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Exhibit 4.2 EXECUTION COPY ENERGY
TRANSFER PARTNERS, L.P., as Issuer, and U.S. BANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION (AS SUCCESSOR TO WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION),
as Trustee SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE Dated as of
December 23, 2008 to Indenture dated as of January 18,
2005 9.70% Senior Notes due 2019
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.1 Generally
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SECTION 1.2 Definition of Certain Terms
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ARTICLE II GENERAL TERMS OF THE NOTES
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SECTION 2.1 Form
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SECTION 2.2 Title, Amount and Payment of Principal and
Interest
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SECTION 2.3 Transfer and Exchange
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ARTICLE III FUTURE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES
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SECTION 3.1 No Initial Guarantee of the Notes by Subsidiary
Guarantors
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SECTION 3.2 Future Subsidiary Guarantors
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SECTION 3.3 Release of Guarantees
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SECTION 3.4 Reinstatement of Guarantees
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ARTICLE IV REDEMPTION
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SECTION 4.1 Redemption
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ARTICLE V ADDITIONAL COVENANTS
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SECTION 5.1 Limitation on Liens
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SECTION 5.2 Restriction on Sale-Leasebacks
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ARTICLE VI ADDITIONAL EVENT OF DEFAULT
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SECTION 6.1 Additional Event of Default
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ARTICLE VII REPURCHASE AT THE OPTION OF HOLDER
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SECTION 7.1 Repurchase of Notes
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SECTION 7.2 Exercise of Repurchase Option
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SECTION 7.3 Notes Repurchased in Part
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SECTION 7.4 Compliance with Exchange Act
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ARTICLE VIII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
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SECTION 8.1 Ratification of Base Indenture
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SECTION 8.2 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals
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SECTION 8.3 Table of Contents, Headings, etc
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SECTION 8.4 Counterpart Originals
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SECTION 8.5 Governing Law
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THIS SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE dated as of December 23, 2008 (the "Seventh
Supplemental Indenture"), is among Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.,
a Delaware limited partnership (the "Partnership"), and U.S. Bank
National Association, a national banking association, as successor
to Wachovia Bank, National Association, a national banking
association, as trustee (the "Trustee"). RECITALS:
WHEREAS, the Partnership and certain
Subsidiary Guarantors have executed and delivered to the Trustee an
Indenture, dated January 18, 2005 (the "Base Indenture" and as
supplemented by this Seventh Supplemental Indenture, the
"Indenture"), providing for the issuance by the Partnership from
time to time of its debentures, notes, bonds or other evidences of
indebtedness to be issued in one or more series unlimited as to
principal amount (the "Debt Securities");
WHEREAS, the Partnership has duly
authorized and desires to cause to be established pursuant to the
Base Indenture and this Seventh Supplemental Indenture a new series
of Debt Securities designated the "9.70% Senior Notes due 2019"
(the "Notes"); WHEREAS,
Sections 2.01 and 2.04 of the Base Indenture permit the
execution of indentures supplemental thereto to establish the form
and terms of Debt Securities of any series;
WHEREAS, pursuant to
Section 9.01 of the Base Indenture, the Partnership has
requested that the Trustee join in the execution of this Seventh
Supplemental Indenture to establish the form and terms of the
Notes; WHEREAS, all things necessary
have been done to make the Notes, when executed by the Partnership
and authenticated and delivered hereunder and under the Base
Indenture and duly issued by the Partnership, the valid obligations
of the Partnership, and to make this Seventh Supplemental Indenture
a valid agreement of the Partnership enforceable in accordance with
its terms. NOW, THEREFORE, the
Partnership and the Trustee hereby agree that the following
provisions shall supplement the Base Indenture: ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS SECTION 1.1 Generally .
(a) Capitalized terms used
herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective
meanings ascribed thereto in the Base Indenture.
(b) The rules of interpretation
set forth in the Base Indenture shall be applied hereto as if set
forth in full herein.
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SECTION 1.2 Definition of Certain Terms .
For all purposes of this Seventh
Supplemental Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall
have the following respective meanings:
"Attributable Indebtedness," when
used with respect to any Sale-Leaseback Transaction (as defined in
Section 5.2 hereof), means, as at the time of determination,
the present value (discounted at the rate set forth or implicit in
the terms of the lease included in such transaction) of the total
obligations of the lessee for rental payments (other than amounts
required to be paid on account of property taxes, maintenance,
repairs, insurance, assessments, utilities, operating and labor
costs and other items that do not constitute payments for property
rights) during the remaining term of the lease included in such
Sale-Leaseback Transaction (including any period for which such
lease has been extended). In the case of any lease that is
terminable by the lessee upon the payment of a penalty or other
termination payment, such amount shall be the lesser of the amount
determined assuming termination upon the first date such lease may
be terminated (in which case the amount shall also include the
amount of the penalty or termination payment, but no rent shall be
considered as required to be paid under such lease subsequent to
the first date upon which it may be so terminated) or the amount
determined assuming no such termination.
"Comparable Treasury Issue" means the
United States Treasury security selected by the Independent
Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining
term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be utilized, at the
time of selection and in accordance with customary financial
practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of
comparable maturity to the remaining term of the Notes to be
redeemed; provided, however, that if no maturity is within three
months before or after the maturity date for such Notes, yields for
the two published maturities most closely corresponding to such
United States Treasury security will be determined and the treasury
rate will be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a
straight line basis rounding to the nearest month.
"Comparable Treasury Price" means,
with respect to any Redemption Date, (a) the average of the
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for the Redemption Date after
excluding the highest and lowest Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or (b) if the Independent Investment Banker
obtains fewer than four Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the
average of all such quotations.
"Consolidated Net Tangible Assets"
means, at any date of determination, the total amount of assets of
the Partnership and its consolidated Subsidiaries after deducting
therefrom: (1) all current
liabilities (excluding (A) any current liabilities that by
their terms are extendable or renewable at the option of the
obligor thereon to a time more than twelve months after the time as
of which the amount thereof is being computed, and (B) current
maturities of long-term debt); and
(2) the value (net of any
applicable reserves) of all goodwill, trade names, trademarks,
patents and other like intangible assets,
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all as set forth, or on a pro forma basis would be set forth, on
the consolidated balance sheet of the Partnership and its
consolidated Subsidiaries for the Partnership’s most recently
completed fiscal quarter for which financial statements have been
filed with the SEC, prepared in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles. "Credit
Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
as of July 20, 2007, among the Partnership, Wachovia Bank,
National Association, as Administrative Agent, and the other agents
and lenders party thereto and as further amended, restated,
refinanced, replaced or refunded from time to time.
"Indebtedness" of any Person at any
date means any obligation created or assumed by such Person for the
repayment of borrowed money or any guaranty thereof.
"Independent Investment Banker" means
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Credit Suisse Securities
(USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Wachovia Capital
Markets, LLC (and their respective successors) or, if any such firm
is not willing and able to select the applicable Comparable
Treasury Issue, an independent investment banking institution of
national standing appointed by the Trustee and reasonably
acceptable to the Partnership.
"Permitted Liens" means:
(1) liens upon rights-of-way for
pipeline purposes;
(2) easements, rights-of-way,
restrictions and other similar encumbrances incurred in the
ordinary course of business and encumbrances consisting of zoning
restrictions, easements, licenses, restrictions on the use of real
property or minor imperfections in title thereto and which do not
in the aggregate materially adversely affect the value of the
properties encumbered thereby or materially impair their use in the
operation of the business of the Partnership and its Subsidiaries;
(3) rights reserved to or vested
by any provision of law in any municipality or public authority to
control or regulate any of the properties of the Partnership or any
Subsidiary or the use thereof or the rights and interests of the
Partnership or any Subsidiary therein, in any manner under any and
all laws; (4) rights reserved to
the grantors of any properties of the Partnership or any
Subsidiary, and the restrictions, conditions, restrictive covenants
and limitations, in respect thereto, pursuant to the terms,
conditions and provisions of any rights-of-way agreements,
contracts or other agreements therewith;
(5) any statutory or
governmental lien or lien arising by operation of law, or any
mechanics’, repairmen’s, materialmen’s,
suppliers’, carriers’, landlords’,
warehousemen’s or similar lien incurred in the ordinary
course of business which is not more than sixty (60) days past
due or which is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and any undetermined lien which is incidental to
construction, development, improvement or repair;
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(6) any right reserved to, or
vested in, any municipality or public authority by the terms of any
right, power, franchise, grant, license, permit or by any provision
of law, to purchase or recapture or to designate a purchaser of,
any property; (7) liens for
taxes and assessments which are (a) for the then current year,
(b) not at the time delinquent, or (c) delinquent but the
validity or amount of which is being contested at the time by the
Partnership or any of its Subsidiaries in good faith by appropriate
proceedings; (8) liens of, or to
secure performance of, leases, other than capital leases;
(9) any lien in favor of the
Partnership or any Subsidiary;
(10) any lien upon any property
or assets of the Partnership or any Subsidiary in existence on the
date of the initial issuance of the Notes;
(11) any lien incurred in the
ordinary course of business in connection with workmen’s
compensation, unemployment insurance, temporary disability, social
security, retiree health or similar laws or regulations or to
secure obligations imposed by statute or governmental regulations;
(12) liens in favor of any
Person to secure obligations under provisions of any letters of
credit, bank guarantees, bonds or surety obligations required or
requested by any governmental authority in connection with any
contract or statute, provided that such obligations do not
constitute Indebtedness; or any lien upon or deposits of any assets
to secure performance of bids, trade contracts, leases or statutory
obligations, and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the
ordinary course of business;
(13) any lien upon any property
or assets created at the time of acquisition of such property or
assets by the Partnership or any of its Subsidiaries or within one
year after such time to secure all or a portion of the purchase
price for such property or assets or debt incurred to finance such
purchase price, whether such debt was incurred prior to, at the
time of or within one year after the date of such acquisition;
(14) any lien upon any property
or assets to secure all or part of the cost of construction,
development, repair or improvements thereon or to secure
Indebtedness incurred prior to, at the time of, or within one year
after completion of such construction, development, repair or
improvements or the commencement of full operations thereof
(whichever is later), to provide funds for any such purpose;
(15) any lien upon any property
or assets existing thereon at the time of the acquisition thereof
by the Partnership or any of its Subsidiaries and any lien upon any
property or assets of a Person existing thereon at the time such
Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Partnership by acquisition,
merger or otherwise; provided that, in each case, such lien only
encumbers the property or assets so acquired or owned by such
Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary;
(16) liens imposed by law or
order as a result of any proceeding before any court or regulatory
body that is being contested in good faith, and liens which secure
a judgment or other
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court-ordered award or settlement as to which the Partnership or
the applicable Subsidiary has not exhausted its appellate rights;
(17) any extension, renewal,
refinancing, refunding or replacement (or successive extensions,
renewals, refinancing, refunding or replacements) of liens, in
whole or in part, referred to in clauses (1) through
(16) above; provided, however, that any such extension,
renewal, refinancing, refunding or replacement lien shall be
limited to the property or assets covered by the lien extended,
renewed, refinanced, refunded or replaced and that the obligations
secured by any such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or
replacement lien shall be in an amount not greater than the amount
of the obligations secured by the lien extended, renewed,
refinanced, refunded or replaced and any expenses of the
Partnership or its Subsidiaries (including any premium) incurred in
connection with such extension, renewal, refinancing, refunding or
replacement; or (18) any lien
resulting from the deposit of moneys or evidence of indebtedness in
trust for the purpose of defeasing Indebtedness of the Partnership
or any of its Subsidiaries.
"Principal Property" means, whether
owned or leased on the date hereof or thereafter acquired:
(1) any pipeline assets of the
Partnership or any of its Subsidiaries, including any related
facilities employed in the gathering, transportation, distribution,
storage or marketing of natural gas, refined petroleum products,
natural gas liquids and petrochemicals, that are located in the
United States of America or any territory or political subdivision
thereof; and (2) any processing,
compression, treating, blending or manufacturing plant or terminal
owned or leased by the Partnership or any of its Subsidiaries that
is located in the United States or any territory or political
subdivision thereof, except in the case of either of the preceding
clauses (1) or (2): (a) any such
assets consisting of inventories, furniture, office fixtures and
equipment (including data processing equipment), vehicles and
equipment used on, or useful with, vehicles;
(b) any such assets which, in the
opinion of the board of directors of the General Partner are not
material in relation to the activities of the Partnership and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole; and
(c) any assets used primarily in the
conduct of the retail propane marketing business conducted by
Heritage Operating, L.P. and its Subsidiaries.
"Reference Treasury Dealer" means
(a) each of Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Credit
Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and
Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC (or its relevant affiliate) and their
respective successors, and (b) one other primary U.S.
government securities dealer in the United States selected by the
Partnership (each, a "Primary Treasury Dealer"); provided, however,
that if any of the foregoing shall resign as a Reference Treasury
Dealer or cease to be a U.S. government securities dealer, the
Partnership will substitute therefor another Primary Treasury
Dealer.
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"Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations" means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer
and any Redemption Date for the Notes, an average, as determined by
the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for
the Comparable Treasury Issue for the Notes to be redeemed
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount)
quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer
at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day
preceding such Redemption Date.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means any
Subsidiary owning or leasing, directly or indirectly through
ownership in another Subsidiary, any Principal Property.
"Subsidiary Guarantor" means, with
respect to the Notes and notwithstanding the definition thereof in
the Base Indenture, each Subsidiary of the Partnership that
guarantees the Notes pursuant to the terms of the Indenture, but
only so long as such Subsidiary is a guarantor of the Notes on the
terms provided in the Indenture.
"Treasury Yield" means, with respect
to any Redemption Date applicable to the Notes, (a) the yield,
under the heading which represents the average for the immediately
preceding week, appearing in the most recently published
statistical release designated "H.15(519)" or any successor
publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively
traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant
maturity under the caption "Treasury Constant Maturities," for the
maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue; or
(b) if the release (or any successor release) is not published
during the week preceding the calculation date or does not contain
these yields, the rate per annum equal to the semi-annual
equivalent yield to maturity (computed as of the third Business Day
immediately preceding such Redemption Date) of the Comparable
Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed as a percentage of its principal amount) equal to the
applicable Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
ARTICLE II
GENERAL TERMS OF THE NOTES SECTION 2.1 Form .
The Notes and the Trustee’s
certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A to this Seventh Supplemental Indenture, which is
hereby incorporated into this Seventh Supplemental Indenture. The
terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and
are hereby expressly made, a part of this Seventh Supplemental
Indenture and to the extent applicable, the Partnership and the
Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Seventh
Supplemental Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and
provisions and to be bound thereby.
The Notes shall be issued upon
original issuance in whole in the form of one or more Global
Securities (the "Book-Entry Notes"). Each Book-Entry Note shall
represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall be specified
therein and shall provide that it shall represent the aggregate
amount of outstanding Notes from time to time endorsed thereon and
that the aggregate amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby
may from time to time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to
reflect exchanges and redemptions.
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The Partnership initially appoints
The Depository Trust Company to act as Depositary with respect to
the Book-Entry Notes. SECTION 2.2 Title, Amount and Payment of
Principal and Interest. The Notes
shall be entitled the "9.70% Senior Notes due 2019". The Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver (i) the Notes for original
issue on the date hereof (the "Original Notes") in the aggregate
principal amount of $600,000,000, and (ii) additional Notes
for original issue from time to time after the date hereof in such
principal amounts as may be specified in a Partnership Order
described in this sentence, in each case upon a Partnership Order
for the authentication and delivery thereof and satisfaction of the
other provisions of Section 2.04 of the Base Indenture. Such
order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated,
the date on which the original issue of Notes is to be
authenticated, and the name or names of the initial Holder or
Holders. The aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be
outstanding at any time may not exceed $600,000,000 plus such
additional principal amounts as may be issued and authenticated
pursuant to clause (ii) of this paragraph (except as provided
in Section 2.09 of the Indenture). The Original Notes and any
additional Notes issued and authenticated pursuant to clause
(ii) of this paragraph shall constitute a single series of
Debt Securities for all purposes under the Indenture.
The principal amount of each Note
shall be payable on March 15, 2019. Each Note shall bear
interest from the date of original issuance, or the most recent
date to which interest has been paid, at the fixed rate of 9.70%
per annum. The dates on which interest on the Notes shall be
payable shall be March 15 and September 15 of each year,
commencing September 15, 2009 (the "Interest Payment Dates").
The regular record date for interest payable on the Notes on any
Interest Payment Date shall be March 1 or September 1, as the
case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
Payments of principal of, premium, if
any, and interest due on the Notes representing Book-Entry Notes on
any Interest Payment Date or at maturity will be made available to
the Trustee by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such date,
unless such date falls on a day which is not a Business Day, in
which case such payments will be made available to the Trustee by
10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the next Business Day. As
soon as possible thereafter, the Trustee will make such payments to
the Depositary. SECTION 2.3 Transfer and Exchange .
(a) Transfer and Exchange of
Global Notes. The transfer and exchange of Book-Entry Notes or
beneficial interests therein shall be effected through the
Depositary, in accordance with Section 2.17 of the Base Indenture
and Article II of this Seventh Supplemental Indenture
(including the restrictions on transfer set forth therein and
herein) and the rules and procedures of the Depositary therefor,
which shall include restrictions on transfer comparable to those
set forth therein and herein to the extent required by the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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ARTICLE III
FUTURE SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEES SECTION 3.1 No Initial
Guarantee of the Notes by Subsidiary Guarantors .
The Notes initially shall not be
entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee contemplated by
Article X of the Base Indenture. SECTION 3.2 Future
Subsidiary Guarantors . If any
Subsidiary of the Partnership that is not then a Subsidiary
Guarantor guarantees, becomes a co-obligor with respect to or
otherwise provides direct credit support for any obligations of the
Partnership or any of its other Subsidiaries under the Credit
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