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EXHIBIT 10.39
ENVIRONMENTAL
INDEMNITY AGREEMENT
THIS ENVIRONMENTAL INDEMNITY AGREEMENT (this
"AGREEMENT"), made as of
November 9, 2006, Quaker Fabric Corporation
of Fall River, a Massachusetts
corporation (the "BORROWER"), Quaker
Textile Corporation, a
Massachusetts
corporation ("QUAKER TEXTILE"), Quaker Fabric Mexico, S.A. de C.V., a Mexico
corporation ("QUAKER MEXICO"), and
Quaker Fabric Corporation,
a Delaware
corporation (the
"PARENT", and together with
Quaker Textile and Quaker Mexico,
the "GUARANTORS") (each of the
Borrower and Guarantors being sometimes referred
to herein as an "INDEMNITOR" and collectively, as the "INDEMNITORS"),
to Bank of
America, N.A., as
Administrative Agent (as defined in the Credit Agreement
referred to below)
and the lenders from
time to time party to the Credit
Agreement (the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders, together
with their
officers, directors, employees,
shareholders, members, successors
and assigns,
the "INDEMNITEES").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, Indemnitor
is the owner and/or lessee of the
Real Property
described on EXHIBIT A attached
hereto, together with all improvements
dated
thereon (the "REAL PROPERTY")
and has the exclusive rights to
manage, control
and operate the Real Property;
WHEREAS, pursuant to that
certain Amended and Restated Revolving Credit
Agreement, dated as of the date hereof,
by and among the Borrower, the Parent,
the Administrative Agent, and the Lenders (as amended, modified and
supplemented
and in effect from time to time, the "CREDIT AGREEMENT", all capitalized terms
used herein without definitions shall
have the respective meanings ascribed to
such terms in the Credit
Agreement), at the request
of the Borrower, the
Indemnitees agreed to make loans (the "REVOLVING LOANS") to the
Borrower, which
Revolving Loans are secured, in part, by
those certain mortgages, dated on or
prior to the date hereof, by the
Borrower to the Indemnitees encumbering
the
Real Property (as the same may be amended,
modified, supplemented or restated
and in effect from time to time, collectively, the "SECURITY
INSTRUMENTS") ;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has
disclosed to the Indemnitees the existence of
certain Environmental Conditions at the Real Property; and
WHEREAS, the Lenders are unwilling to make
Revolving Loans unless the
Indemnitors indemnify the
Indemnitees against liabilities
arising under
Environmental Laws (as herein defined),
relating to those disclosed and any
undisclosed Environmental Conditions at the Real Property.
NOW, THEREFORE,
in consideration of the making of the Revolving Loans
by the Lenders and the covenants, agreements, representations and warranties
set
forth in this Agreement and the Credit
Agreement, the parties hereby
covenant,
agree, represent and warrant as follows:
1. DEFINED TERMS. Unless the context otherwise requires,
capitalized
terms used but not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings
provided
therefore in the Credit
Agreement, and the following
terms shall have the
following meanings:
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"ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIM"
means any notice,
notification, claim,
administrative, regulatory or judicial action, suit, judgment, demand, decree
or
other communication by any Person or Governmental Authority requiring, alleging
or asserting liability with respect to the Indemnitors
or the Real Property
pursuant to Environmental Laws,
whether for damages,
contribution,
indemnification, cost recovery,
compensation, injunctive relief, investigatory,
assessment, monitoring, response,
remedial or cleanup costs, damages to natural
resources, real property damage,
personal injuries, fines or penalties
arising
out of, based on or resulting
from or related to (a) the
presence or alleged
presence, Use, Release
or threatened Release
of any Hazardous Substances
originating, at or from, migrating to or
from or otherwise affecting, the Real
Property or any
part thereof, (b)
any fact, circumstance,
condition or
occurrence forming the basis of any violation,
or alleged violation, of any
Environmental Law by the Indemnitors,
the Real Property or any part thereof, or
(c) any alleged injury or threat of injury to health, safety or the environment
by the Indemnitors or relating the Real Property or any part thereof.
"ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS" means
any environmental condition
(a)
constituting or which with the passage
of time or lack of Remediation would or
would likely constitute a violation
of Environmental Laws,
including but not
limited to the presence of any Hazardous
Substances requiring reporting
and/or
the performance of response actions under
Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter
21E, or (b) that requires reporting,
investigation, assessment, monitoring,
remediation or other response actions or would allow any Governmental Authority
to record a lien or encumbrance in the land
records with respect to the Real
Property or an Environmental Claim.
Submission to the Massachusetts
Department
of Environmental Protection of a Class A
or B Response Action Outcome Statement
by a Licensed Site Professional
(as defined in Mass. Gen. L. ch.
21E, ss.2)
pursuant to, and in compliance with, the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (310
CMR
40.0000) shall be
deemed confirmation that any
Environmental Condition(s)
addressed in such Response Action Outcome Statement no longer exists.
"ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS"
means any judgment, decree, order, law, license,
rule, permit or regulation
pertaining to environmental
matters, including
without limitation, those arising under
the Resource Conservation and Recovery
Act ("RCRA"), the
Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980 as amended
("CERCLA"), the Superfund
Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986
("SARA"), the Federal Clean
Water Act, the Federal
Clean Air Act, the Toxic Substances Control
Act, or any other state, local,
foreign or common law, statute, regulation,
ordinance, order, decree or any
other binding requirement of any
Governmental Authority relating to health,
safety or the environment.
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"FORECLOSURE DATE" has
the meaning provided in SECTION 2(E) hereof.
"HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE" means any
hazardous waste, as
defined by 42
U.S.C. Section 6903(5), any hazardous substances as defined by 42 U.S.C.
Section
9601(14), any pollutant or contaminant
as defined by 42 U.S.C. Section 9601(33)
and any toxic substances, oil or
hazardous materials or other
chemicals or
substances regulated by any Environmental Laws
"KNOWN ENVIRONMENTAL
CONDITIONS" has the meaning
provided in SECTION
2(D) hereof.
"LOSSES" has the
meaning provided in SECTION 2(A) hereof.
"PERSON" means any
individual, corporation, limited
liability company,
partnership, joint venture, estate,
trust, unincorporated association, or any
other entity, any federal, state, county
or municipal government or any bureau,
department or agency thereof and any fiduciary acting in such capacity on
behalf
of any of the foregoing.
"RELEASE" means any
past or present release, spill, emission,
leaking,
pumping, injecting, pouring, emptying, escaping,
dumping, deposit, disposal,
discharge, dispersal, leaching, migration into the indoor or outdoor
environment
of Hazardous Substances,
including, without limitation,
the movement of
Hazardous Substances through ambient air, soil, surface water, sediments,
ground
water, wetlands, land or subsurface strata.
"REMEDIATION" means the
investigation, assessment, monitoring, removal,
abatement, treatment, risk assessment, institutional controls, deed
restrictions
and/or activity and use limitations,
containment, payment of compliance
or
oversight fees, and all other activities
required under Environmental Laws to
respond to an Environmental Condition.
"USE" means, with
respect to any Hazardous Substance, the generation,
manufacture, processing, distribution,
handling, use, treatment, recycling or
storage of such Hazardous
Substances or transportation to or from the Real
Property by any Person of such Hazardous Substances.
2. INDEMNIFICATION.
(a) The Indemnitors
agree to indemnify, reimburse,
defend
(with counsel reasonably satisfactory to Indemnitees),
and hold harmless the
Indemnitees from and against all demands,
claims, actions or causes of
action,
assessments, losses, damages,
liabilities, interest, reasonable
costs and
expenses, including, without
limitation, interest, penalties,
reasonable
attorneys' fees, reasonable disbursements and expenses, diminution in the value
of the
Real Property (subject
to subsection (e)
below) and reasonable
consultants' and expert witness fees, disbursements, fines, penalties, fees and
expenses, including costs of reporting,
investigation, assessment,
monitoring,
remediation or other response
actions (collectively, the "LOSSES"), asserted
against, resulting to,
imposed on, or incurred by
Indemnitees directly or
indirectly in connection with any of the following:
(i) any
events, circumstances, or conditions
which
relate to,
form or are alleged to form
the basis for an
Environmental Claim;
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(ii) the
presence, Use, Release,
or threatened
Release of
Hazardous Substances at, on, in,
under, from or
otherwise affecting the
Real Property;
(iii) any
violation or alleged
violation of
Environmental Laws by the
Indemnitors or with respect to the
Real Property, or any
act or omission causing an Environmental
Condition;
(iv) the
material breach of
any representation,
warranty or
covenant set forth in
Sections 6.19, 7.5.6,
7.15.4, 8.9,
and 16 of the Credit






