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FILER:

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		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			BLACKROCK DEBT STRATEGIES FUND, INC.
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		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MD
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		SEC ACT:		1940 Act
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		FILM NUMBER:		101154096

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		BUSINESS PHONE:		800-441-7762

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		CITY:			WILMINGTON
		STATE:			DE
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	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	BLACKROCK DEBT STRATEGIES FUND
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>FORM 10f-3</B></P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>THE BLACKROCK FUNDS</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>&nbsp;</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>Record of Securities Purchased</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000" align=center><B>Under the Trust&#146;s Rule 10f-3 Procedures</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">1.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Name of Purchasing Portfolio:</B> &nbsp;BlackRock Senior High Income Fund, Inc. (ARK), Managed Account Series: High Income Portfolio (BATS-HINC), BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust (BGT2), BlackRock Strategic Bond Trust (BHD), BlackRock Defined Opportunity Credit Trust (BHL), BlackRock High Yield Trust (BHY), BlackRock Limited Duration Income Trust (BLW), BlackRock High Income Fund (BR-HIINC), BlackRock High Yield Bond Portfolio (BR-HIYLD), BlackRock High Income Portfolio (Ins - Series) ( BVA-HI), BlackRock High Income V.I. Fund (Ins - Var Ser) ( BVA-HY), BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund, Inc. (COY), BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund III, Inc. (CYE), BlackRock Debt Strategies Fund, Inc. (DSU), BlackRock Diversified Income Strategies Fund, Inc.(DVF), BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund, In
c. (FRA), BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund II, Inc. (FRB), BlackRock High Income Shares (HIS), BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund VI, Inc.(HYT), BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund V, Inc. (HYV), Master Senior Floating Rate LLC (MF-SFR), CoreAlpha Bond Master Portfolio (MIP_CORA), MIST BlackRock High Yield Portfolio (MIST-HY)</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">2.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Issuer:</B> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;CONSOL Energy Inc.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">3.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Date of Purchase</B>: &nbsp;03/25/2010</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">4.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Underwriter from whom purchased:</B> &nbsp;RBS Securities Inc.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">5.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Name of Affiliated Underwriter (as defined in the Trust&#146;s procedures) managing or participating in syndicate:</B> PNC Capital Markets LLC </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-18pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>a.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:54pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>List Members of Underwriting Syndicate:</B> Banc of America Securities LLC, PNC Capital Markets LLC, RBS Securities Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA) Inc., Wells Fargo Securities LLC, Scotia Capital (USA) Inc, U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc., Santander Investment Securities Inc., The Huntington Investment Company</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-18pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>1.</B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Aggregate principal amount purchased (out of total offering) (if an equity offering, list aggregate number of shares purchased (out of total number of shares offered:</B> (ARK) $500,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BATS-HINC) $510,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BGT2) $900,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BHD) $555,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BHL) $250,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BHY) $255,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BLW) $1,500,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BR-HIINC) $6,250,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BR-HIYLD) $13,750,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BVA-HI) $300,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (BVA-HY) $725,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (COY) $1,390,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (CYE) $1,510,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (DSU) $1,250,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (DVF) $275,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (FRA)$750,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (FR
B) $300,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (HIS) $700,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (HYT) $2,350,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (HYV) $2,225,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (MF-SFR) $1,200,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (MIP_CORA) $1,600,000 out of $1,250,000,000, (MIST-HY) $4,140,000 out of $1,250,000,000.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">7.</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Purchase price (net of fees and expenses):</B> &nbsp;$100</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">9.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Date offering commenced (if different from Date of Purchase):</B> &nbsp;</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">10.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:24pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B>Offering price at end of first day on which any sales were made: </B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">11.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Have the following conditions been satisfied:</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>Yes</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><B><U>No</U></B></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities are part of an issue registered under </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">is being offered to the public, <U>or</U> are Eligible Municipal</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Securities, <U>or</U> are securities sold in an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:252pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">&nbsp;Eligible Foreign </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> are securities sold in an Eligible Rule 144A</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Offering <U>or</U> part of an issue of government </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:288pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_X &nbsp;___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">b.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The securities were purchased prior to the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">end of the first day on which any sales</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">were made, at a price that was not more</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">than the price paid by each other</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">purchaser of securities in that offering</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">or in any concurrent offering of the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities (except, in the case of an</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Foreign Offering, for any rights</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to purchase required by laws to be granted</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">to existing security holders of the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Issuer) <U>or</U>, if a rights offering, the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">securities were purchased on or before the</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">fourth day preceding the day on which the </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">rights offering terminated.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><U>_X</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">c.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The underwriting was a firm commitment</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">underwriting.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_<U>X</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">d.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">The commission, spread or profit was</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">reasonable and fair in relation to that</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">being received by others for underwriting</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">similar securities during the same period.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_<U>X</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">e.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">In respect of any securities other than</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Eligible Municipal Securities, the issuer</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">of such securities has been in continuous</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">operation for not less than three years</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:72pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">(including the operations of predecessors).</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:324pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">_<U>X</U></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:360pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">___</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000"><BR></P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:-36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">a.</P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:72pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Has the affiliated underwriter confirmed </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">that it will not receive any direct or indirect </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">benefit as a result of BlackRock's participation </P>
<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:-12pt; padding-left:36pt; padding-top:0pt; padding-right:0pt; padding-bottom:0pt; text-indent:36pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">in the offering?</P>
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<P style="margin-left:0pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; padding:0pt; text-indent:0pt; line-height:12pt; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Approved by: <U>_ _ _Mitch Garfin &amp; Miguel Cota_ &nbsp;</U>&nbsp;Date: &nbsp;___04-21-10______</P>
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