-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, S895AfVNZR0CPAFpol+aoeFzJWls48b/sUwU23y9X7n87HrrFgyKhklMuPJLv4re w7EP4hv1/v1h5pz2JzZfdg== 0000899243-01-000154.txt : 20010129 0000899243-01-000154.hdr.sgml : 20010129 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000899243-01-000154 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 9 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20010124 ITEM INFORMATION: ITEM INFORMATION: FILED AS OF DATE: 20010125 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L P CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001061219 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311] IRS NUMBER: 760568219 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-14323 FILM NUMBER: 1514574 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2727 NORTH LOOP WEST CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77008 BUSINESS PHONE: 7138806500 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L P CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001102995 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: CRUDE PETROLEUM & NATURAL GAS [1311] IRS NUMBER: 760568220 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-93239-01 FILM NUMBER: 1514575 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 2727 NORTH LOOP WEST STREET 2: STE 700 CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77210-4324 BUSINESS PHONE: 7138806500 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: PO BOX 4324 CITY: HOUSTON STATE: TX ZIP: 77210 8-K 1 0001.txt CURRENT REPORT ================================================================================ UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 FORM 8-K CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Date of Report: January 24, 2001 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 1-14323 76-0568219 (State or other jurisdiction of (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification Number) ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter) Delaware 333-93239-01 76-0568220 (State or other jurisdiction of (Commission File Number) (I.R.S. Employer incorporation or organization) Identification Number) 2727 North Loop West Houston, Texas 77008 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code) (713) 880-6500 (Registrants' telephone number, including area code) ================================================================================ Item 5. Other Events. (a) On January 24, 2001, Enterprise Products Partners L.P. ("Partners") and its 98.9899% owned subsidiary, Enterprise Products Operating L.P. ("Operating"), entered into an underwriting agreement for the public offering of $450 million of 7.50% Senior Notes Due 2011 of Operating (the "Notes"), which Notes are unconditionally guaranteed by Partners. Closing of the issuance and sale of the Notes is scheduled for January 29, 2001. One of the purposes of this Report is to file the exhibits related to the offering of the Notes listed in Item 7(c) below. (b) An additional purpose of this Report is to file as exhibits the Multi- Year Revolving Credit Facility and the 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility of Enterprise Products Operating L.P. and the Guaranty Agreements of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. with respect to each such facility, each dated as of November 17, 2000, listed in Item 7(c) below. ITEM 7. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS. (c) EXHIBITS. 1.1 Underwriting Agreement dated January 24, 2001, among Enterprise Products Partners L.P., Enterprise Products Operating L.P., Goldman, Sachs & Co., Salomon Smith Barney Inc., Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., First Union Securities, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and Tokyo-Mitsubishi International plc. 4.1 Form of Global Note representing all 7.50% Senior Notes Due 2011. 4.2 Multi-Year Revolving Credit Facility dated as of November 17, 2000, among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and the several banks from time to time parties thereto, with First Union Securities, Inc. and Chase Securities Inc. as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers. 4.3 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility dated as of November 17, 2000, among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and the several banks from time to time parties thereto, with First Union Securities, Inc. and Chase Securities Inc. as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers. 4.4 Guaranty Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in favor of First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, with respect to the Multi-Year Revolving Credit Facility included as Exhibit 4.2, above. 4.5 Guaranty Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in favor of First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, with respect to the 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility included as Exhibit 4.3, above. 2 12.1 Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the year ended December 31, 1999 and the nine-month periods ended September 30, 1999 and September 30, 2000. 23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP. 3 SIGNATURES Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrants have duly caused this report to be signed on their behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, as General Partner Date: January 24, 2001 By: /s/ Michael J. Knesek --------------------- Michael J. Knesek Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer 4 EXHIBIT INDEX ------------- EXHIBIT NUMBER EXHIBIT DESCRIPTION ------ ------------------- 1.1 Underwriting Agreement dated January 24, 2001, among Enterprise Products Partners L.P., Enterprise Products Operating L.P., Goldman, Sachs & Co., Salomon Smith Barney Inc., Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., First Union Securities, Inc., Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. and Tokyo-Mitsubishi International plc. 4.1 Form of Global Note representing all 7.50% Senior Notes Due 2011. 4.2 Multi-Year Revolving Credit Facility dated as of November 17, 2000, among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and the several banks from time to time parties thereto, with First Union Securities, Inc. and Chase Securities Inc. as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers. 4.3 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility dated as of November 17, 2000, among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and the several banks from time to time parties thereto, with First Union Securities, Inc. and Chase Securities Inc. as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers. 4.4 Guaranty Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in favor of First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, with respect to the Multi-Year Revolving Credit Facility included as Exhibit 4.2, above. 4.5 Guaranty Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by Enterprise Products Partners L.P. in favor of First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, with respect to the 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility included as Exhibit 4.3, above. 12.1 Computation of ratio of earnings to fixed charges for the year ended December 31, 1999 and the nine-month periods ended September 30, 1999 and September 30, 2000. 23.1 Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP. 5 EX-1.1 2 0002.txt UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT EXHIBIT 1.1 UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT January 24, 2001 Enterprise Products Operating L.P. 2727 North Loop West Houston, Texas 77008-1038 Enterprise Products Partners L.P. 2727 North Loop West Houston, Texas 77008-1038 Dear Sirs: We (the "Representatives") are acting on behalf of the underwriters (including ourselves) named below (such underwriters being herein called the "Underwriters"), and we understand that Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell $450,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes Due 2011 (the "Notes") with the guarantee (the "Guarantee" and, together with the Notes, the "Securities") endorsed thereon of Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership and the ultimate parent company of the Company (the "Guarantor"). The Securities will be issued pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture dated as of March 15, 2000 (as such Indenture shall be supplemented to the date hereof) (the "Indenture") among the Company, the Guarantor and First Union National Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee"). Subject to the terms and conditions set forth or incorporated by reference herein, the Company hereby agrees to sell and the Underwriters agree to purchase, severally and not jointly, the respective principal amounts of Notes set forth below opposite their names at a purchase price of 99.287% of the principal amount of Notes plus accrued interest, if any, from January 29, 2001 to the date of payment and delivery: UNDERWRITERS PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES Goldman, Sachs & Co. $180,000,000 Salomon Smith Barney Inc. $180,000,000 Banc One Capital Markets, Inc. $ 22,500,000 First Union Securities, Inc. $ 22,500,000 Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. $ 22,500,000 Tokyo-Mitsubishi International plc $ 22,500,000 ------------ Total $450,000,000 1 The Underwriters will pay for the Notes upon delivery thereof at the location identified below at 9:00 a.m. (Houston time) on January 29, 2001, or at such other time or date, not later than seven full business days thereafter, as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Representatives. The time and date of such payment and delivery are hereinafter referred to as the "Closing Date." The Notes shall have the terms set forth in the Prospectus dated January 14, 2000 and the Prospectus Supplement dated January 24, 2001, including the following: Representatives and addresses: Goldman, Sachs & Co. 85 Broad Street 23rd Floor New York, New York 10004 Attention: Salomon Smith Barney Inc. 390 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10013 Attention: with a copy of notices pursuant to Section 9(c) to: Goldman, Sachs & Co. 85 Broad Street 23rd Floor New York, New York 10004 Attention: Salomon Smith Barney Inc. 390 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10013 Attention: Certain Terms of the Notes: Title of Notes: 7.50% Senior Notes Due 2011 Aggregate Principal Amount of Notes: $450,000,000 Maturity Date: February 1, 2011 Interest Rate: 7.50% 2 Interest Payment Dates February 1 and August 1, commencing: August 1, 2001 Record Dates: January 15; July 15 Redemption Provisions: The Notes will be redeemable, at the option of the Company, at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, at a price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest thereon (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of redemption) discounted to the date of redemption on a semiannual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30 day months) at the applicable Treasury Yield (as defined in the Indenture) plus 30 basis points, plus, in either case, accrued interest to the date of redemption. Repayment Provisions: There is no sinking fund. Transfer Agent and Registrar: First Union National Bank Closing Date and Location: January 29, 2001 Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. 2300 First City Tower 1001 Fannin Street Houston, TX 77002-6760 The Notes are to be offered to the public at the Initial Public Offering Price specified below, and to dealers at prices that represent concessions not in excess of the Dealer Concession set forth below, and the Underwriters may allow and such dealers may reallow concessions not in excess of the Reallowance concession set forth below: Initial Public Offering Price: 99.937% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued interest from January 29, 2001, if any Dealer Concession: 0.40% of the principal amount of the Notes Reallowance Concession: 0.25% of the principal amount of the Notes The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the Underwriters' Information consists solely of the following information in any Preliminary Prospectus and the 3 Prospectus: (i) the concession and reallowance figures in the third paragraph, (ii) the fourth, fifth and tenth paragraphs, and (iii) the third sentence of the sixth paragraph of "Underwriting" in the Prospectus Supplement. All provisions contained in the document entitled Enterprise Products Operating L.P. and Enterprise Products Partners L.P. Underwriting Agreement Standard Provisions (Debt Securities) dated January 24, 2001 (the "Standard Provisions"), are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety and shall be deemed to be a part of this Agreement to the same extent as if such provisions had been set forth in full herein, except that if any term defined in such document is otherwise defined herein, the definition set forth herein shall control. This Agreement may be signed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument. 4 Please confirm your agreement by having an authorized officer sign a copy of this Agreement as of the date first set forth above in the space set forth below. Very truly yours, FOR THE UNDERWRITERS: GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO. By: /s/ Goldman, Sachs & Co. ------------------------ Goldman, Sachs & Co. SALOMON SMITH BARNEY INC. By: /s/ Andrew Safran ----------------- Name: Andrew Safran Title: Managing Director FOR THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTOR: ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its general partner By: /s/ Michael A. Creel -------------------- Name: Michael A. Creel Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its general partner By: /s/ Michael A. Creel -------------------- Name: Michael A. Creel Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 5 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT STANDARD PROVISIONS (DEBT SECURITIES) January 24, 2001 From time to time, Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Company"), and Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (the "Guarantor"), may enter into one or more underwriting agreements that provide for the sale of designated securities to the several underwriters named therein. The standard provisions hereof set forth herein may be incorporated by reference in any such underwriting agreement (an "Underwriting Agreement"). The Underwriting Agreement, including the provisions hereof incorporated therein by reference, is herein sometimes referred to as this "Agreement". Terms defined in the Underwriting Agreement are used herein as therein defined. The Company and the Guarantor have filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") a registration statement on Form S-3 (file number 333-93239), including a prospectus, relating to the debt securities and has filed with, or transmitted for filing to, or shall promptly hereafter file with or transmit for filing to, the Commission a prospectus supplement (the "Prospectus Supplement") specifically relating to the Securities pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). The registration statement as amended at the date of the Underwriting Agreement, including information, if any, deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act, is hereinafter referred to as the "Registration Statement." The term "Basic Prospectus" means the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. The term "Prospectus" means the Basic Prospectus together with the Prospectus Supplement. The term "Preliminary Prospectus" means a preliminary prospectus supplement specifically relating to the Securities, together with the Basic Prospectus. As used herein, the terms "Registration Statement," "Basic Prospectus," "Prospectus" and "Preliminary Prospectus" shall include in each case the documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein. The terms "supplement," "amendment" and "amend" as used herein shall include the filing of all documents deemed to be incorporated by reference in the Prospectus that are filed subsequent to the date of the Underwriting Agreement by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional debt securities pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act (the "Rule 462(b) Registration Statement"), then any reference herein to the term "Registration Statement" shall be deemed to include such Rule 462(b) Registration Statement. For purposes of this Agreement, "Effective Time" means the date and time the Registration Statement became effective, and if later, the date of filing of the Guarantor's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. 1 1. Representations and Warranties. Each of the Guarantor and the Company represents and warrants to and agree with the several Underwriters on and as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement and the Closing Date: (a) The Registration Statement has become effective under the Securities Act; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose are pending before or, to the best knowledge of the Guarantor or the Company, threatened by the Commission. (b) The documents incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus (the "Exchange Act Reports"), when they were filed with the Commission, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and none of such documents contained an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and any further documents so filed and incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement, the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus, when such documents are filed with the Commission, will conform in all material respects to the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder and shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to a state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the Prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. (c) At the Effective Time, the Registration Statement did, and when the Prospectus is first filed in accordance with Rule 424(b) and on the Closing Date, the Prospectus (and any supplements thereto) will, comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the "Rules and Regulations") and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (the "Trust Indenture Act"), and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; at the Effective Time, the Registration Statement did not or will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading; at the Effective Time and on the Closing Date, the Indenture did or will conform in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder; and, the Prospectus on the date of the Prospectus and on the Closing Date (together with any supplement thereto), did not and will not, include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The preceding sentence does not apply to (i) that part of the Registration Statement which shall constitute the Statement of Eligibility and Qualification (Form T-1) of the Trustee under the Trust Indenture Act or (ii) information contained in or omitted from the Registration Statement or the Prospectus (or any supplement thereto) in reliance 2 upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Guarantor and the Company by or on behalf of any Underwriter specifically for use therein, which is set forth in the Underwriting Agreement (the "Underwriters' Information"). (d) The Guarantor, the Company and each of their respective subsidiaries listed on Schedule I hereto (the "Subsidiaries") and Enterprise Products GP, LLC have been duly formed and are validly existing and in good standing under the laws of their respective jurisdictions of formation, are duly qualified to do business and are in good standing as foreign corporations, limited liability companies or partnerships, as the case may be, in each jurisdiction in which their respective ownership or lease of property or the conduct of their respective businesses requires such qualification, and have all corporate, limited liability company or partnership power, as the case may be, and authority necessary to own or hold their respective properties and to conduct the businesses in which they are engaged and, in the case of Enterprise Products GP, LLC, to act as general partner of the Guarantor and the Company, except where the failure to so qualify or have such power or authority would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business or prospects of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole (a "Material Adverse Effect"). (e) The Guarantor has an authorized capitalization as set forth in the Prospectus under the heading "Capitalization"; all of the outstanding partnership interests of the Guarantor and the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued and are fully paid and non-assessable; and the partnership interests of the Guarantor and the Company conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus. All of the outstanding shares of capital stock, partnership interest or membership interest, as the case may be, of each Subsidiary have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, except that, for each Subsidiary of which the Company and/or the Guarantor own 50% or less of the outstanding capital stock, partnership interest or membership interest, as the case may be, such representation and warranty is limited to the ownership interest set forth on Schedule I hereto. The Company and/or the Guarantor, as the case may be, owns the shares of capital stock, partnership interest or membership interest in each Subsidiary as set forth on Schedule I hereto free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance (other than contractual restrictions on transfer), security interest, restriction upon voting or any other claim of any third party. (f) The Guarantor has full right, partnership power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Indenture and the Guarantees and to perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder; the Company has full right, partnership power and authority to execute and deliver this Agreement, the Indenture and the Notes (this Agreement, the Indenture, the Guarantee and the Notes collectively, the "Transaction Documents") and to perform its obligations 3 hereunder and thereunder; and all partnership action required to be taken by the Guarantor or the Company for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby have been duly and validly taken. (g) This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Guarantor and the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Guarantor and the Company. (h) The Indenture has been duly qualified under the Trust Indenture Act and has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Guarantor and the Company and is a valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Guarantor and the Company enforceable against each of the Guarantor and the Company in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). (i) Each of the Notes has been duly authorized by the Company, and the Guarantee has been duly authorized by the Guarantor, and when duly executed, authenticated, issued and delivered as provided in the Indenture and, in the case of the Notes, paid for as provided herein, each of the Notes and the Guarantee will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of each of the Guarantor and the Company, as the case may be, entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable against each of the Guarantor and the Company, as the case may be, in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). (j) Each Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus. (k) The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Guarantor and the Company of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance, authentication, sale and delivery of the Notes and the issuance of the Guarantee and compliance by each of the Guarantor and the Company with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which it is a party will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries pursuant to, any material indenture, mortgage, deed of 4 trust, loan agreement or other material agreement or instrument to which the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is subject, nor will such actions result in any violation of the provisions of the organizational documents of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any statute or any judgment, order, decree, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over any of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets; and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing or registration with, any such court or arbitrator or governmental agency or body under any such statute, judgment, order, decree, rule or regulation is required for the execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor or the Company of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance, authentication, sale and delivery of the Notes, the issuance of the Guarantee and compliance by the Guarantor or the Company with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, filings, registrations or qualifications (i) which shall have been obtained or made prior to the Closing Date and (ii) as may be required to be obtained or made under the Exchange Act, and applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Notes by the Underwriters. The Commission has not issued any order preventing or suspending the use of any Preliminary Prospectus. (l) Deloitte & Touche LLP are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Guarantor, the Company and their respective subsidiaries as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations. The historical financial statements (including the related notes and supporting schedules) contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act (except that certain supporting schedules are omitted); such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby and fairly present the financial position of the entities purported to be covered thereby at the respective dates indicated and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the respective periods indicated; and the financial information contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus under the headings "Capitalization", "Selected Financial Data" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" are derived from the accounting records of the Company and its subsidiaries and fairly present the information purported to be shown thereby. The pro forma financial information, if any, contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus has been prepared on a basis consistent with the historical financial statements contained or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (except for the pro forma adjustments specified therein), includes all material adjustments to 5 the historical financial information required by Rule 11-02 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act to reflect the transactions described in the Prospectus, gives effect to assumptions made on a reasonable basis and fairly presents the transactions described in the Prospectus. The other historical financial and statistical information and data included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus are, in all material respects, fairly presented. (m) There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending to which the Guarantor, the Company, or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party or of which any property or assets of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is the subject that, singly or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and to the best knowledge of the Guarantor or the Company, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others. (n) No action has been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order has been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which prevents the issuance of the Securities or suspends the sale of the Notes in any jurisdiction; no injunction, restraining order or order of any nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction has been issued with respect to the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries which would prevent or suspend the issuance or sale of the Notes, the issuance of the Guarantee or the use of the Preliminary Prospectus or the Prospectus in any jurisdiction; no action, suit or proceeding is pending against or, to the best knowledge of the Guarantor or the Company, threatened against or affecting the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries before any court or arbitrator or any governmental agency, body or official, domestic or foreign, which could reasonably be expected to interfere with or adversely affect the issuance of the Notes or in any manner draw into question the validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party or any action taken or to be taken pursuant thereto; and each of the Guarantor and the Company has complied with any and all requests by any securities authority in any jurisdiction for additional information to be included in the Preliminary Prospectus and the Prospectus. (o) There are no contracts or other documents that are required under the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations to be described in the Prospectus or filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement and that have not been so described or filed. (p) None of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is (i) in violation of its organizational documents, (ii) in default in any material respect, and no event has occurred which, with notice or lapse of time or both, would constitute such a default, in the due performance or observance of any term, covenant or condition contained in any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other material agreement or 6 instrument to which it is a party or by which it is bound or to which any of its property or assets is subject or (iii) in violation in any material respect of any law, ordinance, governmental rule, regulation or court decree to which it or its property or assets may be subject, except in the case of (ii) and (iii) for such defaults or violations which would not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. (q) Each of the Guarantor, the Company and each of their respective Subsidiaries possesses all material licenses, certificates, authorizations and permits issued by, and has made all declarations and filings with, the appropriate federal, state or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies that are necessary or desirable for the ownership of their respective properties or the conduct of their respective businesses as described in the Prospectus, except where the failure to possess or make the same would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, and none of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries has received notification of any revocation or modification of any such license, certificate, authorization or permit or has any reason to believe that any such license, certificate, authorization or permit will not be renewed in the ordinary course. (r) No forward-looking statement (within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act) contained or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement has been made or reaffirmed without a reasonable basis or has been disclosed other than in good faith. (s) Since the date as of which information is given in the Prospectus, except as otherwise stated therein, (i) there has been no material adverse change or any development involving a prospective material adverse change in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business affairs, management or business prospects of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of business, (ii) none of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries has incurred any material liability or obligation, direct or contingent, other than in the ordinary course of business, (iii) none of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries has entered into any material transaction other than in the ordinary course of business and (iv) there has not been any change in the capital or long-term debt of the Guarantor or the Company, or any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Guarantor or the Company on any class of its partnership interests. (t) None of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is (i) an "investment company" or a company "controlled by" an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "Investment Company Act"), and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder or (ii) a "holding company" or a "subsidiary company" of 7 a holding company or an "affiliate" thereof within the meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended. (u) Each of the Guarantor, the Company and each of their respective Subsidiaries has insurance covering its respective properties, operations, personnel and businesses, which insurance is in amounts and insures against such losses and risks as are adequate to protect each of the Guarantor, the Company and each of their respective Subsidiaries and their respective businesses. None of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries has received notice from any insurer or agent of such insurer that capital improvements or other expenditures are required or necessary to be made in order to continue such insurance. (v) Each of the Guarantor, the Company and each of their respective Subsidiaries owns or possesses adequate rights to use all material patents, patent applications, trademarks, service marks, trade names, trademark registrations, service mark registrations, copyrights, licenses and know- how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures) necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses; and the conduct of their respective businesses will not conflict in any material respect with, and the none of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries have received any notice of any claim of conflict with, any such rights of others. (w) Each of the Guarantor, the Company and each of their respective Subsidiaries has (i) good and defensible title to all its interests in its properties that are material to the operations of the Guarantor, the Company and each of their respective Subsidiaries, considered as a whole, title investigations having been carried out by or on behalf of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries in accordance with customary practice in the natural gas processing and transportation industry in the areas in which they operate and (ii) good and marketable title in fee simple to, or have valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of other real and personal property which are material to the business of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries in each case free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except such as (1) do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries, (2) could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (3) are Permitted Liens (as defined in the Indenture). (x) There has been no storage, generation, transportation, handling, treatment, disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind of toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances, including, but not limited to, natural gas liquids, by, due to or caused by the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries (or, to the best knowledge of the Guarantor and the Company, any other entity (including any predecessor) for whose acts or 8 omissions the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is or could reasonably be expected to be liable) upon any of the property now or previously owned or leased by the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries, or upon any other property, in violation of any statute or any ordinance, rule, regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit or which would, under any statute or any ordinance, rule (including rule of common law), regulation, order, judgment, decree or permit, give rise to any liability, except for any violation or liability could not reasonably be expected to have, singly or in the aggregate with all such violations and liabilities, a Material Adverse Effect; and there has been no disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind onto such property or into the environment surrounding such property of any toxic or other wastes or other hazardous substances with respect to which the Guarantor or the Company has knowledge, except for any such disposal, discharge, emission or other release of any kind which could not reasonably be expected to have, singly or in the aggregate with all such discharges and other releases, a Material Adverse Effect. 2. Purchase of the Notes. (a) On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements contained herein, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Underwriting Agreement, the Company agrees to issue and sell to each of the Underwriters, severally and not jointly, and each of the Underwriters, severally and not jointly, agrees to purchase from the Company, the principal amount of Notes set forth opposite the name of such Underwriter in the Underwriting Agreement at the purchase price set forth in the Underwriting Agreement. (b) The Company shall not be obligated to deliver any of the Notes except upon payment for all of the Notes to be purchased as provided herein. Each of the Guarantor and the Company acknowledges and agrees that the Underwriters may sell Notes to any affiliate of an Underwriter and that any such affiliate may sell Notes purchased by it to an Underwriter. 3. Delivery of and Payment for the Notes. (a) Delivery of and payment for the Notes shall be made on the Closing Date at the time and place set forth in the Underwriting Agreement. (b) On the Closing Date, payment of the purchase price for the Notes shall be made to the Company by wire or book-entry transfer of same-day funds to such account or accounts as the Company shall specify prior to the Closing Date or by such other means as the parties hereto shall agree prior to the Closing Date, against delivery to the Underwriters of the certificates evidencing the Notes. Time shall be of the essence, and delivery at the time and place specified pursuant to this Agreement is a further condition of the obligations of the Underwriters hereunder. Upon delivery, the Notes shall be in global form, registered in such names and in such denominations as the Representatives on behalf of the 9 Underwriters shall have requested in writing not less than one full business day prior to the Closing Date. The Company agrees to make one or more global certificates evidencing the Notes available for inspection by the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters in New York, New York at least 24 hours prior to the Closing Date. 4. Further Agreements of the Guarantor and the Company. Each of the Guarantor and the Company agrees with each of the several Underwriters: (a) (i) to prepare the 462(b) Registration Statement, if necessary, in a form approved by the Underwriters and to file such 462(b) Registration Statement with the Commission in compliance with Rule 462(b) of the Rules and Regulations by 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the business day following the date of determination of the public offering price and, at the time of filing, either to pay the Commission the filing fee for the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement or give irrevocable instructions for the payment of such fee pursuant to Rule 111(b) of the Rules and Regulations and (ii) to file the Prospectus with the Commission pursuant to and in accordance with Rule 424(b) within the time period prescribed by such rule and to provide evidence satisfactory to the Underwriters of such timely filing; (b) to file promptly all reports and any definitive proxy or information statement required to be filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act subsequent to the date of the Prospectus and for so long as the delivery of a Prospectus is required in connection with the offering of the Securities; (c) prior to filing with the Commission any (i) amendment to the Registration Statement (including any Rule 462(b) Registration Statement) or supplement to the Prospectus, (ii) any document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus or (iii) any Prospectus pursuant to Rule 424 of the Rules and Regulations, to furnish a copy thereof to the Representatives and counsel for the Underwriters, and not to file any such document to which the Representatives shall reasonably object after having been given reasonable notice of the proposed filing thereof unless the Company is required by law to make such filing; (d) to advise the Underwriters promptly of any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or of any request by the Commission therefor, and of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose; to advise the Underwriters promptly of any order preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating to the Securities, of the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for offering or sale in any jurisdiction and of the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for any such purpose; and to use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or of any such order preventing or suspending the use of any prospectus relating to the Securities or suspending any such qualification and, if any such 10 stop order or order or suspension is issued, to obtain the lifting thereof at the earliest possible time; (e) to furnish promptly to each of the Underwriters and counsel for the Underwriters a copy of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission, and each amendment thereto filed with the Commission, including all consents and exhibits filed therewith; and to deliver promptly without charge to the Underwriters such number of the following documents as the Underwriters may from time to time reasonably request: (i) conformed copies of the Registration Statement as originally filed with the Commission and each amendment thereto (in each case excluding exhibits other than this Agreement, the Indenture and the computation of the ratio of earnings to fixed charges), (ii) each Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amended or supplemented Prospectus and (iii) each document incorporated by reference in the Prospectus (excluding exhibits thereto); (f) if the delivery of a prospectus is required at any time in connection with the sale of the Securities and if at such time any events shall have occurred as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made when such Prospectus is delivered, not misleading, or if for any other reason it shall be necessary or advisable at such time to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or with a request from the Commission, to notify the Underwriters immediately thereof, and to promptly prepare and, subject to Section 4(c) hereof, file with the Commission an amended Prospectus or a supplement to the Prospectus which will correct such statement or omission or effect such compliance; (g) as soon as practicable to make generally available to the Guarantor's security holders and to deliver to the Underwriters an earnings statement of the Guarantor and its subsidiaries (which need not be audited) complying with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations (including, at the option of the Guarantor, Rule 158); (h) promptly take from time to time such actions as the Underwriters may reasonably request to qualify the Securities for offering and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriters may designate and to continue such qualifications in effect for so long as required for the resale of the Securities; and to arrange for the determination of the eligibility for investment of the Securities under the laws of such jurisdictions as the Underwriters may reasonably request; provided that none of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries shall be obligated to qualify as foreign corporations in any jurisdiction in which they are not so qualified or to file a general consent to service of process in any jurisdiction; 11 (i) for a period of 30 days from the date of the Prospectus, not to offer for sale, sell, contract to sell or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, or file a registration statement for, or announce any offer, sale, contract for sale of or other disposition of any debt securities issued or guaranteed by the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective subsidiaries (other than the Notes), without the prior written consent of the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters; (j) in connection with the offering of the Securities, until the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters shall have notified the Guarantor and the Company of the completion of the distribution of the Securities, not to, and to cause its affiliated purchasers (as defined in Regulation M under the Exchange Act) not to, either alone or with one or more other persons, bid for or purchase, for any account in which it or any of its affiliated purchasers has a beneficial interest, any Securities, or attempt to induce any person to purchase any Securities; and not to, and to cause its affiliated purchasers not to, make bids or purchase for the purpose of creating actual, or apparent, active trading in or of raising the price of the Securities; and (k) to apply the net proceeds from the sale of the Notes as set forth in the Prospectus under the heading "Use of Proceeds". 5. Conditions of Underwriters' Obligations. The respective obligations of the several Underwriters hereunder are subject to the accuracy, on and as of the date of the Underwriting Agreement and the Closing Date, of the representations and warranties of the Guarantor and the Company contained herein, to the accuracy of the statements of the Guarantor and the Company and the officers of their general partner made in any certificates delivered pursuant hereto, to the performance by each of the Guarantor and the Company of its obligations hereunder, and to each of the following additional terms and conditions: (a) The Prospectus shall have been timely filed with the Commission in accordance with Section 4(a) of this Agreement, and, if applicable, the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement shall have become effective by 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the business day following the date of the Underwriting Agreement. Prior to the Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or any part thereof shall have been issued and no proceeding for that purpose shall have been initiated or threatened by the Commission; and any request of the Commission for inclusion of additional information in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or otherwise shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of the Underwriters. (b) The Prospectus (and any amendments or supplements thereto) shall have been printed and copies distributed to the Underwriters as promptly as practicable on or following the date of the Underwriting Agreement or at such other date and time as to which the Underwriters may agree. 12 (c) None of the Underwriters shall have discovered and disclosed to the Guarantor or the Company on or prior to the Closing Date that the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto contains an untrue statement of a fact which, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, is material or omits to state any fact which, in the opinion of such counsel, is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. (d) All partnership proceedings and other legal matters incident to the authorization, form and validity of each of the Transaction Documents and the Prospectus, and all other legal matters relating to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby, shall be satisfactory in all material respects to the Underwriters, and the Guarantor and the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters all documents and information that they or their counsel may reasonably request to enable them to pass upon such matters. (e) Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. shall have furnished to the Underwriters their written opinion, as counsel to the Guarantor and the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to the effect set forth in Annex A hereto. (f) Richard H. Bachmann, Esq. shall have furnished to the Underwriters his written opinion, as Chief Legal Officer of the Guarantor and the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to the effect set forth in Annex B hereto. (g) The Underwriters shall have received from Baker Botts L.L.P., counsel for the Underwriters, such opinion or opinions, dated the Closing Date, with respect to such matters as the Underwriters may reasonably require, and the Guarantor and the Company shall have furnished to such counsel such documents and information as they request for the purpose of enabling them to pass upon such matters. (h) The Guarantor and the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters a letter (the "Initial Letter") of Deloitte & Touche LLP, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the date of the Underwriting Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to the effect set forth in Annex C hereto. (i) The Guarantor and the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters a letter (the "Bring-Down Letter") of Deloitte & Touche LLP, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date (i) confirming that they are independent accountants with respect to the Guarantor, the Company and their respective subsidiaries as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations, (ii) stating, as of the date of the Bring- Down Letter (or, with respect to matters involving changes or developments since the respective dates as of 13 which specified financial information is given in the Prospectus, as of a date not more than three business days prior to the date of the Bring-Down Letter), that the conclusions and findings of such accountants with respect to the financial information and other matters covered by the Initial Letter are accurate and (iii) confirming in all material respects the conclusions and findings set forth in the Initial Letter. (j) Each of the Guarantor and the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters a certificate, dated the Closing Date, of the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of their general partner stating that (A) such officers have carefully examined the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, (B) in their opinion, the Registration Statement, including the documents incorporated therein by reference, as of the Effective Time, did not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, and the Prospectus, including the documents incorporated therein by reference, as of the date of the Prospectus and as of the Closing Date, did not and does not include any untrue statement of a material fact and did not and does not omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (C) as of the Closing Date, the representations and warranties of each of the Guarantor and the Company in this Agreement are true and correct in all material respects, each of the Guarantor and the Company has complied with all agreements and satisfied all conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or prior to the Closing Date, no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or, to the best of such officer's knowledge, are contemplated by the Commission, and subsequent to the date of the most recent financial statements contained in the Prospectus, there has been no material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries, or any change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations or business of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, except as set forth in the Prospectus. (k) The Indenture and any applicable supplement thereto, shall have been duly executed and delivered by each of the Guarantor, the Company and the Trustee, and the Notes (including the Guarantee endorsed thereon) shall have been duly executed and delivered by each of the Guarantor and the Company and duly authenticated by the Trustee. (l) If any event shall have occurred on or prior to the Closing Date that requires either the Guarantor or the Company under Section 4(f) to prepare an amendment or supplement to the Prospectus, such amendment or supplement shall have been prepared, the Underwriters shall have been given a reasonable opportunity to comment thereon as provided in Section 4(c) hereof, and copies 14 thereof shall have been delivered to the Underwriters reasonably in advance of the Closing Date. (m) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement or, if earlier, the dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement (exclusive of any amendment thereto) and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto), there shall not have been any change in the partnership interests or long-term debt or any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in or affecting the condition (financial or otherwise), results of operations, business or prospects of the Guarantor and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, the effect of which, in any such case described above, is, in the judgment of the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering of the Securities on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement and the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto). (n) No action shall have been taken and no statute, rule, regulation or order shall have been enacted, adopted or issued by any governmental agency or body which would, as of the Closing Date, prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities; and no injunction, restraining order or order of any other nature by any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction shall have been issued as of the Closing Date which would prevent the issuance or sale of the Securities. (o) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement (i) no downgrading shall have occurred in the rating accorded the Securities or any of the Guarantor's or the Company's other debt securities or preferred stock by any "nationally recognized statistical rating organization", as such term is defined by the Commission for purposes of Rule 436(g)(2) of the Rules and Regulations and (ii) no such organization shall have publicly announced that it has under surveillance or review (other than an announcement with positive implications of a possible upgrading), its rating of the Securities or any of the Guarantor's or the Company's other debt securities or preferred stock. (p) Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement there shall not have occurred any of the following: (i) trading in securities generally on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the over-the-counter market shall have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall have been established on any such exchange or market by the Commission, by any such exchange or by any other regulatory body or governmental authority having jurisdiction, or trading in any securities of the Guarantor or the Company on any exchange or in the over-the-counter market shall have been suspended or (ii) any moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by federal or New York state authorities or (iii) an outbreak or escalation of hostilities or a declaration by the United States of a national emergency or war or (iv) a material adverse change in general economic, political or financial conditions (or the effect of international conditions on the financial markets in the 15 United States shall be such) the effect of which, in the case of this clause (iv), is, in the judgment of the Representatives on behalf of the Underwriters, so material and adverse as to make it impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the public offering or the sale or the delivery of the Notes on the terms and in the manner contemplated by this Agreement and in the Prospectus (exclusive of any supplement thereto). All opinions, letters, evidence and certificates mentioned above or elsewhere in this Agreement shall be deemed to be in compliance with the provisions hereof only if they are in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to counsel for the Underwriters. 6. Termination. The obligations of the Underwriters hereunder may be terminated by the Underwriters, in their absolute discretion, by notice given to and received by the Guarantor or the Company prior to delivery of and payment for the Notes if, prior to that time, any of the events described in Section 5(m), (n), (o) or (p) shall have occurred and be continuing. 7. Defaulting Underwriters. (a) If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter defaults in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, the non-defaulting Underwriters may make arrangements for the purchase of the Notes which such defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase by other persons satisfactory to the Guarantor or the Company and the non-defaulting Underwriters, but if no such arrangements are made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of the non- defaulting Underwriters, the Guarantor or the Company, except that each of the Guarantor and the Company will continue to be liable for the payment of expenses to the extent set forth in Section 12 and except that the provisions of Sections 9 and 10 shall not terminate and shall remain in effect. As used in this Agreement, the term "Underwriters" includes, for all purposes of this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires, any party not listed in the Underwriting Agreement that, pursuant to this Section 7, purchases Notes which a defaulting Underwriter agreed but failed to purchase. (b) Nothing contained herein shall relieve a defaulting Underwriter of any liability it may have to the Guarantor, the Company or any non- defaulting Underwriter for damages caused by its default. If other persons are obligated or agree to purchase the Notes of a defaulting Underwriter, either the non-defaulting Underwriters, the Guarantor or the Company may postpone the Closing Date for up to seven full business days in order to effect any changes that in the opinion of counsel for the Guarantor or the Company or counsel for the Underwriters may be necessary in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or in any other document or arrangement, and each of the Guarantor and the Company agrees to promptly prepare any amendment or supplement to the Registration Statement and the Prospectus that effects any such changes. 16 8. Reimbursement of Underwriters' Expenses. If (a) this Agreement shall have been terminated pursuant to Section 6, (b) the Guarantor or the Company shall fail to tender the Notes for delivery to the Underwriters for any reason permitted under this Agreement or (c) the Underwriters shall decline to purchase the Notes for any reason permitted under this Agreement, the Guarantor and the Company shall reimburse the Underwriters for such out-of-pocket expenses (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel) as shall have been reasonably incurred by the Underwriters in connection with this Agreement and the proposed public offering and sale of the Notes, and upon demand the Guarantor and the Company shall pay the full amount thereof to the Underwriters. If this Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 7 by reason of the default of one or more of the Underwriters, neither the Guarantor nor the Company shall be obligated to reimburse any defaulting Underwriter on account of such expenses. 9. Indemnification. (a) Each of the Guarantor and the Company, jointly and severally, shall indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, its affiliates, their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents, and each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (collectively referred to for purposes of this Section 9(a) and Section 10 as an Underwriter), from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof (including, without limitation, any loss, claim, damage, liability or action relating to purchases and sales of the Notes), to which that Underwriter may become subject, whether commenced or threatened, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein not misleading, and shall reimburse each Underwriter promptly upon demand for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by that Underwriter in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against or appearing as a third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred; provided, however, that the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon, an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement in or omission or alleged omission from any of such documents in reliance upon and in conformity with any Underwriters' Information; and provided, further, that with respect to any such untrue statement in or omission from any Preliminary Prospectus, the indemnity agreement contained in this Section 9(a) shall not inure to the benefit of any such Underwriter to the extent that the sale to the person asserting any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action was an initial resale by such Underwriter and any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action of or with respect to such Underwriter results from the fact that both (A) to the extent required by applicable law, a copy 17 of the Prospectus (excluding the documents incorporated by reference therein) was not sent or given to such person at or prior to the written confirmation of the sale of such Notes to such person and (B) the untrue statement in or omission from such Preliminary Prospectus was corrected in the Prospectus unless, in either case, such failure to deliver the Prospectus was a result of non-compliance by the Guarantor or the Company with Section 4(e). (b) Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, shall indemnify and hold harmless the Guarantor, the Company, their general partner, the respective officers of such general partner who signed the Registration Statement, directors, and each person, if any, who controls the Guarantor or the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (collectively referred to for purposes of this Section 9(b) and Section 10 as the Company), from and against any loss, claim, damage or liability, joint or several, or any action in respect thereof, to which the Company may become subject, whether commenced or threatened, under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act, any other federal or state statutory law or regulation, at common law or otherwise, insofar as such loss, claim, damage, liability or action arises out of, or is based upon, (i) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Preliminary Prospectus, the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or (ii) the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, but in each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with any Underwriters' Information provided by such Underwriter, and shall reimburse the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend against or appearing as a third party witness in connection with any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action as such expenses are incurred. (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 9 of notice of any claim or the commencement of any action, the indemnified party shall, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party pursuant to Section 9(a) or 9(b), notify the indemnifying party in writing of the claim or the commencement of that action; provided, however, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have under this Section 9 except to the extent that it has been materially prejudiced (through the forfeiture of substantive rights or defenses) by such failure; and, provided, further, that the failure to notify the indemnifying party shall not relieve it from any liability which it may have to an indemnified party otherwise than under this Section 9. If any such claim or action shall be brought against an indemnified party, and it shall notify the indemnifying party thereof, the indemnifying party shall be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it wishes, jointly with any other similarly notified indemnifying party, to assume the defense thereof with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the 18 indemnified party. After notice from the indemnifying party to the indemnified party of its election to assume the defense of such claim or action, the indemnifying party shall not be liable to the indemnified party under this Section 9 for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the indemnified party in connection with the defense thereof other than reasonable costs of investigation; provided, however, that an indemnified party shall have the right to employ its own counsel in any such action, but the fees, expenses and other charges of such counsel for the indemnified party will be at the expense of such indemnified party unless (1) the employment of counsel by the indemnified party has been authorized in writing by the indemnifying party, (2) the indemnified party has reasonably concluded (based upon advice of counsel to the indemnified party) that there may be legal defenses available to it or other indemnified parties that are different from or in addition to those available to the indemnifying party, (3) a conflict or potential conflict exists (based upon advice of counsel to the indemnified party) between the indemnified party and the indemnifying party (in which case the indemnifying party will not have the right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party) or (4) the indemnifying party has not in fact employed counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to assume the defense of such action within a reasonable time after receiving notice of the commencement of the action, in each of which cases the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of counsel will be at the expense of the indemnifying party or parties. It is understood that the indemnifying party or parties shall not, in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the reasonable fees, disbursements and other charges of more than one separate firm of attorneys (in addition to any local counsel) at any one time for all such indemnified party or parties. Each indemnified party, as a condition of the indemnity agreements contained in Sections 9(a) and 9(b), shall use all reasonable efforts to cooperate with the indemnifying party in the defense of any such action or claim. No indemnifying party shall be liable for any settlement of any such action effected without its written consent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), but if settled with its written consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff in any such action, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify and hold harmless any indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding. The obligations of the Guarantor, the Company and the Underwriters in this Section 9 and in Section 10 are in addition to any other liability that the Guarantor, the Company or the Underwriters, as the case may be, may otherwise have, including in respect of any breaches of representations, warranties and agreements made herein by any such party. 19 10. Contribution. If the indemnification provided for in Section 9 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under Section 9(a) or 9(b), then each indemnifying party shall, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party, contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, (i) in such proportion as shall be appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other from the offering of the Securities or (ii) if the allocation provided by clause (i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other with respect to the statements or omissions that resulted in such loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other with respect to such offering shall be deemed to be in the same proportion as the total net proceeds from the offering of the Notes purchased under this Agreement (before deducting expenses) received by or on behalf of the Company, on the one hand, and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters with respect to the Notes purchased under this Agreement, on the other, bear to the total gross proceeds from the sale of the Notes under this Agreement, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover page of the Prospectus. The relative fault shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to the Company or information supplied by the Company on the one hand or to any Underwriters' Information on the other, the intent of the parties and their relative knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such untrue statement or omission. The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just and equitable if contributions pursuant to this Section 10 were to be determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to herein. The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the loss, claim, damage or liability, or action in respect thereof, referred to above in this Section 10 shall be deemed to include, for purposes of this Section 10, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending or preparing to defend any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 10, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by such Underwriter with respect to the Notes purchased by it under this Agreement exceeds the amount of any damages which such Underwriter has otherwise paid or become liable to pay by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The Underwriters' obligations to contribute as provided in this Section 10 are several in proportion to their respective underwriting commitments and not joint. 20 11. Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the Underwriters, the Guarantor, the Company and their respective successors. This Agreement and the terms and provisions hereof are for the sole benefit of only those persons, except as provided in Sections 9 and 10 with respect to affiliates, officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents and controlling persons of the Guarantor, the Company and the Underwriters. Nothing in this Agreement is intended or shall be construed to give any person, other than the persons referred to in this Section 11, any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Agreement or any provision contained herein. 12. Expenses. Each of the Guarantor and the Company agrees with the Underwriters to pay (a) the costs incident to the authorization, issuance, sale, preparation and delivery of the Securities and any taxes payable in that connection; (b) the costs incident to the preparation, printing and filing under the Securities Act of the Registration Statement and any amendments and exhibits thereto; (c) the costs of printing and distributing the Registration Statement as originally filed and each amendment thereto and any post-effective amendments thereof (including, in each case, exhibits), any Preliminary Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, all as provided in this Agreement; (d) the costs of printing, reproducing and distributing the Indenture, this Agreement and any underwriting and selling group documents; (e) the filing fees incident to securing any required review by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. of the terms of sale of the Notes; (f) the fees and expenses of the Guarantor's and the Company's counsel and independent accountants; (g) the fees and expenses of preparing, printing and distributing Blue Sky Memoranda (including related fees and expenses of counsel to the Underwriters); (h) any fees charged by rating agencies for rating the Securities; (i) all fees and expenses of the Trustee and any paying agent (including related fees and expenses of any counsel to such parties); (j) the costs incident to the marketing of the Securities to investors, including, without limitation, all costs of the Company, the Guarantor and the Underwriters related to any "roadshow" presentations; and (k) all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Guarantor and the Company under this Agreement; provided that, except as provided in this Section 12 and Section 8, the Underwriters shall pay their own costs and expenses. 13. Survival. The respective indemnities, rights of contribution, representations, warranties and agreements of the Guarantor, the Company and the Underwriters contained in this Agreement or made by or on behalf of the Guarantor, the Company or the Underwriters pursuant to this Agreement or any certificate delivered pursuant hereto shall survive the delivery of and payment for the Notes and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any termination or cancellation of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any of them or any of their respective affiliates, officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents or controlling persons. 14. Notices, etc. All statements, requests, notices and agreements hereunder shall be in writing, and: 21 (a) if to the Underwriters, shall be delivered or sent by mail or telecopy transmission to the Representatives at the addresses set forth in the Underwriting Agreement; or (b) if to the Guarantor or the Company, shall be delivered or sent by mail or telecopy transmission to Enterprise Products Partners L.P., 2727 North Loop West, Suite 700, Houston, Texas 77008-1038, Attention: Chief Legal Officer (telecopier no.: 713-880-6570). Any such statements, requests, notices or agreements shall take effect at the time of receipt thereof. Each of the Guarantor and the Company shall be entitled to act and rely upon any request, consent, notice or agreement given or made on behalf of the Underwriters by the Representative. 15. Definition of Terms. For purposes of this Agreement, (a) the term "business day" means any day on which the New York Stock Exchange, Inc. is open for trading and (b) except where otherwise expressly provided, the term "affiliate" has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 of the Rules and Regulations. 16. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. 17. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts (which may include counterparts delivered by telecopier) and, if executed in more than one counterpart, the executed counterparts shall each be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. 18. Amendments. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement, nor any consent or approval to any departure therefrom, shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the parties hereto. 19. Headings. The headings herein are inserted for convenience of reference only and are not intended to be part of, or to affect the meaning or interpretation of, this Agreement. 22 SCHEDULE I Subsidiaries of the Company and/or the Guarantor
SUBSIDIARY OWNERSHIP INTEREST PERCENTAGE - ---------- ----------------------------- Enterprise Products Operating L.P. 98.9899 Entell NGL Services, LLC 100.00 Sorrento Pipeline Company, LLC 100.00 Sabine Propylene Pipeline L.P. 100.00 Propylene Pipeline Partnership, L.P. 100.00 Enterprise Lou-Tex Propylene Pipeline L.P. 100.00 Enterprise Lou-Tex NGL Pipeline L.P. 100.00 HSC Pipeline Partnership, L.P. 100.00 Cajun Pipeline Company, LLC 100.00 Chunchula Pipeline Company, LLC 100.00 Enterprise Gas Processing, LLC 100.00 Enterprise Products Texas Operating L.P. 100.00 Enterprise NGL Private Lines & Storage, LLC 100.00 Enterprise NGL Pipelines, LLC 100.00 Enterprise Norco LLC 100.00 Enterprise Fractionation LLC 100.00 EPIK Gas Liquids LLC 50.00 EPIK Terminalling L.P. 50.00 Baton Rouge Fractionators LLC 32.25 Baton Rouge Propylene Concentrator, LLC 30.00 Belvieu Environmental Fuels 33.30
1 ANNEX A [Form of Opinion of Outside Counsel for the Guarantor and the Company] Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. shall have furnished to the Underwriters their written opinion, as counsel to the Guarantor and the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to the effect set forth below: (i) The Registration Statement was declared effective under the Securities Act and the Indenture was qualified under the Trust Indenture Act as of the date and time specified in such opinion; [the Rule 462(b) Registration Statement was filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Rules and Regulations on the date and at the time specified in such opinion;] the Prospectus was filed with the Commission pursuant to the subparagraph of Rule 424(b) of the Rules and Regulations specified in such opinion on the date specified therein; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement has been issued and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, no proceeding for that purpose is pending or threatened by the Commission. (ii) The Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any further amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the Prospectus made by the Guarantor and the Company prior to the Closing Date (other than the financial statements and related schedules therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion) comply as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulations; and the Exchange Act Reports (other than the financial statements and related schedules therein, as to which such counsel need express no opinion), when they were filed with the Commission complied as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. (iii) The Indenture complies as to form in all material respects with the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. (iv) The statements in the Prospectus under the heading "Federal Income Tax Considerations -- Partnership Status," to the extent that they constitute summaries of matters of law or regulation or legal conclusions, have been reviewed by such counsel and fairly summarize the matters described therein in all material respects. (v) Each of the Guarantor and the Company has full right, partnership power and authority to execute and deliver each of the Transaction Documents to 1 which it is a party and to perform its obligations thereunder; and all partnership action required to be taken for the due and proper authorization, execution and delivery of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby have been duly and validly taken. (vi) The Underwriting Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Guarantor and the Company and constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Guarantor and the Company enforceable against each of the Guarantor and the Company in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and except to the extent that the indemnification provisions thereof may be unenforceable. (vii) The Indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by each of the Guarantor and the Company and, assuming due authorization, execution and delivery thereof by the Trustee, constitutes a valid and legally binding agreement of each of the Guarantor and the Company enforceable against each of the Guarantor and the Company in accordance with its terms, except to the extent that such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). (viii) The Notes have been duly authorized and issued by the Company and the Guarantee has been duly authorized and issued by the Guarantor and, assuming due authentication thereof by the Trustee and upon payment and delivery in accordance with the Underwriting Agreement, will be duly and validly issued and outstanding and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of each of the Guarantor and the Company entitled to the benefits of the Indenture and enforceable against each of the Guarantor and the Company in accordance with their terms, except to the extent that such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). (ix) Each Transaction Document conforms in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus. (x) None of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is (A) an "investment company" or a company "controlled by" an investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, without taking account of any exemption under the Investment Company Act arising out of the number of 2 holders of the Guarantor's or the Company's securities or (B) a "holding company" or a "subsidiary company" of a holding company or an "affiliate" thereof within the meaning of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended; and Such counsel shall also state that they have participated in conferences with representatives of the Guarantor and the Company and with representatives of their independent accountants and counsel at which conferences the contents of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and any amendment and supplement thereto and related matters were discussed and, although such counsel assume no responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or fairness of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto (except as expressly provided above), nothing has come to the attention of such counsel to cause such counsel to believe that the Registration Statement (or any post-effective amendment thereto), including any Exchange Act Reports incorporated by reference therein, at the time of its effective date, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, or that the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, including any Exchange Act Reports incorporated by reference therein, as of its date and the Closing Date contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading (other than the financial statements and other financial and statistical information contained therein, as to which such counsel need express no belief). In rendering such opinion, such counsel may rely as to matters of fact, to the extent such counsel deems proper, on certificates of responsible officers of the Guarantor and the Company and public officials which are furnished to the Underwriters. 3 ANNEX B [Form of Opinion of Chief Legal Officer of the Guarantor and the Company] Richard H. Bachmann, Esq., Chief Legal Officer of the Guarantor and the Company, shall have furnished to the Underwriters his written opinion, as counsel to the Guarantor and the Company, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to the effect set forth below: (i) Each of the Guarantor, the Company and Enterprise Products GP, LLC has been duly formed and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws of Delaware, is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing as a foreign partnership or foreign limited liability company in each jurisdiction in which its ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its businesses requires such qualification, and has all partnership or limited liability company power and authority necessary to own or hold its properties and to conduct the businesses in which it is engaged and, in the case of Enterprise Products GP, LLC, to act as general partner of the Guarantor and the Company (except where the failure to so qualify or have such power or authority would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect). (ii) All of the outstanding shares of capital stock, partnership interest or membership interest, as the case may be, of each Subsidiary have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable, except that, for each Subsidiary of which the Company and/or the Guarantor own 50% or less of the outstanding capital stock, partnership interest or membership interest, as the case may be, this opinion is limited to the ownership interest set forth on Schedule I of the Underwriting Agreement. The Company and/or the Guarantor, as the case may be, owns the shares of capital stock, partnership interest or membership interest in each Subsidiary as set forth on Schedule I hereto free and clear of any lien, charge, encumbrance (other than contractual restrictions on transfer), security interest, restriction upon voting or any other claim of any third party. (iii) The descriptions in the Prospectus of statutes, legal and governmental proceedings and contracts and other documents (other than the Transaction Documents) are accurate in all material respects; and, to the best of such counsel's knowledge, (A) there are no current or pending legal or governmental actions, suits or proceedings which are required to be described in the Prospectus by the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations and which have not been so described and (B) there are no contracts and other documents which are required under the Securities Act or the Rules and Regulations to be described in the Prospectus or filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement and which have not been so described or filed. 1 (iv) The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Guarantor and the Company of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance, authentication, sale and delivery of the Notes and compliance by each of the Guarantor and the Company with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which it is a party will not conflict with or result in a breach or violation of any of the terms or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of either the Guarantor or the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries pursuant to, any material indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan agreement or other material agreement or instrument known to such counsel to which either of the Guarantor or the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party or by which any of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is bound or to which any of the property or assets of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is subject, nor will such actions result in any violation of the provisions of the organizational documents of the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any statute or, to the best knowledge of such counsel, any judgment, order, decree, rule or regulation of any court or arbitrator or governmental agency or body having jurisdiction over the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their properties or assets; and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or filing or registration with, any such court or arbitrator or governmental agency or body under any such statute, judgment, order, decree, rule or regulation is required for the execution, delivery and performance by either the Guarantor or the Company of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance, authentication, sale and delivery of the Notes and compliance by each of the Guarantor and the Company with the terms thereof and the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, except for such consents, approvals, authorizations, filings, registrations or qualifications (i) which shall have been obtained or made prior to the Closing Date and (ii) as may be required to be obtained or made under the Exchange Act and applicable state securities laws in connection with the purchase and distribution of the Notes by the Underwriters. (v) To the best knowledge of such counsel, there are no pending actions or suits or judicial, arbitral, rule-making, administrative or other proceedings to which the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party or of which any property or assets of Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries is the subject which (A) singly or in the aggregate, if determined adversely to the Guarantor, the Company or any of their respective Subsidiaries, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (B) questions the validity or enforceability of any of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party or any action taken or to be taken pursuant thereto; and to the best knowledge of such counsel, no such proceedings are threatened or contemplated by governmental authorities or threatened by others. 2 ANNEX C [Form of Initial Comfort Letter] The Guarantor and the Company shall have furnished to the Underwriters a letter of Deloitte & Touche LLP, addressed to the Underwriters and dated the date of delivery thereof (which, if the Effective Time is prior to the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement, shall be on or prior to the date of the Underwriting Agreement or, if the Effective Time is subsequent to the execution and delivery of the Underwriting Agreement, shall be prior to the filing of the amendment or post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement to be filed shortly prior to the Effective Time), in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, substantially to the effect set forth below: (i) they are independent certified public accountants with respect to the Guarantor and the Company as required by the Securities Act and the Rules and Regulation and are in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X of the Commission; (ii) in their opinion, the audited financial statements and pro forma financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus and reported on by them comply in form in all material respects with the accounting requirements of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act and the related published rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (except that certain supporting schedules are omitted); (iii) based upon a reading of the latest unaudited financial statements made available by the Guarantor and the Company, the procedures of the AICPA for a review of interim financial information as described in Statement of Auditing Standards No. 71, reading of minutes and inquiries of certain officials of the Guarantor and the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters and certain other limited procedures requested by the Underwriters and described in detail in such letter, nothing has come to their attention that causes them to believe that (A) any unaudited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus do not comply as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements or (B) any material modifications should be made to the unaudited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus for them to be in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis substantially consistent with that of the audited financial statements included or incorporated by reference in the Prospectus; (iv) based upon the procedures detailed in such letter with respect to the period subsequent to the date of the last available balance sheet, including reading of minutes and inquiries of certain officials of the Guarantor and the 1 Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters, nothing has come to their attention that causes them to believe that (A) at a specified date not more than three business days prior to the date of such letter, there was any change in capital stock, increase in long-term debt or decrease in net current assets as compared with the amounts shown in the ________________, ___ unaudited balance sheet included in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus or (B) for the period from _________________, ____ to a specified date not more than three business days prior to the date of such letter, there were any decreases, as compared with the corresponding period in the preceding year, in net sales, income from operations, EBITDA or net income, except in all instances for changes, increases or decreases that the Prospectus discloses have occurred or which are set forth in such letter, in which case the letter shall be accompanied by an explanation by either the Guarantor or the Company as to the significance thereof unless said explanation is not deemed necessary by the Underwriters; (v) they have performed certain other specified procedures as a result of which they determined that certain information of an accounting, financial or statistical nature (which is limited to accounting, financial or statistical information derived from the general accounting records of the Guarantor and the Company) set forth or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus agrees with the accounting records of the Guarantor and the Company, excluding any questions of legal interpretation; and (vi) on the basis of a reading of the unaudited pro forma financial information included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, carrying out certain specified procedures, reading of minutes and inquiries of certain officials of the Guarantor and the Company who have responsibility for financial and accounting matters and proving the arithmetic accuracy of the application of the pro forma adjustments to the historical amounts in the pro forma financial information, nothing came to their attention which caused them to believe that the pro forma financial information does not comply in form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of Rule 11-02 of Regulation S-X or that the pro forma adjustments have not been properly applied to the historical amounts in the compilation of such information. 2 EX-4.1 3 0003.txt FORM OF GLOBAL NOTE EXHIBIT 4.1 GLOBAL NOTE UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO HEREIN. R-GN1 Principal Amount ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. $450,000,000 7.50% SENIOR NOTE DUE 2011 CUSIP 293791 AB 5 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a limited partnership duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein called the "Company", which term includes any successor corporation or other entity under the Indenture referred to below), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., as the nominee of DTC, or registered assigns, the principal amount of Four Hundred Fifty Million Dollars ($450,000,000), on February 1, 2011 (the "Maturity Date") and to pay interest (computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) on February 1 and August 1 ("Interest Payment Date") of each year, beginning on August 1, 2001, and at the Maturity Date specified above on said principal amount, at the rate of 7.50% per annum, from the date hereof until payment of said principal amount has been made or duly provided for. The interest so payable on any Interest Payment Date (other than at maturity) will be paid to the Person in whose name this Global Note is registered at the close of business on the fifteenth day of the month immediately preceding the month in which such interest payment is due (a "Regular Record Date"), unless the Company shall default in the payment of interest due on any such Interest Payment Date, in which case such defaulted interest shall be paid to the Person in whose name this Global Note is registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such defaulted interest established by notice to the registered holders of Notes not less than ten (10) days preceding such special record date. In any case, where the date for any payment on the Notes is not a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day. Both principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Global Note are payable in immediately available funds in any coin or currency of the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts. Payments of principal of, premium, if any, and interest will be made by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Depositary or its nominee, in its capacity as registered holder of this Global Note. Initially, the Trustee will act as paying agent and registrar under the Indenture. The Company may change any paying agent or registrar as provided in the Indenture. This Global Note is one of a duly authorized issue of debentures, notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of the Company (the "Securities"), of the series hereinafter specified, issued or to be issued under an Indenture dated as of March 15, 2000, duly executed and delivered by the Company and Enterprise Products Partners L.P., as Guarantor, to First Union National Bank, a banking corporation existing under the laws of the United States of America, as trustee (the "Trustee"), to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a description of the respective rights and duties thereunder of the Trustee, the Company, the Guarantor and the Holders of the Securities. The Securities may be issued in one or more series, which different series may be issued in various aggregate principal amounts, may mature at different times, may bear interest at different rates, may be subject to different redemption provisions, may be subject to different sinking, purchase or analogous funds, may be subject to different covenants and events of default and may otherwise vary as in the Indenture provided. This Global Note is a Global Security representing the entire principal amount of a series of Securities designated "7.50% Senior Notes Due 2011" (the "Notes") issued under the Indenture. Unless otherwise provided herein, all terms used in this Global Note that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939. To the extent permitted by applicable law, in the event of any inconsistency between the terms of the Notes and the terms of the Indenture, the terms of the Indenture shall govern. The Notes are general, unsecured, senior obligations of the Company, and are unconditionally guaranteed by the Guarantor as set forth in Article XIV of the Indenture, as noted in the Notation of Guarantee to this Global Note. The Notes shall not be redeemable through the operation of any sinking fund or analogous provisions, nor at the option of a Holder. The Notes will be redeemable, at the Company's option, at any time in whole, or from time to time in part, upon not less than 30 and not more than 60 days notice, at a price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed or (ii) the sum of the present value of the remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest (at the rate in effect on the date of calculation of the redemption price) thereon (exclusive of interest accrued to the date of redemption) discounted to the date of redemption on a semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the applicable Treasury Yield plus 30 basis points, plus, in either case, accrued interest to the date of redemption. 2 For purposes of determining the optional redemption price, the following definitions are applicable: "Treasury Yield" means, with respect to any Redemption Date applicable to the Notes, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third business day immediately preceding such Redemption Date) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the applicable Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date. "Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security selected by an Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term of the Notes that would be utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining terms of the Notes. "Independent Investment Banker" means Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Salomon Smith Barney Inc. (and their successors), or, if such firm is unwilling or unable to select the applicable Comparable Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of national standing appointed by the Trustee and reasonably acceptable to the Company. "Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (a) the bid price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) at 4:00 P.M. on the third business day preceding such Redemption Date, as set forth on "Telerate Page 500" (or such other page as may replace Telerate Page 500), or (b) if such page (or any successor page) is not displayed or does not contain such bid prices at such time (i) the average of the Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations obtained by the Trustee for such Redemption Date, after excluding the highest and lowest of four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, or (ii) if the Trustee is unable to obtain at least four such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations obtained by the Trustee. "Reference Treasury Dealer" means Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Salomon Smith Barney Inc. (and their successors) and one other primary U.S. government securities dealer in New York City selected by each of the Independent Investment Bankers (each, a "Primary Treasury Dealer"); provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer. "Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date for the Notes, an average, as determined by the Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable 3 Treasury Issue for the Notes (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third business day preceding such Redemption Date. Holders of Notes to be redeemed will receive notice thereof by mail at least 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption. In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of and interest on the Notes may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become, immediately due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture. The Indenture provides that such declaration may in certain events be waived by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then Outstanding. The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the Company or the Guarantor and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series to be affected. It is also provided in the Indenture that the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such series at the time Outstanding may on behalf of the Holders of all of the Securities of such series waive any past default with respect to the Securities of such series under the Indenture and rescind an acceleration and its consequences, except a default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, any of the Securities of such series and a default in respect of any provision of the Indenture that cannot be waived without the consent of each Holder affected thereby. The Indenture provides that no Holder of any Note may enforce any remedy under the Indenture except in the case of neglect of the Trustee to act after notice of default and after request by the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes and the offer to the Trustee of reasonable indemnity satisfactory to it; provided, however, that such provision shall not prevent the Holder hereof from enforcing payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, this Global Note. No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Global Note or of the Indenture (including the Company's right to defease and discharge the Notes pursuant to Article XI of the Indenture) shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, this Global Note at the place, at the respective times, at the rate and in the coin or currency herein prescribed. The Global Note shall be exchangeable for Securities registered in the names of Persons other than the Depositary or its nominee only if (i) the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as the Depositary or if at any time the Depositary ceases to be eligible or in good standing as a clearing agency registered under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable statute, rule or regulation and the 4 Company fails to appoint a successor Depositary within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such event, or (ii) the Company at any time and in its sole discretion executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order that this Global Note shall be so exchangeable. To the extent that this Global Note is exchangeable pursuant to the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for Notes registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct. Except as provided in the immediately preceding paragraph, this Global Note may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a successor of such Depositary or a nominee of such successor. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this Global Note, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may deem and treat the Holder hereof as the absolute owner of this Global Note (whether or not this Global Note shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon), for the purpose of receiving payment hereof or on account hereof, as herein provided, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company, the Guarantor nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any Registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All payments made to or upon the order of such Holder shall, to the extent of the sum or sums paid, effectually satisfy and discharge liability for moneys payable on this Global Note. None of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee, any paying agent or any Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests of this Global Note or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests. The General Partner and its directors, officers, employees and members, as such, shall have no liability for any obligations of the Guarantor or the Issuer under the Notes, the Indenture or the Guarantee or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting the Notes waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Global Note, this Global Note shall in all respects be entitled to all benefits, and subject to the same terms and conditions, as definitive registered securities authenticated and delivered under the Indenture. THE INDENTURE, THE GUARANTEE AND THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This Global Note shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by the Trustee under the Indenture. 5 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed by its sole General Partner. Dated as of January 29, 2001 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, as General Partner By: --------------------------------- Michael A. Creel Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, As Trustee By: ------------------------------- Authorized Signatory 6 ASSIGNMENT FORM To assign this Note, fill in the form below: (I) or (we) for value received, assign and transfer this Note to - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Insert assignee's soc. sec. or tax I.D. no.) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Print or type assignee's name, address and zip code) and irrevocably appoint _____________________________________________________ to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: ________________________ Your Signature:___________________________ (Sign exactly as your name appears on the face of this Note) Signature Guarantee: 7 SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF DEFINITIVE SECURITY The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for Definitive Securities have been made:
Amount of decrease Amount of increase Principal Amount of Signature of in Principal Amount in Principal Amount this Global Security authorized officer Date of of this Global of this Global following such of Trustee or Exchange Security Security decrease (or increase) Security custodian
8 NOTATION OF GUARANTEE The Guarantor (which term includes any successor person under the Indenture), has fully, unconditionally and absolutely guaranteed, to the extent set forth in the Indenture and subject to the provisions in the Indenture, the due and punctual payment of the principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on the Notes and all other amounts due and payable under the Indenture and the Notes by the Company. The obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of Notes and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth in Article XIV of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC Its General Partner By: -------------------------------------- Michael A. Creel Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 9 EX-4.2 4 0004.txt CREDIT AGREEMENT - MULTI YEAR EXHIBIT 4.2 CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of November 17, 2000 among ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. The Lenders Party Hereto FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent BANK ONE, NA, as Documentation Agent THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, as Syndication Agent ------------------------------ FIRST UNION SECURITIES, INC. and CHASE SECURITIES INC., as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers Multi-Year Revolving Credit Facility TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page ARTICLE I Definitions............................................................................ 1 SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms........................................................... 1 SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings.................................. 16 SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally......................................................... 16 SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP.................................................. 16 ARTICLE II The Credits............................................................................ 17 SECTION 2.01. Commitments............................................................. 17 SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings.................................................... 17 SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings....................................... 18 SECTION 2.04. Competitive Bid Procedure............................................... 19 SECTION 2.05. Swingline Loans......................................................... 20 SECTION 2.06. Letters of Credit....................................................... 21 SECTION 2.07. Funding of Borrowings................................................... 25 SECTION 2.08. Interest Elections...................................................... 25 SECTION 2.09. Termination and Reduction of Commitments................................ 26 SECTION 2.10. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt.................................... 27 SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans..................................................... 27 SECTION 2.12. Fees.................................................................... 28 SECTION 2.13. Interest................................................................ 29 SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest.............................................. 30 SECTION 2.15. Increased Costs......................................................... 31 SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments.................................................. 32 SECTION 2.17. Taxes................................................................... 32 SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs............. 33 SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.......................... 35 ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties......................................................... 35 SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers.................................................... 35 SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability........................................... 36 SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts.................................... 36 SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change......................... 36 SECTION 3.05. Intentionally Omitted................................................... 36 SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters.................................... 36 SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws.................................................... 37 SECTION 3.08. Investment and Holding Company Status................................... 37 SECTION 3.09. Taxes................................................................... 37 SECTION 3.10. ERISA................................................................... 37 SECTION 3.11. Disclosure.............................................................. 37 SECTION 3.12. Subsidiaries............................................................ 37 SECTION 3.13. Margin Securities....................................................... 37
i ARTICLE IV Conditions............................................................................. 38 SECTION 4.01. Effective Date.......................................................... 38 SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event....................................................... 39 ARTICLE V Affirmative Covenants.................................................................. 39 SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information.............................. 39 SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events.............................................. 40 SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business.......................................... 40 SECTION 5.04. Intentionally Omitted................................................... 40 SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance.................................... 40 SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights.................................... 41 SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws.................................................... 41 SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit................................... 41 SECTION 5.09. Environmental Matters................................................... 41 SECTION 5.10. ERISA Information....................................................... 41 SECTION 5.11. Taxes................................................................... 42 ARTICLE VI Negative Covenants..................................................................... 42 SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness............................................................ 42 SECTION 6.02. Liens................................................................... 43 SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes..................................................... 43 SECTION 6.04. Investment Restriction.................................................. 43 SECTION 6.05. Restricted Payments..................................................... 43 SECTION 6.06. Restrictive Agreements.................................................. 44 SECTION 6.07. Financial Condition Covenants........................................... 44 ARTICLE VII Events of Default...................................................................... 44 ARTICLE VIII The Administrative Agent............................................................... 46 ARTICLE IX Miscellaneous.......................................................................... 48 SECTION 9.01. Notices................................................................. 48 SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments..................................................... 49 SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver...................................... 50 SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns.................................................. 51 SECTION 9.05. Survival................................................................ 53 SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness................................ 53 SECTION 9.07. Severability............................................................ 53 SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff......................................................... 53 SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process.............. 54 SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.................................................... 54 SECTION 9.11. Headings................................................................ 54 SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality......................................................... 54 SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation................................................ 55 SECTION 9.14. Liability of General Partner............................................ 55 SECTION 9.15. Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility............................. 55
ii SCHEDULES: Schedule 1.01 -- Existing Letters of Credit Schedule 2.01 -- Commitments Schedule 3.06 -- Disclosed Matters Schedule 3.12 -- Subsidiaries Schedule 6.01 -- Existing Indebtedness Schedule 6.06 -- Existing Restrictions EXHIBITS: Exhibit A -- Form of Assignment and Acceptance Exhibit B -- Form of Borrowing Request Exhibit C -- Form of Competitive Bid Request Exhibit D -- Form of Interest Election Request Exhibit E -- Form of Opinion of Borrower's and Guarantor's Counsel Exhibit F -- Form of Compliance Certificate Exhibit G -- Form of Revolving Loan Note Exhibit H -- Form of Competitive Loan Note Exhibit I -- Form of Swingline Loan Note iii CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of November 17, 2000, among ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership; the LENDERS party hereto; FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender; BANK ONE, NA, as Documentation Agent; and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, as Syndication Agent. The parties hereto agree as follows: ARTICLE I Definitions SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below: "ABR", when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to a Loan, or Loans, in the case of a Borrowing, which bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate. "Administrative Agent" means First Union National Bank, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder. "Administrative Questionnaire" means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent. "Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. "Agreement" means this Credit Agreement dated November 17, 2000, among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership; the Lenders party hereto; First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender; Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent; and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, as amended, extended or otherwise modified from time to time. "Alternate Base Rate" means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively. "Applicable Percentage" means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the total Commitments represented by such Lender's Commitment. If the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments. "Applicable Rate" means, for any day, with respect to any Eurodollar Revolving Loan, or with respect to the facility fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption "Eurodollar Spread" or "Facility Fee Rate", as the case may be, based upon the ratings by Moody's and S&P, respectively, applicable on such date to the Index Debt: Index Debt Ratings: Eurodollar Facility Fee ------------------ ---------- ------------ (Moody's/S&P) Spread Rate ----------- ------ ---- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Category 1 ---------- => A3/A - 0.375% 0.125% - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Category 2 => Baa1/BBB+ 0.475% 0.150% - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Category 3 =>Baa2/BBB 0.575% 0.175% - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Category 4 =>Baa3/BBB- 0.750% 0.250% - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Category 5 ---------- =>Baa3/BBB- 0.950% 0.300% ============================================================================= For purposes of the foregoing, (i) if either Moody's or S&P shall not have in effect a rating for the Index Debt (other than by reason of the circumstances referred to in the last sentence of this definition), then such rating agency shall be deemed to have established a rating in the same Category as the other rating agency; (ii) if the ratings established by Moody's and S&P for the Index Debt shall fall within different Categories, the Applicable Rate shall be based on the higher of the two ratings unless one of the two ratings is two or more Categories lower than the other, in which case the Applicable Rate shall be determined by reference to the Category one rating higher than the lower of the two ratings; and (iii) if the ratings established or deemed to have been established by Moody's and S&P for the Index Debt shall be changed (other than as a result of a change in the rating system of Moody's or S&P), such change shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by the applicable rating agency. Each change in the Applicable Rate shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change. If the rating system of Moody's or S&P shall change, or if either such rating agency shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Borrower and the Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the unavailability of ratings from such rating agency and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Rate shall be determined by reference to the rating most recently in effect prior to such change or cessation. "Assignment and Acceptance" means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 9.04), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent. "Attributable Indebtedness" with respect to any Sale/Leaseback Transaction, means, as at the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the rate set forth or implicit in the terms of the lease included in such transaction) of the total obligations of the lessee for rental payments (other than amounts required to be paid on account of property taxes, maintenance, repairs, insurance, assessments, utilities, operating and labor costs and other items that do not constitute payments for property rights) during the remaining term of the lease included in such Sale/Leaseback Transaction (including any period for which such lease has been extended). In the case of any lease that is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty or other termination payment, such amount shall be the lesser of the amount determined assuming termination upon the first date such lease may be terminated (in which case the amount shall also include the amount of the penalty or termination payment, but no rent shall be considered as required to 2 be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated) or the amount determined assuming no such termination. "Availability Period" means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of the Commitments. "Board" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America. "Borrower" means Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership. "Borrowing" means (a) Revolving Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect, (b) a Competitive Loan or group of Competitive Loans of the same Type made on the same date and as to which a single Interest Period is in effect or (c) a Swingline Loan. "Borrowing Request" means a request by the Borrower for a Revolving Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03, and being in the form of attached Exhibit B. "Business Day" means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term "Business Day" shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market. "Capital Lease Obligations" of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP. "CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended. "Change in Control" means Duncan shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, at least a majority (on a fully converted, fully diluted basis) of the economic interest in the capital stock of EPCO and/or EPCO shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, at least a majority (on a fully converted, fully diluted basis) of the membership interest of the General Partner. "Change in Law" means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.15(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement. "Class", when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Loans, Competitive Loans or Swingline Loans. "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time. 3 "Commitment" means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Revolving Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit and Swingline Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Lender's Revolving Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.01 or assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender's Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders' Commitments is $250,000,000. "Common Units" means the common units of limited partner interests in the Limited Partner. "Competitive Bid" means an offer by a Lender to make a Competitive Loan in accordance with Section 2.04. "Competitive Bid Rate" means, with respect to any Competitive Bid, the Margin or the Fixed Rate, as applicable, offered by the Lender making such Competitive Bid. "Competitive Bid Request" means a request by the Borrower for Competitive Bids in accordance with Section 2.04, and being in the form of attached Exhibit C. "Competitive Loan" means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.04. "Consolidated EBITDA" means for any period, the sum of (a) the consolidated net income of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries) for such period plus, to the extent deducted in determining consolidated net income for such period, the aggregate amount of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, (ii) income tax expense and (iii) depreciation and amortization expense plus (b) the amount of cash dividends actually received during such period by the Borrower or a Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) from a Project Finance Subsidiary plus (c) the amount of all payments during such period on leases of the type referred to in clause (d) of the definition herein of Indebtedness and the amount of all payments during such period under other off-balance sheet loans and financings of the type referred to in such clause (d). "Consolidated Indebtedness" means the Indebtedness of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries) including, without duplication, guaranties of funded debt, determined on a consolidated basis as of such date. "Consolidated Interest Expense" means for any period, the interest expense of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries), determined on a consolidated basis for such period. "Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means, at any date of determination, the total amount of assets of the Limited Partner and its consolidated subsidiaries after deducting therefrom: (a) all current liabilities (excluding (A) any current liabilities that by their terms are extendable or renewable at the option of the obligor thereon to a time more than 12 months after the time as of which the amount thereof is being computed, and (B) current maturities of long-term debt); and 4 (b) the value (net of any applicable reserves) of all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents and other like intangible assets, all as set forth, or on a pro forma basis would be set forth, on the consolidated balance sheet of the Limited Partner and its consolidated subsidiaries for the Limited Partner's most recently completed fiscal quarter, prepared in accordance with GAAP. "Consolidated Net Worth" means as to any Person, at any date of determination, the sum of preferred stock (if any), par value of common stock, capital in excess of par value of common stock, partners' capital or equity, and retained earnings, less treasury stock (if any), of such Person, all as determined on a consolidated basis. "Control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. "Controlling" and "Controlled" have meanings correlative thereto. "Default" means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default. "Disclosed Matters" means the actions, suits and proceedings and the environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 3.06. "dollars" or "$" refers to lawful money of the United States of America. "Duncan" means, collectively, individually or in any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan's estate, and/or trusts established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, such legatees and/or distributees and/or their respective descendants, heirs, legatees and distributees. "Effective Date" means the date specified in the notice referred to in the last sentence of Section 4.01. "Environmental Laws" means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters. "Environmental Liability" means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing. "EPCO" means Enterprise Products Company, a Texas corporation. "Equity Interest" means shares of the capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity interests in any Person, or any warrants, options or other rights to acquire such interests. 5 "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time. "ERISA Affiliate" means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code. "ERISA Event" means (a) any "reportable event", as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) the existence with respect to any Plan of an "accumulated funding deficiency" (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA. "Eurocurrency Liabilities" has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation D of the Board, as in effect from time to time. "Eurodollar", when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to a Loan, or Loans, in the case of a Borrowing, which bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate. "Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage" of any Lender for any Interest Period for each Revolving Eurodollar Borrowing means 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 which any such percentage shall be so applicable) under regulations issued from time to time by the Board for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for such Lender with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities having a term equal to such Interest Period. "Event of Default" has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII. "Excluded Taxes" means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of America, by any state thereof or the District of Columbia or by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.19(b)), any withholding tax that is 6 imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender's failure to comply with Section 2.17(e). "Existing Letters of Credit" means the outstanding letters of credit issued by The Chase Manhattan Bank for the account of the Borrower under the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility prior to the Effective Date and listed on Schedule 1.01. "Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility" means the $350,000,000 revolving credit facility of the Borrower under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of July 28, 1999, among the Borrower, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto, together with any and all amendments and supplements thereto. "Federal Funds Effective Rate" means, 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 such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. "Financial Officer" means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower. "Fixed Rate" means, with respect to any Competitive Loan (other than a Eurodollar Competitive Loan), the fixed rate of interest per annum specified by the Lender making such Competitive Loan in its related Competitive Bid. "Fixed Rate Loan" means a Competitive Loan bearing interest at a Fixed Rate. "Foreign Lender" means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia. "GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. "General Partner" means Enterprise Products GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. "Governmental Authority" means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government. "Guarantee" of or by any Person (the "guarantor") means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the "primary obligor") in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working 7 capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. "Guaranty Agreement" means an agreement executed by the Limited Partner in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent guaranteeing, unconditionally, payment of any principal of or interest on the Loans, any reimbursement obligations in respect of any LC Disbursement or any other amount payable under this Agreement, when and as the same shall become due and payable. "Hazardous Materials" means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature, in each case regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law. "Indebtedness" of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for the repayment of money borrowed which are or should be shown on a balance sheet as debt in accordance with GAAP, (b) obligations of such Person as lessee under leases which, in accordance with GAAP, are capital leases, (c) guaranties of such Person of payment or collection of any obligations described in clauses (a) and (b) of other Persons; provided, that clauses (a) and (b) include, in the case of obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, only such obligations as are or should be shown as debt or capital lease liabilities on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP and (d) all obligations of such Person under any synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off-balance sheet financing if the obligation under such synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off-balance sheet financing, as the case may be, is considered indebtedness for borrowed money for tax purposes but is classified as an operating lease in accordance with GAAP; provided, further, that the liability of any Person as a general partner of a partnership for Indebtedness of such partnership, if such partnership is not a subsidiary of such Person, shall not constitute Indebtedness. "Indemnified Taxes" means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes. "Index Debt" means senior, unsecured, non-credit enhanced (except for any guaranty by the Limited Partner) Indebtedness of the Borrower. "Information Memorandum" means the Confidential Information Memorandum dated October, 2000 relating to the Borrower and the Transactions. "Interest Election Request" means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Revolving Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.08, and being in the form of attached Exhibit D. "Interest Payment Date" means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan (other than a Swingline Loan), the last day of each March, June, September and December, (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three (3) months' duration, the day that occurs three months after the first day of such Interest Period, (c) with respect to any Fixed Rate Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than 90 days' duration (unless otherwise specified in the applicable Competitive Bid Request), the day 8 that occurs 90 days after the first day of such Interest Period, and any other dates that are specified in the applicable Competitive Bid Request as Interest Payment Dates with respect to such Borrowing and (d) with respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid. "Interest Period" means (a) with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect, and (b) with respect to any Fixed Rate Borrowing, the period (which shall not be less than seven (7) days or more than 180 days) commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the date specified in the applicable Competitive Bid Request; provided, that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing only, such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Borrowing that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and, in the case of a Revolving Borrowing, thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing. "Issuing Bank" means First Union National Bank, in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 2.06(i); provided, that, for purposes of the Existing Letters of Credit, the term "Issuing Bank" shall mean The Chase Manhattan Bank, in its capacity as issuer of the Existing Letters of Credit under the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility. The Issuing Bank may arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Issuing Bank if the Borrower (in its sole discretion) approves such arrangement in writing, in which case the term "Issuing Bank" shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate. "LC Disbursement" means a payment made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit. "LC Exposure" means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrower at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such time. "Lenders" means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance or pursuant to Section 2.01(c). Unless the context otherwise requires, the term "Lenders" includes the Swingline Lender. "Letter of Credit" means, collectively, the Existing Letters of Credit and any letter of credit issued pursuant to this Agreement. "LIBO Rate" means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, (a) the rate per annum appearing on Page 3750 of the Bridge Telerate Service (formerly Dow Jones Market Service) (or on any successor or substitute page of such Service, or any successor to or substitute for such Service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such Service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time 9 to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period; (b) if for any reason the rate specified in clause (a) of this definition does not so appear on Page 3750 of the Bridge Telerate Service (or any successor or substitute page or any such successor to or substitute for such Service), the rate per annum appearing on Reuters Screen LIBO page (or any successor or substitute page) as the London interbank offered rate for deposits in dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period; and (c) if the rate specified in clause (a) of this definition does not so appear on Page 3750 of the Bridge Telerate Service (or any successor or substitute page or any such successor to or substitute for such Service) and if no rate specified in clause (b) of this definition so appears on Reuters Screen LIBO page (or any successor or substitute page), the average of the interest rates per annum at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the respective principal London offices of the Reference Banks in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period. "Lien" means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities. For avoidance of doubt, operating leases are not "Liens." "Limited Partner" means Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, or any other Person that is the "Guarantor" as defined in the March 15, 2000 Indenture. "Loans" means the loans made by the Lenders to the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement. "March 15, 2000 Indenture" means that certain Indenture dated as of March 15, 2000, among the Borrower, the Limited Partner and First Union National Bank, as Trustee. "Margin" means, with respect to any Competitive Loan bearing interest at a rate based on the LIBO Rate, the marginal rate of interest, if any, to be added to or subtracted from the LIBO Rate to determine the rate of interest applicable to such Loan, as specified by the Lender making such Loan in its related Competitive Bid. "Material Adverse Change" means a material adverse change, from that in effect on June 30, 2000, in the financial condition or results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole, as indicated in the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements. "Material Adverse Effect" means a material adverse effect on financial condition or results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole, as indicated in the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements. "Material Indebtedness" means Indebtedness (other than the Loans and Letters of Credit), of any one or more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $25,000,000. "Material Subsidiary" means (i) those Subsidiaries designated on Schedule 3.12 as Material Subsidiaries and (ii) each Subsidiary that, as of the 10 last day of the fiscal year of the Borrower most recently ended prior to the relevant determination of Material Subsidiaries, has a net worth determined in accordance with GAAP that is greater than 10% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as of such day. "Maturity Date" means November 17, 2005, as the same may be extended pursuant to Section 2.01(c). "Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. "Multiemployer Plan" means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA. "Other Taxes" means 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 registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement. "Partnership Agreement" means the Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Borrower among the General Partner and the Limited Partner substantially in the form provided to the Lenders, as amended, modified and supplemented from time to time. "PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions. "Permitted Liens" means: (a) liens upon rights-of-way for pipeline purposes; (b) any statutory or governmental lien or lien arising by operation of law, or any mechanics', repairmen's, materialmen's, suppliers', carriers', landlords', warehousemen's or similar lien incurred in the ordinary course of business which is not yet due or which is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and any undetermined lien which is incidental to construction, development, improvement or repair; or any right reserved to, or vested in, any municipality or public authority by the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant, license, permit or by any provision of law, to purchase or recapture or to designate a purchaser of, any property; (c) liens for taxes and assessments which are (i) for the then current year, (ii) not at the time delinquent, or (iii) delinquent but the validity or amount of which is being contested at the time by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (d) liens of, or to secure performance of, leases, other than capital leases, or any lien securing industrial development, pollution control or similar revenue bonds; (e) any lien upon property or assets acquired or sold by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner resulting from the exercise of any rights arising out of defaults on receivables; (f) any lien in favor of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner; or any lien upon any property or assets of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner in existence on the date of the execution and delivery of the March 15, 2000 Indenture; 11 (g) any lien in favor of the United States of America or any state thereof, or any department, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision of the United States of America or any state thereof, to secure partial, progress, advance, or other payments pursuant to any contract or statute, or any debt incurred by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price of, or the cost of constructing, developing, repairing or improving, the property or assets subject to such lien; (h) any lien incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance, temporary disability, social security, retiree health or similar laws or regulations or to secure obligations imposed by statute or governmental regulations; (i) liens in favor of any Person to secure obligations under provisions of any letters of credit, bank guarantees, bonds or surety obligations required or requested by any governmental authority in connection with any contract or statute; or any lien upon or deposits of any assets to secure performance of bids, trade contracts, leases or statutory obligations; (j) any lien upon any property or assets created at the time of acquisition of such property or assets by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner or within one year after such time to secure all or a portion of the purchase price for such property or assets or debt incurred to finance such purchase price, whether such debt was incurred prior to, at the time of or within one year after the date of such acquisition; or any lien upon any property or assets to secure all or part of the cost of construction, development, repair or improvements thereon or to secure debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within one year after completion of such construction, development, repair or improvements or the commencement of full operations thereof (whichever is later), to provide funds for any such purpose; (k) any lien upon any property or assets existing thereon at the time of the acquisition thereof by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner and any lien upon any property or assets of a Person existing thereon at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary by acquisition, merger or otherwise; provided that, in each case, such lien only encumbers the property or assets so acquired or owned by such Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; (l) liens imposed by law or order as a result of any proceeding before any court or regulatory body that is being contested in good faith, and liens which secure a judgment or other court-ordered award or settlement as to which the Borrower, the applicable Subsidiary or the Limited Partner has not exhausted its appellate rights; (m) any extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals, refinancing, refunding or replacements) of liens, in whole or in part, referred to in clauses (a) through (l) above; provided, however, that any such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement lien shall be limited to the property or assets covered by the lien extended, renewed, refinanced, refunded or replaced and that the obligations secured by any such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement lien shall be in an amount not greater than the amount of the obligations secured by the lien extended, renewed, refinanced, refunded or replaced and any expenses of the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and the Limited Partner (including any premium) incurred in connection with such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement; or (n) any lien resulting from the deposit of moneys or evidence of indebtedness in trust for the purpose of defeasing debt of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner. 12 "Permitted Sale/Leaseback Transactions" means any Sale/Leaseback Transaction: (a) which occurs within one year from the date of completion of the acquisition of the Principal Property subject thereto or the date of the completion of construction, development or substantial repair or improvement, or commencement of full operations on such Principal Property, whichever is later; or (b) involves a lease for a period, including renewals, of not more than three years; or (c) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner would be entitled to incur Indebtedness, in a principal amount equal to the Attributable Indebtedness with respect to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, secured by a Lien on the property subject to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction pursuant to Section 6.02 without equally and ratably securing the Indebtedness under this Agreement pursuant to such Section; or (d) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner, within a one-year period after such Sale-Leaseback Transaction, applies or causes to be applied an amount not less than the Attributable Indebtedness from such Sale-Leaseback Transaction to (a) the prepayment, repayment, redemption, reduction or retirement of any Indebtedness of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner that is not subordinated to the Indebtedness under this Agreement, or (b) the expenditure or expenditures for Principal Property used or to be used in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower, its Subsidiaries or the Limited Partner. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition, any Sale-Leaseback Transaction not covered by clauses (a) through (d), inclusive, of this definition, shall nonetheless be a Permitted Sale/Leaseback Transaction if the Attributable Indebtedness from such Sale-Leaseback Transaction, together with the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness under this Agreement and Indebtedness under the March 15, 2000 Indenture) secured by Liens other than Permitted Liens upon Principal Properties, does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity. "Plan" means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an "employer" as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA. "Prime Rate" means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by First Union National Bank as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in Charlotte, North Carolina, each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective. "Principal Property" means whether owned or leased on the date hereof or thereafter acquired: (a) any pipeline assets of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner, including any related facilities employed in the transportation, distribution, storage or marketing of refined petroleum 13 products, natural gas liquids, and petrochemicals, that are located in the United States of America or any territory or political subdivision thereof; and (b) any processing or manufacturing plant or terminal owned or leased by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner that is located in the United States or any territory or political subdivision thereof; except, in the case of either of the foregoing clauses (a) or (b): (i) any such assets consisting of inventories, furniture, office fixtures and equipment (including data processing equipment), vehicles and equipment used on, or useful with, vehicles; and (ii) any such assets, plant or terminal which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors (as defined in the March 15, 2000 Indenture), is not material in relation to the activities of the Borrower or of the Limited Partner and its subsidiaries taken as a whole. "Program" means the buy-back program initiated by the Limited Partner whereby the Limited Partner or the Borrower may buy back up to the greater of (i) 1,000,000 publicly held Units, or (ii) the number of publicly held Units the aggregate purchase price of which is $30,000,000. "Project Financing" means Indebtedness incurred by a Project Finance Subsidiary to finance the acquisition or construction of any asset or project which Indebtedness does not permit or provide for recourse against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Project Finance Subsidiary). "Project Finance Subsidiaries" means a Subsidiary that is created principally to (i) construct or acquire any asset or project that will be or is financed solely with Project Financing for such asset or project, related equity investments and any loans to, or capital contributions in, such Subsidiary that are not prohibited hereby, (ii) own an Equity Interest in a Project Finance Subsidiary, and/or (iii) own an interest in any such asset or project. "Reference Banks" means First Union National Bank, The Chase Manhattan Bank and Citibank, N.A. "Register" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04. "Related Parties" means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person's Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and such Person's Affiliates. "Required Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments representing at least 51% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments at such time; provided that, for purposes of declaring the Loans to be due and payable pursuant to Article VII, and for all purposes after the Loans become due and payable pursuant to Article VII or the Commitments expire or terminate, the outstanding Competitive Loans of the Lenders shall be added to their respective Revolving Credit Exposures and to the total Revolving Credit Exposures in determining the Required Lenders. 14 "Restricted Payment" means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any class of Equity Interests of the Borrower, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Equity Interests of the Limited Partner or the Borrower or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any Equity Interests of the Limited Partner or the Borrower. "Revolving Credit Exposure" means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender's Revolving Loans and its LC Exposure and Swingline Exposure at such time. "Revolving Loan" means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.03. "Sale/Leaseback Transaction" means any arrangement with any Person providing for the leasing, under a lease that is not a capital lease under GAAP, by the Borrower, or a Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) or the Limited Partner of any Principal Property, which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Borrower, such Subsidiary or the Limited Partner to such Person in contemplation of such leasing. "S&P" means Standard & Poor's. "Subordinated Units" means the subordinated units of limited partner interests in the Limited Partner. "subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person (the "parent") at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests, are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent. "Subsidiary" means any subsidiary of the Borrower. "Swingline Exposure" means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swingline Loans outstanding at such time. The Swingline Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be its Applicable Percentage of the total Swingline Exposure at such time. "Swingline Lender" means First Union National Bank, in its capacity as lender of Swingline Loans hereunder. "Swingline Loan" means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.05. "Taxes" means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority. "364-Day Credit Facility" means the revolving credit facility of the Borrower under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto, together with any and all amendments and supplements thereto (the "364-Day Credit Agreement"). 15 "364-Day Credit Facility Commitments" means the "Commitments" (as defined in the 364-Day Credit Agreement) of the lenders under the 364-Day Credit Facility. "Transactions" means the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, the borrowing of Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and the issuance of Letters of Credit hereunder. "Type", when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the LIBO Rate, the Alternate Base Rate or, in the case of a Competitive Loan or Borrowing, the LIBO Rate or a Fixed Rate. "Units" means the collective reference to the Common Units and the Subordinated Units. "Withdrawal Liability" means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class (e.g., a "Revolving Loan") or by Type (e.g., a "Eurodollar Loan") or by Class and Type (e.g., a "Eurodollar Revolving Loan"). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by lass (e.g., a "Revolving Borrowing") or by Type (e.g., a "Eurodollar Borrowing") or by Class and Type (e.g., a "Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing"). SECTION 1.03. Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation". The word "will" shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word "shall". Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person's successors and assigns, (c) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder", and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) 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, securities, accounts and contract rights. SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with (i) except for purposes of Section 6.07, GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in 16 effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith; and (ii) for purposes of Section 6.07, GAAP, as in effect on June 30, 2000. ARTICLE II The Credits SECTION 2.01. Commitments. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to make Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (i) such Lender's Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Lender's Commitment or (ii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures plus the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Competitive Loans exceeding the total Commitments. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans. (b) The Borrower shall have the right, without the consent of the Lenders but with the prior approval of the Administrative Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld, to cause from time to time an increase in the total Commitments of the Lenders by adding to this Agreement one or more additional Lenders or by allowing one or more Lenders to increase their respective Commitments; provided however (i) no Event of Default shall have occurred hereunder which is continuing, (ii) no such increase shall cause (A) the aggregate Commitments hereunder to exceed $350,000,000, or (B) the sum of the aggregate Commitments hereunder plus the aggregate 364-Day Credit Facility Commitments to exceed $500,000,000, and (iii) no Lender's Commitment shall be increased without such Lender's consent. (c) The Borrower may request a one (1) year extension of the Maturity Date by delivering a written request for same to the Administrative Agent within 90 days prior to (but not less than 30 days prior to) each of the first two anniversary dates of the Effective Date. Any such extension shall be granted if (i) consented to by Lenders having Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments representing more than 80% of the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments at such time, (ii) on the Maturity Date as it existed immediately prior to such extension (A) the Commitments of the dissenting Lenders are terminated (which termination shall be effective automatically), (B) all amounts owing to such dissenting Lenders are paid in full (which payments shall not be subject to Section 2.11), and (C) the total Commitments have been permanently reduced by an amount equal to such dissenting Lenders' Commitments so terminated, except to the extent that the Commitments of the dissenting Lenders are replaced pursuant to Section 2.19(b) and/or one or more Lenders agree(s) to increase their respective Commitment(s), (iii) all conditions precedent for a Borrowing set forth in Section 4.02 have been satisfied, and (iv) the Borrower does not withdraw its request for such extension before the relevant anniversary date of the Effective Date. SECTION 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. (a) Each Revolving Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Revolving Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. Each Competitive Loan shall be made in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.04. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments and Competitive Bids of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender's failure to make Loans as required. 17 (b) Subject to Section 2.14, (i) each Revolving Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurodollar Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith, and (ii) each Competitive Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of Eurodollar Loans or Fixed Rate Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Swingline Loan shall be an ABR Loan. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000. At the time that each ABR Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000; provided that an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.06(e). Each Competitive Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000. Each Swingline Loan shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $100,000 and not less than $100,000. Borrowings of more than one Type and Class may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of six Eurodollar Revolving Borrowings outstanding. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date. SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings. To request a Revolving Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.06(e) may be given not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02: (i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing; (ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day; (iii) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; (iv) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term "Interest Period"; and (v) the location and number of the Borrower's account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.07. If no election as to the Type of Revolving Borrowing is specified, then the requested Revolving Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period 18 is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender's Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing. SECTION 2.04. Competitive Bid Procedure. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, from time to time during the Availability Period the Borrower may request Competitive Bids and may (but shall not have any obligation to) accept Competitive Bids and borrow Competitive Loans; provided that the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures plus the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Competitive Loans at any time shall not exceed the total Commitments. To request Competitive Bids, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, four Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing and, in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day before the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that the Borrower may submit up to (but not more than) three Competitive Bid Requests on the same day, but a Competitive Bid Request shall not be made within five (5) Business Days after the date of any previous Competitive Bid Request, unless any and all such previous Competitive Bid Requests shall have been withdrawn or all Competitive Bids received in response thereto rejected. Each such telephonic Competitive Bid Request shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Competitive Bid Request signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Competitive Bid Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02: (i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing; (ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day; (iii) whether such Borrowing is to be a Eurodollar Borrowing or a Fixed Rate Borrowing; (iv) the Interest Period to be applicable to such Borrowing, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term "Interest Period"; (v) the location and number of the Borrower's account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.07; and (vi) the maturity date or dates of the requested Borrowing. Promptly following receipt of a Competitive Bid Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of the details thereof by telecopy, inviting the Lenders to submit Competitive Bids. (b) Each Lender may (but shall not have any obligation to) make one or more Competitive Bids to the Borrower in response to a Competitive Bid Request. Each Competitive Bid by a Lender must be in a form approved by the Administrative Agent and must be received by the Administrative Agent by telecopy, in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the proposed date of such Competitive Borrowing, and in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 9:30 a.m., New York City time, on the proposed date of such Competitive Borrowing. Competitive Bids that do not conform substantially to the form approved by the Administrative Agent may be rejected by the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent shall so notify the applicable Lender and the Borrower as promptly as practicable. Each Competitive Bid shall specify (i) 19 the principal amount (which shall be a minimum of $5,000,000 and an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and which may equal the entire principal amount of the Competitive Borrowing requested by the Borrower) of the Competitive Loan or Competitive Loans, as the case may be, that the Lender is willing to make, (ii) the Competitive Bid Rate or Competitive Bid Rates, as the case may be, at which the Lender is prepared to make such Loan or Loans (expressed as a percentage rate per annum in the form of a decimal to no more than four decimal places) and (iii) the Interest Period applicable to each such Loan and the last day thereof. (c) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower by telecopy of the Competitive Bid Rate and the principal amount specified in each Competitive Bid and the identity of the Lender that shall have made such Competitive Bid. (d) Subject only to the provisions of this paragraph, the Borrower may accept or reject any Competitive Bid. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone, confirmed by telecopy in a form approved by the Administrative Agent, whether and to what extent it has decided to accept or reject each Competitive Bid, in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing, not later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Competitive Borrowing, and in the case of a Fixed Rate Borrowing, not later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the proposed date of the Competitive Borrowing; provided that (i) the failure of the Borrower to give such notice shall be deemed to be a rejection of each Competitive Bid, (ii) the Borrower shall not accept a Competitive Bid made at a particular Competitive Bid Rate if the Borrower rejects a Competitive Bid made at a lower Competitive Bid Rate, (iii) the aggregate amount of the Competitive Bids accepted by the Borrower shall not exceed the aggregate amount of the requested Competitive Borrowing specified in the related Competitive Bid Request, (iv) to the extent necessary to comply with clause (iii) above, the Borrower may accept Competitive Bids at the same Competitive Bid Rate in part, which acceptance, in the case of multiple Competitive Bids at such Competitive Bid Rate, shall be made pro rata in accordance with the amount of each such Competitive Bid, and (v) except pursuant to clause (iv) above, no Competitive Bid shall be accepted for a Competitive Loan unless such Competitive Loan is in a minimum principal amount of $5,000,000 and an integral multiple of $1,000,000; provided further that if a Competitive Loan must be in an amount less than $5,000,000 because of the provisions of clause (iv) above, such Competitive Loan may be for a minimum of $1,000,000 or any integral multiple thereof, and in calculating the pro rata allocation of acceptances of portions of multiple Competitive Bids at a particular Competitive Bid Rate pursuant to clause (iv) the amounts shall be rounded to integral multiples of $1,000,000 in a manner determined by the Borrower. A notice given by the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph shall be irrevocable. (e) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each bidding Lender by telecopy whether or not its Competitive Bid has been accepted (and, if so, the amount and Competitive Bid Rate so accepted), and each successful bidder will thereupon become bound, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, to make the Competitive Loan in respect of which its Competitive Bid has been accepted. (f) If the Administrative Agent shall elect to submit a Competitive Bid in its capacity as a Lender, it shall submit such Competitive Bid directly to the Borrower at least one quarter of an hour earlier than the time by which the other Lenders are required to submit their Competitive Bids to the Administrative Agent pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. SECTION 2.05. Swingline Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period, in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i) the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans exceeding $20,000,000 or (ii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures plus the 20 aggregate principal amount of outstanding Competitive Loans exceeding the total Commitments; provided that the Swingline Lender shall not be required to make a Swingline Loan to refinance an outstanding Swingline Loan. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans. (b) To request a Swingline Loan, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by telecopy), not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the day of a proposed Swingline Loan. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and amount of the requested Swingline Loan. The Administrative Agent will promptly advise the Swingline Lender of any such notice received from the Borrower. The Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan available to the Borrower by means of a credit to the general deposit account of the Borrower with the Swingline Lender (or, in the case of a Swingline Loan made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.06(e), by remittance to the Issuing Bank) by 3:00 p.m., New York City time, on the requested date of such Swingline Loan. (c) The Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the Administrative Agent not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the Lenders to acquire participations on such Business Day in all or a portion of the Swingline Loans outstanding. Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of Swingline Loans in which the Lenders will participate. Promptly upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice thereof to each Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender's Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans, as the case may be. Each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees, upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swingline Lender, such Lender's Applicable Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Swingline Loans, as the case may be. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations in Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. Each Lender shall comply with its obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.07 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.07 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant to this paragraph, and thereafter payments in respect of such Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by the Swingline Lender from the Borrower (or other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect of a Swingline Loan after receipt by the Swingline Lender of the proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders that shall have made their payments pursuant to this paragraph and to the Swingline Lender, as their interests may appear. The purchase of participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof. SECTION 2.06. Letters of Credit. (a) General. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of Credit for its own account, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or entered into by the Borrower with, the Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control. 21 (b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the amendment, renewal or extension of an outstanding Letter of Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the Issuing Bank) to the Issuing Bank and the Administrative Agent three Business Days (or such shorter period as may be acceptable to the Issuing Bank) in advance of the requested date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such other information as shall be necessary to prepare, amend, renew or extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the Issuing Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on the Issuing Bank's standard form in connection with any request for a Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed or extended if and only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (i) the LC Exposure shall not exceed $50,000,000 and (ii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures plus the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Competitive Loans shall not exceed the total Commitments. (c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal or extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Maturity Date. (d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and without any further action on the part of the Issuing Bank or the Lenders, the Issuing Bank hereby grants to each Lender, and each Lender hereby acquires from the Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter of Credit equal to such Lender's Applicable Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Bank, such Lender's Applicable Percentage of each LC Disbursement made by the Issuing Bank and not reimbursed by the Borrower on the date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever. (e) Reimbursement. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent an amount equal to such LC Disbursement not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date that such LC Disbursement is made, if the Borrower shall have received notice of such LC Disbursement prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date, or, if such notice has not been received by the Borrower prior to such time on such date, then not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Business Day immediately following the day that the Borrower receives such notice; provided that the Borrower may, subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.05 that such payment be financed with an ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan in an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower's obligation to make such payment shall 22 be discharged and replaced by the resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Loan. If the Borrower fails to make such payment when due, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the applicable LC Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof and such Lender's Applicable Percentage thereof. Promptly following receipt of such notice, each Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent its Applicable Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.07 with respect to Loans made by such Lender (and Section 2.07 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Bank the amounts so received by it from the Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Lenders have made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank, then to such Lenders and the Issuing Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Lender pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the Issuing Bank for any LC Disbursement (other than the funding of ABR Revolving Loans or a Swingline Loan as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such LC Disbursement. (f) Obligations Absolute. The Borrower's obligation to reimburse LC Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower's obligations hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor the Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the Issuing Bank; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse the Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the Issuing Bank's failure to exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of the Issuing Bank (as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction), the Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care in each such determination. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit. (g) Disbursement Procedures. The Issuing Bank shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit. The Issuing Bank shall promptly 23 notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for payment and whether the Issuing Bank has made or will make an LC Disbursement thereunder; provided that any failure to give or delay in giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse the Issuing Bank and the Lenders with respect to any such LC Disbursement. (h) Interim Interest. If the Issuing Bank shall make any LC Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such LC Disbursement in full on the date such LC Disbursement is made, the unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and including the date such LC Disbursement is made to but excluding the date that the Borrower reimburses such LC Disbursement, at the rate per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans; provided that, if the Borrower fails to reimburse such LC Disbursement when due pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section, then Section 2.13(d) shall apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the account of the Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on and after the date of payment by any Lender pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section to reimburse the Issuing Bank shall be for the account of such Lender to the extent of such payment. (i) Replacement of the Issuing Bank. The Issuing Bank may be replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of the Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12(b). From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term "Issuing Bank" shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of an Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit. (j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur and be continuing and if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated pursuant to Article VII, on the Business Day that the Borrower receives notice from the Administrative Agent upon written request of the Required Lenders demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph, the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in cash equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon; provided that the obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable, without demand or other notice of any kind, upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of Article VII. Such deposit shall be held by the Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments shall be made at the option and sole discretion of the Administrative Agent and at the Borrower's risk and expense, such deposits shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the LC Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Lenders with LC Exposure representing greater than 51% of the total 24 LC Exposure), be applied to satisfy other obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or waived. SECTION 2.07. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders; provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as provided in Section 2.05. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request or Competitive Bid Request; provided that ABR Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.06(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the Issuing Bank. (b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to such Borrowing. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender's Loan included in such Borrowing. SECTION 2.08. Interest Elections. (a) Each Revolving Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Competitive Borrowings or Swingline Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued. (b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request signed by the Borrower. (c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02: 25 (i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing); (ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day; (iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and (iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term "Interest Period". If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's duration, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing. (d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender's portion of each resulting Borrowing. (e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Revolving Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto. SECTION 2.09. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date. (b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 2.11, the sum of the Revolving Credit Exposures plus the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Competitive Loans would exceed the total Commitments. (c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such 26 condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments. SECTION 2.10. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan on the Maturity Date, (ii) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Competitive Loan owed to such Lender on the last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Loan and (iii) to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Maturity Date and a date that is not more than seven Business Days after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each date that a Revolving Borrowing or Competitive Borrowing is made, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans then outstanding. (b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Class and Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender's share thereof. (d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (e) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in the form of (i) with respect to Revolving Loans, Exhibit G, (ii) with respect to Competitive Loans, Exhibit H, and (iii) with respect to Swingline Loans, Exhibit I. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the order of the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns). SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans. (a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section; provided that the Borrower shall not have the right to prepay any Competitive Loan without the prior consent of the Lender thereof. (b) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline Lender) by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Revolving Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of prepayment or (iii) in the case of prepayment of 27 a Swingline Loan, not later than 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.09, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.09. Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Revolving Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Revolving Borrowing shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $1,000,000 in the case of an ABR Revolving Borrowing, or $3,000,000 in the case of a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing. Each prepayment of a Revolving Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.13. SECTION 2.12. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a facility fee, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily amount of the Commitment of such Lender (whether used or unused) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which such Commitment terminates; provided that, if such Lender continues to have any Revolving Credit Exposure after its Commitment terminates, then such facility fee shall continue to accrue on the daily amount of such Lender's Revolving Credit Exposure from and including the date on which its Commitment terminates to but excluding the date on which such Lender ceases to have any Revolving Credit Exposure. Accrued facility fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Commitments terminate, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof; provided that any facility fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. All facility fees and utilization fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in leap year) and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). In addition to the foregoing, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a utilization fee, which shall accrue and be payable on Loans made hereunder at a rate of 0.125% per annum whenever the aggregate amount of Loans outstanding plus amounts outstanding under the 364-Day Credit Facility exceed 50% of the total Commitments plus the 364-Day Credit Facility Commitments. (b) The Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a participation fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at the same Applicable Rate as interest on Eurodollar Revolving Loans on the average daily amount of such Lender's LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which such Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate of 1/8% per annum on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure, as well as the Issuing Bank's standard fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder. Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including the last day of March, June, September and December of each year shall be payable quarterly on the third Business Day following the last day of March, June, September and December of each year, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable on the date on which the Commitments terminate and any such fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees shall be computed on the basis 28 of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in leap year) and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). (c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, a fee of $1,500 for each Competitive Bid Request if the Borrower accepts any Competitive Bid received pursuant to such Competitive Bid Request, payable on the date of such acceptance. (d) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. (e) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution, in the case of facility fees, utilization fees and participation fees, to the Lenders. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances. SECTION 2.13. Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing (including each wingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate. (b) The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Revolving Loan, at the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate, or (ii) in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive Loan, at the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus (or minus, as applicable) the Margin applicable to such Loan. (c) Each Fixed Rate Loan shall bear interest at the Fixed Rate applicable to such Loan. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section. (e) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any Eurodollar Revolving Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion. (f) All interest determined by reference to the LIBO Rate or clause (b) of the definition of Alternate Base Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, and all other interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error. 29 (g) The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, so long as such Lender shall be required under regulations of the Board to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Borrowing of such Lender during such periods as such Borrowing is a Revolving Eurodollar Borrowing, from the date of such Borrowing until such principal amount is paid in full, at an interest rate per annum equal at all times to the remainder obtained by subtracting (i) the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Revolving Eurodollar Borrowing from (ii) the rate obtained by dividing such LIBO Rate by a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage of such Lender for such Interest Period. Such additional interest shall be determined by such Lender. The Borrower shall from time to time, within 15 days after demand (which demand shall be accompanied by a certificate comporting with the requirements set forth in Section 2.15(c)) by such Lender (with a copy of such demand and certificate to the Administrative Agent) pay to the Lender giving such notice such additional interest; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to pay to such Lender any portion of such additional interest that accrued more than 90 days prior to any such demand, unless such additional interest was not determinable on the date that is 90 days prior to such demand. SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing: (a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period; or (b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders (or, in the case of a Eurodollar Competitive Loan, the Lender that is required to make such Loan) that the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan) included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period; then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Revolving Borrowing to, or continuation of any Revolving Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective, (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing, and (iii) any request by the Borrower for a Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing shall be ineffective; provided that (A) if the circumstances giving rise to such notice do not affect all the Lenders, then requests by the Borrower for Eurodollar Competitive Borrowings may be made to Lenders that are not affected thereby and (B) if the circumstances giving rise to such notice affect only one Type of Borrowings, then the other Type of Borrowings shall be permitted. SECTION 2.15. Illegality; Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall make it unlawful or impossible for any Lender to make, maintain or fund its Eurodollar Loans, such Lender shall so notify the Administrative Agent. Upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent shall immediately give notice thereof to the other Lenders and to the Borrower, whereupon until such Lender notifies the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligation of such Lender to make Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended. If such Lender shall determine that it may not lawfully continue to maintain and fund any of its outstanding Eurodollar Loans to maturity and shall so specify in such notice, the Borrower shall immediately prepay (which prepayment shall not be subject to Section 2.11) in 30 full the then outstanding principal amount of such Eurodollar Loans, together with the accrued interest thereon. (b) If any Change in Law shall: (i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in Section 2.13(g)) or the Issuing Bank; or (ii) impose on any Lender or the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans or Fixed Rate Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein; and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan or Fixed Rate Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or the Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered. (b) If any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's capital or on the capital of such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's policies and the policies of such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's holding company for any such reduction suffered. (c) A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth, in reasonable detail showing the computation thereof, the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Such certificate shall further certify that such Lender or the Issuing Bank is making similar demands of its other similarly structured borrowers. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof, if such certificate complies herewith. (d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 90 days prior to the date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender's or the Issuing Bank's intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then 31 the 90-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof (to the extent that such period of retroactive effect is not already included in such 90-day period). (e) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section, a Lender shall not be entitled to compensation pursuant to this Section in respect of any Competitive Loan if the Change in Law that would otherwise entitle it to such compensation shall have been publicly announced prior to submission of the Competitive Bid pursuant to which such Loan was made. SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan or Fixed Rate Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Revolving Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.11(b) and is revoked in accordance therewith), (d) the failure to borrow any Competitive Loan after accepting the Competitive Bid to make such Loan, or (e) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan or Fixed Rate Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense (excluding loss of anticipated profits) attributable to such event. A certificate of any Lender setting forth, in reasonable detail showing the computation thereof, any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof, if such certificate complies herewith. SECTION 2.17. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. (b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. (c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to indemnify or reimburse a Lender pursuant to this Section for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted more than 90 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted and of such Lender's intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted giving rise to such claims 32 are retroactive, then the 90-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof (to the extent that such period of retroactive effect is not already included in such 90-day period). A certificate setting forth, in reasonable detail showing the computation thereof, the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or the Issuing Bank, or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or the Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. (d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. (e) Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of 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, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at such reduced rate. (f) Should any Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank ever receive any refund, credit or deduction from any taxing authority to which such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank would not be entitled but for the payment by the Borrower of Taxes (it being understood that the decision as to whether or not to claim, and if claimed, as to the amount of any such refund, credit or deduction shall be made by such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank in its sole discretion), such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, thereupon shall repay to the Borrower an amount with respect to such refund, credit or deduction equal to any net reduction in taxes actually obtained by such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and determined by such Lender, the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, to be attributable to such refund, credit or deduction. (g) Except for a request by the Borrower under Section 2.19(b), no Foreign Lender shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.17(a) or 2.17(c) if withholding tax is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement or designates a new lending office. SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or reimbursement of LC Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.15, 2.16 or 2.17, or otherwise) prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at its offices at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, except payments to be made directly to the Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment 33 shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in dollars. (b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, unreimbursed LC Disbursements, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal and unreimbursed LC Disbursements then due to such parties. (c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment (other than any payment to a dissenting Lender pursuant to Section 2.01(c)) in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Revolving Loans or participations in LC Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Revolving Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Revolving Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Revolving Loans and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. (d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. (e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.05(c), 2.06(d) or (e), 2.07(b) or 2.18(d), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative 34 Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender's obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid. SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15 or Section 2.13(g), or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.13(g), 2.15 or 2.17, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment. Lenders agree to use reasonable efforts to select lending offices which will minimize taxes and other costs and expenses for the Borrower. (b) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.13(g) or Section 2.15, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, or if any Lender defaults in its obligation to fund Loans hereunder, or if any Lender refuses to consent to an extension pursuant to Section 2.01(c), then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement (other than any outstanding Competitive Loans held by it) to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, if a Commitment is being assigned, the Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans (other than Competitive Loans) and participations in LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.13(g) or Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. If any Lender refuses to assign and delegate all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement after the Borrower has required such Lender to do so as a result of a claim for compensation under Section 2.13(g) or Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17, such Lender shall not be entitled to receive such compensation or required payments. 35 ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that: SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is duly formed, validly existing and (if applicable) in good standing (except, with respect to Subsidiaries other than Material Subsidiaries, where the failure to be in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business in all material respects as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and (if applicable) is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required. SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions are within the Borrower's partnership powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary partnership and, if required, partner action. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (b) will not violate any law or regulation applicable to the Borrower or the limited partnership agreement, charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any order of any Governmental Authority to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any material indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or its assets, or (except for the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility) give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is prohibited hereby. SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change. (a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its audited consolidated and unaudited consolidating balance sheets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries and the related audited consolidated (and, as to statements of income, unaudited consolidating) statements of income, equity and cash flow of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (i) as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999, reported on by Deloitte & Touche, independent public accountants, and (ii) as of and for the fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, certified by its chief financial officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above. (b) No Material Adverse Change exists. 36 SECTION 3.05. Intentionally Omitted. SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters. (a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters) or (ii) that involve this Agreement or the Transactions. (b) Except for the Disclosed Matters and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability. (c) Since the date of this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or materially increased the likelihood of, a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all laws, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing. SECTION 3.08. Investment and Holding Company Status. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is (a) an "investment company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (b) a "holding company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. SECTION 3.09. Taxes. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 3.10. ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 3.11. Disclosure. Neither the Information Memorandum nor any of the other reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time. 37 SECTION 3.12. Subsidiaries. As of the Effective Date, Borrower has no Subsidiaries other than those listed on Schedule 3.12 hereto. As of the Effective Date, Schedule 3.12 sets forth the jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of each such Subsidiary, the percentage of Borrower's ownership of the outstanding Equity Interests of each Subsidiary directly owned by Borrower, and the percentage of each Subsidiary's ownership of the outstanding Equity Interests of each other Subsidiary. SECTION 3.13. Margin Securities. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulations U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and no part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used to purchase or carry any margin stock in violation of said Regulations U or X or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock in violation of said Regulations U or X. ARTICLE IV Conditions SECTION 4.01. Effective Date. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans and of the Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder shall not become effective until the Effective Date which is scheduled to occur when each of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from each party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (ii) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include telecopy transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement. (b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Effective Date) of Richard H. Bachmann, Esq., Chief Legal Officer of the General Partner and the Limited Partner, substantially in the form of Exhibit E. (c) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent or its counsel may reasonably request relating to the organization and existence of the Borrower and the Limited Partner, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Borrower, this Agreement or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel, and, with respect to the Limited Partner, the authorization of the Guaranty Agreement and any other legal matters relating to the Limited Partner. (d) The Administrative Agent shall have received the Guaranty Agreement dated as of the date hereof, duly and validly executed by the Limited Partner. (e) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by the President, an Executive Vice President or a Financial Officer of the Borrower, confirming compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.02. (f) The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced five (5) Business Days prior to closing, reimbursement or payment of all out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower hereunder. 38 (g) There shall not have been any disruption or adverse change in the financial or capital markets generally or in the market for loan syndications in particular, which the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable judgment, deems material. (h) The Lenders shall have received the audited financial statements for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period ended December 31, 1999 and Form 10-Q for fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2000. (i) All necessary governmental and third-party approvals, if any, required to be obtained by the Borrower in connection with the Transactions and otherwise referred to herein shall have been obtained and remain in effect (except where failure to obtain such approvals will not have a Material Adverse Effect), and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken by any applicable authority. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing (exclusive of continuations and conversions of a Borrowing), and of the Issuing Bank to issue, amend, renew or extend any Letter of Credit, is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions: (a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing or the date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable. (b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as applicable, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Each Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section. ARTICLE V Affirmative Covenants Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit shall have expired or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that: SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the Administrative Agent and each Lender: (a) within 15 days after filing same with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), copies of each annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q and report on Form 8-K (or any successor or 39 substitute forms) that the Limited Partner is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any successor statute (the "Exchange Act"); (b) within 15 days after filing same with the SEC, copies of each annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q and report on Form 8-K (or any successor or substitute forms) that the Borrower is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; (c) if the Borrower is not subject to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the Limited Partner owns direct subsidiaries (other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries), promptly after becoming available and in any event within 105 days after the close of each fiscal year of the Borrower (i) the audited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and (ii) the audited consolidated statements of income, equity and cash flow of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such year setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year, which report shall be to the effect that such statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP; (d) if the Borrower is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the Limited Partner owns direct subsidiaries (other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries), promptly after their becoming available and in any event within 60 days after the close of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower, (i) the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and (ii) the unaudited consolidated statements of income, equity and cash flow of the Borrower for such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year, all of the foregoing certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower to have been prepared in accordance with GAAP subject to normal changes resulting from year-end adjustment and accompanied by a written discussion of the financial performance and operating results, including the major assets, of the Borrower for such quarter; and (e) within 60 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit F (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred that is then continuing and, if a Default has occurred that is then continuing, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, and (ii) setting forth in reasonable detail calculations demonstrating compliance with Section 6.07. SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt written notice of the following: (a) the occurrence of any Event of Default; and (b) any other development that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect. Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto. SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises material to the conduct of its business; provided that 40 the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution not prohibited under Section 6.03. SECTION 5.04. Intentionally Omitted. SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (a) keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and (b) maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep in accordance with GAAP proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made in all material respects of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested. SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds and Letters of Credit. The proceeds of the Loans will be used only (a) for the payment in full of the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility, to the extent not paid in full using the proceeds of loans made under the 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility, (b) as a backstop for commercial paper, and (c) for working capital, acquisitions and other limited partnership purposes. No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations U and X. SECTION 5.09. Environmental Matters. The Borrower has established and implemented, or will establish and implement, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to establish and implement, such procedures as may be necessary to assure that any failure of the following does not have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) all property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the operations conducted thereon are in compliance with and do not violate the requirements of any Environmental Laws, (ii) no oil or solid wastes are disposed of or otherwise released on or to any property owned by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries except in compliance with Environmental Laws, (iii) no Hazardous Materials will be released on or to any such property in a quantity equal to or exceeding that quantity which requires reporting pursuant to Section 103 of CERCLA, and (iv) no oil or Hazardous Materials is released on or to any such property so as to pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or welfare or the environment. SECTION 5.10 ERISA Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent: (a) within 15 Business Days after the institution of or the withdrawal or partial withdrawal by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from any Multiemployer Plan 41 which would cause the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate to incur withdrawal liability in excess of $5,000,000 (in the aggregate for all such withdrawals), a written notice thereof signed by an executive officer of the Borrower stating the applicable details; and (b) within 15 Business Days after an officer of the Borrower becomes aware of any material action at law or at equity brought against the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries, any ERISA Affiliate, or any fiduciary of a Plan in connection with the administration of any Plan or the investment of assets thereunder, a written notice signed by an executive officer of the Borrower specifying the nature thereof and what action the Borrower is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. SECTION 5.11 Taxes. Pay and discharge, or cause to be paid and discharged, promptly or make, or cause to be made, timely deposit of all taxes (including Federal Insurance Contribution Act payments and withholding taxes), assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary or upon the income or any property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary shall be required to pay any such tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim if the amount, applicability or validity thereof shall currently be contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted by or on behalf of the Borrower or its Subsidiary, and if the Borrower or its Subsidiary shall have set up reserves therefor adequate under GAAP or if no Material Adverse Effect shall be occasioned by all such failures in the aggregate. ARTICLE VI Negative Covenants Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full and all Letters of Credit have expired or terminated and all LC Disbursements shall have been reimbursed, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that: SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness. The Borrower will not permit any Subsidiary to create, incur or assume any Indebtedness, except: (a) Indebtedness assumed by any Subsidiary in connection with its acquisition (whether by merger, consolidation or acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets) of another Person and Indebtedness refinancing (but not increasing) such Indebtedness, provided that at the time of and after giving effect to the incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness or refinancing Indebtedness and the application of the proceeds thereof, as the case may be, the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness, and of all Indebtedness previously incurred or assumed pursuant to this Section 6.01(a), and then outstanding, shall not exceed 75% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four full fiscal quarters of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (and such Person on a pro forma basis) then most recently ended; (b) Indebtedness of the Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.01, provided that at the time of and after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the application of the proceeds thereof the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness, and of all Indebtedness previously incurred pursuant to this Section 6.01(b), and then outstanding, shall not exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four fiscal quarters of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries then most recently ended; (c) Indebtedness of Project Finance Subsidiaries; 42 (d) intercompany Indebtedness; (e) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.01; and (f) other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $25,000,000 at any time outstanding; provided, however, that no Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) shall create, incur or assume any Indebtedness pursuant to any provision of this Section 6.01 if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from such creation, incurrence or assumption. SECTION 6.02. Liens. The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or the Limited Partner to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, on any Principal Property or upon any Equity Interests of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) owning or leasing any Principal Property, now owned or hereafter acquired by the Borrower or such Subsidiary to secure any Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Limited Partner or any other Person (other than the Indebtedness under this Agreement), without in any such case making effective provision whereby any and all Indebtedness under this Agreement then outstanding will be secured by a Lien equally and ratably with, or prior to, such Indebtedness for so long as such Indebtedness shall be so secured. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may, and may permit any Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) and the Limited Partner to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien upon any Principal Property to secure Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Limited Partner or any other Person (other than the Indebtedness under this Agreement), other than a Permitted Lien without securing the Indebtedness under this Agreement, provided that the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding secured by such Lien and all similar Liens together with the aggregate amount of Attributable Indebtedness deemed to be outstanding in respect of all Sale/Leaseback Transactions (exclusive of any Permitted Sale/Leaseback Transactions), does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes. The Borrower will not merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets, or all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of any of its Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) (in each case, whether now owned or hereafter acquired), or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have occurred and be continuing (i) any Person may merge into or consolidate with the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving entity and (ii) Borrower may sell or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the Equity Interests of any of its Subsidiaries. SECTION 6.04. Investment Restriction. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) will make investments in Project Finance Subsidiaries in excess of $50,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding. SECTION 6.05. Restricted Payments. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except as long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (i) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments necessary to fund the Program, (ii) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments from Available Cash (as defined in the Partnership Agreement) from Operating Surplus (as defined in the Partnership 43 Agreement) cumulative from January 1, 1999 through the date of such Restricted Payment, and (iii) any Subsidiary may buy back any of its own Equity Interests; provided, that even if an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, no Subsidiary shall be prohibited from upstreaming dividends or other payments to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (which is not a Project Finance Subsidiary) or making, in the case of any Subsidiary that is not wholly-owned (directly or indirectly) by the Borrower, ratable dividends or payments, as the case may be, to the other owners of Equity Interests in such Subsidiary. SECTION 6.06. Restrictive Agreements. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement with any Person, other than the Lenders pursuant hereto or restrictions or conditions existing on the date hereof and identified on Schedule 6.06, which prohibits, restricts or imposes any conditions upon the ability of any Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) to (a) pay dividends or make other distributions or pay any Indebtedness owed to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or (b) make subordinate loans or advances to or make other investments in the Borrower or any Subsidiary. SECTION 6.07 Financial Condition Covenants. (a) Minimum Net Worth. The Borrower will not permit its Consolidated Net Worth as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower to be less than $750,000,000. (b) Ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA. The Borrower shall not permit its ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA for the four full fiscal quarters most recently ended to exceed 4.00 to 1.0 as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower. For purposes of calculating such ratio, the Project Finance Subsidiaries shall be disregarded. For purposes of this Section 6.07(b), if during any period of four fiscal quarters the Borrower or any Subsidiary acquires any Person (or any interest in any Person) or all or substantially all of the assets of any Person, the EBITDA attributable to such assets or an amount equal to the percentage of ownership of the Borrower in such Person times the EBITDA of such Person, for such period determined on a pro forma basis (which determination, in each case, shall be subject to approval of the Administrative Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld) may be included as Consolidated EBITDA for such period; provided that during the portion of such period that follows such acquisition, the computation in respect of the EBITDA of such Person or such assets, as the case may be, shall be made on the basis of actual (rather than pro forma) results. ARTICLE VII Events of Default If any of the following events ("Events of Default") shall occur: (a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any reimbursement obligation in respect of any LC Disbursement when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise; (b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Article) payable under this Agreement, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days; 44 (c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Limited Partner or any Subsidiary in or in connection with this Agreement or any amendment or modification hereof or waiver hereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any amendment or modification hereof or waiver hereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made and such materiality is continuing; (d) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02, 5.03 (with respect to the Borrower's existence) or 5.08 or in Article VI; (e) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after written notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender); (f) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable, subject to applicable grace periods; (g) the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall (i) fail to pay any principal of or premium or interest on any Material Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary (as the case may be), when the same becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument relating to such Material Indebtedness; or (ii) default in the observance or performance of any covenant or obligation contained in any agreement or instrument relating to any such Material Indebtedness that in substance is customarily considered a default in loan documents (in each case, other than a failure to pay specified in clause (i) of this subsection (g)) and such default shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect thereof is to accelerate the maturity of such Material Indebtedness or require such Material Indebtedness to be prepaid prior to the stated maturity thereof; for the avoidance of doubt the parties acknowledge and agree that any payment required to be made under a guaranty of payment or collection described in clause (c) of the definition of Indebtedness shall be due and payable at the time such payment is due and payable under the terms of such guaranty (taking into account any applicable grace period) and such payment shall be deemed not to have been accelerated or required to be prepaid prior to its stated maturity as a result of the obligation guaranteed having become due; (h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered; (i) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a 45 timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; (j) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; (k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate uninsured amount equal to or greater than $25,000,000 shall be rendered against the Borrower, any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of the Borrower or any such Material Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment; (l) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding (i) $5,000,000 in any year or (ii) $10,000,000 for all periods; (m) the Limited Partner takes, suffers or permits to exist any of the events or conditions referred to in clauses (h), (i), (j) or (k) of this Article or if the section of the Guaranty Agreement that contains the payment obligation shall for any reason cease to be valid and binding on the Limited Partner or if the Limited partner shall so state in writing; (n) the General Partner takes, suffers or permits to exist any of the events or conditions referred to in clauses (h), (i) or (j) of this Article; (o) a Change in Control shall occur; or (p) an "Event of Default" has occurred which is continuing under the 364-Day Credit Facility; then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; and in case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower. 46 ARTICLE VIII The Administrative Agent Each of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The bank serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not the Administrative Agent hereunder. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02), and (c) except as expressly set forth herein, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable to the Lenders for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or in connection herewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts. 47 The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided in this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders, the Issuing Bank and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with the Borrower's approval (which will not be unreasonably withheld), to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, with the Borrower's approval (which will not be unreasonably withheld), on behalf of the Lenders and the Issuing Bank, appoint a successor Administrative Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank and such bank, or its Affiliate, as applicable, shall have capital and surplus equal to or greater than $500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the Administrative Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges 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 from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. ARTICLE IX Miscellaneous SECTION 9.01. Notices. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone, all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows: (a) if to the Borrower, to it at 2727 North Loop West, 7th Floor, Houston, Texas 77008 (for delivery), Attention of Treasurer; P. O. Box 4324, Houston Texas 77210 (for mail) (Telecopy No. 713/880-6570); 48 (b) if to the Administrative Agent, to First Union National Bank, 201 South College Street, CP23, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, Attention of Syndication Agency Services (Telecopy No. 704/383-0288), with a copy to First Union Securities, Inc., 1001 Fannin, Suite 2255, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention of Russell T. Clingman (Telecopy No. 713/650-6354); (c) if to the Issuing Bank, to First Union National Bank, 201 South College Street, CP23, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, Attention of Syndication Agency Services (Telecopy No. 704/383-0288), with a copy to First Union Securities, Inc., 1001 Fannin, Suite 2255, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention of Russell T. Clingman (Telecopy No. 713/650-6354); (d) if to the Swingline Lender, to First Union National Bank, 201 South College Street, CP23, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, Attention of Syndication Agency Services (Telecopy No. 704/383-0288), with a copy to First Union Securities, Inc., 1001 Fannin, Suite 2255, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention of Russell T. Clingman (Telecopy No. 713/650-6354); and (e) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire. Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt. SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan or issuance of a Letter of Credit shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Issuing Bank may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time. (b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Required Lenders or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iii) postpone the scheduled date of payment of the principal amount of any Loan or LC Disbursement, or any interest thereon, or any fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change Section 2.18(b) or (c) in a manner 49 that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender, (v) release the Limited Partner from its obligations under the Guaranty Agreement without the written consent of each Lender, or (vi) change any of the provisions of this Section or the definition of "Required Lenders" or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender; provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be. SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of one law firm as counsel for the Administrative Agent, in connection with the syndication (prior to the date hereof) of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of this Agreement or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred during the existence of an Event of Default by the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with this Agreement, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit. (b) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an "Indemnitee") against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by the Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available (x) to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any Related Party of such Indemnitee, or (y) in connection with disputes among or between the Administrative Agent, Lenders, Issuing Bank and/or their respective Related Parties. (c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, as the case may be, such Lender's Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount; provided that the unreimbursed expense 50 or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender in its capacity as such. (d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. (e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than 30 days after written demand therefor, such demand to be in reasonable detail setting forth the basis for and method of calculation of such amounts. SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (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 Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that 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). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any Affiliate of the Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement. (b) Any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it); provided that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (and, in the case of an assignment of all or a portion of a Commitment or any Lender's obligations in respect of its LC Exposure or Swingline Exposure, the Issuing Bank and the Swingline Lender) must give their prior written consent to such assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender's Commitment, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance 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, (iii) each partial assignment shall result in the assignee retaining a Commitment of not less than $10,000,000 and shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, except that this clause (iii) shall not apply to rights in respect of outstanding Competitive Loans, (iv) the parties (other than the Borrower) to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, (v) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire and (vi) no assignment to a Foreign Bank shall be made hereunder unless, at the time of such assignment, there is no withholding tax applicable with respect to such Foreign Bank for which the Borrower would be or become responsible under Section 2.17; and provided further that any consent of the Borrower otherwise required under this paragraph shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning 51 Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance 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 9.03 as to matters occurring on or prior to date of assignment). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this paragraph shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Section. (c) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices in The City of New York a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and LC Disbursements owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank 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, the Issuing Bank and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Acceptance 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 Acceptance 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. (e) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or the Swingline Lender, 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 Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank 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 or instrument 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 or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant. (f) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.15 or 2.17 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 consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.17 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 2.17(e) as though it were a Lender and has zero withholding at the time of participation. 52 (g) 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 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. (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 9.04, no transfer or assignment of the interest or obligations of any Lender or any grant of participations therein shall be permitted hereunder unless a pro rata portion of such Lender's 364-Day Credit Facility Commitment is contemporaneously transferred, assigned or conveyed or participated and the transferee agrees to be bound by these transfer restrictions with respect to any future transfer, assignment, conveyance or grant of participations with respect to the Commitments. SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Borrower herein and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of any Loans and issuance of any Letters of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit and the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof. SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction. SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Required Lenders have directed the Administrative Agent to accelerate under Article VII, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and 53 other obligations at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. The rights of each Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have. SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York. (b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement against the Borrower or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction. (c) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court. (d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION. SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement. 54 SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates' directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority, (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or the enforcement of rights hereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower and its Related Parties. For the purposes of this Section, "Information" means all information received from the Borrower relating to the Borrower or its business, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower. SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the "Charges"), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the "Maximum Rate") which may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together (to the extent lawful) with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender. SECTION 9.14 Liability of General Partner. It is hereby understood and agreed that the General Partner shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. SECTION 9.15 Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility. The undersigned agree and acknowledge that the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility is hereby terminated and all Revolving Credit Commitments (as defined in the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility) are hereby terminated, and the undersigned waive any right to receive any notice of such termination and any right to receive any notice of prepayment of amounts owed under the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility. Each Lender that was a party to the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility hereby agrees to return to the Borrower, with reasonable promptness, any Revolving Credit Note (as defined in the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility) delivered by the Borrower to such Lender. 55 [Credit Agreement - Signature Page 16] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: /s/ Michael A. Creel ----------------------------- Name: Michael A. Creel Title: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, individually, as Administrative Agent By: /s/ Russell Clingman ----------------------------- Name: Russell Clingman Title: Vice President BANK ONE, NA (Main Office-Chicago), individually and as Documentation Agent By: /s/ Kenneth J. Fatur ----------------------------- Name: Kenneth J. Fatur Title: Vice President THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, individually and as Syndication Agent By: /s/ Steven Wood ----------------------------- Name: Steven Wood Title: Vice President THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED, individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Toru Maepa ----------------------------- Name: Toru Maepa Title: General Manager GUARANTY FEDERAL BANK, F.S.B. By: /s/ Jim R. Hamilton ----------------------------- Name: Jim R. Hamilton Title: Vice President HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK By: /s/ Nancy G. Moragas ----------------------------- Name: Nancy G. Moragas Title: Vice President NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED, A.C.N. By: /s/ Bruce T. Richards ----------------------------- Name: Bruce T. Richards Title: Senior Vice President TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INC., individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Carolyn R. Faeth ----------------------------- Name: Carolyn R. Faeth Title: Vice President FLEET NATIONAL BANK, individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Christopher C. Holmgren ---------------------------- Name: Christopher C. Holmgren Title: Managing Director THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LIMITED, individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Matthew G. Murphy ----------------------------- Name: Matthew G. Murphy Title: Vice President BANK OF TOKYO - MITSUBISHI, LTD., HOUSTON AGENCY, individually and as Co-Agent By: /s/ John W. McGhee ----------------------------- Name: John W. McGhee Title: Vice President & Manager SUNTRUST BANK, individually and as Co-Agent By: /s/ David J. Edge ----------------------------- Name: David J. Edge Title: Director WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE, NEW YORK BRANCH, individually and as Co-Agent By: /s/ Alan S. Bookspan ----------------------------- Name: Alan S. Bookspan Title: Director By: /s/ Thomas Lee ----------------------------- Name: Thomas Lee Title: Associate CITIBANK, NA By: /s/Gregory S. Morzano ----------------------------- Name: Gregory s. Morzano Title: Vice President Global Energy & Mining THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA By: /s/ F.C.H. Ashby ----------------------------- Name: F.C.H. Ashby Title: Senior Manager Loan Operations SCHEDULE 1.01 EXISTING LETTERS OF CREDIT None. SCHEDULE 2.01 COMMITMENTS
Lender Commitment First Union National Bank $25,000,000 The Chase Manhattan Bank $23,125,000 Bank One, NA (Main Office - Chicago) $23,125,000 National Australia Bank Limited $21,250,000 Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc. $21,250,000 Fleet National Bank $21,250,000 The Fuji Bank, Limited $12,750,000 The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited $ 8,500,000 Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi, Ltd., Houston Agency $15,625,000 Sun Trust Bank $15,625,000 Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, New York Branch $15,625,000 Guaranty Federal Bank, F.S.B. $12,500,000 Citibank NA $12,500,000 The Bank of Nova Scotia $12,500,000 Hibernia National Bank $ 9,375,000
SCHEDULE 3.06 DISCLOSED MATTERS None. SCHEDULE 3.12 SUBSIDIARIES
Name of Subsidiary Type of Entity Jurisdiction of Effective Ownership by the Material Formation Borrower or ASubsidiary Subsidiary - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cajun Pipeline company, LLC Limited Liability Company Texas Borrower - 100% No Chunchula Pipeline Company, LLC Limited Liability Company Texas Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Products Texas Operating L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99%* No HSC Pipeline Partnership, L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99%* No Propylene Pipeline Partnership, L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99%* No Enterprise Lou-Tex Propylene Pipeline L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99% Yes Propylene Pipeline - 1% Partnership, L.P. Sabine Propylene Pipeline L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99% No Propylene Pipeline Partnership, L.P. - 1% Enterprise Lou-Tex NGL Pipeline L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99% Yes HSC Pipeline Partnership, L.P.- 1% Sorrento Pipeline Company, LLC Limited Liability Company Texas Borrower - 100% Yes Enterprise NGL Pipeline, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Gas Processing, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% Yes Enterprise NGL Private Lines & Storage, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Fractionation, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Entell NGL Services, L.L.C. Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Norco LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Enterprise Gas Processing, LLC - 100% No EPOLP 1999 Grantor Trust Grantor Trust Texas Borrower - 100% No
Remaining 1% partnership interest is owned by the Limited Partner, the sole limited partner of the applicable limited partnership. SCHEDULE 6.01 EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS OF SUBSIDIARIES None. SCHEDULE 6.06 EXISTING RESTRICTIONS None. EXHIBIT A FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November ___, 2000 (as amended and in effect on the date hereof, the "Credit Agreement"), among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., the Lenders named therein and First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meanings. The Assignor named herein hereby sells and assigns, without recourse, to the Assignee named herein, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes, without recourse, from the Assignor, effective as of the Assignment Date set forth herein the interests set forth herein (the "Assigned Interest") in the Assignor's rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement, including, without limitation, the interests set forth herein in the Commitment of the Assignor on the Assignment Date and Competitive Loans and Revolving Loans owing to the Assignor which are outstanding on the Assignment Date, together with the participations in Letters of Credit, LC Disbursements and Swingline Loans held by the Assignor on the Assignment Date, but excluding accrued interest and fees to and excluding the Assignment Date. The Assignee hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Credit Agreement. From and after the Assignment Date (i) the Assignee shall be a party to and be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and (ii) the Assignor shall, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit Agreement. This Assignment and Acceptance is being delivered to the Administrative Agent together with (i) if the Assignee is a Foreign Lender, any documentation required to be delivered by the Assignee pursuant to Section 2.17(e) of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by the Assignee, and (ii) if the Assignee is not already a Lender under the Credit Agreement, an Administrative Questionnaire in the form supplied by the Administrative Agent, duly completed by the Assignee. The [Assignee/Assignor] shall pay the fee payable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.04(b) of the Credit Agreement. This Assignment and Acceptance shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. Date of Assignment: Legal Name of Assignor: Legal Name of Assignee: Assignee's Address for Notices: Effective Date of Assignment ("Assignment Date"): A-1 Percentage Assigned of Facility/Commitment (set forth, to at least 8 decimals, as a Principal Amount Assigned percentage of the aggregate (and identifying information Commitments of all Lenders as to individual Competitive thereunder) Loans) Facility - --------------------------------------- ----------------- ---------------------- Commitment Assigned: $ % - --------------------------------------- ----------------- --------------------- Revolving Loans: - --------------------------------------- ----------------- ---------------------- Competitive Loans: ======================================= ================= ====================== The terms set forth above are hereby agreed to: [Name of Assignor] , as Assignor By: Name: Title: [Name of Assignee] , as Assignee By: Name: Title: A-2 The undersigned hereby consent to the within assignment: Enterprise Products Operating L.P. First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: By: _________________________________ __________________________ Name: Name: Title: Title: First Union National Bank, First Union National Bank, as Swingline Lender as Issuing Bank By: By: _________________________ _______________________ Name: Name: Title: Title: A-3 EXHIBIT B FORM OF BORROWING REQUEST Dated __________ First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent One First Union Center, TW-10 301 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608 Attn: Syndication Agency Services Ladies and Gentlemen: This Borrowing Request is delivered to you by Enterprise Products Operating L.P. (the "Borrower"), a Delaware limited partnership, under Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement dated as of November ___, 2000 (as restated, amended, modified, supplemented and in effect, the "Credit Agreement"), by and among the Borrower, the Lenders party thereto, First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, NA, as Syndication Agent, and Bank One, N.A., as Documentation Agent. 1. The Company hereby requests that the Lenders make a Loan or Loans in the aggregate principal amount of $______________ (the "Revolving Loan" or the "Revolving Loans).1/ - 2. The Company hereby requests that the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans be made on the following Business Day: 2/ - 3. The Company hereby requests that the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans bear interest at the following interest rate, plus (if Eurodollar Loan) the Applicable Margin, as set forth below: Principal Maturity Date for Type of Component of Interest Interest Period Interest Period Revolving Loan Revolving Loan Rate (if applicable) (if applicable) -------------- -------------- ---- --------------- --------------- - ------------------------ 1. Complete with an amount in accordance with Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement 2. Complete with A business Day in accordance with Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement. B-1 Principal Maturity Date for Type of Component of Interest Interest Period Interest Period Revolving Loan Revolving Loan Rate (if applicable) (if applicable) -------------- -------------- ---- --------------- --------------- 4. The Company hereby requests that the funds from the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans be disbursed to the following bank account: ______________________________. 5. After giving effect to the requested Revolving Loan, the sum of the Exposures outstanding as of the date hereof (including the requested Loans) does not exceed the maximum amount permitted to be outstanding pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement. 6. All of the conditions applicable to the Revolving Loans requested herein as set forth in the Credit Agreement have been satisfied as of the date hereof and will remain satisfied to the date of such Loans. 7. All capitalized undefined terms used herein have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Borrowing Request this _____ day of _______________, ______. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its General Partner By: ___________________________________ Name: ___________________________________ Title: ___________________________________ B-2 EXHIBIT C FORM OF COMPETITIVE BID REQUEST First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent One First Union Center, TW-10 301 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608 Attention: Syndication Agency Services Ladies and Gentlemen: Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November __, 2000 (as restated, amended, modified, supplemented and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the undersigned, the Lenders party thereto, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agent and First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement. The undersigned hereby gives you notice pursuant to Section 2.04 of the Credit Agreement that it requests a Competitive Borrowing under the Credit Agreement, and in that connection sets forth below the terms on which such Competitive Borrowing is requested to be made: (A) Borrowing Date of Competitive Borrowing (which is a Business Day) -------------------------------- (B) Aggregate Principal Amount of Competitive Borrowing 1/ -------------------------------- - (C) Interest rate basis2/ -------------------------------- - (D) Interest Period and the last -------------------------------- day thereof3/ - (E) Location and number of Borrower's account------------------------------ to which funds are to be deposited -------------------------------- - ------------------------ 1. Not less than $5,000,000 or greater than the unused Total commitment and in intergral multiples of $1,000,000. 2. Eurodollar Competitive Borrowing or Fixed Rate Borrowing. 3. Which shall have a duration (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Loan, of one, two, three or six months and (ii) in the case of Fixed Rate Loan, of not less than seven days nor more than 180 days, and which, in either case, shall end not later than the Maturity Date. C-1 By the delivery of this Competitive Bid Request and the acceptance of any or all of the Competitive Loans offered by the Lenders in response to this Competitive Bid Request, the undersigned shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that the applicable conditions to lending specified in Article IV of the Credit Agreement have been satisfied with respect to the Competitive Borrowing requested hereby. Very truly yours, ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its General Partner By: Name: Title: C-2 EXHIBIT D FORM OF INTEREST ELECTION REQUEST Dated _____________ First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent One First Union Center, TW-10 301 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608 Attn: Syndication Agency Services Ladies and Gentlemen: This irrevocable Interest Election Request (the "Request") is delivered to you under Section 2.08 of the Credit Agreement dated as of November __, 2000 (as restated, amended, modified, supplemented and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), by and among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Company"), the Lenders party thereto (the "Lenders"), First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and Bank One, N.A., as Documentation Agent. 1. This Interest Election Request is submitted for the purpose of: (a) [Converting] [Continuing] a ____________ Revolving Loan [into] [as] a ____________ Loan.1/ (b) The aggregate outstanding principal balance of such Revolving Loan is $______________. (c) The last day of the current Interest Period for such Revolving Loan is _____________.2/ - (d) The principal amount of such Revolving Loan to be [converted] [continued] is $_____________.3/ (e) The requested effective date of the [conversion] [continuation] of such Revolving Loan is _______________.4/ - ____________________ 1, Delete the bracketed language and insert "alternate Base Rate" or "LIBO Rate", as applicable, in each blank. 2. Insert applicable date for any Eurodollar Loan being converted or continued. 3. Complete with an amount in compliance with Section 2.08 of the Credit Agreement. 4. Complete with a Business Date in compliance with Section 2.08 of the Credit Agreement. D-1 (f) The requested Interest Period applicable to the [converted] [continued] Revolving Loan is ____________________.5/ - 2. With respect to a Revolving Borrowing to be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing, no Event of Default exists, and none will exist upon the conversion or continuation of the Revolving Borrowing requested herein. 3. All capitalized undefined terms used herein have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Interest Election Request this _____ day of ___________________, ____. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its General Partner By: ________________________ Name: ______________________ Title: _____________________ _______________________ 5. complete for each Eurodollar Loan in compliance with the definition of the term "Interest Period" specified in Section 1.01. D-2 EXHIBIT E FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE GENERAL PARTNER [LETTERHEAD] November 17, 2000 First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent The Other Lenders to the Credit Agreement Referred to Below Ladies and Gentlemen: I am the Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Enterprise Products GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the sole general partner (in such capacity, the "General Partner") of Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), and Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Guarantor"), and in such capacity, have represented the Borrower and the Guarantor, in connection with (i) the Borrower's execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000 (the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and the other agents and lenders parties thereto (collectively, the "Lenders"), with respect to the Multi-Year Revolving Credit Facility, and (ii) the Guarantor's execution and delivery of the Guaranty Agreement (Multi-Year Credit Facility) dated as of November 17, 2000 (the "Guaranty Agreement") in favor of the Administrative Agent. This opinion is being furnished to you pursuant to Section 4.01(b) of the Credit Agreement. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined. In expressing the opinions expressed below, I have examined executed counterparts (or copies thereof) of each of the Credit Agreement, the Guaranty Agreement and the promissory notes and other documents executed and delivered by either the Borrower or the Guarantor in connection therewith (the Credit Agreement, the Guaranty Agreement and such promissory notes and other documents being herein sometimes referred to collectively, the "Credit Documents"), the originals or conformed copies of such limited liability company or partnership records, agreements and instruments of the Borrower, the General Partner and the Guarantor (the General Partner and the Guarantor being herein sometimes referred to individually, as a "Partner" and, collectively, as the "Partners"), certificates of public officials and of officers of the Borrower and the Partners and such other documents and records, and such matters of law, as I have deemed appropriate as a basis for the opinions hereinafter expressed. As to factual matters, I have relied upon, and assumed the accuracy of, (a) statements and certifications of officers of the General Partner and of appropriate public officials, and (b) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Partners contained in or made pursuant to each of the Credit Documents to which they are respectively a party, and my opinion is limited to such factual matters in existence on the date hereof. In stating my opinion, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures of persons signing the Credit -1- Documents on behalf of parties thereto (including faxed copies of such signatures), other than the persons signing on behalf of the Borrower and the Partners, the authenticity and completeness of all documents, certificates and records submitted to me as originals and the conformity to authentic original instruments of all documents (including any of the Credit Documents), certificates and records submitted to me as certified, conformed, faxed or photostatic copies. I have assumed further that the execution and delivery of the Credit Documents or any other instruments executed in connection with the Credit Documents, or as part of the same transaction as the Credit Documents, by any party other than the Borrower and the Partners have been duly authorized by such other party and are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of such other party. This opinion is limited in all respects to the laws of the States of Texas and Delaware and federal law as in effect on the date hereof. I note that the Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents provide that they are to be governed by the laws of the State of New York. Accordingly, in expressing this opinion, I have assumed, with your permission, that the laws of the State of New York are identical in all respects to the laws of the State of Texas. Based upon the foregoing and subject to the limitations, qualifications, assumptions and exceptions set forth herein, I am of the opinion that: 1. The General Partner (a) is a limited liability company duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (b) has the limited liability company power and authority to (i) own or lease the property which it owns or leases, (ii) conduct the business in which it is currently engaged and in which it proposes, as of the date hereof, to be engaged after the date hereof and (iii) make, deliver and perform, on behalf of, and as the sole general partner of, each of the Borrower and the Guarantor, the Credit Documents to which they respectively are a party in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof. Each of the Borrower and the Guarantor (a) is a limited partnership duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (b) has the partnership power and authority to (i) own or lease the property which it owns or leases, (ii) conduct the business in which it is currently engaged and in which it proposes, as of the date hereof, to be engaged after the date hereof and (iii) make, deliver and perform the Credit Documents to which it is a party in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof. The Borrower has the partnership power and authority to borrow under the Credit Agreement. 2. The General Partner has taken all necessary limited liability company action to authorize, (a) on behalf of, and as the sole general partner of, the Borrower, the borrowings by the Borrower on the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement and (b)on behalf of, and as the sole general partner of, each of the Borrower and the Guarantor, the execution, delivery and performance of each of the Credit Documents to which the Borrower or the Guarantor is a party. Each of the Borrower and the Guarantor has taken all necessary partnership action to authorize (a) with respect to the Borrower only, the borrowings by the Borrower on the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement and (b) the execution, delivery and performance of each of the Credit Documents to which it is a party. 3. Each of the Credit Documents to which the Borrower is a party i) has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower and (ii) constitutes -2- the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms. Each of the Credit Documents to which the Guarantor is a party (a) has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Guarantor and(b constitutes the legal,valid and binding obligations of the Guarantor enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its terms. 4. The execution, delivery and performance by the General Partner, as the sole general partner of, and on behalf of, the Borrower, of the Credit Agreement and each of the other Credit Documents to which the Borrower is a party in accordance with the terms thereof will not (a) violate any provision of the limited liability company agreement of the General Partner, the Partnership Agreement or the other organizational documents of the General Partner or the Borrower, respectively, (b) result in the breach of or constitute a Default under the Credit Agreement, (c) violate any law or regulation applicable to the General Partner or the Borrower or any order of any Governmental Authority to which the General Partner or the Borrower is subject, (d) except for the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility, violate or result in a default under any material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Borrower or any of its assets, or (e) result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on the Borrower's properties or revenues that is prohibited by any of the Credit Documents or any other material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Borrower or any of its assets. 5. The execution, delivery and performance by the General Partner, as the sole general partner of, and on behalf of, the Guarantor of the Guaranty Agreement and each of the other Credit Documents to which the Guarantor is a party in accordance with the terms thereof will not (a) violate any provision of the limited liability company agreement of the General Partner, the partnership agreement of the Guarantor or the other organizational documents of the General Partner or the Guarantor, respectively, (b) violate any law or regulation applicable to the General Partner or the Guarantor or any order of any Governmental Authority to which the General Partner or the Guarantor is subject, (c) except for the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility, violate or result in a default under any material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Guarantor or any of its assets, or (d) result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on the Guarantor's properties or revenues that is prohibited by any of the Credit Documents or any material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Guarantor or any of its assets. 6. No approvals or consents of any Governmental Authority or other consents or approvals by any other Person which have not been obtained on or prior to the date hereof are required in connection with (a) the participation by the Borrower or the Guarantor in the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents, (b) the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Credit Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents to which it is a party or (c) the execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of the Guaranty Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents to which it is a party 7. No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the best of my knowledge, threatened by or against or affecting the Borrower or the Guarantor (a) with respect to any of the Credit Documents or the Transactions or (b) which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have Material Adverse Effect. -3- 8. The making of the Revolving Loans to the Borrower will not violate Section 7 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any regulation issued pursuant thereto, including without limitation, the provisions of Regulations U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 9. Neither the Borrower nor the Guarantor is (a) an "investment company", or a company "controlled" by an "investment company", within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended or (b) is subject to regulation under any federal or Texas statute or regulation which limits its ability to incur indebtedness. 10. Except for instances covered by Section 35.51(e) and Section 35.51(f)(1), (2) or (4) of the Texas Uniform Commercial Code, as amended, the courts of the State of Texas, and the courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Texas, would, assuming that the applicable issues were properly brought before such courts and such courts were to apply existing law, enforce the provisions contained in the Credit Documents which stipulate that the validity, construction and enforceability of such Credit Documents shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and governed by, the law of the State of New York. This opinion is subject to, and qualified in all respects by, with your permission, the following: A. I have not been called upon to, and accordingly do not, express any opinion as to the various state and federal laws regulating banks or the conduct of their business that may relate to the Credit Documents and the transactions provided for therein. B. The enforceability of the Credit Documents may be limited by (a) the application of general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), (b) the refusal of a particular court to grant equitable remedies including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, specific performance and injunctive relief, (c) the judicial imposition of an implied covenant of good faith and (d) bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting the rights of creditors generally. The enforceability of the indemnity provisions contained in certain of the Credit Documents may be limited by considerations of public policy or to the extent claims therefor arise under any applicable securities laws. C. The opinions in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 herein are based, in part, upon the assumption (i) I have assumed that Article 5069-1H of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes is or would be applicable to the Loans and that such statute is constitutional and will be upheld by the courts of Texas. I advise you that I am not aware of any reported case applying Texas law that has held such statute unconstitutional or questioned its constitutionality, and I know of no reason why such statute would be held unconstitutional. (ii) I have assumed that each and every usury savings clause contained in the Credit Documents will govern and control and will be given effect by any court of competent jurisdiction so as to be valid, binding, and enforceable in accordance with its terms. -4- (iii) No opinion or advice is being given as to actions of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in charging or receiving interest after the date of execution and delivery of the Credit Documents. I have been requested, and I am rendering, an opinion only that the Credit Documents, as executed and delivered by the Borrower, are not contractually usurious under Texas law. (iv) I have assumed that no other fees, sums, charges, points, or other forms of payment or benefits, whether direct or indirect, which constitute interest under applicable law, have been paid or received or are, or may be, payable to or receivable by any Lender (in such Lender's capacity as an agent, a Lender or otherwise) or any of its affiliates except as expressly set forth in the Credit Documents or in certain fee agreements among the Borrower and/or the Guarantor and the Administrative Agent, an Affiliate thereof, The Chase Manhattan Bank and an Affiliate thereof. D. I express no opinion as to the validity or enforceability of any of the following types of provisions in any of the Credit Documents: (i) provisions purporting to grant self-help remedies; (ii) provisions relating to the waiver of various rights or remedies by the Borrower or the Guarantor; (iii) provisions relating to subrogation rights, suretyship, delay or omission of enforcement of rights or remedies, severability of individual provisions of the Credit Documents from other provisions of such documents, waivers or ratification of future acts, powers of attorney, indemnification (specifically as it relates to the indemnification of a third party for such third party's negligence or an indemnification which is against public policy with respect to breaches of environmental laws), consent judgments, marshalling of assets, or sales in inverse order of alienation; (iv) provisions purporting to authorize the Administrative Agent or any Lender to collect and escrow or reserve sums of money without paying interest thereon; (v) provisions purporting to revive the Credit Documents after their termination or expiration other than any provision of any Credit Document with respect to which such Credit Document expressly provides that such provision shall survive any such termination or expiration; (vi) provisions relating to set-offs against deposits; (vii) provisions purporting to authorize conclusive determinations; and (viii) provisions purporting to establish as to third parties nonculpability for acts of any party. In addition, in my opinion, certain other applicable laws and court decisions may limit the validity of, or render unenforceable certain provisions of the Credit Documents; provided, however, that such laws and court decisions should not render any of the Credit Documents, taken as a whole, inadequate for the practical realization of the benefits and security afforded thereby except for the economic consequences of any delay or excess costs of proceedings which may result therefrom. E. All statements in this opinion which are stated "to my knowledge" are based, to the extent I have deemed proper, solely upon reasonable inquiries of an officer or representative of the Partners. Although I have not independently verified the accuracy of the statements, I have discussed the statements with the individuals making them, and I have no reason to believe that any such statement is untrue or inaccurate in any material respect. This opinion is limited to matters stated herein and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated. I disclaim any obligation to up-date this opinion or to advise you of any changes in any of the opinions or other matters set forth herein. -5- This opinion is being furnished only to, and is solely for the benefit of, the addressees and the Lenders which are parties to the Credit Agreement on the date hereof and their respective permitted assigns (each of which Lenders which are parties to the Credit Agreement on the date hereof and their respective permitted assigns may rely upon this opinion as of the date hereof). This opinion may not be used, circulated, quoted, relied upon or otherwise referred to by any other person or entity or for any other purpose without my prior written consent. Very truly yours, Richard H. Bachmann Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer -6- EXHIBIT F FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE The undersigned hereby certifies that he is the _______________________ of ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, general partner of ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), and that as such he is authorized to execute this certificate on behalf of the Borrower. With reference to the Credit Agreement dated as of November ___, 2000 (as restated, amended, modified, supplemented and in effect from time to time, the "Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agent and First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, for the lenders (the "Lenders"), which are or become a party thereto, and such Lenders, the undersigned represents and warrants as follows (each capitalized term used herein having the same meaning given to it in the Agreement unless otherwise specified); (a) [There currently does not exist any Default under the Agreement.] [Attached hereto is a schedule specifying the details of [a] certain Default[s] which exist under the Agreement and the action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.] (b) Attached hereto are the detailed computations necessary to determine whether the Borrower is in compliance with Sections 6.07(a) and (b) of the Agreement as of the end of the [fiscal quarter][fiscal year] ending ________________. EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this ____ day of _________________, 20__. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its General Partner By: Name: Title: F-1 EXHIBIT G FORM OF REVOLVING LOAN NOTE (Multi-Year Credit Facility) $_____________ _______, 2000 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), for value received, promises and agrees to pay to ______________________________ (the "Lender"), or order, at the payment office of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent, at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, the principal sum of ______________________________ AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($_____________), or such lesser amount as shall equal the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Revolving Loans owed to the Lender under the Credit Agreement, as hereafter defined, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, on the dates and in the principal amounts provided in the Credit Agreement, and to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount as provided in the Credit Agreement for such Revolving Loans, at such office, in like money and funds, for the period commencing on the date of each such Revolving Loan until such Revolving Loan shall be paid in full, at the rates per annum and on the dates provided in the Credit Agreement. This note evidences the Revolving Loans owed to the Lender under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by and among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, individually, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, The Chase Manhattan Bank, individually and as Syndication Agent, Bank One, NA, individually and as Documentation Agent, and the other financial institutions parties thereto (including the Lender) (such Credit Agreement, together with all amendments or supplements thereto, being the "Credit Agreement"), and shall be governed by the Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used in this note and not defined in this note, but which are defined in the Credit Agreement, have the respective meanings herein as are assigned to them in the Credit Agreement. The Lender is hereby authorized by the Borrower to endorse on Schedule A (or a continuation thereof) attached to this note, the Type of each Revolving Loan owed to the Lender, the amount and date of each payment or prepayment of principal of each such Revolving Loan received by the Lender and the Interest Periods and interest rates applicable to each Revolving Loan, provided that any failure by the Lender to make any such endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement or under this note in respect of such Revolving Loans. This note may be held by the Lender for the account of its applicable lending office and, except as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement, may be transferred from one lending office of the Lender to another lending office of the Lender from time to time as the Lender may determine. Except only for any notices which are specifically required by the Credit Agreement, the Borrower and any and all co-makers, endorsers, guarantors and sureties severally waive notice (including but not limited to notice of intent to accelerate and notice of acceleration, notice of protest and notice of dishonor), demand, presentment for payment, protest, diligence in collecting and the filing of suit for the purpose of fixing liability, and consent that the time of payment hereof may be extended and re-extended from time to time without G-1 notice to any of them. Each such person agrees that his, her or its liability on or with respect to this note shall not be affected by any release of or change in any guaranty or security at any time existing or by any failure to perfect or maintain perfection of any lien against or security interest in any such security or the partial or complete unenforceability of any guaranty or other surety obligation, in each case in whole or in part, with or without notice and before or after maturity. The Credit Agreement provides for the acceleration of the maturity of this note upon the occurrence of certain events and for prepayment of Revolving Loans upon the terms and conditions specified therein. Reference is made to the Credit Agreement for all other pertinent purposes. This note is issued pursuant to and is entitled to the benefits of the Credit Agreement. It is hereby understood and agreed that Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Borrower, shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. THIS NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM TIME TO TIME IN EFFECT. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: - Name: _______________________ Title: ________________________ G-2 SCHEDULE A TO REVOLVING LOAN NOTE This note evidences the Revolving Loans owed to the Lender under the Credit Agreement, in the principal amount set forth below and the applicable Interest Periods and rates for each such Revolving Loan, subject to the payments of principal set forth below: SCHEDULE OF REVOLVING LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
Balance Principal Amount of of Amount of Principal Notation Interest Revolving Paid or Interest Revolving Made Date Period Rate Loan Prepaid Paid Loans by - ---- ------ ----- ---------- ----------- ------------- ----- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- -------
G-3 EXHIBIT H FORM OF COMPETITIVE LOAN NOTE (Multi-Year Credit Facility) $_____________ _______, 2000 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), for value received, promises and agrees to pay to ______________________________ (the "Lender"), or order, at the payment office of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent, at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, the principal sum of ______________________________ AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($_____________), or such lesser amount as shall equal the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Competitive Loans owed to the Lender under the Credit Agreement, as hereafter defined, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, on the dates and in the principal amounts provided in the Credit Agreement, and to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount as provided in the Credit Agreement for such Competitive Loans, at such office, in like money and funds, for the period commencing on the date of each such Competitive Loan until such Competitive Loan shall be paid in full, at the rates per annum and on the dates provided in the Credit Agreement. This note evidences the Competitive Loans owed to the Lender under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by and among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, individually, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, The Chase Manhattan Bank, individually and as Syndication Agent, Bank One, NA, individually and as Documentation Agent, and the other financial institutions parties thereto (including the Lender) (such Credit Agreement, together with all amendments or supplements thereto, being the "Credit Agreement"), and shall be governed by the Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used in this note and not defined in this note, but which are defined in the Credit Agreement, have the respective meanings herein as are assigned to them in the Credit Agreement. The Lender is hereby authorized by the Borrower to endorse on Schedule A (or a continuation thereof) attached to this note, the Type of each Competitive Loan owed to the Lender, the amount and date of each payment or prepayment of principal of each such Competitive Loan received by the Lender and the Interest Periods and interest rates applicable to each Competitive Loan, provided that any failure by the Lender to make any such endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement or under this note in respect of such Competitive Loans. This note may be held by the Lender for the account of its applicable lending office and, except as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement, may be transferred from one lending office of the Lender to another lending office of the Lender from time to time as the Lender may determine. Except only for any notices which are specifically required by the Credit Agreement, the Borrower and any and all co-makers, endorsers, guarantors and sureties severally waive notice (including but not limited to notice of intent to accelerate and notice of acceleration, notice of protest and notice of dishonor), demand, presentment for payment, protest, diligence in collecting and the filing of suit for the purpose of fixing liability, and consent that the time of payment hereof may be extended and re-extended from time to time without H-1 notice to any of them. Each such person agrees that his, her or its liability on or with respect to this note shall not be affected by any release of or change in any guaranty or security at any time existing or by any failure to perfect or maintain perfection of any lien against or security interest in any such security or the partial or complete unenforceability of any guaranty or other surety obligation, in each case in whole or in part, with or without notice and before or after maturity. The Credit Agreement provides for the acceleration of the maturity of this note upon the occurrence of certain events and for prepayment of Competitive Loans upon the terms and conditions specified therein. Reference is made to the Credit Agreement for all other pertinent purposes. This note is issued pursuant to and is entitled to the benefits of the Credit Agreement. It is hereby understood and agreed that Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Borrower, shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. THIS NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM TIME TO TIME IN EFFECT. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: Name: _______________________ Title: ________________________ H-2 SCHEDULE A TO COMPETITIVE LOAN NOTE This note evidences the Competitive Loans owed to the Lender under the Credit Agreement, in the principal amount set forth below and the applicable Interest Periods and rates for each such Competitive Loan, subject to the payments of principal set forth below: SCHEDULE OF COMPETITIVE LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
Balance Principal Amount of of Amount of Principal Notation Interest Competitive Paid or Interest Competitive Made Date Period Rate Loan Prepaid Paid Loans by - ---- ------ ----- ---------- ----------- ------------- ---------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- -------
H-3 EXHIBIT I FORM OF SWINGLINE LOAN NOTE (Multi-Year Credit Facility) $20,000,000.00 _______, 2000 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), for value received, promises and agrees to pay to FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Swingline Lender under the Credit Agreement, as hereafter defined (the "Swingline Lender"), or order, at the payment office of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent, at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, the principal sum of TWENTY MILLION AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($20,000,000.00), or such lesser amount as shall equal the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Swingline Loans owed to the Swingline Lender under the Credit Agreement, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, on the dates and in the principal amounts provided in the Credit Agreement, and to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount as provided in the Credit Agreement for such Swingline Loans, at such office, in like money and funds, for the period commencing on the date of each such Swingline Loan until such Swingline Loan shall be paid in full, at the rates per annum and on the dates provided in the Credit Agreement. This note evidences the Swingline Loans owed to the Swingline Lender under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by and among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, individually, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, The Chase Manhattan Bank, individually and as Syndication Agent, Bank One, NA, individually and as Documentation Agent, and the other financial institutions parties thereto (such Credit Agreement, together with all amendments or supplements thereto, being the "Credit Agreement"), and shall be governed by the Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used in this note and not defined in this note, but which are defined in the Credit Agreement, have the respective meanings herein as are assigned to them in the Credit Agreement. The Swingline Lender is hereby authorized by the Borrower to endorse on Schedule A (or a continuation thereof) attached to this note, the amount and date of each payment or prepayment of principal of each such Swingline Loan received by the Swingline Lender, provided that any failure by the Swingline Lender to make any such endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement or under this note in respect of such Swingline Loans. This note may be held by the Swingline Lender for the account of its applicable lending office and, except as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement, may be transferred from one lending office of the Swingline Lender to another lending office of the Swingline Lender from time to time as the Swingline Lender may determine. Except only for any notices which are specifically required by the Credit Agreement, the Borrower and any and all co-makers, endorsers, guarantors and sureties severally waive notice (including but not limited to notice of intent to accelerate and notice of acceleration, notice of protest and notice of dishonor), demand, presentment for payment, protest, diligence in collecting and the filing of suit for the purpose of fixing liability, and consent that the time of payment hereof may be extended and re-extended from time to time without notice to any of them. Each such person agrees that his, her or its liability on I-1 or with respect to this note shall not be affected by any release of or change in any guaranty or security at any time existing or by any failure to perfect or maintain perfection of any lien against or security interest in any such security or the partial or complete unenforceability of any guaranty or other surety obligation, in each case in whole or in part, with or without notice and before or after maturity. The Credit Agreement provides for the acceleration of the maturity of this note upon the occurrence of certain events and for prepayment of Swingline Loans upon the terms and conditions specified therein. Reference is made to the Credit Agreement for all other pertinent purposes. This note is issued pursuant to and is entitled to the benefits of the Credit Agreement. It is hereby understood and agreed that Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Borrower, shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. THIS NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM TIME TO TIME IN EFFECT. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: Name: _______________________ Title: ________________________ I-2 SCHEDULE A TO SWINGLINE LOAN NOTE This note evidences the Swingline Loans owed to the Lender under the Credit Agreement, in the principal amount set forth below, subject to the payments of principal set forth below: SCHEDULE OF SWINGLINE LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
Balance Principal Amount of of Amount of Principal Notation Swingline Paid or Interest Swingline Made Date Loan Prepaid Paid Loans by - ---- ---------- ----------- ------------- ----- ----------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- -------
EX-4.3 5 0005.txt CREDIT AGREEMENT - 364 DAY REVOLVING EXHIBIT 4.3 CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of November 17, 2000 among ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. The Lenders Party Hereto FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent BANK ONE, NA, as Documentation Agent THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, as Syndication Agent ------------------------------ FIRST UNION SECURITIES, INC. and CHASE SECURITIES INC., as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page ARTICLE I Definitions......................................................................................... 1 SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms........................................................................ 1 SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings............................................... 15 SECTION 1.03 Terms Generally...................................................................... 15 SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAP............................................................... 16 ARTICLE II The Credits......................................................................................... 16 SECTION 2.01. Commitments; Extensions and Conversion............................................... 16 SECTION 2.02. Revolving Loans and Revolving Borrowings............................................. 17 SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings.................................................... 17 SECTION 2.04. Intentionally Omitted................................................................ 18 SECTION 2.05. Intentionally Omitted................................................................ 18 SECTION 2.06. Intentionally Omitted................................................................ 18 SECTION 2.07. Funding of Borrowings................................................................ 18 SECTION 2.08. Interest Elections................................................................... 19 SECTION 2.09. Termination and Reduction of Commitments............................................. 20 SECTION 2.10. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt................................................. 20 SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans.................................................................. 21 SECTION 2.12. Fees................................................................................. 21 SECTION 2.13. Interest............................................................................. 22 SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest........................................................... 23 SECTION 2.15. Increased Costs...................................................................... 23 SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments............................................................... 24 SECTION 2.17. Taxes................................................................................ 24 SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs.......................... 26 SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders....................................... 27 ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties...................................................................... 28 SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers................................................................. 28 SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability........................................................ 28 SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts................................................. 28 SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change...................................... 28 SECTION 3.05. Intentionally Omitted................................................................ 29 SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters................................................. 29 SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws................................................................. 29 SECTION 3.08. Investment and Holding Company Status................................................ 29 SECTION 3.09. Taxes................................................................................ 29 SECTION 3.10. ERISA................................................................................ 30 SECTION 3.11. Disclosure........................................................................... 30 SECTION 3.12. Subsidiaries......................................................................... 30
i SECTION 3.13. Margin Securities.................................................................... 30 ARTICLE IV Conditions.......................................................................................... 30 SECTION 4.01. Effective Date....................................................................... 30 SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event.................................................................... 31 ARTICLE V Affirmative Covenants............................................................................... 32 SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information........................................... 32 SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events........................................................... 33 SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business....................................................... 33 SECTION 5.04. Intentionally Omitted................................................................ 33 SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance................................................. 33 SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights................................................. 33 SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws................................................................. 33 SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds...................................................................... 33 SECTION 5.09. Environmental Matters................................................................ 34 SECTION 5.10. ERISA Information.................................................................... 34 SECTION 5.11. Taxes................................................................................ 34 ARTICLE VI Negative Covenants.................................................................................. 34 SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness......................................................................... 35 SECTION 6.02. Liens................................................................................ 35 SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes.................................................................. 36 SECTION 6.04. Investment Restriction............................................................... 36 SECTION 6.05. Restricted Payments.................................................................. 36 SECTION 6.06. Restrictive Agreements............................................................... 36 SECTION 6.07. Financial Condition Covenants........................................................ 36 ARTICLE VII Events of Default................................................................................... 37 ARTICLE VIII The Administrative Agent............................................................................ 39 ARTICLE IX Miscellaneous....................................................................................... 41 SECTION 9.01. Notices.............................................................................. 41 SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments.................................................................. 42 SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver................................................... 42 SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns............................................................... 43 SECTION 9.05. Survival............................................................................. 45 SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness............................................. 45 SECTION 9.07. Severability......................................................................... 46 SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff...................................................................... 46
SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process........................... 46 SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL................................................................. 47 SECTION 9.11. Headings............................................................................. 47 SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality...................................................................... 47 SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation............................................................. 47 SECTION 9.14. Liability of General Partner......................................................... 48 SECTION 9.15. Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility.......................................... 48
ii SCHEDULES: Schedule 2.01 -- Commitments Schedule 3.06 -- Disclosed Matters Schedule 3.12 -- Subsidiaries Schedule 6.01 -- Existing Indebtedness Schedule 6.06 -- Existing Restrictions EXHIBITS: Exhibit A -- Form of Assignment and Acceptance Exhibit B -- Form of Borrowing Request Exhibit C -- Intentionally Omitted Exhibit D -- Form of Interest Election Request Exhibit E -- Form of Opinion of Borrower's Counsel Exhibit F -- Form of Compliance Certificate Exhibit G -- Form of Note iii CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of November 17, 2000, among ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership; the LENDERS party hereto; FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent; BANK ONE, NA, as Documentation Agent; and THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, as Syndication Agent. The parties hereto agree as follows: ARTICLE I Definitions SECTION 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings specified below: "ABR", when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to a Loan, or Loans, in the case of a Borrowing, which bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate. "Administrative Agent" means First Union National Bank, in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder. "Administrative Questionnaire" means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent. "Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified. "Agreement" means this Credit Agreement dated November 17, 2000, among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership; the Lenders party hereto; First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent; Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent; and The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, as amended, extended or otherwise modified from time to time. "Alternate Base Rate" means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively. "Applicable Percentage" means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the total Commitments represented by such Lender's Commitment. If the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments. "Applicable Rate" means, for any day, with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, or with respect to the facility fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the caption "Eurodollar Spread" or "Facility Fee Rate", as the case may be, based upon the ratings by Moody's and S&P, respectively, applicable on such date to the Index Debt: Index Debt Ratings: Eurodollar Facility Fee ------------------ ---------- ------------ (Moody's/S&P) Spread Rate ----------- ------ ---- Category 1 => A3/A - 0.415% 0.085% Category 2 => Baa1/BBB+ 0.525% 0.100% Category 3 =>Baa2/BBB 0.625% 0.125% Category 4 =>Baa3/BBB- 0.825% 0.175% Category 5 ---------- Transaction (including any period for which such lease has been extended). In the case of any lease that is terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty or other termination payment, such amount shall be the lesser of the amount determined assuming termination upon the first date such lease may be terminated (in which case the amount shall also include the amount of the penalty or termination payment, but no rent shall be considered as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to the first date upon which it may be so terminated) or the amount determined assuming no such termination. "Availability Period" means the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the earlier of the Conversion Date and the date of termination of the Commitments. "Board" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America. "Borrower" means Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership. "Borrowing" means Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect. "Borrowing Request" means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.03, and being in the form of attached Exhibit B. "Business Day" means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term "Business Day" shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank market. "Capital Lease Obligations" of any Person means the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP. "CERCLA" means the Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended. "Change in Control" means Duncan shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, at least a majority (on a fully converted, fully diluted basis) of the economic interest in the capital stock of EPCO and/or EPCO shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, at least a majority (on a fully converted, fully diluted basis) of the membership interest of the General Partner. "Change in Law" means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender (or, for purposes of Section 2.15(b), by any lending office of such Lender or by such Lender's holding company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement. 3 "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time. "Commitment" means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender to make Loans hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum aggregate amount of such Lender's Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.09 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to Section 2.01 or assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 9.04. The initial amount of each Lender's Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as applicable. The initial aggregate amount of the Lenders' Commitments is $150,000,000. "Common Units" means the common units of limited partner interests in the Limited Partner. "Consolidated EBITDA" means for any period, the sum of (a) the consolidated net income of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries) for such period plus, to the extent deducted in determining consolidated net income for such period, the aggregate amount of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, (ii) income tax expense and (iii) depreciation and amortization expense plus (b) the amount of cash dividends actually received during such period by the Borrower or a Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) from a Project Finance Subsidiary plus (c) the amount of all payments during such period on leases of the type referred to in clause (d) of the definition herein of Indebtedness and the amount of all payments during such period under other off-balance sheet loans and financings of the type referred to in such clause (d). "Consolidated Indebtedness" means the Indebtedness of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries) including, without duplication, guaranties of funded debt, determined on a consolidated basis as of such date. "Consolidated Interest Expense" means for any period, the interest expense of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (excluding Project Finance Subsidiaries), determined on a consolidated basis for such period. "Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means, at any date of determination, the total amount of assets of the Limited Partner and its consolidated subsidiaries after deducting therefrom: (a) all current liabilities (excluding (A) any current liabilities that by their terms are extendable or renewable at the option of the obligor thereon to a time more than 12 months after the time as of which the amount thereof is being computed, and (B) current maturities of long-term debt); and (b) the value (net of any applicable reserves) of all goodwill, trade names, trademarks, patents and other like intangible assets, all as set forth, or on a pro forma basis would be set forth, on the consolidated balance sheet of the Limited Partner and its consolidated subsidiaries for the Limited Partner's most recently completed fiscal quarter, prepared in accordance with GAAP. "Consolidated Net Worth" means as to any Person, at any date of determination, the sum of preferred stock (if any), par value of common stock, 4 capital in excess of par value of common stock, partners' capital or equity, and retained earnings, less treasury stock (if any), of such Person, all as determined on a consolidated basis. "Control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. "Controlling" and "Controlled" have meanings correlative thereto. "Conversion" means the conversion of the outstanding Revolving Loans to Term Loans pursuant to the terms and conditions of Section 2.01(d), which conversion shall occur on November 16, 2001, unless the Availability Period is extended pursuant to Section 2.01(c). "Conversion Date" means the date on which the Conversion occurs. "Default" means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless cured or waived, become an Event of Default. "Disclosed Matters" means the actions, suits and proceedings and the environmental matters disclosed in Schedule 3.06. "dollars" or "$" refers to lawful money of the United States of America. "Duncan" means, collectively, individually or in any combination, Dan L. Duncan, his wife, descendants, heirs and/or legatees and/or distributees of Dan L. Duncan's estate, and/or trusts established for the benefit of his wife, descendants, such legatees and/or distributees and/or their respective descendants, heirs, legatees and distributees. "Effective Date" means the date specified in the notice referred to in the last sentence of Section 4.01. "Environmental Laws" means all laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions, notices or binding agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to health and safety matters. "Environmental Liability" means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing. "EPCO" means Enterprise Products Company, a Texas corporation. 5 "Equity Interest" means shares of the capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other equity interests in any Person, or any warrants, options or other rights to acquire such interests. "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time. "ERISA Affiliate" means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code. "ERISA Event" means (a) any "reportable event", as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) the existence with respect to any Plan of an "accumulated funding deficiency" (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA. "Eurocurrency Liabilities" has the meaning assigned to that term in Regulation D of the Board, as in effect from time to time. "Eurodollar", when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to a Loan, or Loans, in the case of a Borrowing, which bear interest at a rate determined by reference to the LIBO Rate. "Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage" of any Lender for any Interest Period for each Eurodollar Borrowing means 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 which any such percentage shall be so applicable) under regulations issued from time to time by the Board for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for such Lender with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities having a term equal to such Interest Period. "Event of Default" has the meaning assigned to such term in Article VII. "Excluded Taxes" means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of America, by any state thereof or the District of Columbia or by the jurisdiction under the laws of 6 which such recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located, (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located and (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 2.19(b)), any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such Foreign Lender's failure to comply with Section 2.17(e). "Exposure" means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender's Loans at such time. "Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility" means the $350,000,000 revolving credit facility of the Borrower under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of July 28, 1999, among the Borrower, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Administrative Agent, and the lenders party thereto, together with any and all amendments and supplements thereto. "Federal Funds Effective Rate" means, 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 such day for such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it. "Final Availability Period" means the Availability Period for which no extension has been requested by the Borrower or consented to by the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(c). "Financial Officer" means the chief financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of the Borrower. "Foreign Lender" means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia. "GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. "General Partner" means Enterprise Products GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. "Governmental Authority" means the government of the United States of America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government. "Guarantee" of or by any Person (the "guarantor") means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person (the "primary obligor") in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase 7 of) any security for the payment thereof, (b) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or obligation; provided, that the term Guarantee shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. "Guaranty Agreement" means an agreement executed by the Limited Partner in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent guaranteeing, unconditionally, payment of any principal of or interest on the Loans or any other amount payable under this Agreement, when and as the same shall become due and payable. "Hazardous Materials" means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature, in each case regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law. "Indebtedness" of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all obligations of such Person for the repayment of money borrowed which are or should be shown on a balance sheet as debt in accordance with GAAP, (b) obligations of such Person as lessee under leases which, in accordance with GAAP, are capital leases, (c) guaranties of such Person of payment or collection of any obligations described in clauses (a) and (b) of other Persons; provided, that clauses (a) and (b) include, in the case of obligations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, only such obligations as are or should be shown as debt or capital lease liabilities on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower in accordance with GAAP and (d) all obligations of such Person under any synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off-balance sheet financing if the obligation under such synthetic lease, tax retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar off-balance sheet financing, as the case may be, is considered indebtedness for borrowed money for tax purposes but is classified as an operating lease in accordance with GAAP; provided, further, that the liability of any Person as a general partner of a partnership for Indebtedness of such partnership, if such partnership is not a subsidiary of such Person, shall not constitute Indebtedness. "Indemnified Taxes" means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes. "Index Debt" means senior, unsecured, non-credit enhanced (except for any guaranty by the Limited Partner) Indebtedness of the Borrower. "Information Memorandum" means the Confidential Information Memorandum dated October, 2000 relating to the Borrower and the Transactions. "Interest Election Request" means a request by the Borrower to convert or continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.08, and being in the form of attached Exhibit D. "Interest Payment Date" means (a) with respect to any ABR Loan, the last day of each March, June, September and December, and (b) with respect to any Eurodollar Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the 8 Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months' duration, the day that occurs three (3) months after the first day of such Interest Period. "Interest Period" means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and ending on the numerically cor responding day in the calendar month that is one, two, three or six months thereafter, as the Borrower may elect; provided, that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing only, such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Borrowing that commences on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Borrowing. "Lenders" means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, other than any such Person that ceases to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance or pursuant to Section 2.01(c).. "LIBO Rate" means, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for any Interest Period, (a) the rate per annum appearing on Page 3750 of the Bridge Telerate Service (formerly Dow Jones Market Service) (or on any successor or substitute page of such Service, or any successor to or substitute for such Service, providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such Service, as determined by the Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates applicable to dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a maturity comparable to such Interest Period; (b) if for any reason the rate specified in clause (a) of this definition does not so appear on Page 3750 of the Bridge Telerate Service (or any successor or substitute page or any such successor to or substitute for such Service), the rate per annum appearing on Reuters Screen LIBO page (or any successor or substitute page) as the London interbank offered rate for deposits in dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period; and (c) if the rate specified in clause (a) of this definition does not so appear on Page 3750 of the Bridge Telerate Service (or any successor or substitute page or any such successor to or substitute for such Service) and if no rate specified in clause (b) of this definition so appears on Reuters Screen LIBO page (or any successor or substitute page), the average of the interest rates per annum at which dollar deposits of $5,000,000 and for a maturity comparable to such Interest Period are offered by the respective principal London offices of the Reference Banks in immediately available funds in the London interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period. "Lien" means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with respect to such securities. For avoidance of doubt, operating leases are not "Liens". 9 "Limited Partner" means Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, or any other Person that is the "Guarantor" as defined in the March 15, 2000 Indenture. "Loans" means (a) during the Availability Period, the Revolving Loans, and (b) from and after the Conversion Date, the Term Loans, as the case may be. "March 15, 2000 Indenture" means that certain Indenture dated as of March 15, 2000, among the Borrower, the Limited Partner and First Union National Bank, as Trustee. "Material Adverse Change" means a material adverse change, from that in effect on June 30, 2000, in the financial condition or results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole, as indicated in the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements. "Material Adverse Effect" means a material adverse effect on financial condition or results of operations of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a whole, as indicated in the most recent quarterly or annual financial statements. "Material Indebtedness" means Indebtedness (other than the Loans), of any one or more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $25,000,000. "Material Subsidiary" means (i) those Subsidiaries designated on Schedule 3.12 as Material Subsidiaries and (ii) each Subsidiary that, as of the last day of the fiscal year of the Borrower most recently ended prior to the relevant determination of Material Subsidiaries, has a net worth determined in accordance with GAAP that is greater than 10% of the Consolidated Net Worth of the Borrower as of such day. "Maturity Date" means the date which is one year after the Conversion Date; provided, however, if such date is not a Business Day, then the Maturity Date shall be the Business Day immediately preceding such date. "Moody's" means Moody's Investors Service, Inc. "Multiemployer Plan" means a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA. "Multi-Year Credit Facility" means the revolving credit facility of the Borrower under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, and the lenders party thereto, together with any and all amendments and supplements thereto (the "Multi-Year Credit Agreement"). "Multi-Year Credit Facility Commitments" means the "Commitments" (as defined in the Multi-Year Credit Agreement) of the Lenders under the Multi-Year Credit Facility. "Other Taxes" means 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 registration of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement. 10 "Partnership Agreement" means the Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Borrower among the General Partner and the Limited Partner substantially in the form provided to the Lenders, as amended, modified and supplemented from time to time. "PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar functions. "Permitted Liens" means: (a) liens upon rights-of-way for pipeline purposes; (b) any statutory or governmental lien or lien arising by operation of law, or any mechanics', repairmen's, materialmen's, suppliers', carriers', landlords', warehousemen's or similar lien incurred in the ordinary course of business which is not yet due or which is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and any undetermined lien which is incidental to construction, development, improvement or repair; or any right reserved to, or vested in, any municipality or public authority by the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant, license, permit or by any provision of law, to purchase or recapture or to designate a purchaser of, any property; (c) liens for taxes and assessments which are (i) for the then current year, (ii) not at the time delinquent, or (iii) delinquent but the validity or amount of which is being contested at the time by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner in good faith by appropriate proceedings; (d) liens of, or to secure performance of, leases, other than capital leases, or any lien securing industrial development, pollution control or similar revenue bonds; (e) any lien upon property or assets acquired or sold by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner resulting from the exercise of any rights arising out of defaults on receivables; (f) any lien in favor of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner; or any lien upon any property or assets of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner in existence on the date of the execution and delivery of the March 15, 2000 Indenture; (g) any lien in favor of the United States of America or any state thereof, or any department, agency or instrumentality or political subdivision of the United States of America or any state thereof, to secure partial, progress, advance, or other payments pursuant to any contract or statute, or any debt incurred by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price of, or the cost of constructing, developing, repairing or improving, the property or assets subject to such lien; (h) any lien incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection with workmen's compensation, unemployment insurance, temporary disability, social security, retiree health or similar laws or regulations or to secure obligations imposed by statute or governmental regulations; (i) liens in favor of any Person to secure obligations under provisions of any letters of credit, bank guarantees, bonds or surety obligations required or requested by any governmental authority in connection 11 with any contract or statute; or any lien upon or deposits of any assets to secure performance of bids, trade contracts, leases or statutory obligations; (j) any lien upon any property or assets created at the time of acquisition of such property or assets by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner or within one year after such time to secure all or a portion of the purchase price for such property or assets or debt incurred to finance such purchase price, whether such debt was incurred prior to, at the time of or within one year after the date of such acquisition; or any lien upon any property or assets to secure all or part of the cost of construction, development, repair or improvements thereon or to secure debt incurred prior to, at the time of, or within one year after completion of such construction, development, repair or improvements or the commencement of full operations thereof (whichever is later), to provide funds for any such purpose; (k) any lien upon any property or assets existing thereon at the time of the acquisition thereof by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner and any lien upon any property or assets of a Person existing thereon at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary by acquisition, merger or otherwise; provided that, in each case, such lien only encumbers the property or assets so acquired or owned by such Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; (l) liens imposed by law or order as a result of any proceeding before any court or regulatory body that is being contested in good faith, and liens which secure a judgment or other court-ordered award or settlement as to which the Borrower, the applicable Subsidiary or the Limited Partner has not exhausted its appellate rights; (m) any extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals, refinancing, refunding or replacements) of liens, in whole or in part, referred to in clauses (a) through (l) above; provided, however, that any such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement lien shall be limited to the property or assets covered by the lien extended, renewed, refinanced, refunded or replaced and that the obligations secured by any such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement lien shall be in an amount not greater than the amount of the obligations secured by the lien extended, renewed, refinanced, refunded or replaced and any expenses of the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and the Limited Partner (including any premium) incurred in connection with such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement; or (n) any lien resulting from the deposit of moneys or evidence of indebtedness in trust for the purpose of defeasing debt of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner; "Permitted Sale/Leaseback Transactions" means any Sale/Leaseback Transaction: (a) which occurs within one year from the date of completion of the acquisition of the Principal Property subject thereto or the date of the completion of construction, development or substantial repair or improvement, or commencement of full operations on such Principal Property, whichever is later; or (b) involves a lease for a period, including renewals, of not more than three years; or 12 (c) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner would be entitled to incur Indebtedness, in a principal amount equal to the Attributable Indebtedness with respect to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction, secured by a Lien on the property subject to such Sale/Leaseback Transaction pursuant to Section 6.02 without equally and ratably securing the Indebtedness under this Agreement pursuant to such Section; or (d) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner, within a one-year period after such Sale-Leaseback Transaction, applies or causes to be applied an amount not less than the Attributable Indebtedness from such Sale-Leaseback Transaction to (a) the prepayment, repayment, redemption, reduction or retirement of any Indebtedness of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner that is not subordinated to the Indebtedness under this Agreement, or (b) the expenditure or expenditures for Principal Property used or to be used in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower, its Subsidiaries or the Limited Partner. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition, any Sale-Leaseback Transaction not covered by clauses (a) through (d), inclusive, of this definition, shall nonetheless be a Permitted Sale/Leaseback Transaction if the Attributable Indebtedness from such Sale-Leaseback Transaction, together with the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness under this Agreement and Indebtedness under the March 15, 2000 Indenture) secured by Liens other than Permitted Liens upon Principal Properties, does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. "Person" means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity. "Plan" means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an "employer" as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA. "Prime Rate" means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by First Union National Bank as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in Charlotte, North Carolina, each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective. "Principal Property" means whether owned or leased on the date hereof or thereafter acquired: (a) any pipeline assets of the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner, including any related facilities employed in the transportation, distribution, storage or marketing of refined petroleum products, natural gas liquids, and petrochemicals, that are located in the United States of America or any territory or political subdivision thereof; and (b) any processing or manufacturing plant or terminal owned or leased by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or the Limited Partner that is located in the United States or any territory or political subdivision thereof; 13 except, in the case of either of the foregoing clauses (a) or (b): (i) any such assets consisting of inventories, furniture, office fixtures and equipment (including data processing equipment), vehicles and equipment used on, or useful with, vehicles; and (ii) any such assets, plant or terminal which, in the opinion of the Board of Directors (as defined in the March 15, 2000 Indenture), is not material in relation to the activities of the Borrower or of the Limited Partner and its subsidiaries taken as a whole. "Program" means the buy-back program initiated by the Limited Partner whereby the Limited Partner or the Borrower may buy back up to the greater of (i) 1,000,000 publicly held Units or (ii) the number of publicly held Units the aggregate purchase price of which is $30,000,000. "Project Financing" means Indebtedness incurred by a Project Finance Subsidiary to finance the acquisition or construction of any asset or project which Indebtedness does not permit or provide for recourse against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Project Finance Subsidiary). "Project Finance Subsidiaries" means a Subsidiary that is created principally to (i) construct or acquire any asset or project that will be or is financed solely with Project Financing for such asset or project, related equity investments and any loans to, or capital contributions in, such Subsidiary that are not prohibited hereby, (ii) own an Equity Interest in a Project Finance Subsidiary, and/or (iii) own an interest in any such asset or project. "Reference Banks" means First Union National Bank, The Chase Manhattan Bank and Citibank, N.A. "Register" has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04. "Related Parties" means, with respect to any specified Person, such Person's Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and such Person's Affiliates. "Required Lenders" means, at any time, Lenders having Exposures and unused Commitments representing at least 51% of the sum of the total Exposures and unused Commitments at such time. "Restricted Payment" means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any class of Equity Interests of the Borrower, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any Equity Interests of the Limited Partner or the Borrower or any option, warrant or other right to acquire any Equity Interests of the Limited Partner or the Borrower. "Revolving Loan" means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.03. 14 "Sale/Leaseback Transaction" means any arrangement with any Person providing for the leasing, under a lease that is not a capital lease under GAAP, by the Borrower, or a Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) or the Limited Partner of any Principal Property, which property has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Borrower, such Subsidiary or the Limited Partner to such Person in contemplation of such leasing. "S&P" means Standard & Poor's. "Subordinated Units" means the subordinated units of limited partner interests in the Limited Partner. "subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person (the "parent") at any date, any corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other entity of which securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more than 50% of the general partnership interests, are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by the parent and one or more subsidiaries of the parent. "Subsidiary" means any subsidiary of the Borrower. "Taxes" means any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority. "Term Loans" means outstanding Revolving Loans converted to term loans pursuant to Sections 2.01(d). "Transactions" means the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of this Agreement, the borrowing of Loans and the use of the proceeds thereof. "Type", when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the LIBO Rate or the Alternate Base Rate. "Units" means the collective reference to the Common Units and the Subordinated Units. "Withdrawal Liability" means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA. SECTION 1.02. Classification of Loans and Borrowings. For purposes of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a "Eurodollar Loan"). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a "Eurodollar Borrowing"). ---- SECTION 1.03 Terms Generally. The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation". The word "will" shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word "shall". Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition of or 15 reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person's successors and assigns, (c) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder", and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) 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, securities, accounts and contract rights. SECTION 1.04. Accounting Terms; GAAPS. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with (i) except for purposes of Section 6.07, GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith; and (ii) for purposes of Section 6.07, GAAP, as in effect on June 30, 2000. ARTICLE II The Credits SECTION 2.01. Commitments; Extensions and Conversion. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to (i) make Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (A) such Lender's Exposure exceeding such Lender's Commitment or (B) the sum of the total Exposures exceeding the total Commitments, and (ii) at the election of the Borrower, to convert the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans outstanding immediately prior to the close of the Administrative Agent's business on the last day of the Final Availability Period to Term Loans. Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans. (b) The Borrower shall have the right, without the consent of the Lenders but with the prior approval of the Administrative Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld, to cause from time to time an increase in the total Commitments of the Lenders by adding to this Agreement one or more additional Lenders or by allowing one or more Lenders to increase their respective Commitments; provided however (i) no Event of Default shall have occurred hereunder which is continuing, (ii) no such increase shall cause (A) the aggregate Commitments hereunder to exceed $250,000,000, or (B) the sum of the aggregate Commitments hereunder plus the aggregate 5-Year Credit Facility Commitments to exceed $500,000,000, and (iii) no Lender's Commitment shall be increased without such Lender's consent. 16 (c) The Borrower may request a 364-day extension of the then effective Availability Period by delivering a written request for same to the Administrative Agent no earlier than 60 days and later than 30 days prior to the end of such Availability Period. Any such extension shall be granted if (i) consented to by Lenders having Exposures and unused Commitments representing more than 51% of the sum of the total Exposures and unused Commitments at such time, (ii) at the close of business on the last day of the Availability Period as it existed immediately prior to such extension (A) the Commitments of the dissenting Lenders are terminated (which termination shall be effective automatically), (B) all amounts owing to such dissenting Lenders are paid in full (which payments shall not be subject to Section 2.11), and (C) the total Commitments have been permanently reduced by an amount equal to such dissenting Lenders' Commitments so terminated, except to the extent that the Commitments of the dissenting Lenders are replaced pursuant to Section 2.19(b) and/or one or more Lenders agree(s) to increase their respective Commitment(s), and (iii) all conditions precedent for a Borrowing set forth in Section 4.02 have been satisfied. (d) (i) At the option of the Borrower, upon written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent no earlier than 60 days and no later than 30 days prior to the end of the Final Availability Period, the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans outstanding immediately prior to the close of the Administrative Agent's business on the last day of the Final Availability Period shall automatically convert to Term Loans maturing on the Maturity Date. (ii) Any portion of each Lender's Commitment not utilized on or before the Conversion Date shall be permanently canceled. (iii) Any Term Loans that are prepaid may not be reborrowed. SECTION 2.02. Revolving Loans and Revolving Borrowings. (a) Each Revolving Loan shall be made as part of a Revolving Borrowing consisting of Revolving Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Revolving Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender's failure to make Revolving Loans as required. (b) Subject to Section 2.14, (i) each Revolving Borrowing shall be comprised entirely of ABR Revolving Loans or Eurodollar Revolving Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its option may make any Eurodollar Revolving Loan by causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000. At the time that each ABR Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000; provided that an ABR Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments. Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than a total of six Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding. 17 (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the Maturity Date. SECTION 2.03. Requests for Revolving Borrowings. To request a Revolving Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that any such notice of an ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 2.06(e) may be given not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02: (i) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing; (ii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day; (iii) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; (iv) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term "Interest Period"; and (v) the location and number of the Borrower's account to which funds are to be disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section 2.07. If no election as to the Type of Revolving Borrowing is specified, then the requested Revolving Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurodollar Revolving Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such Lender's Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing. SECTION 2.04. Intentionally Omitted. SECTION 2.05. Intentionally Omitted. SECTION 2.06. Intentionally Omitted. SECTION 2.07. Funding of BorrowingsSECTION 2.07. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like funds, to an account designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing Request. 18 (b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to such Borrowing. If such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such Lender's Loan included in such Borrowing. SECTION 2.08. Interest Elections. (a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter (including on or after the Conversion Date), the Borrower may elect to convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. (b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request signed by the Borrower. (c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02: (i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each resulting Borrowing); (ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day; (iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing; and 19 (iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term "Interest Period". If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's duration, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing. (d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender's portion of each resulting Borrowing. (e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto. SECTION 2.09. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) Unless previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the Maturity Date. (b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section 2.11, the sum of the Exposures would exceed the total Commitments. (c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination of the Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the Commitments shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments. SECTION 2.10. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. (a) The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each Loan on the Maturity Date. (b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts 20 of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder. (c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the account of the Lenders and each Lender's share thereof. (d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein; provided that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. (e) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) and in the form of note attached hereto as Exhibit G. Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such form payable to the order of the payee named therein (or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered assigns). SECTION 2.11. Prepayment of Loans. (a) The Borrower shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section. (b) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of prepayment or (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of termination of the Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.09, then such notice of prepayment may be revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with Section 2.09. Promptly following receipt of any such notice relating to a Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $1,000,000 in the case of an ABR Borrowing, or $3,000,000 in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing. Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by Section 2.13. SECTION 2.12. Fees. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a facility fee, which shall accrue at the Applicable Rate on the daily amount of the Commitment of such Lender (whether used or unused) during the period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the date on which such Commitment terminates; provided that, if such Lender continues to have any Exposure after its Commitment terminates, then such facility fee shall continue to accrue on the 21 daily amount of such Lender's Exposure from and including the date on which its Commitment terminates to but excluding the date on which such Lender ceases to have any Exposure. Accrued facility fees shall be payable in arrears on the last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on the date on which the Commitments terminate, commencing on the first such date to occur after the date hereof; provided that any facility fees accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. All facility fees and utilization fees shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in leap year) and shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). In addition to the foregoing, the Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a utilization fee, which shall accrue and be payable on Loans made hereunder at a rate of 0.125% per annum whenever the aggregate amount of Loans outstanding plus amounts outstanding under the Multi-Year Credit Facility exceed 50% of the total Commitments plus the Multi-Year Credit Facility Commitments. (b) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. (c) All fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent for distribution, in the case of facility fees, utilization fees and participation fees, to the Lenders. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any circumstances. SECTION 2.13. Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate. (b) The Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest at the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Rate. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any fee or other amount payable by the Borrower hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2% plus the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus the rate applicable to ABR Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this Section. (d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan and, in the case of Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Commitments; provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion pursuant to Section 2.08 of any Eurodollar Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the effective date of such conversion. (e) All interest determined by reference to the LIBO Rate or clause (b) of the definition of Alternate Base Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 360 days, and all other interest shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate or LIBO Rate shall 22 be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error. (f) The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, so long as such Lender shall be required under regulations of the Board to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Borrowing of such Lender during such periods as such Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, from the date of such Borrowing until such principal amount is paid in full, at an interest rate per annum equal at all times to the remainder obtained by subtracting (i) the LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such Eurodollar Borrowing from (ii) the rate obtained by dividing such LIBO Rate by a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Rate Reserve Percentage of such Lender for such Interest Period. Such additional interest shall be determined by such Lender. The Borrower shall from time to time, within 15 days after demand (which demand shall be accompanied by a certificate comporting with the requirements set forth in Section 2.15(c)) by such Lender (with a copy of such demand and certificate to the Administrative Agent) pay to the Lender giving such notice such additional interest; provided, however, that the Borrower shall not be required to pay to such Lender any portion of such additional interest that accrued more than 90 days prior to any such demand, unless such additional interest was not determinable on the date that is 90 days prior to such demand. SECTION 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar Borrowing: (a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period; or (b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders (or Lender) of making or maintaining their Loans (or its Loan) included in such Borrowing for such Interest Period; then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing. SECTION 2.15. Illegality; Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall make it unlawful or impossible for any Lender to make, maintain or fund its Eurodollar Loans, such Lender shall so notify the Administrative Agent. Upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent shall immediately give notice thereof to the other Lenders and to the Borrower, whereupon until such Lender notifies the Borrower and the Administrative Agent that the circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist, the obligation of such Lender to make Eurodollar Loans shall be suspended. If such Lender shall determine that it may not lawfully continue to maintain and fund any of its outstanding Eurodollar Loans to maturity and shall so specify in such notice, the Borrower shall immediately prepay (which prepayment shall not be subject to Section 2.11) in 23 full the then outstanding principal amount of such Eurodollar Loans, together with the accrued interest thereon. (b) If any Change in Law shall: (i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in Section 2.13(f); (ii) impose on any Lender or the London interbank market any other condition affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender; and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurodollar Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then the Borrower will pay to such Lender, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered. (b) If any Lender determines that any Change in Law regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender's capital or on the capital of such Lender's holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by such Lender to a level below that which such Lender or such Lender's holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender's policies and the policies of such Lender's holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrower will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lender's holding company for any such reduction suffered. (c) A certificate of a Lender setting forth, in reasonable detail showing the computation thereof, the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Such certificate shall further certify that such Lender is making similar demands of its other similarly structured borrowers. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof, if such certificate complies herewith. (d) Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender's right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than 90 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lender's intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 90-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof (to the extent that such period of retroactive effect is not already included in such 90-day period). SECTION 2.16. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the payment of any principal of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day 24 of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be revoked under Section 2.11(b) and is revoked in accordance therewith), or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19, then, in any such event, the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense (excluding loss of anticipated profits) attributable to such event. A certificate of any Lender setting forth, in reasonable detail showing the computation thereof, any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof, if such certificate complies herewith. SECTION 2.17. Taxes. (a) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if the Borrower shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the Administrative Agent or any Lender (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. (b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. (c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to indemnify or reimburse a Lender pursuant to this Section for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted more than 90 days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted and of such Lender's intention to claim compensation therefor; provided further that, if the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted giving rise to such claims are retroactive, then the 90-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof (to the extent that such period of retroactive effect is not already included in such 90-day period). A certificate setting forth, in reasonable detail showing the computation thereof, the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. (d) As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. 25 (e) Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of 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, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at such reduced rate. (f) Should any Lender or the Administrative Agent ever receive any refund, credit or deduction from any taxing authority to which such Lender or the Administrative Agent would not be entitled but for the payment by the Borrower of Taxes (it being understood that the decision as to whether or not to claim, and if claimed, as to the amount of any such refund, credit or deduction shall be made by such Lender or the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, thereupon shall repay to the Borrower an amount with respect to such refund, credit or deduction equal to any net reduction in taxes actually obtained by such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, and determined by such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, to be attributable to such refund, credit or deduction. (g) Except for a request by the Borrower under Section 2.19(b), no Foreign Lender shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.17(a) or 2.17(c) if withholding tax is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement or designates a new lending office. SECTION 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs. (a) The Borrower shall make each payment required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest or fees, or of amounts payable under Section 2.15, 2.16 or 2.17, or otherwise) prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim. Any amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative Agent at its offices at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 shall be made directly to the Persons entitled thereto. The Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the account of any other Person to the appropriate recipient promptly following receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments hereunder shall be made in dollars. (b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal then due to such parties. (c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment (other than any payment to a dissenting Lender pursuant to Section 2.01(c) ) in respect of any principal of or interest on any of its Loans resulting in such Lender receiving payment of a 26 greater proportion of the aggregate amount of its Loans and accrued interest thereon than the proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans of other Lenders to the extent necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on their respective Loans; provided that (i) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant, other than to the Borrower or any Subsidiary or Affiliate thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph shall apply). The Borrower consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of set-off and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. (d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation. (e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it pursuant to Section 2.07(b) or 2.18(d), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion (notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such Lender's obligations under such Sections until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid. SECTION 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15 or Section 2.13(f), or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.13(f), 2.15 or 2.17, as the case may be, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment. Lenders agree to use reasonable efforts to select lending offices which will minimize taxes and other costs and expenses for the Borrower. 27 (b) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.13(f) or Section 2.15, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, or if any Lender defaults in its obligation to fund Loans hereunder, or if any Lender refuses to consent to an extension pursuant to Section 2.01(c), then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (i) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts) and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 2.13(f) or Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. If any Lender refuses to assign and delegate all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement after the Borrower has required such Lender to do so as a result of a claim for compensation under Section 2.13(f) or Section 2.15 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 2.17, such Lender shall not be entitled to receive such compensation or required payments. ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lenders that: SECTION 3.01. Organization; Powers. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is duly formed, validly existing and (if applicable) in good standing (except, with respect to Subsidiaries (other than Material Subsidiaries), where the failure to be in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect) under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, has all requisite power and authority to carry on its business in all material respects as now conducted and, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, is qualified to do business in, and (if applicable) is in good standing in, every jurisdiction where such qualification is required. SECTION 3.02. Authorization; Enforceability. The Transactions are within the Borrower's partnership powers and have been duly authorized by all necessary partnership and, if required, partner action. This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally and subject to general principles of equity, regardless of whether considered in a proceeding in equity or at law. 28 SECTION 3.03. Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts. The Transactions (a) do not require any consent or approval of, registration or filing with, or any other action by, any Governmental Authority, except such as have been obtained or made and are in full force and effect, (b) will not violate any law or regulation applicable to the Borrower or the limited partnership agreement, charter, by-laws or other organizational documents of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any order of any Governmental Authority to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, (c) will not violate or result in a default under any material indenture, agreement or other instrument binding upon the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or its assets, or (except for the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility) give rise to a right thereunder to require any payment to be made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, and (d) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien on any asset of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is prohibited hereby. SECTION 3.04. Financial Condition; No Material Adverse Change. (a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lenders its audited consolidated and unaudited consolidating balance sheets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries and the related audited consolidated (and, as to statements of income, unaudited consolidating) statements of income, equity and cash flow of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries (i) as of and for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1999, reported on by Deloitte & Touche, independent public accountants, and (ii) as of and for the fiscal quarter and the portion of the fiscal year ended June 30, 2000, certified by its chief financial officer. Such financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position and results of operations and cash flows of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of such dates and for such periods in accordance with GAAP, subject to year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes in the case of the statements referred to in clause (ii) above. (b) No Material Adverse Change exists. SECTION 3.05. Intentionally Omittedd. SECTION 3.06. Litigation and Environmental Matters. (a) There are no actions, suits or proceedings by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (i) as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse determination and that, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect (other than the Disclosed Matters) or (ii) that involve this Agreement or the Transactions. (b) Except for the Disclosed Matters and except with respect to any other matters that, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries (i) has failed to comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has become subject to any Environmental Liability, (iii) has received notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability or (iv) knows of any basis for any Environmental Liability. (c) Since the date of this Agreement, there has been no change in the status of the Disclosed Matters that, individually or in the aggregate, has resulted in, or materially increased the likelihood of, a Material Adverse Effect. 29 SECTION 3.07. Compliance with Laws. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries is in compliance with all laws, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing. SECTION 3.08. Investment and Holding Company Status. Neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries is (a) an "investment company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940 or (b) a "holding company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. SECTION 3.09. Taxes. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has timely filed or caused to be filed all Tax returns and reports required to have been filed and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes required to have been paid by it, except (a) Taxes that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as applicable, has set aside on its books adequate reserves or (b) to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 3.10. ERISA. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, when taken together with all other such ERISA Events for which liability is reasonably expected to occur, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 3.11. Disclosure. Neither the Information Memorandum nor any of the other reports, financial statements, certificates or other information furnished by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the negotiation of this Agreement (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time. SECTION 3.12. Subsidiaries. As of the Effective Date, Borrower has no Subsidiaries other than those listed on Schedule 3.12 hereto. As of the Effective Date, Schedule 3.12 sets forth the jurisdiction of incorporation or organization of each such Subsidiary, the percentage of Borrower's ownership of the outstanding Equity Interests of each Subsidiary directly owned by Borrower, and the percentage of each Subsidiary's ownership of the outstanding Equity Interests of each other Subsidiary. SECTION 3.13. Margin Securities. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is engaged principally, or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulations U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and no part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used to purchase or carry any margin stock in violation of said Regulations U or X or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock in violation of said Regulations U or X. 30 ARTICLE IV Conditions SECTION 4.01. Effective Date. The obligations of the Lenders to make Loans hereunder shall not become effective until the Effective Date which is scheduled to occur when each of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from each party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such party or (ii) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which may include telecopy transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement) that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement. (b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a favorable written opinion (addressed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and dated the Effective Date) of Richard H. Bachmann, Esq., Chief Legal Officer of the General Partner and the Limited Partner, substantially in the form of Exhibit E. (c) The Administrative Agent shall have received such documents and certificates as the Administrative Agent or its counsel may reasonably request relating to the organization and existence of the Borrower and the Limited Partner, the authorization of the Transactions and any other legal matters relating to the Borrower, this Agreement or the Transactions, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel, and, with respect to the Limited Partner, the authorization of the Guaranty Agreement and any other legal matters relating to the Limited Partner. (d) The Administrative Agent shall have received the Guaranty Agreement dated as of the date hereof, duly and validly executed by the Limited Partner. (e) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate, dated the Effective Date and signed by the President, an Executive Vice President or a Financial Officer of the Borrower, confirming compliance with the conditions set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of Section 4.02. (f) The Administrative Agent shall have received all fees and other amounts due and payable on or prior to the Effective Date, including, to the extent invoiced five (5) Business Days prior to closing, reimbursement or payment of all out-of-pocket expenses required to be reimbursed or paid by the Borrower hereunder. (g) There shall not have been any disruption or adverse change in the financial or capital markets generally or in the market for loan syndications in particular, which the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable judgment, deems material. (h) The Lenders shall have received the audited financial statements for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period ended December 31, 1999 and Form 10-Q for fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2000. (i) All necessary governmental and third-party approvals, if any, required to be obtained by the Borrower in connection with the Transactions and otherwise referred to herein shall have been obtained and remain in effect (except where failure to obtain such approvals will not have a Material Adverse 31 Effect), and all applicable waiting periods shall have expired without any action being taken by any applicable authority. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the Effective Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. SECTION 4.02. Each Credit Event. The obligation of each Lender to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing (exclusive of continuations and conversions of a Borrowing) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions: (a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower set forth in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Borrowing. (b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing no Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Each Borrowing shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date thereof as to the matters specified in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section. ARTICLE V Affirmative Covenants Until the Commitments have expired or been terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder shall have been paid in full, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that: SECTION 5.01. Financial Statements and Other Information. The Borrower will furnish, or cause to be furnished, to the Administrative Agent and each Lender: (a) within 15 days after filing same with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), copies of each annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q and report on Form 8-K (or any successor or substitute forms) that the Limited Partner is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and any successor statute (the "Exchange Act"); (b) within 15 days after filing same with the SEC, copies of each annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q and report on Form 8-K (or any successor or substitute forms) that the Borrower is required to file with the SEC pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act; (c) if the Borrower is not subject to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the Limited Partner owns direct subsidiaries (other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries), promptly after becoming available and in any event within 105 days after the close of each fiscal year of the Borrower (i) the audited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such year and (ii) the audited consolidated statements of income, equity and cash flow of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such year setting forth in each case in 32 comparative form the corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year, which report shall be to the effect that such statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP; (d) if the Borrower is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the Limited Partner owns direct subsidiaries (other than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries), promptly after their becoming available and in any event within 60 days after the close of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower, (i) the unaudited consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and (ii) the unaudited consolidated statements of income, equity and cash flow of the Borrower for such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year, all of the foregoing certified by a Financial Officer of the Borrower to have been prepared in accordance with GAAP subject to normal changes resulting from year-end adjustment and accompanied by a written discussion of the financial performance and operating results, including the major assets, of the Borrower for such quarter; and (e) within 60 days after the end of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit F (i) certifying as to whether a Default has occurred that is then continuing and, if a Default has occurred that is then continuing, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto, (ii) setting forth in reasonable detail calculations demonstrating compliance with Section 6.07. SECTION 5.02. Notices of Material Events. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender prompt written notice of the following: (a) the occurrence of any Event of Default; and (b) any other development that results in, or could reasonably be expected to result in, a Material Adverse Effect. Each notice delivered under this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a Financial Officer or other executive officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of the event or development requiring such notice and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto. SECTION 5.03. Existence; Conduct of Business. The Borrower will do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and the rights, licenses, permits, privileges and franchises material to the conduct of its business; provided that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution not prohibited under Section 6.03. SECTION 5.04. Intentionally Omitted SECTION 5.05. Maintenance of Properties; Insurance. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, (a) keep and maintain all property material to the conduct of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, and (b) maintain, with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance in such amounts and against such risks as are customarily maintained by companies engaged in the same or similar businesses operating in the same or similar locations. 33 SECTION 5.06. Books and Records; Inspection Rights. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, keep in accordance with GAAP proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries are made in all material respects of all dealings and transactions in relation to its business and activities. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, permit any representatives designated by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, upon reasonable prior notice, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine and make extracts from its books and records, and to discuss its affairs, finances and condition with its officers and independent accountants, all at such reasonable times and as often as reasonably requested. SECTION 5.07. Compliance with Laws. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 5.08. Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Loans will be used only (a) for the payment in full of the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility, to the extent not paid in full using the proceeds of loans made under the Multi-Year Revolving Credit Facility, (b) as a backstop for commercial paper, and (c) for working capital, acquisitions and other limited partnership purposes. No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether directly or indirectly, for any purpose that entails a violation of any of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulations U and X. SECTION 5.09. Environmental Matters. The Borrower has established and implemented, or will establish and implement, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to establish and implement, such procedures as may be necessary to assure that any failure of the following does not have a Material Adverse Effect: (i) all property of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and the operations conducted thereon are in compliance with and do not violate the requirements of any Environmental Laws, (ii) no oil or solid wastes are disposed of or otherwise released on or to any property owned by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries except in compliance with Environmental Laws, (iii) no Hazardous Materials will be released on or to any such property in a quantity equal to or exceeding that quantity which requires reporting pursuant to Section 103 of CERCLA, and (iv) no oil or Hazardous Materials is released on or to any such property so as to pose an imminent and substantial endangerment to public health or welfare or the environment. SECTION 5.10 ERISA Information. The Borrower will furnish to the Administrative Agent: (a) within 15 Business Days after the institution of or the withdrawal or partial withdrawal by the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from any Multiemployer Plan, which would cause the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate to incur withdrawal liability in excess of $5,000,000 (in the aggregate for all such withdrawals), a written notice thereof signed by an executive officer of the Borrower stating the applicable details; and (b) within 15 Business Days after an officer of the Borrower becomes aware of any material action at law or at equity brought against the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries, any ERISA Affiliate, or any fiduciary of a Plan in connection with the administration of any Plan or the investment of assets thereunder, a written notice signed by an executive officer of the Borrower specifying the nature thereof and what action the Borrower is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 34 SECTION 5.11 Taxes. Pay and discharge, or cause to be paid and discharged, promptly or make, or cause to be made, timely deposit of all taxes (including Federal Insurance Contribution Act) payments and withholding taxes), assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary or upon the income or any property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary shall be required to pay any such tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim if the amount, applicability or validity thereof shall currently be contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted by or on behalf of the Borrower or its Subsidiary, and if the Borrower or its Subsidiary shall have set up reserves therefor adequate under GAAP or if no Material Adverse Effect shall be occasioned by all such failures in the aggregate. ARTICLE VI Negative Covenants Until the Commitments have expired or terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan and all fees payable hereunder have been paid in full, the Borrower covenants and agrees with the Lenders that: SECTION 6.01. Indebtedness. The Borrower will not permit any Subsidiary to create, incur or assume any Indebtedness, except: (a) Indebtedness assumed by any Subsidiary in connection with its acquisition (whether by merger, consolidation or acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets) of another Person and Indebtedness refinancing (but not increasing) such Indebtedness, provided that at the time of and after giving effect to the incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness or refinancing Indebtedness and the application of the proceeds thereof, as the case may be, the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness, and of all Indebtedness previously incurred or assumed pursuant to this Section 6.01(a), and then outstanding, shall not exceed 75% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four full fiscal quarters of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (and such Person on a pro forma basis) then most recently ended; (b) Indebtedness of the Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted by this Section 6.01, provided that at the time of and after giving effect to the incurrence of such Indebtedness and the application of the proceeds thereof the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness, and of all Indebtedness previously incurred pursuant to this Section 6.01(b), and then outstanding, shall not exceed 25% of Consolidated EBITDA for the period of four fiscal quarters of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries then most recently ended; (c) Indebtedness of Project Finance Subsidiaries; (d) intercompany Indebtedness; (e) Indebtedness existing on the date hereof and set forth on Schedule 6.01; and (f) other unsecured Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $25,000,000 at any time outstanding; 35 provided, however, that no Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) shall create, incur or assume any Indebtedness pursuant to any provision of this Section 6.01 if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result from such creation, incurrence or assumption. SECTION 6.02. Liens. The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or the Limited Partner to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien, other than a Permitted Lien, on any Principal Property or upon any Equity Interests of the Borrower or any Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) owning or leasing any Principal Property, now owned or hereafter acquired by the Borrower or such Subsidiary to secure any Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Limited Partner or any other Person (other than the Indebtedness under this Agreement), without in any such case making effective provision whereby any and all Indebtedness under this Agreement then outstanding will be secured by a Lien equally and ratably with, or prior to, such Indebtedness for so long as such Indebtedness shall be so secured. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may, and may permit any Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) and the Limited Partner to, create, assume, incur or suffer to exist any Lien upon any Principal Property to secure Indebtedness of the Borrower, the Limited Partner or any other Person (other than the Indebtedness under this Agreement), other than a Permitted Lien without securing the Indebtedness under this Agreement, provided that the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness then outstanding secured by such Lien and all similar Liens together with the aggregate amount of Attributable Indebtedness deemed to be outstanding in respect of all Sale/Leaseback Transactions (exclusive of any Permitted Sale/Leaseback Transactions), does not exceed 10% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. SECTION 6.03. Fundamental Changes. The Borrower will not merge into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets, or all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of any of its Subsidiaries(other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) (in each case, whether now owned or hereafter acquired), or liquidate or dissolve, except that, if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default shall have occurred and be continuing (i) any Person may merge into or consolidate with the Borrower in a transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving entity and (ii) Borrower may sell or otherwise dispose of all or any portion of the Equity Interests of any of its Subsidiaries. SECTION 6.04. Investment Restriction. Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary (other than a Project Finance Subsidiary) will make investments in Project Finance Subsidiaries in excess of $50,000,000 in the aggregate at any one time outstanding. SECTION 6.05. Restricted Payments. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) to, declare or make, or agree to pay or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except as long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (i) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries may make Restricted Payments necessary to fund the Program, (ii) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments from Available Cash (as defined in the Partnership Agreement) from Operating Surplus (as defined in the Partnership Agreement) cumulative from January 1, 1999 through the date of such Restricted Payment, and (iii) any Subsidiary may buy back any of its own Equity Interests; provided, that even if an Event of Default shall have occurred and is continuing, no Subsidiary shall be prohibited from upstreaming dividends or other payments to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (which is not a Project 36 Finance Subsidiary) or making, in the case of any Subsidiary that is not wholly-owned (directly or indirectly) by the Borrower, ratable dividends or payments, as the case may be, to the other owners of Equity Interests in such Subsidiary. SECTION 6.06. Restrictive Agreements. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) to, directly or indirectly, enter into, incur or permit to exist any agreement or other arrangement with any Person, other than the Lenders pursuant hereto or restrictions or conditions existing on the date hereof and identified on Schedule 6.06, which prohibits, restricts or imposes any conditions upon the ability of any Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) to (a) pay dividends or make other distributions or pay any Indebtedness owed to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or (b) make subordinate loans or advances to or make other investments in the Borrower or any Subsidiary. SECTION 6.07 Financial Condition Covenants. (a) Minimum Net Worth. The Borrower will not permit its Consolidated Net Worth as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower to be less than $750,000,000. (b) Ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA. The Borrower shall not permit its ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA for the four full fiscal quarters most recently ended to exceed 4.00 to 1.0 as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Borrower. For purposes of calculating such ratio, the Project Finance Subsidiaries shall be disregarded. For purposes of this Section 6.07(b), if during any period of four fiscal quarters the Borrower or any Subsidiary acquires any Person (or any interest in any Person) or all or substantially all of the assets of any Person, the EBITDA attributable to such assets or an amount equal to the percentage of ownership of the Borrower in such Person times the EBITDA of such Person, for such period determined on a pro forma basis (which determination, in each case, shall be subject to approval of the Administrative Agent, not to be unreasonably withheld) may be included as Consolidated EBITDA for such period; provided that during the portion of such period that follows such acquisition, the computation in respect of the EBITDA of such Person or such assets, as the case may be, shall be made on the basis of actual (rather than pro forma) results. ARTICLE VII Events of Default If any of the following events ("Events of Default") shall occur: (a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or otherwise; (b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount (other than an amount referred to in clause (a) of this Article) payable under this Agreement, when and as the same shall become due and payable, and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days; (c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Borrower, the Limited Partner or any Subsidiary in or in connection with this Agreement or any amendment or modification hereof or waiver hereunder, or in any report, certificate, financial statement or other document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement or any amendment or modification hereof or waiver hereunder, shall prove to have been incorrect in any material respect when made or deemed made and such materiality is continuing; (d) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in Section 5.02, 5.03 (with respect to the Borrower's existence) or 5.08 or in Article VI; (e) the Borrower shall fail to observe or perform any covenant, condition or agreement contained in this Agreement (other than those specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of this Article), and such failure shall continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after written notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower (which notice will be given at the request of any Lender); 37 (f) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall fail to make any payment (whether of principal or interest and regardless of amount) in respect of any Material Indebtedness, when and as the same shall become due and payable subject to applicable grace periods; (g) the Borrower or any of its Material Subsidiaries (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall (i) fail to pay any principal of or premium or interest on any Material Indebtedness of the Borrower or such Material Subsidiary (as the case may be), when the same becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand or otherwise), and such failure shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in the agreement or instrument relating to such Material Indebtedness; or (ii) default in the observance or performance of any covenant or obligation contained in any agreement or instrument relating to any such Material Indebtedness that in substance is customarily considered a default in loan documents (in each case, other than a failure to pay specified in clause (i) of this subsection (g)) and such default shall continue after the applicable grace period, if any, specified in such agreement or instrument, if the effect thereof is to accelerate the maturity of such Material Indebtedness or require such Material Indebtedness to be prepaid prior to the stated maturity thereof; for the avoidance of doubt the parties acknowledge and agree that any payment required to be made under a guaranty of payment or collection described in clause (c) of the definition of Indebtedness shall be due and payable at the time such payment is due and payable under the terms of such guaranty (taking into account any applicable grace period) and such payment shall be deemed not to have been accelerated or required to be prepaid prior to its stated maturity as a result of the obligation guaranteed having become due; (h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary petition shall be filed seeking (i) liquidation, reorganization or other relief in respect of the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or its debts, or of a substantial part of its assets, under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect or (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or for a substantial part of its assets, and, in any such case, such proceeding or petition shall continue undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any of the foregoing shall be entered; 38 (i) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall (i) voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking liquidation, reorganization or other relief under any Federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law now or hereafter in effect, (ii) consent to the institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner, any proceeding or petition described in clause (h) of this Article, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or for a substantial part of its assets, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) take any action for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing; (j) the Borrower or any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) shall become unable, admit in writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become due; (k) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate uninsured amount equal to or greater than $25,000,000 shall be rendered against the Borrower, any Material Subsidiary (other than Project Finance Subsidiaries) or any combination thereof and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 30 consecutive days during which execution shall not be effectively stayed, or any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of the Borrower or any such Material Subsidiary to enforce any such judgment; (l) an ERISA Event shall have occurred that, when taken together with all other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount exceeding (i) $5,000,000 in any year or (ii) $10,000,000 for all periods; (m) the Limited Partner takes, suffers or permits to exist any of the events or conditions referred to in clauses (h), (i), (j) or (k) of this Article or if the section of the Guaranty Agreement that contains the payment obligation shall for any reason cease to be valid and binding on the Limited Partner or if the Limited partner shall so state in writing; (n) the General Partner takes, suffers or permits to exist any of the events or conditions referred to in clauses (h), (i) or (j) of this Article; (o) a Change in Control shall occur; or (p) an "Event of Default" has occurred which is continuing under the Multi-Year Credit Facility; then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article), and at any time thereafter during the continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent at the request of the Required Lenders shall, by notice to the Borrower, take either or both of the following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate the Commitments, and thereupon the Commitments shall terminate immediately, and (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be due and payable in whole (or in part, in which case any principal not so declared to be due and payable may thereafter be declared to be due and payable), and thereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall become due and payable immediately, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of 39 any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower; and in case of any event with respect to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of this Article, the Commitments shall automatically terminate and the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together with accrued interest thereon and all fees and other obligations of the Borrower accrued hereunder, shall automatically become due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby waived by the Borrower. ARTICLE VIII The Administrative Agent Each of the Lenders hereby irrevocably appoints the Administrative Agent as its agent and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The bank serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and such bank and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if it were not the Administrative Agent hereunder. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing, (b) the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02), and (c) except as expressly set forth herein, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is communicated to or obtained by the bank serving as Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity. The Administrative Agent shall not be liable to the Lenders for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary under the circumstances as provided in Section 9.02) or in the absence of its own gross negligence or wilful misconduct. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until written notice thereof is given to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower or a Lender, and the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or in connection herewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement or any other agreement, instrument or document, or (v) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent. 40 The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or sent by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to be made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through any one or more sub-agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent may perform any and all its duties and exercise its rights and powers through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of the preceding paragraphs shall apply to any such sub-agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub-agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. Subject to the appointment and acceptance of a successor Administrative Agent as provided in this paragraph, the Administrative Agent may resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with the Borrower's approval (which will not be unreasonably withheld), to appoint a successor. If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may, with the Borrower's approval (which will not be unreasonably withheld), on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent which shall be a bank with an office in New York, New York, or an Affiliate of any such bank and such bank, or its Affiliate, as applicable, shall have capital and surplus equal to or greater than $500,000,000. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder by a successor, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder. The fees payable by the Borrower to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrower and such successor. After the Administrative Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions of this Article and Section 9.03 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub-agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while it was acting as Administrative Agent. Each Lender acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender also acknowledges 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 from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder. 41 ARTICLE IX Miscellaneous SECTION 9.01. Notices. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone, all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as follows: (a) if to the Borrower, to it at 2727 North Loop West, 7th Floor, Houston, Texas 77008 (for delivery), Attention of Treasurer; P. O. Box 4324, Houston Texas 77210 (for mail) (Telecopy No. 713/880-6570); (b) if to the Administrative Agent, to First Union National Bank, 201 South College Street, CP23, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, Attention of Syndication Agency Services (Telecopy No. 704/383-0288), with a copy to First Union Securities, Inc., 1001 Fannin, Suite 2255, Houston, Texas 77002, Attention of Russell T. Clingman (Telecopy No. 713/650-6354); and (c) if to any other Lender, to it at its address (or telecopy number) set forth in its Administrative Questionnaire. Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. All notices and other communications given to any party hereto in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been given on the date of receipt. SECTION 9.02. Waivers; Amendments. (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right or power hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power, preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right or power. The rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder are cumulative and are not exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of any provision of this Agreement or consent to any departure by the Borrower therefrom shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) of this Section, and then such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the purpose for which given. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the making of a Loan shall not be construed as a waiver of any Default, regardless of whether the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of such Default at the time. (b) Neither this Agreement nor any provision hereof may be waived, amended or modified except pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Required Lenders or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Required Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall (i) increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of such Lender, (ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan or reduce the rate of interest thereon, or reduce any fees payable hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iii) postpone the scheduled date of payment of the principal amount of any Loan or any interest 42 thereon, or any fees payable hereunder, or reduce the amount of, waive or excuse any such payment, or postpone the scheduled date of expiration of any Commitment, without the written consent of each Lender affected thereby, (iv) change Section 2.18(b) or (c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, without the written consent of each Lender, (v) release the Limited Partner from any of its obligations under the Guaranty Agreement without the written consent of each Lender, or (vi) change any of the provisions of this Section or the definition of "Required Lenders" or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder, without the written consent of each Lender; provided further that no such agreement shall amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. SECTION 9.03. Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver. (a) The Borrower shall pay (i) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of one law firm as counsel for the Administrative Agent, in connection with the syndication (prior to the date hereof) of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation and administration of this Agreement or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), and (ii) all out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred during the existence of an Event of Default by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for the Administrative Agent or any Lender, in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights in connection with this Agreement, including its rights under this Section, or in connection with the Loans made, including all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans. (b) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an "Indemnitee") against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses, including the fees, charges and disbursements of any counsel for any Indemnitee, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or the consummation of the Transactions or any other transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) any Loan or the use of the proceeds therefrom, (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available (x) to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses resulted from the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any Related Party of such Indemnitee, or (y) in connection with disputes among or between the Administrative Agent, Lenders and/or their respective Related Parties. (c) To the extent that the Borrower fails to pay any amount required to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent under paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent such Lender's Applicable Percentage (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought) of such unpaid amount; provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such. 43 (d) To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Borrower shall not assert, and hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the Transactions, any Loan or the use of the proceeds thereof. (e) All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than 30 days after written demand therefor, and such demand to be in reasonable detail setting forth the basis for and method of calculation of such amounts. SECTION 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (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, except that 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). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement. (b) Any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it); provided that (i) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent must give their prior written consent to such assignment (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), (ii) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender's Commitment, the amount of the Commitment of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance 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, (iii) each partial assignment shall result in the assignee retaining a Commitment of not less than $10,000,000 and shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement, (iv) the parties (other than the Borrower) to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of $3,500, (v) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire and (vi) no assignment to a Foreign Bank shall be made hereunder unless, at the time of such assignment, there is no withholding tax applicable with respect to such Foreign Lender for which the Borrower would be or become responsible under Section 2.17; and provided further that any consent of the Borrower otherwise required under this paragraph shall not be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to paragraph (d) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Acceptance the assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, 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 Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance 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 9.03 as to matters occurring on or prior to date of assignment). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations 44 under this Agreement that does not comply with this paragraph shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with paragraph (e) of this Section. (c) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices in The City of New York a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent 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 and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. (d) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Acceptance 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 Acceptance 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. (e) 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 Commitment and the Loans owing to it); provided that (i) such Lender's obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent 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 or instrument 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 or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in the first proviso to Section 9.02(b) that affects such Participant. (f) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 2.15 or 2.17 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 consent. A Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.17 unless the Borrower is notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with Section 2.17(e) as though it were a Lender and has zero withholding at the time of participation. (g) 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 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. 45 (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 9.04, no transfer or assignment of the interest or obligations of any Lender or any grant of participations therein shall be permitted hereunder unless a pro rata portion of such Lender's Multi-Year Credit Facility Commitment is contemporaneously transferred, assigned or conveyed or participated and the transferee agrees to be bound by these transfer restrictions with respect to any future transfer, assignment, conveyance or grant of participations with respect to the Commitments. SECTION 9.05. Survival. All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made by the Borrower herein and in the certificates or other instruments delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement shall be considered to have been relied upon by the other parties hereto and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the making of any Loans, regardless of any investigation made by any such other party or on its behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default or incorrect representation or warranty at the time any credit is extended hereunder, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of or any accrued interest on any Loan or any fee or any other amount payable under this Agreement is outstanding and unpaid and so long as the Commitments have not expired or terminated. The provisions of Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.03 and Article VIII shall survive and remain in full force and effect regardless of the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby, the repayment of the Loans, the expiration or termination of the Commitments or the termination of this Agreement or any provision hereof. SECTION 9.06. Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto on different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and any separate letter agreements with respect to fees payable to the Administrative Agent constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof which, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. SECTION 9.07. Severability. Any provision of this Agreement held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability without affecting the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof; and the invalidity of a particular provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate such provision in any other jurisdiction. SECTION 9.08. Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and the Required Lenders have directed the Administrative Agent to accelerate under Article VII, each Lender and each of its Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other obligations at any time owing by such Lender or Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement held by such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement and although such obligations may be unmatured. The rights of each 46 Lender under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) which such Lender may have. SECTION 9.09. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) This Agreement shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the law of the State of New York. (b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the State of New York sitting in New York County and of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York, and any appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or for recognition or enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State or, to the extent permitted by law, in such Federal court. Each of the parties hereto agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement against the Borrower or its properties in the courts of any jurisdiction. (c) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit, action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement in any court referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section. Each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court. (d) Each party to this Agreement irrevocably consents to service of process in the manner provided for notices in Section 9.01. Nothing in this Agreement will affect the right of any party to this Agreement to serve process in any other manner permitted by law. SECTION 9.10. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION. SECTION 9.11. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the construction of, or be taken into consideration in interpreting, this Agreement. 47 SECTION 9.12. Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates' directors, officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent requested by any regulatory authority, (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party to this Agreement, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or any suit, action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or the enforcement of rights hereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement, (g) with the consent of the Borrower or (h) to the extent such Information (i) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (ii) becomes available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Borrower and its Related Parties. For the purposes of this Section, "Information" means all information received from the Borrower relating to the Borrower or its business, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent or any Lender on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Borrower. SECTION 9.13. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if at any time the interest rate applicable to any Loan, together with all fees, charges and other amounts which are treated as interest on such Loan under applicable law (collectively the "Charges"), shall exceed the maximum lawful rate (the "Maximum Rate") which may be contracted for, charged, taken, received or reserved by the Lender holding such Loan in accordance with applicable law, the rate of interest payable in respect of such Loan hereunder, together with all Charges payable in respect thereof, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate and, to the extent lawful, the interest and Charges that would have been payable in respect of such Loan but were not payable as a result of the operation of this Section shall be cumulated and the interest and Charges payable to such Lender in respect of other Loans or periods shall be increased (but not above the Maximum Rate therefor) until such cumulated amount, together (to the extent lawful) with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Effective Rate to the date of repayment, shall have been received by such Lender. SECTION 9.14 Liability of General Partner. It is hereby understood and agreed that the General Partner shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. SECTION 9.15 Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility. The undersigned agree and acknowledge that the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility is hereby terminated and all Revolving Credit Commitments (as defined in the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility) are hereby terminated, and the undersigned waive any right to receive any notice of such termination and any right to receive any notice of prepayment of amounts owed under the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility. Each Lender that was a party to the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility hereby agrees to return to the Borrower, with reasonable promptness, any Revolving Credit Note (as defined in the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility) delivered by the Borrower to such Lender. 48 [Credit Agreement - Signature Page 16] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: /s/ Michael A. Creel ----------------------------- Name: Michael A. Creel Title: Senior Vice President and Chief inancial Officer FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, individually, as Administrative Agent By: /s/ Russell Clingman ----------------------------- Name: Russell Clingman Title: Vice President BANK ONE, NA (Main Office-Chicago), individually and as Documentation Agent By: /s/ Kenneth J. Fatur ----------------------------- Name: Kenneth J. Fatur Title: Vice President THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, individually and as Syndication Agent By: /s/ Steven Wood ----------------------------- Name: Steven Wood Title: Vice President THE FUJI BANK, LIMITED, individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Toru Maepa ----------------------------- Name: Toru Maepa Title: General Manager GUARANTY FEDERAL BANK, F.S.B. By: /s/ Jim R. Hamilton ----------------------------- Name: Jim R. Hamilton Title: Vice President HIBERNIA NATIONAL BANK By: /s/ Nancy G. Moragas ----------------------------- Name: Nancy G. Moragas Title: Vice President NATIONAL AUSTRALIA BANK LIMITED, A.C.N. By: /s/ Bruce T. Richards ----------------------------- Name: Bruce T. Richards Title: Senior Vice President TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS), INC., individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Carolyn R. Faeth ------------------------------ Name: Carolyn R. Faeth Title: Vice President FLEET NATIONAL BANK, individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Christopher C. Holmgren ------------------------------ Name: Christopher C. Holmgren Title: Managing Director THE DAI-ICHI KANGYO BANK, LIMITED, individually and as Managing Agent By: /s/ Matthew G. Murphy ------------------------------ Name: Matthew G. Murphy Title: Vice President BANK OF TOKYO - MITSUBISHI, LTD., HOUSTON AGENCY, individually and as Co-Agent By: /s/ John W. McGhee ------------------------------ Name: John W. McGhee Title: Vice President & Manager SUNTRUST BANK, individually and as Co-Agent By: /s/ David J. Edge ------------------------------ Name: David J. Edge Title: Director WESTDEUTSCHE LANDESBANK GIROZENTRALE, NEW YORK BRANCH, individually and as Co-Agent By: /s/ Alan S. Bookspan ------------------------------- Name: Alan S. Bookspan Title: Director By: /s/ Thomas Lee ------------------------------- Name: Thomas Lee Title: Associate CITIBANK, NA By: /s/ Gregory S. Morzano ------------------------------ Name: Gregory s. Morzano Title: Vice President Global Energy & Mining THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA By: /s/ F.C.H. Ashby ------------------------------ Name: F.C.H. Ashby Title: Senior Manager Loan Operations Lender Commitment First Union National Bank $15,000,000 The Chase Manhattan Bank $13,875,000 Bank One, NA (Main Office - Chicago) $13,875,000 National Australia Bank Limited $12,750,000 Toronto Dominion (Texas), Inc. $12,750,000 Fleet National Bank $12,750,000 The Fuji Bank, Limited $ 7,650,000 The Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Limited $ 5,100,000 Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi, Ltd., Houston Agency $ 9.375,000 Sun Trust Bank $ 9,375,000 Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, New York Branch $ 9,375,000 Guaranty Federal Bank, F.S.B. $ 7,500,000 Citibank NA $ 7,500,000 The Bank of Nova Scotia $ 7,500,000 Hibernia National Bank $ 5,625,000 SCHEDULE 3.06 DISCLOSED MATTERS None. SCHEDULE 3.12 SUBSIDIARIES
Name of Subsidiary Type of Entity Jurisdiction of Effective Ownership by the Material Formation Borrower or ASubsidiary Subsidiary - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cajun Pipeline company, LLC Limited Liability Company Texas Borrower - 100% No Chunchula Pipeline Company, LLC Limited Liability Company Texas Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Products Texas Operating L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99%* No HSC Pipeline Partnership, L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99%* No Propylene Pipeline Partnership, L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99%* No Enterprise Lou-Tex Propylene Pipeline L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99% Yes Propylene Pipeline - 1% Partnership, L.P. Sabine Propylene Pipeline L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99% No Propylene Pipeline Partnership, L.P. - 1% Enterprise Lou-Tex NGL Pipeline L.P. Limited Partnership Texas Borrower - 99% Yes HSC Pipeline Partnership, L.P.- 1% Sorrento Pipeline Company, LLC Limited Liability Company Texas Borrower - 100% Yes Enterprise NGL Pipeline, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Gas Processing, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% Yes Enterprise NGL Private Lines & Storage, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Fractionation, LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Entell NGL Services, L.L.C. Limited Liability Company Delaware Borrower - 100% No Enterprise Norco LLC Limited Liability Company Delaware Enterprise Gas Processing, LLC - 100% No EPOLP 1999 Grantor Trust Grantor Trust Texas Borrower - 100% No
Remaining 1% partnership interest is owned by the Limited Partner, the sole limited partner of the applicable limited partnership. SCHEDULE 6.01 EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS OF SUBSIDIARIES None. SCHEDULE 6.06 EXISTING RESTRICTIONS None. EXHIBIT A FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE Reference is made to the Credit Agreement dated as of November ___, 2000 (as amended and in effect on the date hereof, the "Credit Agreement"), among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., the Lenders named therein and First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders. Terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein with the same meanings. The Assignor named herein sells and assigns, without recourse, to the Assignee named herein, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes, without recourse, from the Assignor, effective as of the Assignment Date set forth herein, the interests set forth herein (the "Assigned Interest") in the Assignor's rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement, including, without limitation, the interests set forth herein in the Commitment of the Assignor on the Assignment Date and Loans owing to the Assignor which are outstanding on the Assignment Date, held by the Assignor on the Assignment Date, but excluding accrued interest and fees to and excluding the Assignment Date. The Assignee hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Credit Agreement. From and after the Assignment Date (i) the Assignee shall be a party to and be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and (ii) the Assignor shall, to the extent of the Assigned Interest, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit Agreement. This Assignment and Acceptance is being delivered to the Administrative Agent together with (i) if the Assignee is a Foreign Lender, any documentation required to be delivered by the Assignee pursuant to Section 2.17(e) of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by the Assignee, and (ii) if the Assignee is not already a Lender under the Credit Agreement, an Administrative Questionnaire in the form supplied by the Administrative Agent, duly completed by the Assignee. The [Assignee/Assignor] shall pay the fee payable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.04(b) of the Credit Agreement. This Assignment and Acceptance shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York. Date of Assignment: Legal Name of Assignor: Legal Name of Assignee: Assignee's Address for Notices: Effective Date of Assignment ("Assignment Date"): A-1 Percentage Assigned of Facility/Commitment (set forth, to at least 8 decimals, as a percentage of the Facility and the aggregate Commitments of all Lenders thereunder) ---------- Facility Principal Amount Assigned Commitment Assigned: $ % Loans: The terms set forth above are hereby agreed to: [Name of Assignor] , as Assignor By: Name: Title: [Name of Assignee] , as Assignee By: Name: Title: A-2 The undersigned hereby consent to the within assignment: Enterprise Products Operating L.P. First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: By: _______________________________ _______________________________ Name: Name: Title: Title: A-3 EXHIBIT B FORM OF BORROWING REQUEST Dated __________ First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent One First Union Center, TW-10 301 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608 Attn: Syndication Agency Services Ladies and Gentlemen: This Borrowing Request is delivered to you by Enterprise Products Operating L.P. (the "Borrower"), a Delaware limited partnership, under Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement dated as of November ___, 2000 (as restated, amended, modified, supplemented and in effect, the "Credit Agreement"), by and among the Borrower, the Lenders party thereto, First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, NA, as Syndication Agent, and Bank One, N.A., as Documentation Agent. 1. The Company hereby requests that the Lenders make a Loan or Loans in the aggregate principal amount of $______________ (the "Revolving Loan" or the "Revolving Loans).1/ - 2. The Company hereby requests that the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans be made on the following Business Day: 2/ - 3. The Company hereby requests that the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans bear interest at the following interest rate, plus (if Eurodollar Loan) the Applicable Margin, as set forth below: Principal Maturity Date for Type of Component of Interest Interest Period Interest Period Revolving Loan Revolving Loan Rate (if applicable) (if applicable) -------------- -------------- ---- --------------- --------------- ________________________ 1. Complete with an amount in accordance with Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement 2. Complete with A business Day in accordance with Section 2.03 of the Credit Agreement. B-1 Principal Maturity Date for Type of Component of Interest Interest Period Interest Period Revolving Loan Revolving Loan Rate (if applicable) (if applicable) -------------- -------------- ---- --------------- --------------- 4. The Company hereby requests that the funds from the Revolving Loan or Revolving Loans be disbursed to the following bank account: ______________________________. 5. After giving effect to the requested Revolving Loan, the sum of the Exposures outstanding as of the date hereof (including the requested Loans) does not exceed the maximum amount permitted to be outstanding pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement. 6. All of the conditions applicable to the Revolving Loans requested herein as set forth in the Credit Agreement have been satisfied as of the date hereof and will remain satisfied to the date of such Loans. 7. All capitalized undefined terms used herein have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Borrowing Request this _____ day of _______________, ______. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its General Partner By: ___________________________________ Name: ___________________________________ Title: ___________________________________ B-2 EXHIBIT C INTENTIONALLY OMITTED C-1 EXHIBIT D FORM OF INTEREST ELECTION REQUEST Dated _____________ First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent One First Union Center, TW-10 301 South College Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608 Attn: Syndication Agency Services Ladies and Gentlemen: This irrevocable Interest Election Request (the "Request") is delivered to you under Section 2.08 of the Credit Agreement dated as of November __, 2000 (as restated, amended, modified, supplemented and in effect from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), by and among Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Company"), the Lenders party thereto (the "Lenders"), First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and Bank One, N.A., as Documentation Agent. 1. This Interest Election Request is submitted for the purpose of: (a) [Converting] [Continuing] a ____________ Loan [into] [as] a ____________ Loan.1/ - (b) The aggregate outstanding principal balance of such Loan is $______________. (c) The last day of the current Interest Period for such Loan is _____________.2/ - (d) The principal amount of such Loan to be [converted] [continued] is $_____________.3/ - ___________________________________ 1. Delete the bracketed language and insert "Alternate Base Rate" or "LIBO Rate", as applicable, in each blank. 2. Insert applicable date for any Eurodollar Loan being converted or continued. 3. Complete with an amount in compliance with Section 2.08 of the Credit Agreement D-1 (e) The requested effective date of the [conversion] [continuation] of such Loan is _______________.4/ (f) The requested Interest Period applicable to the [converted] [continued] Loan is ____________________.5/ 2. With respect to a Borrowing to be converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Borrowing, no Event of Default exists, and none will exist upon the conversion or continuation of the Borrowing requested herein. 3. All capitalized undefined terms used herein have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Interest Election Request this _____ day of ________________________, ____. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its General Partner By: _____________________________ Name: _____________________________ Title: _____________________________ D-2 EXHIBIT E FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE GENERAL PARTNER [LETTERHEAD] November 17, 2000 First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent The Other Lenders to the Credit Agreement Referred to Below Ladies and Gentlemen: I am the Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Enterprise Products GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and the sole general partner (in such capacity, the "General Partner") of Enterprise Products Operating L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), and Enterprise Products Partners L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Guarantor"), and in such capacity, have represented the Borrower and the Guarantor, in connection with (i) the Borrower's execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000 (the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, and the other agents and lenders parties thereto (collectively, the "Lenders"), with respect to the 364-Day Revolving Credit Facility, and (ii) the Guarantor's execution and delivery of the Guaranty Agreement (364-Day Credit Facility) dated as of November 17, 2000 (the "Guaranty Agreement") in favor of the Administrative Agent. This opinion is being furnished to you pursuant to Section 4.01(b) of the Credit Agreement. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as therein defined. In expressing the opinions expressed below, I have examined executed counterparts (or copies thereof) of each of the Credit Agreement, the Guaranty Agreement and the promissory notes and other documents executed and delivered by either the Borrower or the Guarantor in connection therewith (the Credit Agreement, the Guaranty Agreement and such promissory notes and other documents being herein sometimes referred to collectively, the "Credit Documents"), the originals or conformed copies of such limited liability company or partnership records, agreements and instruments of the Borrower, the General Partner and the Guarantor (the General Partner and the Guarantor being herein sometimes referred to individually, as a "Partner" and, collectively, as the "Partners"), certificates of public officials and of officers of the Borrower and the Partners and such other documents and records, and such matters of law, as I have deemed appropriate as a basis for the opinions hereinafter expressed. As to factual matters, I have relied upon, and assumed the accuracy of, (a) statements and certifications of officers of the General Partner and of appropriate public officials, and (b) the representations and warranties of the Borrower and the Partners contained in or made pursuant to each of the Credit -1- Documents to which they are respectively a party, and my opinion is limited to such factual matters in existence on the date hereof. In stating my opinion, I have assumed the genuineness of all signatures of persons signing the Credit Documents on behalf of parties thereto (including faxed copies of such signatures), other than the persons signing on behalf of the Borrower and the Partners, the authenticity and completeness of all documents, certificates and records submitted to me as originals and the conformity to authentic original instruments of all documents (including any of the Credit Documents), certificates and records submitted to me as certified, conformed, faxed or photostatic copies. I have assumed further that the execution and delivery of the Credit Documents or any other instruments executed in connection with the Credit Documents, or as part of the same transaction as the Credit Documents, by any party other than the Borrower and the Partners have been duly authorized by such other party and are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations of such other party. This opinion is limited in all respects to the laws of the States of Texas and Delaware and federal law as in effect on the date hereof. I note that the Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents provide that they are to be governed by the laws of the State of New York. Accordingly, in expressing this opinion, I have assumed, with your permission, that the laws of the State of New York are identical in all respects to the laws of the State of Texas. Based upon the foregoing and subject to the limitations, qualifications, assumptions and exceptions set forth herein, I am of the opinion that: 1. The General Partner (a) is a limited liability company duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (b) has the limited liability company power and authority to (i) own or lease the property which it owns or leases, (ii) conduct the business in which it is currently engaged and in which it proposes, as of the date hereof, to be engaged after the date hereof and (iii) make, deliver and perform, on behalf of, and as the sole general partner of, each of the Borrower and the Guarantor, the Credit Documents to which they respectively are a party in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof. Each of the Borrower and the Guarantor (a) is a limited partnership duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and (b) has the partnership power and authority to (i) own or lease the property which it owns or leases, (ii) conduct the business in which it is currently engaged and in which it proposes, as of the date hereof, to be engaged after the date hereof and (iii) make, deliver and perform the Credit Documents to which it is a party in accordance with the terms and provisions thereof. The Borrower has the partnership power and authority to borrow under the Credit Agreement. 2. The General Partner has taken all necessary limited liability company action to authorize, (a) on behalf of, and as the sole general partner of, the Borrower, the borrowings by the Borrower on the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement and (b)on behalf of, and as the sole general partner of, each of the Borrower and the Guarantor, the execution, delivery and performance of each of the Credit Documents to which the Borrower or the Guarantor is a party. Each of the Borrower and the Guarantor has taken all necessary partnership action to authorize (a) with respect to the Borrower only, the borrowings by the Borrower on the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement and (b) the execution, delivery and performance of each of the Credit Documents to which it is a party. 3. Each of the Credit Documents to which the Borrower is a party (i) has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower and (ii) constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Borrower -2- enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms. Each of the Credit Documents to which the Guarantor is a party (a) has been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Guarantor and (b) constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligations of the Guarantor enforceable against the Guarantor in accordance with its terms. 4. The execution, delivery and performance by the General Partner, as the sole general partner of, and on behalf of, the Borrower, of the Credit Agreement and each of the other Credit Documents to which the Borrower is a party in accordance with the terms thereof will not (a) violate any provision of the limited liability company agreement of the General Partner, the Partnership Agreement or the other organizational documents of the General Partner or the Borrower, respectively, (b) result in the breach of or constitute a Default under the Credit Agreement, (c) violate any law or regulation applicable to the General Partner or the Borrower or any order of any Governmental Authority to which the General Partner or the Borrower is subject, (d) except for the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility, violate or result in a default under any material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Borrower or any of its assets, or (e) result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on the Borrower's properties or revenues that is prohibited by any of the Credit Documents or any other material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Borrower or any of its assets. 5. The execution, delivery and performance by the General Partner, as the sole general partner of, and on behalf of, the Guarantor of the Guaranty Agreement and each of the other Credit Documents to which the Guarantor is a party in accordance with the terms thereof will not (a) violate any provision of the limited liability company agreement of the General Partner, the partnership agreement of the Guarantor or the other organizational documents of the General Partner or the Guarantor, respectively, (b) violate any law or regulation applicable to the General Partner or the Guarantor or any order of any Governmental Authority to which the General Partner or the Guarantor is subject, (c) except for the Existing $350,000,000 Chase Credit Facility, violate or result in a default under any material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Guarantor or any of its assets, or (d) result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any Lien on the Guarantor's properties or revenues that is prohibited by any of the Credit Documents or any material indenture, material agreement or other material instrument binding upon the Guarantor or any of its assets. 6. No approvals or consents of any Governmental Authority or other consents or approvals by any other Person which have not been obtained on or prior to the date hereof are required in connection with (a) the participation by the Borrower or the Guarantor in the transactions contemplated by the Credit Agreement and the other Credit Documents, (b) the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Credit Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents to which it is a party or (c) the execution, delivery and performance by the Guarantor of the Guaranty Agreement or any of the other Credit Documents to which it is a party 7. No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority is pending or, to the best of my knowledge, threatened by or against or affecting the Borrower or the Guarantor (a) with respect to any of the Credit Documents or the Transactions or (b) which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have Material Adverse Effect. -3- 8. The making of the Revolving Loans to the Borrower will not violate Section 7 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any regulation issued pursuant thereto, including without limitation, the provisions of Regulations U or X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 9. Neither the Borrower nor the Guarantor is (a) an "investment company", or a company "controlled" by an "investment company", within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended or (b) is subject to regulation under any federal or Texas statute or regulation which limits its ability to incur indebtedness. 10. Except for instances covered by Section 35.51(e) and Section 35.51(f)(1), (2) or (4) of the Texas Uniform Commercial Code, as amended, the courts of the State of Texas, and the courts of the United States of America sitting in the State of Texas, would, assuming that the applicable issues were properly brought before such courts and such courts were to apply existing law, enforce the provisions contained in the Credit Documents which stipulate that the validity, construction and enforceability of such Credit Documents shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and governed by, the law of the State of New York. This opinion is subject to, and qualified in all respects by, with your permission, the following: A. I have not been called upon to, and accordingly do not, express any opinion as to the various state and federal laws regulating banks or the conduct of their business that may relate to the Credit Documents and the transactions provided for therein. B. The enforceability of the Credit Documents may be limited by (a) the application of general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law), (b) the refusal of a particular court to grant equitable remedies including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, specific performance and injunctive relief, (c) the judicial imposition of an implied covenant of good faith and (d) bankruptcy, insolven cy, fraudulent conveyance, reorganization, moratorium or other laws affecting the rights of creditors generally. The enforceability of the indemnity provisions contained in certain of the Credit Documents may be limited by considerations of public policy or to the extent claims therefor arise under any applicable securities laws. C. The opinions in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 herein are based, in part, upon the assumption (i) I have assumed that Article 5069-1H of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes is or would be applicable to the Loans and that such statute is constitutional and will be upheld by the courts of Texas. I advise you that I am not aware of any reported case applying Texas law that has held such statute unconstitutional or questioned its constitutionality, and I know of no reason why such statute would be held unconstitutional. (ii) I have assumed that each and every usury savings clause contained in the Credit Documents will govern and control and will be given effect by any court of competent jurisdiction so as to be valid, binding, and enforceable in accordance with its terms. -4- (iii) No opinion or advice is being given as to actions of the Administrative Agent or any Lender in charging or receiving interest after the date of execution and delivery of the Credit Documents. I have been requested, and I am rendering, an opinion only that the Credit Documents, as executed and delivered by the Borrower, are not contractually usurious under Texas law. (iv) I have assumed that no other fees, sums, charges, points, or other forms of payment or benefits, whether direct or indirect, which constitute interest under applicable law, have been paid or received or are, or may be, payable to or receivable by any Lender (in such Lender's capacity as an agent, a Lender or otherwise) or any of its affiliates except as expressly set forth in the Credit Documents or in certain fee agreements among the Borrower and/or the Guarantor and the Administrative Agent, an Affiliate thereof, The Chase Manhattan Bank and an Affiliate thereof. D. I express no opinion as to the validity or enforceability of any of the following types of provisions in any of the Credit Documents: (i) provisions purporting to grant self-help remedies; (ii) provisions relating to the waiver of various rights or remedies by the Borrower or the Guarantor; (iii) provisions relating to subrogation rights, suretyship, delay or omission of enforcement of rights or remedies, severability of individual provisions of the Credit Documents from other provisions of such documents, waivers or ratification of future acts, powers of attorney, indemnification (specifically as it relates to the indemnification of a third party for such third party's negligence or an indemnification which is against public policy with respect to breaches of environmental laws), consent judgments, marshalling of assets, or sales in inverse order of alienation; (iv) provisions purporting to authorize the Administrative Agent or any Lender to collect and escrow or reserve sums of money without paying interest thereon; (v) provisions purporting to revive the Credit Documents after their termination or expiration other than any provision of any Credit Document with respect to which such Credit Document expressly provides that such provision shall survive any such termination or expiration; (vi) provisions relating to set-offs against deposits; (vii) provisions purporting to authorize conclusive determinations; and (viii) provisions purporting to establish as to third parties nonculpability for acts of any party. In addition, in my opinion, certain other applicable laws and court decisions may limit the validity of, or render unenforceable certain provisions of the Credit Documents; provided, however, that such laws and court decisions should not render any of the Credit Documents, taken as a whole, inadequate for the practical realization of the benefits and security afforded thereby except for the economic consequences of any delay or excess costs of proceedings which may result therefrom. E. All statements in this opinion which are stated "to my knowledge" are based, to the extent I have deemed proper, solely upon reasonable inquiries of an officer or representative of the Partners. Although I have not independently verified the accuracy of the statements, I have discussed the statements with the individuals making them, and I have no reason to believe that any such statement is untrue or inaccurate in any material respect. This opinion is limited to matters stated herein and no opinion is implied or may be inferred beyond the matters expressly stated. I disclaim any obligation to up-date this opinion or to advise you of any changes in any of the opinions or other matters set forth herein. -5- This opinion is being furnished only to, and is solely for the benefit of, the addressees and the Lenders which are parties to the Credit Agreement on the date hereof and their respective permitted assigns (each of which Lenders which are parties to the Credit Agreement on the date hereof and their respective permitted assigns may rely upon this opinion as of the date hereof). This opinion may not be used, circulated, quoted, relied upon or otherwise referred to by any other person or entity or for any other purpose without my prior written consent. Very truly yours, Richard H. Bachmann Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer -6- EXHIBIT F FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE The undersigned hereby certifies that he is the ____________________________ of ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, general partner of ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), and that as such he is authorized to execute this certificate on behalf of the Borrower. With reference to the Credit Agreement dated as of November ___, 2000 (as restated, amended, modified, supplemented and in effect from time to time, the "Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Syndication Agent, the Documentation Agent and First Union National Bank, as Administrative Agent, for the lenders (the "Lenders"), which are or become a party thereto, and such Lenders, the undersigned represents and warrants as follows (each capitalized term used herein having the same meaning given to it in the Agreement unless otherwise specified); (a) [There currently does not exist any Default under the Agreement.] [Attached hereto is a schedule specifying the details of [a] certain Default[s] which exist under the Agreement and the action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto.] (b) Attached hereto are the detailed computations necessary to determine whether the Borrower is in compliance with Sections 6.07(a) and (b) of the Agreement as of the end of the [fiscal quarter][fiscal year] ending ________________. EXECUTED AND DELIVERED this ____ day of _________________, 20__. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, its General Partner By: _______________________________ Name: Title: F-1 EXHIBIT G FORM OF NOTE (364-Day Credit Facility) $_____________ _______, 2000 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), for value received, promises and agrees to pay to ______________________________ (the "Lender"), or order, at the payment office of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent, at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28288-0608, the principal sum of ______________________________ AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($_____________), or such lesser amount as shall equal the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans owed to the Lender under the Credit Agreement, as hereafter defined, in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds, on the dates and in the principal amounts provided in the Credit Agreement, and to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount as provided in the Credit Agreement for such Loans, at such office, in like money and funds, for the period commencing on the date of each such Loan until such Loan shall be paid in full, at the rates per annum and on the dates provided in the Credit Agreement. This note evidences the Loans owed to the Lender under that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000, by and among the Borrower, First Union National Bank, individually and as Administrative Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, individually and as Syndication Agent, Bank One, NA, individually and as Documentation Agent, and the other financial institutions parties thereto (including the Lender) (such Credit Agreement, together with all amendments or supplements thereto, being the "Credit Agreement"), and shall be governed by the Credit Agreement. Capitalized terms used in this note and not defined in this note, but which are defined in the Credit Agreement, have the respective meanings herein as are assigned to them in the Credit Agreement. The Lender is hereby authorized by the Borrower to endorse on Schedule A (or a continuation thereof) attached to this note, the Type of each Loan owed to the Lender, the amount and date of each payment or prepayment of principal of each such Loan received by the Lender and the Interest Periods and interest rates applicable to each Loan, provided that any failure by the Lender to make any such endorsement shall not affect the obligations of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement or under this note in respect of such Loans. This note may be held by the Lender for the account of its applicable lending office and, except as otherwise provided in the Credit Agreement, may be transferred from one lending office of the Lender to another lending office of the Lender from time to time as the Lender may determine. Except only for any notices which are specifically required by the Credit Agreement, the Borrower and any and all co-makers, endorsers, guarantors and sureties severally waive notice (including but not limited to notice of intent to accelerate and notice of acceleration, notice of protest and notice of dishonor), demand, presentment for payment, protest, diligence in collecting and the filing of suit for the purpose of fixing liability, and consent that the time of payment hereof may be extended and re-extended from time to time without notice to any of them. Each such person agrees that his, her or its liability on G-1 or with respect to this note shall not be affected by any release of or change in any guaranty or security at any time existing or by any failure to perfect or maintain perfection of any lien against or security interest in any such security or the partial or complete unenforceability of any guaranty or other surety obligation, in each case in whole or in part, with or without notice and before or after maturity. The Credit Agreement provides for the acceleration of the maturity of this note upon the occurrence of certain events and for prepayment of Loans upon the terms and conditions specified therein. Reference is made to the Credit Agreement for all other pertinent purposes. This note is issued pursuant to and is entitled to the benefits of the Credit Agreement. It is hereby understood and agreed that Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Borrower, shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. THIS NOTE SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH AND BE GOVERNED BY THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FROM TIME TO TIME IN EFFECT. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P. By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: Name: _______________________ Title: ________________________ G-2 SCHEDULE A TO NOTE (364-DAY Credit Facility) This note evidences the Loans owed to the Lender under the Credit Agreement, in the principal amount set forth below and the applicable Interest Periods and rates for each such Loan, subject to the payments of principal set forth below: SCHEDULE OF LOANS AND PAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST
Amount of Principal Principal Balance Notation Interest Amount of Paid or Interest of Made Date Period Rate Loan Prepaid Paid Loans by - ---- ------ ----- ---------- ----------- ------------- ----- -------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- ------- - ---- ------ ----- ---------- -------- --------- -------- -------
G-3 EX-4.4 6 0006.txt GUARANTY AGREEMENT - MULTI YEAR EXHIBIT 4.4 GUARANTY AGREEMENT (Multi-Year Credit Facility) by ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. in favor of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent Dated as of November 17, 2000 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS -----------------
Page ---- ARTICLE 1 --------- General Terms ------------- Section 1.1 Terms Defined Above................................. 1 Section 1.2 Certain Definitions................................. 1 Section 1.3 Credit Agreement Definitions........................ 2 ARTICLE 2 --------- The Guaranty ------------ Section 2.1 Liabilities Guaranteed.............................. 2 Section 2.2 Nature of Guaranty.................................. 2 Section 2.3 Agent's Rights...................................... 3 Section 2.4 Guarantor's Waivers................................. 3 Section 2.5 Maturity of Liabilities; Payment.................... 3 Section 2.6 Agent's Expenses.................................... 4 Section 2.7 Liability........................................... 4 Section 2.8 Events and Circumstances Not Reducing or Discharging Guarantor's Obligations................. 4 ARTICLE 3 --------- Representations and Warranties ------------------------------ Section 3.1 By Guarantor........................................ 6 Section 3.2 No Representation by Lenders........................ 7 ARTICLE 4 --------- Subordination of Indebtedness ----------------------------- Section 4.1 Subordination of All Guarantor Claims............... 7 Section 4.2 Claims in Bankruptcy................................ 7 Section 4.3 Payments Held in Trust.............................. 8 Section 4.4 Liens Subordinate................................... 8 Section 4.5 Notation of Records................................. 8 ARTICLE 5 --------- Miscellaneous ------------- Section 5.1 Successors and Assigns.............................. 8 Section 5.2 Notices............................................. 8 Section 5.3 Construction........................................ 9 Section 5.4 Invalidity.......................................... 9 Section 5.5 Liability of General Partner........................ 9 Section 5.6 ENTIRE AGREEMENT.................................... 9
GUARANTY AGREEMENT (Multi-Year Credit Facility) THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT, dated as of November 17, 2000, by ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Guarantor"), is in favor of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent (the "Agent") for the several lenders ("Lenders") that are or become parties to the Credit Agreement defined below. W I T N E S S E T H: - - - - - - - - - - WHEREAS, ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), the Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, First Union National Bank, as Issuing Bank and Swingline Lender, and the Lenders have entered into that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000 (as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"); and WHEREAS, one of the terms and conditions stated in the Credit Agreement for the making of the loans described therein is the execution and delivery to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders of this Guaranty Agreement; NOW, THEREFORE, (i) in order to comply with the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement, (ii) to induce the Lenders, at any time or from time to time, to loan monies, with or without security to or for the account of Borrower in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement, (iii) at the special insistence and request of the Lenders, and (iv) for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, Guarantor hereby agrees as follows: ARTICLE 1 --------- General Terms ------------- Section 1.1 Terms Defined Above. As used in this Guaranty Agreement, the terms "Agent", "Borrower", "Credit Agreement", "Guarantor" and "Lenders" shall have the meanings indicated above. Section 1.2 Certain Definitions. As used in this Guaranty Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: "Guarantor Claims" shall have the meaning indicated in Section 4.1 hereof. "Guaranty Agreement" shall mean this Guaranty Agreement, as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified. "Liabilities" shall mean (a) any and all Indebtedness of the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement, including without limitation (i) the unpaid principal of and interest on the Revolving Loans, Competitive Loans and Swingline Loans, including without limitation, interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition or other action concerning bankruptcy or other similar proceeding, (ii) payment and performance of all Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank for the account of the Borrower under the Credit Agreement, and (iii) payment of any reimbursement obligations of the Borrower in respect of any LC Disbursement or any other amount owed by the Borrower under the Credit Agreement, and (b) all renewals, rearrangements, increases, extensions for any period, amendments, supplements, exchanges or reissuances in whole or in part of the Indebtedness of Borrower under the Credit Agreement, or any other documents or instruments evidencing any of the above. Section 1.3 Credit Agreement Definitions. Unless otherwise defined herein, all terms beginning with a capital letter which are defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the same meanings herein as therein. ARTICLE 2 --------- The Guaranty ------------ Section 2.1 Liabilities Guaranteed. Guarantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees in favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders the prompt payment of the Liabilities when due, whether at maturity or otherwise. Section 2.2 Nature of Guaranty. This Guaranty Agreement is an absolute, irrevocable, completed and continuing guaranty of payment and not a guaranty of collection, and no notice of the Liabilities or any extension of credit already or hereafter contracted by or extended to Borrower need be given to Guarantor. This Guaranty Agreement may not be revoked by Guarantor and shall continue to be effective with respect to debt under the Liabilities arising or created after any attempted revocation by Guarantor and shall remain in full force and effect until the Liabilities are paid in full and the Commitments are terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time prior thereto no Liabilities may be outstanding. Borrower and the Lenders may modify, alter, rearrange, extend for any period and/or renew from time to time the Liabilities, and the Lenders may waive any Default or Events of Default without notice to the Guarantor and in such event Guarantor will remain fully bound hereunder on the Liabilities. This Guaranty Agreement shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of the Liabilities is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any of the Lenders upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of Borrower or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. This Guaranty Agreement may be enforced by the Agent and any subsequent holder of any of the Liabilities and shall not be discharged by the assignment or negotiation of all or part of the Liabilities. Guarantor hereby expressly waives presentment, demand, notice of non-payment, protest and notice of protest and dishonor, notice of Default or Event of Default, notice of intent to accelerate the maturity and notice of acceleration of the maturity and any other notice in connection with the Liabilities, and also notice of acceptance of this Guaranty Agreement, acceptance on the part of the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders being conclusively presumed by the Lenders' request for this Guaranty Agreement and delivery of the same to the Agent. 2 Section 2.3 Agent's Rights. Guarantor authorizes the Agent, without notice or demand and without affecting Guarantor's liability hereunder, to take and hold security for the payment of this Guaranty Agreement and/or the Liabilities, and exchange, enforce, waive and release any such security; and to apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the Agent in its discretion may determine; and to obtain a guaranty of the Liabilities from any one or more Persons and at any time or times to enforce, waive, rearrange, modify, limit or release any of such other Persons from their obligations under such guaranties. Section 2.4 Guarantor's Waivers. (a) General. Guarantor waives any right to require any of the Lenders to (i) proceed against Borrower or any other person liable on the Liabilities, (ii) enforce any of their rights against any other guarantor of the Liabilities, (iii) proceed or enforce any of their rights against or exhaust any security given to secure the Liabilities, (iv) have Borrower joined with Guarantor in any suit arising out of this Guaranty Agreement and/or the Liabilities, or (v) pursue any other remedy in the Lenders' powers whatsoever. Except as provided in the Credit Agreement, the Lenders shall not be required to mitigate damages or take any action to reduce, collect or enforce the Liabilities, and the failure to so mitigate or take any such action shall not release the Guarantor from this Guaranty Agreement. Guarantor waives any defense arising by reason of any disability, lack of partnership authority or power, or other defense of Borrower or any other guarantor of the Liabilities, and shall remain liable hereon regardless of whether Borrower or any other guarantor be found not liable thereon for any reason. Whether and when to exercise any of the remedies of the Lenders under the Credit Agreement shall be in the sole and absolute discretion of the Agent, and no delay by the Agent in enforcing any remedy, including delay in conducting a foreclosure sale, shall be a defense to the Guarantor's liability under this Guaranty Agreement. To the extent allowed by applicable law, the Guarantor hereby waives any good faith duty on the part of the Agent in exercising any remedies provided in the Credit Agreement. (b) Subrogation. Until the Liabilities have been paid in full, the Guarantor waives all rights of subrogation or reimbursement against the Borrower, whether arising by contract or operation of law (including, without limitation, any such right arising under any federal or state bankruptcy or insolvency laws) and waives any right to enforce any remedy which the Lenders now have or may hereafter have against the Borrower, and waives any benefit or any right to participate in any security now or hereafter held by the Agent or any Lender. Section 2.5 Maturity of Liabilities; Payment. Guarantor agrees that if the maturity of any of the Liabilities is accelerated by bankruptcy or otherwise, such maturity shall also be deemed accelerated for the purpose of this Guaranty Agreement without demand or notice to Guarantor. Guarantor will, forthwith upon notice from the Agent, pay to the Agent the amount due and unpaid by Borrower and guaranteed hereby. The failure of the Agent to give this notice shall not in any way release Guarantor hereunder. Section 2.6 Agent's Expenses. If Guarantor fails to pay the Liabilities after notice from the Agent of Borrower's failure to pay any Liabilities at maturity, and if the Agent obtains the services of an attorney for collection of 3 amounts owing by Guarantor hereunder, or obtaining advice of counsel in respect of any of its rights under this Guaranty Agreement, or if suit is filed to enforce this Guaranty Agreement, or if proceedings are had in any bankruptcy, receivership or other judicial proceedings for the establishment or collection of any amount owing by Guarantor hereunder, or if any amount owing by Guarantor hereunder is collected through such proceedings, Guarantor agrees to pay to the Agent the Agent's reasonable attorneys' fees. Section 2.7 Liability. It is expressly agreed that the liability of the Guarantor for the payment of the Liabilities guaranteed hereby shall be primary and not secondary. Section 2.8 Events and Circumstances Not Reducing or Discharging Guarantor's Obligations. Guarantor hereby consents and agrees to each of the following to the fullest extent permitted by law, and agrees that Guarantor's obligations under this Guaranty Agreement shall not be released, diminished, impaired, reduced or adversely affected by any of the following, and waives any rights (including without limitation rights to notice) which Guarantor might otherwise have as a result of or in connection with any of the following: (a) Modifications, etc. Any renewal, extension, modification, increase, decrease, alteration, rearrangement, exchange or reissuance of all or any part of the Liabilities, or of the Letters of Credit or the Credit Agreement or any instrument executed in connection therewith, or any contract or understanding between Borrower and any of the Lenders, or any other Person, pertaining to the Liabilities; (b) Adjustment, etc. Any adjustment, indulgence, forbearance or compromise that ----------------- might be granted or given by any of the Lenders to Borrower or Guarantor or any Person liable on the Liabilities; (c) Condition of Borrower or Guarantor. The insolvency, bankruptcy arrangement, adjustment, composition, liquidation, disability, dissolution, death or lack of power of Borrower or Guarantor or any other Person at any time liable for the payment of all or part of the Liabilities; or any dissolution of Borrower or Guarantor, or any sale, lease or transfer of any or all of the assets of Borrower or Guarantor, or any changes in the shareholders, partners, or members of Borrower or Guarantor; or any reorganization of Borrower or Guarantor; (d) Invalidity of Liabilities. The invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of all or any part of the Liabilities, or any document or agreement executed in connection with the Liabilities, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation the fact that the Liabilities, or any part thereof, exceed the amount permitted by law, the act of creating the Liabilities or any part thereof is ultra vires, the officers or representatives executing the documents or otherwise creating the Liabilities acted in excess of their authority, the Liabilities violate applicable usury laws, the Borrower has valid defenses, claims or offsets (whether at law, in equity or by agreement) which render the Liabilities wholly or partially uncollectible from Borrower, the creation, performance or repayment of the Liabilities (or the execution, delivery and performance 4 of any document or instrument representing part of the Liabilities or executed in connection with the Liabilities, or given to secure the repayment of the Liabilities) is illegal, uncollectible, legally impossible or unenforceable, or the Credit Agreement or other documents or instruments pertaining to the Liabilities have been forged or otherwise are irregular or not genuine or authentic; (e) Release of Obligors. Any full or partial release of the liability of Borrower on the Liabilities or any part thereof, of any co-guarantors, or any other Person now or hereafter liable, whether directly or indirectly, jointly, severally, or jointly and severally, to pay, perform, guarantee or assure the payment of the Liabilities or any part thereof, it being recognized, acknowledged and agreed by Guarantor that Guarantor may be required to pay the Liabilities in full without assistance or support of any other Person, and Guarantor has not been induced to enter into this Guaranty Agreement on the basis of a contemplation, belief, understanding or agreement that other parties other than the Borrower will be liable to perform the Liabilities, or the Lenders will look to other parties to perform the Liabilities. (f) Other Security. The taking or accepting of any other security, collateral or guaranty, or other assurance of payment, for all or any part of the Liabilities; (g) Release of Collateral, etc. Any release, surrender, exchange, subordination, deterioration, waste, loss or impairment (including without limitation negligent, willful, unreasonable or unjustifiable impairment) of any collateral, property or security, at any time existing in connection with, or assuring or securing payment of, all or any part of the Liabilities; (h) Care and Diligence. The failure of the Lenders or any other Person to exercise diligence or reasonable care in the preservation, protection, enforcement, sale or other handling or treatment of all or any part of such collateral, property or security; (i) Status of Liens. The fact that any collateral, security, security interest or lien contemplated or intended to be given, created or granted as security for the repayment of the Liabilities shall not be properly perfected or created, or shall prove to be unenforceable or subordinate to any other security interest or lien, it being recognized and agreed by Guarantor that Guarantor is not entering into this Guaranty Agreement in reliance on, or in contemplation of the benefits of, the validity, enforceability, collectability or value of any collateral for the Liabilities; (j) Payments Rescinded. Any payment by Borrower to the Lenders is held to constitute a preference under the bankruptcy laws, or for any reason the Lenders are required to refund such payment or pay such amount to Borrower or someone else; or 5 (k) Other Actions Taken or Omitted. Any other action taken or omitted to be taken with respect to the Credit Agreement, the Liabilities, or the security and collateral therefor, whether or not such action or omission prejudices Guarantor or increases the likelihood that Guarantor will be required to pay the Liabilities pursuant to the terms hereof; it being the unambiguous and unequivocal intention of Guarantor that Guarantor shall be obligated to pay the Liabilities when due, notwithstanding any occurrence, circumstance, event, action, or omission whatsoever, whether contemplated or uncontemplated, and whether or not otherwise or particularly described herein, except for the full and final payment and satisfaction of the Liabilities. ARTICLE 3 --------- Representations and Warranties ------------------------------ Section 3.1 By Guarantor. In order to induce the Lenders to accept this Guaranty Agreement, Guarantor represents and warrants to the Lenders (which representations and warranties will survive the creation of the Liabilities and any extension of credit thereunder) that: (a) Benefit to Guarantor. Guarantor's guaranty pursuant to this Guaranty Agreement reasonably may be expected to benefit, directly or indirectly, Guarantor. (b) Existence. Guarantor is a limited partnership duly organized and legally existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and is duly qualified in all jurisdictions wherein the property owned or the business transacted by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. (c) Power and Authorization. Guarantor is duly authorized and empowered to execute, deliver and perform this Guaranty Agreement and all action on Guarantor's part requisite for the due execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty Agreement has been duly and effectively taken. (d) Binding Obligations. This Guaranty Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of Guarantor, enforceable in accordance with its terms (except that enforcement may be subject to any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws generally affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights). (e) No Legal Bar. This Guaranty Agreement will not violate any provisions of Guarantor's limited partnership agreement or any contract, agreement, law, regulation, order, injunction, judgment, decree or writ to which Guarantor is subject. (f) No Consent. Guarantor's execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty Agreement does not require the consent or approval of any other Person, including without limitation any regulatory authority or 6 governmental body of the United States or any state thereof or any political subdivision of the United States or any state thereof. (g) Solvency. The Guarantor hereby represents that (i) it is not insolvent as of the date hereof and will not be rendered insolvent as a result of this Guaranty Agreement, (ii) it is not engaged in business or a transaction, or about to engage in a business or a transaction, for which any property or assets remaining with such Guarantor is unreasonably small capital, and (iii) it does not intend to incur, or believe it will incur, debts that will be beyond its ability to pay as such debts mature. Section 3.2 No Representation by Lenders. Neither the Lenders nor any other Person has made any representation, warranty or statement to the Guarantor in order to induce the Guarantor to execute this Guaranty Agreement. ARTICLE 4 --------- Subordination of Indebtedness ----------------------------- Section 4.1 Subordination of All Guarantor Claims. As used herein, the term "Guarantor Claims" shall mean all debts and liabilities of Borrower to Guarantor, whether such debts and liabilities now exist or are hereafter incurred or arise, or whether the obligation of Borrower thereon be direct, contingent, primary, secondary, several, joint and several, or otherwise, and irrespective of whether such debts or liabilities be evidenced by note, contract, open account, or otherwise, and irrespective of the person or persons in whose favor such debts or liabilities may, at their inception, have been, or may hereafter be created, or the manner in which they have been or may hereafter be acquired by Guarantor. The Guarantor Claims shall include without limitation all rights and claims of Guarantor against Borrower arising as a result of subrogation or otherwise as a result of Guarantor's payment of all or a portion of the Liabilities. Until the Liabilities shall be paid and satisfied in full and Guarantor shall have performed all of its obligations hereunder, Guarantor shall not receive or collect, directly or indirectly, from Borrower or any other party any amount upon the Guarantor Claims if an Event of Default exists at the time of such receipt or collection. Section 4.2 Claims in Bankruptcy. In the event of receivership, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, debtor's relief, or other insolvency proceedings involving Borrower as debtor, the Lenders shall have the right to prove their claim in any proceeding, so as to establish its rights hereunder and receive directly from the receiver, trustee or other court custodian, dividends and payments which would otherwise be payable upon Guarantor Claims up to the amount of the Liabilities. Guarantor hereby assigns such dividends and payments to the Lenders up to the amount of the Liabilities. Should the Agent or any Lender receive, for application upon the Liabilities, any such dividend or payment which is otherwise payable to Guarantor, and which, as between Borrower and Guarantor, shall constitute a credit upon the Guarantor Claims, then upon payment in full of the Liabilities, Guarantor shall become subrogated to the rights of the Lenders to the extent that such payments to the Lenders on the Guarantor Claims have contributed toward the liquidation of the Liabilities, and such subrogation shall be with respect to that proportion of the Liabilities 7 which would have been unpaid if the Agent or a Lender had not received dividends or payments upon the Guarantor Claims. Section 4.3 Payments Held in Trust. In the event that notwithstanding Sections 4.1 and 4.2 above, Guarantor should receive any funds, payments, claims or distributions which is prohibited by such Sections, Guarantor agrees to hold in trust for the Lenders an amount equal to the amount of all funds, payments, claims or distributions so received, and agrees that it shall have absolutely no dominion over the amount of such funds, payments, claims or distributions except to pay them promptly to the Agent, and Guarantor covenants promptly to pay the same to the Agent. Section 4.4 Liens Subordinate. Guarantor agrees that any liens, security interests, judgment liens, charges or other encumbrances upon Borrower's assets securing payment of the Guarantor Claims shall be and remain inferior and subordinate to any liens, security interests, judgment liens, charges or other encumbrances upon Borrower's assets securing payment of the Liabilities, regardless of whether such encumbrances in favor of Guarantor, the Agent or the Lenders presently exist or are hereafter created or attach. Without the prior written consent of the Lenders, Guarantor shall not (a) exercise or enforce any creditor's right it may have against the Borrower, or (b) foreclose, repossess, sequester or otherwise take steps or institute any action or proceeding (judicial or otherwise, including without limitation the commencement of or joinder in any liquidation, bankruptcy, rearrangement, debtor's relief or insolvency proceeding) to enforce any lien, mortgages, deeds of trust, security interest, collateral rights, judgments or other encumbrances on assets of Borrower held by Guarantor. Section 4.5 Notation of Records. All promissory notes accepted by or held by Guarantor shall contain a specific written notice thereon that the indebtedness evidenced thereby is subordinated under the terms of this Guaranty Agreement. ARTICLE 5 --------- Miscellaneous ------------- Section 5.1 Successors and Assigns. This Guaranty Agreement is and shall be in every particular available to the respective successors and assigns of the Agent and the Lenders and is and shall always be fully binding upon the legal representatives, heirs, successors and assigns of Guarantor, notwithstanding that some or all of the monies, the repayment of which is guaranteed by this Guaranty Agreement, may be actually advanced after any bankruptcy, receivership, reorganization, death, disability or other event affecting Guarantor. Section 5.2 Notices. Any notice or demand to Guarantor under or in connection with this Guaranty Agreement may be given and shall conclusively be deemed and considered to have been given and received in accordance with Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement, addressed to Guarantor at the address on the signature page hereof or at such other address provided by the Guarantor to the Agent in writing. 8 Section 5.3 Construction. This Guaranty Agreement is a contract made under and shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York. Section 5.4 Invalidity. In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained in this Guaranty Agreement shall, for any reason, be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Guaranty Agreement. Section 5.5 Liability of General Partner. It is hereby understood and agreed that Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Guarantor, shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of the Liabilities or any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. Section 5.6 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Written Guaranty Agreement Embodies the Entire Agreement and Understanding Between the Agent, The Lenders and the Guarantor and Supersedes All Other Agreements and Understandings Between Such Parties Relating to the Subject Matter Hereof and Thereof. This Written Guaranty Agreement Represents the Final Agreement Between the Parties and May Not Be Contradicted by Evidence of Prior, Contemporaneous, or Subsequent Oral Agreements of the Parties. There Are No Unwritten Oral Agreements Between the Parties. 9 WITNESS THE EXECUTION HEREOF, as of the date first above written. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P., a Delaware limited partnership By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: /s/ Michael A. Creel ---------------------------------------- Name: Michael A. Creel Title: Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 2727 North Loop West 7th Floor Houston, Texas 77008 EX-4.5 7 0007.txt GUARANTY AGREEMENT 364 DAY EXHIBIT 4.5 GUARANTY AGREEMENT (364-Day Credit Facility) by ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. in favor of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent Dated as of November 17, 2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page ARTICLE 1 --------- General Terms ------------- Section 1.1 Terms Defined Above Section 1.2 Certain Definitions Section 1.3 Credit Agreement Definitions ARTICLE 2 --------- The Guaranty ------------ Section 2.1 Liabilities Guaranteed Section 2.2 Nature of Guaranty Section 2.3 Agent's Rights Section 2.4 Guarantor's Waivers Section 2.5 Maturity of Liabilities; Payment Section 2.6 Agent's Expenses Section 2.7 Liability Section 2.8 Events and Circumstances Not Reducing or Discharging Guarantor's Obligations ARTICLE 3 --------- Representations and Warranties ------------------------------ Section 3.1 By Guarantor Section 3.2 No Representation by Lenders ARTICLE 4 --------- Subordination of Indebtedness ----------------------------- Section 4.1 Subordination of All Guarantor Claims Section 4.2 Claims in Bankruptcy Section 4.3 Payments Held in Trust Section 4.4 Liens Subordinate Section 4.5 Notation of Records ARTICLE 5 --------- Miscellaneous ------------- Section 5.1 Successors and Assigns Section 5.2 Notices Section 5.3 Construction Section 5.4 Invalidity Section 5.5 Liability of General Partner Section 5.6 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
GUARANTY AGREEMENT (364-Day Credit Facility) THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT, dated as of November 17, 2000, by ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Guarantor"), is in favor of FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK, as Administrative Agent (the "Agent") for the several lenders ("Lenders") that are or become parties to the Credit Agreement defined below. W I T N E S S E T H: - - - - - - - - - - WHEREAS, ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS OPERATING L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the "Borrower"), the Agent, The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Syndication Agent, Bank One, NA, as Documentation Agent, and the Lenders have entered into that certain Credit Agreement dated as of November 17, 2000 (as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"); and WHEREAS, one of the terms and conditions stated in the Credit Agreement for the making of the loans described therein is the execution and delivery to the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders of this Guaranty Agreement; NOW, THEREFORE, (i) in order to comply with the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement, (ii) to induce the Lenders, at any time or from time to time, to loan monies, with or without security to or for the account of Borrower in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement, (iii) at the special insistence and request of the Lenders, and (iv) for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, Guarantor hereby agrees as follows: ARTICLE 1 --------- General Terms ------------- Section 1.1 Terms Defined Above. As used in this Guaranty Agreement, the terms "Agent", "Borrower", "Credit Agreement", "Guarantor" and "Lenders" shall have the meanings indicated above. Section 1.2 Certain Definitions. As used in this Guaranty Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires: "Guarantor Claims" shall have the meaning indicated in Section 4.1 hereof. "Guaranty Agreement" shall mean this Guaranty Agreement, as the same may from time to time be amended, supplemented, or otherwise modified. "Liabilities" shall mean (a) any and all Indebtedness of the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement, including without limitation (i) the unpaid principal of and interest on the Loans, including without limitation, interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition or other action concerning bankruptcy or other similar proceeding, and (ii) any other amount owed by the Borrower under the Credit Agreement, and (b) all renewals, rearrangements, increases, extensions for any period, amendments, supplements, exchanges or reissuances in whole or in part of the Indebtedness of Borrower under the Credit Agreement, or any other documents or instruments evidencing any of the above. Section 1.3 Credit Agreement Definitions. Unless otherwise defined herein, all terms beginning with a capital letter which are defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the same meanings herein as therein. ARTICLE 2 --------- The Guaranty ------------ Section 2.1 Liabilities Guaranteed. Guarantor hereby irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees in favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders the prompt payment of the Liabilities when due, whether at maturity or otherwise. Section 2.2 Nature of Guaranty. This Guaranty Agreement is an absolute, irrevocable, completed and continuing guaranty of payment and not a guaranty of collection, and no notice of the Liabilities or any extension of credit already or hereafter contracted by or extended to Borrower need be given to Guarantor. This Guaranty Agreement may not be revoked by Guarantor and shall continue to be effective with respect to debt under the Liabilities arising or created after any attempted revocation by Guarantor and shall remain in full force and effect until the Liabilities are paid in full and the Commitments are terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time prior thereto no Liabilities may be outstanding. Borrower and the Lenders may modify, alter, rearrange, extend for any period and/or renew from time to time the Liabilities, and the Lenders may waive any Default or Events of Default without notice to the Guarantor and in such event Guarantor will remain fully bound hereunder on the Liabilities. This Guaranty Agreement shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of the Liabilities is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any of the Lenders upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of Borrower or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. This Guaranty Agreement may be enforced by the Agent and any subsequent holder of any of the Liabilities and shall not be discharged by the assignment or negotiation of all or part of the Liabilities. Guarantor hereby expressly waives presentment, demand, notice of non-payment, protest and notice of protest and dishonor, notice of Default or Event of Default, notice of intent to accelerate the maturity and notice of acceleration of the maturity and any other notice in connection with the Liabilities, and also notice of acceptance of this Guaranty Agreement, acceptance on the part of the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders being conclusively presumed by the Lenders' request for this Guaranty Agreement and delivery of the same to the Agent. Section 2.3 Agent's Rights. Guarantor authorizes the Agent, without notice or demand and without affecting Guarantor's liability hereunder, to take and hold security for the payment of this Guaranty Agreement and/or the Liabilities, and exchange, enforce, waive and release any such security; and to apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the Agent in its 2 discretion may determine; and to obtain a guaranty of the Liabilities from any one or more Persons and at any time or times to enforce, waive, rearrange, modify, limit or release any of such other Persons from their obligations under such guaranties. Section 2.4 Guarantor's Waivers. (a) General. Guarantor waives any right to require any of the Lenders to (i) proceed against Borrower or any other person liable on the Liabilities, (ii) enforce any of their rights against any other guarantor of the Liabilities, (iii) proceed or enforce any of their rights against or exhaust any security given to secure the Liabilities, (iv) have Borrower joined with Guarantor in any suit arising out of this Guaranty Agreement and/or the Liabilities, or (v) pursue any other remedy in the Lenders' powers whatsoever. Except as provided in the Credit Agreement, the Lenders shall not be required to mitigate damages or take any action to reduce, collect or enforce the Liabilities, and the failure to so mitigate or take any such action shall not release the Guarantor from this Guaranty Agreement. Guarantor waives any defense arising by reason of any disability, lack of partnership authority or power, or other defense of Borrower or any other guarantor of the Liabilities, and shall remain liable hereon regardless of whether Borrower or any other guarantor be found not liable thereon for any reason. Whether and when to exercise any of the remedies of the Lenders under the Credit Agreement shall be in the sole and absolute discretion of the Agent, and no delay by the Agent in enforcing any remedy, including delay in conducting a foreclosure sale, shall be a defense to the Guarantor's liability under this Guaranty Agreement. To the extent allowed by applicable law, the Guarantor hereby waives any good faith duty on the part of the Agent in exercising any remedies provided in the Credit Agreement. (b) Subrogation. Until the Liabilities have been paid in full, the Guarantor waives all rights of subrogation or reimbursement against the Borrower, whether arising by contract or operation of law (including, without limitation, any such right arising under any federal or state bankruptcy or insolvency laws) and waives any right to enforce any remedy which the Lenders now have or may hereafter have against the Borrower, and waives any benefit or any right to participate in any security now or hereafter held by the Agent or any Lender. Section 2.5 Maturity of Liabilities; Payment. Guarantor agrees that if the maturity of any of the Liabilities is accelerated by bankruptcy or otherwise, such maturity shall also be deemed accelerated for the purpose of this Guaranty Agreement without demand or notice to Guarantor. Guarantor will, forthwith upon notice from the Agent, pay to the Agent the amount due and unpaid by Borrower and guaranteed hereby. The failure of the Agent to give this notice shall not in any way release Guarantor hereunder. Section 2.6 Agent's Expenses. If Guarantor fails to pay the Liabilities after notice from the Agent of Borrower's failure to pay any Liabilities at maturity, and if the Agent obtains the services of an attorney for collection of amounts owing by Guarantor hereunder, or 3 obtaining advice of counsel in respect of any of its rights under this Guaranty Agreement, or if suit is filed to enforce this Guaranty Agreement, or if proceedings are had in any bankruptcy, receivership or other judicial proceedings for the establishment or collection of any amount owing by Guarantor hereunder, or if any amount owing by Guarantor hereunder is collected through such proceedings, Guarantor agrees to pay to the Agent the Agent's reasonable attorneys' fees. Section 2.7 Liability. It is expressly agreed that the liability of the Guarantor for the payment of the Liabilities guaranteed hereby shall be primary and not secondary. Section 2.8 Events and Circumstances Not Reducing or Discharging Guarantor's Obligations. Guarantor hereby consents and agrees to each of the following to the fullest extent permitted by law, and agrees that Guarantor's obligations under this Guaranty Agreement shall not be released, diminished, impaired, reduced or adversely affected by any of the following, and waives any rights (including without limitation rights to notice) which Guarantor might otherwise have as a result of or in connection with any of the following: (a) Modifications, etc. Any renewal, extension, modification, increase, decrease, alteration, rearrangement, exchange or reissuance of all or any part of the Liabilities, or of the Letters of Credit or the Credit Agreement or any instrument executed in connection therewith, or any contract or understanding between Borrower and any of the Lenders, or any other Person, pertaining to the Liabilities; (b) Adjustment, etc. Any adjustment, indulgence, forbearance or compromise that might be granted or given by any of the Lenders to Borrower or Guarantor or any Person liable on the Liabilities; (c) Condition of Borrower or Guarantor. The insolvency, bankruptcy arrangement, adjustment, composition, liquidation, disability, dissolution, death or lack of power of Borrower or Guarantor or any other Person at any time liable for the payment of all or part of the Liabilities; or any dissolution of Borrower or Guarantor, or any sale, lease or transfer of any or all of the assets of Borrower or Guarantor, or any changes in the shareholders, partners, or members of Borrower or Guarantor; or any reorganization of Borrower or Guarantor; (d) Invalidity of Liabilities. The invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of all or any part of the Liabilities, or any document or agreement executed in connection with the Liabilities, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation the fact that the Liabilities, or any part thereof, exceed the amount permitted by law, the act of creating the Liabilities or any part thereof is ultra vires, the officers or representatives executing the documents or otherwise creating the Liabilities acted in excess of their authority, the Liabilities violate applicable usury laws, the Borrower has valid defenses, claims or offsets (whether at law, in equity or by agreement) which render the Liabilities wholly or partially uncollectible from Borrower, the creation, performance or repayment of the Liabilities (or the execution, delivery and performance of any document or instrument representing part of the Liabilities or executed in connection with the Liabilities, or given to secure the repayment of the Liabilities) is illegal, uncollectible, legally impossible or unenforceable, or the Credit Agreement or other documents or instruments 4 pertaining to the Liabilities have been forged or otherwise are irregular or not genuine or authentic; (e) Release of Obligors. Any full or partial release of the liability of Borrower on the Liabilities or any part thereof, of any co-guarantors, or any other Person now or hereafter liable, whether directly or indirectly, jointly, severally, or jointly and severally, to pay, perform, guarantee or assure the payment of the Liabilities or any part thereof, it being recognized, acknowledged and agreed by Guarantor that Guarantor may be required to pay the Liabilities in full without assistance or support of any other Person, and Guarantor has not been induced to enter into this Guaranty Agreement on the basis of a contemplation, belief, understanding or agreement that other parties other than the Borrower will be liable to perform the Liabilities, or the Lenders will look to other parties to perform the Liabilities. (f) Other Security. The taking or accepting of any other security, collateral or guaranty, or other assurance of payment, for all or any part of the Liabilities; (g) Release of Collateral, etc. Any release, surrender, exchange, subordination, deterioration, waste, loss or impairment (including without limitation negligent, willful, unreasonable or unjustifiable impairment) of any collateral, property or security, at any time existing in connection with, or assuring or securing payment of, all or any part of the Liabilities; (h) Care and Diligence. The failure of the Lenders or any other Person to exercise diligence or reasonable care in the preservation, protection, enforcement, sale or other handling or treatment of all or any part of such collateral, property or security; (i) Status of Liens. The fact that any collateral, security, security interest or lien contemplated or intended to be given, created or granted as security for the repayment of the Liabilities shall not be properly perfected or created, or shall prove to be unenforceable or subordinate to any other security interest or lien, it being recognized and agreed by Guarantor that Guarantor is not entering into this Guaranty Agreement in reliance on, or in contemplation of the benefits of, the validity, enforceability, collectability or value of any collateral for the Liabilities; (j) Payments Rescinded. Any payment by Borrower to the Lenders is held to constitute a preference under the bankruptcy laws, or for any reason the Lenders are required to refund such payment or pay such amount to Borrower or someone else; or (k) Other Actions Taken or Omitted. Any other action taken or omitted to be taken with respect to the Credit Agreement, the Liabilities, or the security and collateral therefor, whether or not such action or omission prejudices Guarantor or increases the likelihood that Guarantor will be 5 required to pay the Liabilities pursuant to the terms hereof; it being the unambiguous and unequivocal intention of Guarantor that Guarantor shall be obligated to pay the Liabilities when due, notwithstanding any occurrence, circumstance, event, action, or omission whatsoever, whether contemplated or uncontemplated, and whether or not otherwise or particularly described herein, except for the full and final payment and satisfaction of the Liabilities. ARTICLE 3 --------- Representations and Warranties ------------------------------ Section 3.1 By Guarantor. In order to induce the Lenders to accept this Guaranty Agreement, Guarantor represents and warrants to the Lenders (which representations and warranties will survive the creation of the Liabilities and any extension of credit thereunder) that: (a) Benefit to Guarantor. Guarantor's guaranty pursuant to this Guaranty Agreement reasonably may be expected to benefit, directly or indirectly, Guarantor. (b) Existence. Guarantor is a limited partnership duly organized and legally existing under the laws of the State of Delaware and is duly qualified in all jurisdictions wherein the property owned or the business transacted by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. (c) Power and Authorization. Guarantor is duly authorized and empowered to execute, deliver and perform this Guaranty Agreement and all action on Guarantor's part requisite for the due execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty Agreement has been duly and effectively taken. (d) Binding Obligations. This Guaranty Agreement constitutes a valid and binding obligation of Guarantor, enforceable in accordance with its terms (except that enforcement may be subject to any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws generally affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights). (e) No Legal Bar. This Guaranty Agreement will not violate any provisions of Guarantor's limited partnership agreement or any contract, agreement, law, regulation, order, injunction, judgment, decree or writ to which Guarantor is subject. (f) No Consent. Guarantor's execution, delivery and performance of this Guaranty Agreement does not require the consent or approval of any other Person, including without limitation any regulatory authority or governmental body of the United States or any state thereof or any political subdivision of the United States or any state thereof. 6 (g) Solvency. The Guarantor hereby represents that (i) it is not insolvent as of the date hereof and will not be rendered insolvent as a result of this Guaranty Agreement, (ii) it is not engaged in business or a transaction, or about to engage in a business or a transaction, for which any property or assets remaining with such Guarantor is unreasonably small capital, and (iii) it does not intend to incur, or believe it will incur, debts that will be beyond its ability to pay as such debts mature. Section 3.2 No Representation by Lenders. Neither the Lenders nor any other Person has made any representation, warranty or statement to the Guarantor in order to induce the Guarantor to execute this Guaranty Agreement. ARTICLE 4 --------- Subordination of Indebtedness ----------------------------- Section 4.1 Subordination of All Guarantor Claims. As used herein, the term "Guarantor Claims" shall mean all debts and liabilities of Borrower to Guarantor, whether such debts and liabilities now exist or are hereafter incurred or arise, or whether the obligation of Borrower thereon be direct, contingent, primary, secondary, several, joint and several, or otherwise, and irrespective of whether such debts or liabilities be evidenced by note, contract, open account, or otherwise, and irrespective of the person or persons in whose favor such debts or liabilities may, at their inception, have been, or may hereafter be created, or the manner in which they have been or may hereafter be acquired by Guarantor. The Guarantor Claims shall include without limitation all rights and claims of Guarantor against Borrower arising as a result of subrogation or otherwise as a result of Guarantor's payment of all or a portion of the Liabilities. Until the Liabilities shall be paid and satisfied in full and Guarantor shall have performed all of its obligations hereunder, Guarantor shall not receive or collect, directly or indirectly, from Borrower or any other party any amount upon the Guarantor Claims if an Event of Default exists at the time of such receipt or collection. Section 4.2 Claims in Bankruptcy. In the event of receivership, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, debtor's relief, or other insolvency proceedings involving Borrower as debtor, the Lenders shall have the right to prove their claim in any proceeding, so as to establish its rights hereunder and receive directly from the receiver, trustee or other court custodian, dividends and payments which would otherwise be payable upon Guarantor Claims up to the amount of the Liabilities. Guarantor hereby assigns such dividends and payments to the Lenders up to the amount of the Liabilities. Should the Agent or any Lender receive, for application upon the Liabilities, any such dividend or payment which is otherwise payable to Guarantor, and which, as between Borrower and Guarantor, shall constitute a credit upon the Guarantor Claims, then upon payment in full of the Liabilities, Guarantor shall become subrogated to the rights of the Lenders to the extent that such payments to the Lenders on the Guarantor Claims have contributed toward the liquidation of the Liabilities, and such subrogation shall be with respect to that proportion of the Liabilities which would have been unpaid if the Agent or a Lender had not received dividends or payments upon the Guarantor Claims. 7 Section 4.3 Payments Held in Trust. In the event that notwithstanding Sections 4.1 and 4.2 above, Guarantor should receive any funds, payments, claims or distributions which is prohibited by such Sections, Guarantor agrees to hold in trust for the Lenders an amount equal to the amount of all funds, payments, claims or distributions so received, and agrees that it shall have absolutely no dominion over the amount of such funds, payments, claims or distributions except to pay them promptly to the Agent, and Guarantor covenants promptly to pay the same to the Agent. Section 4.4 Liens Subordinate. Guarantor agrees that any liens, security interests, judgment liens, charges or other encumbrances upon Borrower's assets securing payment of the Guarantor Claims shall be and remain inferior and subordinate to any liens, security interests, judgment liens, charges or other encumbrances upon Borrower's assets securing payment of the Liabilities, regardless of whether such encumbrances in favor of Guarantor, the Agent or the Lenders presently exist or are hereafter created or attach. Without the prior written consent of the Lenders, Guarantor shall not (a) exercise or enforce any creditor's right it may have against the Borrower, or (b) foreclose, repossess, sequester or otherwise take steps or institute any action or proceeding (judicial or otherwise, including without limitation the commencement of or joinder in any liquidation, bankruptcy, rearrangement, debtor's relief or insolvency proceeding) to enforce any lien, mortgages, deeds of trust, security interest, collateral rights, judgments or other encumbrances on assets of Borrower held by Guarantor. Section 4.5 Notation of Records. All promissory notes accepted by or held by Guarantor shall contain a specific written notice thereon that the indebtedness evidenced thereby is subordinated under the terms of this Guaranty Agreement. ARTICLE 5 --------- Miscellaneous ------------- Section 5.1 Successors and Assigns. This Guaranty Agreement is and shall be in every particular available to the respective successors and assigns of the Agent and the Lenders and is and shall always be fully binding upon the legal representatives, heirs, successors and assigns of Guarantor, notwithstanding that some or all of the monies, the repayment of which is guaranteed by this Guaranty Agreement, may be actually advanced after any bankruptcy, receivership, reorganization, death, disability or other event affecting Guarantor. Section 5.2 Notices. Any notice or demand to Guarantor under or in connection with this Guaranty Agreement may be given and shall conclusively be deemed and considered to have been given and received in accordance with Section 9.01 of the Credit Agreement, addressed to Guarantor at the address on the signature page hereof or at such other address provided by the Guarantor to the Agent in writing. Section 5.3 Construction. This Guaranty Agreement is a contract made under and shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York. 8 Section 5.4 Invalidity. In the event that any one or more of the provisions contained in this Guaranty Agreement shall, for any reason, be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Guaranty Agreement. Section 5.5 Liability of General Partner. It is hereby understood and agreed that Enterprise Products GP, LLC, the general partner of the Guarantor, shall have no personal liability, as general partner or otherwise, for the payment of the Liabilities or any amount owing or to be owing hereunder. Section 5.6 ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Written Guaranty Agreement Embodies the Entire Agreement and Understanding Between the Agent, The Lenders and the Guarantor and Supersedes All Other Agreements and Understandings Between Such Parties Relating to the Subject Matter Hereof and Thereof. This Written Guaranty Agreement Represents the Final Agreement Between the Parties and May Not Be Contradicted by Evidence of Prior, Contemporaneous, or Subsequent Oral Agreements of the Parties. There Are No Unwritten Oral Agreements Between the Parties. 9 WITNESS THE EXECUTION HEREOF, as of the date first above written. ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P., a Delaware limited partnership By: Enterprise Products GP, LLC, General Partner By: /s/ Michael A. Creel -------------------------------------- Name: Michael A. Creel Title: Sr. Vice President and Chief Financial Officer 2727 North Loop West 7th Floor Houston, Texas 77008 10 EX-12.1 8 0008.txt RATIO OF EARNINGS EXHIBIT 12.1 ENTERPRISE PRODUCTS PARTNERS L.P. COMPUTATION OF RATIO OF EARNINGS TO FIXED CHARGES (amounts in millions $)
For Year Ended For Nine Months Ended December 31, September 30, ---------------------- ----------------------------------------- 1999 1999 2000 ---------------------- ----------------------------------------- Income (loss) before minority interest and equity investments $108.0 $59.0 $143.7 Add: Fixed charges 23.3 12.5 29.9 Amortization of capitalized interest 0.1 0.1 0.1 Distributed income of equity investees 6.0 4.6 26.0 Less: Capitalized interest (0.2) (0.1) (2.3) Minority interest (1.2) (0.6) (1.7) ------ ----- ------ Total Earnings $136.0 $75.5 $195.7 ====== ===== ====== Fixed charges: Interest expense 16.4 $ 8.0 $ 23.3 Capitalized interest 0.2 0.1 2.3 Interest portion of rental expense 6.7 4.6 4.5 ------ ----- ------ Total $ 23.3 $12.6 $ 30.1 ====== ===== ====== Ratio of Earnings to Fixed Charges 5.84x 5.99x 6.50x ====== ===== ======
EX-23.1 9 0009.txt CONSENT EXHIBIT 23.1 INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement No. 333- 93239-01 of Enterprise Products Operating L.P. on Form S-3 of our report dated February 25, 2000, appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Enterprise Products Operating L.P. for the year ended December 31, 1999, and to the reference to us under the heading "Experts" in the Prospectus, which is part of such Registration Statement. DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP Houston, Texas January 24, 2001 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----