SECOND AMENDMENT TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
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 Credit
Agreement (364-Day Revolving Loan) dated as of February 14,
2008, and that certain First 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
Second Amendment to Credit Agreement (“Second
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:
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1. Amendments to Credit
Agreement . The Credit Agreement is amended as of the Effective
Date as follows:
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
sum of (a) the higher of (i) 150 basis points greater
than the highest of the one week, or one month LIBO Rate or
(ii) the Prime Rate, plus (b) the Base Rate Applicable
Margin.
1.83 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 1/100th of 1% per annum, plus
(ii) the LIBO Rate Applicable 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).
1.135 364-Day
Commitment : shall be $300,000,000.00, (as may be amended
pursuant to Section 2.9), subject to reduction as provided in
Section 2.8 hereof.
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1.141Intentionally
Omitted.
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1.142364-Day Maturity
Date: February 8, 2010.
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1.2
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The following new
Sections are added to Article 1 reading as follows:
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1.147 Base
Rate Applicable Margin : the Base Rate Applicable Margin
determined as set forth in Schedule 2 hereto and
Section 4.6 hereto.
1.148 LIBO
Rate Applicable Margin : the LIBO Rate Applicable Margin
determined as set forth in Schedule 2 hereto and
Section 4.6 hereto.
1.149 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.
1.150 Second
Amendment : means the Second Amendment to Credit Agreement
dated as of February 10, 2009 and between the parties
hereto.
1.3
Schedule 1 to the Credit Agreement referred to in the
preamble, in Section 1.77 ( Individual 364-Day Commitment ),
in Section 1.129 ( Syndication Parties ),
Section 2.9 ( Increase of 364-Day Commitment ) and in
Section 14.6.3 ( Loan Administration ), is replaced by
the Schedule 1 attached to this Second Amendment.
1.4
Schedule 2 to the Credit Agreement referred to in
Section 1.137 ( 364-Day Facility Fee Factor ), in
Section 1.147 ( Base Rate Applicable Margin ), and in
Section 1.148 ( LIBO Rate Applicable Margin ), is
replaced by the Schedule 2 attached to this Second
Amendment.
1.5
Section 2.9 ( Increase of 364-Day Commitment ) is
amended as follows: The amount “$100,000,000” shall be
amended to read “$300,000,000”.
1.6
Section 4.6 is amended in its entirety to read as follows:
4.6 Base Rate
Applicable Margin; LIBO Rate Applicable Margin; 364-Day Facility
Fee Factor . If the Compliance Certificate with respect to any
Fiscal Quarter is not received by the Administrative Agent by the
date required as provided in Subsections 10.2.1 and 10.2.2 hereof,
the Base Rate Applicable Margin, the LIBO Rate Applicable Margin
and the 364-Day Facility Fee Factor, for the period commencing on
the first day of the Fiscal Quarter commencing immediately after
the Fiscal Quarter for which such Compliance Report was required,
shall be 95.0 basis points, 195.0 basis points and 25.0 basis
points, respectively for that entire Fiscal Quarter.
1.7
Section 10.14.1 (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 1.40 referred to in
Section 1.40 (Compliance Certificate) shall also be amended to
read “$750,000,000”.
1.8
Section 11.6 ( Loans ) is amended as follows: The
amount “$200,000,000” shall be amended to read
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