SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of September 25, 2007 Among ALLIANCE RESOURCE OPERATING PARTNERS, L.P. as Borrower and THE INITIAL LENDERS, INITIAL ISSUING BANKS AND SWING LINE BANK NAMED HEREIN as Initial Lenders, Initial...Credit Agreement • September 27th, 2007 • Alliance Resource Partners Lp • Bituminous coal & lignite surface mining • New York
The Borrower, the banks, financial institutions and other institutional lenders party thereto, the Paying Agent and the Co-Administrative Agents are parties to a Credit Agreement dated as of August 22, 2003, as amended and restated by that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of April 13, 2006, by and among the Borrower, the Initial Lender Parties and the Agents (the “Existing Facility Agreement”). The Borrower has requested that, upon the Effective Date (as hereinafter defined), the Lender Parties amend and restate in its entirety the Existing Facility Agreement on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth to make available to the Borrower a credit facility of up to $150,000,000 (or, to the extent increased in accordance with Section 2.18 hereof, up to $250,000,000) to refinance certain Existing Debt (as hereinafter defined) of the Borrower and to pay transaction fees and expenses in connection herewith, and that, from time to time, the Lender Parties lend to t
