FIFTH AMENDMENT TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
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Parties:
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“CoBank”:
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CoBank, ACB
5500 South Quebec Street
Greenwood Village, Colorado 80111
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“Borrower”:
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CHS Inc.
5500 Cenex Drive
Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota 55077
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“Syndication
Parties”:
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The entities name below
on the signature pages
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Execution
Date:
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Recitals:
A. CoBank, in its capacity as
Administrative Agent (“ Administrative Agent ”)
and as a Syndication Party, the Syndication Parties signatory
thereto (collectively with any Persons who have become or who
become Syndication Parties, “ Syndication Parties
”), and Borrower have entered into that certain 2006 Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement (Revolving Loan) dated as of
May 18, 2006, that certain First Amendment to Credit Agreement
dated as of May 8, 2007, that certain Second Amendment to
Credit Agreement dated as of October 18, 2007, that certain
Third Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of March 5, 2008,
and that certain Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement dated as of
May 1, 2008 (as amended, and as further amended, modified, or
supplemented from time to time, the “ Credit Agreement
”) pursuant to which the Syndication Parties have extended
certain credit facilities to Borrower under the terms and
conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement.
B. Borrower has requested that
the Agent and the Syndication Parties amend certain terms of the
Credit Agreement, which the Agent and the Syndication Parties are
willing to do under the terms and conditions as set forth in this
Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement (“Fifth
Amendment”).
Agreement :
Now, therefore, in consideration of
the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained and other good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
1. Amendments to Credit
Agreement . The Credit Agreement is amended as of the Effective
Date as follows:
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1.1 The following
Sections of Article 1 are hereby amended in their entirety to
read as follows:
1.19 Base
Rate : means a rate per annum announced by the Administrative
Agent on the first Business Day of each week, which shall be the
higher of (a) 150 basis points greater than the highest of the
one week, or one month LIBO Rate or (b) the Prime Rate.
1.116 LC Commitment : shall be
$100,000,000.
1.121 LIBO
Rate : means (a) with respect to each day during each LIBO
Rate Period applicable to a LIBO Rate Loan, (i) the per annum
rate for the LIBO Rate Period selected by Borrower, as quoted by
the British Bankers’ Association (or if such quotation source
is unavailable, such other quotation source as may be reasonably
selected by the Administrative Agent) for the purpose of displaying
London Interbank Offered Rates for U.S. Dollar deposits, determined
effective as of 11:00 A.M. (London Time) on the day which is
two (2) Banking Days prior to the first day of each LIBO Rate
Period, rounded up to the next 1/100th of 1% per annum, plus
(ii) the 5-Year Margin or (b) with respect to the
determination of the Base Rate, the per annum rate as quoted by the
British Bankers’ Association (or if such quotation source is
unavailable, such other quotation source as may be reasonably
selected by the Administrative Agent) for the purpose of displaying
London Interbank Offered Rates for U.S. Dollar deposits, determined
effective as of 11:00 A.M. (London Time) for the determination
period relating thereto, on the date of determination, in each
case, with the LIBOR rate divided by a percentage equal to 100%
minus the stated maximum rate of all reserve requirements
(including, without limitation, any marginal, emergency,
supplemental, special or other reserves) applicable on such date to
any member bank of the Federal Reserve System in respect of
“Eurocurrency liabilities” as defined in
Regulation D (or any successor category of liabilities under
Regulation D).
1.2 The following
new Sections are added to Article 1 reading as follows:
1.180 Prime
Rate : means a rate of interest per annum equal to the
“prime rate” as published from time to time in the
Eastern Edition of the Wall Street Journal as the average
prime lending rate for seventy-five percent (75%) of the United
States’ thirty (30) largest commercial banks, or if the
Wall Street Journal shall cease publication or cease
publishing the “prime rate’’ on a regular basis,
such other regularly published average prime rate applicable to
such commercial banks as is acceptable to the Administrative Agent
in its reasonable discretion.
1.181 Fifth
Amendment : means the Fifth Amendment to Credit Agreement dated
as of February 10, 2009 and between the parties hereto.
1.3
Section 11.14.1 ( Working Capital ), is amended as
follows: The amount “$250,000,000” shall be amended to
read “$750,000,000”. The corresponding amount of
“$250,000,000” in Exhibit 1.48 referred to in
Section 1.48 ( Compliance Certificate ) shall also be
amended to read “$750,000,000”.
1.4
Section 12.6 ( Loans ) is amended as follows: The
amount