Exhibit 10.3
EXECUTION COPY
AMENDMENT NO. 9 AND
WAIVER TO THE BRIDGE LOAN AGREEMENT
Dated as of May 29, 2009
AMENDMENT NO. 9 AND WAIVER TO THE
BRIDGE LOAN AGREEMENT (this “ Amendment ”) among
Capmark Financial Group Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “
Company ”), the financial institutions and other
institutional lenders party hereto, and Citicorp North
America, Inc. (“ CNAI ”), as administrative
agent (the “ Agent ”) for the
Lenders.
RECITALS
:
(1)
The Company, the
financial institutions and other institutional lenders party
thereto (the “ Lenders ”), the Agent and the
other agents party thereto have entered into that certain Bridge
Loan Agreement dated as of March 23, 2006, as amended by
Amendment No. 1 to the Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of
December 7, 2006, Amendment No. 2 to the Bridge Loan
Agreement dated as of June 30, 2008, Amendment
No. 3 to the Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of March 23,
2009, Amendment No. 4 to the Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of
March 24, 2009, Amendment No. 5 to the Bridge Loan
Agreement dated as of April 9, 2009, Amendment No. 6 and
Waiver to the Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of April 20,
2009, Amendment No. 7 and Waiver to the Bridge Loan Agreement
dated as of May 8, 2009 and Amendment No. 8 and Waiver to
the Bridge Loan Agreement dated as of May 21, 2009 (as further
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “ Bridge
Loan Agreement ”). Capitalized terms not otherwise
defined in this Amendment have the same meanings as specified in
the Bridge Loan Agreement.
(2)
Contemporaneously
herewith, the Company is entering into that certain Term Facility
Credit and Guaranty Agreement, dated as of May 29, 2009 among
the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, as
guarantors, CNAI, as administrative agent, and Citibank, N.A., as
collateral agent, and the lenders party thereto (as amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“ Term Loan Agreement ”), a condition to
effectiveness of which, among other things, is that the Company
shall use (a) the Cash Prepayment Amount (as defined below) to
prepay in cash not less than $28,125,000 of outstanding loans under
the Facility and (b) proceeds under the Term Loan Agreement to
permanently prepay in cash not less than (i) $562,500,000 of
outstanding Loans under the Facility (the “ Prepayment
”) and (ii) $937,500,000 of outstanding loans under the
Senior Credit Facility (the foregoing transactions collectively
referred to herein as the “ Transactions
”).
(3)
The Company has
requested that the Lenders agree to (a) extend the Maturity
Date of the Loans under the Bridge Loan Agreement (any such Lender
agreeing to so extend, an “ Extending Lender ”)
as hereinafter set forth and (b) amend certain provisions of
the Bridge Loan Agreement as hereinafter set forth.
(4)
Pursuant to
subsection 9.1(a) of the Bridge Loan Agreement, the Majority
Lenders may, or, with the written consent of the Majority Lenders,
the Agent may, from time to time, enter into with the Company,
written amendments, supplements or modifications to the Bridge Loan
Agreement for the purpose of adding any provisions to the Bridge
Loan Agreement or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders
or of the Company under the Bridge Loan Agreement.
(5)
Pursuant to
subsection 9.1(y)(i) of the Bridge Loan Agreement, no
amendment to the Bridge Loan Agreement shall extend the scheduled
date of any payment of any Loan without the consent of each Lender
directly affected thereby.
(6)
The Majority
Lenders and the Extending Lenders have agreed, subject to the terms
and conditions stated below, to amend the Bridge Loan Agreement as
hereinafter set forth.
SECTION
1.
AMENDMENTS TO BRIDGE LOAN AGREEMENT
The Bridge Loan
Agreement is, effective as of the date hereof and subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in
Section 3, hereby amended as follows:
(a)
Subsection 1.1 of
the Bridge Loan Agreement is hereby amended by inserting in
alphabetical order new definitions to read as follows:
“ 2010 Notes ”:
the Company’s Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2010.
“ 2012 Notes ”:
the Company’s 5.875% Senior Notes due 2012.
“ 2017 Notes ”:
the Company’s 6.300% Senior Notes due 2017.
“ Agreement Value
”: for each Hedge Agreement, on any date of determination, an
amount equal to: (a) in the case of a Hedge Agreement
documented pursuant to the Master Agreement (Multicurrency-Cross
Border) published by the International Swap and Derivatives
Association, Inc. (the “ Master Agreement
”), the amount, if any, that would be payable by any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries to its counterparty to such Hedge
Agreement, as if (i) such Hedge Agreement was being terminated
early on such date of determination and (ii) such Loan Party
or Subsidiary was the sole “Affected Party,”;
(b) in the case of a Hedge Agreement traded on an exchange,
the mark-to-market value of such Hedge Agreement, which will be the
unrealized loss or gain on such Hedge Agreement to the Loan Party
or Subsidiary of a Loan Party to such Hedge Agreement based on the
settlement price of such Hedge Agreement on such date of
determination; or (c) in all other cases, the mark-to-market
value of such Hedge Agreement, which will be the unrealized loss or
gain on such Hedge Agreement to the Loan Party or Subsidiary of a
Loan Party to such Hedge Agreement determined as the amount, if
any, by which (i) the present value of the future cash flows
to be paid by such Loan Party or Subsidiary exceeds or, as
applicable, is less than (ii) the present value of the future
cash flows to be received by such Loan Party or Subsidiary pursuant
to such Hedge Agreement; capitalized terms used and not otherwise
defined in this definition shall have the respective meanings set
forth in the above described Master Agreement. For the
avoidance of doubt, the foregoing definition of “Agreement
Value” does not affect the rights and obligations of any such
Loan Party or such Subsidiary, on one hand, and such counterparty,
on the other hand, under any such Hedge Agreement, including
without limitation as to the calculation of any amount pursuant to
section 6 of a Master Agreement as such section has been amended or
supplemented by a schedule to such Master Agreement.
“ Amendment No. 9
”: Amendment No. 9 and Waiver to the Agreement, dated as
of May 29, 2009, among the Company, the Lenders party thereto
and the Agent.
“
Amendment No. 9 Effective Date ”: the date of
effectiveness of Amendment No. 9 in accordance with the terms
thereof.
“
Applicable Adjustment Percentage ”: (a) for the
first Fiscal Quarter ending after a Servicing Business Disposition,
95%, (b) for the second Fiscal Quarter ending after
a
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Servicing
Business Disposition, 90%, (c) for the third Fiscal Quarter
ending after a Servicing Business Disposition, 85% and (d) for
each Fiscal Quarter ending thereafter, 80%.
“ Applicable Discount
”: as defined in Exhibit A to Amendment
No. 9.
“
Auction ”: a “Dutch” auction whereby the
Company offers to purchase Loans pursuant to the auction procedures
set forth in Exhibit A to Amendment
No. 9.
“ Cash
Prepayment Amount ”: as defined in
Section 2.12(c).
“
Consolidated ”: the consolidation of accounts in
accordance with GAAP.
“
Consolidating ”: the consolidating financial
statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries which sets forth
(i) the consolidated accounts of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (other than any Specified Subsidiaries) and
(ii) the consolidated accounts of each Specified Subsidiary
and its Subsidiaries.
“ Equity
Interests ”: with respect to any Person, shares of
capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such
Person, warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or other
acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or
other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, securities
convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or
other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants,
rights or options for the purchase or other acquisition from such
Person of such shares (or such other interests), and other
ownership or profit interests in such Person (including, without
limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein),
whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares,
warrants, options, rights or other interests are authorized on any
date of determination.
“ ERISA Plan ”: a
Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer Plan.
“ Excluded Information
”: as defined in subsection 9.6(ii).
“ Existing Notes
”: the 2010 Notes, the 2012 Notes and/or the 2017 Notes, as
the context may require.
“ Fiscal Quarter
”: any fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year, which quarter shall
end on the last day of each March, June, September and
December of such Fiscal Year in accordance with the fiscal
accounting calendar of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
“ Fiscal Year ”:
a fiscal year of the Company and its Subsidiaries ending on
December 31, except for Subsidiaries of the Company organized
in certain jurisdictions in Asia with fiscal years ending on
March 31, April 30, June 30 or
September 30.
“ Foreign Subsidiary
”: at any time, any of the direct or indirect Subsidiaries of
the Company that are organized outside of the laws of the United
States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia at such
time.
“ Initial Prepayment
Lender ”: each Lender that is also a “Lender”
under the Term Loan Agreement on the Amendment No. 9 Effective
Date.
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“ Liquidity
Availability ”: at any time, an amount equal to the
unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents of the Company and its
Subsidiaries (other than any Specified Subsidiaries or any
Subsidiaries that are broker-dealers registered with the SEC and
with state securities commissions in the United States under state
securities laws) (which unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents, for
greater certainty, shall exclude any such property (a) held in
the “Cash Collateral Account” (as defined in the Term
Loan Agreement), (b) that is being held as cash collateral or
that constitutes escrowed funds or (c) that is otherwise
subject to a currently applicable restriction on its withdrawal or
distribution to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries);
provided that Liquidity Availability shall be reduced by the
amount of any tax liability reasonably estimated by the Company to
be incurred as a result of the repatriation from any Foreign
Subsidiary of any such cash or Cash Equivalents to the Company or
any of its domestic Subsidiaries, provided that no such
reduction pursuant to this clause (c) shall be required with
respect to any funds that are eligible to be used and that the
Company intends to use to meet the liquidity needs of the Foreign
Subsidiary holding such funds (not to exceed $100,000,000 in the
aggregate to meet the liquidity needs of all Foreign
Subsidiaries).
“ Liquidity Condition
”: (a) the Company and its Subsidiaries shall have
maintained a Liquidity Availability of at least $450,000,000 on an
average daily basis for each of the three months ending immediately
prior to any utilization of the Notes Cash Basket and
(b) before and after giving effect to the proposed utilization
of the Notes Cash Basket, the Company shall be in compliance with
subsection 6.1.
“ Notes Cash Basket
”: as defined in the Term Loan Agreement.
“ Permitted Notes
Refinancing ”: the refinancing, refunding, exchange or
replacement of any of the Existing Notes with Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness.
“ Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness ”: any Indebtedness issued or incurred in
connection with the refinancing, refunding, exchange or replacement
of the Existing Notes (and, to the extent that any such
Indebtedness (x) is accepted by any Lenders hereunder to
refinance, refund, exchange or replace Indebtedness under the
Facility, the Facility or (y) is accepted by any lenders under
the Senior Credit Facility to refinance, refund, exchange or
replace the loans under the Senior Credit Facility, the loans under
the Senior Credit Facility); provided that (a) no
Default shall have occurred and be continuing before and after
giving effect to such issuance or incurrence, (b) in
connection with any such issuance or incurrence, the Lenders
hereunder and the lenders under the Senior Credit Facility shall be
offered, on a proportionate basis in accordance with the provisions
of the this Agreement and the Senior Credit Facility, as
applicable, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness on the same
terms and conditions (including, without limitation, the same
security package) ( provided , however , that in
connection with any payment, redemption, exchange or repurchase of
the Existing Notes in which availability under the Notes Cash
Basket is utilized in connection with such transaction, any such
proportionate offer to the Lenders hereunder and the lenders under
the Senior Credit Facility (i) need not include any cash
payment to the Lenders hereunder or the lenders under the Senior
Credit Facility to the extent that a cash payment is made out of
the proceeds from the Notes Cash Basket (and in the event that no
cash payment is made to the Lenders hereunder and the lenders under
the Senior Credit Facility, such proportionate offer shall be
determined as if no cash payment were made to the holders of the
Existing Notes) and (ii) may include a cash payment to the
Lenders hereunder and/or the lenders under the Senior Credit
Facility, provided that any such cash payment to the
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Lenders hereunder or the lenders
under the Senior Credit Facility shall not reduce the Notes Cash
Basket, (c) no Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness shall have
any scheduled or mandatory principal repayments prior to
August 23, 2011 and (d) the principal amount of the
Indebtedness being refinanced, refunded, exchanged or replaced
shall not be increased above the principal amount thereof
outstanding immediately prior to such refinancing, refunding,
exchange or replacement.
“ Prepayment ”:
as defined in Amendment No. 9.
“ Qualifying Lender
”: as defined in Exhibit A to Amendment
No. 9.
“ Reply Amount ”:
as defined in Exhibit A to Amendment
No. 9.
“ Responsible Officer
”: the chief executive officer, president, senior vice
president, executive vice president, vice president, chief
financial officer, chief accounting officer, controller, treasurer
or assistant treasurer of a Loan Party. Any document
delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document that is signed
by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively
presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate,
partnership and/or or other action on the part of such Loan Party
and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have
acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“ Run Rate Operating
Expense ”: for any period, an amount equal to:
(a) total operating expenses of the Company and its
Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis for such period; less
(b) total operating expenses of the Specified Subsidiaries on
a Consolidated basis for such period (other than any such operating
expenses that (x) prior to such period were operating expenses
of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any Specified
Subsidiaries) and (y) have been migrated to the Specified
Subsidiaries in connection with the implementation of any
restructuring, winding down or disposition of business units or
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries or the implementation of
the operating cost reduction plan of the Company); less
(c) the sum of (without duplication): (i) the amount of
depreciation and amortization expense and impairment charges in
respect of fixed assets, mortgage servicing rights and intangible
assets; (ii) non-cash expenses or charges incurred in
connection with the granting of, or accretion on, options, warrants
or other Equity Interests pursuant to any management or director
equity plan, stock option plan or similar employee compensation
arrangement; (iii) any expenses or charges directly related to
the restructuring of the Existing Notes, the Senior Credit Facility
or the Loans hereunder accounted for in such period, including the
ongoing fees and expenses required to be paid to the Lenders or
their advisors in connection with the restructuring of the Senior
Credit Facility and the Loans hereunder; (iv) solely with
respect to the Fiscal Quarters ended June 30, 2009,
September 30, 2009, December 31, 2009 and March 31,
2010, the amount of any one-time restructuring charges, costs or
other business optimization expenses directly incurred in
connection with the restructuring, winding down or disposition of
business units or assets outside of the ordinary course of business
of the Company and its Subsidiaries or the implementation of the
operating cost reduction plan of the Company (including
professional fees and expenses, severance costs, contract breakage
costs and costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of
facilities) during such period; provided that the amount of
restructuring charges, costs and expenses deducted from Run Rate
Operating Expenses pursuant to this clause (iv) shall not
exceed $50,000,000 in the aggregate; and (v) operating
expenses of variable interest entities that are required to be
Consolidated with the Company pursuant to FASB
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Interpretation No. 46(R),
operating expenses of investment partnerships and similar entities
that are required to be Consolidated with the Company pursuant to
Emerging Issues Task Force Issue No. 04-5 and operating
expenses of entities that are required to be Consolidated with the
Company pursuant to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
No. 66 or similar accounting principles implemented by
applicable accounting standards bodies after the date hereof
relating to consolidation of subsidiaries; in each case of the
Company and its Subsidiaries (excluding the Specified Subsidiaries)
for such period; plus (c) (X) the Applicable
Adjustment Percentage times (Y) the aggregate amount of
operating expenses of any Servicing Business subject to a Servicing
Business Disposition prior to or during such period for the portion
of such period occurring after the date of such Servicing Business
Disposition (determined on a pro forma basis based on the last full
fiscal quarter period ending immediately prior to the date of such
Servicing Business Disposition and making the adjustments, to the
extent applicable, set forth in this definition of “ Run
Rate Operating Expense ”); all as determined for such
period in accordance with GAAP.
“ Servicing Agreement
”: any pooling and servicing agreement, trust and servicing
agreement, primary servicing agreement or other similar document
pursuant to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries services
mortgage loans or any mortgaged property acquired through
foreclosure, acceptance of a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure or
otherwise in accordance with applicable law in connection with the
default or imminent default of any mortgage loans, and makes
Servicing Loans with respect thereto.
“ Servicing Business
”: the North American “servicing” segment of the
Company and its Subsidiaries.
“ Servicing Business
Disposition ”: any sale, transfer or other disposition
of, or closure of the Servicing Business or any material portion
thereof pursuant to any transaction or any series of related
transactions (including by means of a disposition of any Person or
a disposition of all or substantially all of the assets or property
of such Servicing Business).
“ Servicing Loans
”: loans made by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in
its respective capacity as servicer under any Servicing Agreement,
in connection with the servicing and administering of any mortgage
loans or any mortgaged property including but not limited to
(i) loans of principal and interest payments on mortgage loans
and (ii) loans of out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by
the applicable servicer in respect of mortgage loans in which a
default, delinquency or other unanticipated event has occurred or
as to which a default is imminent, including, with respect to any
underlying mortgaged property, advances necessary for the purpose
of effecting the payment of real estate taxes, assessments and
other similar items that are or may become a lien thereon, premiums
on insurance policies, advances generally known as “emergency
advances” or “property protection advances” under
any Servicing Agreement, costs of any enforcement or judicial
proceedings, maintenance and liquidation of any acquired mortgaged
property, extraordinary trust fund expenses, ground rents and
similar charges or assessments.
“ Servicing Loan Assets
”: the assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, of
the Company and its Subsidiaries comprising (a) Servicing
Loans and (b) all reimbursement rights and other amounts owing
to the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to Servicing
Loans.
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“ Servicing Loan
Facility ”: any credit facility, securitization facility
or other financing facility obtained by the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries in connection with the financing of any Servicing Loan
Assets.
“ Specified Servicing Loan
Facility ”: the proposed Servicing Loan Facility
disclosed by the Company to the “Lead Arrangers” (as
defined in the Term Loan Agreement) prior to the Amendment
No. 9 Effective Date, to the extent that such Servicing Loan
Facility is consummated on substantially the same terms and
conditions as disclosed by the Company to the “Lead
Arrangers” (as defined in the Term Loan
Agreement).
“ Specified Repayment
Date ”: as defined in subsection 2.18.
“ Term Loan Agreement
”: as defined in Amendment No. 9.
“ Test Period ”:
with respect to the financial covenant contained in subsection 6.1:
(a) at any date of determination on or prior to June 30,
2009, the most recently completed Fiscal Quarter; (b) at any
date of determination after June 30, 2009 and on or prior to
September 30, 2009, the most recently completed two Fiscal
Quarters of the Company ending on or prior to such date;
(c) at any date of determination after September 30, 2009
and on or prior to December 31, 2009, the most recently
completed three Fiscal Quarters of the Company ending on or prior
to such date; and (d) at any date of determination after
December 31, 2009, the most recently completed four Fiscal
Quarters of the Company ending on or prior to such date.
(b)
The definition of
“ Attributed Capitalization ” set forth in
subsection 1.1 of the Bridge Loan Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting “subsection 5.1” in the sixth line thereof and
inserting “subsection 5.1(a) and (b)” in its
place.
(c)
The definition of
“ Bankruptcy Remote Special Purpose Vehicle ”
set forth in subsection 1.1 of the Bridge Loan Agreement is hereby
amended and restated in its entirety to read as
follows:
“
Bankruptcy Remote Special Purpose Entity ”: (i) a
Person that satisfies each of the following criteria: (a) such
Person is an entity that is consolidated for accounting purposes
with the Company and designed to make remote the possibility
that it would enter into bankruptcy or other receivership;
(b) all or substantially all of such Person’s assets
consist of Receivables or securities backed by Receivables plus any
rights or other assets (including cash reserves) designed to assure
the servicing or timely distribution of proceeds to the holders of
its obligations; and (c) Receivables or securities backed by
Receivables owned by such Person satisfy the legal isolation
criteria set forth in paragraph 9(a) of Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 140 (“ FAS 140 ”)
(in relation to the Company and any Subsidiary that is not a
Bankruptcy Remote Special Purpose Entity) or (ii) any
Subsidiary formed as a “successor borrower” in
connection with any loan defeasance activities that satisfies the
legal isolation requirements of FAS 140.
(d)
The definition of
“ Cash Equivalents ” set forth in subsection 1.1
of the Bridge Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety to read as follows:
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“ Cash Equivalents
”:
(a)
securities issued or directly and
fully guaranteed or insured by the United States or any agency or
instrumentality thereof and having maturities of not more than 12
months after the date of acquisition;
(b)
time deposits or certificates of
deposit of (i) any bank of recognized standing having capital
and surplus in excess of $5,000,000,000 or whose commercial paper
rating is at least A-1 by S&P and P-1 by Moody’s and
(ii) in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary of the Company, the
banks listed on Schedule 1.01(c) or any other bank approved by
the Agent in its sole discretion (it being understood that the
Agent may revoke its approval of any such bank at any time for
purposes of this clause (b), provided that any time deposits
or certificates of deposits of such bank acquired by the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries prior to such revocation shall continue to
constitute Cash Equivalents for purposes of this Agreement), in
each case having maturities of not more than six months after the
date of acquisition;
(c)
commercial paper rated at least A-1
by S&P and P-1 by Moody’s and having maturities of not
more than six months after the date of acquisition;
(d)
direct obligations (or certificates
representing an ownership interest in such obligations) of any
state of the United States (including any agency or instrumentality
thereof) the long-term debt of which is rated A-3 or higher by
Moody’s and A- or higher by S&P (or rated the equivalent
by at least one nationally recognized statistical rating
organization) and having maturities of not more than six months
after the date of acquisition; and
(e)
in the case of any Foreign
Subsidiary of the Company, investments (i) in direct
obligations of the sovereign nation (or any agency or
instrumentality thereof) in which such Subsidiary is organized or
is conducting a substantial amount of business or in obligations
fully and unconditionally guaranteed by such sovereign nation (or
agency or instrumentality) or (ii) of the type and maturity
described in clause (a) through (d) above of foreign
obligors, which investments or obligors (or their parents) have
ratings equivalent to those described above (which may be
equivalent ratings from foreign rating agencies).
(e)
The definition of
“ ERISA Event ” set forth in subsection 1.1 of
the Bridge Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety to read as follows:
“ ERISA Event ”:
(a) (i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the
meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA, with respect to any ERISA
Plan unless the 30 day notice requirement with respect to such
event has been waived by the PBGC or (ii) the requirements of
subsection (1) of Section 4043(b) of ERISA
(without regard to subsection (2) of such Section) are
met with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in
Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, of an ERISA Plan, and an event
described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of
Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur
with respect to such ERISA Plan within the following 30 days;
(b) the application for a minimum funding waiver with respect
t