Each Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Borrowers. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, with the consent of the Parent Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably held or delayed and provided that such consent shall not be required if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at such time), to appoint a successor, which, in the case of a successor Domestic Administrative Agent, shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States or, in the case of a successor Canadian Administrative Agent, shall be a bank with an office in Canada, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in Canada. Any such successor Administrative Agent shall be a commercial bank having capital and retained earnings of at least $100,000,000. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring Administrative Agent may on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, appoint a successor Domestic Administrative Agent and/or Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, meeting the qualifications set forth above; provided that if the applicable Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers and the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted such appointment, then such resignation shall nonetheless become effective in accordance with such notice and # the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Credit Documents and # all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through such Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and each L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Domestic Administrative Agent and/or Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, as provided for above in this Section. Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Domestic Administrative Agent and/or Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Credit Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Borrowers to a successor Domestic Administrative Agent and/or Canadian Administrative Agent, as applicable, shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Borrowers and such successor. After the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation hereunder and under the other Credit Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 11.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub‑agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance, extension, renewal or increase of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or an L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or such L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or such L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.

Notice by Administrative Agent. A notice from the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrowers with respect to any amount owing under this paragraph # shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.

Allocation by Administrative Agent. If offers are made by two or more Lenders with the same Competitive Bid Margins for a greater aggregate principal amount than the amount in respect of which such offers are permitted to be accepted for the related Interest Period, the principal amount of Competitive Bid Loans in respect of which such offers are accepted shall be allocated by the Administrative Agent among such Lenders as nearly as possible (in multiples of $1,000,000, as the Administrative Agent may deem appropriate) in proportion to the aggregate principal amounts of such offers; provided, that the principal amount of such Competitive Bid Loans shall be allocated among such Lenders, in ascending order from those subject to the lowest Competitive Bid Margin to those subject to the highest Competitive Bid Margin, as applicable to provide to the Borrowers the lowest effective cost based on offers accepted. Determinations by the Administrative Agent of the amounts of Competitive Bid Loans shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrowers of all offers.

Notification by Administrative Agent. Upon receipt of the Borrowers’ Notice of Competitive Bid Borrowing in accordance with [Section 2.2(f)] hereof, the Administrative Agent shall, on the date such Notice of Competitive Bid Borrowing is received by the Administrative Agent, notify each Revolving Loan [[Organization A:Organization]] of the principal amount of the Competitive Bid Loan borrowing accepted by the Borrowers and of such [[Organization A:Organization]]’s share (if any) of such Competitive Bid Loan borrowing and such Notice of Competitive Bid Borrowing shall not thereafter be revocable by the Borrowers. A [[Organization A:Organization]] who is notified that it has been selected to make a Competitive Bid Loan may designate its

Administrative Agent’s Rights. Each Guarantor authorizes the Administrative Agent, without notice or demand and without affecting any Guarantor’s liability hereunder, to take and hold security for the payment of its obligations under this Article VIII and/or the Obligations, and exchange, enforce, waive and release any such security; and to apply such security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as the Administrative Agent in its discretion may determine, and to obtain a guaranty of the Obligations from any one or more Persons and at any time or times to enforce, waive, rearrange, modify, limit or release any of such other Persons from their obligations under such guaranties.

Administrative Agent’s Expenses. If any Guarantor fails to pay the Obligations after notice from the Administrative Agent of a Loan Party’s failure to pay any Obligations at maturity, and if the Administrative Agent obtains the services of an attorney for collection of amounts owing by any Guarantor hereunder, or obtaining advice of counsel in respect of any of their rights under this Article VIII, or if suit is filed to enforce this Article VIII, or if proceedings are had in any bankruptcy, probate, receivership or other judicial proceedings for the establishment or collection of any amount owing by any Guarantor hereunder, or if any amount owing by any Guarantor hereunder is collected through such proceedings, each Guarantor jointly and severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent the Administrative Agent’s reasonable attorneys’ fees.

Notification by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Company of each Lender’s determination under this Section no later than # the date 15 days after the day a request is made pursuant to [Section 2.20(a) and (ii)] the date 15 days prior to the applicable anniversary of the Closing Date (or, if such date is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day) or such date as the Company as may agree.

Administrative Agent’s Office. The Administrative Agent hereby designates its office located at the address set forth above, or any subsequent office which shall have been specified for such purpose by written notice to the Borrower and Lenders, as the Administrative Agent’s Office referred to herein, to which payments due are to be made and at which Loans will be disbursed and Letters of Credit requested.

Notification by Administrative Agent; Additional Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower and each Lender of the Lenders’ and prospective lenders’ responses to each request made hereunder. To achieve the full amount of a requested increase under this [Section 2.06], the Borrower may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and their respective counsel (the “Increase Joinder”). If any prospective lender agrees to fund any portion of the requested Additional Term Loans (an “Additional Lender”), such Additional Lender shall become a Lender hereunder pursuant to an Increase Joinder, provided that such Additional Lender shall have been approved by the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).