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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-24-167028
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		16
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20240624
ITEM INFORMATION:		Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
ITEM INFORMATION:		Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant
ITEM INFORMATION:		Regulation FD Disclosure
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240624
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240624

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CENTERPOINT ENERGY INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001130310
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		IRS NUMBER:				740694415
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			TX
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-31447
		FILM NUMBER:		241065139

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1111 LOUISIANA ST.
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77002
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7132073000

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		STREET 1:		1111 LOUISIANA ST.
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77002

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	RELIANT ENERGY REGCO INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20001220

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CENTERPOINT ENERGY HOUSTON ELECTRIC LLC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000048732
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ELECTRIC SERVICES [4911]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	01 Energy & Transportation
		IRS NUMBER:				223865106
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			TX
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-03187
		FILM NUMBER:		241065140

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1111 LOUISIANA
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77002
		BUSINESS PHONE:		7132073000

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		STREET 1:		611 WALKER
		CITY:			HOUSTON
		STATE:			TX
		ZIP:			77002

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	RELIANT ENERGY INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19990513

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	HOUSTON INDUSTRIES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19970807

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER CO
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>MIZUHO BANK, LTD., </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>TD
BANK, N.A., and </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">as Joint Lead Arrangers </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>MIZUHO BANK, LTD.</B>, </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">as Sole
Bookrunner </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P> <P STYLE="line-height:1.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.1. Certain Defined Terms</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.2. Classification of Loans and Borrowings</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.3. Other Definitional Provisions</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.4. Accounting Terms; GAAP</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.5. Disclaimer and Exculpation</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.6. Divisions</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE II AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE LOANS</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.1. The Commitments</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.2. Procedure for Loan Borrowing</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.3. Increase in the Total Commitments and Loan Increases</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.4. Defaulting Banks</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.5. Acknowledgement and Consent to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> of
Affected Financial Institutions</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE III PROVISIONS RELATING TO ALL LOANS</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.1. Evidence of Loans</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.3. Interest</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.5. Interest Rate Determination; Inability to Determine Rates</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.6. Voluntary Interest Conversion or Continuation of Loans</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.7. Funding Losses Relating to SOFR Loans</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.8. Change in Legality</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.5. Optional Termination or Reduction of Commitments</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.8. Determination and Notice of Additional Costs and Other Amounts</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE V CONDITIONS OF LENDING</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.2. Conditions Precedent to Each Credit Event</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.3. Conditions Precedent to Each Increase of the Commitments</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 6.1. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">ARTICLE VII AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE COVENANTS</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">70</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.1. Appointment</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">70</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.2. Delegation of Duties</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">70</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.3. Exculpatory Provisions</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">70</TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">71</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.5. Notice of Default</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">71</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.6. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Reliance</FONT> on Administrative Agent, Lead
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.7. Indemnification</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.13. Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">85</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.14. Acknowledgments</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.15. Limitation on Agreements</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.16. Removal of Bank</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">87</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.17. Confidentiality</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">87</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.18. Officer&#146;s Certificates</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">88</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:3.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.19. USA Patriot Act</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">88</TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">89</TD>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This TERM LOAN AGREEMENT, dated as of June&nbsp;24, 2024 (this
&#147;<U>Agreement</U>&#148;), among CENTERPOINT ENERGY HOUSTON ELECTRIC, LLC, a Texas limited liability company (the &#147;<U>Borrower</U>&#148;), the banks and other financial institutions from time to time parties hereto (individually, a
&#147;<U>Bank</U>&#148; and, collectively, the &#147;<U>Banks</U>&#148;), and MIZUHO BANK, LTD., as administrative agent (in such capacity, together with any successors thereto in such capacity, the &#147;<U>Administrative Agent</U>&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The parties hereto hereby agree as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE I </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">DEFINITIONS AND
ACCOUNTING TERMS </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.1. <U>Certain Defined Terms</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>ABR Loan</U>&#148; means any Loan that bears interest at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>ABR Term SOFR Determination Day</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in the definition of &#147;Term SOFR&#148;.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Administrative Agent</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in the introduction to this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Affected Financial Institution</U>&#148; means (a)&nbsp;any EEA Financial Institution or (b)&nbsp;any UK Financial
Institution<B><I>.</I></B><B><I> </I></B> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Affiliate</U>&#148; means any Person that, directly or indirectly,
Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with another Person. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Agent Indemnitee</U>&#148; has the
meaning specified in Section&nbsp;9.7. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Agreement</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in the introduction to this
Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Alternate Base Rate</U>&#148; means, at any time, the highest of (a)&nbsp;the Prime Rate, (b)&nbsp;the
Federal Funds Effective Rate plus 0.50% and (c)&nbsp;Term SOFR for a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">one-month</FONT> tenor in effect on such day plus 1.00%; each change in the Alternate Base Rate shall take effect simultaneously with the
corresponding change or changes in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Term SOFR. If the Alternate Base Rate as determined pursuant to the foregoing would be less than 1.00%, such rate shall be deemed to be 1.00%. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Anti-Corruption Laws</U>&#148; means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption, including, without limitation, the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Applicable Rate</U>&#148; means, for any day, with respect to any
SOFR Loan, 1.0%, or for any ABR Loan, 0.00%. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Applicable Storm</U>&#148; means any hurricane, tropical storm, ice
or snow storm, flood or other weather-related event or natural disaster subject to the Texas Recovery Law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Assignment and Acceptance</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.6(c). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Available Tenor</U>&#148; means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, as
applicable, (x)&nbsp;if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an Interest Period pursuant to this Agreement or (y)&nbsp;otherwise, any payment period
for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark pursuant to this Agreement, in each case,
as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of &#147;Interest Period&#148; pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.9(d). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Action</U>&#148; means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion
Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation</U>&#148; means, (a)&nbsp;with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the
implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation Schedule and (b)&nbsp;with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I
of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or
their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Bank</U>&#148;
and &#147;<U>Banks</U>&#148; have the meanings specified in the introduction to this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Bank
Affiliate</U>&#148; means, (a)&nbsp;with respect to any Bank, (i)&nbsp;an Affiliate of such Bank that is a bank or (ii)&nbsp;any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or
otherwise investing in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business and is administered or managed by a Bank or an Affiliate of such Bank and (b)&nbsp;with respect to any Bank that is a fund which invests in
bank loans and similar extensions of credit, any other fund that invests in bank loans and similar extensions of credit and is managed by such Bank, an Affiliate of such Bank or the same investment advisor as such Bank or by an Affiliate of such
investment advisor. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Bankruptcy Event</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Person, such
Person becomes the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, or has had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with the reorganization or liquidation of its
business appointed for it, or, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, has taken any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any such proceeding or appointment; <U>provided</U>
that a Bankruptcy Event shall not result solely by virtue of any ownership interest, or the acquisition of any ownership interest, in such Person by a Governmental Authority or instrumentality thereof, so long as such ownership interest does not
result in or provide such Person with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Person (or such Governmental Authority or
instrumentality) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made by such Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Benchmark</U>&#148; means, initially, the Term SOFR Reference Rate; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has
occurred with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate or the then-current Benchmark, then &#147;Benchmark&#148; means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant
to Section&nbsp;3.9(a). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Benchmark Replacement</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event,
the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent for the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date: (a)&nbsp;the sum of (i)&nbsp;Daily Simple SOFR and (ii) 0.10% (10 basis points); or (b)&nbsp;the sum
of (i)&nbsp;the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (A)&nbsp;any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a
rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (B)&nbsp;any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement to the then-current Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time and
(ii)&nbsp;the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that, if such Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than the Floor, such Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Benchmark Replacement Adjustment</U>&#148; means, with respect to any replacement of the
then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (a)&nbsp;any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted
Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b)&nbsp;any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such
Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time. </P>
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the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">in the case of clause (a)&nbsp;or (b) of the definition of &#147;Benchmark Transition Event,&#148; the later of
(i)&nbsp;the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii)&nbsp;the date on which the administrator of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely
ceases to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">in the case of clause (c)&nbsp;of the definition of &#147;Benchmark Transition Event,&#148; the first date on
which such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-representative;</FONT> provided that such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-representativeness</FONT> will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in such clause
(c)&nbsp;and even if any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For the avoidance of doubt, the &#147;Benchmark Replacement Date&#148; will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause
(a)&nbsp;or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Benchmark Transition Event</U>&#148; means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to
the then-current Benchmark: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Benchmark (or the
published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time
of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such
Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Federal Reserve Board, the NYFRB, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with
jurisdiction over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of
such Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor
administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof); or </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left">a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such
Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For the avoidance of doubt, a &#147;Benchmark Transition Event&#148; will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any
Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Benchmark Unavailability Period</U>&#148; means the period (if any)&nbsp;(a) beginning at the time that a Benchmark
Replacement Date has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section&nbsp;3.9 and (b)&nbsp;ending at the time that a
Benchmark Replacement has replaced the then-current Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section&nbsp;3.9. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Beneficial Ownership Certification</U>&#148; means a certification regarding beneficial ownership or control as
required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Beneficial Ownership Regulation</U>&#148; means 31 C.F.R. &#167;
1010.230. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Benefit Plan</U>&#148; means any of (a)&nbsp;an &#147;employee benefit plan&#148; (as defined in
Section&nbsp;3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b)&nbsp;a &#147;plan&#148; as defined in Section&nbsp;4975 of the Code to which Section&nbsp;4975 of the Code applies, and (c)&nbsp;any Person whose assets include (for purposes of
the Plan Asset Regulations or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section&nbsp;4975 of the Code) the assets of any such &#147;employee benefit plan&#148; or &#147;plan&#148;. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Board</U>&#148; means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States (or any successor
thereto). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Borrowed Money</U>&#148; of any Person means any Indebtedness of such Person for or in respect of money
borrowed or raised by whatever means (including acceptances, deposits, lease obligations under Capital Leases, Mandatory Payment Preferred Stock and synthetic leases); <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that Borrowed Money shall not include
(a)&nbsp;any guarantees that may be incurred by endorsement of negotiable instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or similar transactions, (b)&nbsp;any obligations or guarantees of performance of obligations under a
franchise, performance bonds, franchise bonds, obligations to reimburse drawings under letters of credit issued in accordance with the terms of any safe harbor lease or franchise or in lieu of performance or franchise bonds or other obligations that
do not represent money borrowed or raised, in each case to the extent that such reimbursement obligations are payable in full within ten (10)&nbsp;Business Days after the date upon which such obligation arises, (c)&nbsp;trade payables, (d)&nbsp;any
obligations of such Person under Swap Agreements, (e)&nbsp;customer advance payments and deposits arising in the ordinary course of business and (f)&nbsp;operating leases. </P>
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this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Borrowing</U>&#148; means a borrowing consisting of Loans of the same Type, and having, in the
case of a SOFR Borrowing, the same Interest Period, made on the same day by the Banks. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Borrowing Date</U>&#148;
means any Business Day specified by the Borrower as a date on which the Borrower requests the Banks to make Loans hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Business Day</U>&#148; means a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York
City or Houston, Texas are authorized or required by law to close; <U>provided</U> that, in relation to Loans referencing Term SOFR and any interest rate settings, fundings, disbursements, settlements or payments of any such Loans referencing Term
SOFR, &#147;Business Day&#148; shall mean any such day that is only a U.S. Government Securities Business Day. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Capital Lease</U>&#148; means a lease that, in accordance with GAAP, would be recorded as a capital lease on the
balance sheet of the lessee. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Capital Stock</U>&#148; means any and all shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, and any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person other than a corporation, including partnership interests in partnerships and member interests in limited liability
companies, and any and all warrants or options to purchase any of the foregoing (other than any debt security which by its terms is convertible at the option of the holder into Capital Stock, to the extent such holder has not so converted such debt
security). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>CEHE General Mortgage Indenture</U>&#148; means the General Mortgage Indenture, dated as of
October&nbsp;10, 2002, between the Borrower and The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.), as trustee, as amended, amended and restated, modified or supplemented from time to time. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>CEHE Original Mortgage</U>&#148; means the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of November&nbsp;1, 1944, by the
Borrower to The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. (as successor to South Texas Commercial National Bank of Houston), as trustee, as amended, amended and restated, modified or supplemented from time to time. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>CenterPoint</U>&#148; means CenterPoint Energy, Inc., a Texas corporation, and the indirect parent of the Borrower.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Change in Control</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;with respect to CenterPoint, the acquisition by any Person or
&#147;group&#148; (within the meaning of Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13d-5</FONT> of the Exchange Act) of beneficial ownership (determined in accordance with Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13d-3</FONT> of the Exchange Act) of
Capital Stock of CenterPoint, the result of which is that such Person or group beneficially owns 50% or more of the aggregate voting power of all then issued and outstanding Capital </P>
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Stock of CenterPoint (other than such Capital Stock having voting power only by reason of the happening of a contingency which contingency has not yet occurred) or (ii)&nbsp;CenterPoint shall
cease to own and control beneficially, directly or indirectly, 100% of the outstanding common Capital Stock of the Borrower free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens). For purposes of the foregoing, the phrase &#147;voting power&#148;
means, with respect to an issuer, the power under ordinary circumstances to vote for the election of members of the board of directors or other governing body of such issuer. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Closing Date</U>&#148; means the date on which the conditions set forth in Section&nbsp;5.1 are first satisfied (or
waived) in accordance with the terms hereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Code</U>&#148; means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
from time to time, and any successor statute. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commitment</U>&#148; means, as to any Bank, the obligation of such
Bank, if any, to make the Loans in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading &#147;Commitment&#148; opposite such Bank&#146;s name on Schedule 1.1 and/or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which
such Bank became a party hereto, in each case, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof, including Section&nbsp;2.3 and Section&nbsp;4.5, or pursuant to an assignment by such Bank in accordance with
Section&nbsp;10.6. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commitment Increase</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;2.3(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commitment Increase Agreement</U>&#148; means a Commitment Increase Agreement in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, which is entered into by and among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and one or more New Banks and/or Increasing Banks in order to provide for a Commitment Increase. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commitment Termination Date</U>&#148; means the earliest to occur of (a)&nbsp;the Outside Date and (b)&nbsp;the
Termination Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Commonly Controlled Entity</U>&#148; means an entity, whether or not incorporated, that is
under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section&nbsp;4001 of ERISA or is part of a group that includes the Borrower and that is treated as a single employer under Section&nbsp;414 of the Code. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Communications</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.2(b). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Conforming Changes</U>&#148; means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use,
administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of &#147;Alternate Base Rate,&#148; the definition of &#147;Business Day,&#148; the
definition of &#147;U.S. Government Securities Business Day,&#148; the definition of &#147;Interest Period&#148; or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of &#147;interest period&#148;), timing and frequency of
determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length </P>
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of lookback periods, the applicability of Section&nbsp;3.3(e) and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides may be reasonably appropriate to
reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of
any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent
decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Connection Income Taxes</U>&#148; means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however
denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Consolidated Capitalization</U>&#148; means, as
of any date of determination, the sum of (a)&nbsp;Consolidated Shareholders&#146; Equity, (b)&nbsp;Consolidated Indebtedness for Borrowed Money and, without duplication, (c)&nbsp;Mandatory Payment Preferred Stock; <U>provided</U> that, for the
purpose of calculating compliance with Section&nbsp;7.2(a), (i) Consolidated Capitalization shall be determined excluding any <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-cash</FONT> reduction, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-cash</FONT> charge to net
income or other <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-cash</FONT> charges or write-offs in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (&#147;<U>ASC</U>&#148;) 350 &#147;Intangibles &#150;Goodwill and Other,&#148; ASC 360 &#147;Property, Plant,
and Equipment,&#148; ASC 323 &#147;Investments &#150; Equity Method and Joint Ventures&#148; and other similar provisions of GAAP, and (ii)&nbsp;Consolidated Capitalization shall be (A)&nbsp;reduced by the net impact on Consolidated
Shareholders&#146; Equity resulting from the recording of the outcome of any <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">True-Up</FONT> Litigation, and (B)&nbsp;increased by the amount of any distribution or other return of capital made by the Borrower on or
with respect to any of its Capital Stock to the extent the source of the funds used to make such payments is attributable to Securitization Securities sold to permit the Borrower to recover amounts determined in any
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">True-Up</FONT> Litigation. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Consolidated Indebtedness</U>&#148; means, as of any
date of determination, the sum of: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) the total Indebtedness for Borrowed Money of the Borrower and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries as shown on the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, determined without duplication of any Guarantee of Indebtedness of the Borrower by any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries or of any Guarantee of
Indebtedness of any such Consolidated Subsidiary by the Borrower or any other Consolidated Subsidiary of the Borrower, <U>plus</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) any Mandatory Payment Preferred Stock, <U>less</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) the amount of Indebtedness described in clause (i)&nbsp;attributable to amounts then outstanding under receivables
facilities or arrangements to the extent that such amounts would not have been shown as Indebtedness on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP prior to January&nbsp;1, 1997, <U>less</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Recourse</FONT> Debt. </P>
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means, as of any date of determination, the total assets of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, less all liabilities of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries. As used in this definition, &#147;liabilities&#148; means all
obligations that, in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, would be classified on a balance sheet as liabilities (including without limitation (to the extent so classified), (a) Indebtedness; (b)&nbsp;deferred liabilities; and
(c)&nbsp;Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries that is expressly subordinated in right and priority of payment to other liabilities of the Borrower or such Consolidated Subsidiary, but in any case excluding as at such
date of determination any Junior Subordinated Debt owned by any issuer of Hybrid Equity Securities). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Consolidated
Subsidiary</U>&#148; means, with respect to a specified Person at any date, any Subsidiary or any other Person (other than, with respect to the Borrower, any Securitization Subsidiary or any Unrestricted Subsidiary), the accounts of which under GAAP
would be consolidated with those of such specified Person in its consolidated financial statements as of such date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Contractual Obligation</U>&#148; means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of
any written agreement, instrument or other written undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Controlled</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Person, the ability of another Person (whether directly or indirectly
and whether by the ownership of voting securities, contract or otherwise) to appoint and/or remove the majority of the members of the board of directors or other governing body of that Person (and &#147;Control&#148; shall be similarly construed).
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Credit Party</U>&#148; means the Administrative Agent or any Bank. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Daily Simple SOFR</U>&#148; means, for any day (a &#147;<U>SOFR Rate Day</U>&#148;), a rate per annum equal to the
greater of (a)&nbsp;SOFR for the day (such day, a &#147;<U>SOFR Determination Day</U>&#148;) that is five U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to (i)&nbsp;if such SOFR Rate Day is a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, such SOFR Rate
Day or (ii)&nbsp;if such SOFR Rate Day is not a U.S. Government Securities Business Day, the U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately preceding such SOFR Rate Day, in each case, as such SOFR is published by the SOFR Administrator on the
SOFR Administrator&#146;s Website, and (b)&nbsp;the Floor. If by 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the second (2nd) U.S. Government Securities Business Day immediately following any SOFR Determination Day, SOFR in respect of such SOFR Determination
Day has not been published on the SOFR Administrator&#146;s Website and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Daily Simple SOFR has not occurred, then SOFR for such SOFR Determination Day will be SOFR as published in respect of the first
preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such SOFR was published on the SOFR Administrator&#146;s Website; provided that any SOFR determined pursuant to this sentence shall be utilized for purposes of calculation of Daily Simple
SOFR for no more than three (3) consecutive SOFR Rate Days. Any change in Daily Simple SOFR due to a change in SOFR shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in SOFR without notice to the Borrower. </P>
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of time or the giving of notice or both, would constitute an Event of Default. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Default Rate</U>&#148; means, with
respect to any overdue amount owed hereunder, a rate per annum equal to (a)&nbsp;in the case of overdue principal with respect to any Loan, the sum of the interest rate in effect at such time with respect to such Loan under Section&nbsp;3.3, plus
2%; <U>provided</U> that in the case of overdue principal with respect to any SOFR Loan, after the end of the Interest Period with respect to such Loan, the Default Rate shall equal the rate set forth in clause (b)&nbsp;below, and (b)&nbsp;in the
case of overdue interest with respect to any Loan or other amounts payable hereunder, the sum of the interest rate per annum in effect at such time with respect to ABR Loans, plus 2%. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Defaulting Bank</U>&#148; means any Bank that (a)&nbsp;has failed, within two Business Days of the date required to be
funded or paid, to (i)&nbsp;fund any portion of its Loans or (ii)&nbsp;pay over to any Credit Party any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder, unless, in the case of clause (i)&nbsp;above, such Bank notifies the Administrative Agent in
writing that such failure is the result of such Bank&#146;s good faith determination that a condition precedent to funding (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) has not been satisfied, (b)&nbsp;has notified the
Borrower or any Credit Party in writing, or has made a public statement to the effect, that it does not intend or expect to comply with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement (unless such writing or public statement indicates that such
position is based on such Bank&#146;s good faith determination that a condition precedent (specifically identified and including the particular default, if any) to funding a Loan under this Agreement cannot be satisfied) or generally under other
agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c)&nbsp;has failed, within three Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, acting in good faith, to provide a certification in writing from an authorized officer of
such Bank that it will comply with its obligations to fund prospective Loans under this Agreement, provided that such Bank shall cease to be a Defaulting Bank pursuant to this clause (c)&nbsp;upon the Administrative Agent&#146;s or the
Borrower&#146;s receipt of such certification in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to it and the Administrative Agent, (d)&nbsp;has become the subject of a Bankruptcy Event, or (e)&nbsp;has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that
has, become the subject of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Action. Any determination by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower that a Bank is a Defaulting Bank under any one or more of clauses (a)&nbsp;or (b) above shall be
conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Bank shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Bank upon delivery of written notice by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower of such determination to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, as
applicable, and each Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Designated Rating</U>&#148; means (a)&nbsp;in the case of S&amp;P, the Borrower&#146;s
senior unsecured long-term debt rating or its equivalent (or if such rating is discontinued or unavailable, the Borrower&#146;s corporate credit rating) issued by S&amp;P and (b)&nbsp;in the case of Moody&#146;s, the Borrower&#146;s senior unsecured
long-term debt rating or its equivalent (or if such rating is discontinued or unavailable, the Borrower&#146;s long-term issuer rating) issued by Moody&#146;s. </P>
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lawful currency of the United States. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Early Funding ABR Loan</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in
Section&nbsp;2.2(a). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>EEA Financial Institution</U>&#148; means (a)&nbsp;any credit institution or investment firm
established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b)&nbsp;any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a)&nbsp;of this definition,
or (c)&nbsp;any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a)&nbsp;or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>EEA Member Country</U>&#148; means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>EEA Resolution Authority</U>&#148; means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public
administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Effective Applicable Storm</U>&#148; means any Applicable Storm as to which a Storm Certificate has been received by
the Administrative Agent and as to which an Other Covenant Trigger Date has not occurred. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Electronic
Signature</U>&#148; means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to, or associated with, a contract or other record and adopted by a Person with the intent to sign, authenticate or accept such contract or record. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Eligible Assignee</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;a Bank; (ii)&nbsp;an Affiliate of a Bank; and (iii)&nbsp;any other
financial institution that is a &#147;qualified purchaser&#148; as defined under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and is approved by the Administrative Agent and, unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time
any assignment is effected in accordance with Section&nbsp;10.6, the Borrower, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>ERISA</U>&#148; means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Erroneous Payment</U>&#148; has the meaning assigned to it in Section&nbsp;9.12(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>EU <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation Schedule</U>&#148; means the EU <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;8.1. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Exchange Act</U>&#148; means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Excluded Taxes</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;4.3(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>FATCA</U>&#148; means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or
successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section&nbsp;1471(b)(1) of the Code,
any intergovernmental agreement between the United States and another country implementing or modifying the provisions of the foregoing and any law, regulation, rule, promulgation, or official agreement implementing such an official government
agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Federal Funds Effective Rate</U>&#148; means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System, as published by the NYFRB on the Business Day next succeeding such day, provided that if such rate is not so published for any day which is a
Business Day, the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day shall be the average of the quotation for such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the
Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Federal Funds Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Fee Letter</U>&#148; means that certain Fee Letter, dated as of the date hereof, between the Borrower and Mizuho Bank,
Ltd., as Administrative Agent and Lead Arranger. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Floor</U>&#148; means a rate of interest equal to zero percent.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Funding Office</U>&#148; means the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section&nbsp;10.2(a) or such
other office as may be specified from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower and the Banks. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>GAAP</U>&#148; means, subject to Section&nbsp;1.4, generally accepted accounting principles in effect from time to
time in the United States of America. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Governmental Authority</U>&#148; means any nation or government, any state
or other political subdivision thereof, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to
government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Guarantee</U>&#148; means, as to any Person (the &#147;<U>guaranteeing person</U>&#148;), any obligation of
(a)&nbsp;the guaranteeing Person or (b)&nbsp;another Person (including any bank under any letter of credit) with respect to which the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing
or in effect guaranteeing any principal of any Indebtedness for Borrowed Money (the &#147;<U>primary obligation</U>&#148;) of any other third Person in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, </P>
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including any obligation of the guaranteeing Person, whether or not contingent, (i)&nbsp;to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor,
(ii)&nbsp;to advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (iii)&nbsp;otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof. The amount of any Guarantee
of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a)&nbsp;an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee is made and (b)&nbsp;the maximum amount for which such
guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case
the amount of such Guarantee shall be such guaranteeing person&#146;s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith (and &#147;guaranteed&#148; and &#147;guarantor&#148; shall be construed
accordingly). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Highest Lawful Rate</U>&#148; means, with respect to each Bank, the maximum nonusurious interest
rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received with respect to any Loan or on other amounts, if any, due to such Bank pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document under
applicable law. &#147;Applicable law&#148; as used in this definition means, with respect to each Bank, that law in effect from time to time that permits the charging and collection by such Bank of the highest permissible lawful, nonusurious rate of
interest on the transactions herein contemplated including the laws of each State that may be held to be applicable, and of the United States, if applicable. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Hybrid Equity Securities</U>&#148; means, on any date (the &#147;determination date&#148;), any securities issued by
the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, other than common stock, that meet the following criteria: (a)&nbsp;the Borrower demonstrates that such securities are classified, at the time they are issued, as possessing a minimum of &#147;intermediate
equity content&#148; by S&amp;P and &#147;Basket C equity credit&#148; by Moody&#146;s (or the equivalent classifications then in effect by such agencies) and (b)&nbsp;such securities require no repayments or prepayments and no mandatory redemptions
or repurchases, in each case, prior to at least 91 days after the later of the termination or expiration of the Commitments and the repayment in full of the obligations hereunder. As used in this definition, &#147;mandatory redemption&#148; shall
not include conversion of a security into common stock. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Increase Date</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in
Section&nbsp;2.3(a). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Increasing Bank</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;2.3(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Indebtedness</U>&#148; of any Person means the sum, without duplication, of (a)&nbsp;all items (other than Capital
Stock, capital surplus, retained earnings, other comprehensive income, treasury stock and any other items that would properly be included in shareholder equity) that, in accordance with GAAP consistently applied, would be included in determining
total liabilities as shown on the liability side of a balance sheet of such Person as at the date on which the Indebtedness is to be determined, (b)&nbsp;all obligations of such Person, </P>
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contingent or otherwise, as account party or applicant (or equivalent status) in respect of any standby letters of credit or equivalent instruments, and (c)&nbsp;without duplication, the amount
of Guarantees by such Person of items described in clauses (a)&nbsp;and (b); <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that Indebtedness of a Person shall not include (i)&nbsp;any Junior Subordinated Debt owned by any issuer of Hybrid Equity Securities,
(ii)&nbsp;any Guarantee by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries of payments with respect to any Hybrid Equity Securities, (iii)&nbsp;any Hybrid Equity Securities, or (iv)&nbsp;any Securitization Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Indemnified Taxes</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;4.3(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Insolvency</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is insolvent within
the meaning of Section&nbsp;4245 of ERISA (and &#147;Insolvent&#148; shall be construed accordingly for such purposes). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Interest Period</U>&#148; means, as to any Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Loan or Borrowing and
ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month that is one, three or six months thereafter (or such other period as is available to all of the Banks), as specified in the applicable Borrowing Request or Notice of Interest
Conversion/Continuation; provided that (i)&nbsp;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 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, (ii)&nbsp;any Interest Period 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, (iii)&nbsp;no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date and (iv)&nbsp;no tenor
that has been removed from this definition pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.9(d) shall be available for specification in such Borrowing Request or Notice of Interest Conversion/Continuation. For purposes hereof, the date of a Loan or Borrowing initially
shall be the date on which such Loan or Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such Loan or Borrowing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Investment</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;7.2(g). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>IRS</U>&#148; means the United States Internal Revenue Service. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Junior Subordinated Debt</U>&#148; means subordinated debt of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower
(i)&nbsp;that is issued to an issuer of Hybrid Equity Securities in connection with the issuance of such Hybrid Equity Securities, (ii)&nbsp;the payment of the principal of which and interest on which is subordinated (with certain exceptions) to the
prior payment in full in cash or its equivalent of all senior indebtedness of the obligor thereunder and (iii)&nbsp;that has an original tenor no earlier than 30 years from the issuance thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Lead Arranger</U>&#148; means Mizuho Bank, Ltd., in its capacity as the lead left arranger and sole bookrunner. </P>
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hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, charge, security interest, encumbrance or lien of any kind whatsoever (including any Capital Lease). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Loan</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;2.1(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Loan Documents</U>&#148; means this Agreement, the Notes and the Fee Letters. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Loan Increase Agreement</U>&#148; means a Loan Increase Agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower, which is entered into by and among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and one or more New Banks and/or Increasing Banks in order to provide for a Loan Increase. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Loan Percentage</U>&#148; means, as to any Bank at any time, a fraction (expressed as a percentage) the numerator of
which is the amount of the sum of such Bank&#146;s Commitment and the Outstanding Extensions of Credit of such Bank, in each case, then outstanding, and the denominator of which is the sum of the Total Commitments and the Total Outstanding
Extensions of Credit, in each case, then in effect; provided that in the case of Section&nbsp;2.4 when a Defaulting Bank shall exist, &#147;Loan Percentage&#148; shall mean the percentage of the sum of the Total Commitments and the Total Outstanding
Extensions of Credit, in each case, then in effect (disregarding any Defaulting Bank&#146;s Commitment or, if the Commitments shall have terminated, the Outstanding Extensions of Credit of such Defaulting Bank then outstanding) represented by the
sum of such Bank&#146;s Commitment and the Outstanding Extensions of Credit of such Bank, in each case, then in effect. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Majority Banks</U>&#148; means, at any time, subject to Section&nbsp;2.4, Banks having Commitments and Outstanding
Extensions of Credit with an aggregate value in excess of 50% of the sum of the Total Commitments and the Total Outstanding Extensions of Credit, in each case, then in effect; <U>provided</U> that the Commitments or Outstanding Extensions of Credit,
as applicable, of any Bank that is an Affiliate of the Borrower and of any Defaulting Bank shall, in each case, be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Majority Banks. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if there are two (2)&nbsp;or more
Banks, then &#147;Majority Banks&#148; shall in no event mean less than two (2)&nbsp;Banks. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Mandatory Payment
Preferred Stock</U>&#148; means any preference or preferred stock of the Borrower or of any Consolidated Subsidiary (other than (x)&nbsp;any preference or preferred stock issued to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, (y)&nbsp;Hybrid Equity Securities,
and (z)&nbsp;Junior Subordinated Debt) that is subject to mandatory redemption, sinking fund or retirement provisions (regardless of whether any portion thereof is due and payable within one year). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Margin Stock</U>&#148; has the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Material Adverse Effect</U>&#148; means any material adverse effect on the ability of the Borrower to perform its
obligations under the Loan Documents on a timely basis (it being understood that Material Adverse Effect shall not include the effect of any <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">True-Up</FONT> Litigation). </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Maturity Date</U>&#148; means the eighteenth (18<SUP
STYLE="font-size:75%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP>) month anniversary of the Closing Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Maximum Incremental
Amount</U>&#148; means, as of any date of determination, $200,000,000 <I>minus</I> the sum of the aggregate principal amount of (x)&nbsp;all Loan Increases and Loans funded in respect of Commitments incurred pursuant to any Commitment Increases and
(y)&nbsp;all outstanding Commitments incurred pursuant to any Commitment Increase, in each case, as of such date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Moody</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s</U>&#148; means Moody&#146;s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor rating agency. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Multiemployer Plan</U>&#148; means a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section&nbsp;4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Net Tangible Assets</U>&#148; means the total assets of the Borrower, its Consolidated Subsidiaries and the
Unrestricted Subsidiaries, <U>minus</U> goodwill and other intangible assets as shown on the balance sheet of the Borrower, its Consolidated Subsidiaries and the Unrestricted Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section&nbsp;7.1(a) in respect of the
most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>New Bank</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in
Section&nbsp;2.3(a). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Recourse</FONT> Debt</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;any
Indebtedness for Borrowed Money incurred by any Project Financing Subsidiary to finance the acquisition, improvement, installation, design, engineering, construction, development, completion, maintenance or operation of, or otherwise to pay costs
and expenses relating to or incurred in connection with providing financing for, any project, which Indebtedness for Borrowed Money does not provide for recourse against the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Project Financing
Subsidiary and such recourse as exists under a Performance Guaranty) or any property or asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than Capital Stock of, or the property or assets of, a Project Financing Subsidiary and such
recourse as exists under a Performance Guaranty) and (ii)&nbsp;any refinancing of such Indebtedness for Borrowed Money that does not increase the outstanding principal amount thereof (other than to pay costs incurred in connection therewith and the
capitalization of any interest, fees, premium or penalties) at the time of the refinancing or increase the property subject to any Lien securing such Indebtedness for Borrowed Money or otherwise add additional security or support for such
Indebtedness for Borrowed Money. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Note</U>&#148; means a promissory note of the Borrower in favor of a Bank
evidencing the Loans made by such Bank in substantially the form of Exhibit D. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Notice of Borrowing</U>&#148;
means a notice of borrowing, substantially in the form of Exhibit A. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Notice of Interest
Conversion/Continuation</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.6(c). </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Other Connection Taxes</U>&#148; means Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between Bank or the
Administrative Agent and the jurisdiction (or political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein) imposing such Tax (other than a connection arising solely from such recipient having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or
received a payment under, or enforced, this Agreement or any other Loan Document). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Other Covenant Trigger
Date</U>&#148; means, for any Applicable Storm as to which a Storm Certificate has been received by the Administrative Agent, the earliest to occur of (x)&nbsp;the issuance, in one or more transactions, of Securitization Securities in respect of all
Storm Restoration Cost Recoveries arising in connection with such Applicable Storm, (y)&nbsp;the first anniversary of the delivery of such Storm Certificate, and (z)&nbsp;the revocation by the Borrower of such Storm Certificate in accordance with
Section&nbsp;7.2(h). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Other Taxes</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;4.3(b). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Outside Date</U>&#148; means the six (6)&nbsp;month anniversary of the Closing Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Outstanding Extensions of Credit</U>&#148; means, as to any Bank at any time, an amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of all Loans made by such Bank then outstanding. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Parent</U>&#148; means, with respect to any
Bank, any Person as to which such Bank is, directly or indirectly, a subsidiary. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Participant</U>&#148; has the
meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.6(b). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Participant Register</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in
Section&nbsp;10.6(b). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Payment Recipient</U>&#148; has the meaning assigned to it in Section&nbsp;9.12(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>PBGC</U>&#148; means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle&nbsp;A of Title&nbsp;IV
of ERISA or any successor. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Performance Guaranty</U>&#148; means any guaranty issued in connection with any <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Recourse</FONT> Debt that (i)&nbsp;if secured, is secured only by assets of or Capital Stock of a Project Financing Subsidiary, and (ii)&nbsp;guarantees to the provider of such
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Recourse</FONT> Debt or any other Person (a)&nbsp;performance of the improvement, installment, design, engineering, construction, acquisition, development, completion, maintenance or operation of, or otherwise
affects any such act in respect of, all or any portion of the project that is financed by such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Recourse</FONT> Debt, (b)&nbsp;completion of the minimum agreed equity or other contributions or support to the
relevant Project Financing Subsidiary, or (c)&nbsp;performance by a Project Financing Subsidiary of obligations to Persons other than the provider of such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Recourse</FONT> Debt. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day</U>&#148; has the meaning
specified in the definition of &#147;Term SOFR&#148;. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Permitted Liens</U>&#148; means, with respect to any
Person: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges that are not delinquent or that remain payable
without any penalty, or the validity or amount of which is contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such Person in accordance with
GAAP, and <U>provided</U>, <U>further</U>, that any right to seizure, levy, attachment, sequestration, foreclosure or garnishment with respect to Property of such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person by reason of such Lien has not matured, or has
been, and continues to be, effectively enjoined or stayed; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) landlord Liens for rent not yet due and payable and Liens
for materialmen, mechanics, warehousemen, carriers, employees, workmen, repairmen and other similar nonconsensual Liens imposed by operation of law, for current wages or accounts payable or other sums not yet delinquent, in each case arising in the
ordinary course of business or, if overdue, that are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that any right to seizure, levy, attachment, sequestration, foreclosure or garnishment with respect to
Property of such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person by reason of such Lien has not matured, or has been, and continues to be, effectively enjoined or stayed; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Liens (other than any Lien imposed pursuant to Section&nbsp;401(a)(29) or 412(n) of the Code, ERISA or any environmental
law, order, rule or regulation) incurred or deposits made, in each case, in the ordinary course of business, (i)&nbsp;in connection with workers&#146; compensation, unemployment insurance and other types of social security or (ii)&nbsp;to secure (or
to obtain letters of credit that secure) the performance of tenders, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, performance or payment bonds, purchase, construction, sales contracts and other similar obligations, in each case not
incurred or made in connection with the borrowing of money, the obtaining of advances or the payment of the deferred purchase price of property; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) Liens (other than Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges) arising out of or in connection with any
litigation or other legal proceeding that is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such Person in accordance with GAAP;
and <U>provided</U>, <U>further</U>, that, subject to Section&nbsp;8.1(i) (so long as such Lien is discharged or released within 60 days of attachment thereof), any right to seizure, levy, attachment, sequestration, foreclosure or garnishment with
respect to Property of such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person by reason of such Lien has not matured, or has been, and continues to be, effectively enjoined or stayed; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) precautionary filings under the applicable Uniform Commercial Code made by a lessor with respect to personal property
leased to such Person or any Subsidiary of such Person; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) other <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-material</FONT> Liens or
encumbrances none of which secures Indebtedness for Borrowed Money of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or interferes materially with the use of the Property affected in the ordinary conduct of Borrower&#146;s or its Subsidiaries&#146;
business and which, individually or in the aggregate, do not have a Material Adverse Effect; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) easements, <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">rights-of-way,</FONT></FONT> restrictions and other similar encumbrances and exceptions to title existing or incurred in the ordinary course of business that, in the aggregate, do not in
any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) (i)&nbsp;Liens created by Capital Leases, <U>provided</U> that the Liens created by any such Capital Lease attach only to
the Property leased to the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries pursuant thereto, (ii)&nbsp;purchase money Liens securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (including such Liens securing such Indebtedness incurred within
twelve&nbsp;months of the date on which such Property was acquired), <U>provided</U> that all such Liens attach only to the Property purchased with the proceeds of the Indebtedness secured thereby and only secure the Indebtedness incurred to finance
such purchase, (iii)&nbsp;Liens on receivables, customer charges, notes, ownership interests, contracts or contract rights created in connection with a sale, securitization or monetization of such receivables, customer charges, notes, ownership
interests, contracts or contract rights, and Liens on rights of the Borrower or any Subsidiary related to such receivables, customer charges, notes, ownership interests, contracts or contract rights which are transferred to the purchaser of such
receivables, customer charges, notes, ownership interests, contracts or contract rights in connection with such sale, securitization or monetization, <U>provided</U> that such Liens secure only the obligations of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries in connection with such sale, securitization or monetization and (iv)&nbsp;Liens created by leases that do not constitute Capital Leases at the time such leases are entered into, <U>provided</U> that the Liens created thereby attach
only to the Property leased to the Borrower or one of its Subsidiaries pursuant thereto; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) Liens on cash and short-term
investments (i)&nbsp;deposited by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in accounts with or on behalf of futures contract brokers or other counterparties or (ii)&nbsp;pledged by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in the case of
clause&nbsp;(i) or (ii)&nbsp;to secure its obligations with respect to contracts (including physical delivery, option (whether cash or financial), exchange, swap and futures contracts) for the purchase or sale of any energy-related commodity or
interest rate or currency rate management contracts; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j) Liens on (i)&nbsp;Property owned by a Project Financing
Subsidiary or (ii)&nbsp;equity interests in a Project Financing Subsidiary (including in each case a pledge of partnership interests, common stock or membership interests in a limited liability company) securing Indebtedness of the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries incurred in connection with a Project Financing; and </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k) Liens on equity interests in an Unrestricted Subsidiary (including in
each case a pledge of partnership interests, common stock or membership interests in a limited liability company) securing, subject to Section&nbsp;7.2(g), Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Person</U>&#148; means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a business trust), limited liability
company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, government (or any political subdivision or agency thereof) or any other entity of whatever nature. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Plan</U>&#148; means, at a particular time with respect to the Borrower, any employee benefit plan that is covered by
ERISA and in respect of which Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or, if such plan were terminated at such time, would under Section&nbsp;4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an &#147;employer&#148; as defined in Section&nbsp;3(5) of ERISA. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Plan Asset Regulations</U>&#148; means the regulations promulgated by the United States Department of Labor at 29
C.F.R. <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Section&nbsp;2510.3-101</FONT> <I>et seq.</I>, as modified by Section&nbsp;3(42) of ERISA, as amended from time to time. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Platform</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.2(b). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Prime Rate</U>&#148; means, at any time, the rate of interest per annum publicly announced by the Administrative Agent
from time to time as its prime rate. Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective as of the opening of business on the day such change in such prime rate occurs. The rate announced publicly by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate is an
index or base rate and shall not necessarily be its lowest or best rate charged to its customers or other banks. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Project Financing</U>&#148; means any Indebtedness or lease obligations that do not constitute Capital Leases at the
time such leases are entered into, in each case that are incurred to finance a project or group of projects (including any construction financing) to the extent that such Indebtedness (or other obligations) expressly are not recourse to the Borrower
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Project Financing Subsidiary) or any of their respective Property other than the Property of a Project Financing Subsidiary and equity interests in a Project Financing Subsidiary (including in each
case a pledge of partnership interests, common stock or membership interests in a limited liability company). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Project Financing Subsidiary</U>&#148; means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (or any other Person in which
Borrower directly or indirectly owns a 50% or less interest) whose principal purpose is to incur Project Financing or to become an owner of interests in a Person so created to conduct the business activities for which such Project Financing was
incurred, and substantially all the fixed assets of which Subsidiary or Person are those fixed assets being financed (or to be financed) in whole or in part by one or more Project Financings. </P>
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property or asset, whether real, personal or mixed, owned or leased, tangible or intangible and whether now held or hereafter acquired. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>PTE</U>&#148; means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such
exemption may be amended from time to time. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Public Lender</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in
Section&nbsp;10.2(b). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>PUC</U>&#148; means the Public Utility Commission of Texas. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Purchasing Banks</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.6(c). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Rating Agencies</U>&#148; means (a)&nbsp;S&amp;P and (b)&nbsp;Moody&#146;s. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Register</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.6(d). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Regulation U</U>&#148; means Regulation&nbsp;U of the Board or any other regulation hereafter promulgated by the Board
to replace the prior Regulation&nbsp;U and having substantially the same function. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Relevant Governmental
Body</U>&#148;<B><I> </I></B>means the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the NYFRB, or any successor thereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Reportable Event</U>&#148; means any of the events set forth in Section&nbsp;4043(c) of ERISA and PBGC Reg.
&#167;&nbsp;4043, other than those events as to which the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">thirty-day</FONT> notice period is waived under PBGC Reg. &#167;&nbsp;4043 or other regulations, notices or rulings issued by the PBGC. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Requirement of Law</U>&#148; means, as to any Person, any law, statute, ordinance, decree, requirement, order,
judgment, rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Resolution Authority</U>&#148; means an EEA
Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Responsible
Officer</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Person, its chief financial officer, chief accounting officer, assistant treasurer, treasurer or controller of such Person or any other officer of such Person whose primary duties are similar to the
duties of any of the previously listed officers of such Person. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Restricted Subsidiaries</U>&#148; means all
Subsidiaries of the Borrower other than Unrestricted Subsidiaries. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>S&amp;P</U>&#148; means S&amp;P Global
Ratings, a division of S&amp;P Global Inc., or any successor to the rating agency business thereof. </P>
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or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (at the time of this Agreement, limited to Belarus, the Crimea, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Regions of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">so-called</FONT> Donetsk People&#146;s Republic and the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">so-called</FONT> Luhansk People&#146;s Republic and Russia). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Sanctioned Person</U>&#148; means, at any time, (a)&nbsp;any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated
Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of State, (b)&nbsp;any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c)&nbsp;any Person controlled or 50% or
more owned by any such Person or Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a)&nbsp;or (b). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Sanctions</U>&#148;
means economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by the U.S. government, including, without limitation, those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of
the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SEC</U>&#148; means the Securities and Exchange Commission and any
successor thereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Secured Indebtedness</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Person, all Indebtedness secured (or
for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured) by any Lien on any Property (including accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries, even though such Person
has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that Indebtedness of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or Project Financing Subsidiary shall not be deemed to be Secured Indebtedness of the Borrower or
any Significant Subsidiary solely as a result of being secured by Liens on Capital Stock of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Project Financing Subsidiary. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Securitization Securities</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;transition bonds issued pursuant to the Texas Electric Choice Plan
if (and only if) no recourse may be had to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (or to their respective assets) for the payment of such obligations, other than the issuer of the bonds and its assets, provided that payment of transition charges by
any retail electric provider (&#147;REP&#148;) in accordance with such legislation, whether or not such REP has collected such charges from the retail electric customers, shall not be deemed &#147;recourse&#148; hereunder, including any REP that is
a Subsidiary of the Borrower or a division of an Affiliate of the Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower, (ii)&nbsp;bonds or other debt securities issued to securitize the regulatory assets and related rights of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries arising in connection with the recovery of the costs of restoration, repair and related matters following any Effective Applicable Storm if (and only if) recourse for the payment of debt service of such bonds is limited to such
regulatory assets and related rights and (iii)&nbsp;bonds or other debt securities issued to securitize the intangible regulatory assets and related rights of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries arising pursuant to regulatory approval of a
special utility tariff or similar revenue stream to recover costs such as the costs of, or related to, removal, restoration, </P>
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repair or early retirement of facilities and other assets, excess fuel costs, other unforeseen or extraordinary costs as a result of a natural disaster or stranded asset costs, or costs
associated with the issuance and servicing of Securitization Securities, if (and only if) recourse for the payment of debt service of such bonds or other debt securities is limited to (A)&nbsp;such special utility tariff or similar revenue stream
(and in no event to the tangible underlying regulatory asset of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the issuer of the bonds and its assets)) or (B)&nbsp;rights under a financing order issued by a state regulatory body to the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries to bill, charge and collect dedicated charges to pay the debt service and other authorized costs of such bonds or other debt securities; it being understood that obligations of the &#147;sponsor&#148; or
&#147;servicer&#148; in the form of standard sponsor or servicer undertakings shall not constitute &#147;recourse&#148;, and in either case, no recourse of such bonds or other debt securities shall exist to the Borrower and any Subsidiary of the
Borrower other than to the Securitization Subsidiary that issued the Securitization Securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Securitization
Subsidiary</U>&#148; means a direct or indirect special purpose subsidiary of the Borrower created to issue Securitization Securities. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Significant Subsidiary</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;for the purposes of determining what constitutes an &#147;Event of
Default&#148; under Sections 8.1(f), (g), (h), (i) and (j), a Subsidiary of the Borrower (other than a Project Financing Subsidiary) whose total assets represent at least 10% of the total assets of the Borrower, on a consolidated basis and
(ii)&nbsp;for all other purposes the &#147;Significant Subsidiaries&#148; shall be those Subsidiaries of the Borrower whose total assets represent at least 10% of the total assets of the Borrower on a consolidated basis, in the case of each of
(i)&nbsp;and (ii), as determined in accordance with GAAP for the Borrower&#146;s most recently completed fiscal year and identified in the certificate most recently delivered pursuant to Section&nbsp;7.1(a)(vi); <U>provided</U> that no Unrestricted
Subsidiary or Securitization Subsidiary shall be deemed to be a Significant Subsidiary or subject to the restrictions, covenants or Events of Default under this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Single Employer Plan</U>&#148; means any Plan that is covered by Title IV of ERISA, but that is not a Multiemployer
Plan. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SOFR</U>&#148; means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the secured overnight
financing rate for such Business Day published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator&#146;s Website at approximately 8:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the immediately succeeding Business Day. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SOFR Administrator</U>&#148; means the NYFRB (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SOFR Administrator</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s Website</U>&#148; means the NYFRB&#146;s website, currently at
http://www.newyorkfed.org, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SOFR Borrowing</U>&#148; means, as to any Borrowing, the SOFR Loans
comprising such Borrowing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SOFR Determination Day</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in the definition of
&#147;Daily Simple SOFR&#148;. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SOFR Loan</U>&#148; means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on Term SOFR,
other than pursuant to clause (c)&nbsp;of the definition of &#147;Alternate Base Rate&#148;. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>SOFR Rate
Day</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in the definition of &#147;Daily Simple SOFR&#148;. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Storm
Certificate</U>&#148; means, as to any Applicable Storm, a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) such Responsible Officer reasonably believes that an Applicable Storm has occurred and providing the date of such
occurrence and reasonable detail of such Applicable Storm; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) such Responsible Officer reasonably believes that the
system restoration costs (as defined in the Texas Recovery Law) incurred by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with such Applicable Storm (before giving effect to any insurance, government grants and other recoveries that the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries may receive in connection with such Applicable Storm) are reasonably likely to exceed $100,000,000 in a consecutive twelve-month period; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) the Borrower (or a Subsidiary thereof) intends to seek to use securitization financing provided for in the Texas Recovery
Law to recover all or a part of such system restoration costs relating to such Applicable Storm; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) after giving effect
to the delivery of such Storm Certificate, the representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in Section&nbsp;6.1 of this Agreement and in the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such
certificate (except for (i)&nbsp;those representations or warranties or parts thereof that, by their terms, expressly relate solely to a specific date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of such specific date and (ii)&nbsp;the representations and warranties contained in Sections 6.1(j) and (k)&nbsp;which shall not be required to be made), as though made on and as of the date of such certificate; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) after giving effect to the delivery of such Storm Certificate, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Storm Certificate Effective Date</U>&#148; means, for any Storm Certificate, the date of the receipt
of such Storm Certificate by the Administrative Agent. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Storm Restoration Cost Recoveries</U>&#148; means the amount
expected or remaining to be collected from customers in respect of the costs and expenses incurred in the repair or replacement of the electric transmission and/or distribution system supporting operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries and related recovery arising from any Effective Applicable Storm, as the case may be. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Subsidiary</U>&#148; means, as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity of
which more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Capital Stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than Capital Stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency)
to elect directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, directly or indirectly, through one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, by such Person; provided, however, that no Securitization
Subsidiary shall be deemed to be a Subsidiary of the Borrower for any purpose under this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Swap
Agreement</U>&#148; means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments
or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions; <U>provided</U> that no phantom stock or similar plan providing
for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall be a &#147;Swap Agreement&#148;. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Taxes</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;4.3(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Term SOFR</U>&#148; means, </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) for any calculation with respect to a SOFR Loan, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable
Interest Period on the day (such day, the &#147;Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day&#148;) that is two (2)&nbsp;U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR
Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark
Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business
Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3)&nbsp;U.S. Government Securities Business Days
prior to such Periodic Term SOFR Determination Day, in each case, plus the Term SOFR Adjustment, and </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) for any calculation with respect to an ABR Loan on any day, the Term
SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of one month on the day (such day, the &#147;ABR Term SOFR Determination Day&#148;) that is two (2)&nbsp;U.S. Government Securities Business Days prior to such day, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR
Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any ABR Term SOFR Determination Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark
Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business
Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day is not more than three (3)&nbsp;U.S. Government Securities Business Days
prior to such ABR Term SOFR Determination Day, plus the Term SOFR Adjustment; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">provided, further, that if Term SOFR
determined as provided above (including pursuant to the proviso under clause (a)&nbsp;or clause (b)&nbsp;above) shall ever be less than the Floor, then Term SOFR shall be deemed to be the Floor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Term SOFR Adjustment</U>&#148; means a percentage equal to 0.10% (10 basis points) per annum. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Term SOFR Administrator</U>&#148; means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator
of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Term SOFR
Reference Rate</U>&#148; means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Termination Date</U>&#148; means the
Maturity Date or any earlier date on which all unpaid principal amounts of the Loans hereunder have been declared due and payable in accordance with this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Texas Recovery Law</U>&#148; means Section&nbsp;36.401 et seq. of the Texas Utilities Code, as amended from time to
time. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Ticking Fee</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.2(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Ticking Fee Rate</U>&#148; means, as of any date, a percentage equal to 0.175% (17.5 basis points) per annum. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Ticking Fee Trigger Date</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;3.2(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Total Commitments</U>&#148; means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Commitments of all Banks then in effect.
The amount of the Total Commitments as of the date hereof is $300,000,000. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Total Outstanding Extensions of
Credit</U>&#148; means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Outstanding Extensions of Credit of all Banks outstanding at such time. </P>
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Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been made on the same day). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Transfer Effective Date</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.6(c). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Transferee</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;10.17. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Triggering Event</U>&#148; has the meaning specified in Section&nbsp;4.8(b). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">True-Up</FONT> Litigation</U>&#148; means any litigation or other proceeding in
connection with the determination by the PUC of the recovery by CenterPoint and its Subsidiaries of stranded costs and other amounts to be recovered in the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">true-up</FONT> process. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Type</U>&#148; refers to the determination of whether a Loan is an ABR Loan or a SOFR Loan (or a Borrowing comprised
of such Loans). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>U.S. Government Securities Business Day</U>&#148; means any day except for (a)&nbsp;a Saturday,
(b)&nbsp;a Sunday or (c)&nbsp;a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government
securities. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>UK Financial Institution</U>&#148; means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA
Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person subject to IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct
Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>UK Resolution Authority</U>&#148; means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having
responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Unadjusted Benchmark
Replacement</U>&#148;<B><I> </I></B>means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>United States</U>&#148; means the United States of America. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Unrestricted Subsidiary</U>&#148; means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is designated by the Borrower as an
Unrestricted Subsidiary and its direct or indirect Subsidiaries. The Borrower may at any time designate any Subsidiary of the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if (x)&nbsp;the aggregate amount of net tangible assets of all Unrestricted
Subsidiaries at the time of designation does not exceed, or would not exceed as a result of such designation, 17% of the Net Tangible Assets, (y)&nbsp;such designation and the Investment of the Borrower in such Subsidiary complies with the
limitations in Section&nbsp;7.2(g) and (z)&nbsp;such Subsidiary: (i)&nbsp;has no Indebtedness with recourse to the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries except that permitted under Section&nbsp;7.2(g); (ii) is not party to any agreement,
contract, arrangement or understanding with the Borrower </P>
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or any Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower unless the terms of any such agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding and related transactions are substantially no less favorable to the
Borrower or such Significant Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not Affiliates of the Borrower; (iii)&nbsp;is a Person with respect to which neither the Borrower nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries has
any direct or indirect obligation that violates Section&nbsp;7.2(g) (A)&nbsp;to subscribe for additional Capital Stock of such Person or (B)&nbsp;to maintain or preserve such Person&#146;s financial condition or to cause such Person to achieve any
specified levels of operating results; and (iv)&nbsp;does not, either alone or in the aggregate, operate, directly or indirectly, all or substantially all of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be evidenced by a certificate of a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower providing for such designation and certifying that such designation complied with the preceding conditions and was permitted by Section&nbsp;7.2(g), which certificate shall be delivered to the Administrative
Agent. If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the preceding requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it shall thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Agreement and any Indebtedness of such
Subsidiary shall be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower as of such date and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be incurred as of such date under Section&nbsp;7.2(g), the Borrower shall be in default of such
covenant. The Borrower may at any time designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary; <U>provided</U> that such designation shall be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness by such Subsidiary of any outstanding Indebtedness
of such Unrestricted Subsidiary and such designation shall only be permitted if (1)&nbsp;such Indebtedness is permitted under this Agreement calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation had occurred at the beginning of the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">four-quarter</FONT> reference period; and (2)&nbsp;no Default or Event of Default would be in existence following such designation. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Wholly-Owned</U>&#148;, when used in reference to any Subsidiary of any Person, means that all the outstanding Capital
Stock (other than directors&#146; qualifying shares required by law) of such Subsidiary is at the time owned by such Person or by one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person, or by such Person and one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of
such Person. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">&#147;<U>Write-Down and Conversion Powers</U>&#148; means, (a)&nbsp;with respect to any EEA Resolution
Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers
are described in the EU <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation Schedule, and (b)&nbsp;with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that
liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that
liability or any of the powers under that <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers. </P>
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Loans and Borrowings may be classified and referred to by Type (e.g., a &#147;SOFR Loan&#148; or an &#147;ABR Loan&#148; and a &#147;SOFR Borrowing&#148; or an &#147;ABR Borrowing&#148;). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.3. <U>Other Definitional Provisions</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have such defined meanings when used in the other Loan
Documents or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) As used herein and in the other Loan
Documents, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (i)&nbsp;the words &#147;include&#148;, &#147;includes&#148; and &#147;including&#148; shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase &#147;without
limitation&#148;, (ii) the word &#147;incur&#148; shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words &#147;incurred&#148; and &#147;incurrence&#148; shall have correlative
meanings), (iii) the words &#147;asset&#148; and &#147;property&#148; shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, Capital Stock, securities,
revenues, accounts, leasehold interests and contract rights, (iv)&nbsp;references to agreements or other Contractual Obligations shall, unless otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such agreements or Contractual Obligations as amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, and (v)&nbsp;references to any Person shall, unless otherwise specified, be construed to include such Person&#146;s successors and assigns. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The words &#147;hereof&#148;, &#147;herein&#148; and &#147;hereunder&#148; and words of similar import, when used in this Agreement, shall
refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.4. <U>Accounting Terms; GAAP</U>. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, all terms of an accounting or financial
nature in this Agreement shall be construed in accordance with GAAP; provided that if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision of this Agreement 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 Majority Banks request an amendment to any provision of this Agreement 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 with this Agreement. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, GAAP will be deemed for all purposes hereof to treat leases that
would have been classified as operating leases in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December&nbsp;31, 2014, in a manner consistent with the treatment of such leases under GAAP as in effect on December&nbsp;31, 2014, notwithstanding any
modifications or interpretive changes thereto or implementations of any such modifications or interpretive changes that may have occurred thereafter. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.5. <U>Disclaimer and Exculpation</U>. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or
accept any responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to, the administration or submission related to Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Daily Simple SOFR, or any Benchmark or with respect to any alternative, successor or
replacement rate thereof (including any Benchmark Replacement), or any calculation, component definition thereof or rate referenced in the definition thereof, including, without limitation, (a)&nbsp;any such alternative, successor or replacement
rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) implemented pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.9, and (b)&nbsp;the effect, implementation or composition of any Conforming Changes pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.3(e) or Section&nbsp;3.9(b), including without
limitation, whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement reference rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, Term SOFR
Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Daily Simple SOFR, or any Benchmark or have the same volume or liquidity as did Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Daily Simple SOFR, or any Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability. In addition, the
discontinuation of Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Daily Simple SOFR, or any Benchmark and any alternative, successor or replacement reference rate may result in a mismatch between the reference rate referenced in this Agreement and your other
financial instruments, including potentially those that are intended as hedges. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates and/or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR,
Daily Simple SOFR, or any Benchmark or any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) and/or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, with all determinations of such Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR,
Daily Simple SOFR, or any Benchmark or such alternative, successor or replacement rate by the Administrative Agent to be conclusive, absent manifest error. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable
discretion to ascertain Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Daily Simple SOFR, or any Benchmark or any such alternative, successor or replacement rate, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement (as amended, amended and restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time), and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Bank or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages,
costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 1.6. <U>Divisions</U>. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware
law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction&#146;s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been
transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b)&nbsp;if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its equity interests at
such time. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE LOANS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.1. <U>The </U><U>Commitments</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Each Bank severally agrees, on the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, to make loans (each such loan, a
&#147;<U>Loan</U>&#148;) to the Borrower on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Commitment Termination Date in an aggregate principal amount that will not result in (i)&nbsp;such Bank&#146;s Outstanding Extensions of
Credit exceeding such Bank&#146;s Commitment or (ii)&nbsp;the Total Outstanding Extensions of Credit exceeding the Total Commitments; <U>provided</U> that, for purposes of this Section&nbsp;2.1(a), any Commitments that were terminated as a result of
the funding of the Loans related thereto (including in respect of Commitment Increases and Loan Increases) shall be included in calculating Bank&#146;s Commitments and Total Commitments; <U>provided</U> further, that no Loan shall be made as a SOFR
Loan with an Interest Period ending after the Maturity Date. The portion of each Bank&#146;s Commitment that exists on the Closing Date shall automatically terminate upon the funding of the Loans to be made by it prior to the Commitment Termination
Date in respect of such Commitment; <U>provided</U> that all of each Bank&#146;s Commitments shall terminate on the Commitment Termination Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Each Borrowing shall be denominated in Dollars and shall consist of Loans of the same Type made on the same day by the Banks ratably
according to their respective Loan Percentages. Each Borrowing of SOFR Loans by the Borrower shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; <U>provided</U> that no more than ten SOFR
Tranches shall be outstanding at any time. Each Borrowing of ABR Loans by the Borrower shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. The Borrower may prepay Loans pursuant to
Section&nbsp;4.6. The principal amount outstanding on the Loans (including Loans effected pursuant to a Commitment Increase or a Loan Increase) and all other amounts accrued hereunder shall be due and payable by the Borrower on the Termination Date,
together with accrued and unpaid interest thereon. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.2. <U>Procedure for Loan Borrowing</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Borrower may, from time to time, borrow Loans on any Business Day, <U>provided</U> that the Borrower may borrow Loans (x)&nbsp;which
are funded in respect of Commitments existing on the Closing Date on no more than three (3)&nbsp;occasions and only during the period beginning on the Closing Date through and excluding the Commitment Termination Date, (y)&nbsp;which are funded in
respect of Commitments incurred pursuant to a Commitment Increase which becomes effective prior to the Commitment Termination Date on no more than one (1)&nbsp;occasion and only during the period beginning on the Closing Date through and excluding
the Commitment Termination Date and (z)&nbsp;which are funded in respect of Commitments incurred pursuant to a Commitment Increase which becomes effective on or after the Commitment Termination Date on only one (1)&nbsp;occasion, <U>provided</U>
further, that, in each case, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable oral notice or written notice pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing, which shall be signed by the Borrower and shall specify therein the requested (i)&nbsp;date of
such Borrowing, (ii)&nbsp;Type of Loans comprising such Borrowing, (iii)&nbsp;aggregate amount of such Borrowing and (iv)&nbsp;Interest Period for the Loans comprising such Borrowing (in the case of any Borrowing of SOFR Loans): </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the third U.S. Government Securities Business Day prior to the date of the
proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing of SOFR Loans; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day
immediately preceding the date of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing of Early Funding ABR Loans; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)
not later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the same Business Day of the proposed Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing of any other ABR Loans. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">With
respect to any oral notice of borrowing given by the Borrower, the Borrower shall promptly thereafter confirm such notice in writing pursuant to a Notice of Borrowing. Upon receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify
each Bank thereof. Each Bank shall, before 3:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the requested Borrowing Date, make available to the Administrative Agent at the Funding Office, in immediately available funds, such Bank&#146;s applicable Loan Percentage
of such Borrowing; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that, in the event of a requested ABR Loan with respect to which the Borrower has delivered its Notice of Borrowing on the Business Day immediately preceding the requested Borrowing Date (an
&#147;<U>Early Funding ABR Loan</U>&#148;), each Bank shall make its applicable Loan Percentage of such Borrowing available before 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the requested Borrowing Date. The Administrative Agent shall, no later than 4:00
P.M. (New York City time) on such date (or no later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time), in the case of an Early Funding ABR Loan), make available to the Borrower the proceeds of the Loans received by the Administrative Agent hereunder by crediting
such account of the Borrower which the Administrative Agent and the Borrower shall from time to time designate. Each Notice of Borrowing shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Bank at least two hours prior to the applicable time described in clause
(a)&nbsp;above by which such Bank is required to deliver its funds to the Administrative Agent with respect to any Borrowing that such Bank will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Bank&#146;s applicable Loan Percentage of such
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Bank has made such portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with Section&nbsp;2.2(a) and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such
assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If such amount is made available to the Administrative Agent on a date after such date of Borrowing, such Bank shall pay to the Administrative Agent on demand an amount
equal to the product of (i)&nbsp;the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during such period, times (ii)&nbsp;the amount of such Bank&#146;s applicable Loan Percentage of such Borrowing, times (iii)&nbsp;a fraction, the numerator of which is
the number of days that elapse from and including such date of Borrowing to the date on which such Bank&#146;s applicable Loan Percentage of such Borrowing shall have become immediately available to the Administrative Agent and the denominator of
which is 360. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Bank with respect to any amounts owing under this Section&nbsp;2.2(b) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. If such Bank shall repay to
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the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so repaid shall constitute such Bank&#146;s Loan as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement. If such Bank&#146;s
applicable Loan Percentage of such Borrowing is not in fact made available to the Administrative Agent by such Bank within one (1)&nbsp;Business Day of such date of Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount with
interest thereon at the rate per annum, equal to (i)&nbsp;the Alternate Base Rate (in the case of ABR Loans) or (ii)&nbsp;the Federal Funds Effective Rate (in the case of SOFR Loans), on demand, from the Borrower. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The failure of any Bank to make the Loan to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Bank of its obligation, if
any, hereunder to make its Loan on the date of such Borrowing, but no Bank shall be responsible for the failure of any other Bank to make the Loan to be made by such other Bank on the date of any Borrowing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.3. <U>Increase in the Total Commitments and Loan Increases</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Borrower may, without the consent of the Banks or the Administrative Agent, (x)&nbsp;on one occasion during the period beginning on
the Closing Date and ending on the Commitment Termination Date and (y)&nbsp;on one occasion on and after the Commitment Termination Date, in each case, cause an increase in the Total Commitments (each, a &#147;<U>Commitment Increase</U>&#148;) by
obtaining Commitments from one or more additional Eligible Assignees that are not already Banks hereunder (each, a &#147;<U>New Bank</U>&#148;) and/or by allowing one or more existing Banks to increase their respective Commitments (each, an
&#147;<U>Increasing Bank</U>&#148;); provided that (i)&nbsp;each Commitment Increase shall be in a minimum amount of (A) $10,000,000 or an integral multiple of $5,000,000 in excess thereof or (B)&nbsp;if less, the remaining amount of the Maximum
Incremental Amount then available, (ii)&nbsp;each Commitment Increase shall become effective as of a date (the &#147;<U>Increase Date</U>&#148;) that is at least 30 days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect, (iii)&nbsp;no such Commitment
Increase shall exceed the Maximum Incremental Amount, (iv)&nbsp;each New Bank and each Increasing Bank providing any portion of any Commitment Increase must be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld, delayed or conditioned, (v)&nbsp;no Bank shall be required to provide any such increase, and (vi)&nbsp;on the date of any request by the Borrower for a Commitment Increase and on the related Increase Date, the applicable conditions set
forth in Section&nbsp;5.3 shall be satisfied; provided that (1)&nbsp;any Commitments incurred pursuant to any Commitment Increase effected pursuant to the immediately preceding subclause (a)(x) shall terminate on the Commitment Termination Date and
(2)&nbsp;any Commitments incurred pursuant to any Commitment Increase effected pursuant to the immediately preceding subclause (a)(y) shall terminate on the date that is two (2)&nbsp;months after the effective date of such Commitment Increase. Any
Loan borrowed pursuant to a Commitment Increase that is repaid may not be reborrowed. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Each Commitment Increase must be requested by
written notice from the Borrower to the Administrative Agent substantially in the form attached hereto as <U>Exhibit E</U>. Each such notice shall specify (i)&nbsp;the proposed Increase Date, (ii)&nbsp;the amount of the requested Commitment Increase
(which amount shall conform to the requirements of Section&nbsp;2.3(a)), (iii) the identity of each New Bank and/or each Increasing Bank that is participating in such Commitment Increase, and (iv)&nbsp;the amount of the respective Commitments of the
then existing Banks and the New Banks from and after the applicable Increase Date. If the Administrative Agent approves the New Banks and/or Increasing Banks participating in such Commitment </P>
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Increase (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the applicable New Banks and/or Increasing Banks shall execute a
Commitment Increase Agreement (which shall be on the exact same terms and pursuant to the exact same documentation applicable to the Loans hereunder (other than with respect to fees and similar closing payments which shall be as agreed between the
Borrower and the New Banks or Increasing Banks, as applicable) and the maturity date of which shall be the Maturity Date), and such Commitment Increase shall be effective on the Increase Date specified therein; provided that, as a condition to the
effectiveness of any Commitment Increase, if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (A)&nbsp;certified copies of resolutions of the sole manager of the Borrower approving such Commitment
Increase and (B)&nbsp;opinions of counsel for the Borrower (which may be <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">in-house</FONT> counsel), in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, covering such matters covered by the
opinions of counsel delivered pursuant to Section&nbsp;5.1(c) as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request. On each Increase Date, upon fulfillment of the conditions set forth in the immediately preceding sentence, the Administrative Agent
shall notify the Banks (including each New Bank) and the Borrower of the occurrence of the Commitment Increase effected on such Increase Date and shall record in the Register the relevant information with respect to each Increasing Bank and each New
Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) After the Commitment Termination Date, the Borrower may, without the consent of the Banks or the Administrative Agent, from
time to time, obtain new Loans hereunder (each, a &#147;<U>Loan Increase</U>&#148;) by obtaining term Loans from one or more New Banks and/or by allowing one or more Increasing Banks to provide new Loans hereunder; <U>provided</U> that, no such Loan
Increase shall exceed the then-available Maximum Incremental Amount; <U>provided</U> <U>further</U> that no Bank shall be required to provide any such Loan Increase. If the Administrative Agent approves the New Banks and/or Increasing Banks
participating in such Loan Increase (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the applicable New Banks and/or Increasing Banks shall execute a Loan Increase Agreement (which
shall be on the exact same terms and pursuant to the exact same documentation applicable to the Loans hereunder (other than with respect to fees and similar payments which shall be as agreed between the Borrower and the New Banks or Increasing
Banks, as applicable) and the maturity date of which shall be the Maturity Date). Any Loan borrowed pursuant to a Loan Increase that is repaid may not be reborrowed. Each Loan Increase may be requested by written notice from the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent substantially in the form attached hereto as <U>Exhibit E</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.4. <U>Defaulting Banks</U>. Notwithstanding
any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary, if any Bank becomes a Defaulting Bank, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Bank is a Defaulting Bank: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Ticking Fees shall cease to accrue on the unfunded portion of the Commitment of such Defaulting Bank pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.2(b); and
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) the Commitment and Outstanding Extensions of Credit of such Defaulting Bank shall not be included in determining whether all Banks
(or each Bank) or the Majority Banks have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section&nbsp;10.1); provided, that this clause (b)&nbsp;shall not apply to
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the vote of a Defaulting Bank in the case of an amendment, waiver or other modification requiring the consent of such Bank or each Bank affected thereby if such Bank is an affected Bank;
provided, further, that there shall not be any amendment, modification or waiver (i)&nbsp;of any provision of Section&nbsp;4.2 or Section&nbsp;10.1 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, or (ii)&nbsp;causing
the reduction of the percentage specified in the definition of Majority Banks, or (iii)&nbsp;causing the consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its respective rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, in each case without the consent of such Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">If the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree in writing in their sole
discretion that a Defaulting Bank should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Bank, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon that Bank will cease to be a Defaulting Bank; provided that except to the extent otherwise
expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Bank to Bank will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Bank&#146;s having been a Defaulting Bank. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The rights and remedies against, and with respect to, a Defaulting Bank under this Section&nbsp;2.4 are in addition to, and cumulative and not
in limitation of, all other rights and remedies that the Administrative Agent and each Bank or the Borrower may at any time have against, or with respect to, such Defaulting Bank. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 2.5. <U>Acknowledgement and Consent to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> of Affected Financial Institutions</U>.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any
Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder
which may be payable to it by any party hereto that is an Affected Financial Institution; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) the effects of any <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Bail-In</FONT> Action on any such liability, including, if applicable: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) a reduction in full or in part or
cancellation of any such liability; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of
ownership in such Affected Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any
rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) the variation of the terms of such
liability in connection with the exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">PROVISIONS RELATING TO ALL LOANS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.1. <U>Evidence of Loans</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Each Bank shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing indebtedness of the Borrower to such Bank
resulting from each Loan made by such Bank from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Bank from time to time under this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Administrative Agent shall maintain the Register pursuant to Section&nbsp;10.6(d) and a subaccount therein for each Bank, in which
shall be recorded (i)&nbsp;the amount of each Loan made by each Bank through the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Tranche and Type thereof and each Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii)&nbsp;the amount of any principal or interest due and
payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Bank hereunder and (iii)&nbsp;both the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder from the Borrower and each Bank&#146;s share thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The entries made in the Register and the accounts of each Bank maintained pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.1(a) shall, to the extent permitted
by applicable law, be <U>prima</U> <U>facie</U><I> </I>evidence of the existence and amount of the obligations of the Borrower therein recorded; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that the failure of any Bank or the Administrative Agent to maintain
the Register or any such account, or any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay (with applicable interest) the Loans actually made to the Borrower by such Bank in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) Any Bank may request that the Loans made by such Bank be evidenced by a Note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare,
execute and deliver to such Bank a Note payable to such Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.2. <U>Fees</U>. (a)&nbsp;The Borrower shall pay to the
Administrative Agent, for its own account, the fees in the amounts and on the dates previously agreed to in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Commencing on the date that is ninety days following the Closing Date (the &#147;<U>Ticking Fee Trigger Date</U>&#148;), the Borrower
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender (other than, subject to Section&nbsp;2.4, a Defaulting Lender) a ticking fee (the &#147;<U>Ticking Fee</U>&#148;), which shall accrue at the Ticking Fee Rate on such
Lender&#146;s Commitment then unfunded from the Ticking Fee Trigger Date until the Commitment Termination Date. The Ticking Fee shall be payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and on the
Commitment Termination Date, commencing on the first such date to occur after the Ticking Fee Trigger Date. The Ticking Fee shall be calculated by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year for
the actual days (including the first day and excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such fee is payable. </P>
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of each Loan made by each Bank from the date of such Loan until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the times and at the rates per annum set forth below: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) <U>ABR Loans</U>. Each ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal at all times to the lesser of (i)&nbsp;the Alternate Base
Rate <U>plus</U> the Applicable Rate and (ii)&nbsp;the Highest Lawful Rate, payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and on the Termination Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) <U>SOFR Loans</U>. Each SOFR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal at all times to the lesser of (i)&nbsp;the sum of Term
SOFR for the applicable Interest Period for such Loan <U>plus</U> the Applicable Rate and (ii)&nbsp;the Highest Lawful Rate, payable on the last day of such Interest Period and, with respect to Interest Periods of six months or longer, on the
ninetieth (90<SUP STYLE="font-size:75%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP>) day after the commencement of the Interest Period and on each succeeding ninetieth (90<SUP STYLE="font-size:75%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP>) day during such Interest Period, and
on the Termination Date. In addition, interest on each SOFR Loan will be payable upon any payment or prepayment of such SOFR Loan. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c)
<U>Calculations</U>. Interest that is determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate (to the extent based on the Prime Rate) shall be calculated by the Administrative Agent on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">365-</FONT> or <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">366-day</FONT> year, as the case may be, for the actual days (including the first day but excluding the last day) occurring in the period in which such interest is payable and otherwise shall be calculated by the
Administrative Agent on the basis of a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">360-day</FONT> year for the actual days (including the first day and excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such interest is payable. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) <U>Default Rate</U>. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if all or a portion of (i)&nbsp;the principal amount of any Loan, (ii)&nbsp;any
interest payable thereon, or (iii)&nbsp;any other amount payable hereunder shall not be paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), such overdue amount shall bear interest, payable from time to time on demand, at a
rate per annum equal to the lesser of (A)&nbsp;the Highest Lawful Rate and (B)&nbsp;the Default Rate, in each case from the date of such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-payment</FONT> until such amount is paid in full (after as well as before
judgment). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) <U>Term SOFR Conforming Changes</U>. In connection with the use or administration of Term SOFR, the Administrative Agent
will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action
or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Administrative Agent will prior to or concurrently therewith notify the Borrower and the Banks of the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use
or administration of Term SOFR. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) <U>Determination Conclusive</U>. Each determination of interest rate by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to any provisions of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Banks in the absence of manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower, deliver to the Borrower a statement showing
in reasonable detail the questions used by the Administrative Agent in determining Term SOFR. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.5. <U>Interest Rate Determination; Inability to Determine Rates</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Subject to this Section&nbsp;3.5 and Section&nbsp;3.9, the rate of interest for each SOFR Loan shall be determined by the Administrative
Agent two Business Days before the first day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan. The Administrative Agent shall give prompt notice to the Borrower and the Banks of the applicable interest rate determined by the Administrative Agent for
purposes of Sections 3.3(a) and (b)&nbsp;hereof. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Subject to Section&nbsp;3.9, if, prior to the first day of any Interest Period for a
Borrowing of SOFR Loans, the Administrative Agent shall have reasonably determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower absent manifest error) that, &#147;Term SOFR&#148; cannot be determined pursuant to the
definition thereof, the Administrative Agent shall give written notice thereof to the Borrower and the Banks as soon as practicable thereafter. Upon notice thereof by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower and the Banks, any obligation of the
Banks to make SOFR Loans, and any right of the Borrower to continue SOFR Loans or to convert ABR Loans to SOFR Loans, shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) until the Administrative Agent revokes
such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, (i)&nbsp;the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans (to the extent of the affected SOFR Loans or affected Interest Periods) or, failing that,
the Borrower will be deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to ABR Loans in the amount specified therein and (ii)&nbsp;any outstanding affected SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted into
ABR Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period. The Administrative Agent will withdraw any such notice when the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist. Subject to Section&nbsp;3.9, if the Administrative Agent determines
(which determination shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error) that &#147;Term SOFR&#148; cannot be determined pursuant to the definition thereof on any given day, the interest rate on ABR Loans shall be determined by the Administrative
Agent without reference to clause (c)&nbsp;of the definition of &#147;Alternate Base Rate&#148; until the Administrative Agent revokes such determination. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.6. <U>Voluntary Interest Conversion or Continuation of Loans</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the Notice of Borrowing and, in the case of a Borrowing of SOFR Loans, shall
have an initial Interest Period as specified in such Notice of Borrowing. Thereafter, the Borrower may, at any time and from time to time, but subject to Section&nbsp;3.7 below, elect to (i)&nbsp;convert Loans of one Type into Loans of another Type;
(ii)&nbsp;convert SOFR Loans for a specified Interest Period into SOFR Loans for a different Interest Period; or (iii)&nbsp;continue SOFR Loans for a specified Interest Period as SOFR Loans for the same Interest Period; <U>provided</U>,
<U>however</U>, that if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Majority Banks, so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing, no Loan may be converted
into or continued as a SOFR Loan. </P>
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Administrative Agent of such request by telephone, facsimile or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">e-mail</FONT> (i)&nbsp;not later than 1:00&nbsp;P.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed interest
conversion or continuation in the case of a conversion into or continuation of a SOFR Loan and (ii)&nbsp;not later than 1:00&nbsp;P.M. (New York City time) on the Business Day preceding the proposed interest conversion in the case of a conversion
into an ABR Loan. Each telephonic notice of interest conversion/continuation given by the Borrower under this Section&nbsp;3.6, shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly thereafter in writing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Each written notice of interest conversion/continuation given by the Borrower under this Section&nbsp;3.6 and each confirmation of an oral
notice of interest conversion/continuation given by the Borrower under this Section&nbsp;3.6 shall be in substantially the form of <U>Exhibit B</U> hereto (&#147;<U>Notice of Interest Conversion/Continuation</U>&#148;). Each such Notice of Interest
Conversion/Continuation shall specify therein (x)&nbsp;the requested date of such interest conversion or continuation; (y)&nbsp;the Loans to be converted or continued; and (z)&nbsp;if such interest conversion or continuation involves the conversion
into or continuation as SOFR Loans, the duration of the Interest Period for each such SOFR Loan. If any Notice of Interest Conversion/Continuation requests a conversion into or continuation as SOFR Loans but does not specify an Interest Period for
such SOFR Loans, the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month&#146;s duration. Upon receipt of any such Notice of Interest Conversion/Continuation, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Bank thereof.
Each Notice of Interest Conversion/ Continuation shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) If the Borrower shall fail to
deliver to the Administrative Agent a Notice of Interest Conversion/Continuation with respect to any Borrowing of SOFR Loans by 1:00&nbsp;P.M. (New York City time) on the third Business Day prior to the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto in accordance with this Section&nbsp;3.6, the Administrative Agent will forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Banks (<U>provided</U> that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the conversion referred to below) and, unless such
Loans are repaid as provided herein, such Loans will automatically, on the last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, convert into SOFR Loans with a one month Interest Period. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.7. <U>Funding Losses Relating to SOFR Loans</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Borrower agrees, without duplication of any other provision under this Agreement, to indemnify each Bank and to hold each Bank
harmless from any loss or expense that such Bank may sustain or incur as a consequence of (i)&nbsp;default by the Borrower in payment when due of the principal amount of or interest on any SOFR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto, (ii)&nbsp;default by the Borrower in making a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation of any SOFR Loan after the Borrower has given a notice requesting the same in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement,
(iii)&nbsp;default by the Borrower in making any prepayment of SOFR Loans after the Borrower has given a notice thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement or (iv)&nbsp;the making of a prepayment of SOFR Loans or the conversion of
SOFR Loans into ABR Loans, on a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto or a day that is not the scheduled maturity date with respect thereto, including in each case, any such loss or expense arising from the
reemployment of funds obtained by such Bank or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained. The calculation of all amounts payable to a Bank under this Section&nbsp;3.7(a) shall be made pursuant to the method
described in Section&nbsp;4.8(a), but in no event shall such </P>
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amounts payable with respect to any SOFR Loan exceed the amounts that would have been payable assuming such Bank had actually funded its relevant SOFR Loan through the purchase of a deposit
bearing interest at the applicable Term SOFR rate in an amount equal to the amount of such SOFR Loan and having a maturity comparable to the Interest Period applicable to such SOFR Loan; <U>provided</U> that each Bank may fund each of its SOFR Loans
in any manner it sees fit, and the foregoing assumption shall be utilized only for the calculation of amounts payable under this Section&nbsp;3.7(a). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The agreements in this Section&nbsp;3.7 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all amounts payable hereunder;
<U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that in no event shall the Borrower be obligated to reimburse or compensate any Bank for amounts contemplated by this Section&nbsp;3.7 for amounts accruing prior to the date that is 90 days prior to the date upon
which such Bank requests in writing such reimbursement or compensation from the Borrower. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.8. <U>Change in Legality</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any Bank shall notify the Administrative Agent that it has determined in good
faith that the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation or application of any law or regulation by any Governmental Authority (in each case occurring after the date of this Agreement) makes it unlawful, or any central bank or other
Governmental Authority asserts after the date of this Agreement that it is unlawful, for any Bank or its applicable lending office to perform its obligations hereunder to make SOFR Loans or to fund or maintain SOFR Loans hereunder, (i)&nbsp;the
obligation of such Bank to make, or to convert Loans into, or to continue SOFR Loans as, SOFR Loans shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower that the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist;
(ii)&nbsp;the Borrower shall, at its option, either prepay in full all SOFR Loans of such Bank then outstanding, or convert all such Loans to ABR Loans, on the respective last days of the then current Interest Periods with respect to such Loans (or
within such earlier period as required by law), accompanied, in the case of any prepayments, by interest accrued thereon and any amounts payable under Section&nbsp;3.7(a). Each Bank agrees that it will use reasonable efforts to designate a different
lending office for the SOFR Loans due to such Bank that are affected by this Section&nbsp;3.8, if such designation will avoid the illegality described in this Section&nbsp;3.8 so long as such designation will not be disadvantageous to such Bank as
determined by such Bank in its sole discretion acting in good faith. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) For purposes of this Section&nbsp;3.8, a notice to the Borrower
(with a copy to the Administrative Agent) by any Bank pursuant to paragraph (a)&nbsp;above shall be effective on the date of receipt thereof by the Borrower. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 3.9. <U>Benchmark Replacement Setting</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) <U>Benchmark Replacement</U>. (i)&nbsp;Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, if a Benchmark
Transition Event and its related Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred prior to any setting of the then-current Benchmark, then (x)&nbsp;if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (a)&nbsp;of the definition of
&#147;Benchmark Replacement&#148; for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan </P>
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Document in respect of such Benchmark setting and subsequent Benchmark settings without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document and (y)&nbsp;if a Benchmark Replacement is determined in accordance with clause (b)&nbsp;of the definition of &#147;Benchmark Replacement&#148; for such Benchmark Replacement Date, such Benchmark Replacement will replace such Benchmark for
all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in respect of any Benchmark setting at or after 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the fifth (5<SUP STYLE="font-size:75%; vertical-align:top">th</SUP>) Business Day after the date notice of such
Benchmark Replacement is provided to the Banks without any amendment to, or further action or consent of any other party to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document so long as the Administrative Agent has not received, by such time, written notice
of objection to such Benchmark Replacement from Banks comprising the Majority Banks. If the Benchmark Replacement is Daily Simple SOFR, all interest payments will be payable on a quarterly basis; and (ii)&nbsp;no Swap Agreement shall be deemed to be
a &#147;Loan Document&#148; for purposes of this Section&nbsp;3.9. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) <U>Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes</U>. In connection
with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan
Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) <U>Notices; Standards for Decisions and Determinations</U>. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Borrower and the Banks of
(i)&nbsp;the implementation of any Benchmark Replacement and (ii)&nbsp;the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use, administration, adoption or implementation of a Benchmark Replacement. The Administrative Agent will
notify the Borrower of (x)&nbsp;the removal or reinstatement of any tenor of a Benchmark pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.9(d) and (y)&nbsp;the commencement of any Benchmark Unavailability Period. Any determination, decision or election that may be made
by the Administrative Agent or, if applicable, any Bank (or group of Banks) pursuant to this Section&nbsp;3.9, including any determination with respect to a tenor, rate or adjustment or of the occurrence or
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-occurrence</FONT> of an event, circumstance or date and any decision to take or refrain from taking any action or any selection, will be conclusive and binding absent manifest error and may be made in its or
their reasonable discretion and without consent from any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except, in each case, as expressly required pursuant to this Section&nbsp;3.9. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) <U>Unavailability of Tenor of Benchmark</U>. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, at any time
(including in connection with the implementation of a Benchmark Replacement), (i) if the then-current Benchmark is a term rate (including the Term SOFR Reference Rate) and either (A)&nbsp;any tenor for such Benchmark is not displayed on a screen or
other information service that publishes such rate from time to time as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion or (B)&nbsp;the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Benchmark has provided a public statement
or publication of information announcing that any tenor for such Benchmark is not or will not be representative, then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of &#147;Interest Period&#148; (or any similar or analogous definition) for any
Benchmark settings at or after such time to remove such unavailable or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-representative</FONT> tenor and (ii)&nbsp;if a tenor that was removed pursuant to clause (i)&nbsp;above either (A)&nbsp;is subsequently
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(including a Benchmark Replacement) or (B)&nbsp;is not, or is no longer, subject to an announcement that it is not or will not be representative for a Benchmark (including a Benchmark
Replacement), then the Administrative Agent may modify the definition of &#147;Interest Period&#148; (or any similar or analogous definition) for all Benchmark settings at or after such time to reinstate such previously removed tenor. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) <U>Benchmark Unavailability Period</U>. Upon the Borrower&#146;s receipt of notice of the commencement of a Benchmark Unavailability
Period, (i)&nbsp;the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a SOFR Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of SOFR Loans to be made, converted or continued during any Benchmark Unavailability Period and, failing that, the Borrower will be
deemed to have converted any such request into a request for a Borrowing of or conversion to ABR Loans and (ii)&nbsp;any outstanding affected SOFR Loans will be deemed to have been converted to ABR Loans at the end of the applicable Interest Period.
During a Benchmark Unavailability Period or at any time that a tenor for the then-current Benchmark is not an Available Tenor, the component of Alternate Base Rate based upon the then-current Benchmark or such tenor for such Benchmark, as
applicable, will not be used in any determination of Alternate Base Rate. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE IV </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">INCREASED COSTS, TAXES, PAYMENTS AND PREPAYMENTS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.1. <U>Increased Costs; Capital Adequacy</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) If, after the date of this Agreement, the adoption of or any change in any law or regulation or in the interpretation or application
thereof by any Governmental Authority or compliance by any Bank with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority made subsequent to the date of this Agreement
(<U>provided</U> that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Basel III and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives under, or issued in connection with, the foregoing shall be deemed for all purposes of this
Section&nbsp;4.1 to be a change in Requirements of Law, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued): </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) shall
(A)&nbsp;subject any Bank to any Taxes with respect to this Agreement, or (B)&nbsp;change the basis of taxation of payments to such Bank in respect thereof (except, in each case of (A)&nbsp;and (B), for Indemnified Taxes, Connection Income Taxes and
Taxes described in clauses (ii)&nbsp;through (v) of the definition of Excluded Taxes); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) shall impose, modify or hold
applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by,
any office of such Bank that is not otherwise included in the determination of the applicable Term SOFR rate hereunder (except for amounts covered by any other Section hereof); or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) shall impose on such Bank any other condition; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the actual cost to such Bank, by an amount that such
Bank deems to be material, of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining SOFR Loans or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Bank, upon its demand in the
manner set forth in Section&nbsp;4.8(b), any additional amounts, computed by such Bank in accordance with Section&nbsp;4.8(a), necessary to compensate such Bank for such actual increased cost or reduced amount receivable that is attributable to
Loans (to the extent that such Bank has not already been compensated or reimbursed for such amounts pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement). If any Bank becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.1(a)
from the Borrower, it shall promptly notify the Borrower, through the Administrative Agent, of the event by reason of which it has become so entitled in the manner set forth in Section&nbsp;4.8(b). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If any Bank determines in good faith that the introduction of or any change in or in the interpretation or application by any Governmental
Authority of any law or regulation regarding capital adequacy or liquidity after the date of this Agreement or compliance by such Bank or any corporation controlling such Bank with any law or regulation or any guideline or request from any central
bank or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law) made or issued after the date of this Agreement does or shall have the effect, as a result of such Bank&#146;s obligations under this Agreement, of reducing the rate of
return on such Bank&#146;s or such corporation&#146;s capital to a level below that which such Bank or such corporation could have achieved but for such change or compliance (taking into consideration such Bank&#146;s or such corporation&#146;s
policies with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity) by an amount deemed by such Bank to be material, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank, from time to time as specified by such Bank in the manner set
forth in Section&nbsp;4.8(b), additional amounts, computed by such Bank in accordance with Section&nbsp;4.8(a), sufficient to compensate such Bank or such corporation in the light of such circumstances, to the extent that such Bank reasonably
determines such reduction in rate of return is allocable to the existence of such Bank&#146;s obligations hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The agreements
contained in this Section&nbsp;4.1 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all amounts payable hereunder; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that in no event shall the Borrower be obligated to reimburse or compensate any
Bank for amounts contemplated by this Section&nbsp;4.1 for any period prior to the date that is 90 days prior to the date upon which such Bank requests in writing such reimbursement or compensation from the Borrower; <U>provided</U> that, to the
extent that the adoption of or any change in any law or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof gives rise to any amount(s) contemplated by this Section&nbsp;4.1 on a retroactive basis, then the
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">90-day</FONT> period referred to in the preceding proviso shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.2. <U>Pro Rata Treatment and Payments and Computations</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Other than payments made in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement that are not required or permitted to be pro rata, each
Borrowing of Loans by the Borrower from the Banks hereunder and any prepayment on account of principal and interest on the Loans shall be made <U>pro</U> <U>rata</U> according to the respective Loan Percentages of the Banks. </P>
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account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise, without setoff or counterclaim (except as otherwise provided in Section&nbsp;4.3), not later than 12:00 Noon (New York City time) on the day when due in Dollars to the Administrative Agent at the
Funding Office in immediately available funds. The Administrative Agent will promptly thereafter cause to be distributed like funds relating to the payment of principal, interest or fees (to the extent received by the Administrative Agent) ratably
to the Banks according to the amounts of their respective Loans in respect of which such payment is made, and like funds relating to the payment of any other amount payable to any Bank (to the extent received by the Administrative Agent) to such
Bank, in each case to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Whenever any payment hereunder or under the Notes
shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of interest or fees, as the case
may be; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of SOFR Loans to be made in the next following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next preceding Business Day. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Banks
hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such
assumption, cause to be distributed to each Bank on such due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Bank. If and to the extent the Borrower shall not have so made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each Bank shall pay to the
Administrative Agent on demand an amount equal to the product of (i)&nbsp;the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during such period, times (ii)&nbsp;the amount of such Bank&#146;s Loan Percentage of such payment, times (iii)&nbsp;a fraction,
the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse from and including the date such amount is distributed to such Bank to the date on which such Bank&#146;s Loan Percentage of such payment shall have become immediately available to the
Administrative Agent and the denominator of which is 360. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) If any Bank shall fail to make any payment required to be made by it
pursuant to Section&nbsp;9.7, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion and notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, (i)&nbsp;apply any amounts thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank for the
benefit of the Administrative Agent to satisfy such Bank&#146;s obligations to it under such Section until all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid, and/or (ii)&nbsp;hold any such amounts in a segregated account as cash collateral for, and
application to, any future funding obligations of such Bank under any such Section, in the case of each of clauses (i)&nbsp;and (ii) above, in any order as determined by the Administrative Agent in its discretion. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.3. <U>Taxes</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a)
Except as otherwise required by any Requirement of Law, any and all payments by or on behalf of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for or on account of any and
all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, and all interest, </P>
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penalties and additions to tax with respect thereto, in each case, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority (&#147;Taxes&#148;). If the
Borrower shall be required by law to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document (as determined in the good faith discretion of the applicable withholding agent), (i) to the extent
such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the Borrower to any Bank or the Administrative Agent shall be increased as necessary so that after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under
this Section&nbsp;4.3) the Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions for Indemnified Taxes been made, (ii)&nbsp;the Borrower shall be entitled to make such
deductions, and (iii)&nbsp;the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law. &#147;<U>Excluded Taxes</U>&#148; means in the case of each Bank, the Administrative Agent or any
other recipient of any payment to be made by, on behalf of or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document, (i)&nbsp;net income Taxes, branch profits Taxes and franchise Taxes imposed on it by (A)&nbsp;the
United States of America or (B)&nbsp;any jurisdiction under the laws of which such recipient is organized, or in which its principal office is located (or, in the case of any Bank, in which its applicable lending office is located), or imposed as a
result of a present or former connection between it and the jurisdiction (or political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein) imposing such Tax (other than a connection arising solely from such recipient having executed, delivered or
performed its obligations or received a payment under, or enforced, this Agreement or any other Loan Document), (ii) in the case of a Bank, any U.S. Federal withholding Taxes resulting from any Requirement of Law in effect (A)&nbsp;on the date such
Bank becomes a party to this Agreement (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Borrower under Section&nbsp;4.7(b)), (B) on the date on which such recipient designates a new lending office, or (C)&nbsp;where such recipient is a
partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, on the date on which such recipient becomes a party hereto or, solely with respect to any U.S. Federal withholding Taxes attributable to the affected partner, the date on which the affected partner
becomes a partner of such recipient, except in each case pursuant to this clause (ii), to the extent that amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either (x)&nbsp;to such recipient&#146;s assignor immediately before such recipient became a
recipient hereunder, (y)&nbsp;to such recipient immediately before it designated a new lending office, or (z)&nbsp;to such recipient immediately before the affected partner became a partner of such recipient, (iii)&nbsp;United States backup
withholding Taxes, (iv)&nbsp;Taxes attributable to its failure to comply with Section&nbsp;4.3(e) or Section&nbsp;4.3(f), and (v)&nbsp;any U.S. withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA. &#147;<U>Indemnified Taxes</U>&#148; means (i)&nbsp;Taxes other
than Excluded Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower under any Loan Document and (ii)&nbsp;to the extent not otherwise described in clause (i), Other Taxes. Whenever any Taxes or Other
Taxes are paid by the Borrower pursuant to clause (iii)&nbsp;of the preceding sentence or Section&nbsp;4.3(b), the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant Bank or Administrative Agent, as the case may be,
either (A)&nbsp;official tax receipts or notarized copies of such receipts evidencing such payment within thirty (30)&nbsp;days of receiving such receipts or (B)&nbsp;if Borrower cannot comply with (A), as reasonably promptly after payment thereof,
a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower confirming that such Taxes or Other Taxes have been paid, together with evidence of such payment. </P>
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or future Other Taxes for which Borrower has not otherwise indemnified, compensated or reimbursed, or made payment on behalf of or with respect to, a Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) under this Agreement or any Loan Document.
&#147;<U>Other Taxes</U>&#148; means (A)&nbsp;stamp or documentary Taxes or (B)&nbsp;any other excise or property Taxes, in each case of (A)&nbsp;and (B), that arise from any payment made hereunder or under any Note or from the execution, delivery,
registration or enforcement of or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or the Loans, excluding all such Taxes that are (other than Taxes resulting from an assignment requested by the Borrower under Section&nbsp;4.7(b))
(i) imposed solely as the result of an assignment by a Bank of its interests, rights or benefits hereunder or under any other Loan Document and (ii)&nbsp;Other Connection Taxes. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The Borrower will indemnify each Bank and the Administrative Agent for the full amount of Indemnified Taxes (including any Indemnified
Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction on amounts payable under this Section&nbsp;4.3) paid by such Bank or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such
Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) Each Bank shall indemnify the
Administrative Agent for (i)&nbsp;the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes that are attributable to such Bank and that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent, together with all reasonable costs and expenses arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, as determined by the Administrative Agent in good faith, (ii)&nbsp;any Taxes attributable to such Bank&#146;s failure to comply with the provisions of Section&nbsp;10.06(b) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and
(iii)&nbsp;any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Bank, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not
such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Bank by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
Each Bank hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Bank under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Bank from any other source against any
amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (d). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) Each Bank that is a &#147;United States person&#148; as defined in Section&nbsp;7701(a)(30) of the Code shall deliver to
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two valid, original, properly completed and duly executed IRS Forms <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-9</FONT> (or any successor form) certifying that such Bank is exempt from U.S. federal withholding tax.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) Each Bank (or Transferee, if applicable) that is not a &#147;United States person&#148; as defined in
Section&nbsp;7701(a)(30) of the Code (a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">&#147;Non-U.S.</FONT> Bank&#148;) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Bank from which the related participation
shall have been purchased) each of the following which is applicable: (A)&nbsp;two valid, original, properly completed and duly </P>
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executed IRS Forms <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN,</FONT>
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN-E,W-8ECI,</FONT></FONT></FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8EXP</FONT> or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8IMY,</FONT> as applicable
(together with any applicable underlying IRS forms or other applicable documentation) or any successor applicable form, as the case may be (subject to the remaining clauses hereof), (B) in the case of a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT> Bank claiming exemption from U.S. federal withholding tax under Section&nbsp;871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments of &#147;portfolio interest,&#148; a statement substantially in the
form of Exhibit <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">F-2</FONT> or Exhibit <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">F-4,</FONT> as applicable, and the applicable IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8,</FONT> or any subsequent versions thereof or
successors thereto, properly completed and duly executed by such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT> Bank claiming complete exemption from U.S. federal withholding tax on payments under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
(C)&nbsp;if such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT> Bank is claiming eligibility for benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x)&nbsp;with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, IRS Form
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN,</FONT> IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN-E,</FONT></FONT> or any successor form thereto, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal
withholding tax pursuant to the &#147;interest&#148; article of such tax treaty, and (y)&nbsp;with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, an IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN,</FONT> IRS Form <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN-E,</FONT></FONT> or any successor form thereto, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding tax pursuant to the &#147;business profits&#148; or
&#147;other income&#148; article of such tax treaty, (D)&nbsp;if applicable, an IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8ECI,</FONT> or any successor form thereto, certifying that the payments received by such Bank are effectively connected with
such Bank&#146;s conduct of a trade or business in the United States, (E)&nbsp;if such Bank is not the beneficial owner of payments made under any Loan Document (for example, where the Bank is a partnership or a Bank which has sold a participating
interest in any Loan), an IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8IMY,</FONT> on behalf of itself (or if it is a disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes, on behalf of its owner), or any successor form thereto, accompanied by IRS
Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-9,</FONT> IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8ECI,</FONT> IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN,</FONT> IRS Form
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN-E,</FONT></FONT> a statement substantially in the form of Exhibit G, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable, or (F)&nbsp;any other form
prescribed by applicable requirements of U.S. federal income tax law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding tax properly completed and duly executed together with such supplementary documentation as may be
prescribed by applicable Requirements of Law to permit the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) All such forms described in this Section&nbsp;4.3(e) shall be delivered by each Bank on or before the date which it
becomes a party to this Agreement (or, in the case of any Participant, on or before the date such Participant purchases the related participation) and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent. In
addition, each <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT> Bank also agrees to deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two further originals of the said Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN,</FONT> <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8BEN-E,W-8ECI,</FONT></FONT></FONT> <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8EXP,</FONT> or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8IMY</FONT> (together with any
applicable underlying IRS forms or other applicable documentation) or any successor applicable form, as the case may be, on or before the date that any such form expires or becomes obsolete or after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in
the most recent form or certification previously delivered by it to the Borrower. Each Bank shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at any time it determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any previously
delivered certificate to the Borrower (or any other form of certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section&nbsp;4.3(e), a <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT>
Bank shall not be required to deliver any form pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.3(e) that such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-U.S.</FONT> Bank is not legally able to deliver. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) If a payment made to a Bank under any Loan Document would be subject to
U.S. federal withholding tax imposed by FATCA if such Bank were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section&nbsp;1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Bank shall deliver
to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed
by Section&nbsp;1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to comply with its obligations under
FATCA, to determine that such Bank has or has not complied with such Bank&#146;s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this Section&nbsp;4.3(e), &#147;FATCA&#148; shall
include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) For purposes of determining withholding Taxes
imposed under FATCA, from and after the Closing Date, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall treat (and the Banks hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to treat) this Agreement as not qualifying as a &#147;grandfathered obligation&#148;
within the meaning of Treasury Regulation <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Section&nbsp;1.1471-2(b)(2)(i).</FONT> </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi)
Each Bank agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing
of its legal inability to do so. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) Without limiting Section&nbsp;4.3(e), a Bank 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 or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit such payments to be made
without withholding or at a reduced rate if such Bank is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such documentation. In addition, each Bank, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other
documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Bank is subject to backup withholding or
information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Bank shall not be required to provide such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section&nbsp;4.3(e)) if in such Bank&#146;s reasonable judgment such
completion, execution or submission would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Bank. </P>
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shall provide to the Borrower copies of the documentation prescribed in clause (i)&nbsp;or (ii) below, as applicable (together with all required attachments thereto): (i) IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-9</FONT> or any successor form
thereto, or (ii)&nbsp;(A) IRS Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8ECI</FONT> or any successor form thereto, and (B)&nbsp;with respect to payments received on account of any Bank, a U.S. branch withholding certificate on IRS Form <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">W-8IMY</FONT> or any successor form evidencing its agreement with the Borrower to be treated as a U.S. Person for U.S. federal withholding purposes. At any time thereafter, the Administrative Agent shall provide updated
documentation previously provided (or a successor form thereto) when any documentation previously delivered has expired or become obsolete or invalid or otherwise upon the reasonable request of the Borrower. Nothing in this Section&nbsp;4.3(g) shall
be construed to require the Administrative Agent to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the Borrower or any other Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) If the Administrative Agent or any Bank determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received or utilized a
refund of, or offset with respect to, those Taxes or Other Taxes paid by Borrower or as to which it has been indemnified, compensated or reimbursed by the Borrower (including by the payment of additional amounts pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.3),
the Administrative Agent or such Bank shall within 20 Business Days after such refund or utilization pay to the Borrower the amount of such refund or utilization to the extent that the Borrower paid such Taxes or Other Taxes or indemnified,
compensated or reimbursed the Administrative Agent or such Bank for such Taxes or Other Taxes pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.3, or paid such additional amounts, net of any
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">out-of-pocket</FONT></FONT> costs of the Administrative Agent or such Bank directly related to obtaining or utilizing such refund and without interest (other than any interest paid by
the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); <U>provided</U>, that the Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Bank, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower pursuant to this
Section&nbsp;4.3(h) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Bank in the event the Administrative Agent or such Bank is required to repay such refund or
utilized amount to such Governmental Authority. This paragraph shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Bank to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes which it deems confidential) to
the Borrower or any other Person. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (h), in no event will the Administrative Agent or any Bank, as applicable, be required to pay any amount to the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph
(h)&nbsp;the payment of which would place the Administrative Agent or such Bank in a less favorable net <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">after-Tax</FONT> position than it would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to
such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) The agreements in this Section&nbsp;4.3 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of all amounts payable hereunder;
<U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that nothing contained in this Section&nbsp;4.3 shall require the Borrower to pay to any Bank or the Administrative Agent any duplicative amount (whether under this Section&nbsp;4.3 or otherwise) in addition to that
for which Borrower has paid or for which it has already reimbursed, indemnified or compensated, or made payment on behalf of or with respect to, any Bank or the Administrative Agent under any other provision of this Agreement. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.4. <U>Sharing of Payments, Etc</U><U>.</U> If any Bank (a &#147;<U>Benefitted
Bank</U>&#148;) shall at any time receive any payment (other than pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.7, 4.1 or 4.3) of all or part of its Loans, or receive any collateral in respect thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by setoff, pursuant to
events or proceedings of the nature referred to in Section&nbsp;8.1(g) or 8.1(h), or otherwise), in a greater proportion than any such payment to or collateral received by any other Bank, if any, in respect of such other Bank&#146;s Loans or
interest thereon, such Benefitted Bank shall purchase for cash from the other Banks a participating interest in such portion of each such other Bank&#146;s Loans owing to it or shall provide such other Banks with the benefits of any such collateral,
or the proceeds thereof, as shall be necessary to cause such Benefitted Bank to share the excess payment or benefits of such collateral or proceeds ratably with each of the Banks; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that if all or any portion of such
excess payment or benefits is thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Bank, such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such recovery, but without interest. The Borrower agrees that any Bank so
purchasing a participation from another Bank pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.4 may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff) with respect to such participation as fully as if such
Bank were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.5. <U>Optional Termination or Reduction of
Commitments</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Subject to Section&nbsp;2.3, unless previously terminated, the Commitments of the Banks to make Loans shall
terminate on the Commitment Termination Date. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Borrower shall have the right, without penalty or premium, upon at least three
(3)&nbsp;Business Days&#146; irrevocable written notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall give prompt notice to each Bank), to terminate in whole the Commitments or permanently, from time to time, to reduce ratably in part the unused portion
of the Commitments, provided that (i)&nbsp;each partial reduction shall be in the aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, and (ii)&nbsp;any notice of termination of the Commitments may state
that such notice is conditioned upon the occurrence of any event or condition, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified date) if such condition is not satisfied.
Each reduction of Commitments pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.5 shall be applied pro rata to the Commitments of each Bank. If at any time, including after giving effect to any reduction of Commitments pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.5, the Total
Outstanding Extensions of Credit exceed the Total Commitments, the Borrower shall be obligated to prepay the Loans in the amount of such excess. For purposes of this Section&nbsp;4.5(b), any Bank&#146;s Commitment that was terminated as a result of
the funding of the Loans related thereto (including in respect of Commitment Increases and Loan Increases) shall be included for purposes calculating such Bank&#146;s Commitment and the Total Commitments. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.6. <U>Voluntary Prepayments</U>. The Borrower may, upon written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent (i)&nbsp;not later than
1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the same Business Day, in the case of a prepayment of ABR Loans and (ii)&nbsp;no later than 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) two (2)&nbsp;Business Days before the date of prepayment (or such shorter or no notice as
may be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent), in the case of a prepayment of SOFR Loans, stating the aggregate principal amount of the prepayment and the Loans to be prepaid, prepay the outstanding principal amounts of such Loans comprising part
of the same </P>
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Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid to the extent required by Section&nbsp;3.3; <U>provided</U>,
<U>however</U>, that losses incurred by any Bank under Section&nbsp;3.7 shall be payable with respect to each such prepayment in the manner set forth in Section&nbsp;3.7. Any such notice provided pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.6 shall be
irrevocable; <U>provided</U> that, a notice of prepayment conditioned upon the occurrence of any event or condition may be contingent upon the consummation of such event or condition and may be revoked by the Borrower in the event such contingency
is not met. Partial prepayments pursuant to this Section&nbsp;4.6 with respect to any Tranche of SOFR Loans shall be in an aggregate principal amount equal to the lesser of (a) $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and
(b)&nbsp;the aggregate principal amount of such Tranche of SOFR Loans then outstanding, as the case may be; <U>provided</U> that no partial prepayment of any Tranche of SOFR Loans may be made if, after giving effect thereto, Section&nbsp;2.1(b)
would be contravened. Partial prepayments with respect to ABR Loans shall be made in an aggregate principal amount equal to the lesser of (i) $1,000,000 or an integral multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof and (ii)&nbsp;the aggregate principal
amount of ABR Loans then outstanding, as the case may be. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.7. <U>Mitigation of Losses and Costs</U><U>; Replacement of
Banks</U>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Any Bank claiming reimbursement from the Borrower under any of Sections 3.7, 4.1 and 4.3 hereof shall use reasonable
efforts (including, if requested by the Borrower, reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office of such Bank) to mitigate the amount of such losses, costs, expenses and liabilities, if such efforts can be made and such mitigation can be
accomplished without such Bank suffering (i)&nbsp;any economic disadvantage for which such Bank does not receive full indemnity from the Borrower under this Agreement or (ii)&nbsp;any legal or regulatory disadvantage. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) If (i)&nbsp;any Bank requests compensation under Section&nbsp;4.1, or if the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Bank
or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Bank pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.3, (ii) any Bank becomes a Defaulting Bank or (iii)&nbsp;any Bank refuses to consent to any proposed amendment, modification, waiver or consent with respect to any
provision hereof that requires the unanimous approval of all Banks, or the approval of each of the Banks affected thereby (in each case in accordance with Section&nbsp;10.1), and the consent of the Majority Banks shall have been obtained with
respect to such amendment, modification, waiver or consent, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort (including payment of any applicable processing and recordation fees), upon notice to such Bank and the Administrative Agent, require
such Bank to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section&nbsp;10.6(c)), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such
obligations (which assignee may be another Bank, if a Bank accepts such assignment); provided that (A)&nbsp;the Borrower shall have received (I)&nbsp;the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent with respect to any assignee that is not
already a Bank hereunder, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld, conditioned or delayed, (II)&nbsp;the consent of such assignee to the assignment and (III)&nbsp;in the case of clause (b)(iii) above, the consent of such assignee to the
proposed amendment, modification, waiver or consent, (B)&nbsp;such Bank shall have received payment of all amounts owing to such Bank hereunder and under any other Loan Document (including any amounts arising under Section&nbsp;3.7 as a consequence
of such assignment), (C) in </P>
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the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section&nbsp;4.1 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.3, such assignment will result in a
reduction in such compensation or payments, (D)&nbsp;prior to any such assignment, such Bank shall have taken no action under Section&nbsp;4.7(a) so as to eliminate the continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.1 or
Section&nbsp;4.3 and (E)&nbsp;until such time as such assignment shall be consummated, the Borrower shall pay all additional amounts (if any) required pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.1 or Section&nbsp;4.3, as the case may be. A Bank shall not be required
to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Bank or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 4.8. <U>Determination and Notice of Additional Costs and Other Amounts</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) In determining the amount of any claim for reimbursement or compensation under Sections&nbsp;3.7 and 4.1, each Bank may use any reasonable
averaging, attribution and allocation methods consistent with such methods customarily employed by such Bank in similar situations. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)
Each Bank or, with respect to compensation claimed by it pursuant to Section&nbsp;4.3, the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, will (i)&nbsp;use its best efforts to notify the Borrower through the Administrative Agent (in the case of each
Bank) of any event occurring after the date of this Agreement promptly after the occurrence thereof and (ii)&nbsp;notify the Borrower through the Administrative Agent (in the case of each Bank) promptly after such Bank or the Administrative Agent,
as the case may be, becomes aware of any event occurring after the date of this Agreement, in either case of (i)&nbsp;or (ii) if such event (for purposes of this Section&nbsp;4.8(b), a &#147;<U>Triggering Event</U>&#148;) will entitle such Bank or
the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, to compensation pursuant to Section&nbsp;3.7, 4.1 or 4.3, as the case may be. Each such notification of a Triggering Event shall be accompanied by a certificate of such Bank or the Administrative Agent,
as the case may be, setting forth the calculations and justification in reasonable detail such amount or amounts as shall be necessary to compensate such Bank or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, as specified in Section&nbsp;3.7, 4.1 or
4.3, as the case may be, and certifying that such costs are generally being charged by such Bank to other similarly situated borrowers under similar credit facilities, which certificate shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Subject to
Section&nbsp;4.3(i), the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Bank or to the Administrative Agent for its own account, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such certificate within ten Business Days
after its receipt of the same. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE V </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">CONDITIONS OF LENDING </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION
5.1. <U>Closing Date</U>. The obligations of the Banks to make Loans hereunder shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section&nbsp;10.1): </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received this Agreement duly executed by the Borrower and each other party hereto.
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the Closing Date of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Borrower certifying (i)&nbsp;the names and true signatures of the officers of the Borrower authorized to sign each Loan Document to which the Borrower is a party and the notices and
other documents to be delivered by the Borrower pursuant to any such Loan Document; (ii)&nbsp;the articles of organization and operating agreement of the Borrower as in effect on the date of such certification and (iii)&nbsp;the resolutions of the
sole manager of the Borrower approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of each Loan Document to which it is a party and any Notes from time to time issued hereunder and authorizing the borrowings and other
transactions contemplated hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received an executed legal opinion, dated the Closing Date,
of (i)&nbsp;Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, special counsel to the Borrower, and (ii)&nbsp;the general counsel or an associate general counsel of the Borrower. Each such legal opinion shall cover such matters incident to the transactions contemplated
by the Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require and shall otherwise be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received (i)&nbsp;a certificate dated as of a recent date on or prior to the Closing
Date of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas as to the existence of the Borrower and (ii)&nbsp;a statement as of a recent date on or prior to the Closing Date of Franchise Tax Account Status obtained through the website of the Office of the
Comptroller of Public Accounts of Texas indicating that the right of the Borrower to transact business in Texas is &#147;active&#148;. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) All governmental and third-party approvals necessary in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the
Loan Documents to be entered into on the Closing Date shall have been obtained and be in full force and effect. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) The Administrative
Agent shall have received the audited financial statements of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31, 2023 and unaudited financial statements for each fiscal quarter thereafter for which
financial statements are available. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) The Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and the Banks all
fees required to be paid to them by the Borrower on or before the Closing Date pursuant to the Fee Letter. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) To the extent requested at
least ten (10)&nbsp;Business Days prior to the Closing Date, the Banks shall have received all documentation and other information required by bank regulatory authorities under applicable &#147;know your customer&#148;, beneficial ownership and
anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, at least two (2)&nbsp;Business Days prior to the Closing Date. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) The representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in Section&nbsp;6.1 of this
Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that any representation and warranty is qualified by materiality in the text thereof, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all
respects) on and as of the Closing Date (except for those representations or warranties or parts thereof that, by their terms, expressly relate solely to a specific date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in
all material respects as of such specific date), before and after giving effect to the making of the Loans on the Closing Date as though made on and as of the Closing Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Banks of the Closing Date, and such notice shall be conclusive and binding. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.2. <U>Conditions Precedent to Each Credit Event</U>. The obligation of each Bank to make a Loan on the occasion of any Borrowing is
subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) On or prior to the date of the making of such extension of credit,
the Administrative Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing as required by Section&nbsp;2.2. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The representations and
warranties of the Borrower contained in Section&nbsp;6.1 of this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects (except to the extent that any representation and warranty is qualified by materiality in the text thereof, in which case
such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date of such extension of credit (except for those representations or warranties or parts thereof that, by their terms, expressly relate solely to a
specific date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such specific date), before and after giving effect to such extension of credit as though made on and as of such date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such extension of credit, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">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 (b)&nbsp;and (c) of this Section. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 5.3. <U>Conditions Precedent to Each Increase of the Commitments</U>. Each increase
of the Commitments pursuant to Section&nbsp;2.3 shall not become effective until the date on which each of the following conditions is satisfied: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) The representations and warranties of the Borrower contained in Section&nbsp;6.1 of this Agreement shall be true and correct in all
material respects (except to the extent that any representation and warranty is qualified by materiality in the text thereof, in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date of such
increase of the Commitments (except for those representations or warranties or parts thereof that, by their terms, expressly relate solely to a specific date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all
material respects as of such specific date), before and after giving effect to such increase of the Commitments as though made on and as of such date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) At the time of and immediately after giving effect to such increase of the Commitments, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 6.1. <U>Representations and Warranties of the Borrower</U>. The Borrower represents and warrants as follows: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) <U>Organizational Status of the Borrower</U>. The Borrower (i)&nbsp;is validly organized and existing as a limited liability company and in
good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization; (ii)&nbsp;is duly authorized or qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, each other jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or the ownership or leasing of
its Property requires it to be so authorized or qualified to do business, except where the failure to be so duly authorized or qualified or in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, and (iii)&nbsp;has the limited liability company power and authority to conduct its business, as presently conducted. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)
<U>Organizational Status of Significant Subsidiaries of the Borrower</U>. Each Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower (i)&nbsp;is validly organized and existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization and is duly
authorized or qualified to do business in, and is in good standing in, each other jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or the ownership or leasing of its Property requires it to be so authorized or qualified to do business, except where
the failure to be so validly organized and existing or duly authorized or qualified or in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii)&nbsp;has the corporate,
partnership or other requisite power and authority to conduct its business, as presently conducted, except where the failure to have such power and authority, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) <U>Organizational Powers</U>. The Borrower has the limited liability company power to execute, deliver and perform
its obligations under this Agreement, any Notes and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party. This Agreement and each other Loan Document to which the Borrower is a party have been duly executed and delivered on behalf of the Borrower. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) <U>Authorization, No Conflict, Etc.</U> The Borrowings by the Borrower contemplated by this Agreement, the execution and delivery by the
Borrower of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party and the performance by the Borrower of its obligations hereunder and thereunder have been duly authorized by all requisite limited liability company action on the part of
the Borrower and do not and will not (i)&nbsp;violate any law or any order of any court or other Governmental Authority to which the Borrower is subject, (ii)&nbsp;violate the articles of organization or operating agreement (each as amended from
time to time) of the Borrower, (iii)&nbsp;violate or result in a default under any indenture, loan agreement or other agreement to which the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower is a party or by which the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Borrower, or any of their respective Property, is bound (except for such violations or defaults that, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect) or (iv)&nbsp;result in or
require the creation or imposition of any material Lien upon any of the Properties of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary not permitted under this Agreement. </P>
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and no notice to or filing with, any Governmental Authority is required for the due execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of, or for the Borrowings under, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, except
(i)&nbsp;those that have been obtained or made and (ii)&nbsp;such matters relating to performance as would ordinarily be done in the ordinary course of business after the Closing Date. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) <U>Obligations Binding</U>. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party constitute the legal, valid and
binding obligations of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their respective terms (assuming due and valid authorization, execution and delivery of this Agreement and such other Loan Documents by each party other than
the Borrower), except as such enforceability may be (i)&nbsp;limited by the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors&#146; rights
generally and (ii)&nbsp;subject to the effect of general principles of equity (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) <U>Use of Proceeds, Margin Stock</U>. The proceeds of the Loans will be used by the Borrower for general limited liability company
purposes. Neither the Borrower nor any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower is principally engaged in, or has as one of its important activities, the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock, and no
part of the proceeds of any Loan made to the Borrower will be used for any purpose that would violate the provisions of the margin regulations of the Board. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) <U>Title to Properties</U>. The issued and outstanding Capital Stock owned by the Borrower of each of its Significant Subsidiaries,
whether such stock is owned directly or indirectly through one or more of its Subsidiaries, is owned free and clear of any Lien, except Liens permitted under this Agreement. In addition, each of the Borrower and each Significant Subsidiary has good
title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all its real and personal property material to its business, except for defects in title and exceptions to leasehold interests that either individually or in the aggregate would not reasonably be expected
to result in a Material Adverse Effect, and all such Properties are free and clear of any Lien except Liens permitted under this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) <U>Investment Company Act</U>. Neither the Borrower nor any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower is an &#147;investment company&#148; as
defined in, or otherwise subject to regulation under, the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j) <U>Material Adverse Change</U>.
Since December&nbsp;31, 2023, there has been no event, development or circumstance that, as of the Closing Date, has had, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k) <U>Litigation</U>. As of the Closing Date, there is no litigation, action, suit, investigation or other legal or governmental proceeding
by or before any arbitrator or Governmental Authority pending against or, to the best knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing against the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, at law or in equity, (i)&nbsp;relating to the transactions under
this Agreement or under any other Loan Document or (ii)&nbsp;as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse decision that would have a Material Adverse Effect. </P>
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reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, arising out of or in connection with (i)&nbsp;any Reportable Event or the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section&nbsp;412 of the Code or
Section&nbsp;302 of ERISA) with respect to any Plan that has occurred during the five-year period immediately preceding the date on which this representation is made or deemed made, (ii)&nbsp;any failure of a Plan to comply with the applicable
provisions of ERISA and the Code, (iii)&nbsp;any termination of a Single Employer Plan, (iv)&nbsp;any complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity from any Multiemployer Plan, (v)&nbsp;any Lien in favor of the
PBGC or any Plan that has arisen during the five-year period referred to in clause (i)&nbsp;above or (vi)&nbsp;a Multiemployer Plan being Insolvent. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(m) <U>Financial Statements</U>. The consolidated financial statements of the Borrower as of and for the fiscal year ended December&nbsp;31,
2023 filed with the SEC with the Borrower&#146;s <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> for the period then ended, copies of which have been delivered to the Banks, present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial condition
and results of operations of the Borrower, its Consolidated Subsidiaries, the Securitization Subsidiaries and the Unrestricted Subsidiaries as of such date and for the period then ended, in conformity with, as applicable, GAAP and, except as
otherwise stated therein, consistently applied (in the case of such unaudited statements, subject to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">year-end</FONT> adjustments and the exclusion of detailed footnotes). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(n) <U>Accuracy of Information</U>. None of the documents or written information (excluding estimates, financial projections and forecasts)
furnished to the Banks by the Borrower in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (collectively, the &#147;Information&#148;), contained, as of the date such Information was furnished (or, if such Information
expressly related to a specific date, as of such specific date), any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state, as of the date such Information was furnished (or, if such Information expressly related to a specific date, as of such
specific date), any material fact (other than industry-wide risks normally associated with the types of businesses conducted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
which they were made, not materially misleading, as a whole. The estimates, financial projections and forecasts furnished to the Banks by the Borrower with respect to the transactions contemplated under this Agreement were prepared in good faith and
on the basis of information and assumptions that the Borrower believed to be reasonable as of the date such information was prepared (it being recognized by the Banks that such estimates, financial projections and forecasts as they relate to future
events are not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period or periods covered by such estimates, financial projections and forecasts may differ from the projected results set forth therein by a material amount). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(o) <U>No Violation</U>. The Borrower is not in violation of any order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or any order, regulation or
demand of any Governmental Authority that, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably could be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. </P>
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Subsidiary as of the date hereof. Except as disclosed on <U>Schedule 6.1(p)</U>, as of the date hereof the Borrower owns, directly or indirectly through one or more of its Subsidiaries, all of the outstanding Capital Stock of each Significant
Subsidiary, in each case free and clear of any Liens not permitted under this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(q) <U>Taxes</U>. Each of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries has filed or caused to be filed all Federal, state and all other material Tax returns that are required to be filed by it and has paid or caused to be paid all Taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns or on any assessments made
against it or any of its Property and all other Taxes, fees or other charges imposed on it or any of its Property by any Governmental Authority (other than any such Taxes, fees or other charges the amount or validity of which are currently being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries), except where the failure to do so could not, individually or in the
aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; no Tax Lien has been filed, and to the knowledge of the Borrower, no claim is being asserted, with respect to any such Tax, fee or other charges (other than any Liens or claims
that could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(r) <U>Anti-Corruption Laws
and Sanctions</U>. The Borrower has implemented and maintains in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws
and applicable Sanctions, and the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, their respective officers, employees, directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material
respects. None of (a)&nbsp;the Borrower, any Subsidiary or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or (b)&nbsp;to the knowledge of the Borrower, any agent of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that
will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. Assuming that no Bank is a Sanctioned Person, no Borrowing, or use of proceeds thereof, or other transaction contemplated by
this Agreement will result in a violation by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any applicable Anti-Corruption Law or applicable Sanctions. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(s) The information included in any Beneficial Ownership Certification provided to any Bank in connection with this Agreement is true and
correct in all respects as of the date delivered. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE VII </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE COVENANTS </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 7.1. <U>Affirmative Covenants</U>. The Borrower covenants that, so long as any amount is owing to the Banks hereunder or under any
other Loan Document to which it is a party (other than indemnities and other contingent obligations not then due and payable and as to which no claim has been made) or any Bank shall have any Commitment outstanding under this Agreement: </P>
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deliver to the Administrative Agent (for distribution to the Banks) the following: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) as soon as practicable and in any
event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Borrower (beginning with the fiscal year ending December&nbsp;31, 2024), a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, Securitization Subsidiaries and
Unrestricted Subsidiaries as of the end of such fiscal year and the related statements of consolidated income, members&#146; equity and cash flows prepared in conformity with GAAP consistently applied, setting forth in comparative form the figures
for the previous fiscal year, together with a report thereon by independent certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing selected by the Borrower (which requirement may be satisfied by the Borrower&#146;s filing of its Annual
Report on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> with respect to such fiscal year with the SEC); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) as soon
as practicable and in any event within 55 days after the end of each of the first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower (beginning with the quarter ending June&nbsp;30, 2024), unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Borrower
and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, Securitization Subsidiaries and Unrestricted Subsidiaries, consisting of at least a consolidated balance sheet as of the end of such fiscal quarter and the related statements of consolidated income, members&#146;
equity and cash flows for such fiscal quarter and for the period from the beginning of such fiscal year to the end of such fiscal quarter (which requirement may be satisfied by the Borrower&#146;s filing of its Quarterly Report on Form <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q</FONT> with respect to such fiscal quarter with the SEC); such financial statements shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower to the effect that such unaudited financial statements
present fairly in all material respects the consolidated financial condition and results of operations of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, Securitization Subsidiaries and Unrestricted Subsidiaries as of such date and for the period
then ending, and have been prepared in conformity with GAAP in a manner consistent with the financial statements referred to in paragraph (a)(i) above (subject to <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">year-end</FONT> adjustments and exclusion of detailed
footnotes); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) with each set of financial statements to be delivered pursuant to Sections 7.1(a)(i) and
(ii)&nbsp;above, a certificate in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, (A)&nbsp;confirming compliance with Section&nbsp;7.2(a) and setting out in reasonable detail the
calculations necessary to demonstrate such compliance as at the date of the most recent balance sheet included in such financial statements and (B)&nbsp;stating that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the date of
such certificate or, if there is any Default or Event of Default, specifying the details thereof and any action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) within ten days of the filing thereof, copies of all periodic reports (other than (x)&nbsp;reports on <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Form&nbsp;11-K</FONT> or any successor form, (y)&nbsp;Current Reports on Form <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">8-K</FONT> that contain no information other than exhibits filed therewith and (z)&nbsp;reports on Form <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-Q</FONT> or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">10-K</FONT> (or any successor forms) under the Exchange Act (in each case other than exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein)) filed by the Borrower
with the SEC; </P>
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Responsible Officer of the Borrower becomes aware of the occurrence thereof, written notice of (A)&nbsp;any Default or Event of Default; (B)(I)&nbsp;the institution of any litigation, action, suit or other legal or governmental proceeding involving
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower as to which there is a reasonable possibility of an adverse decision that, if adversely determined, would have a Material Adverse Effect, (II)&nbsp;any adverse final determination in the <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">True-Up</FONT> Litigation that would have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under the Loan Documents on a timely basis or (III)&nbsp;any other final adverse determination
in any litigation, action, suit or other legal or governmental proceeding involving the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower that would have a Material Adverse Effect; or (C)&nbsp;the existence of an event or events, individually
or in the aggregate, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, arising out of or in connection with (I)&nbsp;any Reportable Event with respect to any Plan, (II)&nbsp;the failure to make any required contribution to a Plan,
(III)&nbsp;the creation of any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan, (IV)&nbsp;any withdrawal from, or the termination or Insolvency of, any Multiemployer Plan or (V)&nbsp;the institution of proceedings or the taking of any other action by the PBGC
or the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity or any Multiemployer Plan with respect to the withdrawal from, or the termination or Insolvency of, any Plan; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi) with each delivery of annual financial statements pursuant to Section&nbsp;7.1(a)(i), a certificate signed by a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower identifying those Subsidiaries of the Borrower which, determined as of the date of such financial statements, are Significant Subsidiaries; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vii) promptly after any request therefor, such other information relating to the Borrower or its business, properties,
condition and operations as the Administrative Agent (or any Bank through the Administrative Agent) may reasonably request; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(viii) promptly after any reasonable request therefor by the Administrative Agent or any Bank, all information and
documentation (including, without limitation, a Beneficial Ownership Certification) in order to comply with the Administrative Agent&#146;s or any Bank&#146;s ongoing obligations under applicable &#147;know your customer&#148; and anti-money
laundering rules and regulations, including the Patriot Act, and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ix) prompt
written notice of any change in the information provided in any Beneficial Ownership Certification delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Bank that would result in a change to the list of beneficial owners identified in such Beneficial
Ownership Certification. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Information or notices required to be delivered pursuant to the foregoing Sections&nbsp;7.1(a)(i), (ii), (iv) and (v)(B) shall
be deemed to have been delivered on the date on which the Borrower posts or publicly discloses such information or events (in the case of Section&nbsp;7.1(a)(v)(B), regardless </P>
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of whether the Borrower expressly states there could or would be a Material Adverse Effect; provided, that the Borrower shall subsequently provide the same to the Administrative Agent) on
(x)&nbsp;the SEC website on the Internet at sec.gov or (y)&nbsp;another website identified in a notice delivered to the Administrative Agent and such website shall be accessible by the Banks without charge; <U>provided</U> that such notice may be
included in a certificate delivered pursuant to Section&nbsp;7.1(a)(iii). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Use of Proceeds. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Loans only for the purposes set forth in Section&nbsp;6.1(g), and it will not use
the proceeds of any Loan for any purpose that would violate the provisions of the margin regulations of the Board. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, engage principally, or as one of its important activities, in
the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying, within the meaning of Regulation U, any Margin Stock. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) The Borrower will not request any Borrowing, and the Borrower shall not use, and shall procure that its Subsidiaries and,
to their knowledge, their respective agents (in their capacity as agents, respectively, of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries), shall not use the proceeds of any Borrowing (A)&nbsp;to finance an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization
of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any Anti-Corruption Laws, (B)&nbsp;for the purpose of funding, financing or facilitating any activities, business
or transaction by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with any Sanctioned Person, or in any Sanctioned Country, or (C)&nbsp;that would result in the violation of any Sanctions by any party hereto. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) <U>Existence; Laws</U>. The Borrower will, and will cause each Significant Subsidiary to, do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve, renew and keep in full force and effect its legal existence and all rights, licenses, permits and franchises; <U>provided</U> that the foregoing shall not prohibit any merger, consolidation, liquidation or dissolution otherwise permitted
under this Agreement; and <U>provided</U> <U>further</U> that neither the Borrower nor any Significant Subsidiary shall be required to preserve or maintain any rights, licenses, permits or franchises if the failure to maintain and preserve the same
would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Significant Subsidiaries to, comply with all laws and regulations applicable to it, except
where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)
<U>Maintenance of Properties</U>. The Borrower will, and will cause each Significant Subsidiary to, preserve and maintain all of its Property that is material to the conduct of the business of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
<U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that nothing in this Section&nbsp;7.1(d) shall prevent the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries from (i)&nbsp;selling, abandoning or otherwise disposing of any Properties (including the Capital Stock of
any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Significant Subsidiary or any Person that is not a Subsidiary) if (x)&nbsp;the retention of such Properties in the good faith judgment of the Borrower or such Significant Subsidiary is inadvisable or
unnecessary to the business of the Borrower and its </P>
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Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (y)&nbsp;the failure to preserve and maintain such Properties would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii)&nbsp;engaging in any
other transaction that is expressly permitted by the terms of any other provision of this Agreement. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) <U>Maintenance of Business
Line</U>. The Borrower will maintain its fundamental business of providing services and products in the energy market. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) <U>Books and
Records; Access</U>. The Borrower will, and will cause each Significant Subsidiary to, keep proper books of record and account in which complete and accurate entries, in all material respects, are made of its financial and business transactions to
the extent required by GAAP. The Borrower will, and will cause each of its Significant Subsidiaries to, at any reasonable time and from time to time (but not to exceed two times in any calendar year unless a Default or an Event of Default exists),
permit up to six representatives of the Banks designated by the Majority Banks, or representatives of the Administrative Agent, on not less than five Business Days&#146; notice, to examine and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books
of account of, and visit the properties of, the Borrower and each Significant Subsidiary and to discuss the general business affairs of the Borrower and each of its Significant Subsidiaries with their respective officers and independent certified
public accountants (<U>provided</U> that, so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Borrower shall have the opportunity to be present at any such discussion with such independent certified public
accountants); subject, however, in all cases to the imposition of such conditions as the Borrower and each of its Significant Subsidiaries shall deem necessary based on reasonable considerations of safety and security; <U>provided</U>,
<U>however</U>, that neither the Borrower nor any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall be required to disclose to the Administrative Agent, any Bank or any agents or representatives thereof any information which is the subject of attorney-client
privilege or attorney work-product privilege properly asserted by the applicable Person to prevent the loss of such privilege in connection with such information or which is prevented from disclosure pursuant to a confidentiality agreement with
third parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the conditions precedent to the exercise of the right of access described in the preceding sentence that relate to notice requirements or limitations on the Persons permitted to exercise such
right shall apply at any time when a Default or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) <U>Insurance</U>. The
Borrower will, and will cause each Significant Subsidiary to, maintain insurance with responsible and reputable insurance companies or associations, or to the extent that the Borrower or such Significant Subsidiary deems it prudent to do so, through
its own program of self-insurance, in such amounts and covering such risks as is usually carried by companies engaged in similar businesses, of comparable size and financial strength and with comparable risks. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 7.2. <U>Negative Covenants</U>. The Borrower covenants that, so long as any amount is owing to the Banks hereunder or under any other
Loan Document to which it is a party (other than indemnities and other contingent obligations not then due and payable and as to which no claim has been made) or any Bank shall have any Commitment outstanding under this Agreement: </P>
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fiscal quarter, the ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness for Borrowed Money as of such date to Consolidated Capitalization as of such date to exceed 67.5%; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, during each period after the occurrence of a Storm Certificate
Effective Date until the applicable Other Covenant Trigger Date, the applicable ratio shall be 70%. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) <U>Certain Liens</U>. The
Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Significant Subsidiaries to, pledge, mortgage, hypothecate or grant a Lien upon, or permit any mortgage, pledge, security interest or other Lien upon, any Property of the Borrower or any Significant
Subsidiary of the Borrower; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that this restriction shall neither apply to nor prevent the creation or existence of: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) Permitted Liens; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) any Lien in existence on the date hereof; <U>provided</U> that (A)&nbsp;no such Lien described in this clause&nbsp;(ii)
encumbers any additional Property after the date hereof (other than repairs, renewals, replacements, additions, accessions, improvements and betterments to the Property originally subject to such Lien) and (B)&nbsp;the principal amount of
Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries secured thereby is not increased after the date hereof (except that, if such Indebtedness is refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended after the Closing Date, the principal amount thereof may be
increased by an amount necessary to pay all accrued and unpaid interest on such Indebtedness being refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended and any fees and expenses, including premiums, related to such refinancing, refunding, renewal or
replacement); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) Liens securing bonds issued after the date hereof pursuant to the CEHE Original Mortgage (to the
extent the proceeds thereof are used to replace, refund or refinance first mortgage bonds outstanding on the date hereof) or the CEHE General Mortgage Indenture (or second or subordinated, as the case may be, Liens in lieu thereof); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) Liens required to be granted pursuant to &#147;equal and ratable&#148; clauses existing on the date hereof under
Contractual Obligations of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries (and extensions and renewals thereof); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) Liens
in favor of the Borrower or a Subsidiary securing intercompany obligations owing to the Borrower or its Subsidiaries; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(vi)
Liens on fixed or capital assets and related inventory and intangible assets acquired, constructed, improved, altered or repaired by the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary; <U>provided</U> that (i)&nbsp;such Liens secure Indebtedness otherwise
permitted by this Agreement, (ii)&nbsp;such Liens and the Indebtedness secured thereby are incurred prior to or within 365 days after such acquisition or the later of the completion of such construction, improvement, alteration or repair or the date
of commercial operation of the assets constructed, improved, altered or repaired, (iii)&nbsp;the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost of acquiring, constructing, improving, altering or repairing such fixed or capital assets, as the
case may be, and (iv)&nbsp;such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or of its Significant Subsidiaries (other than repairs, renewals, replacements, additions, accessions, improvements and betterments thereto); </P>
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accessions, improvements and betterments thereto existing at the time such Property is acquired by the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary and not created in contemplation of such acquisition (or on repairs, renewals, replacements, additions,
accessions and betterments thereto), and Liens on the Property of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower and not created in contemplation of such Person becoming a Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower
(or on repairs, renewals, replacements, additions, accessions and betterments thereto); </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(viii) rights reserved to or
vested in any Governmental Authority by the terms of any right, power, franchise, grant, license or permit, or by any Requirements of Law, to terminate such right, power, franchise, grant, license or permit or to purchase, condemn, expropriate or
recapture or to designate a purchaser of any of the Property of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ix)
rights reserved to or vested in (or exercised by) any Governmental Authority to control, regulate or use any Property of a Person or its activities, including zoning, planning and environmental laws and ordinances and municipal regulations; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(x) Liens on Property of the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries securing
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-recourse</FONT> Indebtedness of the Borrower or any such Significant Subsidiary; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xi)
Liens on the stock or assets of Securitization Subsidiaries; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xii) any extension, renewal or refunding of any Lien
permitted by clauses (i)&nbsp;through (xi) above on the same Property previously subject thereto; <U>provided</U> that no extension, renewal or refunding of any such Lien shall increase the principal amount of any Indebtedness secured thereby
immediately prior to such extension, renewal or refunding, unless such Indebtedness is permitted under Section&nbsp;7.2(a); </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xiii) Liens on cash collateral to secure obligations of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries in respect of cash
management arrangements with any Bank or Affiliate thereof; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(xiv) Liens not otherwise permitted by this
Section&nbsp;7.2(b) securing Indebtedness and other obligations of the Borrower and its Significant Subsidiaries so long as the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Indebtedness and obligations secured thereby does not at any time exceed at
the time of incurrence of such Indebtedness or obligations (including any such incurrence resulting from any extension, renewal or refunding of such Indebtedness or obligations), as to the Borrower and all of its Significant Subsidiaries, 12.5% of
Net Tangible Assets. </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) <U>Consolidation, Merger or Disposal of Assets</U>. The Borrower will not, and will not
permit any Significant Subsidiary to, (i)&nbsp;merge into or consolidate with any other Person; (ii)&nbsp;liquidate, wind up or dissolve (or suffer any liquidation or dissolution); or (iii)&nbsp;sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or
substantially all of its Properties to any Person; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that (A)&nbsp;the Borrower may merge into, or consolidate with, any Person if the Borrower is the surviving entity; (B)&nbsp;any Significant Subsidiary may
consolidate with or merge into (1)&nbsp;the Borrower if the Borrower is the surviving entity or (2)&nbsp;any other Subsidiary of the Borrower if the surviving entity is such Significant Subsidiary or a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary;
(C)&nbsp;any Significant Subsidiary may consolidate with or merge into any Person other than the Borrower or another Subsidiary of the Borrower if (1)&nbsp;such Significant Subsidiary is the surviving entity or (2)&nbsp;such other Person is the
surviving entity and becomes a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary contemporaneously with such consolidation or merger; (D)&nbsp;any Significant Subsidiary may liquidate, wind up or dissolve if the Properties of such Significant Subsidiary are
conveyed, transferred or distributed pursuant to such liquidation, winding up or dissolution to the Borrower or a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary; (E)&nbsp;any Significant Subsidiary may sell, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or
substantially all of its Properties to the Borrower, to another Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary or to a Person that becomes a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary contemporaneously with such sale, transfer, lease or other disposition; (F)&nbsp;the
Borrower and any Significant Subsidiary may transfer assets in connection with the issuance of Securitization Securities; and (G)&nbsp;the Borrower and any Significant Subsidiary may enter into transactions permitted under Section&nbsp;7.2(e);
<U>provided</U> that (x)&nbsp;in each case, immediately before and after giving effect to any such merger or consolidation, dissolution or liquidation, or sale, transfer, lease or other disposition, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
and be continuing and (y)&nbsp;in the case of any transaction described in foregoing clauses (A)&nbsp;or (G) (excluding, in the case of clause (A), any transaction in which any Subsidiary of the Borrower merges into or consolidates with the
Borrower), after giving effect to such transaction, the Borrower shall be in pro forma compliance with Section&nbsp;7.2(a). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d)
<U>Takeover Bids</U>. The Borrower will not use the proceeds of any Loan made to it to participate in any unsolicited control bid for any other Person. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) <U>Sale of Significant Subsidiary Stock</U>. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Significant Subsidiary to, sell, assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any of the Capital Stock of any Significant Subsidiary. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of Section&nbsp;7.2(c) or this Section&nbsp;7.2(e), (1) the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary may sell, assign,
transfer or otherwise dispose of (i)&nbsp;any of the Capital Stock of any Significant Subsidiary to the Borrower or to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower that constitutes a Significant Subsidiary after giving effect to such transaction and
(ii)&nbsp;any of the Capital Stock of any Subsidiary that is not a Significant Subsidiary or any of the Capital Stock of a Person that is not a Subsidiary; (2)&nbsp;any Significant Subsidiary shall have the right to issue, sell, assign, transfer or
otherwise dispose of for value its preference or preferred stock in one or more bona fide transactions to any Person; and (3)&nbsp;the Borrower and any Significant Subsidiary may enter into transactions permitted by Section&nbsp;7.2(c);
<U>provided</U> that immediately before and after giving effect to any such sale, assignment, transfer or other disposition described in the foregoing clauses (1), (2) and (3), no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
</P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) <U>Agreements Restricting Dividends</U>. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any Significant Subsidiary to, enter into, incur
or permit to exist any consensual Contractual Obligation that explicitly prohibits or restricts the payment by any Significant Subsidiary of dividends or other distributions with respect to any shares of its Capital Stock; <U>provided</U> that the
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foregoing shall not prohibit financial incurrence, maintenance and similar covenants that indirectly have the practical effect of prohibiting or restricting the ability of a Significant
Subsidiary to make such payments or provisions that require that a certain amount of capital be maintained, or prohibit the return of capital to shareholders above certain dollar limits; <U>provided</U> <U>further</U>, that the foregoing shall not
apply to (i)&nbsp;prohibitions and restrictions imposed by law or by this Agreement, (ii)&nbsp;prohibitions and restrictions contained in, or existing by reason of, any agreement or instrument existing on the Closing Date, (iii)&nbsp;prohibitions
and restrictions contained in, or existing by reason of, any agreement or instrument relating to any Indebtedness of, or otherwise to, any Person at the time such Person first becomes a Significant Subsidiary, so long as such prohibition or
restriction was not created in contemplation of such Person becoming a Significant Subsidiary, (iv)&nbsp;prohibitions or restrictions contained in, or existing by reason of, any agreement or instrument effecting a renewal, extension, refinancing,
refund or replacement (or successive extensions, renewals, refinancings, refunds or replacements) of Indebtedness or other obligations issued or outstanding under an agreement or instrument referred to in clauses (ii)&nbsp;and (iii) above, so long
as the prohibitions or restrictions contained in any such renewal, extension, refinancing, refund or replacement agreement, taken as a whole, are not materially more restrictive than the prohibitions and restrictions contained in the original
agreement or instrument, as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, (v)&nbsp;any prohibitions or restrictions with respect to a Significant Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement that has been entered into in
connection with a disposition of all or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets of such Subsidiary, (vi)&nbsp;any prohibitions or restrictions in respect of preferred or preference stock permitted to be issued by Significant Subsidiaries
under Section&nbsp;7.2(e), (vii) restrictions in respect of Project Financings permitted hereunder and (viii)&nbsp;restrictions contained in joint venture agreements, partnership agreements and other similar agreements with respect to a joint
ownership arrangement restricting the disposition or distribution of assets or property of, or the activities of, such joint venture, partnership or other joint ownership entity, or any of such entity&#146;s subsidiaries, if such restrictions are
not applicable to the property or assets of any other entity. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) <U>Certain Investments, Loans, Advances, Guarantees and
Acquisitions</U>. The Borrower will not, and will not permit any of its Significant Subsidiaries to, (i)&nbsp;purchase or acquire (including pursuant to any merger) any Capital Stock, evidence of indebtedness or other interest in (including any
option, warrant or other right to acquire any of the foregoing), make any loans or advances to, Guarantee any obligations of, or make any investment in or capital contribution to, any Unrestricted Subsidiary (any of the foregoing, an
&#147;<U>Investment</U>&#148;) at any time, if the aggregate amount of net tangible assets of all Unrestricted Subsidiaries at such time exceeds, or would exceed as a result of any such Investment, 17% of the Net Tangible Assets, or (ii)&nbsp;make
Investments in Project Financing Subsidiaries at any time if the aggregate amount of Investments at such time exceeds, or would exceed as a result of any such Investments, $500,000,000. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) <U>Revocation of Storm Certificate</U>. The Borrower will not fail to revoke a Storm Certificate, by delivery of written notice of such
revocation to the Administrative Agent, promptly upon acquiring knowledge that any statement contained in clause (ii)&nbsp;or (iii) of the definition of Storm Certificate as set forth in an effective Storm Certificate is no longer applicable. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">EVENTS OF DEFAULT </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.1.
<U>Events of Default</U>. The occurrence of any of the following events shall constitute an &#147;<U>Event of Default</U>&#148;: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) <U><FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Payment</FONT> of Principal and Interest</U>. The Borrower fails to pay, in the manner provided in this Agreement, (i)&nbsp;any principal payable by it hereunder when due or (ii)&nbsp;any interest payment and Ticking
Fees payable by it hereunder within five (5)&nbsp;Business Days after its due date; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b)
<U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Payment</FONT> of Other Amounts</U>. The Borrower fails to pay, in the manner provided in this Agreement, any other amount (other than the amounts set forth in Section&nbsp;8.1(a) above) payable by it
hereunder when due and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of at least ten (10)&nbsp;Business Days after the Borrower&#146;s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent of such default; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) <U>Breach of Representation or Warranty</U>. Any representation or warranty by the Borrower in Section&nbsp;6.1, in any other Loan
Document or in any certificate, document or instrument delivered by the Borrower under this Agreement shall have been incorrect in any material respect when made or when deemed hereunder to have been made; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) <U>Breach of Certain Covenants</U>. The Borrower fails to perform or comply with any one or more of its obligations under
Section&nbsp;7.1(a)(v)(A), 7.1(b)(ii) or 7.2; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) <U>Breach of Other Obligations</U>. The Borrower does not perform or comply with any
one or more of its other obligations under this Agreement (other than those set forth in Section&nbsp;8.1(a), (b) or (d)&nbsp;above) or under any other Loan Document and such failure to perform or comply shall not have been remedied within 30 days
after the earlier of (i)&nbsp;notice thereof to the Borrower from the Administrative Agent or the Majority Banks and (ii)&nbsp;actual knowledge thereof by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) <U>Other Indebtedness</U>. (i)&nbsp;The Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary fails to pay when due (either at stated maturity or by
acceleration or otherwise, but subject to applicable grace periods) any principal or interest in respect of any Indebtedness for Borrowed Money (other than Indebtedness of the Borrower under this Agreement), Secured Indebtedness or Junior
Subordinated Debt if the aggregate principal amount of all such Indebtedness for which such failure to pay shall have occurred and be continuing exceeds $125,000,000 or (ii)&nbsp;any default, event or condition shall have occurred and be continuing
with respect to any Indebtedness for Borrowed Money, Secured Indebtedness or Junior Subordinated Debt of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary (other than Indebtedness of the Borrower under this Agreement), the effect of which default, event or
condition is to cause, or to permit the holder thereof to cause, (A)&nbsp;such Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity (other than in respect of mandatory prepayments required thereby) or (B)&nbsp;in the case of any Guarantee of
Indebtedness for Borrowed Money or Junior Subordinated Debt by the Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries, the primary obligation (as such term is defined in the definition of &#147;Guarantee&#148; in
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Section&nbsp;1.1) to which such Guarantee relates to become due prior to its stated maturity, if the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness or primary obligations with respect to which the
Borrower or any of its Significant Subsidiaries is liable (as the case may be) that is or could be caused to be due prior to its stated maturity exceeds $125,000,000; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(g) <U>Involuntary Bankruptcy, Etc.</U> (i)&nbsp;There shall be commenced against the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary any case,
proceeding or other action in any court of competent jurisdiction (A)&nbsp;seeking a decree or order for relief in respect of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary under any applicable domestic or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or
other similar law, (B)&nbsp;seeking a decree or order adjudging the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary a bankrupt or insolvent, (C)&nbsp;except as permitted by Section&nbsp;7.2(c)(ii), seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT> liquidation, dissolution, composition or other similar relief of or in respect of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary or their respective debts under any applicable domestic or foreign bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or other similar law or (D)&nbsp;seeking the appointment of a custodian, receiver, conservator, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary or of any
substantial part of their respective Properties, and, in the case of each of the foregoing clauses (A), (B), (C) and (D), such case, proceeding or other action is not dismissed within 90 days; or (ii)&nbsp;a decree, order or other judgment is
entered in respect of any of the remedies, reliefs or other matters for which any case, proceeding or other action referred to in clause (i)&nbsp;above is commenced; or (iii)&nbsp;there shall be commenced against the Borrower or any Significant
Subsidiary any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets that results in the entry of an order for any such relief that
shall not have been vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 90 days from the entry thereof; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(h) <U>Voluntary
Bankruptcy, Etc.</U> (i)&nbsp;The commencement by the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary of a voluntary case, proceeding or other action under any applicable domestic or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar law
(A)&nbsp;seeking to have an order of relief entered with respect to it, (B)&nbsp;seeking to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, (C)&nbsp;seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">winding-up,</FONT>
liquidation, dissolution, composition or other similar relief with respect to it or its debts under any applicable domestic or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar law or (D)&nbsp;seeking the appointment of or the taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, conservator, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary of any substantial part of its Properties; or (ii)&nbsp;the making by the Borrower or any
Significant Subsidiary of a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (iii)&nbsp;the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary shall take any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the
acts described in clause (i)&nbsp;or (ii) above or in Section&nbsp;8.1(g); or (iv)&nbsp;the admission by the Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due or the failure by the
Borrower or any Significant Subsidiary generally to pay its debts as such debts become due; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) <U>Judgments</U>. One or more final
judgments or decrees for the payment of money in an aggregate amount in excess of $125,000,000 (to the extent not covered by insurance) shall be rendered by one or more courts of competent jurisdiction against the Borrower or any Significant
Subsidiary, and the same shall remain undischarged for a period of 60 days during which the execution thereon shall not effectively be stayed, released, bonded or vacated; or </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(j) <U>ERISA Events</U>. The existence of an event or events, individually or, in the
aggregate, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect arising out of or in connection with (i)&nbsp;any &#147;prohibited transaction&#148; (as defined in Section&nbsp;406 of ERISA or Section&nbsp;4975 of the Code) involving
any Plan, (ii)&nbsp;the failure by any Plan to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section&nbsp;412 of the Code or Section&nbsp;302 of ERISA) by a Plan, whether or not waived, or any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan on
the assets of the Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity, (iii)&nbsp;the occurrence of a Reportable Event with respect to, or the commencement of proceedings under Section&nbsp;4042 of ERISA to have a trustee appointed, or the appointment of a
trustee under Section&nbsp;4042 of ERISA, to administer or to terminate any Single Employer Plan, which Reportable Event, commencement of proceedings or appointment of a trustee would reasonably be expected to result in the termination of such Plan
for purposes of Title IV of ERISA, (iv)&nbsp;the termination of any Single Employer Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA or (v)&nbsp;withdrawal from, or the Insolvency of, a Multiemployer Plan; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(k) <U>Change in Control</U>. A Change in Control shall have occurred. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 8.2. <U>Cancellation/Acceleration</U>. If at any time and for any reason (whether within or beyond the control of any party to this
Agreement): </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) either of the Events of Default specified in Section&nbsp;8.1(g) or 8.1(h) occurs with respect to the Borrower, then
automatically: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) the Commitments shall immediately be cancelled; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) all Loans made hereunder, all unpaid accrued interest or fees and any other sum payable under this Agreement or any other
Loan Document shall become immediately due and payable; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) any other Event of Default specified in Section&nbsp;8.1 occurs, then, at
any time thereafter while such Event of Default is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, upon the instruction of the Majority Banks, by notice to the Borrower, declare that: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) the Commitments shall immediately be cancelled; and/or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) either (A)&nbsp;all Loans made hereunder, all unpaid accrued interest or fees and any other sum payable under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document shall become immediately due and payable or (B)&nbsp;all Loans made hereunder, all unpaid accrued interest or fees and any other sum payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall become due and
payable at any time thereafter immediately on demand by the Administrative Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Banks). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Except as expressly provided above in this Section&nbsp;8.2, presentment, demand, protest, notice of intent to accelerate, notice of
acceleration and all other notices of any kind whatsoever are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION
9.1. <U>Appointment</U>. Each Bank hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Mizuho Bank, Ltd. as the Administrative Agent of such Bank under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and each such Bank irrevocably authorizes Mizuho Bank, Ltd.,
as the Administrative Agent for such Bank, to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the Administrative
Agent by the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, (a)&nbsp;the Administrative Agent
shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Bank, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent and (b)&nbsp;the Lead Arranger shall not have any duties or responsibilities hereunder, or any fiduciary relationship with any Bank, and no implied covenants,
functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Lead Arranger. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.2. <U>Delegation of Duties</U>. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents by or through agents or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> and shall be entitled to advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent
shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agents or <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> selected by it with reasonable care. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.3. <U>Exculpatory Provisions</U>. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> or Affiliates shall be (a)&nbsp;liable for any action lawfully taken or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in connection with this Agreement
or any other Loan Document (except to the extent that any of the foregoing are found by a final and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-appealable</FONT> decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its or such Person&#146;s
own gross negligence or willful misconduct) or (b)&nbsp;responsible in any manner to any of the Banks for any recitals, statements, representations or warranties made by the Borrower or any officer thereof contained in this Agreement or any other
Loan Document or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for the value, validity,
effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any Note or any other Loan Document or for any failure of the Borrower to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. The Administrative Agent shall not be under any
obligation to any Bank to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of the Borrower.
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.4. <U>Reliance by Administrative Agent</U>. The Administrative Agent shall be
entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument, note, writing, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, facsimile, email, statement, order or other document or conversation believed by it to be
genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to the Borrower), independent accountants and other experts selected by the Administrative
Agent with reasonable care. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note or any loan account in the Register as the owner thereof for all purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have
been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the
Majority Banks (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Banks) as it deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Banks against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by reason of taking or
continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request of the Majority Banks (or, if
so specified by this Agreement, all Banks), and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Banks and all future holders of the amounts owing hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.5. <U>Notice of Default</U>. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any
Default or Event of Default hereunder unless the Administrative Agent has received notice from a Bank or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a &#147;notice of
default&#148;. In the event that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Banks. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as
shall be reasonably directed by the Majority Banks (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Banks); <U>provided</U> that unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be
obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable in the best interests of the Banks. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.6. <U><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Non-Reliance</FONT> on Administrative Agent, Lead Arranger and Other Banks</U>. Each Bank
expressly acknowledges that neither the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors,
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> or Affiliates have made any representations or warranties to it and that no act by the Administrative Agent or the Lead Arranger hereafter taken,
including any review of the affairs of the Borrower, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Administrative Agent or the Lead Arranger, as applicable, to any Bank. Each Bank represents to the Administrative Agent and the
Lead Arranger that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger or any other Bank, and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation
into the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower and made its own decision to make its Loans hereunder and enter into this Agreement. Each Bank also represents that it will, independently
and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger or any other Bank, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in
taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the
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Borrower. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Banks by the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall not have any duty
or responsibility to provide any Bank with any credit or other information concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of the Borrower that may come into the possession of the
Administrative Agent or any of its officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">attorneys-in-fact</FONT></FONT> or Affiliates. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.7. <U>Indemnification</U>. The Banks agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and their respective affiliates
and their and their affiliates&#146; respective officers, directors, employees, partners, affiliates, agents, advisors, and controlling persons (each, an &#147;<U>Agent Indemnitee</U>&#148;) (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower and without
limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), ratably according to their respective applicable Loan Percentages in effect on the date on which indemnification is sought under this Section&nbsp;9.7 (or, if indemnification is sought after the
date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with such applicable Loan Percentages immediately prior to such date), from and against any and all liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (including at any time following the payment of all amounts owing hereunder and the termination of the Commitments)
be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent Indemnitee under or in connection with any of the foregoing; <U>provided</U> that no Bank shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements that are found to by a final and <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-appealable</FONT> decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have
resulted from such Agent Indemnitee&#146;s gross negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section&nbsp;9.7 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.8. <U>Administrative Agent in Its Individual Capacity</U>. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may make loans to, accept
deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower as though the Administrative Agent were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. With respect to its Loans made or renewed by it and its
Commitment hereunder, the Administrative Agent shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Bank and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent, and the terms
&#147;Bank&#148; and &#147;Banks&#148; shall include the Administrative Agent in its individual capacity. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.9. <U>Successor
Administrative Agent</U>. The Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent upon 30 days&#146; notice to the Banks and the Borrower. If the Administrative Agent shall resign as Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, then the Majority Banks shall appoint from among the Banks a successor agent for the Banks, which successor agent shall (unless an Event of Default under Sections 8.1(a), (g) or (h)&nbsp;with respect to the Borrower shall have occurred
and be continuing) be subject to approval by the Borrower (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the
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Administrative Agent, and the term &#147;Administrative Agent&#148; shall mean such successor agent effective upon such appointment and approval, and the former Administrative Agent&#146;s
rights, powers and duties as Administrative Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or any holders of any amounts payable hereunder.
If a successor Administrative Agent shall not have been so appointed within 15 days after the resigning Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, the resigning Administrative Agent may then appoint a successor Administrative Agent who
shall be a financial institution engaged or licensed to conduct banking business under the laws of the United States with an office in the United States and that has total assets in excess of $500,000,000 and who shall serve as Administrative Agent
until such time, if any, as an Administrative Agent shall have been appointed by the Majority Banks (with the consent of the Borrower to the extent required above) as provided above. After any Administrative Agent&#146;s resignation as
Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article IX and of Section&nbsp;10.5 shall continue to inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.10. <U>Lead Arranger</U>. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Bank identified as a
&#147;Lead Arranger&#148; shall have the right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement or any other Loan Document other than those applicable to all Banks as such. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Banks
so identified shall have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Bank. Each Bank acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Banks so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or not taking action
hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.11. <U>Certain ERISA Matters</U>.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Each Bank (x)&nbsp;represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Bank party hereto, to, and (y)&nbsp;covenants, from the
date such Person became a Bank party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Bank party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the
benefit of the Borrower, that at least one of the following is and will be true: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) such Bank is not using &#147;plan
assets&#148; (within the meaning of the Plan Asset Regulations) of one or more Benefit Plans in connection with the Loans or the Commitments; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">84-14</FONT> (a
class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">95-60</FONT> (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts),
PTE <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">90-1</FONT> (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">91-38</FONT> (a class exemption for certain transactions
involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">96-23</FONT> (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">in-house</FONT> asset managers), is applicable with respect
to such Bank&#146;s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii)&nbsp;(A) such Bank is an investment fund managed by a &#147;Qualified
Professional Asset Manager&#148; (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">84-14),</FONT> (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Bank to enter into, participate in,
administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C)&nbsp;the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">sub-sections</FONT> (b)&nbsp;through (g) of Part I of PTE <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">84-14</FONT> and (D)&nbsp;to the best knowledge of such Bank, the requirements of subsection (a)&nbsp;of Part I of PTE <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">84-14</FONT> are satisfied with respect to such Bank&#146;s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement; or </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole
discretion, and such Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) In addition, unless <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">sub-clause</FONT> (i)&nbsp;in the immediately
preceding clause (a)&nbsp;is true with respect to a Bank or such Bank has provided another representation, warranty and covenant as provided in <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">sub-clause</FONT> (iv)&nbsp;in the immediately preceding clause (a),
such Bank further (x)&nbsp;represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Bank party hereto, to, and (y)&nbsp;covenants, from the date such Person became a Bank party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Bank party hereto, for
the benefit of, the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and their respective Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of the Borrower, that none of the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger or any of their
respective Affiliates is a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Bank (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to
hereto or thereto). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger hereby inform the Banks that each such Person is not undertaking
to provide investment advice or to give advice in a fiduciary capacity, in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, and that such Person has a financial interest in the transactions contemplated hereby in that such Person or an
Affiliate thereof (i)&nbsp;may receive interest or other payments with respect to the Loans, the Commitments, this Agreement and any other Loan Documents, (ii)&nbsp;may recognize a gain if it extended the Loans or the Commitments for an amount less
than the amount being paid for an interest in the Loans or the Commitments by such Bank or (iii)&nbsp;may receive fees or other payments in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby, the Loan Documents or otherwise, including structuring
fees, arrangement fees, agency fees, administrative agent fees, commitment fees, fronting fees, amendment fees, processing fees, banker&#146;s acceptance fees, breakage or other early termination fees or fees similar to the foregoing. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 9.12. <U>Recovery of Erroneous Payments</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) If the Administrative Agent notifies a Bank (any such Bank, a &#147;<U>Payment Recipient</U>&#148;) that the Administrative Agent has
determined in its sole discretion (whether or not after receipt of any notice under immediately succeeding clause (b)) that any funds received by such Payment Recipient from the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates were erroneously
transmitted to, or otherwise erroneously or mistakenly received by, such Payment Recipient (whether or not known to such Payment Recipient) (any such funds, whether received as a </P>
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payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise, individually and collectively, an &#147;<U>Erroneous Payment</U>&#148;) and demands the return of such
Erroneous Payment (or a portion thereof), such Erroneous Payment shall at all times remain the property of the Administrative Agent and shall be segregated by the Payment Recipient and held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, and
such Payment Recipient shall promptly, but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter, return to the Administrative Agent the amount of any such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) as to which such a demand was made, in same day funds
(in the currency so received), together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof) was received by such Payment Recipient to the date such amount is repaid to the
Administrative Agent in same day funds at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation from time to time in effect. A notice of the
Administrative Agent to any Payment Recipient under this clause (a)&nbsp;shall be conclusive, absent manifest error. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Without limiting
immediately preceding clause (a), each Payment Recipient hereby further agrees that if it receives a payment, prepayment or repayment (whether received as a payment, prepayment or repayment of principal, interest, fees, distribution or otherwise)
from the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates)&nbsp;(x) that is in a different amount than, or on a different date from, that specified in a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its
Affiliates) with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment, (y)&nbsp;that was not preceded or accompanied by a notice of payment, prepayment or repayment sent by the Administrative Agent (or any of its Affiliates), or (z)&nbsp;that such
Payment Recipient, otherwise becomes aware was transmitted, or received, in error or by mistake (in whole or in part) in each case: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) in the case of immediately preceding clauses (x)&nbsp;or (y), an error shall be presumed to have been made (absent written
confirmation from the Administrative Agent to the contrary) or (B)&nbsp;an error has been made (in the case of immediately preceding clause (z)), in each case, with respect to such payment, prepayment or repayment; and </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) such Payment Recipient shall (and shall cause any other recipient that receives funds on its respective behalf to)
promptly (and, in all events, within one Business Day of its knowledge of such error) notify the Administrative Agent of its receipt of such payment, prepayment or repayment, the details thereof (in reasonable detail) and that it is so notifying the
Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section&nbsp;9.12(b). </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Each Payment Recipient hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set
off, net and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Payment Recipient under any Loan Document, or otherwise payable or distributable by the Administrative Agent to such Payment Recipient from any source, against any amount due to the
Administrative Agent under immediately preceding clause (a)&nbsp;or under the indemnification provisions of this Agreement. In addition, each party hereto agrees that, irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent may be equitably subrogated, the
Administrative Agent shall be contractually subrogated to all the rights and interests of the applicable Payment Recipient under the Loan Documents with respect to each Erroneous Payment (or portion thereof that is not returned to the Administrative
Agent as provided herein). </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) The parties hereto agree that an Erroneous Payment shall not pay, prepay, repay,
discharge or otherwise satisfy any amounts owed by the Borrower or any other Credit Party under any Loan Document. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) To the extent
permitted by applicable law, no Payment Recipient shall assert any right or claim to an Erroneous Payment, and hereby waives, and is deemed to waive, any claim, counterclaim, defense or right of <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">set-off</FONT> or
recoupment with respect to any demand, claim or counterclaim by the Administrative Agent for the return of any Erroneous Payment received, including without limitation waiver of any defense based on &#147;discharge for value&#148; or any similar
doctrine. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) Each party&#146;s obligations, agreements and waivers under this Section&nbsp;9.12 shall survive the resignation or
replacement of the Administrative Agent, any transfer of rights or obligations by, or the replacement of, a Bank, the termination of the Commitments and/or the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all amounts owing (or any portion thereof) under
any Loan Document. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">ARTICLE X </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center">MISCELLANEOUS </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.1.
<U>Amendments and Waivers</U>. Subject to Section&nbsp;2.4(b) and Section&nbsp;3.9, neither this Agreement nor any other Loan Document, nor any provision hereof or thereof, may be waived, amended, supplemented or modified except pursuant to an
instrument or instruments in writing entered into by the Borrower and the Majority Banks or by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Majority Banks; <U>provided</U> that (x)&nbsp;the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and
the Banks providing any Commitment Increase may enter into any amendment necessary to implement the terms of such Commitment Increase in accordance with the terms of this Agreement without the consent of any other Bank, (y)&nbsp;no Defaulting Bank
shall have any right to approve or disapprove any such waiver, amendment or modification and (z)&nbsp;in no such event shall any such waiver, amendment or modification: </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(i) increase the amount or extend the expiration date of any Bank&#146;s Commitment without the consent of such Bank; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(ii) reduce the principal amount of any Loan, or extend the scheduled date of maturity of any Loan, or reduce the stated rate
of any interest or fee payable hereunder or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, in each case without the consent of each Bank directly affected thereby; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iii) amend, modify or waive any provision of this Section&nbsp;10.1 or of Section&nbsp;4.2 or Section&nbsp;4.4 in a manner
that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby, or reduce the percentage specified in the definition of Majority Banks, or consent to the assignment or transfer by the Borrower of any of its respective rights and obligations
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, in each case without the written consent of all the Banks; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(iv) amend, modify or waive any provision of Article IX without the written
consent of the Administrative Agent at the time; or </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:4%; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(v) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section&nbsp;2.4 without
the written consent of the Administrative Agent. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:9%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Any such waiver, amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of
the Banks and shall be binding upon the Borrower, the Banks, the Administrative Agent and all future holders of the amounts payable hereunder. In the case of any waiver (to the extent specified therein), the Borrower, the Banks and the
Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights hereunder and under any other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of Default waived shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing, but no such waiver shall extend to
any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or impair any right consequent thereon. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.2. <U>Notices</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto shall be in writing
(including by facsimile followed by any original sent by mail or delivery), and, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered by hand, or three days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of facsimile
notice, when received, addressed as follows in the case of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, and as set forth in <U>Schedule</U><U></U><U>&nbsp;1.1</U> in the case of the other parties hereto, or to such other address as may be hereafter
notified by the respective parties hereto pursuant to paragraph (c)&nbsp;below and any future holders of the amounts payable hereunder: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top">1111 Louisiana</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Patricia L. Martin</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">(713) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">207-5495</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">1111 Louisiana</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Brett Jerasa, Assistant Treasurer</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">(713) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">207-9550</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Administrative</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Mizuho Bank, Ltd.</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Harborside Financial Center</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">Attention:</TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD VALIGN="top">Ryan Masajo</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">201 626 9017</TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top">lau_agent@mizuhogroup.com</TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><U>provided</U> that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Administrative Agent or the Banks shall
not be effective until received during such recipient&#146;s normal business hours. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) The Borrower hereby acknowledges that
(i)&nbsp;certain of the Banks may be &#147;public-side&#148; Banks (i.e., Banks that do not wish to receive material <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-public</FONT> information with respect to the Borrower or its securities) (each, a
&#147;<U>Public Lender</U>&#148;) and (ii)&nbsp;the Administrative Agent will make available to the Banks certain notices, requests, financial statements, financial and other reports, certificates and other information materials, but excluding any
such communication that initiates or responds to the legal process (all such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-excluded</FONT> information being referred to herein collectively as the &#147;<U>Communications</U>&#148;) on IntraLinks or another
relevant website (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent) (the &#147;<U>Platform</U>&#148;). The Borrower hereby agrees that (i)&nbsp;all Communications that are to be made available to Public
Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked &#147;PUBLIC&#148; which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word &#147;PUBLIC&#148; shall appear prominently on the first page thereof, (ii)&nbsp;by marking Communications &#147;PUBLIC,&#148; the
Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent and the Banks to treat such Communications as not containing any material <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-public</FONT> information with respect to the Borrower or its
securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws, it being understood that certain of such Communications may be subject to the confidentiality requirements hereof, (iii)&nbsp;all Communications marked &#147;PUBLIC&#148;
are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated &#147;Public Investor,&#148; and (iv)&nbsp;the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to treat any Communications that are not marked &#147;PUBLIC&#148; as being
suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated &#147;Public Investor.&#148; Notwithstanding the foregoing, (A)&nbsp;the Borrower shall be under no obligation to mark any Communications &#147;PUBLIC,&#148; and each Public
Lender hereby waives its right to receive any Communications that are not marked &#147;PUBLIC&#148;; and (B)&nbsp;the Administrative Agent shall treat Communications that are deemed to have been delivered based on notice pursuant to the last
sentence of Section&nbsp;7.1(a) as &#147;PUBLIC.&#148; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) The Administrative Agent or the Borrower may, in its discretion, agree to
accept notices and other communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; <U>provided</U> that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or circumstances. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) Any party hereto may change its address, facsimile number or electronic mail address for notices and other communications hereunder by
notice to the other parties hereto. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.3. <U>No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies</U>. No failure to exercise and no delay in
exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Bank, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude
any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges
provided by law. </P>
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warranties made hereunder and in any document, certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.5. <U>Payment of Expenses; Indemnity; Limitation of Liability, Etc.</U> </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) <U>Expenses</U>. The Borrower agrees (i)&nbsp;to pay all reasonable
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">out-of-pocket</FONT></FONT> expenses of the Lead Arranger associated with the syndication of the facility, (ii)&nbsp;to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all its
reasonable <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">out-of-pocket</FONT></FONT> costs and expenses incurred in connection with the preparation, negotiation and execution and delivery of, and any amendment, supplement or
modification to, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith, and the consummation and administration of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including the reasonable
fees and disbursements of Simpson Thacher&nbsp;&amp; Bartlett LLP, counsel to the Administrative Agent (but excluding the fees or disbursements of any other counsel), (iii) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent for all its costs and expenses
incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of its rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith, including the reasonable fees and disbursements of the
special counsel to the Administrative Agent, (iv)&nbsp;to pay or reimburse each Bank for all its costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement, or at any time after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or an Event
of Default, the preservation, of its rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith, including (A)&nbsp;the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to such Bank and
(B)&nbsp;other <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap"><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">out-of-pocket</FONT></FONT> expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans and (v)&nbsp;without duplication of any other
provision contained in this Agreement or any Notes, to pay, indemnify, and hold each Bank and the Administrative Agent harmless from, any and all recording and filing fees (for which each Bank has not been otherwise reimbursed by the Borrower under
this Agreement), if any, that may be payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution and delivery of, or consummation or administration of any of the transactions contemplated by, or any amendment, supplement or modification of,
or any waiver or consent under or in respect of, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or therewith. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) <U>Indemnity</U>. Without duplication of any other provision contained in this Agreement or any Notes, the Borrower agrees to pay,
indemnify and hold the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and each Bank together with their respective affiliates and their and their affiliates&#146; respective directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, advisors and Affiliates
(collectively, the &#147;<U>Indemnified Persons</U>&#148;), harmless from and against, any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (and shall reimburse each Indemnified Person upon demand for any reasonable legal or other expenses incurred
by such Indemnified Person in connection with investigating or defending any of the foregoing), incurred by any Indemnified Person arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and
administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or the use, or proposed use, of proceeds of the Loans (all the foregoing in this clause (b), collectively,
the &#147;<U>Indemnified Liabilities</U>&#148;); <U>provided</U> that (x)&nbsp;the Borrower shall have no obligation hereunder to an Indemnified Person with respect </P>
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to Indemnified Liabilities arising from or in connection with (A)&nbsp;the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnified Person or (B)&nbsp;the material breach by such Indemnified
Person of the express terms of this Agreement, in the case of each of the foregoing clauses (A)&nbsp;and (B) as determined by a final, <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-appealable</FONT> judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction and
(y)&nbsp;without limiting the provisions of Section&nbsp;4.3(c), this Section&nbsp;10.5(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-Tax</FONT> claim; AND <U>PROVIDED FURTHER</U> THAT, SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN, IT IS THE INTENTION OF THE BORROWER TO INDEMNIFY THE INDEMNIFIED PERSONS AGAINST THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR OWN
NEGLIGENCE. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section&nbsp;10.5(b) applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by the
Borrower, any of the Borrower&#146;s directors, security holders, affiliates, creditors, an Indemnified Person or any other Person, whether or not an Indemnified Person is otherwise a party to this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) <U>Limitation of Liability</U>. Each party hereto hereby waives, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any right it may have
to claim or recover from any other party hereto any special, indirect, punitive or consequential damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance
and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, or the use, or proposed use, of proceeds of the Loans; <U>provided</U> that nothing contained in this
paragraph (c)&nbsp;shall limit the Borrower&#146;s indemnification provisions contained in paragraph (b)&nbsp;above. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) The agreements
in this Section&nbsp;10.5 shall survive repayment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder and termination of this Agreement. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.6. <U>Effectiveness, Successors and Assigns; Participations; Assignments</U>. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) This Agreement shall become effective on the date hereof and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower,
the Banks, the Administrative Agent, all future holders of the Loans and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower may not assign or transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written
consent of each Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Any Bank may, without the consent of or notice to the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, in the ordinary
course of its business and in accordance with applicable law, at any time sell to one or more banks or other financial institutions or Bank Affiliates (a &#147;<U>Participant</U>&#148;) participating interests in any Loan owing to such Bank, any
Note held by such Bank, any Commitment of such Bank or any other interest of such Bank hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. In the event of any such sale by a Bank of a participating interest to a Participant, such Bank&#146;s obligations
under this Agreement to the other parties to this Agreement shall remain unchanged, such Bank shall remain solely responsible for the performance thereof, such Bank shall remain the holder of any such Loan and Commitment or other interest for all
purposes under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Bank in connection with such Bank&#146;s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents </P>
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and, except with respect to the matters set forth in Section&nbsp;10.1, the amendment of which requires the consent of all of the Banks, the participation agreement between the selling Bank and
the Participant may not restrict such Bank&#146;s voting rights hereunder. The Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 4.1 and 4.3 (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the
requirements under Section&nbsp;4.3(e) and Section&nbsp;4.3(f) (it being understood that the documentation required under Section&nbsp;4.3(e) and Section&nbsp;4.3(f) shall be delivered to the participating Bank)) to the same extent as if it were a
Bank and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (c)&nbsp;of this Section; <U>provided</U> that such Participant (i)&nbsp;agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 4.1 and 4.3 as if it were an assignee under paragraph
(c)&nbsp;of this Section and (ii)&nbsp;shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 4.1 or 4.3, with respect to any participation, than its participating Bank would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such
entitlement to receive a greater payment results from an adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by any Bank with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of
law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority made subsequent to the date hereof that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. The Borrower further agrees that each Participant, to the extent provided in its
participation, shall be entitled to the benefits of Section&nbsp;3.7 with respect to its participation in the Commitments and the Loans outstanding from time to time; <U>provided</U> that (i)&nbsp;no Participant shall be entitled to receive any
greater amount pursuant to such Sections than the selling Bank would have been entitled to receive in respect of the amount of the participation sold by such selling Bank to such Participant had no such sale occurred and (ii)&nbsp;each such sale of
participating interests shall be to a &#147;qualified purchaser&#148;, as such term is defined under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Except as expressly provided in this Section&nbsp;10.6(b), no Participant shall be a <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">third-party</FONT> beneficiary of or have any rights under this Agreement or under any of the other Loan Documents. Each Bank that sells a participation, acting solely for this purpose as a
<FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">non-fiduciary</FONT> agent of the Borrower, shall maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant&#146;s interest in
the Loans or other obligations under this Agreement (the &#147;<U>Participant Register</U>&#148;); <U>provided</U> that no Bank shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any Person (including the
identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant&#146;s interest in any Commitments, Loans or its other obligations under any Loan Document) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such
Commitment, Loan or other obligation is in registered form under <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Section&nbsp;5f.103-1(c)</FONT> of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest
error, and such Bank, each of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that is a party to any Loan Document, and the Administrative Agent shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register pursuant to the terms hereof as the
owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) Except as set forth below,
the Banks shall be permitted to assign all or a portion of their Loans and Commitments to one or more financial institutions (&#147;<U>Purchasing Banks</U>&#148;) with the consent, not to be unreasonably withheld, of (x)&nbsp;the Borrower;
<U>provided</U> that, (A)&nbsp;no consent of the Borrower shall be required if (i)&nbsp;the Purchasing Bank is a Bank or a Bank Affiliate or (ii)&nbsp;an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, and (B)&nbsp;the Borrower shall be deemed to
have consented to such assignment unless it shall have notified the Administrative Agent of its </P>
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refusal to give such consent within 10 Business Days following the Borrower&#146;s receipt from the transferor Bank of a fully-completed Assignment and Acceptance (as defined below) with respect
to such assignment, delivered in accordance with Section&nbsp;10.2), and (y)&nbsp;the Administrative Agent, unless the assignment is from a Bank to its Bank Affiliate, pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance, substantially in the form of <U>Exhibit
C</U> (an &#147;<U>Assignment and Acceptance</U>&#148;), executed by such Purchasing Bank and such transferor Bank (and by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, as applicable) and delivered to the Administrative Agent for its acceptance and
recording in the Register; <U>provided</U> that (i)&nbsp;such Purchasing Bank is a &#147;qualified purchaser&#148; as defined under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (ii)&nbsp;each such sale shall be of a uniform, and not a varying,
percentage of all rights and obligations under and in respect of the Commitment or, if the Commitment has terminated, the Outstanding Extensions of Credit, in each case, of such Bank, (iii)&nbsp;each such sale shall be in an aggregate amount of not
less than $5,000,000 (or such lesser amount representing the entire Commitment or, if the Commitment has terminated, the Outstanding Extensions of Credit, in each case, of such transferor Bank) if such sale is not to an existing Bank, and
(iv)&nbsp;after giving effect to such sale, the transferor Bank shall (to the extent that it continues to have any Commitment or, if the Commitment has terminated, the Outstanding Extensions of Credit hereunder) have a Commitment or, if the
Commitment has terminated, the Outstanding Extensions of Credit, in each case, of not less than $5,000,000, <U>provided</U> that such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Bank and its Bank Affiliates, if any. Upon such execution, delivery,
acceptance and recording, from and after the effective date determined pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance (the &#147;<U>Transfer Effective Date</U>&#148;), (i) the Purchasing Bank thereunder shall be a party hereto and, to the extent
provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Bank hereunder with the Commitments or, if the Commitments have terminated, the Outstanding Extensions of Credit, in each case, as set forth therein and (ii)&nbsp;the
transferor Bank thereunder shall, to the extent provided in such Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of a transferor
Bank&#146;s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such transferor Bank shall cease to be a party hereto). Such Assignment and Acceptance shall be deemed to amend this Agreement to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to reflect the
addition of such Purchasing Bank and the resulting adjustment of Loan Percentages arising from the purchase by such Purchasing Bank of all or a portion of the rights and obligations of such transferor Bank under this Agreement. On or prior to the
Transfer Effective Date determined pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, (i)&nbsp;appropriate entries shall be made in the accounts of the transferor Bank and the Register evidencing such assignment and releasing the Borrower from any and all
obligations to the transferor Bank in respect of the assigned Loan or Loans and (ii)&nbsp;appropriate entries evidencing the assigned Loan or Loans shall be made in the accounts of the Purchasing Bank and the Register as required by Section&nbsp;3.1
hereof. In the event that any Notes have been issued in respect of the assigned Loan or Loans, such Notes shall be marked &#147;cancelled&#148; and surrendered by the transferor Bank to the Administrative Agent for return to the Borrower. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred to in Section&nbsp;10.2(a) a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance
delivered to it and a register (the &#147;<U>Register</U>&#148;) for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Banks and the Commitments of, and principal amount of the Loans owing to, each Bank from time to time. To the extent permitted by
applicable law, the entries in the Register shall be conclusive, in the absence of manifest </P>
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error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Banks may (and, in the case of any Loan or other obligations hereunder not evidenced by a Note, shall) treat, each Person whose name is
recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as the owner of a Loan or other obligation hereunder as the owner thereof for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. Any
assignment of any Loan or other obligation hereunder shall be effective only upon appropriate entries with respect thereto being made in the Register. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Bank at any reasonable time
and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(e) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by a transferor Bank
and Purchasing Bank (and, in the case of a Purchasing Bank that is not then a Bank Affiliate, by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent), together with payment to the Administrative Agent of a registration and processing fee of $3,500, the
Administrative Agent shall promptly accept such Assignment and Acceptance on the Transfer Effective Date determined pursuant thereto, record the information contained therein in the Register and give notice of such acceptance and recordation to the
Banks and the Borrower. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(f) Any Bank 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 Bank, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or other central banking authority, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security
interest; <U>provided</U> that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall release a Bank from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or Purchasing Bank for such Bank as a party hereto. The Borrower hereby
agrees that, upon request of any Bank at any time and from time to time after the Borrower has made its initial Borrowing hereunder, the Borrower shall provide to such Bank, at the Borrower&#146;s own expense, a promissory note, substantially in the
form of <U>Exhibit D</U> evidencing the Loans owing to such Bank. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.7. <U>Setoff</U>. In addition to any rights and remedies of
the Banks provided by law, if any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Bank shall have the right, to the fullest extent permitted by law, without prior notice to the Borrower (any such notice being expressly waived by the
Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law), to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case
whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by such Bank or any branch or agency thereof to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower against any of and all the obligations of the
Borrower existing under this Agreement which are then due and payable. Each Bank agrees promptly to notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Bank, <U>provided</U> that the failure to give
such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.8. <U>Counterparts</U>(a) . This Agreement may be
executed by one or more of the parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts, and all of said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same instrument. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by
all the parties shall be maintained with Borrower and the Administrative Agent. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of (x)&nbsp;this Agreement, (y)&nbsp;any other Loan Document and/or (z)&nbsp;any document, amendment, approval,
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consent, information, notice (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any notice delivered pursuant to Section&nbsp;10.2), certificate, request, statement, disclosure or authorization related to
this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or the transactions contemplated hereby and/or thereby (each an &#147;Ancillary Document&#148;) that is an Electronic Signature transmitted by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that
reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement, such other Loan Document or such Ancillary Document, as applicable. The words &#147;execution,&#148;
&#147;signed,&#148; &#147;signature,&#148; &#147;delivery,&#148; and words of like import in or relating to this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document shall be deemed to include Electronic Signatures, deliveries or the
keeping of records in any electronic form (including deliveries by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed signature page), each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or
enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be; provided that nothing herein shall require the Administrative Agent to accept Electronic Signatures in
any form or format without its prior written consent and pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, further, without limiting the foregoing, (i)&nbsp;to the extent the Administrative Agent has agreed to accept any Electronic Signature, the
parties hereto shall be entitled to rely on such Electronic Signature purportedly given by or on behalf of any other party hereto believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons without
further verification thereof and without any further obligation to review the appearance or form of any such Electronic signature and (ii)&nbsp;upon the request of the Administrative Agent or any Bank, any Electronic Signature shall be promptly
followed by a manually executed counterpart. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each party hereto hereby (i)&nbsp;agrees that, for all purposes, including without limitation, in connection with any workout, restructuring, enforcement
of remedies, bankruptcy proceedings or litigation among the Administrative Agent, the Banks, and the Borrower, Electronic Signatures transmitted by telecopy, emailed pdf. or any other electronic means that reproduces an image of an actual executed
signature page and/or any electronic images of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as any paper original, and (ii)&nbsp;each of the parties hereto may,
at its option, create one or more copies of this Agreement, any other Loan Document and/or any Ancillary Document in the form of an imaged electronic record in any format, which shall be deemed created in the ordinary course of such Person&#146;s
business, and destroy the original paper document (and all such electronic records shall be considered an original for all purposes and shall have the same legal effect, validity and enforceability as a paper record). </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.9. <U>Severability</U>. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such
jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable
such provision in any other jurisdiction. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.10. <U>Integration</U>. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the
agreement of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Banks with respect to the subject matter hereof, and there are no promises, undertakings, representations or warranties by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Bank relative to the
subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE
OF NEW YORK. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) Notwithstanding anything in Section&nbsp;10.11(a) to the contrary, nothing in this Agreement or in any Note or any other
Loan Documents shall be deemed to constitute a waiver of any rights which any Bank may have under applicable federal law relating to the amount of interest which any Bank may contract for, take, receive or charge in respect of any Loans, including
any right to take, receive, reserve and charge interest at the rate allowed by the laws of the state where such Bank is located. To the extent that Texas law is applicable to the determination of the Highest Lawful Rate, the Banks and the Borrower
agree that (i)&nbsp;if Chapter&nbsp;303 of the Texas Finance Code, as amended, is applicable to such determination, the weekly rate ceiling as computed from time to time shall apply, <U>provided</U> that, to the extent permitted by such Article, the
Administrative Agent may from time to time by notice to the Borrower revise the election of such interest rate ceiling as such ceiling affects the then current or future balances of the Loans; and (ii)&nbsp;the provisions of Chapter&nbsp;346 of the
Texas Finance Code, as amended shall not apply to this Agreement or any Note issued hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.12. <U>WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL</U>. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY 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 ANY
OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A)&nbsp;CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED,
EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B)&nbsp;ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER
LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.13. <U>Submission to
Jurisdiction; Waivers</U>. Each party to this Agreement hereby irrevocably and unconditionally: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) submits for itself and its property in
any legal action or proceeding relating to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the exclusive general jurisdiction of the Courts of the State of
New York sitting in New York County, the courts of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York, and appellate courts from any thereof; </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to
the venue of any such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same; </P>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be effected by
mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid to such party at its address set forth in Section&nbsp;10.2 or at such other address of which the Administrative Agent shall have
been notified pursuant thereto; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(d) agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of process in any other
manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in any other jurisdiction. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.14. <U>Acknowledgments</U>. The Borrower
hereby acknowledges that: </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(a) it has been advised by counsel in the negotiation, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents; </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(b) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Bank has any fiduciary relationship with or duty to the Borrower arising out
of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and the relationship between the Administrative Agent and the Banks, on one hand, and the Borrower, on the other hand, in connection herewith or therewith is solely that of
debtor and creditor; and </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">(c) no joint venture exists among the Banks or among the Borrower and the Banks. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.15. <U>Limitation on Agreements</U>. All agreements between the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any Bank, whether now
existing or hereafter arising and whether written or oral, are hereby expressly limited so that in no contingency or event whatsoever, whether by reason of demand being made in respect of an amount due under any Loan Document or otherwise, shall the
amount paid, or agreed to be paid, to the Administrative Agent or any Bank for the use, forbearance, or detention of the money to be loaned under this Agreement, any Notes or any other Loan Document or otherwise or for the payment or performance of
any covenant or obligation contained herein or in any other Loan Document exceed the Highest Lawful Rate. If, as a result of any circumstances whatsoever, fulfillment of any provision hereof or of any of such documents, at the time performance of
such provision shall be due, shall involve transcending the limit of validity prescribed by applicable usury law, then, ipso facto, the obligation to be fulfilled shall be reduced to the limit of such validity, and if, from any such circumstance,
the Administrative Agent or any Bank shall ever receive interest or anything that might be deemed interest under applicable law that would exceed the Highest Lawful Rate, such amount that would be excessive interest shall be applied to the reduction
of the principal amount owing on account of such Bank&#146;s Loans or the amounts owing on other obligations of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Bank under any Loan Document and not to the payment of interest, or if such excessive
interest exceeds the unpaid principal balance of such Bank&#146;s Loans and the amounts owing on other obligations of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Bank under any Loan Document, as the case may be, such excess shall be refunded to
the Borrower. All sums paid or agreed to be paid to the Administrative Agent or any Bank for the use, forbearance or detention of the indebtedness of the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Bank shall, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, be amortized, </P>
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prorated, allocated and spread throughout the full term of such indebtedness until payment in full of the principal (including the period of any renewal or extension thereof) so that the interest
on account of such indebtedness shall not exceed the Highest Lawful Rate. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, it is understood and agreed that if at any time the rate of interest that accrues on the outstanding
principal balance of any Loan shall exceed the Highest Lawful Rate, the rate of interest that accrues on the outstanding principal balance of any Loan shall be limited to the Highest Lawful Rate, but any subsequent reductions in the rate of interest
that accrues on the outstanding principal balance of any Loan shall not reduce the rate of interest that accrues on the outstanding principal balance of any Loan below the Highest Lawful Rate until the total amount of interest accrued on the
outstanding principal balance of any Loan equals the amount of interest that would have accrued if such interest rate had at all times been in effect. The terms and provisions of this Section&nbsp;10.15 shall control and supersede every other
provision of all Loan Documents. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.16. <U>Removal of Bank</U>. Notwithstanding anything herein or in any other Loan Document to
the contrary, the Borrower may, at any time in its sole discretion, remove any Bank upon 15 Business Days&#146; written notice to such Bank and the Administrative Agent (the contents of which notice shall be promptly communicated by the
Administrative Agent to each other Bank), such removal to be effective at the expiration of such <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">15-day</FONT> notice period; <U>provided</U>, <U>however</U>, that no Bank may be removed hereunder at a time when an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Each notice by the Borrower under this Section&nbsp;10.16 shall constitute a representation by the Borrower that the removal described in such notice is permitted under this Section&nbsp;10.16.
Concurrently with such removal, the Borrower shall pay to such removed Bank all amounts owing to such Bank hereunder (including any amounts arising under Section&nbsp;3.7 as a consequence of such removal) and under any other Loan Document in
immediately available funds. Upon full and final payment hereunder of all amounts owing to such removed Bank, such Bank shall make appropriate entries in its accounts evidencing payment of all Loans hereunder and releasing the Borrower from all
obligations owing to the removed Bank in respect of the Loans hereunder and surrender to the Administrative Agent for return to the Borrower any Notes of the Borrower then held by it. Effective immediately upon such full and final payment, such
removed Bank will not be considered to be a &#147;Bank&#148; for purposes of this Agreement, except for the purposes of any provision hereof that by its terms survives the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the amounts payable
hereunder. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.17. <U>Confidentiality</U>. Each of the Banks and the Administrative Agent agrees to maintain, and to use its
commercially reasonable efforts to cause any third party recipient of the information described in this Section&nbsp;10.17 to maintain, any information delivered or made available by the Borrower to it (including any information obtained pursuant to
Section&nbsp;7.1), confidential from anyone other than Persons employed or retained by such party who are or are expected to become engaged in evaluating, approving, structuring or administering the transactions contemplated hereunder; provided that
nothing shall prevent any Bank or the Administrative Agent from disclosing such information (i)&nbsp;to any other Bank or any Affiliate of any Bank, (ii)&nbsp;pursuant to subpoena or upon the order of any court or administrative agency having
jurisdiction over such Bank or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, (iii)&nbsp;upon the request or demand of any Governmental Authority or self-regulatory body, in each case, having jurisdiction over such Bank or the Administrative Agent,
as the case may be, (iv)&nbsp;if such information has been publicly disclosed (other than by reason of disclosure by any Bank or </P>
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the Administrative Agent in breach of its obligations under this Section&nbsp;10.17), (v) to the extent reasonably required in connection with any litigation to which either the Administrative
Agent, any Bank, the Borrower or their respective Affiliates may be a party relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (vi)&nbsp;to the extent reasonably required in connection with the exercise of any remedy hereunder, (vii)&nbsp;to the
Administrative Agent&#146;s or such Bank&#146;s, as the case may be, legal counsel, independent auditors and other professional advisors and agents involved in the administration of the Loans hereunder, (viii)&nbsp;to market data collectors, such as
league table, or other service providers to the lending industry, in respect of information regarding the closing date, size, type, purpose of, and parties to, this Agreement, or (ix)&nbsp;to any actual or proposed Participant, Purchasing Bank,
hedge counterparty in respect of this Agreement or pledgee (each, a &#147;<U>Transferee</U>&#148;) that has agreed in writing to be bound by the provisions of this Section&nbsp;10.17 or provisions at least as restrictive as those in this
Section&nbsp;10.17. To the extent permitted by applicable law, in the event that any Bank or the Administrative Agent is legally requested or required to disclose any confidential information pursuant to clause (ii), (iii) (unless such request
(X)&nbsp;is from a bank regulatory agency or in connection with an examination of a Bank&#146;s records by bank examiners and (Y)&nbsp;does not target or impact Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) or (v)&nbsp;of this Section&nbsp;10.17, such party
shall promptly notify the Borrower of such request or requirement prior to disclosure so that Borrower may seek an appropriate protective order and/or waive compliance with the terms of this Agreement. If, however, in the opinion of counsel for such
party, such party is nonetheless, in the absence of such order or waiver, compelled to disclose such confidential information or otherwise stand liable for contempt or suffer possible censure or other penalty or liability, then such party may
disclose such confidential information without liability to the Borrower; provided, however, that such party will use its commercially reasonable efforts to minimize the disclosure of such information. Subject to the exceptions above to disclosure
of information, each of the Banks and the Administrative Agent agrees that it shall not publish, publicize, or otherwise make public any information regarding this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby without the written consent of the
Borrower, in its sole discretion. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.18. <U>Officer</U><U>&#146;</U><U>s Certificates</U>. It is not intended that any
certificate of any officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Bank pursuant to this Agreement shall give rise to any personal liability on the part of such officer. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">SECTION 10.19. <U>USA Patriot Act</U>. Each Bank and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Bank) hereby notifies the
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and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Bank or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify the Borrower in accordance
with the Patriot Act. The Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, provide, to the extent commercially reasonable, such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by each Bank and the Administrative Agent to
maintain compliance with the Patriot Act. </P>
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agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates&#146; understanding, that: (a)&nbsp;no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship between the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger or any Bank, on
the other hand, is intended to be or has been created in respect of this Agreement, irrespective of whether any such Person has advised or is advising the Borrower or any of its Affiliates on other matters, (b)&nbsp;each of the Administrative Agent,
the Lead Arranger and the Banks, on the one hand, and the Borrower and its Affiliates, on the other hand, have an arm&#146;s length business relationship that does not directly or indirectly give rise to, nor do the Borrower and its Affiliates rely
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accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and by the other Loan Documents, (d)&nbsp;the Borrower and its Affiliates have been advised that the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and the Banks
are engaged in a broad range of transactions that may involve interests that differ from the interests of the Borrower and its Affiliates and no such Person has any obligation to disclose such interests and transactions to the Borrower or any of its
Affiliates, (e)&nbsp;the Borrower and its Affiliates have consulted their own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent they have deemed appropriate, and (f)&nbsp;each of the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and the Banks
has been, is, and will be acting solely as a principal and, except as otherwise expressly agreed in writing by it and the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for the Borrower or any of its
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; border-bottom:1.00pt solid #000000; display:table-cell; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman; ">Names and Address of Banks</P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Mizuho Bank, Ltd.</P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom">&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">100,000,000</TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">TD Bank, N.A.</P></TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">100,000,000</TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right">100,000,000</TD>
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<TD NOWRAP VALIGN="bottom">$</TD>
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<th class="th"><div>Jun. 24, 2024</div></th>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_DocumentType', window );">Document Type</a></td>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_DocumentPeriodEndDate', window );">Document Period End Date</a></td>
<td class="text">Jun. 24,  2024<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityRegistrantName', window );">Entity Registrant Name</a></td>
<td class="text">CenterPoint Energy, Inc.<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityIncorporationStateCountryCode', window );">Entity Incorporation, State or Country Code</a></td>
<td class="text">TX<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityFileNumber', window );">Entity File Number</a></td>
<td class="text">1-31447<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityTaxIdentificationNumber', window );">Entity Tax Identification Number</a></td>
<td class="text">74-0694415<span></span>
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<td class="text">1111 Louisiana<span></span>
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<td class="text">Houston<span></span>
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<td class="text">TX<span></span>
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<td class="text">77002<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_CityAreaCode', window );">City Area Code</a></td>
<td class="text">(713)<span></span>
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<td class="text">207-1111<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">false<span></span>
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<td class="text">0001130310<span></span>
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<td class="text">&#160;<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_DocumentInformationLineItems', window );"><strong>Document Information [Line Items]</strong></a></td>
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<td class="text">Common Stock, $0.01 par value<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_TradingSymbol', window );">Trading Symbol</a></td>
<td class="text">CNP<span></span>
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<td class="text">NYSE<span></span>
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<td class="pl" style="border-bottom: 0px;" valign="top"><a class="a" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.showAR( this, 'defref_dei_EntityRegistrantName', window );">Entity Registrant Name</a></td>
<td class="text">CenterPoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC<span></span>
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<td class="text">22-3865106<span></span>
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<td class="text">1111 Louisiana<span></span>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>For the EDGAR submission types of Form 8-K: the date of the report, the date of the earliest event reported; for the EDGAR submission types of Form N-1A: the filing date; for all other submission types: the end of the reporting or transition period.  The format of the date is YYYY-MM-DD.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The type of document being provided (such as 10-K, 10-Q, 485BPOS, etc). The document type is limited to the same value as the supporting SEC submission type, or the word 'Other'.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Address Line 1 such as Attn, Building Name, Street Name</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Name of the City or Town</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Code for the postal or zip code</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Name of the state or province.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>A unique 10-digit SEC-issued value to identify entities that have filed disclosures with the SEC. It is commonly abbreviated as CIK.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher SEC<br> -Name Exchange Act<br> -Number 240<br> -Section 12<br> -Subsection b-2<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Indicate if registrant meets the emerging growth company criteria.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher SEC<br> -Name Exchange Act<br> -Number 240<br> -Section 12<br> -Subsection b-2<br></p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Commission file number. The field allows up to 17 characters. The prefix may contain 1-3 digits, the sequence number may contain 1-8 digits, the optional suffix may contain 1-4 characters, and the fields are separated with a hyphen.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>Two-character EDGAR code representing the state or country of incorporation.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>No definition available.</p></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The exact name of the entity filing the report as specified in its charter, which is required by forms filed with the SEC.</p></div>
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">+ References</a><div style="display: none;"><p>Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef<br> -Publisher SEC<br> -Name Exchange Act<br> -Number 240<br> -Section 12<br> -Subsection b-2<br></p></div>
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<tr><td class="hide"><a style="color: white;" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.hideAR();">X</a></td></tr>
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<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="Show.toggleNext( this );">- Definition</a><div><p>The Tax Identification Number (TIN), also known as an Employer Identification Number (EIN), is a unique 9-digit value assigned by the IRS.</p></div>
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