The trustee and we may not without the consent of the holder of each outstanding indenture security affected thereby:
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extend the final maturity of any indenture security;
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reduce the principal amount or premium, if any;
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reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest;
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reduce any amount payable on redemption;
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reduce the amount of the principal of any indenture security issued with an original issue discount that is payable upon acceleration or provable in bankruptcy;
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impair the right to sue for the enforcement of any payment on any indenture security when due; or
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reduce the percentage of holders of indenture securities of any series whose consent is required for any modification of the Indenture.
In determining whether the holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding indenture securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver under the Indenture, (1) the principal amount of an original issue discount security that will be deemed to be outstanding will be the amount of the principal thereof that would then be due and payable upon acceleration of the maturity thereof and (2) indenture securities owned by us or any other obligor upon the indenture securities or any affiliate of ours or of any other obligor will be disregarded.
Satisfaction and Discharge, Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
We may discharge obligations to holders of Green Senior Notes that have not already been delivered to the trustee for cancellation and that have either become due and payable or are to become due and payable, or are scheduled for redemption, within one year. We may discharge these obligations by irrevocably depositing with the trustee cash or “U.S. Government Obligations” (as defined below), as trust funds, in an amount certified to be enough to pay when due, whether at maturity, upon redemption or otherwise, the principal of and interest on the Green Senior Notes.
We may also discharge any and all of our obligations to holders of Green Senior Notes at any time, referred to as “defeasance.” We may also be released from the obligations imposed by any covenants of the Green Senior Notes and provisions of the Indenture, and we may avoid complying with those covenants without creating an event of default under the Indenture, referred to as “covenant defeasance.” We may effect defeasance and covenant defeasance only if, among other things:
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we irrevocably deposit with the trustee cash or U.S. Government Obligations, as trust funds, in an amount certified to be enough to pay at maturity, or upon redemption, the principal, and interest on all outstanding Senior Notes; and
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we deliver to the trustee an opinion of counsel from a nationally recognized law firm to the effect that (1) in the case of covenant defeasance, the holders of the series of indenture securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of that defeasance, and will be subject to tax in the same manner and at the same time as if no covenant defeasance had occurred and (2) in the case of defeasance, either we have received from, or there has been published by, the IRS a ruling or there has been a change in applicable U.S. federal income tax law, and based thereon, the holders of the series of indenture securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of that defeasance, and will be subject to tax in the same manner as if no defeasance had occurred.
Although we may discharge or decrease our obligations under the Green Senior Notes and the Indenture as described in the two preceding paragraphs, we may not avoid, among other things, the rights and obligations of the trustee under the Indenture, to register the transfer or exchange of Green Senior Notes, to replace any temporary, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Green Senior Notes or to maintain an office or agency in respect of any series of indenture securities.
If we effect covenant defeasance with respect to any Green Senior Notes and those Green Senior Notes are declared due and payable because of the occurrence of any event of default other than the event of default