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PARITY AND PRIORITY OF LIEN; OTHER OBLIGATIONS; AND DERIVATIVE PRODUCTS. Section 3.01. Parity and Priority of Lien..................................42

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• Priority of Obligations The Company will ensure that its payment obligations under this Agreement and the Notes will at all times rank at least pari passu, without preference or priority, with all other unsecured and unsubordinated Indebtedness of the Company.

• Creation, Perfection and Priority of Liens The execution and delivery of the Collateral Documents by Loan Parties and Sponsors, together with (i) the actions taken on or prior to the date hereof pursuant to subsections 4.1, 4.2, 6.8 and 6.9 and (ii) the delivery to Administrative Agent of any Pledged Collateral not delivered to Administrative Agent at the time of execution and delivery of the applicable Collateral Document (all of which Pledged Collateral has been so delivered) are effective to create in favor of Administrative Agent for the benefit of Lenders, as security for the respective Secured Obligations (as defined in the applicable Collateral Document in respect of any Collateral), a valid and perfected First Priority Lien on all of the Collateral, and all filings and other actions necessary or desirable to perfect and maintain the perfection and First Priority status of such Liens have been duly made or taken and remain in full force and effect, other than the filing of any UCC financing statements or Mortgages delivered to Administrative Agent for filing or recording, as applicable (but not yet filed or recorded) and the periodic filing of UCC continuation statements in respect of UCC financing statements filed by or on behalf of Administrative Agent.

• Priority and Liens Each of the Borrowers hereby covenants, represents and warrants that, upon entry of the Interim Order, the Obligations of the Borrowers hereunder and under the Loan Documents: (i) pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times constitute an allowed Superpriority Claim; (ii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times be secured by a perfected first priority Lien on any Collateral, including, without limitation all cash maintained in a cash collateral account with respect to outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations pursuant to Section 2.3(k) or Section 8.3 and any investments of the funds contained therein, that is not otherwise subject to a Lien, including any such property that is subject to valid and perfected Liens in existence on the Petition Date, which Liens are thereafter released or otherwise extinguished in connection with the satisfaction of the obligations secured by such Liens; (iii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a fully perfected first priority priming Lien upon all Collateral that is subject to valid and perfected Liens in existence on the Petition Date, junior to such valid and perfected Liens; and (iv) pursuant to Section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a fully perfected first priority priming Lien upon all Collateral that secure the obligations incurred pursuant to the Prepetition First Priority Secured Facilities, subordinated in each case with respect to clauses (i) through (iv) above (other than with respect to all cash maintained in a cash collateral account with respect to outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations pursuant to Section 2.3(k) and any investments of the funds contained therein) only to the Carve-Out and other Liens as may be specified in the Orders. Except for the Carve-Out, the Superpriority Claims of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder shall at all times be senior to the rights of the Borrowers, any chapter 11 trustee and any chapter 7 trustee, or any creditor (including, without limitation, post-petition counterparties and other post-petition creditors) in the Cases or any subsequent proceedings under the Bankruptcy Code, including, without limitation, any chapter 7 cases if any of the Borrowers’ Cases are converted to cases under chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code.

• Priority of Liens The Agent shall have received satisfactory evidence that (i) the Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, holds a perfected, first priority Lien on all Collateral and (ii) none of the Collateral is subject to any other Liens other than Permitted Liens.

• Perfection and Priority of Liens Receipt by the Administrative Agent of the following:

• Release of Collateral and Guarantee Obligations (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, upon request of the Borrower in connection with any Disposition of Property permitted by the Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent shall (without notice to, or vote or consent of, any Lender, or any affiliate of any Lender that is a party to any Specified Hedge Agreement) take such actions as shall be required to release its security interest in any Collateral being Disposed of in such Disposition, and to release any guarantee obligations under any Loan Document of any Person being Disposed of in such Disposition, to the extent necessary to permit consummation of such Disposition in accordance with the Loan Documents.

• Priority of Lien Pursuant to that certain First Lien Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of February 28, 2007 among the Debtor, the other grantors party thereto and the First Lien Collateral Agent (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “First Lien Security Agreement”) and that certain Second Lien Pledge and Security Agreement dated as of February 28, 2007 among the Debtor, the other grantors party thereto and the Second Lien Collateral Agent (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Second Lien Security Agreement”; and together with the First Lien Security Agreement, the “Security Agreement”), the Debtor has granted a security interest in all of the Debtor’s rights in the Securities Account referred to in Section 2 below to each of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, respectively. The First Lien Collateral Agent and Second Lien Collateral Agent, the Debtor and the Securities Intermediary are entering into this Agreement to perfect each of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent’s security interest in such Securities Account. As between the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent, the First Lien Collateral Agent shall have a first priority security interest in such Securities Account and the Second Lien Collateral Agent shall have a second priority security interest in such Securities Account in accordance with the Intercreditor Agreement. The Securities Intermediary hereby acknowledges that it has received notice of the security interests of the First Lien Collateral Agent and the Second Lien Collateral Agent in such Securities Account and hereby acknowledges and consents to such liens.

• Rights in Collateral; Priority of Liens Borrower and each other Loan Party own the property granted by it as Collateral under the Collateral Documents, free and clear of any and all Liens in favor of third parties. Upon the proper filing of UCC financing statements, and the taking of the other actions required by Lender, the Liens granted pursuant to the Collateral Documents will constitute valid and enforceable first, prior and perfected (to the extent that Liens on the Collateral can be perfected by the filing of UCC financing statements) Liens on the Collateral in favor of Lender.

• Creation, Perfection and Priority of Security Interests The representations and warranties regarding creation, perfection and priority of security interests in the Purchased Property, which are attached to this Agreement as Appendix B, are true and correct to the extent that they are applicable.

• Composition and Priority The Contractor agrees to provide commodities or contractual services to the Customer as specified in the Contract. Additionally, the terms of the Contract supersede the terms of all prior agreements between the Parties on this subject matter.