THE POLLUTION CONTROL FINANCING
AUTHORITY OF SALEM COUNTY
REOFFERING
AGREEMENT
$18,200,000
Pollution Control Revenue
Refunding Bonds,
1997 Series A
(Atlantic City Electric Company
Project)
due April 15, 2014
This is a Reoffering Agreement dated June 23,
2009 between Atlantic City Electric Company (the “
Company ”) and Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
(“ Morgan Stanley ”), in its capacity as
Remarketing Agent under the Remarketing Agreement hereinafter
referred to.
(a) The Pollution
Control Financing Authority of Salem County (the “
Authority ”) issued $18,200,000 of its Pollution
Control Revenue Refunding Bonds, 1997 Series A (Atlantic City
Electric Company) (the “ Bonds ”) on July 30,
1997. The proceeds of the Bonds were used to refund
$18,200,000 aggregate principal amount of the Authority’s
Adjustable Rate Pollution Control Revenue Bonds of 1984, Series B
(Atlantic City Electric Company Project), the proceeds of which
were used to finance certain pollution control and solid waste
disposal facilities at the Deepwater Generating Station and the
Company’s 5% undivided ownership interest in certain
pollution control and solid waste disposal facilities at the Hope
Creek Generating Station, both of which are electric power plants
located in Salem County, New Jersey.
(b) The Bonds were
issued pursuant to a Trust Indenture, dated as of July 1, 1997 (the
“ Original Indenture ”), between the Authority
and The Bank of New York Mellon, as successor trustee (the “
Trustee ”). The Authority and the Trustee
have entered into an Amended and Restated Trust Indenture, dated as
of June 22, 2009, to amend and restate in its entirety the Original
Indenture (the “ Indenture ”). The
Bonds are limited obligations of the Authority payable, except to
the extent payable from Bond proceeds or investment earnings
thereon, solely from and are secured solely by a pledge of,
revenues received by the Authority under a Pollution Control
Facilities Loan Agreement, dated as of July 1, 1997 (the “
Original Loan Agreement ”), between the
Authority and the Company. The Authority and the Company
have entered into Amendment No. 1 to Pollution Control Facilities
Loan Agreement, dated as of June 22, 2009, to amend the Original
Loan Agreement (the Original Loan Agreement, as so amended, the
“ Loan Agreement ”), such obligations being
evidenced by a promissory note (the “ Note ”) of
the Company previously delivered to the Trustee.
(c)
The
Bank of New York Mellon (“ BNY ”) proposes to
issue and deliver to the Trustee an irrevocable, direct-pay Letter
of Credit relating to the Bonds (the “ Letter of
Credit ”), which will permit the Trustee to draw upon
such Letter of Credit for the payment of the principal or
redemption price of, and interest on, the Bonds pursuant to the
terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture and
in a Letter of Credit and Reimbursement Agreement, to be dated on
or about June 24, 2009, by and between BNY and the Company (the
“ Reimbursement Agreement ”).
(d) The
Company and Morgan Stanley have heretofore entered into the
Remarketing Agreement, dated as of July 30, 1997 (the “
Original Remarketing Agreement ”), pursuant to which
Morgan Stanley undertook the duties and responsibilities of
remarketing agent under the Indenture and the Remarketing Agreement
(Morgan Stanley, in its capacity of such remarketing agent, the
“ Remarketing Agent ”). The Original
Remarketing Agreement has been amended by Amendment No. 1 to
Remarketing Agreement, dated as of June 22, 2009 (the Original
Remarketing Agreement, as so amended, the “ Remarketing
Agreement ”).
(e) The
Company acknowledges that the Remarketing Agent will remarket the
Bonds in an offering in reliance on the representations,
warranties, covenants and indemnities herein set
forth. A reoffering circular, dated June 16, 2009,
including the Appendices thereto and all documents incorporated
therein by reference, will be distributed in connection with the
remarketing of the Bonds. The reoffering circular, as it
may be amended or supplemented, including the Appendices thereto
(collectively, the “ Appendix ”), and all
documents incorporated therein by reference is collectively
referred to as the “ Reoffering Circular
.”
(f) The
Remarketing Agent shall not incur any liability to the Company for
its actions as Remarketing Agent pursuant to the terms hereof or of
the Indenture except for (i) its gross negligence or willful
misconduct and (ii) the liabilities for which the Remarketing Agent
has agreed to indemnify the Company and others pursuant to Section
5(a)(ii) hereof.
|
|
REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY.
|
(a)
The financial statements of the Company and its subsidiary
contained or incorporated by reference in the Appendix to the
Reoffering Circular present fairly the financial position of the
Company as of the dates indicated and the results of its operations
for the periods specified; such financial statements have been
prepared in conformity with United States generally accepted
accounting principles consistently applied (except as stated
therein) with respect to the periods involved; the financial
statement schedule incorporated by reference in Appendix A presents
fairly the information required to be stated therein; and the other
financial data incorporated by reference in Appendix A, if it
includes any non-GAAP financial measure, comply as of the date
hereof, and as of the Closing Time (as hereinafter defined) will
comply, in all material respects with the requirements of paragraph
(e) of Item 10 of Regulation S-K.
(b)
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, which audited certain of the financial
statements incorporated by reference into the Appendix are
independent public accountants as required by the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act
”), and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(c)
The Reoffering Circular does not,
and, at the Closing Time, the Reoffering Circular will not, contain
any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material
fact necessary to make the statements made therein, in the light of
the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;
provided, however, that (i) none of the representations and
warranties in this paragraph (c) shall apply to any statements in
or omissions from the Reoffering Circular made in reliance upon and
in conformity with information furnished in writing to the Company
by the Remarketing Agent, the Authority or BNY expressly for use
therein, to the information contained under the headings “THE
AUTHORITY” and “TAX MATTERS,” or to the
information in Appendices B and C.
(d)
The documents specified in Appendix
A as being incorporated by reference therein, when they were filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “
Commission ”), complied in all material respects with
the applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the regulations
promulgated thereunder and any documents that are deemed
incorporated by reference after the date hereof and prior to the
termination of the remarketing of the Bonds, when they are filed
with the Commission, will comply in all material respects with the
applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the regulations
promulgated thereunder.
(e)
The Company hereby confirms the
representations, warranties, covenants and agreements on the part
of the Company in the Loan Agreement. All information
supplied in writing by the Company to Parker McCay P.A. and/or
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP and designated as being
for use by either or both of such firms to render any of its
opinions with respect to the Bonds (or any predecessor bonds of the
Authority refunded directly or indirectly by the Bonds), was when
supplied, and, considered collectively, is at the date hereof,
true, accurate, correct and complete in all material
respects.
(f) There
is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation at law or
in equity or before or by any public board or body pending to which
the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company,
threatened against or affecting the Company, wherein the decision,
ruling or finding would (i) have a material adverse effect on the
transactions contemplated by this Reoffering Agreement or the
Reoffering Circular or have a material adverse effect on the
validity or enforceability of the Bonds or this Reoffering
Agreement or (ii) except as set forth in the Reoffering Circular,
have a material adverse effect on the business, condition
(financial or otherwise) or results of operations of the Company
and its subsidiary, considered as one enterprise, whether or not
arising in the ordinary course of business (a “ Material
Adverse Effect ”).
(g)
Since
April 1, 2008, the Company has filed timely all reports and all
definitive proxy and information statements required to be filed by
the Company
with the
Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act and the regulations
thereunder; the Company is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of
Pepco Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“ PHI
”).
(h)
The
Company has been duly organized and is validly existing as a
corporation in good standing under the laws of the State of New
Jersey with all corporate power and other authority, including
franchises, necessary to own or lease its properties and conduct
its business and enter into this Reoffering Agreement and the
transactions contemplated by the Reoffering
Circular. The Company is qualified to do business as a
foreign corporation in all other states and jurisdictions wherein
the nature of the business transacted by the Company or its
ownership or leasing of properties requires such qualification,
except to the extent where a failure to so qualify would not
constitute a Material Adverse Effect.
(i)
The
Company has no “significant subsidiaries” as defined in
Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X.
(j)
The
authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company is
as set forth in the Reoffering Circular. The shares
of issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company have been
duly authorized and validly issued and are fully paid and
non-assessable and are owned by Conectiv, a Delaware corporation
wholly-owned by PHI; none of the outstanding shares of capital
stock of the Company was issued in violation of the preemptive or
other similar rights of any securityholder of the
Company.
(k)
Since
the respective dates as of which information contained in the
Reoffering Circular is given, and except as set forth therein or
contemplated thereby, there has not been any material adverse
change in, the business, condition (financial or otherwise) or
results of operations of the Company and its subsidiary, considered
as one enterprise, whether or not arising in the ordinary course of
business (such change, a “ Material Adverse Change
”).
(l)
Prior
to the original issuance of the Bonds, the Company filed with the
State of New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (“ BPU
”) an application and any necessary amendment or amendments
thereto, and obtained from the BPU an appropriate order authorizing
the borrowing from the Authority of the proceeds from the sale of
the Bonds pursuant to the Loan Agreement and the transactions
related thereto and the Company has complied with all terms and
conditions contained in such order. The Company is not
required to obtain any other consents, approvals or authorizations
in connection with the transactions contemplated in the Reoffering
Circular.
(m)
This
Reoffering Agreement, the Loan Agreement, the Note and the
Remarketing Agreement and the Reimbursement Agreement have been
duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company, and the
Loan Agreement and the Note each constitutes a valid and legally
binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in accordance with
its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors’ rights and
to general equity principles. At the Closing Time, the
Reimbursement Agreement will have been duly authorized, executed
and delivered by the Company and will constitute a valid and
legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable in
accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of
general applicability relating to or affecting creditors’
rights and to general equity principles.
(n)
The
sale of the Bonds will not be subject to any New Jersey issuance,
transfer or other documentary stamp taxes.
(o)
The
Company is in compliance with all previous undertakings made by it
pursuant to Section (b)(5)(i) of Rule 15c2-12 of the Commission
(“ Rule 15c2-12 ”) under the Exchange
Act.
(p)
The
descriptions of the Bonds (except for information relating to the
status of interest on the Bonds for tax purposes), the Indenture,
the Loan Agreement, the Letter of Credit and the Reimbursement
Agreement in the Reoffering Circular are accurate in all material
respects.
(q)
The
Company is not in violation of its articles of incorporation or
by-laws or in default in the performance or observance of any
obligation, agreement, covenant or condition contained in any
contract, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan or credit
agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which
the Company is a party or by which it may be bound, or to which any
of the property or assets of the Company is subject (collectively,
“ Agreements and Instruments ”) except for such
defaults as have not resulted, and are not reasonably expected to
result, in a Material Adverse Effect; and the execution, delivery
and performance of this Reoffering Agreement and the consummation
of the transactions contemplated herein (including the remarketing
of the Bonds) and compliance by the Company with its obligations
hereunder and under the Indenture, the Loan Agreement and the
Remarketing Agreement do not and will not, and the execution,
delivery and performance of the Reimbursement Agreement and
compliance by the Company with its obligations thereunder will not,
whether with or without the giving of notice or passage of time or
both, conflict with or constitute a breach of, or default or
Repayment Event under, or result in the creation or imposition of
any lien upon any property or assets of the Company pursuant to,
the Agreements and Instruments (except for such conflicts,
breaches, defaults or liens as would not result in a Material
Adverse Effect), nor will such action result in any violation of
the provisions of the articles of incorporation or bylaws of the
Company or any applicable law, statute, rule, regulation, judgment,
order, writ or decree of any government, government instrumentality
or court, domestic or foreign, having jurisdiction over the Company
or any of its assets, properties or operations. As used
herein, a “ Repayment Event ” means any event or
condition that gives the holder of any note, debenture or other
evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such
holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase,
redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by
the Company.
(r)
No
labor dispute with the employees of the Company exists or, to the
knowledge of the Company, is imminent, and the Company is not aware
of any existing or imminent labor disturbance by the employees of
any of its principal suppliers, manufacturers, customers or
contractors, which, in either case, could reasonably be expected to
result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(s)
The
Company possesses such permits, licenses, approvals, consents and
other authorizations (collectively, “ Governmental
Licenses ”) issued by the appropriate federal, state,
local or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies necessary to conduct
the business now operated by it and is in compliance with the terms
and conditions of all such Governmental Licenses, except (a) as
disclosed in the Reoffering Circular or (b) where the failure so to
possess any such Governmental License or to comply therewith would
not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect;
all of the Governmental Licenses are valid and in full force and
effect, except where the invalidity of such Governmental Licenses
or the failure of such Governmental Licenses to be in full force
and effect would not have a Material Adverse Effect; and the
Company has not received any notice of proceedings relating to the
revocation or modification of any such Governmental Licenses, the
revocation or modification of which would, singly or in the
aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(t)
Any
leases material to the business of the Company, and under which the
Company holds properties described in the Reoffering Circular, are
in full force and effect, and the Company has no notice of any
claim of any sort asserted by anyone adverse to the rights of the
Company under any such leases, or affecting or questioning the
rights of the Company to the continued possession of the leased
premises under any such lease, that, if the subject of an adverse
decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(u)
The
Company is not, and upon the sale of the Bonds as herein
contemplated and the application of the net proceeds therefrom will
not be, an “investment company” or an entity
“controlled” by an “investment company” as
such terms are defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
(v)
Except
as described in the Reoffering Circular or except as would not,
singly or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect,
(A) the Company is not in violation of any federal, state, local or
foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or
rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation
thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent,
decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human
health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient
air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata)
or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations
relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals,
pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous
substances, petroleum or petroleum products (collectively, “
Hazardous Materials ”) or to the manufacture,
processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal,
transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “
Environmental Laws ”), (B) the Company has all
permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable
Environmental Laws and is
in compliance
with their requirements, (C) there are no pending, or to the
knowledge of the Company, threatened administrative, regulatory or
judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens,
notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings
relating to any Environmental Law against the Company and (D) to
the knowledge of the Company, there are no events or circumstances
that could reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for
clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any
private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting
the Company relating to Hazardous Materials or Environmental
Laws.
(w)
(i)
The Company has established and maintains the following:
(A) a system of
“internal accounting controls” as contemplated in
Section 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act (the “ Accounting
Controls ”);
(B) “disclosure
controls and procedures” as such term is defined in Rule
13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act (the “ Disclosure
Controls ”); and
(C) “internal
control over financial reporting” as such term is defined in
Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act (the “ Reporting
Controls ” and, together with the Accounting Controls and
the Disclosure Controls, the “ Internal Controls
”);
(ii) The Internal
Controls are evaluated by the Company periodically as appropriate
and, in any event, as required by law;
(iii) Based on the most
recent evaluations of the Accounting Controls, the Accounting
Controls perform the functions for which they were established in
all material respects;
(iv) As of the most
recent date as of which the effectiveness of the design and
operation of the Disclosure Controls were evaluated by the Company,
the Disclosure Controls were effective to provide reasonable
assurance that material information relating to the Company and its
subsidiary that is required to be disclosed in reports filed with,
or submitted to, the Commission under the Exchange Act (I) is
recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time
periods specified by the Commission rules and forms and (II) is
accumulated and communicated to management, including its chief
executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to
allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure;
(v) As of December 31,
2008 (the most recent date as of which the Reporting Controls were
evaluated by the Company), the Reporting Controls were effective
based on criteria established in Internal Control–Integrated
Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of
the Treadway Commission; and
(vi) Since the
respective dates as of which the Internal Controls were last
evaluated, nothing has come to the attention of the Company that
has caused the Company to conclude that (I) the Accounting Controls
do not perform the functions for which they were established in all
material respects or (II) the Disclosure Controls or the Reporting
Controls are not effective (within the meaning of the evaluation
standards identified above).
(x)
The
Company is in compliance in all material respects with the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations of the
Commission that have been adopted thereunder, all to the extent
that such Act and such rules and regulations are applicable to the
Company.
(y)
All
representations, warranties and agreements of the Company shall
survive delivery of the Bonds to the Remarketing Agent regardless
of any investigations made by the Remarketing Agent or on its
behalf.
(a)
On the
basis of the representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities
contained herein and in the other agreements referred to herein and
subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the
Remarketing Agent will use its best efforts to remarket the Bonds
in accordance with the Indenture for an amount equal to 100% of the
principal amount of the Bonds.
(b)
The
Closing of the transactions contemplated herein shall be held in
Washington, D.C. at the offices of Covington & Burling LLP at
1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20004, or at such
other place as the Company and the Remarketing Agent shall mutually
agree upon in writing, at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the
first business day after the date hereof (the “ Closing
Date ,” and the hour and date of closing is herein called
the “ Closing Time .”)
(c)
In
connection with the remarketing of the Bonds, the Company shall pay
the Remarketing Agent at the Closing Time a fee in the amount of
$91,000, plus reasonable out-of-pocket expenses. Such
fee shall be paid by wire transfer in immediately available funds
to Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated. The Company
and the Remarketing Agent acknowledge and agree that no additional
fee shall be owing to the Remarketing Agent in connection with the
remarketing of the Bonds under Section 7 of the Remarketing
Agreement.
(a)
The
Remarketing Agent’s obligations hereunder are subject to the
accuracy, as of the date of this Reoffering Agreement and as of the
Closing Time, of the representations and warranties of the Company
contained in Section 2 hereof and in all certificates of officers
of the Company delivered pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the
performance by the Company of its covenants and other obligations
hereunder to be performed at or prior to the Closing Time, and to
the following further conditions:
(i) The Indenture, the
Loan Agreement, the Remarketing Agreement and the Reimbursement
Agreement shall have been duly executed and delivered in the forms
heretofore approved by the Remarketing Agent and the Remarketing
Agent shall have received executed originals or copies
thereof.
(ii) At the Closing
Time, the Remarketing Agent shall have received:
(A) The opinion or
opinions, dated the Closing Date, of (i) Parker McCay P.A., Bond
Counsel, covering the matters set forth in Exhibit A-1 and Exhibit
A-2 hereto, (ii) Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP,
Special Tax Counsel covering the matters set forth in Exhibit B
hereto, (iii) Kirk J. Emge, Esq., General Counsel of the Company,
and Philip J. Passanante, counsel for the Company, covering the
matters set forth in Exhibit C and Exhibit D hereto, respectively,
(iv) Covington & Burling LLP, special counsel to the Company,
covering the matters set forth in Exhibit E hereto, (v) Pillsbury
Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, counsel to BNY, covering the matters set
forth in Exhibit F hereto, and (vi) Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP,
counsel to the Remarketing Agent; and such counsel shall have
received such papers and information as they may reasonably request
to enable them to pass upon such matters;
(B) A certificate,
reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to the Remarketing
Agent, of the Chairman, the President, any Senior Vice President,
any Vice President, the Treasurer or any Assistant Treasurer of the
Company, dated as of the Closing Date, to the effect that, to the
best of his or her knowledge: (i) since the respective dates as of
which information contained in the Reoffering Circular is given,
and excep

|