FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT, CONSENT AND WAIVER

Exhibit 10.21

EXECUTION VERSION

This Fifth Omnibus Amendment, Consent and Waiver (this “Amendment”), dated as of May 29, 2019 amends (a) the Second Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2015 (as it may be further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to this Amendment, the “Common Terms Agreement”), by and among Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Borrower”), Société Générale, as the Common Security Trustee (in such capacity, the “Common Security Trustee”) and as the Intercreditor Agent (in such capacity, the “Intercreditor Agent”), The Bank of Nova Scotia, as the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt and other Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives party thereto from time to time, the Secured Hedge Representatives and the Secured Gas Hedge Representatives party thereto from time to time, (b) the Amended and Restated Senior Working Capital Revolving Credit and Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreement, dated as of September 4, 2015 (as it may be further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to this Amendment, the “Working Capital Facility”), by and among the Borrower, Société Générale as the Swing Line Lender and as the Common Security Trustee, The Bank of Nova Scotia as the Senior Issuing Bank and Senior Facility Agent (the “Facility Agent”) and the other agents and lenders from time to time party thereto and (c) the Second Amended and Restated Accounts Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2015 (as it may be further amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time prior to this Amendment, the “Accounts Agreement”), among the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee and Compass Bank, D.B.A. BBVA Compass as Accounts Bank (in such capacity, the “Accounts Bank”). All capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Amended Common Terms Agreement and, if not defined therein, the Amended Working Capital Facility or the Amended Accounts Agreement, as applicable.

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Common Security Trustee, the Intercreditor Agent, the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt and the Working Capital Lenders (collectively, the “Lenders” and each individually, a “Lender”) constituting the Required Senior Lenders under the Working Capital Facility agree to amend the Common Terms Agreement, Working Capital Facility and the Accounts Agreement as set forth in Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 herein, respectively;

WHEREAS, (a) the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt, the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent are willing to amend the Common Terms Agreement as set forth in Section 1 herein, (b) the Facility Agent, each Lender party hereto and the Common Security Trustee are willing to amend the Working Capital Facility as set forth in Section 2 herein and (c) the Common Security Trustee, the Intercreditor Agent and the Accounts Bank are willing to amend the Accounts Agreement as set forth in Section 3 herein;

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Common Security Trustee, the Intercreditor Agent and the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt consent to the reduction of the EPC Letter of Credit under the Stage 2 EPC Contract; and

WHEREAS, the Common Security Trustee, the Intercreditor Agent and the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt are willing to consent to the reduction

of the EPC Letter of Credit under the Stage 2 EPC Contract.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the agreements, provisions and covenants herein contained, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

Section 1. Amendments to the Common Terms Agreement. Pursuant to Section 10.1 of the Common Terms Agreement and Section 4.1(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement, each of the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee, the Intercreditor Agent and the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt hereby consents to the following amendments:The amendment of the Common Terms Agreement (excluding the Schedules, Exhibits and Annexes thereto, except for Schedule 1 (Definitions)) to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double- underlined text) as set forth in Annex A-1 hereto.

1.2 Exhibits A (Knowledge), D-1 (Construction Budget) and D-2 (Construction Schedule) are hereby deleted and replaced with the schedules and exhibits attached hereto as Annex A-2.

1.3 The documents attached hereto as Annex A-3 are hereby added as Annex C (Approved Train 6 Sale and Purchase Agreement Term Sheets) to the Common Terms Agreement.

The Common Terms Agreement as amended by Sections 1.1 through 1.3 above is referred to herein as the “Amended Common Terms Agreement”.

Section 2. Amendments to the Working Capital Facility. Pursuant to Section 11.01 of the Working Capital Facility and Section 4.1(i) of the Intercreditor Agreement, each of the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee, the Intercreditor Agent and the Facility Agent (as the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt) hereby consents to the amendment of the Working Capital Facility (including Schedule 8.01 (Covenants) thereto but excluding the other Schedules and Exhibits thereto) to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text) as set forth in Annex B hereto (the Working Capital Facility as so amended, the “Amended Working Capital Facility”).

Section 3. Amendments to the Accounts Agreement. Pursuant to Section 7.01 of the Accounts Agreement and Section 4.3 of the Intercreditor Agreement, each of the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee, the Intercreditor Agent and the Accounts Bank hereby consents to the amendment of the Accounts Agreement to delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: double-underlined text) as set forth in Annex C hereto (the Accounts Agreement as so amended, the “Amended Accounts Agreement” and, together with the Amended Common Terms Agreement and the Amended Working Capital Facility, are referred to as the “Amended Agreements.”

Section 4. Consent and Waiver. By their execution hereof, but subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each of the Lenders party hereto, the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt, the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent hereby consent to: (a) the exercise by the Borrower of the option under the Stage 4 EPC Contract to build LNG Berth 3 (as defined in the Stage 4 EPC Contract), including any limited notice to proceed, notices to proceed or other notices or elections in connection therewith; (b) the declaration of a positive final investment decision approved by the Borrower in accordance with all applicable requirements under the Borrower’s Organic Documents to construct the liquefaction facilities and any other required facilities, or modify existing facilities, comprising Train 6; (c) the issuance, at the Borrower’s sole discretion, of any limited notices to proceed or full notices to proceed under the Stage 4 EPC Contract; (d) the entry by the Borrower into (i) the Lump Sum Turnkey Agreement for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction of the Sabine Pass LNG Stage 4 Liquefaction Facility, dated as of November 7, 2018 between the Borrower and Xxxxxxx Oil, Gas and Chemicals, Inc. (the “Stage 4 EPC Contract”), (ii) the Parent Guarantee issued by Bechtel Global Energy, Inc. in favor of the Borrower in respect of the Stage 4 EPC Contract, dated as of November 7, 2018, (iii) the LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement (FOB), dated December 18, 2018, between the Borrower and Petronas LNG Ltd., (iv) the LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement (FOB), dated September 14, 2018, between CMI and Vitol Inc. and the Vitol Novation and Amendment to be entered into between the Borrower, CMI and Vitol Inc. in form and substance acceptable to the Common Security Trustee (together the “Vitol FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement”), (v) the Vitol Guaranty to be issued by Vitol Holding B.V. in favor of the Borrower in respect of the Vitol FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, (vi) any Approved Train 6 Sale and Purchase Agreement dated on or after the date hereof (as defined in the Amended Common Terms Agreement), (vii) the Amended and Restated Precedent Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2019, between Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC and the Borrower (and any attached firm transportation agreement), (viii) the Precedent Agreement, dated as of October 31, 2018, between Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Louisiana Pipeline LLC and the Borrower (and any attached firm transportation agreement), (ix) the License Agreement, dated as of November 8, 2018, between the Borrower and ConocoPhillips Company (the agreements described in clauses (d)(i) through (d)(ix) hereof, the “Train 6 Additional Material Project Documents”) and (x) the Stage 4 Umbrella Insurance Agreement; (e) the amendment of the Cooperation Agreement, on or around the date hereof, such amendment to be in substantially the form of Annex D hereto (the “Cooperation Agreement Amendment”); (f) the Borrower’s entry into an amendment and restatement of the Lease Agreements substantially the form of Annex E hereto (the “Parcel H Lease”) and (g) the amendment of the GE Contractual Service Agreement, such amendment to be substantially in the form of Annex F hereto (the “GE Contractual Service Agreement Amendment”).

Section 5. Waiver. By their execution hereof, each of the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt, the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent hereby, notwithstanding Section 1.7(e) of Schedule 8.01 of the Amended Working Capital Facility and any other provision of the Financing Documents, consents to the reduction of the EPC Letter of Credit posted by the EPC Contractor as required by the Stage 2 EPC Contract to a total aggregate amount of approximately $2,000,000 and, in connection therewith, hereby direct the Common Security Trustee to take actions to reduce the amount thereof.

Section 6. Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective as of the date hereof upon the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth below:This Amendment shall have been executed by the Common Security Trustee and the Common Security Trustee shall have received counterparts of this Amendment executed by each of (a) the Borrower, (b) the Intercreditor Agent, (c) the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt (who constitutes the Majority Aggregate Secured Credit Facilities Debt Participants (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement)), (d) the Lenders constituting the Required Senior Lenders under the Working Capital Facility and (e) the Accounts Bank;

6.2 Each of (a) the Common Security Trustee, (b) the Intercreditor Agent, (c) the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt, (d) the Lenders, and (e) the Accounts Bank shall have received all fees due and payable to each such Person in connection with this Amendment in accordance with the terms of the Amended Agreements and the other Financing Documents (including costs, fees and expenses of legal counsel and Consultants), so long as invoices for such fees shall have been presented not less than two (2) Business Days prior to the date hereof;

6.3 Either the Common Security Trustee (or its counsel) shall have received fully executed (and if applicable, redacted) copies of each of the Train 6 Additional Material Project Documents (other than any Approved Train 6 Sale and Purchase Agreement);

6.4 The Common Security Trustee shall have received a Consent and legal opinion from each Person (other than the Borrower) party to a Train 6 Additional Material Project Document specified in Sections 4(d)(i) through 4(d)(v) and 4(d)(ix), in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Common Security Trustee; and

6.5 The Common Security Trustee shall have received an updated Construction Budget, Construction Schedule, and Base Case Forecast; provided, that with respect to any projected financial information, forecasts, estimates, or forward-looking information contained in such Construction Budget, Construction Schedule or Base Case Forecast, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time and the Borrower makes no representation as to the actual attainability of any projections set forth in such Construction Budget, Construction Schedule or Base Case Forecast.

Section 7. Representations and Warranties. The Borrower hereby represents and warrants to the Lenders that: no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the date hereof or will result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Amendment; and

7.2 each of the representations and warranties of the Borrower in the Common Terms Agreement, the Working Capital Facility, the Accounts Agreement and the other Financing Documents is true and correct in all material respects except for (A) those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality, which shall be true and correct in all respects, on and as of the date hereof (or, if stated to have been made solely as of an earlier date, as of such earlier date) and (B) the representations and warranties that, pursuant to Section 4.1(b) (General) of the Common Terms Agreement, are not deemed repeated.

Section 8. Covenants. Within sixty (60) days of the date hereof (as such date may be extended by the Common Security Trustee in its reasonable discretion), the Borrower shall deliver to the Common Security Trustee (a) a fully executed copy of a mortgage relating to the Parcel H Lease in a form substantially consistent with the existing Mortgages (the “Parcel H Mortgage”), (b) a Flood Certificate with respect to the Mortgaged Property under the Parcel H Mortgage and (c) if such Flood Certificate Flood Certificate states that any structure comprising a portion of the anticipated Mortgaged Property will be located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, the Borrower’s written acknowledgment of receipt of written notification from the Common Security Trustee and any Facility Lender requesting the same: (i) as to the existence of such Mortgaged Property; and (ii) as to whether the community in which such Mortgaged Property will be located is participating in the Flood Program.

8.2 The Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts for a period of sixty (60) days from the date hereof to obtain Consents and legal opinions from (a) Columbia Gulf Transmission, LLC in connection with the Columbia Gulf Precedent Agreement, and (b) Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Louisiana Pipeline LLC, in connection with the 2018 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Precedent Agreement, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Common Security Trustee.

Section 9. Financing Document. This Amendment constitutes a Financing Document as such term is defined in, and for purposes of, the Amended Common Terms Agreement.

Section 10. Governing Law. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WITHOUT ANY REFERENCE TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PRINCIPLES THEREOF (OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).

Section 11. Headings. All headings in this Amendment are included only for convenience and ease of reference and shall not be considered in the construction and interpretation of any provision hereof.Binding Nature and Benefit. This Amendment shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each party hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns.

Section 13. Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original for all purposes, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or portable document format (“pdf”) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Xxxxxxxxx.Xx Modifications; No Other Matters. Except as expressly provided for herein, the terms and conditions of the Common Terms Agreement, the Working Capital Facility and the Accounts Agreement shall continue unchanged and shall remain in full force and effect. Each amendment granted herein shall apply solely to the matters set forth herein and such amendment shall not be deemed or construed as an amendment of any other matters, nor shall such amendment apply to any other matters.

Section 15. Direction to Secured Credit Facilities Debt Holder Group Representatives, Intercreditor Agent and Common Security Xxxxxxx.xx their signature below, each of the undersigned Lenders instructs the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the

Working Capital Debt to (i) execute this Amendment and (ii) direct the Intercreditor Agent to execute this Amendment;


b.	based on the instructions above, the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Debt, constituting the Majority Aggregate Secured Credit Facilities Debt Participants (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement), hereby directs the Intercreditor Agent to (i) execute this Amendment and (ii) direct the Common Security Trustee to execute this Amendment; and


c.	by its signature below, the Intercreditor Agent, in such capacity, hereby directs the Common Security Trustee to execute this Amendment.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.



SABINE PASS LIQUEFACTION, LLC,
as Borrower

By	/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
	Name:	Xxxx X. Xxxxx
	Title:	Treasurer

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE,
as Common Security Trustee and Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Commercial Banks Facility

By	/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Director

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE,
as the Intercreditor Agent

By	/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Director

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE,
as Commercial Bank Lender, Swing Line Lender and Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



THE BANK OF NOVA SOCTIA, HOUSTON BRANCH
as the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Working Capital Facility

By	/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Director

THE BANK OF NOVA SOCTIA, HOUSTON BRANCH
as Senior Issuing Bank and Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



ABN AMRO CAPITAL USA LLC,
as Senior Issuing Bank and Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Managing Director

By	/s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Name:		Xxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title:		Vice-President

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



MUFG BANK, LTD. F/K/A THE BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ, LTD.,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxx Xxxxx
Name:		Xxxx Xxxxx
Title:		Managing Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



CREDIT INDSTRIEL ET COMMERCIAL,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxx X. Palin
Name:		Xxxx X. Palin
Title:		First Vice President

By	/s/ Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
Title:		Managing Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Dowyles S. Toule
Name:		Dowyles S. Toule
Title:		Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA LIMITED, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Guoshen Sun
Name:		Guoshen Sun
Title:		Deputy General Manager

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



ING CAPITAL, LLC,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title:		Managing Director

By	/s/ Tanja van der Woude
Name:		Tanja van der Woude
Title:		Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



LANDESBANK BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxx
Name:		Xxxxx Brunt
Title:		Director

By	/s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxxx Xxxxx
Title:		Sr. Credit Analyst

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



LLOYDS BANK CORPORATE MARKETS, PLC
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Assistant Manager Transaction Execution

By	/s/ Xxxxx XxXxxxx
Name:		Xxxxx XxXxxxx
Title:		Assistant Manager Transaction Execution

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



XXXXXX XXXXXXX BANK, N.A.,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxx Xxxxx
Name:		Xxxx Xxxxx
Title:		Authorized Signatory

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Managing Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA,
as Working Capital Lender

By its attorney under Power of Attorney dated 24 June 2013:

By	/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxx
Name:		Xxxxxx Xxxx
Title:		Director Natural Resources and Energy

Signed by its duly constituted attorney in the presence of:

By	/s/ Axelle Anterion
Name:		Axelle Anterion
Title:		Senior Associate Natural Resources and Energy

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



XXXXX FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Working Capital Lender

By	/s/ Xxxx Xxxxxx
Name:		Xxxx Xxxxxx
Title:		Managing Director

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Acknowledged and agreed as of the first date set forth above.



COMPASS BANK, D.B.A., BBVA COMPASS,
as the Accounts Bank

By	/s/ Xxxx Xxxxx
Name:		Xxxx Xxxxx
Title:		Vice President

SIGNATURE PAGE TO FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT

Annex A-1

Amended Common Terms Agreement

[See attached.]

Conformed through Fourth Omnibus Amendment

SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED COMMON TERMS AGREEMENT

dated as of June 30, 2015

as amended by:

Omnibus Amendment, dated as of September 24, 2015;

Administrative Amendment, dated as of December 31, 2015;

Second Omnibus Amendment and Waiver, dated as of January 20, 2017;

Amendment to the Common Terms Agreement, dated as of January 20, 2017;

Third Omnibus Amendment, dated as of May 23, 2018; and

Fourth Omnibus Amendment, dated as of September 17, 2018.; and

Fifth Omnibus Amendment, Consent and Waiver, dated as of May 29, 2019.

among

SABINE PASS LIQUEFACTION, LLC,

as the Borrower

THE SECURED DEBT HOLDER GROUP REPRESENTATIVES, SECURED HEDGE REPRESENTATIVES AND

SECURED GAS HEDGE REPRESENTATIVES,

that are parties to this Agreement from time to time

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE,

as the Common Security Trustee

and

SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE,

as the Intercreditor Agent



TABLE OF CONTENTS
			Page
1.	DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION		4
	1.1	Definitions	4
	1.2	Interpretation	45
	1.3	UCC Terms	6
	1.4	Accounting and Financial Determinations	6
2.	SECURED DEBT		6
	2.1	Incurrence of Secured Debt	6
	2.2	Facility Commitments	6
	2.3	Borrowing Notice Requirements	7
	2.4	Working Capital Debt	8
	2.5	PDE Debt	9
	2.6	Replacement Debt	10
	2.7	Train 6 Debt[Reserved]	14
	2.8	Accession Agreements	1914
	2.9	Transfers and Holding of Obligations	2014
	2.10	Changes to Secured Debt Obligations	2116
	2.11	Termination of Obligations	2116
	2.12	Right to Share in Security	2217
	2.13	Certain Rights and Obligations of Secured Parties	2217
3.	REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENTS		2317
	3.1	General Terms of Repayment	2318
	3.2	Voluntary Prepayment of Secured Debt	2318
	3.3	Voluntary Cancellation of Secured Debt	2519
	3.4	Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt	2520
	3.5	Termination of Interest Rate Protection Agreement in Connection with Any Prepayment	2822
	3.6	Prepayment —Miscellaneous	2823
4.	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES		2924
	4.1	General	2924
	4.2	Existence	3025
	4.3	Financial Condition	3025



4.4	Action	3025
4.5	No Breach	3125
4.6	Government Approvals; Government Rules	3126
4.7	Proceedings	3227
4.8	Environmental Matters	3327
4.9	Taxes	3328
4.10	Tax Status	3428
4.11	ERISA; ERISA Event.	3429
4.12	Nature of Business	3429
4.13	Security Documents	3529
4.14	Subsidiaries	3530
4.15	Investment Company Act of 1940	3530
4.16	Energy Regulatory Status	3530
4.17	Material Project Documents; Other Documents	3631
4.18	Margin Stock	3732
4.19	Regulations T, U and X	3732
4.20	Patents, Trademarks, Etc.	3732
4.21	Disclosure	3832
4.22	Insurance	3833
4.23	Indebtedness	3833
4.24	Material Adverse Effect	3833
4.25	Absence of Default	3833
4.26	Real Property	3933
4.27	Solvency	3934
4.28	Legal Name and Place of Business	3934
4.29	No Force Majeure	3934
4.30	Ranking	4034
4.31	Labor Matters	4035
4.32	OFAC	4035
4.33	Accounts	4135
4.34	Operating Arrangements	4136
4.35	No Condemnation	4136



5.	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CLOSING DATE, DRAWDOWNS OF SECURED DEBT AND PROJECT COMPLETION DATE		4136
	5.1	Conditions to Closing Date	4136
	5.2	Conditions to Initial Advance	4236
	5.3	Conditions to Train 6 Initial Advance 42[Reserved]	37
	5.4	Conditions to Each Advance	4237
	5.5	Conditions to Project Completion Date	4337
6.	AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS		4337
	6.1	Separateness	4337
	6.2	Project Documents, Etc.	4338
	6.3	Maintenance of Existence, Etc.	4438
	6.4	Books and Records; Inspection Rights	4439
	6.5	Compliance with Government Rules, Etc.	4539
	6.6	Insurance; Events of Loss.	4640
	6.7	Project Construction; Maintenance of Properties	4741
	6.8	Taxes	4943
	6.9	Maintenance of Liens	4943
	6.10	Use of Proceeds	4944
	6.11	Interest Rate Protection Agreements	5044
	6.12	Operating Budget	5044
	6.13	Other Documents and Information	5145
	6.14	Train 6 Debt; Independent Engineer 52[Reserved]	46
	6.15	Debt Service Coverage Ratio	5246
	6.16	Further Assurances; Cooperation	5246
	6.17	Auditors	5347
	6.18	Surveys and Title Policies	5347
	6.19	Working Capital Debt	5347
	6.20	Debt Service Reserve Amount	5448
	6.21	Certain Agreements	5448
7.	NEGATIVE COVENANTS		5448
	7.1	[Reserved]	5448
	7.2	Prohibition of Fundamental Changes	5448

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	7.3	Nature of Business	5549
	7.4	Performance Tests and Liquidated Damages	5650
	7.5	Restrictions on Indebtedness	5650
	7.6	Development Expenditures	5650
	7.7	Restricted Payments	5750
	7.8	Limitation on Liens	5751
	7.9	Project Documents, Etc.	5751
	7.10	Terminal Use Agreements	5953
	7.11	Transactions with Affiliates	5953
	7.12	Accounts	6053
	7.13	EPC and Construction Contracts	6053
	7.14	GAAP	6457
	7.15	Use of Proceeds; Margin Regulations	6457
	7.16	Permitted Investments	6458
	7.17	Hedging Arrangements	6458
	7.18	Environmental Matters	6558
	7.19	Guarantees	6558
	7.20	Gas Purchase Contracts and LNG Sales Contracts	6558
	7.21	Sale of Natural Gas in Interstate Commerce	6559
8.	REPORTING REQUIREMENTS		6659
	8.1	Financial Statements	6659
	8.2	Notice of Default, Event of Default and Other Events	6760
	8.3	Notices under Material Project Documents	6862
	8.4	Operating Statements and Reports	6962
	8.5	Construction Reports	7063
	8.6	Commodity Positions	7164
	8.7	Other Information	7164
	8.8	Insurance Information	7164
9.	EVENTS OF DEFAULT FOR SECURED DEBT		7164
	9.1	Non-Payment of Scheduled Payments	7265
	9.2	Non-Payment of Other Obligations	7265
	9.3	Non-Performance of Covenants and Obligations	7265



	9.4	Breach of Representation or Warranty	7366
	9.5	Project Document Defaults	7366
	9.6	Government Approvals	7467
	9.7	Bankruptcy; Insolvency	7467
	9.8	Judgments	7567
	9.9	Unenforceability of Documentation	7568
	9.10	Event of Loss	7568
	9.11	Change of Control	7568
	9.12	ERISA Events	7568
	9.13	Insurance	7668
	9.14	Liens	7669
	9.15	Abandonment	7669
	9.16	Certain Regulations	7669
	9.17	Commercial Delivery	7669
	9.18	Project Completion 77[Reserved]	70
	9.19	Certain Force Majeure Events	7770
10.	MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS		7870
	10.1	Amendments	7870
	10.2	Entire Agreement	7871
	10.3	Applicable Law; Jurisdiction	7871
	10.4	Assignments	8073
	10.5	Successors and Assigns	8073
	10.6	Consultants	8073
	10.7	Costs and Expenses	8073
	10.8	Counterparts; Effectiveness	8274
	10.9	No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.	8274
	10.10	Indemnification by Borrower	8275
	10.11	Notices and Other Communication	8477
	10.12	Severability	8678
	10.13	Survival	8678
	10.14	Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc.	8679
	10.15	Reinstatement	8679



10.16	Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality	8779
10.17	No Recourse	8881
10.18	Second Amendment and Restatement	9082

SCHEDULES

Schedule 1 — Definitions

Schedule 2.4 — Form of Officer's Certificate (Working Capital Debt)

Schedule 2.6 — Form of Officer's Certificate (Replacement Debt)

Schedule 2.7(a)(ix) — Train 6 Deliverables[Reserved]

Schedule 2.8(a) — Form of Accession Agreements

Schedule 2.8(f) — Debt Commitments; Secured Hedge Obligations

Schedule 2.9(d) — Form of Transfer of Accession Agreement (Secured Debt Holder Group Representative)

Schedule 2.9(e) — Form of Transfer of Accession Agreement (Secured Hedge Representative)

Schedule 2.9(f) — Form of Transfer of Accession Agreement (Secured Gas Hedge Representative)

Schedule 4.6(a) — Government Approvals

Schedule 4.6(b) — Government Approvals - Post Closing

Schedule 4.7 — Environmental Claims

Schedule 4.8 — Environmental Matters

Schedule 4.17 — Project Documents

Schedule 4.20 — Patents, Trademarks, Etc.

Schedule 5.1 — Conditions to Closing Date

Schedule 5.2 — Conditions to Initial Advance

Schedule 5.3 — Conditions to Train 6 Initial Advance[Reserved]

Schedule 5.4 — Conditions to Each Advance

Schedule 5.5 — Conditions to Project Completion Date

Schedule 6.1 — Separateness

Schedule 6.6 — Insurance

Schedule 7.13 — Change Orders

Schedule 10.11 — Notice Information

EXHIBITS

Exhibit A — Knowledge

Exhibit B-1 — Form of EPC Contract Consent and Agreement

Exhibit B-2 — Form of ConocoPhillips License Agreement Consent

Exhibit B-3 — Form of Material Project Document (Non-Affiliate) Consent

Exhibit B-4 — Form of Material Project Document (Affiliate) Consent

Exhibit B-5 — Form of Guarantee Consent

Exhibit C — Form of Interest Rate Protection Agreement

Exhibit D-1 — Construction Budget

Exhibit D-2 — Construction Schedule

Exhibit E — Base Case Forecast

Exhibit F — Hedging Program

Exhibit G — Gas Sourcing Plan

Exhibit H — Project Description

Exhibit I — Form of Notice of Project Completion

Exhibit J — Form of Borrowing Notice

ANNEXES

Annex A — Closing Date Consents

Annex B — Lenders' Reliability Test Criteria

Annex C — Approved Train 6 Sale and Purchase Agreement Term Sheet

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THIS SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED COMMON TERMS AGREEMENT (this

"Agreement"), dated as of June 30, 2015 and as amended by the Omnibus Amendment, dated as of September 24, 2015, the Administrative Amendment, dated as of December 31, 2015, the Second Omnibus Amendment and Waiver, dated as of January 20, 2017, the Amendment to the Common Terms Agreement, dated as of January 20, 2017, the Third Omnibus Amendment, dated as of May 23, 2018, the Fourth Omnibus Amendment, dated as of September 17, 2018 and the Fifth Omnibus Amendment, Consent and Waiver, dated as of May 29, 2019, is made among:


(1)	SABINE PASS LIQUEFACTION, LLC, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Borrower");


(2)	each SECURED DEBT HOLDER GROUP REPRESENTATIVE that is a party to this Agreement from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;


(4)	each SECURED HEDGE REPRESENTATIVE that is a party to this Agreement from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;


(5)	each SECURED GAS HEDGE REPRESENTATIVE that is a party to this Agreement from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;


(6)	SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, as the Common Security Trustee; and

(7)SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE, as the Intercreditor Agent, each a "Party" and together the "Parties".

WHEREAS:


(A)	Sabine Pass LNG, L.P. ("SPLNG"), an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. (the "Sponsor"), owns and operates the Sabine Pass LNG Terminal ("Sabine Pass Terminal") located in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The Sabine Pass Terminal has liquefied natural gas regasification and send-out capacity of approximately

4.3 Bcf/d, storage capacity of approximately 16.9 Bcfe and two (and up to three) marine berths;

(B)

The Borrower intends to design, engineer, develop, procure, construct, install, complete, own, operate and maintain up to six liquefaction trains, each with a nominal production capacity of at least 182,500,000 MMBtu per annum, that will add liquefaction services at the Sabine Pass Terminal and convert the Sabine Pass Terminal into a facility capable of liquefying and exporting domestic U.S. natural gas in addition to importing and regasifying foreign-sourced LNG;

(C)

further amended by that certain Omnibus Amendment, dated as of January 9, 2013, as amended by that certain Second Omnibus Amendment (the "Second Omnibus Amendment"), dated as of January 9, 2013 (as so amended, the "Original Common Terms Agreement"), and as amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement, dated as of May 28, 2013, as amended by that certain Amendment to the Common Terms Agreement, dated as of November 20, 2013, as further amended by that certain Amendment to Common Terms Agreement, dated as of April 10, 2014, as further amended by that certain Amendment to Common Terms Agreement, dated as of June 10, 2014, as further amended by that certain Amendment to Common Terms Agreement, dated as of May 12, 2015 (as so amended and restated, the "Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement"), that sets out certain provisions regarding, among other things, common representations and warranties of the Borrower, common covenants of the Borrower, and common Events of Default under certain of the Secured Debt Instruments (as defined in the Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement);

(D)

The Borrower, the Commercial Banks Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee, and the Commercial Bank Lenders party thereto (in their capacity as construction/term loan lenders thereunder) entered into that certain Credit Agreement (Term Loan A), dated as of July 31, 2012, as amended by the Second Omnibus Amendment (as so amended, the "Original Credit Agreement"), and as amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (Term Loan A), dated as of May 28, 2013, as amended by that certain First Amendment to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (Term Loan A), dated as of March 21, 2014 (as so amended and restated, the "Amended and Restated Credit Agreement"), pursuant to which such Commercial Bank Lenders party thereto (in such capacity) agreed to provide, upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, the loans described therein and to finance the construction of the first four trains of the Project;

(E)

The Borrower, the Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives party thereto, the Secured Hedge Representatives party thereto, the Secured Gas Hedge Representatives party thereto, the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent entered into that certain Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of July 31, 2012, as amended by the Second Omnibus Amendment, as amended and restated by the Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of May 28, 2013 (as so amended and restated, the "Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement"), that, among other things, governs the relationship among the Secured Parties and regulates the claims of the Secured Parties under the Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement against the Borrower and the enforcement by the Secured Parties under the Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement of the Security (as defined in the Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement), including the method of voting and decision making, and the appointment of the Intercreditor Agent for the purposes set forth therein;


(F)	As of the date hereof, pursuant to (i) that certain Indenture, dated as of February 24, 2017, by and between Borrower, various subsidiary guarantors and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (the “4(a)(2) Indenture”) and (ii) the Indenture, dated

as of February 1, 2013, as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture, dated as of April 16, 2013, a second supplemental indenture, dated as of April 16, 2013, a third supplemental indenture, dated as of November 25, 2013, a fourth supplemental indenture, dated as of May 20, 2014, a fifth supplemental indenture, dated as of May 20, 2014, and a sixth supplemental indenture, dated as of March 3, 2015 (collectively, a seventh supplemental indenture, dated as of June 14, 2016, an eighth supplemental indenture, dated as of September 19, 2016, a ninth supplemental indenture, dated as of September 23, 2016 and a tenth supplemental indenture, dated as of March 6, 2017, by and between SPL and The Bank of New York Mellon, as Trustee (the “144A Indenture” and, together with the 4(a)(2) Indenture, the "Initial Senior Bond IndentureBonds Indentures"), the Borrower has issued Senior Bonds in one or more series in the aggregate principal amount of eightthirteen billion fivesix hundred fifty million Dollars ($8,500,000,00013,650,000,000) (collectively, the "Initial Senior Bonds") constituting Replacement Debt and resulting in cancellation of Facility Commitments such that, as of the date hereof, the aggregate Facility Commitments remaining available amount to eight hundred ninety-nine million one hundred twenty-three thousand nine hundred ninety-four Dollars and seven cents ($899,123,994.07);;

(G)

The Borrower, the Commercial Bank Lenders and certain other parties thereto, as applicable, desire to amend and restate the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and certain other Transaction Documents, as set forth below ,the KSURE Covered Facility Lenders desire to amend and restate the KSURE Covered Facility Agreement, and KEXIM and the KEXIM Covered Facility Lenders and certain other Holders of Senior Debt, if applicable, desire to establish certain additional credit facilities in order to provide funds which are to be used, along with the Funded Equity, to finance the design, engineering, development, procurement, construction, installation, completion, ownership, operation and maintenance of the relevant trains of the Project, to pay certain fees and expenses associated with the Financing Documents and the Senior Debt, fund the Senior Debt Facilities Debt Service Reserve Account, fund operating and working capital expenses associated with the relevant trains of the Project, issue letters of credit and as further described herein and in the other Financing Documents;


(H)	The Borrower, the Commercial Banks Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee, and the Commercial Bank Lenders are entering into a Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (Term Loan A) pursuant to which the Commercial Bank Lenders will provide upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, the loans described therein to finance the construction of the relevant trains of the Project;

(I) The Borrower, the Commercial Banks Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee, The Bank of Nova Scotia as senior issuing bank and the Working Capital LC Lenders party thereto have entered into the Amended and Restated Senior Working Capital Revolving Credit and Letter of Credit and Reimbursement Agreement, dated as of September 4, 2015, as amended by the Third Omnibus Amendment, dated May 23, 2018, the Fourth Omnibus Amendment, dated September 17, 2018 and the Fifth

Omnibus Amendment, dated [ • ], 2019 (as so amended and restated, the "Working Capital Facility Agreement");

(IJ) The Borrower, the KSURE Covered Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee and the KSURE Covered Facility Lenders are entering into that certain KSURE Covered Facility Agreement pursuant to which the KSURE Covered Facility Lenders will provide, upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, the loans described therein to finance the construction of the relevant trains of the Project and, in connection therewith and as a condition thereto, KSURE will issue the KSURE Insurance to provide, upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, credit support to the KSURE Covered Facility Lenders;

(JK) The Borrower, the KEXIM Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee and KEXIM are entering into that certain KEXIM Direct Facility Agreement pursuant to which KEXIM will provide upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, the loans described therein to finance the construction of the relevant trains of the Project;

(KL) The Borrower, the KEXIM Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee. KEXIM and the KEXIM Covered Facility Lenders are entering into that certain KEXIM Covered Facility Agreement pursuant to which the KEXIM Covered Facility Lenders will provide, upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, the loans described therein to finance the construction of the relevant trains of the Project and, in connection therewith and as a condition thereto, KEXIM will issue the KEXIM Guarantee to provide, upon the terms and conditions set forth therein, credit support to the KEXIM Covered Facility Lenders;

(LM) The Borrower, the Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives, the Secured Hedge Representatives, the Secured Gas Hedge Representatives, the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent are entering into a new Intercreditor Agreement in order to amend and restate the Amended and Restated Intercreditor Agreement and, among other things, regulate the relationship among the Secured Parties and regulate the claims of the Secured Parties against the Borrower and the enforcement by the Secured Parties of the Security, including the method of voting and decision making, and the appointment of the Intercreditor Agent for the purposes set forth therein;

(MN) The Borrower has granted certain Security in the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Security Documents; and

(NO) The Borrower, the Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives, the Secured Hedge Representatives, the Secured Gas Hedge Representatives, the Common Security Trustee, and the Intercreditor Agent are entering into this Agreement in order to amend and restate the Amended and Restated Common Terms Agreement and set out certain provisions regarding, among other things: (a) common representations and warranties of the Borrower; (b) common covenants of the Borrower; and (c) common Events of Default under the Secured Debt Instruments.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:


1.	DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION


1.1	Definitions

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, capitalized terms used in this Agreement shall have the meanings given to them in Schedule 1. To the extent such terms are defined by reference to other Financing Documents or Material Project Documents, for the purposes of this Agreement, such terms shall continue to have the definitions given to them on the Closing Date (but will be subject to, and interpreted in accordance with, the governing law of this Agreement) notwithstanding any termination, expiration or amendment (unless such amendment has been entered into with the written consent of the Required Secured Parties) of such agreements except to the extent the Parties agree to the contrary.


1.1	Interpretation


(a)	In this Agreement, except to the extent specified to the contrary or where the context otherwise requires:


(i)	the table of contents and headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement;


(ii)	references to "Sections", "Schedules", "Exhibits" and "Appendices" are references to sections of, and schedules, exhibits and appendices to, this Agreement;


(iii)	references to "assets" includes property, revenues and rights of every description (whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible);


(iv)	references to an "amendment" includes a supplement, replacement, novation, restatement or re-enactment and "amended" is to be construed accordingly;

(v)

except where a document or agreement is expressly stated to be in the form “in effect” on a particular date in Section 1.1 (Definitions), references to any document or agreement, including this Agreement, shall be deemed to include references to such document or agreement as amended, amended and restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with its terms and (where applicable) subject to compliance with the requirements set forth in the Financing Documents;


(vi)	references to any Party or party to any other document or agreement shall include its successors and permitted assigns;


(vii)	words importing the singular include the plural and vice versa;


(viii)	words importing the masculine include the feminine and vice versa;


(ix)	the words "include", "includes" and "including" are not limiting;


(x)	references to "days" shall mean calendar days, unless the term "Business Days" shall be used;


(xi)	references to "months" shall mean calendar months and references to "years" shall mean calendar years; and


(xii)	unless the contrary indication appears, a reference to a time of day is a reference to the time of day in New York, New York.


(b)	This Agreement and the other Financing Documents are the result of negotiations among, and have been reviewed by all parties thereto and their respective counsel. Accordingly, this Agreement and the other Financing Documents shall be deemed to be the product of all parties thereto, and no ambiguity shall be construed in favor of or against any party thereto.


(c)	For the purposes of any Financing Document, "payment in full" or "paid in full" or "satisfied", in each case, as used with respect to any Obligation means the receipt of cash equal to the full amount of such Obligation.


(d)	Unless a contrary intention appears, a term used in any Financing Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Financing Document has the same meaning in that Financing Document or notice as in this Agreement.


1.3	UCC Terms

Unless otherwise defined herein, terms used herein that are defined in the UCC shall have the respective meanings given to those terms in the UCC.


1.4	Accounting and Financial Determinations

Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided, that, if the Borrower notifies the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of, or calculation of compliance with, such provision (or if the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative, as the case may be, notifies the Borrower that the Required

Secured Parties request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such provision has been amended in accordance herewith.


2.	SECURED DEBT


2.2	Incurrence of Secured Debt

The incurrence of, and Advances under, the Secured Debt shall be made in accordance with, and pursuant to, the terms of this Agreement and the relevant Secured Debt Instruments.


2.2	Facility Commitments

On the Closing Date, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and the other Financing Documents:


(a)	the Borrower, the Commercial Banks Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee and the Commercial Bank Lenders are entering into the Term Loan A Credit Agreement pursuant to which the Commercial Bank Lenders will make available to the Borrower a term loan facility in an aggregate amount not exceeding the total Commercial Banks Facility Commitment;


(b)	the Borrower, the KSURE Covered Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee and the KSURE Covered Facility Lenders are entering into the KSURE Covered Facility Agreement pursuant to which the KSURE Covered Facility Lenders will make available to the Borrower a term loan facility in an aggregate amount not exceeding the total KSURE Covered Facility Commitment;


(c)	the Borrower, the KEXIM Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee and KEXIM are entering into the KEXIM Direct Facility Agreement pursuant to which KEXIM will make available to the Borrower a term loan facility in an aggregate amount not exceeding the total KEXIM Direct Facility Commitment; and


(d)	the Borrower, the KEXIM Facility Agent, the Common Security Trustee, KEXIM and the KEXIM Covered Facility Lenders are entering into the KEXIM Covered Facility Agreement pursuant to which the KEXIM Covered Facility Lenders will make available to the Borrower a term loan facility in an aggregate amount not exceeding the total KEXIM Covered Facility Commitment.

Each Facility Agent, the Initial Senior Bonds Trustee and each Secured Hedge Representative shall have delivered an Accession Agreement in respect of each applicable Secured Debt Instrument or Secured Hedge Instrument.


2.3	Borrowing Notice Requirements

(a)

Subject to the terms of this Agreement and each relevant Facility Agreement, the Borrower may request an Advance under any Facility by delivering a Borrowing Notice (substantially in the form attached as Exhibit J to this Agreement) appropriately completed to the Common Security Trustee and each of the relevant Facility Agents, no later than 12:00 p.m., New York City time, on or before the fourth Business Day prior to the proposed Borrowing Date.


(b)	Each Borrowing Notice delivered pursuant to this Section 2.3 shall be irrevocable and shall refer to this Agreement and the relevant Facility Agreement and specify:


(i)	the requested Borrowing Date;


(ii)	the amount of such requested Advance;


(iii)	with respect to the Commercial Bank Loans,


(A)	whether the requested Advance is of LIBO Loans or Base Rate Loans (each as defined in the Term Loan A Credit Agreement); and


(B)	in the case of a proposed Advance of LIBO Loans, the Borrower's election with respect to the duration of the initial Interest Period applicable to such LIBO Loans, which Interest Periods (as defined in the Term Loan A Credit Agreement) shall be one (1), two (2), three (3), or six (6) months in length; and


(iv)	that each of the conditions precedent to such Advance has been satisfied or waived.

(c)

The Borrower shall ensure that following each Advance, the ratio of Facility Loans under each Facility Agreement to Facility Loans under all Facility Agreements is equal to the ratio of the total Facility Commitments under the relevant Facility Agreement to the aggregate Facility Commitments under all Facility Agreements; provided that solely for the purposes of calculating such ratio for purposes of this Section 2.3(c), any Facility Loans prepaid pursuant to Section 3.4(a)(iv) (Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt) (with respect to the prepayments required under Section 2.6(j)(ii) (Replacement Debt)) or Section 3.4(a)(viii) (Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt) shall be considered outstanding.


(d)	The Borrower may only request that two Advances under each of the Facility Agreements be made during each calendar month. The Borrower may only request Advances during the Availability Period, except that the Initial Advance

may be requested prior to (but shall only be made on or after) the commencement of the Availability Period.


(e)	The currency specified in a Borrowing Notice must be Dollars.

(f)

The aggregate amount of the proposed Advances under the Facilities must be an amount that is no more than the available Facility Commitments and (A) not less than five million Dollars ($5,000,000) and an integral multiple of one million Dollars ($1,000,000) and (B) if the available Facility Commitments are less than five million Dollars ($5,000,000), equal to the available Facility Commitments. The portion of any Advance comprising funds under any Facility Agreement shall not exceed the available Facility Commitment under such Facility Agreement. Such Advances shall be made pro rata in accordance with the committed principal amounts under each Facility Commitment calculated in accordance with clause (c) of this Section 2.3.


(g)	If the Initial Advance or the incurrence of Replacement Debt does not occur on or prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date (or such later date as may be agreed in writing by all of the Facility Lenders), all Facility Commitments shall automatically terminate and shall no longer be effective.


2.4	Working Capital Debt

The Borrower may incur senior secured or unsecured Indebtedness in addition to other Senior Debt not exceeding the sum of (x) one billion five hundred million Dollars ($1,500,000,000) and, if Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, one billion eight hundred million Dollars ($1,800,000,000) in the aggregate, the proceeds of which shall be used solely for working capital purposes (including the issuance of letters of credit) related to the Project of which not more than two hundred million Dollars ($200,000,000) may be used for working capital purposes other than the cost of purchasing or transporting (including storing) natural gas and (y) four hundred sixty million Dollars ($460,000,000) and, if Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, five hundred fifty million Dollars ($550,000,000) in the aggregate, the proceeds of which shall be used for purposes of issuing Acceptable Debt Service Reserve LCs in lieu of cash deposits into the Senior Debt Facilities Debt Service Reserve Account (the "Working Capital Debt"), only if, prior to or on the date of incurrence thereof, the following conditions have been satisfied or waived by the Required Secured Parties:


(a)	no Default or Event of Default:


(i)	shall have occurred and be continuing; or


(ii)	results from the incurrence of such Working Capital Debt;


(b)	the Senior Debt Instrument governing such Working Capital Debt shall include a provision requiring the Borrower to reduce the principal amount relating to any

revolving loans to zero Dollars ($0) for a period of not less than five (5) consecutive Business Days at least once per calendar year; provided, however that such provision may except any such loans incurred to repay reimbursement amounts due under drawn letters of credit so long as the tenor of such loans is not greater than twelve (12) months;


(c)	the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for any Secured Working Capital Debt shall have entered into an Accession Agreement in accordance with Section

2.8 (Accession Agreements); and


(d)	the Intercreditor Agent shall have received a certificate from an Authorized Officer of the Borrower at least five (5) days prior to the incurrence of such Working Capital Debt, in the form set out in Schedule 2.4, which certificate shall:


(i)	identify each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative and each Holder for any Secured Working Capital Debt; and

(ii)

attach a copy of each proposed Senior Debt Instrument relating to the Working Capital Debt (that may be an amendment to an existing Senior Debt Instrument), which copy shall disclose the material terms, permitted uses, and the tenor and, if applicable, amortization schedule of such Working Capital Debt and the rate, or the rate basis and margin in the case of a floating rate, at which such Working Capital Debt shall bear interest, and (if applicable) commitment fees or other premiums relating thereto.

Any Secured Working Capital Debt shall be treated in all respects as Secured Debt, sharing pari passu in the Collateral and in right of payment.


2.5	PDE Debt

The Borrower may incur senior secured or unsecured Indebtedness in addition to other Senior Debt not exceeding the sum of three hundred million Dollars ($300,000,000) in the aggregate, the proceeds of which shall be used solely to finance Permitted Development Expenditures (the "PDE Debt"), only if, prior to or on the date of incurrence thereof, the following conditions have been satisfied or waived by the Required Secured Parties:


(a)	no Default or Event of Default:


(i)	shall have occurred and be continuing; or


(ii)	results from the incurrence of such PDE Debt;


(b)	the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for any Secured PDE Debt shall have entered into an Accession Agreement in accordance with Section 2.8 (Accession Agreements); and


(c)	the Borrower shall have demonstrated by delivery of an updated Base Case Forecast that after the incurrence of such PDE Debt, the Projected Debt Service Coverage Ratio commencing on the Initial Quarterly Payment Date and for each calendar year through the terms of the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements in effect as of such date shall not be less than 1.50x, calculated solely with respect to

(A) Monthly Sales Charges, (B) the Fixed Price Component under each of the KoGas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Centrica FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, and the Total FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Petronas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Vitol FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, and any Approved Train 6 Sale and Purchase Agreement and

(C) all Cash Flows (other than Cash Flows comprising the pass-through component of the cost of purchase and transportation of natural gas consumed for LNG production to the extent not already deducted as an operating expense (as contemplated by the definition of Cash Flow Available for Debt Service)) under the GAIL FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, and (D) if Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, any Fixed Price Component under the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement(s). In calculating the Projected Debt Service Coverage Ratio only projected Cash Flows, Monthly Sales Charges and the Fixed Price Component, as applicable, from FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements shall be taken into account.

Any Secured PDE Debt shall be treated in all respects as Secured Debt, sharing pari passu in the Collateral and in right of payment.


2.6	Replacement Debt

Subject to the provisions of this Section 2.6, the Borrower may incur Replacement Debt, the proceeds of which shall be used to refinance the Advances or replace commitments to provide the Advances subject to the prepayment terms thereof. The Borrower may incur Replacement Debt at its sole discretion, only if, prior to or on the date of incurrence thereof, the following conditions are satisfied or waived by the Required Secured Parties:


(a)	no Default or Event of Default:


(i)	shall have occurred and be continuing; or


(ii)	results from the incurrence of such Replacement Debt;


(b)	the maximum principal amount of the proposed Replacement Debt does not exceed the sum of:


(i)	the Senior Debt Commitments being cancelled concurrently with the incurrence of such Replacement Debt; plus


(ii)	the outstanding principal amount of the Secured Debt being prepaid or redeemed concurrently with the incurrence of such Replacement Debt; plus

(iii)

all accrued interest on the Secured Debt being repaid or redeemed, all premiums, discounts, fees, costs and expenses (including, without duplication, (A) Hedge Termination Values with respect to any Interest Rate Protection Agreements subject to the refinancing with the proposed Replacement Debt, (B) any amounts deposited in a debt service reserve or similar reserve (or any interest during construction) account in connection with the issuance of such Replacement Debt and (C) any incremental carrying costs of such Replacement Debt (including any increased interest during construction)) associated with any such cancellation, prepayment or redemption, or incurred in connection with the proposed Replacement Debt;


(c)	the weighted average life to maturity of the Replacement Debt shall not be less than the weighted average life to maturity of the Secured Debt prior to the incurrence of such Replacement Debt;


(d)	the maturity date of the Replacement Debt shall not occur prior to the Final Maturity Date;


(e)	the material terms of the Replacement Debt shall not be materially more restrictive on the Borrower than the terms of the Secured Debt being replaced;

(f)

the Borrower shall have demonstrated by delivery of an updated Base Case Forecast that after the incurrence of such Replacement Debt, the Projected Debt Service Coverage Ratio commencing on the Initial Quarterly Payment Date and for each calendar year through the terms of the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements in effect as of such date shall not be less than (i) 2.00x, calculated with respect to all Cash Flows other than Cash Flows comprising the pass- through component of the cost of purchase and transportation of natural gas consumed for LNG production to the extent not already deducted as an operating expense (as contemplated by the definition of Cash Flow Available for Debt Service), and (ii) 1.75x, calculated solely with respect to (A) Monthly Sales Charges, (B) the Fixed Price Component under each of the KoGas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Centrica FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, and the Total FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Petronas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Vitol FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement and any Approved Train 6 Sale and Purchase Agreement and (C) all Cash Flows (other than Cash Flows comprising the pass-through component of the cost of purchase and transportation of natural gas consumed for LNG production to the extent not already deducted as an operating expense (as contemplated by the definition of

Cash Flow Available for Debt Service)) under the GAIL FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, and (D) if Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, any Fixed Price Component under the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement(s). In calculating the Projected Debt Service Coverage Ratio only projected Cash Flows, Monthly Sales Charges and the Fixed Price Component, as applicable, from FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements shall be taken into account;


(g)	the Borrower’s Debt to Equity Ratio shall not exceed the ratio of 75:25 taking into account the incurrence of such Replacement Debt (other than Replacement Debt Incremental Amounts) but without regard to any outstanding Indebtedness comprising Working Capital Debt;


(h)	the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Secured Replacement Debt shall have entered into an Accession Agreement in accordance with Section 2.8 (Accession Agreements);


(i)	the Intercreditor Agent shall have received a certificate from an Authorized Officer of the Borrower at least three (3) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Replacement Debt, and on the date of incurrence of such Replacement Debt, in the form set out in Schedule 2.6, which certificate shall:


(i)	identify the Senior Debt being replaced, the Senior Debt Commitments being cancelled, each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative and each Secured Debt Holder for any Secured Replacement Debt; and

(ii)

(A) in the case of the certificate delivered at least three (3) Business Days prior to the incurrence of such Replacement Debt attach a copy of each proposed Senior Debt Instrument relating to the Replacement Debt (that may be an amendment to an existing Senior Debt Instrument), which copy shall disclose the material terms, permitted uses, and the tenor and, if applicable, amortization schedule of such Replacement Debt and the rate, or the rate basis and margin in the case of a floating rate, at which such Replacement Debt shall bear interest, and, if applicable, commitment fees or other premiums relating thereto and (B) in the case of the certificate delivered on the date of incurrence of such Replacement Debt attach a copy of each final form of Senior Debt Instrument relating to the Replacement Debt (that may be an amendment to an existing Senior Debt Instrument);

(j)

the Borrower (A) within thirty (30) days of the incurrence of any Replacement Debt, shall pay any costs, fees, expenses or other amounts related thereto from the proceeds of such Replacement Debt for such purposes, and (B) simultaneously with the incurrence of any Replacement Debt (it being understood that any payment pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) below with respect to Facility Debt under the KSURE Covered Facility, KEXIM Covered Facility or KEXIM Direct Facility, shall be made no earlier than the third Business Day (as defined in clause

(iii) of the definition thereof) following the delivery of the certificate pursuant to Section 2.6(i) above):

(i)

if required by the Senior Debt Instrument governing such Senior Debt, shall, subject to clause (ii) below and the requirements of Section 2.6(k), use all or a portion of the proceeds of such Replacement Debt on a pro rata basis with respect to any such Senior Debt Instruments that require such prepayment to prepay the scheduled principal amounts of the Senior Debt in the inverse order of maturity and to pay any Hedge Termination Value that is due as a result of the termination of any Interest Rate Protection Agreement in connection with any such prepayment; provided, that any Hedge Termination Value that is not due at such time in accordance with Section 3.5 (Termination of Interest Rate Protection Agreement in Connection with Any Prepayment) shall be retained in the Construction Account or the Revenue Account, as applicable, and applied at the time required as set forth in such Section; provided further that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause (j)(i) (but taking into account the requirements of Section 2.6(k)), the Borrower may, at its option, apply all or a portion of the proceeds of any such prepayment to (A) the pro rata prepayment of the Facility Debt and any other Secured Debt without applying such proceeds to the prepayment of any Senior Bonds, or (B) the pro rata prepayment of the Facility Debt without applying such proceeds to the prepayment of any Senior Bonds or any other Secured Debt; provided further that payments of principal of the Facility Debt shall be applied in the same order of maturity across all Facilities; or

(ii)

if a KoGas Termination Trigger Event has occurred and the Borrower has not entered into a replacement FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement with a Korean Entity to replace the KoGas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, may use all or a portion of the proceeds of such Replacement Debt on a pro rata basis with respect to Facility Debt under the KSURE Covered Facility, KEXIM Covered Facility and KEXIM Direct Facility, and to pay any Hedge Termination Value that is due as a result of the termination of any Interest Rate Protection Agreement in connection with any such prepayment; and

(k)

simultaneously with the incurrence of any Replacement Debt (i) that occurs on or after the date by which the Borrower is required to fund the Senior Debt Facilities Debt Service Reserve Account in accordance with Section 6.20 (Debt Service Reserve Amount), the Borrower shall use a portion of the proceeds of such Replacement Debt to fund the incremental increase in (A) the Required Debt Service Reserve Amount, if such Replacement Debt is incurred on or after the Project Completion Date or (B) the Sponsor Case Required Debt Service Amount, if such Replacement Debt is incurred prior to the Project Completion Date, in each case, as a result of the incurrence of such Replacement Debt and (ii) that is incurred at any time, the Borrower may use a portion of the proceeds of such

Replacement Debt to fund the applicable Additional Debt Service Reserve Account (as defined in the Accounts Agreement).

Any Secured Replacement Debt shall be treated in all respects as Secured Debt, sharing pari passu in the Collateral and in right of payment. The conditions for incurrence of Replacement Debt shall not apply to the incurrence of facilities to replace Working Capital Debt, which shall be governed by the provisions of Section 2.4 (Working Capital Debt).


2.7	Train 6 Debt[Reserved]

Without limiting the provisions of Sections 2.4 (Working Capital Debt), 2.5 (PDE Debt), and 2.6 (Replacement Debt) and subject to the provisions of this Section 2.7, the Borrower shall have the right to incur or issue additional senior secured or unsecured Indebtedness that is recourse solely to the Borrower ("Train 6 Debt") to finance the Train 6 Development and to provide Working Capital Debt for the purchase, transportation (including storage) of natural gas and Acceptable Debt Service Reserve LCs associated with Train 6 and to fund the incremental increase in the Required Debt Service Reserve Amount to the extent required by the Train 6 Debt. The Borrower may incur or issue Train 6 Debt at its sole discretion, only if, prior to or on the date of incurrence or issuance thereof, the following conditions are satisfied or waived by each of the Facility Lenders, KEXIM and KSURE:


(a)	each of the Facility Agents shall have received:


(i)	certified true, correct and complete copies of (A) the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements, which shall be Qualified FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements with revenues sufficient to satisfy clause (g) below, (B) the Stage 4 EPC Contract and (C) the Stage 4 ConocoPhillips License Agreement;

(ii)

a written description of the Train 6 Development and the funding plan thereof, which shall include (A) the Cash Flows, other than Cash Flows comprising the pass-through component of the cost of purchase and transportation of natural gas consumed for LNG production to the extent not already deducted as an operating expense (as contemplated by the definition of Cash Flow Available for Debt Service), during the period of construction of Train 6 to be reserved by the Borrower for payment of Project Costs, (B) the amount of cash capital contributions or cash subordinated shareholder loans irrevocably and unconditionally committed to be made to the Borrower and (C) additional Senior Debt (collectively, the "Train 6 Funding Plan");


(iii)	a duly executed certificate by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower certifying that: (A) no Material Adverse Effect would occur as a

result of the Train 6 Development and (B) no Default or Event of Default would occur as a result of the Train 6 Development;

(iv)

satisfactory evidence that all material Government Approvals that are necessary for the Train 6 Development and the provision of the services contemplated by Train 6 other than those normally delivered by the issuing authorities at a later date, (x) have been duly obtained, were validly issued and are in full force and effect, (y) other than the Trains 5 & 6 Export Authorizations, are not subject to rehearing before the issuing agency (except for Government Approvals that do not have limits on appeal period under Government Rule) because either the time period for seeking rehearing of such Government Approval has elapsed without any request for rehearing being filed, or any request for rehearing has been denied and (z) are free from conditions or requirements the compliance with which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or which the Borrower does not expect to be able to satisfy on or prior to the commencement of the relevant stage of Train 6 Development unless such failure to so satisfy such condition or requirement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(v)

a final due diligence report of the Independent Engineer favorably reviewing (A) the technical and economic feasibility of the Train 6 Development and the environmental compliance and environmental risks relating to the Train 6 Development, (B) the reasonableness of the costs of the Train 6 Development, the revised Construction Schedule delivered pursuant to clause ((xi)(D)) below and the revised Construction Budget delivered pursuant to clause ((xi)(C)) below, including the sufficiency of any increase in the Contingency, (C) the reasonableness of the Train 6 Funding Plan, (D) the expected impact of the Train 6 Development on the production capacity of the Project, including the Independent Engineer’s affirmative determination that no reduction to the annualized production capacity of the first five trains of the Project is expected and (E) the reasonableness of the terms and conditions of the Stage 4 EPC Contract and other Additional Material Project Documents to be entered into with respect to the Train 6 Development or determining that such Additional Material Project Documents are on terms (other than pricing) substantially similar or not materially less favorable to the Borrower than the equivalent Material Project Documents;


(vi)	a final due diligence report of the Market Consultant that includes an analysis of each Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement similar in scope to that completed for the FOB Sale and Purchase

Agreements associated with the first five trains of the Project and favorably determining that the Gas Sourcing Plan shall be sufficient to supply and transport the additional quantities of natural gas necessary for the Borrower to perform its obligations under any Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement (or delivery of a satisfactory amendment to the Gas Sourcing Plan);


(vii)	a final due diligence report of the Insurance Advisor confirming that insurance policies are or will be in place during the construction of Train 6 covering insurable risks associated with the Project (including Train 6 and the activities associated with construction thereof) that meet the requirements of the Financing Documents and otherwise in accordance with good industry practice;

(viii)

Consents with each counterparty to an Additional Material Project Document executed in connection with the Train 6 Development; provided that, without limiting the Borrower’s obligation to procure such Consents, the Borrower shall send a letter (on the Borrower’s letterhead and signed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower) notifying each Material Project Party not party to a Consent (if applicable) (A) that its Material Project Document and all associated documents and obligations have been pledged as collateral security to the Secured Parties and are subject to the Secured Parties’ Lien on such Property and (B) if such Material Project Party’s Material Project Document requires any payment of Cash Flows that, in addition to the assignment specified in clause (A) above, it shall pay all such Cash Flows directly into the Equity Proceeds Account prior to the Project Completion Account and the Revenue Account thereafter;


(ix)	all agreements, legal opinions, evidence of insurance and other documents related to the Train 6 Debt listed on Schedule 2.7(a)(ix) (Train 6 Deliverables) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Common Security Trustee (in consultation with the Independent Engineer);


(x)	satisfactory copies or evidence, as the case may be, of the following actions in connection with the perfection of security interests and liens on substantially all assets related to the Train 6 Development:


(A)	completed requests for information or copies of the Uniform Commercial Code search reports and tax lien, judgment and litigation search reports, dated no more than fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the incurrence of any Train 6 Debt, for the States of Delaware, Louisiana, Texas and any other jurisdiction reasonably requested by any of the Facility Agents

that name the Loan Parties as debtors, together with copies of each UCC financing statement, fixture filing or other filings listed therein, which shall evidence no Liens on the assets related to the Train 6 Development, other than Permitted Liens; and


(B)	evidence of the completion of all other actions, recordings and filings of or with respect to the Security Documents that any of the Facility Agents may deem necessary or reasonably desirable in order to perfect the first-priority (subject to Permitted Liens) Liens created thereunder, including the filing of UCC-l financing statements;

(xi)

at least five (5) Business Days prior to the incurrence of any Train 6 Debt, (A) written notice thereof, which notice shall include the principal terms and conditions of such Train 6 Debt, (B) an updated Base Case Forecast with such adjustments as necessary to reflect the Train 6 Funding Plan and the costs of the Train 6 Development, (C) an updated Construction Budget, with such adjustments as necessary to reflect the Train 6 Funding Plan and the costs of the Train 6 Development, including any required increase in the Contingency, (D) an updated Construction Schedule, and (E) certification from an Authorized Officer of the Borrower that each of the conditions set forth in clauses (a) - (g) and (i) - (k) of this Section 2.7 have been satisfied; provided that, the Borrower shall provide drafts of each of the items in clauses (A) - (D) to each of the Facility Agents at least fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the incurrence of any Train 6 Debt;


(xii)	evidence that the support provided in respect of the Train 6 Debt by each of the Sponsor, the Pledgor and any of their Affiliates is not more favorable than the support provided in respect of the Facility Debt; and

(xiii)

(A) if any Senior Secured Debt carries a credit rating lower than Investment Grade, a reaffirmation of the current rating of such Senior Secured Debt from each rating agency that is then rating such Senior Secured Debt or (B) if the Borrower shall have a long-term unsecured credit rating of (x) Baa3 by Xxxxx’x, (y) BBB- by S&P or (z) BBB- by Fitch, a letter from each rating agency that is issuing a rating described in clause (B)(x)-(z) to the effect that such rating agency has considered the contemplated incurrence of the Train 6 Debt and confirmed that if incurred, it would not downgrade the Borrower’s credit rating to below Baa3 or BBB-, as applicable.


(b)	the Borrower has agreed to use a portion of the proceeds of any Train 6 Debt incurred to fund the incremental increase in the Required Debt Service Reserve Amount and an amount equal to the "debt service reserve requirements" if and to the extent required under any Senior Debt Instrument governing Train 6 Debt;


(c)	the Borrower has agreed, pursuant to any Senior Debt Instrument governing Train 6 Debt, to provide to each of the Facility Agents copies of all Lien Waivers required to be delivered under the EPC Contracts.


(d)	no Default or Event of Default:


(i)	shall have occurred and be continuing; or


(ii)	results from the incurrence of such Train 6 Debt;


(e)	the weighted average life to maturity of the Secured Debt after and taking into account the incurrence of the Train 6 Debt shall not be less than the weighted average life to maturity of the Secured Debt prior to the incurrence of such Train 6 Debt;


(f)	the material terms of the Train 6 Debt (other than pricing terms) shall not be materially more burdensome or restrictive (taken as a whole) on the Borrower than the terms of the Facility Debt;

(g)

all Secured Debt (including such Train 6 Debt), excluding principal payments with respect to Working Capital Debt, shall be capable of amortization such that through the terms of the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements, including the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements, the Projected Debt Service Coverage Ratio, taking into consideration such amortization, shall not be less than 2.0x (calculated with respect to all Cash Flows other than Cash Flows comprising the pass-through component of the cost of purchase and transportation of natural gas consumed for LNG production to the extent not already deducted as an operating expense (as contemplated by the definition of Cash Flow Available for Debt Service)) and 1.75x (calculated solely with respect to (i) the Monthly Sales Charges, (ii) the Fixed Price Component under the KoGas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Centrica FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement and the Total FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, (iii) all Cash Flows (other than Cash Flows comprising the pass-through component of the cost of purchase and transportation of natural gas consumed for LNG production to the extent not already deducted as an operating expense (as contemplated by the definition of Cash Flow Available for Debt Service)) under the GAIL FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement), and (iv) any Fixed Price Component under the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement(s). In calculating the Projected Debt Service Coverage Ratio only projected Cash Flows, Monthly Sales Charges and the

Fixed Price Component, as applicable, from FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements shall be taken into account;


(h)	the Secured Debt Holder Group Representative for the Train 6 Debt shall have entered into an Accession Agreement in accordance with Section 2.8 (Accession Agreements);


(i)	the Borrower’s Debt to Equity Ratio shall not exceed the ratio of 75:25 taking into account the incurrence of such Train 6 Debt but without regard to any outstanding Indebtedness comprising Working Capital Debt; and


(j)	the Project Completion Date has not occurred.

Any Secured Train 6 Debt shall be treated in all respects as Secured Debt, sharing

pari passu in the Collateral and in right of payment.

Notwithstanding the foregoing but without limiting the provisions of Sections 2.4 (Working Capital Debt), 2.5 (PDE Debt), and 2.6 (Replacement Debt) or this Section 2.7, (i) the Borrower may conduct front-end engineering, development and design work using equity funds provided by the Pledgor, the Sponsor or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower) which are in addition to any equity funds provided to the Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date without satisfying the requirements in clauses (a) - (j) above, and (ii) the provision of additional equity for completion of the Train 6 Development or for cost overruns in the construction thereof shall be permitted.


2.8	Accession Agreements


(a)	Each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative shall enter into an Accession Agreement substantially in the form set out in Part A of Schedule 2.8(a).


(b)	Each Secured Hedge Representative shall enter into an Accession Agreement substantially in the form set out in Part B of Schedule 2.8(a).


(c)	Each Secured Gas Hedge Representative shall enter into an Accession Agreement substantially in the form set out in Part C of Schedule 2.8(a).


(d)	Each Accession Agreement shall specify in Appendix A thereto:


(i)	the identity of the relevant Secured Debt Holder Group Representative, Secured Hedge Representative or Secured Gas Hedge Representative, as applicable;


(ii)	the Secured Debt, Secured Hedge Obligations or Secured Gas Hedge Obligations, as applicable, subject thereof and the identity of the Holders thereof; and


(iii)	the Secured Debt Instruments, Secured Hedge Instruments or Secured Gas Hedge Instruments, as applicable.


(e)	Copies of such executed Secured Debt Instruments, Secured Hedge Instruments or Secured Gas Hedge Instruments, as applicable, shall be attached to the Accession Agreement as exhibits.

(f)

Upon receipt of the relevant Accession Agreement and compliance with the applicable requirements of Sections 2.4 (Working Capital Debt), 2.5 (PDE Debt) and 2.6 (Replacement Debt), and 2.7 (Train 6 Debt) (as the case may be), the Intercreditor Agent (without further instruction) shall amend Schedule 2.8(f) accordingly and shall deliver each such revised Schedule to the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee and each such Secured Debt Holder Group Representative.


2.9	Transfers and Holding of Obligations

(a)

The Secured Debt Instruments may be held, sold, exchanged, traded, assigned or otherwise transferred by each Secured Debt Holder as provided in the relevant Secured Debt Instrument. Any Person becoming a Secured Debt Holder from time to time in accordance with such Secured Debt Instrument shall be and become a Secured Debt Holder for the purposes of this Agreement and each Person ceasing to be a Secured Debt Holder from time to time in accordance with such Secured Debt Instrument shall cease to be a Secured Debt Holder for the purposes of this Agreement.

(b)

The Secured Hedge Instruments may be held, sold, exchanged, traded, assigned or otherwise transferred by each Holder of Secured Hedge Obligations as provided in the relevant Secured Hedge Instrument. Any Person becoming a Holder of Secured Hedge Obligations from time to time in accordance with such Secured Hedge Instrument shall be and become a Holder of Secured Hedge Obligations for the purposes of this Agreement and each Person ceasing to be a Holder of Secured Hedge Obligations from time to time in accordance with such Secured Hedge Instrument shall cease to be a Holder of Secured Hedge Obligations for the purposes of this Agreement.

(c)

The Secured Gas Hedge Instruments may be held, sold, exchanged, traded, assigned or otherwise transferred by each Gas Hedge Provider as provided in the relevant Secured Gas Hedge Instrument. Any Person acquiring a Secured Gas Hedge Instrument from time to time in accordance with such Secured Gas Hedge Instrument shall be and become a Gas Hedge Provider for the purposes of this Agreement and each Person ceasing to be a Gas Hedge Provider from time to time in accordance with such Secured Gas Hedge Instrument shall cease to be a Gas Hedge Provider for the purposes of this Agreement.


(d)	Any Secured Debt Holder Group Representative may be replaced in accordance with the relevant Secured Debt Instrument, and the Common Security Trustee and

the Intercreditor Agent shall be notified promptly of any such replacement, which shall become effective only upon the replacement Secured Debt Holder Group Representative executing and delivering to the Intercreditor Agent a Transfer Accession Agreement or other agreement in writing to be bound by the Accession Agreement to which its predecessor was a party, and the Intercreditor Agent (without further instruction) shall amend Schedule 2.8(f) accordingly and shall deliver each such revised Schedule to the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee and each such Secured Debt Holder Group Representative.

(e)

Any Secured Hedge Representative may be replaced in accordance with the relevant Secured Hedge Instrument, and the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent shall be notified promptly of any such replacement, which shall become effective only upon the replacement Secured Hedge Representative executing and delivering to the Intercreditor Agent a Transfer Accession Agreement or other agreement in writing to be bound by the Accession Agreement to which its predecessor was a party and the Intercreditor Agent (without further instruction) shall amend Schedule 2.8(f) accordingly and shall deliver each such revised Schedule to the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee and each such Secured Hedge Representative.

(f)

Any Secured Gas Hedge Representative may be replaced in accordance with the relevant Secured Gas Hedge Instrument, and the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent shall be notified promptly of any such replacement, which shall become effective only upon the replacement Secured Gas Hedge Representative executing and delivering to the Intercreditor Agent a Transfer Accession Agreement or other agreement in writing to be bound by the Accession Agreement to which its predecessor was a party and the Intercreditor Agent (without further instruction) shall amend Schedule 2.8(f) accordingly and shall deliver each such revised Schedule to the Borrower, the Common Security Trustee and each such Secured Gas Hedge Representative.


2.10	Changes to Secured Debt Obligations

The Borrower shall promptly provide to the Intercreditor Agent and to each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative copies of all material modifications to any Secured Debt Instrument; provided, that, such modifications shall only be made in accordance with terms and conditions set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement and the relevant Secured Debt Instrument.


2.11	Termination of Obligations

(a)

Upon the indefeasible payment in full of all Obligations (and expiration or termination of all Senior Debt Commitments) arising under any Secured Debt Instrument, Secured Hedge Instrument or Secured Gas Hedge Instrument, as applicable, in accordance with the terms thereof (other than Obligations thereunder that by their terms survive and with respect to which no claim has been made by the applicable Secured Parties and, at the option of the Borrower

and to the extent permitted by the Secured Debt Instrument governing any Senior Bonds, other than Obligations payable in respect of Senior Bonds if the amounts payable in respect of all other Obligations have been so paid in full), the relevant Secured Debt Holder Group Representative, Secured Hedge Representative or Secured Gas Hedge Representative, as applicable, shall give notice thereof to the Common Security Trustee and the Intercreditor Agent, whereupon, without further action by any Person:


(i)	such Obligations shall no longer constitute Obligations secured by the Collateral and shall no longer be entitled to the benefits of this Agreement or any other Financing Document;

(ii)

the former Holders of such Secured Debt, Secured Hedge Obligations or Secured Gas Hedge Obligations, as applicable, shall no longer be Holders of Secured Debt, Secured Hedge Obligations or Secured Gas Hedge Obligations, as applicable, under this Agreement or any other Financing Document and shall no longer have any rights or obligations under this Agreement or any other Financing Document except for those provisions that by their terms expressly survive termination;


(iii)	the related Secured Debt Instruments, Secured Hedge Instruments or Secured Gas Hedge Instruments, as applicable, shall no longer be Secured Debt Instruments, Secured Hedge Instruments or Secured Gas Hedge Instruments, as applicable, under this Agreement or any other Financing Document; and


(iv)	such Secured Debt Holder Group Representative, Secured Hedge Representative or Secured Gas Hedge Representative, as applicable, shall no longer be a Party or party to any other Financing Document, in such capacity.

(b)

On the Discharge Date, this Agreement and the security interests and rights created by or pursuant to this Agreement or any Security Document shall terminate, and the Secured Parties and their respective attorneys-in-fact shall, at the expense of the Borrower, promptly deliver UCC-3 termination statements and such instruments of satisfaction, discharge and release of security in respect of all Security as may be requested by the Borrower.


2.12	Right to Share in Security

Only the Secured Parties shall be entitled to benefit from the Security granted in the Collateral pursuant to the Security Documents, provided, that the Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives, Secured Hedge Representatives or Secured Gas Hedge Representatives, as applicable, representing such Secured Parties have signed the Accession Agreement in accordance with Section 2.8 (Accession Agreements).


2.13	Certain Rights and Obligations of Secured Parties

Unless all the Secured Parties agree otherwise:


(a)	the obligations of a Secured Party under the Finance Documents are several and not joint;


(b)	failure by a Secured Party to perform its obligations does not affect the obligations of any other party under the Financing Documents;


(c)	no Secured Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Secured Party under the Financing Documents;


(d)	the rights of a Secured Party under the Financing Documents are separate and independent rights;


(e)	a Secured Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Financing Documents, separately enforce those rights; and


(f)	a debt arising under the Financing Documents to a Secured Party is a separate and independent debt.


3.	REPAYMENT AND PREPAYMENTS


3.1	General Terms of Repayment


(a)	All payments (including any payment of interest or fees) due to each Secured Party shall be made in Dollars.


(b)	Except as otherwise provided therein, whenever any payment due under a Financing Document would otherwise fall due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be due on the next succeeding Business Day. Any such extension of time under this Section 3.1(b) shall be included in the computation of interest or fees (as the case may be) on any such amount so due.


(c)	Unless expressly specified otherwise in any Secured Debt Instrument, all undrawn Senior Debt Commitments in respect of any Secured Debt shall be cancelled automatically at the close of business in New York, New York on the last day of the Availability Period; provided, that if such day is not a Business Day, the Availability Period shall terminate on the immediately preceding Business Day.


3.2	Voluntary Prepayment of Secured Debt


(a)	The Borrower shall have the right to prepay (including by way of legal defeasance of Senior Bonds to the extent permitted under the Indenture governing such Senior Bonds) the Secured Debt under the applicable Secured Debt Instrument (i) in the case of prepayments (A) of Working Capital Debt, and (B)

funded through the use of Replacement Debt, at any time and (ii) in the case of all other prepayments, (x) on or before the end of any Availability Period applicable to any Secured Debt, if an Authorized Officer of the Borrower certifies (and provided that the Independent Engineer concurs (which concurrence shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed)) that such voluntary prepayment will not have a Material Adverse Effect on the Borrower’s ability to fund the remaining expenditures required to achieve the Project Completion Date by the Date Certain and and (y) at any time following the end of any Availability Period applicable to any Secured Debt, in minimum amounts of ten million Dollars ($10,000,000), on not less than five (5) Business Days' prior written notice to the Intercreditor Agent, KEXIM, KSURE, each Secured Hedge Representative and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative. Each notice of voluntary prepayment will be irrevocable, except that a notice of prepayment given by the Borrower may state that such notice is conditioned upon either the effectiveness of other credit facilities or the closing of the sale of other securities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower (by notice to the Intercreditor Agent, each Secured Hedge Representative and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative on or prior to the specified effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. The Borrower shall promptly pay any Break Costs incurred by any Secured Party as a result of such notice and revocation.


(b)	Each notice of prepayment given by the Borrower under this Section 3.2 shall specify the prepayment date and the portion of the principal amount of the Secured Debt to be prepaid.

(c)

With respect to each prepayment to be made pursuant to this Section 3.2, on the date specified in the notice of prepayment delivered pursuant to Section 3.2(a), the Borrower shall pay (on a pro rata basis) to the Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives for the account of the relevant Secured Parties (and in the case of outstanding Commercial Bank Loans, pro rata across all Tranches and pro rata within each Tranche of such Commercial Bank Loans) the sum of the following amounts:


(i)	the principal (including any make whole amount required to be paid under the terms of the applicable Secured Debt Instrument) of, and accrued but unpaid interest on, the Secured Debt to be prepaid;


(ii)	any additional amounts required to be paid due to funding losses as required under each Secured Debt Instrument; and


(iii)	except for amounts to be paid to the Secured Hedge Representatives for the account of the Qualified Counterparties to the Interest Rate Protection Agreements as set forth immediately below, any other Obligations due in connection with any prepayment under the Financing Documents.

Payments of principal of the Secured Debt will be applied pro rata against subsequent scheduled payments or in inverse order of maturity, at the Borrower's option (except as otherwise provided in Section 2.6(j) (Replacement Debt)); provided, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 3.2, the Borrower may, at its option, apply all or a portion of the proceeds of any voluntary prepayment to (A) the pro rata prepayment of the Facility Debt and any other Secured Debt without applying such proceeds to the prepayment of any Senior Bonds, or (B) the pro rata prepayment of the Facility Debt without applying such proceeds to the prepayment of any Senior Bonds or any other Secured Debt; provided further that payments of principal of the Facility Debt shall be applied in the same order of maturity across all Facilities.

Additionally, the Borrower shall pay, on a pro rata basis with the payments required under clause (c)(i), (ii) and (iii) above, to the Secured Hedge Representatives for the account of the Qualified Counterparties to the Interest Rate Protection Agreements the Hedge Termination Values payable in respect of any Interest Rate Protection Agreement to be terminated in connection with such prepayment in accordance with Section 3.5 (Termination of Interest Rate Protection Agreement in Connection with Any Prepayment), which terminated Interest Rate Protection Agreement shall be specified by the Borrower in the notice of prepayment.


3.3	Voluntary Cancellation of Secured Debt

The Borrower shall have the right to cancel any outstanding commitments of the Secured Debt Holders under the Secured Debt Instruments upon at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Intercreditor Agent, KEXIM, KSURE, and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative (a) following (i) Substantial Completion of all trains of the Project and (ii) the Date of First Commercial Delivery under and as defined in the GN FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the KoGas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the XXXX FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Centrica FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, and the Total FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement and, if the Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, each Train 6, the Petronas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, the Vitol FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement and any Approved Train 6 Sale and Purchase Agreement, and the Train 1 DFCD under and as defined in the BG FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement or (b) with the consent of the Common Security Trustee in consultation with the Independent Engineer that the funds under the cancelled commitments are not necessary to achieve the Project Completion Date by the Date Certain.


3.4	Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt


(a)	In addition to scheduled principal repayments, the Borrower shall make the following mandatory payments (as prepayments to be effected in each case in the manner specified in Section 3.4(b) below):


(i)	to the extent of any Net Available Amount not otherwise applied in accordance with Section 5.08 (Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds Account) of the Accounts Agreement;

(ii)

to the extent of any Net Cash Proceeds received from sales of assets (other than asset disposals in the ordinary course of business, including sales of LNG, natural gas and other commercial products) that are in excess of (A) in the case of any Senior Debt other than Senior Bonds, fifty million Dollars ($50,000,000) individually or two hundred million Dollars ($200,000,000) in the aggregate over the term of this Agreement and (B) in the case of one or more series of Senior Bonds, any amounts, individually or in the aggregate, equal to or in excess of the amounts set forth in clause (A) as set forth in the Senior Debt Instrument governing such Senior Bonds and, in each case, that are not used to purchase replacement assets within one hundred eighty

(180) days following receipt thereof (or two hundred seventy (270) days if a commitment to purchase replacement assets is entered into within one hundred eighty (180) days following the receipt of such proceeds);


(iii)	to the extent required under Section 2.6(j) (Replacement Debt);

(iv)

to the extent of the amount of all Performance Liquidated Damages that are in excess of (A) in the case of any Senior Debt other than Senior Bonds, ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) in the aggregate and (B) in the case of one or more series of Senior Bonds, any amounts, individually or in the aggregate, equal to or in excess of the amounts set forth in clause (A) as set forth in the Senior Debt Instrument governing such Senior Bonds and, in each case, that are not used to address any deficiency pursuant to Section 5.08 (Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds Account) of the Accounts Agreement;


(v)	to the extent of the amount of all proceeds received from any Escrowed Amounts (under and as defined in each of the EPC Contracts) after the Project Completion Date, unless the Borrower is permitted to make a Restricted Payment pursuant to Section 5.10(d) (Distribution Account) of the Accounts Agreement on the next succeeding Payment Date;


(vi)	other than with respect to any series of Senior Bonds, unless the Senior Debt Instrument governing such Senior Bonds specifically so requires, any amounts on deposit in the Distribution Account for four (4) consecutive scheduled Quarterly Payment Dates; and


(vii)	on the Project Completion Date, an amount equal to the Facility Debt Reduction Amount; and


(viii)	to the extent required under Section 5.01(e) (Mandatory Prepayments from Equity Proceeds Account) of the Accounts Agreement and Section 5.10(e) (Mandatory Prepayments from Distribution Account) of the Accounts Agreement.


(b)	The Borrower shall pay:


(A)	with respect to each prepayment to be made pursuant to this Section 3.4 (other than clause (a)(iii) (with respect to the prepayments required under Section 2.6(j)(ii) (Replacement Debt)) and clauses (a)(vii) and (a)(viii) above), on a pro rata basis to the relevant Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives;


(B)	with respect to each prepayment to be made pursuant to clause (a)(vii) above, on a pro rata basis across the Facilities to the relevant Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives under the Facility Agreements; and


(C)	with respect to each prepayment to be made pursuant to clause (a)(iii) above (with respect to the prepayments required under Section 2.6(j)(ii) (Replacement Debt)) and clause (a)(viii) above, on a pro rata basis across the KEXIM Covered Facility, KEXIM Direct Facility and KSURE Covered Facility to the relevant Secured Debt Holder Group Representatives under the relevant Facility Agreements,

in each case, for the account of the relevant Secured Parties (and in the case of outstanding Commercial Bank Loans, pro rata across all Tranches and pro rata within each Tranche of such Commercial Bank Loans) the sum of the following amounts:


(i)	the principal (including any make whole amount required to be paid under the terms of the applicable Secured Debt Instrument) of, and accrued but unpaid interest on, the Secured Debt to be prepaid;


(ii)	any additional amounts required to be paid due to funding losses as required under each Secured Debt Instrument;


(iii)	except for amounts to be paid to the Secured Hedge Representatives for the account of the Qualified Counterparties to the Interest Rate Protection Agreements as set forth immediately

below, any other Obligations due in connection with any prepayment under the Financing Documents; and

(iv)

if applicable, on a pro rata basis with the payments required under clause (b)(i), (ii) and (iii) above, to the Secured Hedge Representatives for the account of the Qualified Counterparties to the Interest Rate Protection Agreements the Hedge Termination Values payable in respect of any Interest Rate Protection Agreement to be terminated in connection with such prepayment in accordance with Section 3.5 (Termination of Interest Rate Protection Agreement in Connection with Any Prepayment), which terminated Interest Rate Protection Agreement shall be specified by the Borrower in the notice of prepayment; provided, that any Hedge Termination Value that is not due at such time in accordance with Section 3.5 (Termination of Interest Rate Protection Agreement in Connection with Any Prepayment) shall be retained in the Construction Account or the Revenue Account, as applicable, and applied at the time required as set forth in such Section.

Payments of principal of the Secured Debt pursuant to this Section 3.4 will be applied in inverse order of maturity, if applicable, or such other order as may be specified in the applicable Senior Debt Instrument (except that mandatory repayments under clause (a)(iv) above shall be applied pro rata against subsequent scheduled payments); provided that payments of principal of the Facility Debt shall be applied in the same order of maturity across all Facilities.


3.5	Termination of Interest Rate Protection Agreement in Connection with Any Prepayment

If a voluntary or mandatory prepayment of the Secured Debt made by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.2 (Voluntary Prepayment of Secured Debt) or 3.4 (Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt), including any reduction in Facility Commitments in connection with incurrence of Replacement Debt, and the provisions of the relevant Secured Debt Instrument would result in the aggregate notional amount of the Interest Rate Protection Agreements exceeding one hundred percent (100%) (calculated on a weighted average basis) of the projected aggregate outstanding balance of the Secured Debt (and, for purposes of calculating such percentage, any such Secured Debt which bears a fixed interest rate shall be deemed subject to an Interest Rate Protection Agreement), the Borrower shall, terminate or, to the extent permitted by the applicable Interest Rate Protection Agreement, transfer or novate, a portion of the Interest Rate Protection Agreements such that the aggregate notional amount of the Interest Rate Protection Agreements satisfies the requirements of the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.11 (Interest Rate Protection Agreements), but in any case is not more than (a) prior to forty-five (45) days following any such prepayment, one hundred ten percent (110%) (calculated on a weighted average basis) of the projected aggregate outstanding

balance of the Secured Debt and (b) thereafter, one hundred percent (100%) (calculated on a weighted average basis) of the projected aggregate outstanding balance of the Secured Debt (provided, however, for purposes of calculating such percentage, any such Secured Debt which bears a fixed interest rate shall be deemed subject to an Interest Rate Protection Agreement); provided, that any such reduction shall be made, (x) in the case of any voluntary prepayment of Secured Debt under Section 3.2 (Voluntary Prepayment of Secured Debt) or mandatory prepayment of Secured Debt under Section 3.4(a)(iv) (Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt), at the Borrower's option, pro rata against subsequent scheduled repayments or in inverse order of maturity of such Interest Rate Protection Agreements and pro rata to all counterparties to such Interest Rate Protection Agreements with the same maturity, or (y) in the case of any mandatory prepayment of Secured Debt under Section 3.4(a)(i)-(iii) or (v)-(viii) (Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt), in inverse order of maturity of such Interest Rate Protection Agreements and, in all cases under Section 3.4(a) (Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt), pro rata to all counterparties to such Interest Rate Protection Agreements with the same maturity. The amount of any Hedge Termination Value due in respect of the Interest Rate Protection Agreements terminated in accordance with this Section 3.5 shall be made by the Borrower from amounts available with which to make such prepayment.


3.6	Prepayment - Miscellaneous


(a)	No prepayment of any Secured Debt is permitted except in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement and the applicable Secured Debt Instruments.


(b)	Except for revolving loans (and to the extent of any reinstatement of an available amount to be drawn under a letter of credit) made under any Secured Debt Instrument, no amount pre-paid under a Secured Debt Instrument may be subsequently re-borrowed.


(c)	Each prepayment of Secured Debt (including any prepayment in accordance with Section 2.6(b)(ii) (Replacement Debt)) shall be made:


(i)	together with accrued interest on the amount pre-paid and any applicable Break Costs; and


(ii)	without any penalty or premium (other than any premium required under any Indenture, any Senior Debt Instrument relating to Senior Bonds or any Senior Debt Instrument relating to any Indebtedness that contemplates any such premium or penalty).


4.	REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES


4.1	General


(a)	The Borrower makes each representation and warranty set forth in this Section 4 on the Closing Date to, and in favor of, each Secured Debt Holder (other than the

Holders of Senior Bonds) whose Secured Debt Holder Group Representative is a party hereto on such date.

(b)

Notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, all of the representations and warranties set forth in this Section 4 shall survive the Closing Date, and except as provided below, shall be deemed to be repeated by the Borrower on the date of each Advance, the date of first withdrawal under Section 5.01(c)(ii) (withdrawals from Equity Proceeds Account) of the Accounts Agreement, and the Project Completion Date, in each case, to and in favor of each Secured Debt Holder whose Secured Debt Holder Group Representative is a party hereto on such dates, except for the representations and warranties set forth in (i) Section 4.3(b) (Financial Condition), Section 4.5(b) (No Breach), Section 4.7 (Proceedings), Section 4.8 (Environmental Matters), Section 4.9 (Taxes), Section 4.10 (Tax Status), Section 4.12 (Nature of Business), Section 4.16 (Energy Regulatory Status), Section 4.17 (Material Project Documents; Other Documents), Section

4.21 (Disclosure), Section 4.23 (Indebtedness), Section 4.27 (Solvency), Section

4.30 (Ranking), Section 4.32(a) (OFAC), Section 4.33 (Accounts), and Section

4.35 (No Condemnation), which shall only be deemed made by the Borrower on the Closing Date and (ii) Section 4.6 (Government Approvals; Government Rules), Section 4.24 (Material Adverse Effect), Section 4.28 (Legal Name and Place of Business) and Section 4.29(b) (No Force Majeure), which shall only be deemed repeated by the Borrower as of the date of the Initial Advance; provided, that the representations and warranties set forth in this Section 4 on the date of each Advance shall, when repeated, be deemed to be true and correct in all material respects except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality which shall, when repeated, be deemed to be true and correct in all respects.

(c)

On the initial date on which the Borrower makes any representations or warranties in any Secured Debt Instrument, any purchase agreement with respect to Secured Debt governed by such Secured Debt Instrument or hereunder to the Holders of any Secured Working Capital Debt, Secured PDE Debt, or Secured Replacement Debt, or Train 6 Debt incurred pursuant to Sections 2.4 (Working Capital Debt), 2.5 (PDE Debt), or 2.6 (Replacement Debt) or 2.7 (Train 6 Debt), as applicable, the Borrower shall, on such initial date, be deemed to have repeated all of the representations and warranties in such Secured Debt Instrument, purchase agreement or hereunder, as the case may be, to and in favor of each Secured Debt Holder whose Secured Debt Holder Group Representative is a party hereto on such date.


4.2	Existence

The Borrower is a limited liability company duly formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and is duly qualified to do business as a foreign limited liability company in the State of Louisiana and in all other places where necessary in light of the business it conducts and intends to conduct and the Property it

owns or leases and intends to own or lease and in light of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, except where the failure to so be qualified does not have and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No filing, recording, publishing or other act by the Borrower that has not been made or done is necessary in connection with the existence or good standing of the Borrower.


4.3	Financial Condition


(a)	The financial statements of the Borrower furnished to the Common Security Trustee pursuant to Section 8.1 (Financial Statements) (or pursuant to clause (g) in Schedule 5.1(Conditions to Closing Date) or otherwise), fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Borrower as of the date thereof, all in accordance with GAAP (subject to normal year-end adjustments).


(b)	As of the Closing Date, there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition, operations or business of the Borrower from that set forth in such financial statements as of the date thereof.


4.4	Action

The Borrower has full limited liability company power, authority and legal right to execute and deliver, and to perform its obligations under, the Transaction Documents to which the Borrower is a party. The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party have been duly authorized by all necessary limited liability company action on the part of the Borrower. Each of the Transaction Documents to which the Borrower is a party has been duly executed and delivered by the Borrower and (assuming the due execution and delivery by the counterparties thereto) each of the Financing Documents and, to the Knowledge of the Borrower, each of the Material Project Documents, is in full force and effect and constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with its terms, except as limited by general principles of equity and bankruptcy, insolvency and similar laws.


4.5	No Breach

The execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower and, to the Borrower’s Knowledge, each Material Project Party, of each of the Transaction Documents to which it is or will become a party do not and will not:


(a)	require any consent or approval of any Person that has not been obtained (or is not reasonably expected to be received at the time required), and all such consents and approvals that have been obtained remain in full force and effect;


(b)	violate any material provision of any Government Rule or Government Approval applicable to any such Person, the Project, or the Development;


(c)	violate, result in a breach of or constitute a default under any Transaction Document to which any such Person is a party or by which it or its Property may be bound or affected; or


(d)	result in, or create any Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) upon or with respect to any of the Properties now owned or hereafter acquired by the Borrower.


4.6	Government Approvals; Government Rules


(a)	No material Government Approvals are required for the Development except for those set forth on Schedules 4.6(a) and (b), and except for those that may be required as a result of the exercise of remedies under the Financing Documents.

(b)

All material Government Approvals for the Development set forth on Schedule 4.6(a) have been duly obtained, were validly issued, are in full force and effect, and are not the subject of any pending rehearing or appeal to the issuing agency and all applicable fixed time periods for rehearing or appeal to the issuing agency have expired (except as noted on Schedule 4.6(a) or Government Approvals which do not have limits on appeal periods under Government Rule), are held in the name of the Borrower or such third party as allowed pursuant to Government Rule indicated on Schedule 4.6(a), and are free from conditions or requirements

i.the compliance with which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) which the Borrower or such third party (as applicable) does not expect to be able to satisfy on or prior to the commencement of the relevant stage of Development except to the extent that a failure to so satisfy such condition or requirement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.


(c)	All material Government Approvals not obtained as of the date hereof but necessary for the Development (including the sale of Services) to be obtained by the Borrower or for the benefit of the Project by third parties as allowed pursuant to Government Rule after the Closing Date are set forth on Schedule 4.6(b).

(d)

The Borrower reasonably believes that any material Government Approvals which have not been obtained by the Borrower or the relevant third party as of the date of the making of this representation, but which shall be required to be obtained in the future by the Borrower or such third party for the Development, shall be obtained in due course on or prior to the commencement of the appropriate stage of Development for which such Government Approval would be required and shall not contain any condition or requirements, the compliance with which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or which the Borrower or the relevant third party (as the case may be) does not expect to satisfy on or prior to the commencement of the appropriate stage of Development, except to the extent that a failure to so satisfy such condition or requirement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(e)

The Project, if constructed in accordance with the Construction Budget and the Construction Schedule and otherwise Developed as contemplated by the Material Project Documents, shall conform to and comply in all material respects with all material covenants, conditions, restrictions and reservations in the applicable Government Approvals and all applicable Government Rules as in effect as of the date this representation is made and deemed repeated.


(f)	The Borrower is in compliance in all material respects with all Government Rules and Government Approvals applicable to the Borrower and the Development and, to the Borrower's Knowledge, all third parties are in compliance in all material respects with all Government Rules and Government Approvals applicable to the Development.


(g)	To the Borrower's Knowledge, there is no action, suit, or proceeding pending that would reasonably be expected to result in the materially adverse modification, rescission, termination, or suspension of any Government Approval.


4.7	Proceedings

(a)

Except as set forth in Schedule 4.7, there is (i) no material Environmental Claim now pending or, to the Borrower’s Knowledge, threatened against any Loan Party or the Project, or material Government Approval applicable to the Borrower or the Development and (ii) no existing material default by the Borrower under any material applicable order, writ, injunction or decree of any Government Authority or arbitral tribunal.

(b)

The Borrower has not received any written notice from any Government Authority asserting that any information set forth in any application submitted by or on behalf of the Borrower in connection with any material Government Approval that has been obtained as of the date this representation is made or deemed repeated was inaccurate or incomplete at the time of submission, unless the existence of such inaccuracy or incompleteness could not reasonably be expected to result in an Impairment of any material Government Approval applicable to the Borrower or the Development.


4.8	Environmental Matters

Except as set forth in Schedule 4.8:

(a)

There are no facts, circumstances, conditions or occurrences, including past Releases of Hazardous Materials, regarding the Borrower or the Development that could reasonably be expected to give rise to any Environmental Claims that individually or in the aggregate could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or cause the Project to be subject to any restrictions on ownership, occupancy, use or transferability under any Environmental Law that could materially hinder or restrict the Borrower or any other Person from operating the Project as intended under the Material Project Documents (excluding restrictions

on the transferability of Government Approvals upon the transfer of ownership of assets subject to such Government Approval).


(b)	Hazardous Materials have not at any time been Released at, on, under or from the Project other than in compliance at all times with all applicable Environmental Laws or in such manner as otherwise could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.


(c)	There have been no material environmental investigations, studies, audits, reviews or other analyses relating to environmental site conditions that have been conducted by, or which are in the possession or control of the Borrower in relation to the Project which have not been provided to the Common Security Trustee and the Secured Debt Holders.


(d)	The Borrower has not received any letter or request for information under Section

104 of CERCLA, or comparable state laws, and to the Knowledge of the Borrower, none of the operations of the Borrower or SPLNG is the subject of any investigation by a Government Authority evaluating whether any remedial action is needed to respond to a Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials relating to the Project or at any other location, including any location to which the Borrower has transported, or arranged for the transportation of, any Hazardous Materials with respect to the Development.


4.9	Taxes

The Borrower (or, for purposes of this Section 4.9, if it is a disregarded entity for U.S. income tax purposes, its direct owner) has timely filed or caused to be filed all tax returns that are required to be filed, and has paid (i) all taxes shown to be due and payable on such returns or on any material assessments made against the Borrower or any of its Property and (ii) all other material Taxes imposed on the Borrower or its Property by any Government Authority (other than Taxes the payment of which are not yet due or which are being Contested), and no tax Liens (other than Permitted Liens) have been filed and no claims are being asserted with respect to any such Taxes (other than claims which are being Contested).


4.10	Tax Status

The Borrower is a limited liability company that is treated as a partnership or an entity disregarded for U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes as separate from its owner and not an association taxable as a corporation, and neither the execution or delivery of any Transaction Document nor the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated thereby shall affect such status. All persons holding a direct interest in the Borrower treated as equity for U.S. tax purposes are U.S. persons within the meaning of Code section 7701(a)(30).


4.11	ERISA; ERISA Event.

(a)

As of the Closing Date, the Borrower does not employ any employees. The Borrower does not sponsor, maintain, administer, contribute to, participate in, or have any obligation to contribute to, or any liability under, any Plan or Multiemployer Plan nor has the Borrower established, sponsored, maintained, administered, contributed to, participated in, or had any obligation to contribute to or liability under any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or plan that provides for post- retirement benefits.


(b)	No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur. The present value of all accumulated benefit obligations under each Plan (based on the assumptions used for purposes of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87) did not, as of the date of the most recent annual financial statements reflecting such amounts, exceed 10% of the net worth of the Pledgor.


4.12	Nature of Business

The Borrower has not and is not engaged in any business other than (i) the Development as contemplated by the Transaction Documents, (ii) activities related to the development, construction, operation and maintenance of equipment and infrastructure providing for the loading and transportation by commercial trucking vehicles of LNG produced at the Site in excess of (or in the case of (B) and (C), subsumed by) amounts required to serve

(A) the Foundation Customers (pursuant to and as defined in the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements), (B) Cheniere Marketing LLC under the CMI LNG Sale and Purchase Agreements and (C) Cheniere Marketing International LLP under the Cheniere Marketing LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement, provided that such amounts are permitted to be sold under such agreements, and (iii) the Train 6 Development using equity funds provided by the Pledgor, the Sponsor or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower) which are in addition to any equity funds provided to the Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date amounts available to make Restricted Payments pursuant to Section 5.01(c)(iii)(B) of the Accounts Agreement and, to the extent the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, Train 6 Debt or other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred by the Borrower under the Financing Documents.


4.13	Security Documents

The Borrower owns good and valid title to all of its property, free and clear of all Liens other than Permitted Liens. The provisions of the Security Documents are effective to create, in favor of the Common Security Trustee for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a legal, valid and enforceable Lien on and security interest in all of the Collateral purported to be covered thereby, including the EPC Letters of Credit, and all necessary recordings and filings have been made in all necessary public offices, and all other necessary action and action reasonably requested by the Common Security Trustee has been taken, so that each such Security Document creates a valid and perfected Lien on and security interest in all right, title and interest of the Borrower in the Collateral covered thereby, prior and superior to all other Liens other than Permitted Liens and all necessary consents to the

creation of such Liens have been obtained from each of the parties to the Material Project Documents.


4.14	Subsidiaries

The Borrower has no Subsidiaries.


4.15	Investment Company Act of 1940

The Borrower is not, and after giving effect to the issuance of the Secured Debt and the application of proceeds of the Secured Debt in accordance with the provisions of the Financing Documents will not be, an “investment company” or a company “Controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or an “investment advisor” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.


4.16	Energy Regulatory Status


(a)	The Borrower is subject to the provisions of Section 3 of the NGA and the regulations of FERC and DOE thereunder, (1) for the siting, construction, expansion, and the operation of the Borrower’s liquefaction facilities and (2) with respect to the import and export of LNG from the Project.


(b)	The Borrower is not subject to regulation:


(i)	as a “natural-gas company” as such term is defined in the NGA;


(ii)	under PUHCA; or


(iii)	as a "public utility," an "electric public utility," a "gas utility" or a "natural gas company" pursuant to Article 4, Section 21 of the Louisiana Constitution, or Title 30 or Title 45 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, or the orders, rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;

provided that the Borrower will become subject to provisions of the NGA and FERC’s regulations thereunder as a “natural-gas company” at such time as the Borrower engages in the sale in interstate commerce of “natural gas” as such term is defined in the NGA only to the extent provided in Part 284, Subpart L of FERC’s regulations.


(c)	None of the Common Security Trustee nor the Secured Debt Holders, solely by virtue of the execution and delivery of the Financing Documents, the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Financing Documents, or the performance of obligations under the Financing Documents, shall be or become subject to the provisions of:


(i)	Section 3 of the NGA;


(ii)	the NGA as a “natural-gas company” as such term is defined in the NGA;


(iii)	PUHCA; or


(iv)	as a "public utility," an "electric public utility," a "gas utility" or a "natural gas company" pursuant to Article 4, Section 21 of the Louisiana Constitution, or Title 30 or Title 45 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, or the orders, rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.


4.17	Material Project Documents; Other Documents

(a)

Set forth in Schedule 4.17 is a list of each (i) Material Project Document existing as of the Closing Date and (ii) contract or other written agreement to which the Borrower is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound as of the Closing Date, which contains obligations or liabilities that are in excess of two million Dollars ($2,000,000) per year or ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) over its term, including all amendments, amendments and restatements, supplements, waivers and interpretations modifying or clarifying any of the above, true, correct and complete copies of which have been delivered to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative and certified by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower.

(b)

Each of the Material Project Documents to which the Borrower is a party is, to the Borrower's Knowledge, in full force and effect, and none of such Material Project Documents have been terminated or otherwise amended, modified, supplemented, transferred, Impaired or, to the Borrower's Knowledge, assigned, except as indicated on Schedule 4.17 or as permitted by the terms of the Financing Documents.


(c)	To the Borrower’s Knowledge, no material default exists under any Material Project Document.


(d)	There are no material contracts, services, materials or rights (other than Government Approvals) required for the current stage of the Development other than those granted by, or to be provided to the Borrower pursuant to, the Material Project Documents, the other Project Documents and the Financing Documents.

(e)

All conditions precedent to the obligations of the respective parties under the Material Project Documents that have been executed have been satisfied or waived except for such conditions precedent that need not be satisfied until a later stage of Development. The Borrower reasonably believes that any such condition precedent can be satisfied or waived on or prior to the commencement of the appropriate stage of Development.


(f)	Except as otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 7.11 (Transactions with Affiliates), the Borrower has not entered into any agreements with the Pledgor or

any of its Affiliates other than the applicable Transaction Documents and other transactions on terms no less favorable to the Borrower (taken as a whole) than the Borrower would obtain in a comparable arm’s length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of the Borrower or the Pledgor or, if there is no comparable arm’s length transaction, then on terms reasonably determined by the Board of Directors of the Borrower to be fair and reasonable.


4.18	Margin Stock

No part of the proceeds of any Advance will be used for the purpose, whether immediate, incidental or ultimate, of buying or carrying any Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for such purpose.


4.19	Regulations T, U and X

The Borrower is not engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock, and no proceeds of any Secured Debt will be used for any purpose that violates, or would be inconsistent with, Regulations T, U or X of the Board, or any regulations, interpretations or rulings thereunder. Terms for which meanings are provided in Regulations T, U or X of the Board, or any regulations, interpretations or rulings thereunder, or any regulations substituted therefore, as from time to time in effect, are used in this Section 4.19 with such meanings.


4.20	Patents, Trademarks, Etc.

The Borrower has obtained and holds in full force and effect (and free from unduly burdensome restrictions that would reasonably be expected to materially impair the Development) all material patents, trademarks, copyrights or adequate licenses therein that are necessary for the Development except for such items which are not required in light of the applicable stage of Development. The Borrower reasonably believes that it will be able to obtain such items that have not been obtained as of the date on which this representation and warranty is made or deemed repeated on or prior to the relevant stage of Development or any such items will contain any condition or requirements which the Borrower does not expect to be able to satisfy, without cost to the Borrower that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. All such items held by the Borrower as of the Closing Date are described in Schedule 4.20.


4.21	Disclosure

Except as otherwise disclosed by the Borrower in writing as of the Closing Date, neither this Agreement nor any Financing Document nor any reports, financial statements, certificates or other written information furnished to the Secured Debt Holders by or on behalf of the Borrower in connection with the negotiation of, and the extension of credit under the Financing Documents and the transactions contemplated by the Material Project Documents or delivered to the Common Security Trustee, any Consultant or the Secured Debt Holders (or their counsel) hereunder or thereunder, when taken as a whole, contains, as of the Closing Date, any untrue statement of a material fact pertaining to the

Borrower or the Project or omits to state a material fact pertaining to the Borrower or the Project necessary to make the statements contained herein or therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in any material respect; provided, that with respect to any projected financial information, forecasts, estimates, or forward-looking information, including that contained in the Construction Budget, the Construction Schedule, and the Base Case Forecast, the Borrower represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time and the Borrower makes no representation as to the actual attainability of any projections set forth in the Base Case Forecast, the Construction Budget, the Construction Schedule, or any such other items listed in this sentence. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, no representation or warranty is made by the Borrower as to any information or material provided by the Independent Engineer, the Market Consultant or the Insurance Advisor (except to the extent such information or material originated with the Borrower).


4.22	Insurance

All insurance required to be obtained by the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.6 (Insurance; Events of Loss) and Schedule 6.6 has been obtained and is in full force and effect, and all premiums then due and payable on all such insurance have been paid.


4.23	Indebtedness

The Borrower has not incurred any Indebtedness other than Permitted Indebtedness.


4.24	Material Adverse Effect

As of the Closing Date and the date of the Initial Advance, to the Borrower’s Knowledge, there are no facts or circumstances which, individually or in the aggregate, have resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.


4.25	Absence of Default

No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.


4.26	Real Property

(a)

The Borrower has good, legal and valid leasehold, sub-leasehold and other real property interests in the Site pursuant to the Real Property Documents, in each case as is necessary for the Development at the time this representation and warranty is made or deemed repeated. The Borrower has the right to acquire all other leasehold and other real property interests, in each case, as will become necessary for the Development on or prior to the relevant date or stage of the Development. The Borrower does not have any leasehold or other real property interests in any real property other than with respect to the Site.

(b)

The Borrower has a good and valid ownership interest, leasehold interest, sub- leasehold interest, license interest or other right of use in all other material property and material assets (tangible and intangible) included in the Collateral under each Security Document that has been executed as of the date this representation is made or deemed repeated. Such ownership interest, leasehold interest, sub-leasehold interest, license interest or other rights of use are and will be, together with any other assets or interests contemplated to be acquired pursuant to the Construction Budget and the Construction Schedule, sufficient to permit the Development in accordance with the Material Project Documents.


4.27	Solvency

The Borrower is and, upon the incurrence of any Obligations, and after giving effect to the transactions and the incurrence of Indebtedness in connection therewith, will be, Solvent.


4.28	Legal Name and Place of Business


(a)	The full and correct legal name, type of organization and jurisdiction of organization of the Borrower is: Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware.


(b)	The Borrower has never changed its name.


(c)	On the Closing Date, the chief executive office of the Borrower is 000 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000.


4.29	No Force Majeure

To the Knowledge of the Borrower, no event of force majeure or other event or condition exists which (a) provides any Material Project Party the right to cancel or terminate any Material Project Document to which it is a party in accordance with the terms thereof, which cancellation or termination could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) provides any Material Project Party the right to suspend its performance (or be excused of any liability) under any Material Project Document to which it is a party in accordance with the terms thereof, which suspension (or excuse) could reasonably be expected to (x) result in the Project failing to achieve (A) the Train 1 DFCD under and as defined in the BG FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement on or before the BG DFCD Deadline, (B) the Date of First Commercial Delivery under and as defined in the GN FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement on or before the GN DFCD Deadline, (C) the Date of First Commercial Delivery under and as defined in the KoGas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement on or before the KoGas DFCD Deadline, (D) the Date of First Commercial Delivery under and as defined in the GAIL FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement on or before the GAIL DFCD Deadline, (E) the Date of First Commercial Delivery under and as defined in the Centrica FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement on or before the Centrica DFCD Deadline, or (F) the Date of First Commercial Delivery under and as defined in the Total FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement on or before the Total

DFCD Deadline, or (y) materially impair the expected revenues of the Borrower under the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements.


4.30	Ranking

The Financing Documents and the obligations evidenced thereby are and will at all times be direct and unconditional general obligations of the Borrower, and, subject to Section 3.4(b) (Mandatory Prepayment of Secured Debt), rank and will at all times rank in right of payment and otherwise at least pari passu with all Senior Debt, and senior in right of payment to all other Indebtedness of the Borrower whether now existing or hereafter outstanding.


4.31	Labor Matters

No labor problems or disturbances in connection with the Borrower or the Project exist or, to the Knowledge of the Borrower, are threatened which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.


4.32	OFAC


(a)	(a) The use of the proceeds of the Facility LoansWorking Capital Debt does not violate any Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism and Money Laundering Laws or OFAC Laws (to the extent applicable), and none of the Loan Parties, the Sponsor or any of their respective Affiliates, nor, to the knowledge of the Loan Parties, any of their respective directors, officers or employees, is:


(i)	the target of sanctions under OFAC or by the US Department of State, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury, to the extent applicable;


(ii)	an organization owned or controlled by a Person, entity or country that is the target of sanctions under OFAC or by the US Department of State, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury, to the extent applicable; or


(iii)	a Person located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the target of sanctions under OFAC or by the US Department of State, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury, to the extent applicable.

(b)

None of the Borrower, or any of its Affiliates, nor, to the Knowledge of the Borrower, the Sponsor or any of its Affiliates, any of their respective directors, officers, agents, employees or other persons acting on behalf of them, is aware of or has taken any action, directly or indirectly, that would result in a violation by such entity of the Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Terrorism and Money Laundering Laws or OFAC Laws applicable to such Person.


(c)	The Borrower has instituted and maintains policies and procedures designed to ensure continued compliance therewith in all material respects.


4.33	Accounts

Other than Permitted Investments held in accordance with the Accounts Agreement for which the Borrower is a beneficiary, the Borrower does not have, and is not the beneficiary of, any bank account other than the Accounts and an account holding Escrowed Amounts (as defined in each of the EPC Contracts).


4.34	Operating Arrangements

The management, administration and operating-related responsibilities delegated to the Manager and the Operator pursuant to the Management Services Agreement and the O&M Agreement, collectively, constitute all of the management, administration and operating-related obligations, respectively, of the Borrower pursuant to the Transaction Documents.


4.35	No Condemnation

(a) On or before the Closing Date, no material casualty or material condemnation of the Project has occurred or (in the case of material condemnation) is, to the Borrower's Knowledge, threatened or pending, and (b) following the Closing Date, no material casualty or material condemnation of the Project has occurred or (in the case of material condemnation) is, to the Borrower's Knowledge, threatened or pending, in respect of which the Borrower does not have the right to repair, replace, rebuild or refurbish the property or assets subject to such material casualty or material condemnation in accordance with Sections 5.08(c) and (d) (Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds Account) of the Accounts Agreement.


5.	CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CLOSING DATE, DRAWDOWNS OF SECURED DEBT AND PROJECT COMPLETION DATE


5.1	Conditions to Closing Date

The occurrence of the Closing Date and the effectiveness of the Facility Commitments are subject to the satisfaction of each of:


(a)	the conditions precedent set forth in Schedule 5.1 (Conditions to Closing Date), in each case to the satisfaction of each of the Facility Lenders, unless, in each case, waived by each of the Facility Lenders; and


(b)	with respect to each Facility Agreement, any additional conditions precedent to closing set forth in such Facility Agreement, in each case to the satisfaction of each of the applicable Facility Lenders, unless, in each case, waived by each of the applicable Facility Lenders.


5.2	Conditions to Initial Advance

In addition to the conditions set forth in Section 5.4 (Conditions to Each Advance), the obligation of each Facility Lender to make available its Initial Advance is subject to the satisfaction of each of:


(a)	the conditions precedent set forth in Schedule 5.2 (Conditions to Initial Advance), in each case to the satisfaction of each of the Facility Lenders, unless, in each case, waived by each of the Facility Lenders; and


(b)	with respect to the relevant Facility Agreement, any additional conditions to the Initial Advance set forth in such Facility Agreement, in each case to the satisfaction of each of the applicable Facility Lenders, unless, in each case, waived by each of the applicable Facility Lenders.


5.3	[Reserved]


5.3	Conditions to Train 6 Initial Advance

In addition to the conditions set forth in Section 5.4 (Conditions to Each Advance), the obligation of each Facility Lender to make available its Train 6 Initial Advance is subject to the satisfaction of each of:


(a)	the conditions precedent set forth in Schedule 5.3 (Conditions to Train 6 Initial Advance), in each case to the satisfaction of each of the Facility Lenders, unless, in each case, waived by each of the Facility Lenders; and


(b)	any additional conditions to the Initial Advance set forth in the Train 6 Facility Agreement, to the satisfaction of each of the Train 6 Lenders, unless, in each case, waived by each of the Train 6 Lenders.


5.4	Conditions to Each Advance

The obligation of each Facility Lender to make available any Advance of Facility Debt is subject to the satisfaction of:


(a)	each of the conditions precedent set forth in Schedule 5.4 (Conditions to Each Advance), in each case to the satisfaction of:


(i)	in the case of the Initial Advance, each of the Facility Lenders, unless, in each case, waived by each of the Facility Lenders; and


(ii)	in the case of all Advances made after the Initial Advance, the Majority Aggregate Secured Credit Facilities Debt Participants, unless waived by the Majority Aggregate Secured Credit Facilities Debt Participants; and


(b)	with respect to the relevant Facility Agreement, any additional conditions to each Advance set forth in such Facility Agreement have been satisfied or waived pursuant to the terms of such Facility Agreement.


5.5	Conditions to Project Completion Date

The occurrence of the Project Completion Date is subject to the satisfaction of each of the conditions precedent set forth in Schedule 5.5 (Conditions to Project Completion Date), in each case to the satisfaction of the Majority Aggregate Secured Credit Facilities Debt Participants, unless, in each case, waived by the Majority Aggregate Secured Credit Facilities Debt Participants.


6.	AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

The Borrower covenants and agrees that until the Discharge Date, it shall perform or observe (as applicable) the obligations set forth in this Section 6 in favor and for the benefit of the Secured Debt Holders other than (i) the Holders of Senior Bonds and (ii) each other Holder of Senior Debt if and to the extent provided in the Senior Debt Instrument governing such Senior Debt.


6.1	Separateness

The Borrower shall comply at all times with the separateness provisions set forth on Schedule 6.1.


6.2	Project Documents, Etc.


(a)	The Borrower shall (i) perform and observe in all material respects all of its covenants and obligations contained in each of the Material Project Documents,

(ii) take all reasonable and necessary action to prevent the termination or cancellation of any Material Project Document in accordance with the terms of such Material Project Documents or otherwise (except for the expiration of any such agreement in accordance with its terms and not as a result of a breach or default thereunder), (iii) exercise any renewal options contained in the Subleases, and (iv) enforce against the relevant Material Project Party each material covenant or material obligation of each Material Project Document to which such Person is a party in accordance with its terms.

(b)

The Borrower shall cause all Cash Flows received from any Project Party or any other Person to be deposited in the applicable accounts specified in Sections 5.01 (Equity Proceeds Account), 5.02 (Construction Account) and 5.03 (Revenue Account) of the Accounts Agreement, as applicable. Without limiting the Borrower’s obligation to procure all Consents, the Borrower shall send a letter (on the Borrower’s letterhead and signed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower) notifying each Material Project Party not party to a Consent (if applicable) (i) that its Material Project Document and all associated documents and obligations have been pledged as collateral security to the Secured Parties

and are subject to the Secured Parties’ Lien on such Property and (ii) if such Material Project Party’s Material Project Document requires any payment of Cash Flows that, in addition to the assignment specified in clause (i) above, it shall pay all such “Cash Flows” directly into the Revenue Account.

(c)

Following the execution and delivery of any (i) Guaranty under and as defined in the KoGas FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, (ii) Guaranty under and as defined in the GAIL FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement, (iii) Guaranty under and as defined in the Centrica FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement or (iv) Guaranty under and as defined in the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements if Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, the Borrower shall deliver to each of the Facility Agents true and complete copies of (A) such Guaranty no later than (5) Business Days following the execution and delivery thereof, and (B) Consents of counterparties to such Guaranty, within a commercially reasonable time, but in no event later than thirty (30) days following the execution and delivery of such Guaranty, in each case, each of which shall have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the parties thereto.


6.3	Maintenance of Existence, Etc.


(a)	The Borrower shall preserve and maintain (i) its legal existence as a Delaware limited liability company and (ii) all of its material licenses, rights, privileges and franchises necessary for the Development.


(b)	The Borrower shall at all times maintain its status as a partnership or an entity disregarded for U.S. federal, state and local income tax purposes. All of the owners of interests in the Borrower that are treated as equity for U.S. federal income tax purposes will be United States persons within the meaning of Code Section 7701(a)(30).


6.4	Books and Records; Inspection Rights

The Borrower shall keep proper books of record in accordance with GAAP and permit representatives and advisors of the Common Security Trustee, each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative or any Consultant, upon reasonable notice but no more than twice per calendar year (unless a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing), and at the cost and expense of, the Borrower, to visit and inspect its properties, to examine, copy or make excerpts from its books, records and documents and to make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom (at the expense of the Borrower) and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its principal officers, engineers and independent accountants, all at such times during normal business hours as such representatives may reasonably request.


6.5	Compliance with Government Rules, Etc.


(a)	The Borrower shall comply or cause compliance, in all material respects, with, and ensure that the Project is constructed, operated and maintained in compliance, in all material respects, with, all material Government Approvals and Government Rules applicable to the Development, including Environmental Laws.


(b)	The Borrower and its Affiliates shall comply in all respects with Anti-Terrorism and Money Laundering Laws and OFAC Laws.


(c)	The Borrower shall at all times obtain and maintain and use commercially reasonable efforts to cause third parties, as allowed pursuant to Government Rule, to obtain or maintain in full force and effect all material permits, licenses, trademarks, patents, agreements or Government Approvals necessary for the Development.


(d)	The Borrower will not, and will procure that its Affiliates, directors and officers do not, directly or, to the Borrower’s Knowledge, indirectly, use the proceeds of the Facility LoansWorking Capital Debt, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, joint venture partner or other Person:


(i)	in furtherance of 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 of any Anti-Terrorism and Money Laundering Laws, Anti- Corruption Laws or OFAC Laws, to the extent applicable;


(ii)	to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is, or whose government is, the target of sanctions under OFAC or by the US Department of State, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury, to the extent applicable; or


(iii)	in any other manner that would result in a violation of any Anti- Terrorism and Money Laundering Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws or sanctions under OFAC or by the US Department of State, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury, to the extent applicable, by any Person (including any Person participating in the Facility Loans, whether as Facility Lender, Common Security Trustee or otherwise).

(e)

The Borrower agrees that if it obtains Knowledge or receives any written notice that the Borrower, any Affiliate or any Person holding any legal or beneficial interest whatsoever therein (whether directly or indirectly) is named on the OFAC SDN List or is otherwise subject to OFAC, US Department of State, European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury sanctions (such occurrence, a "Sanctions Violation"), the Borrower shall immediately (A) give written notice to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative of such Sanctions Violation, and (B) comply with all applicable laws with respect

to such Sanction Violation (regardless of whether the party included on the OFAC SDN List is located within the jurisdiction of the United States of America), and the Borrower hereby authorizes and consents to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative (as the case may be) taking any and all steps the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative (as the case may be) deem necessary, in its sole discretion, to comply with all applicable laws governing such sanctions with respect to any such Sanction Violation, including the "freezing" or "blocking" of assets and reporting such action to OFAC.


6.6	Insurance; Events of Loss.

(a)

Insurance Maintained by the Borrower, the EPC Contractor and the Operator. The Borrower shall (i) procure at its own expense and maintain in full force and effect and (ii) cause the EPC Contractor, the Operator and each other Material Project Party, as applicable, to procure at such Person’s own expense and maintain in full force and effect, the insurance set forth on, and subject to the provisions of, Schedule 6.6 and any insurance required to be maintained by such Person pursuant to its applicable Project Document. Upon request, the Borrower shall provide to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative (with a copy to the Insurance Advisor) evidence of the maintenance of such insurance. Prior to the expiration of any such insurance policy, the Borrower shall have delivered to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative binders evidencing the commitment of insurers to provide a replacement or renewal for such insurance policy together with evidence of the payment of all premiums then payable in respect of such insurance policies. Without limiting the obligations under Section 6.6(b), upon the issuance, renewal or replacement of any insurance policy, and in any event not less than once per annum, the Borrower shall deliver to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Borrower, certifying that all such insurance policies are in full force and effect and in compliance with the requirements of this Section and Schedule 6.6 confirmed by the Insurance Consultant.

(b)

Insurance Certificates. Within ten (10) Business Days following the date that Notice to Proceed has been issued under the Stage 3 EPC Contract and, if applicable, the Stage 4 EPC Contract, the Borrower shall deliver certificates of insurance evidencing the existence of all insurance then required to be maintained by the Borrower as set forth on Schedule 6.6 and any insurance required to be maintained by such Person pursuant to its applicable Project Document and a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Borrower setting forth the insurance obtained and stating that such insurance and, to his or her knowledge, all insurance required to be obtained by a Material Project Party pursuant to a Material Project Document (A) has been obtained and in each case is in full force and effect, (B) that such insurance materially complies with the Financing

Documents and (C) that all premiums then due and payable on all insurance required to be obtained by the Borrower have been paid.

(c)

Certain Remedies. In the event the Borrower fails to obtain or maintain, or cause to be obtained and maintained, the full insurance coverage required by this Section 6.6, the Common Security Trustee may (but shall not be obligated to) take out the required policies of insurance and pay the premiums on the same. All amounts so advanced by the Common Security Trustee shall become an Obligation and the Borrower shall forthwith pay such amounts to the Common Security Trustee, together with interest from the date of payment by the Common Security Trustee at the Default Rate.


(d)	DSU Insurance. The Borrower shall, at the request of the Common Security Trustee in consultation with the Independent Engineer, exercise its option to file a claim under the Delayed Startup Insurance under any EPC Contract (as described on Exhibit A to each Umbrella Insurance Agreement) in accordance with Section 9.3(A) (DSU Insurance) of the applicable the EPC Contract.

(e)

Flood Insurance. With respect to all Mortgaged Property located in a Special Flood Hazard Area, the Borrower will obtain and maintain at all times flood insurance for all Collateral located on such property as may be required under the Flood Program and will provide to each Facility Lender evidence of compliance with such requirements as may be reasonably requested by such Facility Lender. The timing and process for delivery of such evidence will be as set forth on Schedule 6.6.


6.7	Project Construction; Maintenance of Properties

(a)

The Borrower shall construct and complete, operate and maintain the Project, and cause the Project to be constructed, operated and maintained, as applicable, (A) consistent with Prudent Industry Practices and consistent in all material respects with applicable Government Rules, the EPC Contracts, the Construction Budget and the Construction Schedule, the Operating Manual, the other Project Documents, and in accordance with the requirements for maintaining the effectiveness of the material warranties of the EPC Contractor and each subcontractor thereof (including equipment manufacturers), and (B) within, subject to the following proviso, the then effective Operating Budget; provided, that the Borrower may (x) exceed in the aggregate for all Operating Budget Categories in any Operating Budget by twenty percent (20%) or less per line item of the amount therefor and ten percent (10%) or less of the aggregate budgeted amount therefor, in each case, on an annual basis, but excluding, for purposes of calculating the foregoing allowable increases, amounts in the then effective Operating Budget for Gas purchases, and (y) notwithstanding the foregoing, further exceed the Operating Budget and any Operating Budget Category thereof (I) with respect to payments under Gas purchase contracts for the Project, (II) as required by Government Rule or for compliance with any Government Approval

applicable to the Borrower or the Development (or to cure or remove the effect of any termination, suspension, or Impairment of any Government Approval), as described by the Borrower to the reasonable satisfaction of the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative, or (III) to the extent required to respond to an emergency or accident, the failure to respond to which could reasonably be expected to create a significant risk of personal injury or physical damage to the Project or material threat to the environment, in which case:


(i)	if the Borrower reasonably determines that there is sufficient time to do so prior to responding to any such emergency or accident, the Borrower shall substantiate the expenses expected to be incurred by the Borrower in connection with such emergency or accident to the reasonable satisfaction of the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative; or

(ii)

if the Borrower reasonably determines that there is not sufficient time to take the actions described in clause (i) above prior to responding to any such emergency or accident, promptly following such emergency or accident, the Borrower shall describe in writing to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative the steps that were taken by the Borrower in respect of such emergency or accident and the expenses incurred by the Borrower in connection therewith, all in reasonable detail.

(b)

The Borrower shall take such action as contemplated under Section 6.2(A)(12) (Change Orders Requested by Contractor) of each EPC Contract to avoid any delay with respect to the Guaranteed Substantial Completion Dates for any train of the Project or a delay that would result in the date specified for Ready for Start Up in Attachment E to such EPC Contract for such train of the Project to occur less than four (4) months prior to the Guaranteed Substantial Completion Date for such train.

(c)

In the event that any train of the Project fails to achieve the Performance Guarantee by the applicable Guaranteed Substantial Completion Date (each as defined in the applicable EPC Contract), the Borrower shall not, without the consent of the Required Secured Parties (in consultation with the Independent Engineer), elect the option available to it under Section 11.4(A) (Minimum Acceptance Criteria and Performance Liquidated Damages) of such EPC Contract.


(d)	In the event that any train of the Project fails to achieve the Minimum Acceptance Criteria (as defined in the applicable EPC Contract) and Substantial Completion upon the termination of the Minimum Acceptance Criteria Correction Period (as defined in the applicable EPC Contract), the Borrower shall not, without the consent of the Required Secured Parties (in consultation with the Independent

Engineer) elect the option available to it under Section 11.4(B) (Minimum Acceptance Criteria and Performance Liquidated Damages) of such EPC Contract.

(e)

Unless the applicable Defect Correction Period (and any extension thereof) with respect to each Subproject (as such terms are defined in the applicable EPC Contract) has expired and the EPC Contractor has completed and paid any warranty claims submitted by the Borrower with respect to such Subproject, the Borrower shall draw on the applicable EPC Letter of Credit at the time of any reduction thereof pursuant to Section 9.2.B (Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit) of the applicable EPC Contract in the amount of such reduction.


6.8	Taxes

The Borrower (or, for purposes of this Section 6.8, if it is a disregarded entity for U.S. income tax purposes, its direct owner) shall pay and discharge all Taxes imposed on the Borrower or on its income or profits or on any of its Property prior to the date on which any penalties may attach; provided, that the Borrower shall have the right to Contest the validity or amount of any such Tax. The Borrower (or, for purposes of this Section 6.8, if it is a disregarded entity for U.S. tax purposes, its owner) shall promptly pay any valid, final judgment rendered upon the conclusion of the relevant Contest, if any, enforcing any such Tax and cause it to be satisfied of record.


6.9	Maintenance of Liens

(a)

The Borrower shall grant a security interest in the Borrower’s interest in all Project assets and Project Documents acquired or entered into, as applicable, from time to time (except to the extent expressly permitted to be excluded from the Liens created by the Security Documents pursuant to the terms thereof) and shall take, or cause to be taken, all action reasonably required to maintain and preserve the Liens created by the Security Documents to which it is a party and the priority of such Liens.


(b)	The Borrower shall from time to time execute or cause to be executed any and all further instruments (including financing statements, continuation statements and similar statements with respect to any Security Document) reasonably requested by the Common Security Trustee for such purposes.


(c)	The Borrower shall preserve and maintain good, legal and valid title to, or rights in, the Collateral free and clear of Liens other than Permitted Liens.


(d)	The Borrower shall promptly discharge at the Borrower’s cost and expense, any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) on the Collateral.


6.10	Use of Proceeds

The Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Secured Debt solely for purposes permitted in the applicable Secured Debt Instruments.


6.11	Interest Rate Protection Agreements

The Borrower shall:

(a)

enter into and thereafter maintain in full force and effect, from time to time, one or more Interest Rate Protection Agreements on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Required Secured Parties (A) with respect to no less than 45% (calculated on a weighted average basis) of the projected aggregate outstanding balance of the Facility Debt and Additional Secured Debt, no later than forty-five (45) days following each of (i) the Closing Date and (ii) the incurrence of Train 6 Debt, and (B) with respect to no less than 65% (calculated on a weighted average basis) of the projected aggregate outstanding balance of the Facility Debt and Additional Secured Debt, no later than ninety (90) days following each of (i) the Closing Date and (ii) the incurrence of Train 6 Debt, in each case, for a term of no less than five (5) years (provided, however, for purposes of calculating such percentage in the foregoing Clauses (A) and (B), any such Secured Debt which bears a fixed interest rate shall be deemed subject to an Interest Rate Protection Agreement);


(b)	ensure that each Interest Rate Protection Agreement entered into pursuant to clause (a) above is in compliance with the terms of the Hedging Program; and


(c)	enter into additional Interest Rate Protection Agreements as and when required in accordance with the terms of the Hedging Program and otherwise comply in all material respects with the Hedging Program.


6.12	Operating Budget

(a)

No less than forty-five (45) days prior to the Substantial Completion of each train of the Project, and no less than forty-five (45) days prior to the beginning of each calendar year thereafter, the Borrower shall prepare a proposed operating plan and a budget setting forth in reasonable detail the projected requirements for Operation and Maintenance Expenses for the Borrower and the Project for the ensuing calendar year (or, in the case of the initial Operating Budget, the remaining portion thereof) and provide the Independent Engineer, the Common Security Trustee, and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative with a copy of such operating plan and budget (the "Operating Budget"). Each Operating Budget shall be prepared in accordance with a form approved by the Independent Engineer, shall set forth all material assumptions used in the preparation of such Operating Budget, and shall become effective upon approval of the Common Security Trustee, acting reasonably and in consultation with the Independent Engineer; provided, that if the Common Security Trustee shall not

have approved or disapproved the Operating Budget within thirty (30) days after receipt thereof, such Operating Budget shall be deemed to have been approved; and provided further that the Common Security Trustee shall have neither the right nor the obligation to approve costs for Gas purchase contracts for the Project contained in the Operating Budget. If the Borrower does not have an effective annual Operating Budget before the beginning of any calendar year, until such proposed Operating Budget is approved, the Operating Budget most recently in effect shall continue to apply; provided, that (A) any items of the proposed Operating Budget that have been approved shall be given effect in substitution of the corresponding items in the Operating Budget most recently in effect, (B) costs for Gas purchase contracts for the Project shall be as provided by the Borrower and (C) all other items shall be increased by the lesser of (x) two and one-half percent (2.5%) and (y) the increase proposed by the Borrower for such item in such proposed Operating Budget.


(b)	Each Operating Budget delivered pursuant to this Section 6.12 shall contain Operating Budget Categories, and shall specify for each Fiscal Quarter and for each such Operating Budget Category the amount budgeted for such category for such Fiscal Quarter.


(c)	Each Operating Budget may only be amended with the prior written consent of the Common Security Trustee (in consultation with the Independent Engineer), which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, or delayed.


6.13	Other Documents and Information

The Borrower shall furnish the Common Security Trustee (with sufficient copies for each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative):


(a)	promptly after the filing thereof, a copy of each filing made by (i) the Borrower with FERC with respect to the Project; or (ii) the Borrower with DOE/FE with respect to the export of LNG from, or the import of LNG to, the Project, except in the case of (i) or (ii) such as are routine or ministerial in nature;

(b)

promptly after obtaining Knowledge thereof, a copy of each filing with respect to (i) the Project made with FERC by any Person other than the Borrower in any proceeding before FERC in which the Borrower is the captioned party or respondent, except for such filings as are routine or ministerial in nature, or (ii) the import of LNG to, or the export of LNG from, the Project made with DOE/FE by any Person other than the Borrower in any proceeding before DOE/FE in which the Borrower is the captioned party or respondent, except for such filings as are routine or ministerial in nature;


(c)	promptly after the filing thereof, a copy of each filing, certification, waiver, exemption, claim, declaration, or registration made with respect to Government Approvals to be obtained or filed by the Borrower with any Government Authority, except such filings, certifications, waivers, exemptions, claims,

declarations, or registrations that are routine or ministerial in nature and in respect of which a failure to file could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;


(d)	promptly after receipt or publication thereof, a copy of each Government Approval obtained by the Borrower; and


(e)	promptly upon obtaining Knowledge thereof, a description of each change in the status of any Government Approval identified on Schedule 4.6(a) and Schedule 4.6(b) (including notice of any judicial appeal having been filed) other than routine or ministerial changes.


6.14	[Reserved]


6.14	Train 6 Debt; Independent Engineer

In the event Train 6 Debt is incurred, the Borrower shall provide to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative a copy of any report from the Independent Engineer and any other consultant that the Holders of such Train 6 Debt are entitled to receive.


6.15	Debt Service Coverage Ratio

(a)

The Borrower shall not permit the Debt Service Coverage Ratio as of the end of any Fiscal Quarter from and following the Initial Quarterly Payment Date to be less than 1.15 to 1.00. Not later than ten (10) Business Days following the last day of each Fiscal Quarter following the Initial Quarterly Payment Date, the Borrower shall calculate and deliver to the Common Security Trustee its calculation of the Debt Service Coverage Ratio. The Common Security Trustee shall notify the Borrower in writing of any reasonable corrections which should be made to such Debt Service Coverage Ratio calculations, within ten (10) Business Days of receipt. Borrower shall incorporate all such reasonable corrections, changes or adjustments consistent with the terms of this Agreement.

(b)

Notwithstanding anything in Section 6.15(a) to the contrary, in the event that the Debt Service Coverage Ratio as of the end of any Fiscal Quarter following the Initial Quarterly Payment Date is less than 1.15 to 1.00 but greater than 1.00 to 1.00, any direct or indirect owner of the Borrower shall have the right to provide cash to the Borrower, not later than ten (10) Business Days following the date of delivery of the calculation of the Debt Service Coverage Ratio as required pursuant to Section 6.15(a) in the form of equity contributions or subordinated shareholder loans (in each case as otherwise permitted pursuant to the terms of the Financing Documents), in order to increase the Debt Service Coverage Ratio to 1.15 to 1.00; provided, that such right shall not be exercised more than two (2) consecutive Fiscal Quarters nor, with respect to each Secured Debt Instrument, more than four (4) times over the term of such Secured Debt Instrument.


6.16	Further Assurances; Cooperation


(a)	The Borrower shall promptly perform or cause to be performed any and all acts and execute or cause to be executed any and all documents (including UCC financing statements and UCC continuation statements):

(i)

as are reasonably requested by the Common Security Trustee for filing under the provisions of the UCC or any other Government Rule that are necessary or reasonably advisable to maintain in favor of the Common Security Trustee, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, Liens on the Collateral that are duly perfected in accordance with all applicable Government Rules for the purposes of perfecting the first priority Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) created, or purported to be created, in favor of the Common Security Trustee or the Secured Parties under this Agreement or any other Financing Documents;


(ii)	as are reasonably requested by the Common Security Trustee for the purposes of ensuring the validity, enforceability and legality of this Agreement or any other Financing Document and the rights of the Secured Parties and the Common Security Trustee hereunder or thereunder;


(iii)	as are reasonably requested by the Common Security Trustee for the purposes of enabling or facilitating the proper exercise of the rights and powers granted to the Secured Parties and the Common Security Trustee under this Agreement or any other Financing Document; or


(iv)	as are reasonably requested by the Common Security Trustee to carry out the intent of, and transactions contemplated by, this Agreement and the other Financing Documents.


(b)	The Borrower will cooperate with and provide all necessary information available to it on a timely basis to the Consultants so that the Consultants may complete and deliver the reports as required herein.


6.17	Auditors

The Borrower shall engage KPMG LLP (or such other independent certified public accountants of recognized national standing) as auditors to audit financial statements.


6.18	Surveys and Title Policies


(a)	Survey. The Borrower shall, no later than sixty (60) days following Final Completion, deliver to the Common Security Trustee the "as built" Survey.


(b)	Title Policy. The Borrower shall cause the Title Company to deliver to the Common Security Trustee a Disbursement Endorsement dated no later than sixty

(60) days following Substantial Completion of each train of the Project.


6.19	Working Capital Debt

If the Borrower incurs any Working Capital Debt pursuant to Section 2.4 (Working Capital Debt), it shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the maturity date of such Working Capital Debt (but excluding for purposes thereof, any LC Loans (as defined in the Working Capital Facility Agreement) issued thereunder with maturity dates of 365 days or less) shall not occur prior to the Final Maturity Date.


6.20	Debt Service Reserve Amount


(a)	Prior to the making of each Restricted Payment (other than any Sponsor Case Restricted Payments and Additional Equity Distributions) and, in any event, no later than six (6) months following the Project Completion Date, the Borrower shall have deposited in the Senior Debt Facilities Debt Service Reserve Account an amount equal to the Required Debt Service Reserve Amount.


(b)	Prior to the making of each Sponsor Case Restricted Payment and Additional Equity Distribution prior to the Project Completion Date, the Borrower shall have deposited in the Senior Debt Facilities Debt Service Reserve Account an amount equal to the Sponsor Case Required Debt Service Amount (as defined in the Accounts Agreement).


6.21	Certain Agreements

Within ninety (90) days after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall deliver to the Common Security Trustee (i) amendments to each of the O&M Agreement and the Management Services Agreement to incorporate provisions necessary to allow Operator and Manager, respectively, to perform their duties thereunder with respect to the fifth liquefaction train (and at the Borrower’s, Operator’s and Manager’s discretion, a sixth liquefaction train) of the Project, which amendments shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Common Security Trustee and (ii) documents specified in (a)-(e) of the definition of “Ancillary Documents” with respect to such amendments.


7.	NEGATIVE COVENANTS

The Borrower covenants and agrees that until the Discharge Date, it shall perform or observe (as applicable) the obligations set forth in this Section 7 in favor and for the benefit of the Secured Debt Holders other than (i) the Holders of Senior Bonds and (ii) each other Holder of Senior Debt if and to the extent provided in the Senior Debt Instrument governing such Senior Debt.


7.1	[Reserved]


7.2	Prohibition of Fundamental Changes

(a)

The Borrower shall not change its legal form, amend its Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement (except any amendments in connection with permitted sales or transfers of ownership interests in the Borrower or other immaterial amendments, provided, that the Borrower shall have delivered to the Common Security Trustee a copy of such amendment together with a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Borrower certifying that no changes have been made to the Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement other than such changes as are necessary solely to reflect the change in ownership or that any other change is immaterial) or any other Organic Document, merge into or consolidate with, or acquire (in one transaction or series of related transactions) all or any business, any class of stock of (or other equity interest in) or any material part of the assets or property of any other Person and shall not liquidate, wind up, reorganize, terminate or dissolve.

(b)

The Borrower shall not convey, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of, in one transaction or a series of transactions, any assets in excess of sixty-five million Dollars ($65,000,000) per year except: (i) sales or other dispositions of assets no longer used or useful in the Borrower’s business in the ordinary course of the Borrower’s business and that could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) sales or other dispositions of LNG (or other commercial products) in accordance with the Project Documents or as permitted in accordance with Section 7.20 (Gas Purchase Contracts and LNG Sales Contracts), (iii) sales, transfers or other dispositions of Permitted Investments,

(iv) Restricted Payments made in accordance with the Financing Documents, (v) sales of Services in the ordinary course of business, (vi) transfers or novations of Interest Rate Protection Agreements in accordance with Section 3.5 (Termination of Interest Rate Protection Agreement in Connection with Any Prepayment), (vii) sales or other dispositions of the Improved Facilities (as defined in the Cooperation Agreement), and (viii) conveyance to gas transmission companies of gas interconnection or metering facilities built using Development Expenditures permitted by Section 7.6 (Development Expenditures).

(c)

The Borrower shall not permit the Project or any material portion thereof to be removed, demolished or materially altered, unless (A) such material portion that has been removed, demolished or materially altered has been replaced or repaired as permitted under the Financing Documents, or (B) such removal or alteration is (x) in accordance with Prudent Industry Practices (as certified by the Independent Engineer, acting reasonably) and could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or (y) required by applicable Government Rule.


7.3	Nature of Business


(a)	The Borrower shall not engage in any business or activities other than the Development and activities related to the development, construction, operation and maintenance of equipment and infrastructure providing for the loading and transportation by commercial trucking vehicles of LNG produced at the Site in excess of (or in the case of (ii) and (iii), subsumed by) amounts required to serve

(i) the Foundation Customers (pursuant to and as defined in the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements), (ii) Cheniere Marketing LLC under the CMI LNG Sale and Purchase Agreements and (iii) Cheniere Marketing International LLP under the Cheniere Marketing LNG Sale and Purchase Agreement, provided that such amounts are permitted to be sold under such agreements, and, and any activities incidental thereto using equity funds provided by the Pledgor which are in addition to any equity funds provided to the Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, prior to the date of the incurrence of any Train 6 Debt, the Borrower shall not enter into any construction contracts with respect to the Train 6 Development, that contain obligations and liabilities which, in the aggregate, are in excess of twenty million Dollars ($20,000,000).


(b)	The Borrower shall not permit to exist any Subsidiary of the Borrower.


(c)	The Borrower shall not sponsor, maintain, administer, or have any obligation to contribute to, or any liability under, any Plan or Multiemployer Plan or plan that provides for post-retirement welfare benefits.


7.4	Performance Tests and Liquidated Damages

The Common Security Trustee, each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative and the Independent Engineer shall have the right to witness and verify each Performance Test. The Borrower shall not:


(a)	permit any Performance Test to be performed without giving the Common Security Trustee, each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative and the Independent Engineer at least five (5) Business Days prior written notice of such Performance Test (or such shorter period as agreed by the Independent Engineer); or


(b)	agree to the amount of any Performance Liquidated Damages and Delay Liquidated Damages that are in excess of fifteen million Dollars ($15,000,000) without the prior written approval of the Common Security Trustee, acting reasonably and in consultation with the Independent Engineer.


7.5	Restrictions on Indebtedness

The Borrower shall not directly or indirectly create, incur, assume, permit, suffer to exist or otherwise be or become liable with respect to any Indebtedness except for the Permitted Indebtedness.


7.6	Development Expenditures

The Borrower shall not make any Development Expenditures except Permitted Development Expenditures. All assets or property built or acquired with Development Expenditures shall constitute Collateral except as provided in the Cooperation Agreement, the Water Agreement or the Security Documents or for contributions in aid of construction in connection with gas interconnection or metering facilities under gas interconnection or metering agreements.


7.7	Restricted Payments

The Borrower shall not make or agree to make, directly or indirectly, (a) any Restricted Payments (other than any Sponsor Case Restricted Payments and Additional Equity Distributions) except as permitted under Section 5.10 (Distribution Account) of the Accounts Agreement, (b) any Sponsor Case Restricted Payments except as permitted under Section 5.01(c)(iv) (Withdrawals from the Equity Proceeds Account) of the Accounts Agreement or (c) any Additional Equity Distributions except as permitted under Section 5.01(c)(v) (Withdrawals from the Equity Proceeds Account) of the Accounts Agreement.


7.8	Limitation on Liens

The Borrower shall not create, assume, incur, permit or suffer to exist any Lien upon the Collateral, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except for the Permitted Liens.


7.9	Project Documents, Etc.

(a)

The Borrower shall not, without the prior written consent of the Required Secured Parties in consultation with the Independent Engineer, (i) suspend, cancel or terminate any Material Project Document or Government Approval applicable to the Borrower or the Development or consent to or accept any cancellation or termination thereof, (ii) sell, transfer, assign (other than pursuant to the Security Documents and other than any assignment by Cheniere LNG O&M Services, LLC of its rights and obligations under the O&M Agreement by the Manager of its rights and obligations under the Management Services Agreement, in each case to an Affiliate of Borrower that has access to sufficient experienced personnel to perform their respective obligations thereunder) or otherwise dispose of (by operation of law or otherwise) or consent to any such sale, transfer, assignment or disposition of any part of its interest in or rights or obligations under or any Material Project Party's interest in or rights or obligations under any Material Project Document or Government Approval (other than the sub-license

of any EPC Contract-related intellectual property rights to an Affiliate of the Borrower and other than the collateral assignment pursuant to the CCTPL Consent Agreement), (iii) waive any material default under, or material breach of, any Material Project Document or waive, forgive, compromise, settle or release any material right, interest or entitlement, howsoever arising, under, or in respect of, any Material Project Document, (iv) initiate or settle a material arbitration proceeding under any Material Project Document or Government Approval, (v) agree to or petition, request or take any other material legal or administrative action that seeks, or could reasonably be expected, to Impair any Material Project Document or Government Approval, (vi) amend, supplement or modify or in any way vary, or agree to the variation of, any material provision of the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements, the EPC Contracts or the Sabine Pass TUA or any material Government Approval (provided that the Borrower may (x) amend or modify any conditions of such Government Approvals so long as such amendment or modification is not materially more restrictive or onerous on the Borrower and could not otherwise reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (y) seek the satisfaction or waiver of such conditions without the prior written consent of the Required Secured Parties) or of the performance of any material covenant or obligation by any other Person under any such agreement (other than Change Orders, which Change Order protocol is addressed in Section 7.13 (EPC and Construction Contracts)) or (vii) materially amend, supplement or modify or in any material way vary, or agree to the material variation of, any material provision of a Material Project Document (other than the FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements, the EPC Contracts and the Sabine Pass TUA) or of the performance of any material covenant or obligation by any other Person under any such Material Project Document.

(b)

Except for (i) any documents relating to Working Capital Debt entered into upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.4 (Working Capital Debt), (ii) any documents relating to PDE Debt entered into upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.5 (PDE Debt), and (iii) any documents relating to Replacement Debt entered into upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 2.6 (Replacement Debt), the Borrower shall not enter into any Additional Material Project Document without the prior written consent of the Required Secured Parties, provided, that (A) the Borrower shall, in connection with its request for the written consent of the Required Secured Parties, deliver to the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative copies of all such proposed Additional Material Project Documents not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the proposed execution thereof and (B) all Ancillary Documents relating to any such Additional Material Project Document have been agreed upon in form and substance satisfactory to the Common Security Trustee prior to the Borrower entering into any such proposed Additional Material Project Document.


(c)	Without prejudice to Section 7.9(a) (Project Documents, Etc.), the Borrower shall not, without the prior written consent of the Required Secured Parties: (i) prior to

the incurrence of the Train 6 Debt, amend, supplement or modify or in any way vary, or agree to the variation of, any provision of any of the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements or of the performance of any covenant or obligation by any other Person under any of the Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreements, in each case to the extent that any such amendment, supplement, modification, or variation could have a materially negative impact on the ability of the Borrower to perform its material obligations or satisfy any material condition under any Transaction Document, or could otherwise reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) prior to the incurrence of the Train 6 Debt, waive any Condition Precedent (under and as defined in the applicable Train 6 FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement), or (iii), agree to any early termination or amendment, modification, or variation of any provision of the Total TUA or of the performance of any covenant or obligation by any other Person under the Total TUA, which, amendment, modification or variation could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(d)

Without derogating from any of the obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the other Financing Documents, the Borrower shall furnish the Common Security Trustee, the Independent Engineer and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative with (i) all Project Documents which contain obligations or liabilities that are in excess of two million Dollars ($2,000,000) per year or ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) over its term promptly after execution thereof and

(ii) promptly after the execution thereof, certified copies of all amendments, supplements or modifications of any Material Project Documents and any material amendments, supplements or modifications of any Project Document that contains obligations or liabilities that are in excess of two million Dollars ($2,000,000) per year or ten million Dollars ($10,000,000) over its term.

(e)

The Borrower shall take all actions required and all other steps reasonably requested by the Common Security Trustee to cause each Material Project Document and Additional Material Project Document entered into after the Closing Date to be or become subject to the Lien of the Security Documents (whether by amendment to any Security Document or otherwise) and deliver or cause to be delivered to the Common Security Trustee all Ancillary Documents related thereto, in each case, within a commercially reasonable time, but in no event later than thirty (30) days following the execution of such Material Project Documents or Additional Material Project Document.


(f)	The Borrower shall not permit any counterparty to a Material Project Document to substitute, diminish or otherwise replace any performance security, letter of credit or guarantee supporting such counterparty’s obligations thereunder.


7.10	Terminal Use Agreements

The Borrower shall not issue to Cheniere Energy Investments, LLC any notice pursuant to the Terminal Use Rights Assignment and Agreement specifying the Liquefaction Start Date (as defined therein) unless on or prior to such specified Liquefaction Start Date, the Borrower shall be entitled to begin to receive payment of monthly sales charges or comparable payments under the BG FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement or the GN FOB Sale and Purchase Agreement.


7.11	Transactions with Affiliates

The Borrower shall not directly or indirectly enter into any transaction that is otherwise permitted hereunder with or for the benefit of an Affiliate (including guarantees and assumptions of obligations of an Affiliate) except (a) Project Documents executed on or prior to the Closing Date, (b) agreements required or contemplated by the Material Project Documents, (c) Permitted Indebtedness that is Subordinated Indebtedness, (d) to the extent required by applicable Government Rule, and (e) agreements entered into on terms no less favorable to the Borrower than the Borrower would obtain in a comparable arm's length transaction with a Person that is not an Affiliate of a Loan Party or if there is no comparable arm's length transaction, then on terms reasonably determined by the Board of Managers of the Borrower to be fair and reasonable.


7.12	Accounts

(a)

Other than Permitted Investments held in accordance with the Accounts Agreement for which the Borrower is a beneficiary, the Borrower shall not open or maintain, or permit or instruct any other Person to open or maintain on its behalf, or use or be the beneficiary of any account other than (i) the Accounts, (ii) the Excluded Unsecured Accounts and (iii) an account holding Escrowed Amounts (as defined in each EPC Contract).


(b)	The Borrower shall not change the name or account number of any of the Accounts without the prior written consent of the Common Security Trustee.


7.13	EPC and Construction Contracts

The Borrower shall not:


(a)	except for Change Orders specified in Schedule 7.13, initiate or consent to (without the consent of the Required Secured Parties in consultation with the Independent Engineer) any Change Order that:


(i)	increases the contract price of any of the EPC Contracts as of the Closing Date; provided, that:


(A)	the Borrower may, without the consent of the Required Secured Parties and subject to clauses (ii) through (xi) of this

Section 7.13(a), enter into any Change Order or make payment of any claim under any of the EPC Contracts, if (aa) the amount of any such Change Order or payment is less than twenty-five million Dollars ($25,000,000) and the aggregate of all such Change Orders or payments with respect to such EPC Contract (together with any Change Orders under the EPC Contracts entered into after the Closing Date) is less than one hundred million Dollars ($100,000,000) and (bb) the Common Security Trustee and each Secured Debt Holder Group Representative has received an IE Confirming Certificate;

(B)

if an event of Force Majeure or Change in Law (as each such term is described in the respective EPC Contract) prompts the EPC Contractor to request a Change Order to which it is entitled under the terms of the applicable EPC Contract, the Borrower shall be entitled to authorize such change without first obtaining the consent of the Required Secured Parties if the amount of such change is within the remaining Contingency set forth in the Construction Budget, or to the extent that such amount exceeds the remaining Contingency, the Borrower has an additional source of funds for such excess amount in addition to any equity funds received on or prior to the Closing Date on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Common Security Trustee, provided, further, that any such change shall be subject to clauses (ii) through (xi) of this Section 7.13(a); and


(C)	the Borrower may enter into any Change Order under any of the EPC Contracts for amounts in excess of the amounts specified in clause (a)(i)(A) above but subject to clauses (ii) through (xi) of this Section 7.13(a); provided, that with respect to this clause (C):

(1)

the Borrower or any other Person on behalf of the Borrower shall have transferred to the Common Security Trustee for deposit into the Construction Account equity funds provided by the Pledgor or the Sponsor in an amount that is in addition to any equity funds provided to the Borrower on or prior to the Closing Date and otherwise sufficient to pay the maximum amount that may become due and payable pursuant to such Change Order, provided further, that no such deposit shall be required in connection with any such Change Order, the amount and subject matter of which is included as an unallocated Contingency line item or which constitutes a utilization of any portion of the unallocated Contingency reflected in the Construction Budget; and


(2)	the Common Security Trustee shall have received an IE Confirming Certificate;


(ii)	extends the Guaranteed Substantial Completion Date for any train of the Project (except as permitted by clause (b) of the definition of the Guaranteed Substantial Completion Date) or could reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the likelihood of achieving Substantial Completion for any train of the Project by such date;

(iii)

except as a result of a buydown of the Performance Guarantees pursuant to Section 11.4 (Minimum Acceptance Criteria and Performance Liquidated Damages) of the relevant EPC Contract which is otherwise permitted pursuant to the terms hereof or as a result of a Change Order to which the EPC Contractor is entitled under such EPC Contract for a Change in Law (as defined in such EPC Contract) (and provided that the Independent Engineer consents (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) to the Borrower's consent to such Change Order pursuant to Section 6.2.C of such EPC Contract), modifies the Performance Guarantees, any other performance guarantee of the EPC Contractor or the criteria or procedures for the conduct or measuring the results of the Performance Tests (as each capitalized term used in this clause and not otherwise defined in this Agreement is defined in such EPC Contract);

(iv)

adjusts the Payment Schedules (other than as a result of a Change Order permitted by Section 7.13(a)(i) above or as otherwise permitted by this Agreement), adjusts the amount of or timing (including, without limitation, any adjustment of the Schedule Bonus Date for SP1, the Schedule Bonus Date for SP2, the Schedule Bonus Date for SP3 or the Schedule Bonus Date for SP4, but, unless and until Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, excludingincluding the Schedule Bonus Date for SP5 and, after the incurrence of Train 6 Debt, excluding the Schedule Bonus Date for SP6 under Section 13.2 (Schedule Bonus) of the applicable EPC Contract) for payment of the Schedule Bonus (as each such term is defined in the applicable EPC Contract), or otherwise agree to any additional bonus to be paid to the EPC Contractor (but, unless and until Train 6 Debt has been incurred or the Train 6 FID Date has occurred, excludingincluding the Schedule Bonus Date for SP5 under Section

13.2.B (Schedule Bonus) of the Stage 3 EPC Contract, and after the incurrence of Train 6 Debt, excluding the Schedule Bonus Date for SP6 under Section 13.2 (Schedule Bonus) of the Xxxxx 0 XXX Xxxxxxxx); provided, that any adjustment of the Schedule Bonus Date for, prior to the incurrence of Train 6 Debt, SP4 and, from and after the incurrence of Train 6 Debt, SP SP5 shall be permitted without the consent of the Required Secured Parties if the revenues received by the

Borrower from the operation of the first four trains or five trains, respectively, of the Project prior to Substantial Completion of the fifth train or sixth train, respectively, of the Project are equal to or greater than the revenues projected to be received during such period under the Construction Budget (in each case, after giving effect to the payment of such additional bonus which shall be paid solely from such revenues);


(v)	causes any material component or material design feature or aspect of the Project to materially deviate in any fundamental manner from the description thereof set forth in the schedules, exhibits, appendices or annexes to the relevant EPC Contract (other than as the result of a Change Order which is permitted by Section 7.13(a)(i) above or otherwise permitted by this Agreement);

(vi)

(vii)

except as a result of a Change Order to which the EPC Contractor is entitled under the relevant EPC Contract for a Change in Law (as defined in such EPC Contract) or force majeure (and provided that the Independent Engineer consents (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) to the Borrower's consent to such force majeure Change Order pursuant to Section 6.2.C of such EPC Contract), waives or alters the provisions under the relevant EPC Contract relating to default, termination or suspension or the waiver by the Borrower of any event that, with the giving of notice or the lapse of time or both, would entitle the Borrower to terminate such EPC Contract, provided that the Independent Engineer's consent shall not be required for any waiver by the EPC Contractor of any termination right arising from such force majeure;

(viii)

except as a result of a Change Order to which the EPC Contractor is entitled under the relevant EPC Contract for a Change in Law (as defined in such EPC Contract), adversely modifies or impairs the enforceability of any warranty under such EPC Contract; provided, that this clause shall not preclude the Borrower from waiving warranties with respect to immaterial items comprising the Work under such EPC Contract;


(ix)	except as a result of a Change Order to which the EPC Contractor is entitled under the relevant EPC Contract for a Change in Law (as defined

in such EPC Contract) (and provided that the Independent Engineer consents (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) to the Borrower's consent to such Change Order pursuant to Section 6.2.C of such EPC Contract), impairs the ability of the Project to satisfy the Performance Tests;


(x)	results in the revocation or adverse modification of any material Government Approval; or


(xi)	causes the Project not to comply in all material respects with applicable Government Rule or the Borrower's Contractual Obligations;


(b)	approve any plan under Article 11 (Completion) of any of the EPC Contracts without the consent of the Common Security Trustee (in consultation with the Independent Engineer); provided, however, that the Common Security Trustee shall use reasonable efforts to promptly review all relevant documentation provided to it by the Borrower (and shall request the Independent Engineer to do the same);

(c)

certify to, consent to or otherwise request or permit through a Change Order or otherwise without the consent of the Common Security Trustee (in consultation with the Independent Engineer) the occurrence of Substantial Completion or Ready for Start Up with respect to each train of the Project, or make any election to take care, custody and control of the Project (or any portion thereof) pursuant to Section 11.4.B (Minimum Acceptance Criteria and Performance Liquidated Damages) (or any other provision thereof) of any of the EPC Contracts; provided, however, that the Common Security Trustee shall use reasonable efforts to promptly review all relevant documentation provided to it (directly or indirectly) by the Borrower (and shall request the Independent Engineer to do the same);


(d)	collect on an EPC Letter of Credit under Section 7.8 (Procedure for Withholding, Offset and Collection on the Letter of Credit) of any of the EPC Contracts unless there are no future payments owed to the EPC Contractor against which the Borrower may offset the amounts due to the Borrower under such Section 7.8; or


(e)	without consent of the Common Security Trustee (in consultation with the Independent Engineer not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed):


(i)	initiate or consent to any (A) Change Order that directly or indirectly specifies the capital spare parts to be delivered to the Site by the EPC Contractor pursuant

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FIFTH OMNIBUS AMENDMENT, CONSENT AND WAIVER