DEBT

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

DEBT

5. DEBT

Third Amendment

During the three months ended March 31, 2017, we entered into an amendment to our credit agreement (the “Third Amendment”), which, among other things, amended the credit agreement (i) to make each of the interest coverage ratio and leverage ratio covenants less restrictive and (ii) to decrease the maximum level of permitted capital expenditures. We paid a one-time aggregate fee of $2.6 million to the lenders for the Third Amendment, which we recorded as a debt discount of $2.2 million related to the term loan and prepaid debt issuance costs of $0.4 million related to the revolving credit facility. In addition, we paid $0.3 million in third-party fees, which we recorded as expense of $0.3 million related to the term loan and as prepaid debt issuance costs of less than $0.1 million related to the revolving credit facility.

The Third Amendment was effective on February 28, 2017, upon the closing of the equity sale, which is described in note 6 below. The effectiveness of the covenant amendments was conditioned on the Company completing one or more equity offerings on or before June 30, 2017 for gross cash proceeds of not less than $40 million, and net cash proceeds of not less than $37 million and the application of the net cash proceeds to the repayment of indebtedness under the Credit Agreement. The Company paid a fee of approximately $0.9 million to the lenders on January 26, 2017 and paid an additional fee of $1.6 million on February 28, 2017. Absent the Third Amendment we may not have been able to comply with our covenants in the Credit Agreement.