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SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE

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Title: SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
Governing Law: New York     Date: 12/29/2008
Industry: Oil and Gas Operations     Sector: Energy

SEVENTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, Parties: energy transfer partners  l.p. , cede & co , energy transfer partners  llc , us bank national association , wachovia bank  national association
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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

 




 

Table of Contents

 

 

 

 

 

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 Agreement, then the Partnership shall cau

 
 
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