“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“E-Fax” means any system used to receive or transmit faxes electronically.
“Electronic Transmission” means each document, instruction, authorization, file, information and any other communication transmitted, posted or otherwise made or communicated bye-mail orE-Fax, or otherwise to or from anE-System or other equivalent service acceptable to Agent.
“Eligible Assignee” means (a) a Lender, (b) a commercial or investment bank, insurance company, finance company, financial institution, any fund that invests in loans, (c) any Affiliate of a Lender, or (d) an Approved Fund of a Lender;provided that in any event, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include (i) any natural person, (ii) any Disqualified Institution or (iii) Borrower, any Subsidiary or any Affiliate thereof.
“Environmental Laws” means all applicable federal, state, provincial, local and foreign laws, statutes, ordinances, codes, rules, standards and regulations, now or hereafter in effect, including any applicable judicial or administrative order, consent decree, order or judgment, in each case having the force or effect of law, imposing liability or standards of conduct for or relating to the regulation and protection of human health, safety, the environment and natural resources (including ambient air, soil, vapor, surface water, groundwater, wetlands, land surface or subsurface strata, wildlife, aquatic species and vegetation). Environmental Laws include the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. §§ 9601etseq.) (“CERCLA”); the Hazardous Materials Transportation Authorization Act of 1994 (49 U.S.C. §§ 5101etseq.); the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U.S.C. §§ 136etseq.); the Solid Waste Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 6901etseq.); the Toxic Substance Control Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 2601etseq.); the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 7401etseq.); the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251etseq.); the Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 651etseq.); and the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 300fetseq.), and any and all regulations promulgated thereunder, and all analogous federal, state, provincial, local and foreign counterparts or equivalents and any transfer of ownership notification or approval statutes related to the protection of human health, safety or the environment.
“Environmental Liabilities” means, with respect to any Person, all liabilities, obligations, responsibilities, response, remedial and removal costs, investigation and feasibility study costs, losses, damages, punitive damages, property damages, natural resource damages, consequential damages, treble damages, costs and expenses (including all reasonable fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel, experts and consultants), fines, penalties, sanctions and interest incurred as a result of or related to any claim, suit, action, investigation, proceeding or demand by any Person, whether based in contract, tort, implied or express warranty, strict liability, criminal or civil statute or common law, arising under or related to any Environmental Laws, Environmental Permits, or in connection with any Release or threatened Release or presence of a Hazardous Material whether on, at, in, under, from or about or in the vicinity of any real or personal property.
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