant is made
with the Borrower’s prior written
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consent
to such greater payments. Any Participant that is a Non-U.S. Lender
shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.16 unless such Participant
complies with Section 2.16(d).
(d) Any
Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any
portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender,
including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve
Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of
a
security interest; provided that no such pledge or assignment of a
security interest shall release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder
or substitute any such pledgee or Assignee for such Lender as a party
hereto.
(e) The
Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender, agrees to
issue Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions of the
type
described in paragraph (d) above.
(f) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, any Conduit Lender may assign any or all of the Loans it may
have
funded hereunder to its designating Lender without the consent of the Borrower
or the Administrative Agent and without regard to the limitations set forth
in
Section 10.6(b). Each of the Borrower, each Lender and the
Administrative Agent hereby confirms that it will not institute against a
Conduit Lender or join any other Person in instituting against a Conduit Lender
any bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, insolvency or liquidation
proceeding under any state bankruptcy or similar law, for one year and one
day
after the payment in full of the latest maturing commercial paper note issued
by
such Conduit Lender; provided, however, that each Lender designating any
Conduit Lender hereby agrees to indemnify, save and hold harmless each other
party hereto for any loss, cost, damage, expense, obligations, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits or any kind whatsoever arising out of its inability
to
institute such a proceeding against such Conduit Lender during such period
of
forbearance.
(g) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Section, none of the Agents, in their capacity
as Lenders, will assign without the consent of the Borrower, prior to the
Effective Date, any of the Commitments held by them on the date of this
Agreement.
10.7 Adjustments;
Set off. (a) Except to the extent that this
Agreement expressly provides for payments to be allocated to a particular
Lender, if any Lender (a “Benefitted Lender”) shall receive any payment
of all or part of the Obligations owing to it hereunder, or receive any
collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set
off,
pursuant to events or proceedings of the nature referred to in
Section 8(f), or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any such payment
to or collateral received by any other Lender, if any, in respect of the
Obligations owing to such other Lender hereunder, such Benefitted Lender shall
purchase for cash from the other Lenders a participating interest in such
portion of the Obligations owing to each such other Lender hereunder, or shall
provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, as shall
be
necessary to cause such Benefitted Lender to share the excess payment or
benefits of such collateral ratably with each of the Lenders; provided,
however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits
is
thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be
rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such
recovery, but without interest.
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(b) In
addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, including
other rights of set-off, each Lender shall have the right, without prior notice
to the Borrower, any such notice being expressly waived by the Borrower to
the
extent permitted by applicable law, upon any amount becoming due and payable
by
the Borrower hereunder (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise), after any applicable grace period, to set off and appropriate and
apply against such amount any and all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits,
indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or
owing by such Lender or any branch, affiliate or agency thereof to or for the
credit or the account of the Borrower. Each Lender agrees promptly to
notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and
application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to give such
notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and
application.
10.8 Counterparts. This
Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on
any
number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together
shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery
of an executed signature page of this Agreement by facsimile transmission shall
be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof. A
set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all the parties shall be lodged
with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
10.9 Severability. Any
provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of
such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in
any
other jurisdiction.
10.10 Integration. This
Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the entire agreement of the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject
matter hereof and thereof, and there are no promises, undertakings,
representations or warranties by the Administrative Agent or any Lender relative
to the subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein
or in
the other Loan Documents.
10.11 GOVERNING
LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES
UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
10.12 Submission
To Jurisdiction; Waivers. The Borrower hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally:
(a) submits
for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding relating to this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for
recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the non
exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York, the
courts of the United States for the Southern District of New York, and appellate
courts from any thereof;
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that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives
any
objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any such action
or
proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought
in an
inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(c) agrees
that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by
mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially
similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to the Borrower at its address set
forth
in Section 10.2 or at such other address of which the Administrative Agent
shall
have been notified pursuant thereto;
(d) agrees
that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in
any
other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to xxx in any other
jurisdiction; and
(e) waives,
to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may have to claim
or
recover in any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any
other Loan Document any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential
damages.
10.13 Acknowledgments. The
Borrower hereby acknowledges that:
(a) it
has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents;
(b) neither
the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has any fiduciary relationship with
or
duty to the Borrower arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or
any
of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between Administrative Agent
and Lenders, on one hand, and the Borrower, on the other hand, in connection
herewith or therewith is solely that of debtor and creditor; and
(c) no
joint venture is created hereby or by the other Loan Documents or otherwise
exists by virtue of the transactions contemplated hereby among the Lenders
or
among the Borrower and the Lenders.
10.14 Confidentiality. Each
of the Administrative Agent and each Lender agrees to keep confidential in
accordance with such party’s customary practices (and in any event in compliance
with applicable law regarding material non-public information) all non-public
information provided to it by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any
Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement that is designated
by
the provider thereof as confidential; provided that nothing herein shall
prevent the Administrative Agent or any Lender from disclosing any such
information (a) to the Administrative Agent, any other Lender or any
affiliate thereof, (b) subject to an agreement to comply with the
provisions of this Section or substantially equivalent provisions, to any actual
or prospective Transferee or any direct or indirect counterparty to any Swap
Agreement (or any professional advisor to such counterparty), (c) to its
employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants and other professional
advisors or those of any of its affiliates (as long as such attorneys,
accountants and other professional advisors are subject to confidentiality
requirements substantially equivalent to this Section), (d) upon the
request or demand of any Governmental Authority, (e) in response to any
order of
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court or other Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant
to any Requirement of Law, (f) if requested or required to do so in
connection with any litigation
or similar proceeding, (g) that has been publicly disclosed, (h) to
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization
or any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information
about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with
respect to such Lender, or (i) in connection with the exercise of any
remedy hereunder or under any other Loan Document, provided that, in the
case of clauses (d), (e) and (f) of this Section 10.14, with the exception
of disclosure to bank regulatory authorities, the Borrower (to the extent
legally permissible) shall be given prompt prior notice so that it may seek
a
protective order or other appropriate remedy.
10.15 WAIVERS
OF JURY TRIAL. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE
BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING
TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM
THEREIN.
10.16 USA
Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that
pursuant to the requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L.
107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”), it is
required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower,
which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other
information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in accordance
with the Act.
10.17 Judicial
Reference. If any action or proceeding is filed in a court of the
State of California by or against any party hereto in connection with any of
the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (i)
the
court shall, and is hereby directed to, make a general reference pursuant to
California Code of Civil Procedure Section 638 to a referee (who shall be a
single active or retired judge) to hear and determine all of the issues in
such
action or proceeding (whether of fact or of law) and to report a statement
of
decision, provided that at the option of any party to such proceeding, any
such
issues pertaining to a “provisional remedy” as defined in California Code of
Civil Procedure Section 1281.8 shall be heard and determined by the court,
and
(ii) without limiting the generality of Section 10.5, the Borrower
shall be solely responsible to pay all fees and expenses of any referee
appointed in such action or proceeding.
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WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the
day and year first above written.
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GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
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Nietzsche Rodricks
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Rodricks
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Vice
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CHASE BANK, N.A., as Syndication Agent, as Issuing Lender and as a
Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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President
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BANK Plc, as Co-Documentation Agent and as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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PARIBAS, as Co-Documentation Agent and as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxxx
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Title:
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Managing
Director
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Title:
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Managing
Director
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BANK SECURITIES INC.,
as
Co-Documentation Agent
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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DEUTSCHE
BANK AG, New York Branch,
as
a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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BANK
OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice President
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BROTHERS BANK FSB, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Senior
Vice President
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Title:
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LOAN FINANCE LLC, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxxx
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Title:
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Associate
Director
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AMRO BANK, N.V., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Managing
Director
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By:
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/s/
Ece Xxxxxxx
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Name:
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Ece
Xxxxxxx
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Title:
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Director
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XXXXXXX BANK, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Authorized
Signatory
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Bank
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BANK OF CALIFORNIA, N.A., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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STREET COMMITMENT CORPORATION(Recourse only to the assets of Xxxxxxx Street
Commitment Corporation), as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Assistant
Vice-President
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CORPORATE BANK, LTD., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
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Title:
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Deputy
General Manager
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BANK, N.A., as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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BANK OF NEW YORK, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as a Lender
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By:
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/s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name:
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Xxxxx
X. Xxxxxx
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Title:
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Vice
President
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SCHEDULE
1.1A
COMMITMENTS
Lender
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Commitment
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Citicorp
North America, Inc.
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$212,745,298.70
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JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A.
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$212,745,298.67
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Bank
of America, N.A.
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$171,131,225.80
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Barclays
Bank PLC
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$171,131,225.80
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BNP
Paribas
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$171,131,225.80
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Deutsche
Bank AG, New York Branch
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$171,131,225.80
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Xxxxxx
Brothers Bank, FSB
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$127,647,179.20
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UBS
Loan Finance LLC
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$127,647,179.20
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ABN
AMRO Bank N.V.
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$95,735,384.40
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Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx Bank
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$95,735,384.40
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Union
Bank of California, N.A.
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$95,735,384.40
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Xxxxxxx
Street Commitment Corporation
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$95,735,384.40
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Mizuho
Corporate Bank, Ltd.
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$88,643,874.45
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Mellon
Bank, N.A.
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$78,006,609.51
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The
Bank of New York
|
$49,640,569.69
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US
Bank National Association
|
$35,457,549.78
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TOTAL
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$2,000,000,000.00
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Schedule
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Gas and Electric
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EXHIBIT
A
FORM
OF
NEW
LENDER SUPPLEMENT
Reference
is made to the $2,000,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
as of
February 26, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a
California corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto,
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc., as joint lead
arrangers and joint bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as syndication agent,
Barclays Bank Plc, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as
documentation agents, and Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent
(in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless
otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein
shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
New Revolving Credit Lender identified on Schedule l hereto (the “New
Lender”), the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Borrower
agree as follows:
SECTION
11. The
New Lender hereby irrevocably makes a Commitment to the Borrower in the amount
set forth on Schedule 1 hereto (the “New Commitment”) pursuant to Section
2.3(b) of the Credit Agreement. From and after the Effective Date (as
defined below), the New Lender will be a Lender under the Credit Agreement
with
respect to the New Commitment.
SECTION
12. The
Administrative Agent (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or with respect to the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value
of the Credit Agreement; and (b) makes no representation or warranty and assumes
no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower,
any
of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor or the performance or observance by
the
Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor of any of their
respective obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto.
SECTION
13. The
New Lender (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter
into this New Lender Supplement; (b) confirms that it has received a copy of
the
Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements
delivered or deemed delivered pursuant to Section 6.1 of the Credit Agreement
and such other documents and information as it has deemed appropriate to make
its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this New Lender Supplement;
(c) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance upon the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and
information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its
own
credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Credit Agreement
or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; (d)
appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to
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such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion
under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished
pursuant hereto or thereto as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by
the
terms thereof, together with such powers as are incidental thereto; and (e)
agrees that it will be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and
will
perform in accordance with its terms all the obligations which by the terms
of
the Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as a
Lender.
SECTION
14. The
effective date of this New Lender Supplement shall be the Effective Date of
the
New Commitment described in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Effective
Date”). Following the execution of this New Lender Supplement by
each of the New Lender, the Borrower and the Issuing Lender, it will be
delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance and recording by it
pursuant to the Credit Agreement, effective as of the Effective Date (which
shall not, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent, be earlier
than five Business Days after the date of such acceptance and recording by
the
Administrative Agent).
SECTION
15. Upon
such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the New Commitment
(including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to the
New
Lender for amounts which have accrued on and subsequent to the Effective
Date.
SECTION
16. From
and after the Effective Date, the New Lender shall be a party to the Credit
Agreement and, to the extent provided in this New Lender Supplement, shall
have
the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and shall be bound by the
provisions thereof.
SECTION
17. This
New Lender Supplement shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this New Lender Supplement
to be
executed as of ________ ___, 200__ by their respective duly authorized officers
on Schedule 1 hereto.
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Schedule
1
to
New Lender Supplement
Name
of New
Lender: _______________________________________
Effective
Date of New
Commitment: _______________________________________
Principal
Amount of New
Commitment: $ _______________________________________
[NAME
OF NEW LENDER]
By:
_______________________________
Name:
Title:
PACIFIC
GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By: _______________________________
Name:
Title:
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NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
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Name:
Title:
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CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as
Issuing Lender
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Name:
Title:
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B
FORM
OF
COMMITMENT
INCREASE SUPPLEMENT
Reference
is made to the $2,000,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
as of
February 26, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a
California corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto,
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc., as joint lead
arrangers and joint bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as syndication agent,
Barclays Bank Plc, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as
documentation agents, and Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent
(in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless
otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein
shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
Lender identified on Schedule l hereto (the “Increasing Lender”), the
Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender and the Borrower agree as
follows:
1. The
Increasing Lender hereby irrevocably increases its Commitment to the Borrower
by
the amount set forth on Schedule 1 hereto under the heading “Principal Amount of
Increased Commitment” (the “Increased Commitment”) pursuant to Section
2.3(c) of the Credit Agreement. From and after the Effective Date (as
defined below), the Increasing Lender will be a Lender under the Credit
Agreement with respect to the Increased Commitment as well as its existing
Commitment under the Credit Agreement.
SECTION
18. The
Administrative Agent (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or with respect to the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value
of the Credit Agreement; and (b) makes no representation or warranty and assumes
no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower,
any
of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor or the performance or observance by
the
Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor of any of their
respective obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto.
SECTION
19. The
Increasing Lender (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized
to
enter into this Commitment Increase Supplement; (b) confirms that it has
received a copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent
financial statements delivered or deemed delivered pursuant to Section 6.1
of
the Credit Agreement and such other documents and information as it has deemed
appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this
Commitment Increase Supplement; (c) agrees that it will, independently and
without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based
on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under
the Credit Agreement or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto or thereto; (d) appoints and authorizes
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Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers and discretion under the Credit Agreement or any other instrument
or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto as are delegated to the
Administrative Agent by the terms thereof, together with such powers as are
incidental thereto; and (e) agrees that it will be bound by the provisions
of
the Credit Agreement and will perform in accordance with its terms all the
obligations which by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be
performed by it as a Lender.
SECTION
20. The
effective date of this Commitment Increase Supplement shall be the Effective
Date of the Increased Commitment described in Schedule 1 hereto (the
“Effective Date”). Following the execution of this Commitment
Increase Supplement by each of the Increasing Lender, the Issuing Lender and
the
Borrower, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance and
recording by it pursuant to the Credit Agreement, effective as of the Effective
Date (which shall not, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent,
be earlier than five Business Days after the date of such acceptance and
recording by the Administrative Agent).
SECTION
21. Upon
such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Increased
Commitment (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts)
to the Increasing Lender for amounts which have accrued on and subsequent to
the
Effective Date.
SECTION
22. This
Commitment Increase Supplement shall be governed by, and construed and
interpreted in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Commitment Increase
Supplement to be executed as of ________ ___, 200__ by their respective duly
authorized officers on Schedule 1 hereto.
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Schedule
1
to
Commitment Increase Supplement
Name
of Increasing
Lender: ______________________________________________________
Effective
Date of Increased
Commitment: ______________________________________________________
Principal
Amount
of
Increased
Commitment:
|
Total
Amount of Commitment
of
Increasing Lender
(including
Increased Commitment):
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$_____________________
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$_____________________
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[NAME
OF INCREASING LENDER]
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By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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PACIFIC
GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By:
____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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Accepted:
CITICORP
NORTH AMERICA, INC.,
as
Administrative Agent
By: ___________________________________
Name:
Title:
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JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as
Issuing Lender
By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT
C
FORM
OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
This
Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.2 of the
$2,000,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February
26,
2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit Agreement”), among Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California
corporation (the “Borrower”), the lenders parties thereto (the
“Lenders”), Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities
Inc., as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
syndication agent, Barclays Bank Plc, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank Securities
Inc., as documentation agents, and Citicorp North America, Inc., as
administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”). Terms
defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined.
The
undersigned hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as
follows:
1. I
am the duly elected, qualified and acting [Chief Financial Officer] [Treasurer]
[Assistant Treasurer] of the Borrower.
2. I
have reviewed and am familiar with the contents of this
Certificate.
3. To
the knowledge of the undersigned, during the fiscal period covered by the
financial statements attached hereto as Attachment 1, no Default or
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing [, except as set forth
below].
4. Attached
hereto as Attachment 2 are the computations showing compliance with
the covenant set forth in Section 7.1 of the Credit Agreement.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Compliance Certificate as
of
the date set forth below.
PACIFIC
GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
By: _____________________________________
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Name:
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Title:
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Date: ____________,
200_
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Attachment
1
to
Exhibit C
Financial
Statements
Period
Ended ____________, 20__
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Attachment
2
to
Exhibit C
The
information described herein is as of ________, 20__.
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D
FORM
OF CLOSING CERTIFICATE
This
Closing Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(e) of the
$2,000,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February
26,
2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“Credit Agreement”), among Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California
corporation (the “Borrower”), the lenders parties thereto (the
“Lenders”), Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities
Inc., as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as
syndication agent, Barclays Bank Plc, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank Securities
Inc., as documentation agents, and Citicorp North America, Inc., as
administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative
Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the
Credit Agreement.
The
undersigned Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of
the
Borrower hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as
follows:
1. The
representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in the Credit Agreement
that do not contain a materiality qualification are true and correct in all
material respects on and as of the date hereof with the same effect as if made
on the date hereof, and the representations and warranties of the Borrower
set
forth in the Credit Agreement that do contain a materiality qualification are
true and correct on and as of the date hereof with the same effect as if made
on
the date hereof, except for any representations and warranties that specifically
relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties
were true and correct in all material respects, or true and correct, as the
case
may be, as of such earlier date.
2. Xxxxx
Xxx is the duly elected and qualified Assistant Secretary of the Borrower and
the signature set forth for such officer below is such officer’s true and
genuine signature.
3. No
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the date
hereof.
4. The
conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.1 of the Credit Agreement were
satisfied as of the Effective Date.
5. All
governmental and third party consents and approvals necessary in connection
with
the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions
contemplated thereby have been obtained and are now in full force and
effect.
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The
undersigned Assistant Secretary of the Borrower certifies as
follows:
1. There
are no liquidation or dissolution proceedings pending or to my knowledge
threatened against the Borrower.
2. The
Borrower is a corporation duly incorporated, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the State of California.
3. Attached
hereto as Annex 1 is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly
adopted by the Board of Directors of the Borrower on December 15, 2004; such
resolutions have not in any way been amended, modified, revoked or rescinded,
have been in full force and effect since their adoption to and including the
date hereof and are now in full force and effect and are the only corporate
proceedings of the Borrower now in force relating to or affecting the Credit
Agreement.
4. Attached
hereto as Annex 2 is a true and complete copy of the Bylaws of the
Borrower as in effect on the date hereof.
5. Attached
hereto as Annex 3 is a true and complete copy of the Articles of
Incorporation of the Borrower as in effect on the date hereof, and such Articles
of Incorporation have not been amended, repealed, modified or
restated.
6. The
following persons are now duly elected and qualified officers of the Borrower
holding the offices indicated next to their respective names below, and that
the
facsimile signatures affixed next to their respective names below are the
facsimile signatures of such officers, and each of such officers is duly
authorized to execute and deliver on behalf of the Borrower each of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party and any certificate or other document to be
delivered by the Borrower pursuant to the Loan Documents to which it is a
party:
Name
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Office
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Signature
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Xxxxxxxxxxx
X. Xxxxx
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Senior
Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
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G.
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Vice
President and Controller
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Xxxxx
X.X. Xxxxx
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VP,
Corporate Governance and Corporate Secretary
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Xxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Assistant
Corporate Secretary
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Closing Certificate as
of
the date set forth below.
Xxxxxxxxxxx
X.
Xxxxx
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Xxxxx
Xxx
|
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Senior
Vice President, Chief
Financial Officer and Treasurer
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Assistant
Secretary
|
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Date:
February 26, 2007
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1
[Board
Resolutions]
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ANNEX
2
[Bylaws
of the Company]
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ANNEX
3
[Articles
of Incorporation]
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EXHIBIT
E
FORM
OF
ASSIGNMENT
AND ASSUMPTION
Reference
is made to the $2,000,000,000
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2007 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit
Agreement”), among Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a California
corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, Citigroup
Global Markets, Inc. and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc., as joint lead arrangers
and joint bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as syndication agent, Barclays
Bank
Plc, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as documentation agents,
and
Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent (in such capacity, the
“Administrative Agent”). Unless otherwise defined herein,
terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings
given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The
Assignor identified on Schedule l
hereto (the “Assignor”) and the Assignee identified on Schedule l
hereto (the “Assignee”) agree as follows:
1. The
Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee without recourse
to the Assignor, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes
from
the Assignor without recourse to the Assignor, as of the Effective Date (as
defined below), (i) the interest described in Schedule 1 hereto in and to
the Assignor’s rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement (the
“Assigned Facility”) in the principal amount set forth on Schedule 1
hereto and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law,
all
claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of the Assignor (in its
capacity as a Lender) against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising
under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or
instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby
or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not
limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims
and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations
sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations
sold
and assigned pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein
collectively as, the “Assigned Interest”).
2. The
Assignor (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or with respect to the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or
value
of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant thereto, other than that the Assignor has not
created any adverse claim upon the interest being assigned by it hereunder
and
that such interest is free and clear of any such adverse claim; (b) makes
no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to
the
financial condition of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any other
obligor or the performance or observance by the Borrower, any of its
Subsidiaries or any other obligor of any of their respective obligations under
the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; and (c) attaches any Note
held by it evidencing the Assigned Facility and
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(i) requests
that the Administrative Agent, upon request by the Assignee, exchange the
attached Note for a new Note payable to the Assignee and (ii) if the
Assignor has retained any interest in the Assigned Facility, requests that
the
Administrative Agent exchange the attached Note for a new Note payable to the
Assignor, in each case in amounts which reflect the assignment being made hereby
(and after giving effect to any other assignments which have become effective
on
the Effective Date).
3. The
Assignee (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to enter
into this Assignment and Assumption; (b) confirms that it has received a
copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements
delivered or deemed delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(c) or Section 6.1
thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it has
deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into
this Assignment and Assumption; (c) agrees that it will, independently and
without reliance upon the Assignor, the Agents or any other Lender and based
on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under
the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; (d) appoints and authorizes
the Agents to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such
powers and discretion under the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents
or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto as are
delegated to the Agents by the terms thereof, together with such powers as
are
incidental thereto; and (e) agrees that it will be bound by the provisions
of the Credit Agreement and will perform in accordance with its terms all the
obligations which by the terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be
performed by it as a Lender including, if it is organized under the laws of
a
jurisdiction outside the United States, its obligation pursuant to
Section 2.16(d) of the Credit Agreement.
4. The
effective date of this Assignment and Assumption shall be the Effective Date
of
Assignment described in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Effective
Date”). Following the execution of this Assignment and
Assumption, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance
by
it and recording by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
effective as of the Effective Date (which shall not, unless otherwise agreed
to
by the Administrative Agent, be earlier than five Business Days after the date
of such acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent).
5. Upon
such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest
(including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) [to the
Assignor for amounts which have accrued to the Effective Date and to the
Assignee for amounts which have accrued subsequent to the Effective Date] [to
the Assignee whether such amounts have accrued prior to the Effective Date
or
accrue subsequent to the Effective Date. The Assignor and the
Assignee shall make all appropriate adjustments in payments by the Agent for
periods prior to the Effective Date or with respect to the making of this
assignment directly between themselves.]
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6. From
and after the Effective Date, (a) the Assignee shall be a party to the
Credit Agreement and, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Assumption,
have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and under the other
Loan
Documents and shall be bound by the provisions thereof and (b) the Assignor
shall, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Assumption, relinquish
its
rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit
Agreement.
7. This
Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted
in
accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Assignment and Assumption
to be executed as of the date first above written by their respective duly
authorized officers on Schedule 1 hereto.
[ASSIGNOR]
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[ASSIGNEE]
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By: ________________________________
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By: ______________________________
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Name:
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Name:
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Title:
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Title:
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Schedule
1
to
Assignment and Assumption
Name
of Assignor: _______________________
Name
of Assignee: _______________________
Effective
Date of Assignment: _________________
Assigned
Facility
|
Principal
Amount
Assigned
|
[Percentage
Assigned]*
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$_______
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___.___%
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[Name
of Assignor]
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By:
Name:
Title:
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[Name
of Assignee]
By:
Name:
Title:
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*Calculate
the
Commitment Percentage that is assigned to at least 10 decimal places and
show as
a percentage of the aggregate commitments of all Lenders.
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to:
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PACIFIC
GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY**
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By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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Accepted
and Consented to:
[CITICORP
NORTH AMERICA, INC., as
Administrative
Agent]**
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By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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Consented
to:
[JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A., as Issuing Lender]**
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By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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**
As applicable
pursuant to Section 10.6(b).
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FORM
OF LEGAL OPINION OF XXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXX & XXXXXXXXX LLP
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G
FORM
OF EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE
Reference
is made to the $2,000,000,000 Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
as of
February 26, 2007 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a
California corporation (the “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto,
Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc., as joint lead
arrangers and joint bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as syndication agent,
Barclays Bank Plc, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as
documentation agents, and Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent
(in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”). Unless
otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein
shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[______________________]
(the “Non-U.S. Lender”) is providing this certificate pursuant to
Section 2.16(d) of the Credit Agreement. The Non-U.S. Lender
hereby represents and warrants that:
2. The
Non-U.S. Lender is not a “bank” for purposes of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). In
this regard, the Non-U.S. Lender further represents and warrants
that:
(a) the
Non-U.S. Lender is not subject to regulatory or other legal requirements as
a
bank in any jurisdiction; and
(b) the
Non-U.S. Lender has not been treated as a bank for purposes of any tax,
securities law or other filing or submission made to any Governmental Authority,
any application made to a rating agency or qualification for any exemption
from
tax, securities law or other legal requirements;
3. The
Non-U.S. Lender is not a ten percent (10%) shareholder of the Borrower within
the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code; and
4. The
Non-U.S. Lender is not a controlled foreign corporation receiving interest
from
a related person within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the
Code.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate as of the date
set forth below.
[NAME
OF NON-U.S. LENDER]
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H
FORM
OF NOTE
THIS
NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT IN
COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
BELOW. TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY
MUST BE RECORDED IN THE REGISTER MAINTAINED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT
TO THE TERMS OF SUCH CREDIT AGREEMENT.
$__________
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New
York, New York
as
of [_________], 200[_]
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FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, a California corporation
(the
“Borrower”), DOES HEREBY PROMISE TO PAY to the order of [insert name of
Lender] (the “Lender”) at the office of CITIBANK NORTH AMERICA, INC., at
[________________________], in lawful money of the United States of America
in
immediately available funds, the principal amount of ____________________
DOLLARS ($__________), or, if less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of
all
Revolving Loans (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below) made
by
the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement referred to below,
whichever is less, on such date or dates as is required by said Credit
Agreement, and to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount from time to
time
outstanding hereunder, in like money, at such office, and at such times and
in
such amounts as set forth in Section 2.11 of said Credit Agreement.
The
holder of this Note is authorized to indorse on the schedules annexed hereto
and
made a part hereof or on a continuation thereof which shall be attached hereto
and made a part hereof the date, the Type and amount of each Revolving Loan
made
pursuant to the Credit Agreement and the date and amount of each payment or
prepayment of principal thereof, each continuation thereof, each conversion
of
all or a portion thereof to another Type and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans,
the length of each Interest Period with respect thereto. Each such
indorsement shall constitute primafacie evidence of the accuracy
of the information indorsed. The failure to make any such indorsement or any
error in any such indorsement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower
in respect of any Revolving Loan.
The
Borrower hereby waives demand, presentment for payment, protest, notice of
any
kind (including, but not limited to, notice of dishonor, notice of protest,
notice of intention to accelerate or notice of acceleration), other than notice
required pursuant to the Credit Agreement and diligence in collecting and
bringing suit against any party hereto. The nonexercise by the holder
of this Note of any of its rights hereunder in any particular instance shall
not
constitute a waiver thereof in that or any subsequent instance.
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This
Note (a) is one of the promissory notes referred to in the $2,000,000,000
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 26, 2007 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time the “Credit
Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Lenders parties thereto, Citigroup
Global Markets, Inc. and X.X. Xxxxxx Securities Inc., as joint lead arrangers
and joint bookrunners, JPMorgan Chase Bank, as syndication agent, Barclays
Bank
Plc, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as documentation agents,
as
documentation agents, and Citicorp North America, Inc., as administrative agent
(in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”), (b) is subject to the
provisions of the Credit Agreement and (c) is subject to optional prepayment
in
whole or in part and acceleration of the maturity hereof upon the occurrence
of
certain events, all as provided in the Credit Agreement. Terms
defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined.
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NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN OR IN THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, THIS
NOTE
MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
REGISTRATION AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF SECTION 10.6 OF THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT.
THIS
NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH,
THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY
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Title:
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Schedule
A
to
Note
LOANS,
CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF ABR LOANS
Date
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Amount
of ABR Loans
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Amount
Converted
to
ABR
Loans
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Amount
of Principal of Base
Rate
Loans Repaid
|
Amount
of ABR Loans
Converted
to
Eurodollar
Loans
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Unpaid
Principal Balance of
ABR
Loans
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Notation
Made By
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B
to
Note
LOANS,
CONTINUATIONS, CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF EURODOLLAR LOANS
Date
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Amount
of Eurodollar
Loans
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Amount
Converted to
Eurodollar
Loans
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Interest
Period and
Eurodollar
Rate with
Respect
Thereto
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Amount
of Principal of
Eurodollar
Loans Repaid
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Amount
of Eurodollar
Loans
Converted to
ABR
Loans
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Unpaid
Principal
Balance
of Eurodollar
Loans
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Notation
Made
By
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Exhibits
Amended
and Restated Credit
Agreement
Pacific
and Electric
Company
LOSANGELES
618833 v1
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