Long-Term Debt

The following table summarizes the carrying value of the Company’s long-term debt (in millions):



	October 1, 2016			December 31, 2015
7.25% Senior Notes due 2022	$	1,050		$	1,050
4.00% Term Loan due 2021	1,800			2,035
3.25% Revolving Credit Facility	—			—
Less: debt issuance costs	(23		)	(26		)
Less: unamortized discounts	(39		)	(47		)
Long-term debt	$	2,788		$	3,012

During 2014, the Company entered into a credit agreement which provides for a term loan of $2.2 billion and a revolving credit facility of $250.0 million. Borrowings under this agreement bear interest at a variable rate subject to a floor of 4.00%. As of October 1, 2016, the Term Loan interest rate was 4.09%. Interest payments are payable quarterly. The Company has also entered into interest rate swaps to manage interest rate risk on its long-term debt. The Company is required to make a final scheduled principal payment of $1.8 billion due on October 27, 2021. Additionally, the Company may make optional prepayments of the Term Loan, in whole or in part, without premium or penalty. The Company made optional principal prepayments of $235 million during the nine months ended October 1, 2016. On November 4, 2016, the Company made an additional principal prepayment of $42 million.

Borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility bear interest at a variable rate plus an applicable margin. As of October 1, 2016, the Revolving Credit Facility interest rate was 3.25%. Interest payments are payable quarterly. As of October 1, 2016, the Company had established letters of credit amounting to $4 million, which reduced funds available for other borrowings under the agreement to $246 million.

On June 2, 2016 (the "Closing Date"), the Company entered into the first amendment to our existing Term Loan credit agreement dated as of October 27, 2014 (the "Refinancing Amendment"). The Refinancing Amendment lowered the index rate spread for LIBOR loans from LIBOR + 400 bp to LIBOR + 325 bp. In accounting for the Refinancing Amendment, the Company applied the provisions of ASC Subtopic 470-50, Modifications and Extinguishments (“ASC 470-50”). The evaluation of the accounting under ASC 470-50 was done on a creditor by creditor basis in order to determine if the terms of the debt were substantially different and, as a result, whether to apply modification or extinguishment accounting. It was determined that the terms of the debt were not substantially different for approximately 96.6% of the lenders, and applied modification accounting. For the remaining 3.4% of the lenders, extinguishment accounting was applied. During the second quarter of 2016, the Company recorded a $2.7 million charge to other expense, primarily related to costs incurred with third parties for arranger, legal and other services and the unamortized fees related to the extinguished debt. Additionally, the Company paid $4.9 million to the creditors in exchange for the modification and reported it as a debt discount which is being amortized over the life of the modified debt using the interest method.