“Environmental Claim” means any and all obligations, liabilities, losses, administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, decrees, claims, liens, judgments, warning notices, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigations, proceedings, removal or remedial actions or orders, or damages (foreseeable and unforeseeable, including consequential and punitive damages), penalties, fees, out-of-pocket costs, expenses, disbursements, attorneys’ or consultants’ fees, arising under or relating in any way to any Environmental Liability, Environmental Laws or any Environmental Approval issued under any such Environmental Laws (hereafter as used in this definition, “Claims”), including (a) any and all Claims by any Governmental Authority for enforcement, clean-up, removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages arising under or pursuant to any applicable Environmental Laws, and (b) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief resulting from or relating to Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of injury to health, safety or the environment.
“Environmental Laws” means any and all federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, Laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions, including all common law, relating to pollution or the protection of health, safety or the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to Hazardous Materials, air emissions, discharges to waste or public systems and health and safety matters.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability or obligation, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), directly or indirectly, resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment, disposal or permitting or arranging for the disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Environmental Representative” means each Vessel Owner and the Manager together with their respective employees and all of those persons for whom such Vessel Owner or the Manager is responsible under any Applicable Law in respect of any activities undertaken in relation to any of the Collateral Vessels.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder from time to time in effect.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is treated as a single employer together with the Company under section 414 of the Code.
“Event of Default” is defined in Section 11.
“Excess Risks” means, in respect of a Collateral Vessel: (a) the proportion of claims for general average, salvage and salvage charges which are not recoverable as a result of the value at which that Collateral Vessel is assessed for the purpose of such claims exceeding her hull and machinery insured value; and (b) collision liabilities not recoverable in full under the hull and machinery insurance by reason of those liabilities exceeding such proportion of the insured value of that Collateral Vessel as is covered by the hull and machinery insurance.
“Excluded Collateral Vessels” means each of:
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