UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF PUERTO RICO

In re:

THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND 

MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO,

as representative of

THE COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO, et 

al.,

Debtors.1

PROMESA

Title III

No. 17-BK-3283-LTS

(Jointly Administered)

In re:

THE FINANCIAL OVERSIGHT AND 

MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO,

as representative of

PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY,

Debtor.

PROMESA

Title III

No. 17-BK-4780-LTS

(Jointly Administered)

TITLE III PLAN OF ADJUSTMENT OF 

THE PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY

PROSKAUER ROSE LLP

Eleven Times Square

New York, New York 10036

Telephone: (212) 969-3000

Facsimile: (212) 969-2900

O’NEILL & BORGES LLC

250 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Suite 800

San Juan, PR 00918-1813

Telephone: (787) 764-8181

Facsimile: (787) 753-8944

Attorneys for the Financial Oversight and Management Board as Representative for PREPA

Dated: December 16, 2022

 1 The Debtors in these Title III Cases, along with each Debtor’s respective Title III case number and the last four 

(4) digits of each Debtor’s federal tax identification number, as applicable, are the (i) Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 

(the “Commonwealth”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-3283-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3481); (ii) 

Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corporation (“COFINA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-3284-LTS) (Last Four 

Digits of Federal Tax ID: 8474); (iii) Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (“HTA”) (Bankruptcy Case 

No. 17-BK-3567-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3808); (iv) Employees Retirement System of the 

Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (“ERS”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17-BK-3566-LTS) (Last Four 

Digits of Federal Tax ID: 9686); (v) Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (“PREPA”) (Bankruptcy Case No. 17- BK4780-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3747); and (vi) Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority (“PBA”) 

(Bankruptcy Case No. 19-BK-5523-LTS) (Last Four Digits of Federal Tax ID: 3801) (Title III case numbers are listed 

as Bankruptcy Case numbers due to software limitations).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................................1

ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS, RULES OF INTERPRETATION, COMPUTATION 

OF TIME, GOVERNING LAW, AND OTHER REFERENCES.......................................1

A. Defined Terms .........................................................................................................1

B. Rules of Interpretation ...........................................................................................23

C. Computation of Time.............................................................................................24

D. Governing Law ......................................................................................................24

E. Reference to Monetary Figures..............................................................................24

F. Controlling Document ...........................................................................................24

ARTICLE II ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL CLAIMS......................................25

A. Administrative Expense Claims.............................................................................25

B. Disallowance of Claims Filed After the Administrative Claim Bar Date .............25

C. Professional Compensation and Reimbursement Claims......................................25

ARTICLE III CLASSIFICATION OF CLAIMS........................................................................26

A. Classification of Claims.........................................................................................26

B. Special Provision Governing Unimpaired Claims.................................................27

C. Elimination of Vacant Classes...............................................................................27

D. Voting Classes; Presumed Acceptance by Non-Voting Classes............................27

E. Subordinated Claims..............................................................................................27

F. Confirmation Pursuant to PROMESA Section 314...............................................28

G. Confirmation Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 1129(b)...............................28

ARTICLE IV PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF SETTLING BONDHOLDER 

OR SETTLING MONOLINE CLAIMS (CLASS 1) ........................................................28

A. Treatment of Class 1 Claims..................................................................................28

ARTICLE V PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF NON-SETTLING 

BONDHOLDER OR NON-SETTLING MONOLINE CLAIMS (CLASS 2).................29

A. Treatment of Class 2 Claims..................................................................................29

ARTICLE VI PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF PENSION CLAIM (CLASS 3) ...........29

A. Treatment of Class 3 Claims..................................................................................29

ARTICLE VII PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF FUEL LINE LOAN CLAIMS 

(CLASS 4) .........................................................................................................................30

A. Treatment of Class 4 Claims..................................................................................30

B. Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Fees...................................................................31

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ARTICLE VIII PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF GENERAL UNSECURED 

CLAIMS (CLASS 5) .........................................................................................................31

A. Treatment of Class 5 Claims..................................................................................31

B. Election to be Treated as a Convenience Claim ....................................................31

ARTICLE IX PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF VITOL CLAIM (CLASS 6) .................32

A. Treatment of Class 6 Claims..................................................................................32

ARTICLE X PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF ASSURED INSURED 

INTEREST RATE SWAPS CLAIMS (CLASS 7)............................................................32

A. Treatment of Class 7 Claims..................................................................................32

ARTICLE XI PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF ORDINARY COURSE 

CUSTOMER CLAIMS (CLASS 8) ..................................................................................32

A. Treatment of Class 8 Claims..................................................................................32

ARTICLE XII PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF EMINENT 

DOMAIN/INVERSE CONDEMNATION CLAIMS (CLASS 9) ....................................33

A. Treatment of Class 9 Claims..................................................................................33

ARTICLE XIII PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS (CLASS 

10) ......................................................................................................................................33

A. Treatment of Class 10 Claims................................................................................33

ARTICLE XIV PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF CONVENIENCE CLAIMS 

(CLASS 11) .......................................................................................................................34

A. Treatment of Class 11 Claims................................................................................34

ARTICLE XV PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF SECTION 510(b) 

SUBORDINATED CLAIMS (CLASS 12) .......................................................................34

A. Treatment of Class 12 Claims................................................................................34

ARTICLE XVI PROVISIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN.............................34

A. Allowance of Claims..............................................................................................34

B. Releases, Injunction, and Exculpation...................................................................34

C. Dismissal of Fuel Line Lender Priority Action......................................................35

D. Effectuating Documents; Further Transactions.....................................................35

E. Enrollment of Active PREPA ERS Participants in Act 106 Plan..........................35

F. Legacy Charge .......................................................................................................35

G. PREPA Operational Restructuring ........................................................................36

H. Purchase and Sale of the Administrative Expense Bonds .....................................36

ARTICLE XVII PROVISIONS REGARDING THE ISSUANCE AND 

DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEW BONDS........................................................................36

A. Issuance and Distribution.......................................................................................36

B. General Terms........................................................................................................37

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C. Excess New Bonds.................................................................................................38

D. Payment Provisions................................................................................................38

E. Security ..................................................................................................................38

F. Call Provisions.......................................................................................................38

G. Accounts and Payment Waterfall...........................................................................39

H. Key Covenants for New Bonds..............................................................................40

I. Application of Moneys in Debt Service Fund .......................................................40

J. Interest Rate Covenant...........................................................................................41

K. No Rights of Acceleration .....................................................................................41

L. Limited Default......................................................................................................41

M. Limited Remedies..................................................................................................42

N. Additional Bonds and Refunding Bonds ...............................................................42

O. Force Majeure ........................................................................................................42

P. Direct Right of Action ...........................................................................................43

Q. New Master Indenture............................................................................................43

R. Governing Law ......................................................................................................43

ARTICLE XVIII TREATMENT OF EXECUTORY CONTRACTS AND 

UNEXPIRED LEASES .....................................................................................................43

A. Rejection or Assumption of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases.............43

B. Approval of Rejection or Assumption of Executory Contracts and 

Unexpired Leases...................................................................................................44

C. Inclusiveness..........................................................................................................44

D. Cure of Defaults and Objections to Cure and Assumption....................................44

E. Contracts and Leases Entered Into After the Petition Date ...................................45

F. Insurance Policies ..................................................................................................46

G. Rejection Damage Claims......................................................................................46

H. Indemnification and Reimbursement Obligations.................................................46

I. Nonoccurrence of Effective Date...........................................................................46

J. Reservation of Rights.............................................................................................46

ARTICLE XIX GUC TRUST......................................................................................................47

A. Execution of GUC Trust Deed of Trust.................................................................47

B. Purpose of the GUC Trust......................................................................................47

C. GUC Trust Assets..................................................................................................47

D. Administration of the GUC Trust ..........................................................................47

E. The GUC Trustee...................................................................................................47

F. Role of the GUC Trustee .......................................................................................47

G. GUC Trustee’s Tax Power for Reorganized PREPA ............................................48

H. Transferability of GUC Trust Interests..................................................................48

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I. Cash........................................................................................................................48

J. Distribution of GUC Trust Assets..........................................................................48

K. Funding, Costs, and Expenses of the GUC Trust ..................................................48

L. Compensation of the GUC Trustee........................................................................49

M. Retention of Professionals/Employees by the GUC Trustee .................................49

N. Federal Income Tax Treatment of the GUC Trust.................................................49

O. Dissolution of GUC Trust......................................................................................51

P. Indemnification of GUC Trustee and Members of GUC Trust Board ..................51

ARTICLE XX AVOIDANCE ACTIONS TRUST......................................................................51

A. Execution of Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement...............................................51

B. Purpose of the Avoidance Actions Trust ...............................................................52

C. Avoidance Actions Trust Assets............................................................................52

D. Administration of the Avoidance Actions Trust....................................................52

E. The Avoidance Actions Trustee.............................................................................52

F. Role of the Avoidance Actions Trustee .................................................................52

G. Avoidance Actions Trustee’s Tax Power for Reorganized PREPA ......................53

H. Transferability of Avoidance Actions Trust Interests............................................53

I. Cash........................................................................................................................53

J. Distribution of Avoidance Actions Trust Assets...................................................53

K. Funding, Costs, and Expenses of the Avoidance Actions Trust............................54

L. Compensation of the Avoidance Actions Trustee .................................................54

M. Retention of Professionals/Employees by the Avoidance Actions Trustee...........54

N. Federal Income Tax Treatment of the Avoidance Actions Trust ..........................54

O. Dissolution of Avoidance Action Trust .................................................................56

P. Indemnification of Avoidance Actions Trustee and Members of 

Avoidance Actions Trust Bond..............................................................................57

ARTICLE XXI PROVISIONS GOVERNING DISTRIBUTIONS ............................................57

A. Appointment of Distribution Agent.......................................................................57

B. Distributions on Account of Claims Allowed as of the Effective Date.................57

C. Rights and Powers of Distribution Agent ..............................................................58

D. Special Rules for Distributions to Holders of Disputed Claims............................58

E. Delivery of Distributions .......................................................................................59

F. Claims Paid or Payable by Third Parties ...............................................................62

G. Withholding and Reporting Requirements ............................................................63

H. Time Bar to Cash Payments...................................................................................63

I. Distributions After Effective Date .........................................................................63

J. Setoffs....................................................................................................................64

K. Allocation Between Principal and Accrued Interest..............................................64

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L. Holder of Claim .....................................................................................................64

M. Exculpation ............................................................................................................64

ARTICLE XXII PROCEDURES FOR RESOLVING DISPUTED CLAIMS............................65

A. Objections to Claims and Prosecution of Disputed Claims...................................65

B. Estimation of Claims..............................................................................................65

C. Claims Administration Responsibilities ................................................................66

D. Adjustment to Claims Without Objection..............................................................66

E. Extension of Claims Objection Bar Date...............................................................66

F. Authority to Amend Creditor List..........................................................................66

G. No Interest..............................................................................................................66

H. Disallowance of Claims.........................................................................................67

ARTICLE XXIII GOVERNANCE AND PROVISIONS REGARDING PREPA 

PAYGO TRUST AND PENSION SYSTEM....................................................................67

A. Formation and Responsibilities of the PREPA PayGo Trust.................................67

B. Funding of the PREPA PayGo Trust .....................................................................67

C. Management of PREPA PayGo Trust....................................................................68

D. Non-Impairment Covenant ....................................................................................68

E. Maintenance of Pension.........................................................................................68

ARTICLE XXIV EFFECT OF CONFIRMATION OF THE PLAN ..........................................68

A. Discharge and Release of Claims and Causes of Action .......................................68

B. Releases by the Debtor and Reorganized Debtor ..................................................70

C. Releases by Holders of Claims..............................................................................70

D. Exculpation ............................................................................................................71

E. Injunction ...............................................................................................................71

F. Non-Severability of Releases, Injunctions, and Exculpations...............................72

G. Document Retention ..............................................................................................72

H. Reimbursement or Contribution ............................................................................72

I. Release of Liens.....................................................................................................72

ARTICLE XXV MODIFICATION, REVOCATION, OR WITHDRAWAL OF THE 

PLAN .................................................................................................................................72

A. Modification of Plan ..............................................................................................72

B. Revocation or Withdrawal .....................................................................................73

C. Amendment of Plan Documents............................................................................73

D. No Admission of Liability .....................................................................................73

ARTICLE XXVI CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF 

REORGANIZED DEBTOR..............................................................................................74

A. Corporate Action....................................................................................................74

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B. Reorganized Debtor’s By-Laws.............................................................................74

C. Officers of Reorganized Debtor.............................................................................74

ARTICLE XXVII IDENTIFICATION OF CLAIMS IMPAIRED BY THE PLAN AND 

NOT IMPAIRED BY THE PLAN ....................................................................................74

A. Impaired Classes....................................................................................................74

B. Unimpaired Classes ...............................................................................................75

ARTICLE XXVIII CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CONFIRMATION OF THE 

PLAN .................................................................................................................................75

A. Conditions Precedent to Confirmation Date ..........................................................75

B. Waiver of Conditions Precedent to Confirmation .................................................77

ARTICLE XXIX CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE........................78

A. Conditions Precedent to the Effective Date ...........................................................78

B. Waiver of Conditions Precedent ............................................................................78

C. Effect of Non-Occurrence of Conditions to Effective Date...................................79

ARTICLE XXX PROVISIONS REGARDING COMMITTEE..................................................79

A. Dissolution of Committee......................................................................................79

ARTICLE XXXI PROVISIONS REGARDING OVERSIGHT BOARD AND 

COMPLIANCE WITH PROMESA ..................................................................................79

A. Effect of Confirmation...........................................................................................79

B. Ongoing Role of the Oversight Board ...................................................................79

C. Preemption of Laws...............................................................................................80

ARTICLE XXXII RETENTION OF JURISDICTION...............................................................80

ARTICLE XXXIII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS ............................................................82

A. Title to Assets ........................................................................................................82

B. No Waiver..............................................................................................................83

C. Supplemental Injunction ........................................................................................83

D. Immediate Binding Effect......................................................................................84

E. Additional Documents...........................................................................................84

F. Reservation of Rights.............................................................................................84

G. Successors and Assigns..........................................................................................84

H. Post-Effective Date Fees and Expenses.................................................................85

I. Securities Act Exemption ......................................................................................85

J. Governing Law ......................................................................................................85

K. Closing Case ..........................................................................................................85

L. Section Headings ...................................................................................................85

M. Document Retention ..............................................................................................86

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N. Service of Documents............................................................................................86

O. Term of Injunctions or Stays..................................................................................87

P. Entire Agreement...................................................................................................87

Q. Plan Supplement Exhibits......................................................................................87

R. Non-Severability....................................................................................................87

S. Votes Solicited in Good Faith................................................................................88

T. Waiver or Estoppel ................................................................................................88

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INTRODUCTION

The Oversight Board, as the Title III representative of PREPA pursuant to PROMESA 

section 315(b), proposes this plan of adjustment pursuant to and in accordance with PROMESA 

Title III. 

A discussion of PREPA’s history, operations, and events leading to the commencement of 

PREPA’s Title III Case, as well as a summary and analysis of the Plan, risk factors, and other 

related matters, is included in the Disclosure Statement. Other agreements and documents, which 

have been or will be filed with the Title III Court, are referenced in the Plan or the Disclosure 

Statement and are available for review. 

ARTICLE I

DEFINED TERMS, RULES OF INTERPRETATION,

COMPUTATION OF TIME, GOVERNING LAW, AND OTHER REFERENCES

A. Defined Terms

Capitalized terms used in the Plan shall have the meanings set forth in this Article I.A. Any 

term used in capitalized form that is not otherwise defined but that is used in PROMESA (and to 

the extent made applicable by PROMESA, the Bankruptcy Code, and the Bankruptcy Rules) shall 

have the meaning assigned to such term in PROMESA, the Bankruptcy Code, or the Bankruptcy 

Rules, as applicable and as modified by PROMESA.

1. “2022 Fiscal Plan Projections” means the 30-Year Load Forecast with the 

Individual Effects of Three Drivers Causing Load Reduction set forth at Exhibit 55 of the 2022 

Fiscal Plan for PREPA certified by the Oversight Board on June 28, 2022.

2. “AAFAF” means the Autoridad de Asesoría Financiera y Agencia Fiscal, a public 

corporation and instrumentality of the Commonwealth, whose name in English is the Puerto Rico 

Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority.

3. “ACR Order” means that certain Order (A) Authorizing Administrative 

Reconciliation of Claims, (B) Approving Additional Form of Notice, and (C) Granting Related 

Relief, dated March 12, 2020 [Case. No. 17-BK-3283-LTS, ECF No. 12274].

4. “Active PREPA ERS Participant” means a Participant who, as reflected in the 

records of PREPA ERS, is not receiving a pension or annuity as of the Effective Date.

5. “Additional Bonds” means, if applicable, any new bonds or other form of 

indebtedness incurred by Reorganized PREPA other than the New Bonds and Refunding Bonds

and payable from sources other than the Debt Service Fund, which Additional Bonds shall (a) not 

in any way affect the terms of the Series A Bonds as set forth herein, (b) be secured by and payable 

from Net Revenues to the extent permitted by the New Master Indenture, and (c) otherwise be 

issued in accordance with the New Master Indenture.

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6. “Administrative Claim Bar Date” means, unless otherwise ordered by the Title III 

Court, the date established by the Title III Court and set forth in the Confirmation Order as the last 

day to file proofs of Administrative Expense Claims pursuant to section 503(b) of the Bankruptcy 

Code, which date shall be no more than ninety (90) days after the Effective Date,.

7. “Administrative Expense Bonds” means the Series B Bonds to be issued by 

Reorganized PREPA pursuant to the Plan on the Effective Date and sold to the Commonwealth

for payment of Allowed Administrative Expense Claims, which shall be in an aggregate original 

principal amount of the Administrative Expense Bonds Amount.

8. “Administrative Expense Bonds Amount” means four hundred million dollars 

($400,000,000).

9. “Administrative Expense Claim” means a Claim against the Debtor or its Assets 

constituting a cost or expense of administration of the Title III Case asserted or authorized to be 

asserted, on or prior to the Administrative Claim Bar Date, in accordance with Bankruptcy Code 

sections 503(b) and 507(a)(2) arising during the period up to and including the Effective Date.

10. “ADR Order” means that certain Order (A) Authorizing Alternative Dispute 

Resolution Procedures, (B) Approving Additional Forms of Notice, (C) Approving Proposed 

Mailing, and (D) Granting Related Relief, dated April 1, 2020 [Case No. 17-BK-3283-LTS, ECF 

No. 12576].

11. “ADR Procedures” means the alternative dispute resolution procedures authorized 

pursuant to the ADR Order.

12. “Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Bankruptcy Code section 101(2) and 

PROMESA section 301(c)(1).

13. “Allowed” means, with respect to any Claim, such Claim or portion thereof 

(a) proof of which was filed on or before the applicable Bar Date or (b) if no Proof of Claim has 

been timely filed, which has been or hereafter is listed by the Debtor in the Creditor List and is not 

listed thereon as “disputed”, “contingent”, or “unliquidated,” or (c) allowed pursuant to 

(i) Bankruptcy Code section 502(h), applicable to the Title III Case pursuant to PROMESA 

section 301, (ii) the terms of the Plan, or (iii) a Final Order; provided, however, that, with respect 

to any Claim described in clause (a) or (b) above, such Claim shall be considered Allowed only if, 

and to the extent that, no objection to the allowance thereof, or action to equitably subordinate or 

otherwise limit recovery with respect thereto, has been interposed within the applicable period of 

limitation fixed by the Plan, the Bankruptcy Code, the Bankruptcy Rules, or a Final Order, or as 

to which an objection has been interposed and such Claim has been allowed in whole or in part by 

a Final Order. For purposes of determining the amount of an “Allowed Claim” with respect to 

distributions within a Class, there shall be deducted therefrom an amount equal to the amount of 

any, original issue discount not accrued as of the date immediately prior to the Petition Date and 

any claim that the Debtor may hold against the holder thereof, to the extent such Claim may be set 

off pursuant to applicable bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy law. Notwithstanding anything to the 

contrary herein, (x) Claims allowed solely for the purpose of voting to accept or reject the Plan 

pursuant to an order of the Title III Court shall not be considered Allowed hereunder unless 

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otherwise specified herein or by order of the Title III Court, (y) for any purpose under the Plan, 

except with respect to amounts that are determined by a Final Order to be “just compensation” 

attributable in connection with the allowance of an Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim 

and treatment thereof pursuant to the terms and provisions of Article XII hereof, “Allowed” shall 

not include interest, penalties, or late charges arising from or relating to the period from and after 

the Petition Date, and (z) “Allowed” shall not include any Claim subject to disallowance in 

accordance with Bankruptcy Code section 502(d).

14. “Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge” means the litigation styled The Financial 

Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. U.S. Bank National Association, Adv. Proc. 

No. 19-00391-LTS, currently pending in the Title III Court.

15. “Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge Final Resolution” means either the entry of 

(a) a Final Order in the Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge or (b) a binding settlement agreement 

entered into among the parties to the Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge and approved by a 

Final Order.

16. “Amendment Test” shall have the meaning given to it in Article XVI.F of the Plan.

17. “Assets” means, with respect to the Debtor, (a) all “property” of the Debtor, 

including, without limitation, such property as may be reflected on the Debtor’s books and records 

and the Confirmation Order as of the Effective Date and (b) all Causes of Action, and any 

subsequent proceeds thereof, that have been or may be commenced by the Debtor or an authorized 

representative for the benefit of the Debtor and its Creditors, unless modified or released pursuant 

to the Plan or a Final Order.

18. “Assured” means, collectively, Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty 

Municipal Corp.

19. “Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps” means (a) that certain ISDA Master 

Agreement, including its related Schedule and the Credit Support Annex to the Schedule, each 

dated as of April 18, 2007, by and between PREPA and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and a 

transaction entered into pursuant to such documents and reflected in that certain Swap Transaction 

confirmation dated April 27, 2007 with JPMorgan Ref. No. 2000005090781, insured by Assured 

pursuant to that certain Financial Guaranty Insurance Policy, #218491A-SWP, issued on May 3, 

2007, and secured by PREPA’s “Subordinate Obligations Fund” established and governed by the 

Trust Agreement; and (b) that certain ISDA Master Agreement, including its related Schedule and 

the Credit Support Annex to the Schedule, each dated as of April 18, 2007, by and between PREPA 

and UBS AG, and a transaction entered into pursuant to such documents and reflected in that 

certain Swap Transaction confirmation dated as of April 18, 2007 with UBS Ref: 37638915 and 

insured by Assured pursuant to that certain Financial Guaranty Insurance Policy, No. 208491BSWP, dated as of May 3, 2007, and secured by PREPA’s “Subordinate Obligations Fund” 

established and governed by the Trust Agreement.

20. “Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims” means a Claim on account of the 

Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps.

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21. “Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claim Recovery” means, as applicable, 

(a) the Settling Monoline Treatment, if the Holder of the Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps

Claims timely submitted to the Solicitation Agent by the Settlement Offer Deadline an Election of 

Settlement Class Signature Page issued to such Holder pursuant to the Settlement Offer 

Memorandum and PSA, or (b) the Non-Settling Monoline Treatment, if the Holder of the Assured 

Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims did not timely submit to the Solicitation Agent by the 

Settlement Solicitation Deadline an Election of Settlement Class Signature Page.

22. “Avoidance Actions” means avoidance, recovery, and subordination actions 

identified on Schedule A hereto, as such Schedule A may be amended or modified up to and 

including the Effective Date, against any Entity that have been brought by or on behalf of the 

Debtor against an Entity under sections 510, 544, 545, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, or 553 of the 

Bankruptcy Code, applicable to the Title III Case pursuant to section 301 of PROMESA, or 

applicable non-bankruptcy law incorporated by Bankruptcy Code section 544.

23. “Avoidance Action Proceeds” means the net Cash consideration received by 

PREPA in connection with the Avoidance Actions.

24. “Avoidance Actions Trust” means the trust to be created on or prior to the Effective 

Date into which on the Effective Date shall be transferred the authority to litigate or compromise 

and settle the Avoidance Actions. 

25. “Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement” means the agreement to be executed and 

delivered on or prior to the Effective Date providing for, among other things, the ongoing litigation 

of the Avoidance Actions.

26. “Avoidance Actions Trust Assets” means, collectively, the (a) Avoidance Actions 

and (b) any Cash held by the Avoidance Action Trustee from time to time.

27. “Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries” means, collectively, the Holders of Claims 

in the Unsecured Claims Pool.

28. “Avoidance Actions Trust Board” means the three (3) member board appointed as 

of the Effective Date to govern the Avoidance Actions Trust, selected by the Oversight Board. 

29. “Avoidance Actions Trust Interests” means the beneficial interests in the Avoidance 

Actions Trust allocated in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Plan to the General 

Unsecured Claim Recovery for the benefit of Holders of Claims in the Unsecured Claims Pool. 

30. “Avoidance Actions Trustee” means the trustee appointed by the Avoidance 

Actions Trust Board, by a simple majority vote of such board, contemporaneously with the 

Effective Date in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Avoidance Actions Trust 

Agreement, including, without limitation, any successor thereto.

31. “Ballot Date” means the deadline(s) established by the Title III Court and set forth 

in the Disclosure Statement Order for the submission of ballots pursuant to the terms and 

provisions of the Plan.

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32. “Bankruptcy Code” means title 11 of the United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101–

1532, to the extent applicable to the Title III Case pursuant to PROMESA section 301(a).

33. “Bankruptcy Rules” means the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure as 

promulgated by the United States Supreme Court under section 2075 of title 28 of the United States 

Code, 28 U.S.C. § 2075, as made applicable to the Title III Case pursuant to PROMESA section 

310.

34. “Bar Date” means the respective dates established by the Title III Court by which 

proofs of Claim must have been filed with respect to such Claims against the Debtor, pursuant to 

(a) the Bar Date Orders, (b) a Final Order of the Title III Court, or (c) the Plan.

35. “Bar Date Orders” means the orders of the Title III Court establishing the dates by 

which proofs of Claim against the Debtor or its Assets must have been filed, including, but not 

limited to the (a) Order (A) Establishing Deadlines and Procedures for Filing Proofs of Claim and 

(B) Approving Form and Manner of Notice Thereof [Case No. 17-BK-3283-LTS, ECF No. 2521], 

and (b) Order (A) Extending Deadlines for Filing Proofs of Claim and (B) Approving Form and 

Manner of Notice Thereof [Case No. 17-3283-BK-LTS, ECF No. 3160].

36. “Bond Collateral” means the assets of PREPA, if any, subject to a valid, perfected, 

and enforceable prepetition security interest in favor of the Bond Trustee on account of the PREPA 

Revenue Bonds as determined pursuant to the Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge Final 

Resolution.

37. “Bond Trustee” means U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as successor 

trustee under the Trust Agreement.

38. “Business Day” means any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday, or a “legal holiday” 

(as such term is defined in Bankruptcy Rule 9006(a)(6)); provided, that for the purposes of the 

definition of Treasury Rate, Business Day shall also exclude, to the extent not already excluded, 

(i) a day on which commercial banks are required or authorized by law to be closed in the state, or 

(ii) a day on which The New York Stock Exchange is closed for the entire day or the federal reserve 

banks are closed.

39. “Cash” means the lawful currency of the United States, including, but not limited 

to, bank deposits, checks representing good funds, and legal equivalents thereof.

40. “Causes of Action” means all claims, actions, causes of action, rights to payment, 

choses in action, suits, Debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings, bonds, bills, specialties, 

covenants, contracts, controversies, agreements, promises, variances, trespasses, damages, 

judgments, remedies, rights of set-off, third-party claims, subrogation claims, contribution claims, 

reimbursement claims, indemnity claims, counterclaims, and cross claims (including, but not 

limited to, all claims for breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, malpractice, breach of contract, 

aiding and abetting, fraud, inducement, avoidance, recovery, subordination, and all Avoidance 

Actions) that are pending or may be asserted against any Person or Entity whether arising on or 

before the Effective Date, based in law or equity, including, but not limited to, under the 

Bankruptcy Code, whether known, unknown, reduced to judgment, not reduced to judgment, 

liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured, or 

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unsecured and whether asserted or assertable directly or derivatively, in law, equity, or otherwise 

and whether asserted or unasserted as of the Effective Date.

41. “CBA Rejection Damages Claim” means a Claim, if any, arising against PREPA 

from the rejection, pursuant to section 365(d) of the Bankruptcy Code, or pursuant to a settlement, 

of any Collective Bargaining Agreement, excluding any Claim against PREPA and/or PREPA 

ERS arising from PREPA’s rejection of any Collective Bargaining Agreement with respect to 

retirement obligations, including Pension Claims, which are treated pursuant to Article III of the 

Plan.

42. “Claim” means any claim, as such term is defined in Bankruptcy Code section 

101(5), against PREPA.

43. “Claims Objection Bar Date” means one hundred eighty (180) days following the 

Effective Date or such later date as may be approved by the Title III Court.

44. “Claims Register” means the official register of Claims maintained by the 

Solicitation Agents.

45. “Class” means a category of Holders of Claims under Bankruptcy Code 

section 1122(a).

46. “Collective Bargaining Agreements” means, collectively, the UEPI CBA and the 

UTIER CBA.

47. “Commonwealth” means the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

48. “Commonwealth Confirmation Order” means The Order and Judgment Confirming 

Modified Eight Amended Title III Joint Plan of Adjustment of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 

the Employees Retirement System of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and 

the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, dated January 18, 2022 [Case No. 17-BK-3283-LTS, 

ECF No. 19813].

49. “Commonwealth Constitution” means the Constitution of the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico.

50. “Confirmation” means entry of the Confirmation Order on the docket of the Title 

III Case.

51. “Confirmation Date” means the date on which the Title III Court enters the 

Confirmation Order on the docket of the Title III Case within the meaning of Bankruptcy Rules 

5003 and 9021.

52. “Confirmation Hearing” means the hearing(s) before the Title III Court under 

Bankruptcy Code section 1128 at which PREPA seeks entry of the Confirmation Order.

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53. “Confirmation Order” means the order of the Title III Court confirming the Plan 

under PROMESA section 314, as the same may be subsequently amended, supplemented, or 

otherwise modified.

54. “Convenience Cap” means one million dollars ($1,000,000), the aggregate amount 

of consideration to be made available to Holders of Allowed Convenience Claims. 

55. “Convenience Claim” means an Allowed General Unsecured Claim (a) that is equal 

to or less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or (b) the Holder of which, at such Holder’s option, 

has elected to reduce the amount of such Allowed General Unsecured Claim to ten thousand dollars 

($10,000) in accordance with terms and provisions set forth in Article XIV hereof; provided, 

however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, a holder of multiple General Unsecured Claims that 

are in the aggregate greater than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) may elect to reduce all such 

Claims to an aggregate amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) and elect to have all such 

Claims receive treatment as Convenience Claims; and, provided, further, that the aggregate 

amount of consideration to be made available to Convenience Claims shall be the Convenience

Cap, and, provided, further, that, in the event that such Convenience Cap is exceeded, Holders of 

Allowed Convenience Claims shall receive a Pro Rata Share of the Convenience Cap. 

56. “Creditor” means any Entity holding an Allowed Claim against the Debtor or the 

Debtor’s Assets or, pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 102(2), against any other property of the 

Debtor, including, without limitation, a Claim against the Debtor of a kind specified in Bankruptcy 

Code section 502(g), 502(h), or 502(i), in each case, solely in such Entity’s capacity as such.

57. “Creditor List” means the creditor list (together with all summaries, notes, and 

schedules) attached as Exhibit A to the Notice of Filing of Creditor List for the Puerto Rico Electric 

Power Authority [Case No. 17-BK-4780-LTS, ECF No. 520], pursuant to Bankruptcy Code 

sections 924 and 925, as such list, summaries, notes, or schedules have been or may be amended, 

restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified by PREPA.

58. “Creditors’ Committee” means the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors 

appointed by the U.S. Trustee in the Title III Case.

59. “Cure Claim” means a Claim (unless waived or modified by the applicable 

counterparty) based upon PREPA’s defaults under an Executory Contract or an Unexpired Lease 

assumed by PREPA under Bankruptcy Code section 365, other than a default not required to be 

cured pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 365(b)(2).

60. “CVI” means, collectively, the securities to be issued on the Effective Date by 

Reorganized PREPA as described in Article XVII hereof and issued in accordance with the terms 

and conditions of the Plan, the Confirmation Order, and the New Master Indenture.

61. “CVI Maturity Date” means the date that is thirty-five (35) years after the Effective 

Date.

62. “CVI Notional Amount” means the sum of the GUC CVI, the Settling CVI, and the 

Non-Settling CVI.

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63. “CVI Redemption Price” means the calculation of the present value of the 

outstanding CVI as of the applicable call date, which shall be the sum of the present values of 

equal annual installments of the outstanding CVI balance as of Fiscal Year end from the applicable 

call date to the final maturity of the CVI, discounted to the date of redemption of the CVI on an 

annual basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate 

plus two-percent (2.00%).

64. “Debt” shall have the meaning given to it in section 101(12) of the Bankruptcy 

Code.

65. “Debt Service Fund” means the fund held by the New Bond Trustee into which 

Reorganized PREPA shall deposit, in accordance with the Payment Waterfall, monies up to the 

amount of the Legacy Charge Revenues.

66. “Debtor” means PREPA. 

67. “Deficiency Claim” means an Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claim or an 

Allowed Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claim held by a Non-Settling Bondholder or NonSettling Monoline that is not a Secured Claim and constitutes an unsecured Claim against PREPA

pursuant to section 506(a)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, as determined by the Amended Lien & 

Recourse Challenge Final Resolution.

68. “Definitive Documents” means, collectively, the definitive documents and 

agreements contemplated by the Plan, including, without limitation, (a) the Disclosure Statement 

(including any amendments, modifications, and supplements thereto) and any documentation or 

agreements related thereto, which shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Required Fuel Line 

Lenders, (b) the Plan (including any amendments, modifications, and supplements thereto) and 

any documentation or agreements related thereto, which shall be not inconsistent with the Fuel 

Line Lender PSA and reasonably satisfactory to the Required Fuel Line Lenders, (c) the 

Confirmation Order, which shall be not inconsistent with the Fuel Line Lender PSA and reasonably 

satisfactory to the Required Fuel Line Lenders, (d) the New Master Indenture and documents or 

agreements related thereto, which shall be not inconsistent with the Fuel Line Lender PSA and

reasonably acceptable to the Required Fuel Line Lenders, (e) the form of bonds for the New Bonds, 

which shall be not inconsistent with the Fuel Line Lender PSA and reasonably acceptable to the 

Required Fuel Line Lenders, (f) the form of the CVI, (g) the PREPA PayGo Deed of Trust and 

documents or agreements related thereto, (h) the GUC Trust Deed of Trust and documents or 

agreements related thereto, (i) the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement and documents or 

agreements related thereto, and (j) each other document that will comprise the Plan Supplement, 

in all cases except as otherwise set forth herein, the form and substance of which shall be 

acceptable to the Oversight Board in its sole and absolute discretion.

69. “Disallowed” means, with respect to any Claim, a Claim or any portion thereof that 

is not Allowed and (a) has been disallowed by a Final Order, (b) is designated as zero, contingent, 

disputed, or undisputed in the Creditor List and as to which no Proof of Claim or request for 

payment of an Administrative Expense Claim has been timely filed or deemed timely filed with 

the Title III Court, (c) has been withdrawn by agreement of the Debtor and the Holder thereof, or

(d) has been withdrawn by the Holder thereof.

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70. “Disclosure Statement” means the disclosure statement for the Plan, including all 

exhibits and schedules thereto, and approved by the Title III Court pursuant to Bankruptcy Code 

section 1125.

71. “Disclosure Statement Order” means the order of the Title III Court approving the 

Disclosure Statement.

72. “Disputed” means, with respect to any Claim, a Claim that is not yet Allowed, 

including (a) any Proof of Claim that, on its face, is contingent or unliquidated, (b) any Proof of 

Claim or request for payment of an Administrative Expense Claim filed after the Effective Date, 

applicable bar date, or the deadline for filing Proofs of Claim based on PREPA’s rejection of 

Executory Contracts or Unexpired Leases, as applicable, and (c) any Claim that is subject to an 

objection or a motion to estimate, in each case that has not been withdrawn, resolved, or ruled on 

by a Final Order of the Title III Court.

73. “Distribution Agent” means, as applicable, PREPA, Reorganized PREPA, the GUC

Trustee, or such Entity or Entities designated by the Oversight Board, each of which is to make or 

to facilitate distributions in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.

74. “Distribution Date” means, except as otherwise set forth herein, the date or dates 

determined by the Oversight Board or the GUC Trustee, as applicable, on or after the Effective 

Date, upon which the Distribution Agent shall make distributions to Holders of Allowed Claims 

entitled to receive distributions under the Plan.

75. “Distribution Record Date” means the Ballot Date or such other date established 

by a separate Final Order of the Title III Court, including the Confirmation Order; provided, 

however, that the “Distribution Record Date” shall not apply to any publicly held securities that 

will receive a distribution pursuant to the Plan through DTC.

76. “DTC” means The Depository Trust Company.

77. “Effective Date” means the date that is the first Business Day after the Confirmation 

Date on which all conditions precedent to the occurrence of the Effective Date set forth in Article 

XXIX.A of the Plan have been satisfied or waived in accordance with Article XXIX.B of the Plan.

78. “Election of Settlement Class Signature Page” means the signature page attached 

to the Settlement Offer Memorandum and PSA, pursuant to which a Holder of PREPA Revenue 

Bond Claims or a Holder of Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims may elect to be a Settling 

Bondholder or Settling Monoline by returning such completed signature page to the Oversight 

Board by the Settlement Offer Deadline and otherwise in accordance with the terms of the 

Settlement Offer Memorandum.

79. “Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim” means a Claim arising from or 

related to (a) an Eminent Domain Proceeding and a Final Order entered therein for an amount in 

excess of the amount deposited by the condemnor in accordance with the terms and provisions of 

32 L.P.R.A. § 2907, including, without limitation, interest accrued with respect thereto or (b) an 

asserted inverse condemnation of property caused by an asserted taking of property for public use 

by the Debtor without due process of law and without having received just compensation, 

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including, without limitation, through the imposition of development restrictions or use 

limitations.

80. “Eminent Domain Proceeding” means a condemnation action or proceeding 

commenced by PREPA in the Court of First Instance in accordance with the terms and provisions 

of 32 L.P.R.A. § 2905 to obtain title to real property located on Puerto Rico. 

81. “Entity” has the meaning set forth in Bankruptcy Code section 101(15).

82. “Excess New Bonds” means the Net Remaining New Bonds, if any, available for 

distribution, after making the distributions of Net Remaining New Bonds provided for by the Plan 

to (a) the GUC Trust, (b) Holders of Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claims or Holders of Assured 

Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims that are a Settling Bondholder or a Settling Monoline, and 

(c) Holders of Allowed Fuel Line Loan Claims.

83. “Exculpated Party” means, collectively, and in each case in its capacity as such: 

(a) PREPA; (b) the Oversight Board; (c) AAFAF; (d) the Creditors’ Committee; (e) the Vitol 

Parties, except with respect to the Vitol-SCC AP; (f) the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors; and 

(g) with respect to each of the foregoing, such Entity’s current and former Related Persons.

84. “Executory Contract” means a contract or lease to which PREPA is a party that is 

subject to assumption, rejection, or assumption and assignment in accordance with Bankruptcy 

Code section 365, except as provided in PROMESA section 311.

85. “Federal Claims” means, collectively, any and all Claims of the United States of 

America, its agencies, departments or agents, including, without limitation, the United States 

Department Housing and Urban Development, the United States Department of Homeland 

Security, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the United States Department 

of Labor.

86. “Final Order” means, as applicable, an order or judgment of a court of competent 

jurisdiction that has been entered on the docket maintained by the clerk of such court and has not 

been reversed, vacated, or stayed and as to which (a) the time to appeal, petition for certiorari, or 

move for a new trial, re-argument, or rehearing has expired and as to which no appeal, petition for 

certiorari, remand proceeding, or other proceedings for a new trial, re-argument, or rehearing shall 

then be pending, or (b) if an appeal, writ of certiorari, new trial, re-argument, or rehearing thereof 

has been sought, (i) such order or judgment shall have been affirmed or remanded in part or in full, 

with no further proceedings on remand, by the highest court to which such order was appealed, 

certiorari shall have been denied, or a new trial, re-argument, or rehearing shall have been denied 

or resulted in no modification of such order, and (ii) the time to take any further appeal, petition 

for certiorari, or move for a new trial, re-argument, or rehearing shall have expired; provided, 

however, that the possibility that a motion under Rule 60 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 

or any analogous rule under the Bankruptcy Rules or the Local Bankruptcy Rules, may be filed 

relating to such order shall not prevent such order from being a Final Order, except as provided in 

the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the Bankruptcy Rules, or the Local Bankruptcy Rules.

87. “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law” means the findings of fact and 

conclusions of law of the Title III Court entered in the Title III Case in connection with 

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confirmation of the Plan in accordance with section 314 of PROMESA and section 1129 of the 

Bankruptcy Code, made applicable in the Title III Case in accordance with section 301 of 

PROMESA. 

88. “Fiscal Plan” means a “Fiscal Plan” as defined in PROMESA section 5(10).

89. “Fiscal Year” means a fiscal year of PREPA, commencing on July 1st and 

concluding on June 30th the following calendar year.

90. Fuel Line Citi Facility” means the Trade Finance Facility Agreement, dated July 

20, 2012, by and between PREPA and Citibank, N.A., as amended, amended and restated, 

supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time. 

91. “Fuel Line Facilities” means, collectively, the credit facilities extended to PREPA 

pursuant to the Fuel Line Scotia Facility and the Fuel Line Citi Facility. 

92. “Fuel Line Lender Priority Action” means the litigation styled Cortland Capital 

Market Services LLC, et al., v. The Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, 

et al., Case No. 19-00396-LTS, currently pending in the Title III Court, in which the lenders of the 

Fuel Line Loans asserted, among other things, that the Fuel Line Loans constitute “Current 

Expenses” under the Trust Agreement and have priority over PREPA’s bondholders.

93. “Fuel Line Lender PSA” means that certain Plan Support and Settlement

Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2022, by and among the Oversight Board and the Fuel Line 

Lender PSA Creditors, as it may be amended, modified, or supplemented in accordance with the 

terms thereof

94. “Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors” means, collectively, the parties to the Fuel Line 

Lender PSA, other than the Oversight Board, as they may change from time to time in accordance 

with the Fuel Line Lender PSA.

95. “Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Consummation Fees” means consummation 

costs of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) to be paid to the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors.

96. “Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Fees” means, collectively, the Fuel Line Lender 

PSA Creditors Consummation Fees and the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Professionals’ 

Reimbursement Fees.

97. “Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Professionals’ Reimbursement Fees” means

reimbursement of up to eleven million dollars ($11,000,000) in documented professional fees 

incurred by the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors.

98. “Fuel Line Loan Claim” means a Claim on account of Fuel Line Loans or otherwise 

arising from or related to the Fuel Line Facilities (including interest accrued through the Petition 

Date).

99. “Fuel Line Loans” means the loans or advances made under the Fuel Line Facilities.

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100. “Fuel Line Scotia Facility” means the Credit Agreement, dated May 4, 2012, by 

and among PREPA, Scotiabank de Puerto Rico, and certain lenders, as amended, amended and 

restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified from time to time. 

101. “General Unsecured Claim” means any unsecured Claim against PREPA other 

than an Administrative Expense Claim, a Federal Claim, a Professional Claim, an Eminent 

Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim, a Pension Claim, a Fuel Line Loan Claim, a PREPA 

Revenue Bond Claim (including a Deficiency Claim), a Vitol Claim, an Assured Insured Interest 

Rate Swaps Claim, a Secured Claim, an Ordinary Course Customer Claim, or a Section 510(b) 

Subordinated Claim. For the avoidance of doubt, each CBA Rejection Damages Claim shall be a 

“General Unsecured Claim.”

102. “General Unsecured Claim Recovery” means the aggregate recovery by Holders of 

Claims in the Unsecured Claims Pool, payable from the GUC Trust Assets, comprised of (a) the 

Avoidance Action Proceeds, (b) the GUC New Bonds, if any, and (c) the GUC CVI.

103. “Government Parties” means collectively, (a) the Oversight Board, (b) PREPA, 

and (c) AAFAF.

104. “Governmental Unit” has the meaning set forth in Bankruptcy Code section 

101(27).

105. “Gross Remaining New Bonds” means the Series B Bonds, if any, available for 

distribution after the Mandatory New Bonds Distribution and the GUC New Bonds Initial 

Distribution.

106. “GUC CVI” means CVI in the notional face amount equal to the Unsecured Claims 

Pool minus the sum of the (a) the amount of the Avoidance Action Proceeds as of the Effective 

Date and (b) face of amount of the GUC New Bonds.

107. “GUC Initial New Bonds Recovery Percentage” means fifty percent (50.0%).

108. “GUC New Bonds” means, collectively, the GUC New Bonds Initial Distribution 

and the GUC New Bonds Secondary Distribution.

109. “GUC New Bonds Initial Distribution” means the aggregate principal amount of 

Series B Bonds to be initially distributed to the GUC Trust for the benefit of Holders of Claims in 

the Unsecured Claims Pool, equal to the lesser of (a) the Unsecured Claims Pool Estimate times

the GUC Initial New Bonds Recovery Percentage and (b) all GUC Remaining New Bonds. 

110. “GUC New Bonds Secondary Distribution” means the aggregate principal amount 

of Net Remaining New Bonds distributed to the GUC Trust for the benefit of Holders of Claims 

in the Unsecured Claims Pool, after the GUC New Bonds Initial Distribution, equal to the 

Unsecured Claims Pool Estimate minus the GUC New Bonds Initial Distribution divided by the 

Remaining Series B Bonds Claims Pool, which resulting fraction shall be multiplied by the Net 

Remaining New Bonds; provided, however, the sum of the GUC New Bonds Initial Distribution 

plus the GUC New Bonds Secondary Distribution shall not exceed one hundred percent (100.0%) 

of the Unsecured Claims Pool Estimate.

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111. “GUC Remaining New Bonds” means the Series B Bonds, if any, available for 

distribution after the Mandatory New Bonds Distribution.

112. “GUC Trust” means an Entity to be established on or prior to the Effective Date for 

the benefit of Holders of Claims in the Unsecured Claims Pool, which Entity shall be a liquidating 

trust managed in accordance with the GUC Trust Deed of Trust.

113. “GUC Trust Assets” means, collectively, (a) the Avoidance Action Proceeds, 

(b) the GUC New Bonds, if any, and (c) the GUC CVI.

114. “GUC Trust Beneficiaries” means, collectively, the Holders of Claims in the 

Unsecured Claims Pool.

115. “GUC Trust Board” means the three (3) member board appointed as of the 

Effective Date to govern the GUC Trust, selected by the Oversight Board.

116. “GUC Trust Deed of Trust” means the deed of trust to be executed and delivered 

on or prior to the Effective Date providing for, among other things, the distribution of the General 

Unsecured Claims Recovery to the Holders of Claims in the Unsecured Claims Pool.

117. “GUC Trust Interests” means the beneficial interests in the GUC Trust allocated in 

accordance with the terms and provisions of the Plan to for the benefit of Holders of Claims in the 

Unsecured Claims Pool.

118. “GUC Trustee” means the trustee appointed by the GUC Trust Board, by a simple 

majority vote of such board, contemporaneously with the Effective Date in accordance with the 

terms and provisions of the GUC Trust Deed of Trust, including, without limitation, any successor 

thereto.

119. “Holder” means an Entity holding a Claim, except as provided in PROMESA 

section 301(c)(3).

120. “Impaired” means a Claim that is not Unimpaired.

121. “Insurance Policies” means, collectively, all of the Debtor’s insurance policies, 

excluding any insurance policies issued by Monoline Insurers with respect to Insured PREPA 

Revenue Bonds.

122. “Insured PREPA Revenue Bonds” means the PREPA Revenue Bonds insured 

pursuant to insurance policies issued by the Monoline Insurers.

123. “Interest Rate Covenant” shall have the meaning given to it in Article XVII.J of the 

Plan.

124. “IRC” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from 

time to time.

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125. “IRS” means the Internal Revenue Service, an agency of the United States 

Department of Treasury.

126. “Law 458 Action” means the litigation styled PREPA v. Vitol Inc. et al., Adv. Proc. 

No. 19-00453 in [Case No. 17-BK-3283-LTS].

127. “Legacy Charge” means the hybrid fixed monthly flat fee and volumetric charge 

by Reorganized PREPA to be included in Reorganized PREPA’s rates, fees, and charges to its 

customers, as more fully described on Schedule B hereto, as such Schedule B may be amended 

or modified up to and including the Effective Date, to pay principal and interest on the New Bonds

and any Refunding Bonds, in structure and amounts that do not delay or extend the Series A Bonds’ 

expected repayment date and expected weighted average life as set forth in the Fuel Line Lender 

PSA, and otherwise that are reasonably acceptable to the Required Fuel Line Lenders. 

128. “Legacy Charge Revenues” means, during the applicable period, the portion, 

expressed in dollars, of all Revenues attributable to the Legacy Charge, as calculated by a Servicer 

and certified by an officer thereof to the New Master Trustee.

129. “Lien” has the meaning set forth in Bankruptcy Code section 101(37).

130. “Local Bankruptcy Rules” means the Local Bankruptcy Rules of the United States 

Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico and, to the extent applicable to the Title III Case, 

the Local District Court Rules for the District of Puerto Rico, each as amended from time to time.

131. “Mandatory New Bonds Distribution” means the New Bonds to be issued pursuant 

to this Plan and distributed in accordance with the following provisions of the Plan: Article 

IV.A(ii); Article V.A(ii); Article VII.A(i); Article VII.A(ii); Article VII.B; Article X.A; and 

Article XVI.H.

132. “Monoline Insurers” means Assured, National, and Syncora.

133. “National” means National Public Finance Guarantee Corporation.

134. “Net Remaining New Bonds” means the Series B Bonds, if any, available for 

distribution after the Mandatory New Bonds Distribution, the GUC New Bonds Initial 

Distribution, and the PREPA PayGo New Bonds Distribution.

135. “Net Revenues” means Revenues minus Operating Expenses.

136. “New Bond Defeasance Date” means date on which the principal and interest owed 

on the Series B Bonds (and any Refunding Bonds issued pursuant to the New Master Indenture) 

are indefeasibly paid in full in Cash, or are otherwise deemed not to be outstanding in accordance 

with the terms of the New Master Indenture.

137. “New Bonds” means, collectively, the Series A Bonds and Series B Bonds to be 

issued by Reorganized PREPA pursuant to the Plan on the Effective Date, having an aggregate 

original principal amount of up to approximately five billion, four hundred million dollars 

($5,400,000,000).

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138. “New Master Indenture” means the master trust indenture to be executed and 

delivered on or prior to the Effective Date pursuant to which Reorganized PREPA shall issue the 

New Bonds and the CVI, and includes all of the terms and provisions in connection therewith, 

which shall not be inconsistent with the Fuel Line Lender PSA and shall be reasonably acceptable 

to the Required Fuel Line Lenders, as the same may be amended, supplemented, or modified from 

time to time in accordance with its terms and conditions, a form of which will be attached to the 

Plan Supplement.

139. “New Master Trustee” means the trustee or replacement trustee, as the case may 

be, appointed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the New Master Indenture.

140. “Non-Settling Bondholder” means a Holder of PREPA Revenue Bond Claims that 

is not a Monoline Insurer that did not timely submit to the Solicitation Agent by the Settlement 

Offer Deadline the Election of Settlement Class Signature Page issued to such Holder.

141. “Non-Settling CVI” means, (a) if the Non-Settling CVI Conditions are met, CVI in 

the notional face amount equal to the sum of the Remaining Disallowed Non-Settling Claims of 

all Holders of PREPA Revenue Bonds Claims that are a Non-Settling Bondholder or a NonSettling Monoline as calculated in Article V.A(iv) of the Plan, or (b) if the Non-Settling CVI 

Conditions are not met, CVI in the notional face amount of zero dollars ($0.00).

142. “Non-Settling CVI Conditions” means if (a) Class 2 votes to accept the Plan and 

(b) a Final Order is entered in the Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge determining that the 

PREPA Revenue Bonds are recourse solely to the Sinking Fund.

143. “Non-Settling Monoline” means (a) a Holder of PREPA Revenue Bond Claims that 

is a Monoline Insurer or (b) a Holder of Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims that did not 

timely submit to the Solicitation Agent by the Settlement Offer Deadline an Election of Settlement 

Class Signature Page issued to such Holder.

144. “Non-Settling Monoline Treatment” means the treatment provided to Holders of 

Allowed Claims in Class 2.

145. “Operating Expenses” means Reorganized PREPA’s reasonable and necessary 

current expenses of maintaining, repairing and operating the system and shall include, without 

limiting the generality of the foregoing, all administrative expenses, insurance premiums, expenses 

of preliminary surveys not chargeable to capital expenditures, engineering expenses relating to 

operation and maintenance, legal expenses, any payment to pension, pension trust, or retirement 

funds, and all other expenses required to be paid by Reorganized PREPA under the provisions of 

the definitive documentation governing the New Bonds, under its contractual obligations

(including under any contracts relating to a “PREPA Transaction” as defined in Act 120-2018), or 

by law, or permitted by standard practices for public utility systems, plus a reserve of up to two 

(2) months of expenditures for the foregoing as reasonably estimated by Reorganized PREPA from 

time to time.

146. “Ordinary Course Customer Claim” means a Claim, other than a Disputed Claim,

held by a customer of PREPA related to ordinary course customer matters, including a Claim 

related to overpayment of customer bills or customer deposits held by PREPA.

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147. “Oversight Board” means the Financial Oversight and Management Board for 

Puerto Rico established pursuant to PROMESA section 101, as the Debtor’s Title III representative 

in its Title III Case pursuant to PROMESA section 315(b).

148. “Participant” means a current, former, active, inactive, retired, or disabled 

employee who holds an accrued claim against PREPA ERS for one or more retirement benefits on 

account of being or having been a participant in PREPA ERS, together with its beneficiaries, if 

any.

149. “Payment Waterfall” shall have the meaning given to it in Article XVII.G of the 

Plan.

150. “Pension Claim” means the Claim of PREPA ERS on account of contributions 

owed (including amounts payable in the future) by PREPA to PREPA ERS to pay retiree pension 

benefits in accordance with the PREPA ERS Regulations, collective bargaining agreements, 

resolutions, and applicable law, including any Claim for rejection damages with respect to 

PREPA’s rejection of any pre-petition obligations to pay retiree pension benefits pursuant to any 

Executory Contract.

151. “Person” has the meaning set forth in Bankruptcy Code section 101(41).

152. “Petition Date” means July 2, 2017, the date on which the Title III Case was 

commenced.

153. “Plan” means this plan of adjustment, including the Plan Supplement and all 

exhibits, supplements, appendices, and schedules.

154. “Plan Supplement” means any compilation of documents and forms of documents, 

agreements, schedules, and exhibits to the Plan, including, among other documents, the New 

Master Indenture, the GUC Trust Deed of Trust, the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement, the 

PREPA PayGo Deed of Trust, and the Schedule of Assumed Contracts and Leases which shall be 

filed with the Title III Court no later than seven (7) days before the Ballot Date or such later date 

as may be approved by the Title III Court on notice to parties in interest, and additional documents 

filed with the Title III Court prior to the Effective Date as amendments to the Plan Supplement, 

each of which shall be consistent in all respects with, and shall otherwise contain, the terms and 

conditions set forth on the exhibits and schedules attached hereto, where applicable, and which 

shall not be inconsistent with the Fuel Line Lender PSA. The Plan Supplement shall be deemed 

incorporated into and part of the Plan as if set forth herein in full.

155. “PREB” means the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau or its successor or designee.

156. “PREPA” means the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, a public corporation of 

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico established pursuant to Act No. 83 of 1941, as amended.

157. “PREPA ERS” means the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority Employee 

Retirement System, or by its Spanish name Sistema de Retiro de los Empleados de la Autoridad 

de Energía Eléctrica (the “SREAEE” by its Spanish acronym), the entity responsible for the 

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administration and payment of PREPA’s pension obligations, pursuant to Resolution No. 200, 

adopted on June 25, 1945.

158. “PREPA ERS Priority Action” means the litigation styled Sistema de Retiro de Los 

Empleados de la Autoridad de Energia Electrica v. The Financial Oversight and Management 

Board for Puerto Rico, et al., Case No. 19-00405-LTS, currently pending in the Title III Court.

159. “PREPA ERS Regulations” means the regulations adopted by PREPA pursuant to 

PREPA’s Resolution No. 200, adopted June 25, 1945, that provide for the governance, funding, 

and operation of PREPA ERS, as amended from time to time. 

160. “PREPA PayGo Deed of Trust” means the deed of trust to be executed and 

delivered on or prior to the Effective Date, substantially in the form included in the Plan 

Supplement, providing for, among other things, the creation of the PREPA PayGo Trust and terms 

for the deposit of funds by PREPA and withdrawal of monies to reimburse PREPA ERS for 

payment of benefits to Participants as adjusted by this Plan.

161. “PREPA PayGo New Bonds Distribution” means the aggregate principal amount 

of Series B Bonds to be initially distributed to the PREPA PayGo Trust for the benefit of PREPA 

ERS, equal to the product of (a) twenty percent (20.0%) times (b) the Gross Remaining New 

Bonds.

162. “PREPA PayGo Trust” means the reserve trust to be created in accordance with the 

terms and conditions hereof, which reserve trust shall be utilized to reimburse PREPA ERS on an 

annual basis for payment of retirement benefits to Participants as adjusted by this Plan.

163. “PREPA Revenue Bond Claim” means a Claim against PREPA on account of any 

PREPA Revenue Bonds, including both Insured PREPA Revenue Bonds and Uninsured PREPA 

Revenue Bonds.

164. “PREPA Revenue Bonds” means bonds issued by PREPA pursuant to the Trust 

Agreement.

165. “Pro Rata Share” means with respect to Allowed Claims (i) within the same Class, 

the proportion that an Allowed Claim bears to the sum of all Allowed Claims within such Class, 

and (ii) among multiple Classes, the proportion that Allowed Claims in any such Class bears to 

the sum of the Allowed Claims in all such Classes. 

166. “Professional” means an Entity: (a) whose compensation for services rendered 

prior to or on the Effective Date is subject to PROMESA sections 316 and 317, and (i) employed 

in the Title III Case by the Debtor (in the Debtor’s sole discretion), (ii) employed in the Title III 

Case by the Oversight Board (in the Oversight Board’s sole discretion) or AAFAF (in AAFAF’s 

sole discretion), or (iii) employed in the Title III Case pursuant to a Final Order in accordance with 

Bankruptcy Code section 1103; or (b) for which compensation and reimbursement has been 

Allowed by the Bankruptcy Court pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 503(b)(4).

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167. “Professional Claim” means a Claim by a Professional seeking an award by the 

Title III Court of compensation for services rendered or reimbursement of expenses incurred 

through and including the Confirmation Date under PROMESA sections 316 and 317.

168. “PROMESA” means the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic 

Stability Act, Pub. L. No. 114-187, 130 Stat. 549 (2016), 48 U.S.C. § 2101, et. seq., as the same 

may be amended or modified.

169. “Proof of Claim” means a proof of Claim filed against PREPA in the Title III Case.

170. “Refunding Bonds” means, if applicable, any bonds or replacement financing 

incurred by Reorganized PREPA to refinance the (a) New Bonds or (b)(i) Refunding Bonds 

incurred by Reorganized PREPA to refinance the Refunding Bonds described in the immediately 

preceding clause (a) or (ii) any such further refinancings of Refunding Bonds, as applicable, which 

Refunding Bonds shall be secured by Net Revenues up to the amount of the Legacy Charge 

Revenues, and right to receive such Net Revenues in each case up to the amount of the Legacy

Charge Revenues pledged to secure the New Bonds, and otherwise be issued in accordance with 

the New Master Indenture; provided, that if any Series A Bonds are still outstanding when 

Refunding Bonds are issued, such Refunding Bonds shall (a) be subordinate in principal payment 

priority to the Series A Bonds, and (b) not in any way affect the terms of the Series A Bonds as set 

forth herein.

171. “Related Persons” means, with respect to any Entity (including for the avoidance 

of doubt, the Commonwealth, the Government Parties, and the Creditors’ Committee), its 

predecessors, successors, and assigns (whether by operation of law or otherwise), and their 

respective current and former employees, managers, elected or appointed officials, directors, 

officers, board members, principals, members, equity holders (whether such interests are held 

directly or indirectly), partners, financial advisors, attorneys, accountants, investment bankers, 

consultants, agents, and professionals (including, without limitation, any and all Professionals 

retained by the Debtor, the Oversight Board, AAFAF, and the Creditors’ Committee), or other 

representatives, nominees, or investment managers, each acting in such capacity, and any Entity 

claiming by or through any of them (including their respective officers, directors, managers, 

shareholders, partners, employees, members, and professionals), each in its respective capacity as 

such; provided, however, that “Related Persons” is not intended, nor shall it be construed, to 

include the Commonwealth.

172. “Released Claims” means, collectively, (a) Claims and Causes of Action that arise 

in, are related to, or have been or could have been asserted against PREPA or its Assets in the Title 

III Case, including all Claims held by Participants, (b) Claims and Causes of Action that have been 

or could have been asserted by PREPA, the Oversight Board, and/or AAFAF (with respect to 

releases given by PREPA) and by Creditors (with respect to releases given by the Releasing 

Parties), (c) all Claims asserted by PREPA ERS in connection with the PREPA ERS Priority 

Action, and (d) Claims that otherwise arise from or relate to the Title III Case, the Plan, the 

Restructuring Transactions, and the compromises and settlements set forth herein; provided, 

however, that “Released Claims” is not intended to include, nor shall it have the effect of including, 

Claims or Causes of Action unrelated to the Debtor; provided, further, that “Released Claims” is 

not intended to release, nor shall it have the effect of releasing, any party from the performance of 

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its obligations in accordance with the Confirmation Order or the Plan, including, without 

limitation, performance of obligations arising from or related to the New Bonds.

173. “Released Party” means collectively, and in each case in its capacity as such: 

(a) PREPA; (b) the Oversight Board; (c) AAFAF; (d) the Vitol Parties, solely with respect to the 

Law 458 Action; (e) each Settling Bondholder that votes to accept the Plan; (f) each Settling 

Monoline that votes to accept the Plan; (f) the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors; (g) with respect 

to each of the foregoing, each of their respective current and former Related Persons.

174. “Releasing Parties” means, collectively: (a) all Holders of Claims against the 

Debtor or their Assets who were entitled to vote on the Plan and voted to accept the Plan; (b) such 

Holders’ current and former Affiliates; and (c) with respect to the foregoing clauses (a) and (b), 

each such Entity’s current and former Related Persons. 

175. “Remaining Claim” means, with respect to any Allowed Claim, the amount of such

Allowed Claim minus the total Cash and face value of New Bonds, if any such Holder has received 

on account of such Allowed Claim, at the time the Remaining Claim is calculated.

176. “Remaining Disallowed Non-Settling Claim” shall have the meaning given to it in 

Article V.A(iv) of the Plan.

177. “Remaining Legacy Charge” means the Legacy Charge, from and after the New 

Bond Defeasance Date, through the CVI Maturity Date.

178. “Remaining Legacy Charge Revenues” means, during the applicable period, the 

portion, expressed in dollars, of all Revenues attributable to the Remaining Legacy Charge, as 

calculated by PREPA and certified by an officer thereof to the New Master Trustee.

179. “Remaining Net Revenues” means the Net Revenues from and after the New Bond 

Defeasance Date through the CVI Maturity Date.

180. “Remaining Series B Bonds Claims Pool” means, at the time immediately following 

the Mandatory New Bonds Distribution, the GUC New Bonds Initial Distribution, and the PREPA 

PayGo New Bonds Distribution, the sum of (a) the Remaining Claims of the Settling Bondholders 

and Settling Monolines, (b) the Remaining Claims of the Fuel Line Lenders, which shall be 

$112,141,934.97, and (c) the Unsecured Claims Pool Estimate minus the GUC New Bonds Initial 

Distribution.

181. “Reorganized Debtor” or “Reorganized PREPA” means PREPA, from and after the 

Effective Date. 

182. “Reorganized Debtor By-Laws” means the by-laws of Reorganized PREPA, to the 

extent applicable, from and after the Effective Date.

183. “Required Fuel Line Lenders” means the Fuel Line Lenders that beneficially own 

or control, in the aggregate, at least a majority in principal amount of the Fuel Line Loans 

beneficially owned or controlled, in the aggregate, by the Fuel Line Lenders at such time.

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184. “Restructuring Transactions” means the Debtor’s restructuring, including, without 

limitation, the transactions described in this Plan.

185. “Retiree” means a person who, as reflected in the records of PREPA ERS as of the 

Effective Date, receives a pension or annuity from PREPA ERS.

186. “Revenues” means all moneys received by Reorganized PREPA, including the

income derived by Reorganized PREPA from the sale of electricity generated or distributed, any 

proceeds of use and occupancy insurance or any part thereof, and income from investments made 

by Reorganized PREPA.

187. “Schedule of Assumed Contracts and Leases” means the schedule of Executory 

Contracts and Unexpired Leases to be assumed by PREPA pursuant to the Plan, filed as part of the 

Plan Supplement, as may be amended by PREPA from time to time prior to the Confirmation Date.

188. “Section 510(b) Subordinated Claim” means any Claim, to the extent determined 

pursuant to a Final Order, against the Debtor or its Assets arising from or relating to (a) rescission 

of a purchase or sale of an existing security of the Debtor or an Affiliate of the Debtor, (b) purchase, 

sale, or retention of such a security, or (c) reimbursement, indemnification, or contribution allowed 

under section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code on account of such Claim.

189. “Secured Claim” means a Claim: (a) secured by a valid Lien on any of the Debtor’s 

assets to the extent of the value of such collateral, as determined in accordance with Bankruptcy 

Code section 506(a); or (b) subject to a valid right of setoff pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 

553.

190. “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. §§ 77a–77aa, as 

amended, or any similar federal, state, or local law.

191. “Series A Bond Defeasance Date” means date on which the principal and interest 

owed on the Series A Bonds are indefeasibly paid in full in Cash, or are otherwise deemed not to 

be outstanding in accordance with the terms of the New Master Indenture.

192. “Series A Bonds” means the series of New Bonds known as the Series A Bonds to 

be distributed to the Holders of Allowed Fuel Line Loan Claims, with the principal terms as 

described in Article XVII, and otherwise issued in accordance with the terms and conditions of the 

Plan, the Confirmation Order, and the New Master Indenture.

193. “Series B Bonds” means the series of New Bonds known as the Series B Bonds to 

be distributed pursuant to the Plan, which may be issued in the form of current interest bonds, 

capital appreciation bonds, convertible bonds, or convertible capital appreciation bonds, with the 

principal terms as described in Article XVII, and otherwise issued in accordance with the terms 

and conditions of the Plan, the Confirmation Order, and the New Master Indenture.

194. “Servicer” means the Entity with control over the operation of PREPA’s 

transmission and distribution system and collection of Revenues from time to time.

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195. “Settlement Offer Deadline” means February 15, 2023, at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern 

Standard Time), or such other date and time as determined by the Oversight Board in its sole 

discretion.

196. “Settlement Offer Memorandum and PSA” means that certain settlement offer 

memorandum and plan support agreement, to be distributed to all Holders of PREPA Revenue

Bond Claims and Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims, describing the terms of the 

settlement offer being made to such Holders pursuant thereto, including the proposed treatment of 

PREPA Revenue Bond Claims pursuant to Article IV and Article V of the Plan and the proposed 

treatment of Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims pursuant to Article X of the Plan, and 

distributing the Election of Settlement Class Signature Page, pursuant to which a Holder of PREPA 

Revenue Bond Claims or Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims may accept the proposed 

settlement for such Claim, and have, among other things, such (a) Holder’s Claim treated as a 

Settling Bondholder in accordance with Article IV of the Plan or as a Settling Monoline in 

accordance with Article V of the Plan, and (b) Holder release and discharge any and all Claims, 

Causes of Action, and/or counterclaims in or related to the Amended Lien & Recourse Challenge 

or any proceeding related thereto.

197. “Settling Bondholder” means a Holder of PREPA Revenue Bond Claims that is not 

a Monoline Insurer that timely submitted to the Solicitation Agent by the Settlement Offer

Deadline the Election of Settlement Class Signature Page issued to such Holder pursuant to the 

Settlement Offer Memorandum and PSA.

198. “Settling CVI” means CVI in the notional face amount equal to the sum of the 

Remaining Claims of all Holders of PREPA Revenue Bonds Claims that are a Settling Bondholder 

or a Settling Monoline as calculated in Article IV.A(iv) of the Plan.

199. “Settling Monoline” means (a) a Holder of PREPA Revenue Bond Claims that is a 

Monoline Insurer or (b) a Holder of Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claims that timely 

submitted to the Solicitation Agent by the Settlement Offer Deadline an Election of Settlement 

Class Signature Page issued to such Holder pursuant to the Settlement Offer Memorandum and 

PSA.

200. “Settling Monoline Treatment” means the treatment provided to Holders of 

Allowed Claims in Class 1.

201. “Sinking Fund” means the deposit account(s) held by the Bond Trustee which are

subject to a perfected security interest in favor of the Bond Trustee, for the benefit of the holders 

of the PREPA Revenue Bonds.

202. “Solicitation Agent” means Kroll Restructuring Administration LLC, the notice, 

claims, and solicitation agent retained by PREPA in the Title III Case by order of the Title III 

Court.

203. “Syncora” means Syncora Guarantee Inc.

204. “Takings Clause SCOTUS Victory” means a ruling in favor of the Oversight 

Board’s appeal of the Commonwealth Confirmation Order and the Findings of Fact and 

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Conclusions of Law entered with respect thereto relating to the non-dischargeability of Eminent 

Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claims against the Commonwealth.

205. “Title III” means Title III of PROMESA.

206. “Title III Case” means the Title III case under PROMESA pending for PREPA in 

the Title III Court, captioned as In re Financial Oversight & Management Board for Puerto Rico 

as representative of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority [Case No. 17-BK-4780-LTS (D.P.R.)].

207. “Title III Court” means the United States District Court for the District of Puerto 

Rico or such other court having jurisdiction over the Title III Case.

208. “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date for the CVI, the yield 

to maturity of United States Treasury securities (excluding inflation indexed securities) with a 

constant maturity (as compiled and published in the Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) 

that has become publicly available not less than two (2) Business Days nor more than forty-five 

(45) calendar days prior to the redemption date (or, if such statistical release is no longer published, 

any publicly available source of similar market data)), most nearly equal to the period from the 

redemption date to the weighted average maturity date of equal annual installments of the 

outstanding CVI to be redeemed, as determined by an independent accounting firm, investment 

banking firm, or financial advisor retained by PREPA or the Commonwealth at PREPA’s or the 

Commonwealth’s expense; provided, however, that if the period from the redemption date to such 

maturity date is less than one (1) year, the weekly average yield on actually traded United States 

Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one (1) year will be used. 

209. “Trust Agreement” means that certain Trust Agreement dated as of January 1, 1974, 

as amended, by and between PREPA and U.S. Bank National Association, as successor trustee.

210. “UEPI CBA” means that certain collective bargaining agreement between the 

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and the Union of Independent Professional Employees.

211. “Unclaimed Distribution” means any distribution under the Plan on account of an 

Allowed Claim to a Holder that has not: (a) accepted a particular distribution or, in the case of 

distributions made by check, negotiated such check; (b) given notice to PREPA of an intent to 

accept a particular distribution; (c) responded to PREPA’s requests for information necessary to 

facilitate a particular distribution; or (d) taken any other action necessary to facilitate such 

distribution.

212. “Unexpired Lease” means a lease of nonresidential real property to which PREPA 

is a party that is subject to assumption or rejection under Bankruptcy Code section 365, except as 

provided in PROMESA section 311.

213. “Unimpaired” is used to describe a Class of Claims that is unimpaired within the 

meaning of Bankruptcy Code section 1124.

214. “Uninsured PREPA Revenue Bond” means a PREPA Revenue Bond that is not 

insured by a Monoline Insurer.

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215. “Unsecured Claims Pool” means the sum of all Allowed Claims of Holders of:

(a) the General Unsecured Claims; 

(b) the Vitol Claim;

(c) the Deficiency Claims, if any;

(d) if there is a Takings Clause SCOTUS Victory, Remaining Claims with 

respect to the Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claims after the 

Holder of such Allowed Claim has caused the Clerk of the Court of First 

Instance to distribute to such Holder the amount of monies on deposit with 

the Court of First Instance with respect to the condemned property; and 

(e) the Federal Claims, if any, which may be Impaired in accordance with 

Article XIII of the Plan.

216. “Unsecured Claims Pool Estimate” means the estimated amount of the Unsecured 

Claims Pool, which shall be the sum of:

(a) eight hundred million dollars ($800,000,000);

(b) the Vitol Claim; and

(c) the Deficiency Claims, if any.

217. “UTIER CBA” means that certain collective bargaining agreement between the 

Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and the Workers Union of the Electric Power and Irrigation 

Industry.

218. “Vitol” means Vitol Inc.

219. “Vitol Claim” means the Claim against PREPA on account of the Vitol Settlement 

Agreement.

220. “Vitol Parties” mean, collectively, Vitol and Vitol S.A.

221. “Vitol-SCC AP” means the action styled Special Claims Comm. v. Inspectorate 

America Corp., Adv. Proc. No. 19-00388 in [Case No. 17-BK-4780-LTS].

222. “Vitol Settlement Agreement” means that certain Settlement Agreement and Release

dated August 26, 2022, by and between the Oversight Board, Vitol, and Vitol S.A.

B. Rules of Interpretation

For purposes of the Plan: (a) in the appropriate context, each term, whether stated in the 

singular or the plural, shall include both the singular and the plural, and pronouns stated in the 

masculine, feminine, or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine, and the neuter gender; 

(b) unless otherwise specified, any reference herein to a contract, lease, instrument, release, 

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indenture, or other agreement or document being in a particular form or on particular terms and 

conditions means that such document shall be substantially in such form or substantially on such 

terms and conditions; (c) unless otherwise specified, any reference herein to an existing document, 

schedule, or exhibit, shall mean such document, schedule, or exhibit, as it may have been or may 

be amended, modified, or supplemented; (d) unless otherwise specified, all references herein to 

“Articles” and “Sections” are references to Articles and Sections, respectively, hereof or hereto; 

(e) the words “herein,” “hereof,” and “hereto” refer to the Plan in its entirety rather than to any 

particular portion of the Plan; (f) captions and headings to Articles and Sections are inserted for 

convenience of reference only and are not intended to contradict the text; (g) unless otherwise 

specified herein, the rules of construction set forth in Bankruptcy Code section 102 shall apply; 

(h) references to docket numbers of documents filed in the Title III Case are references to the 

docket numbers under the Title III Court’s CM/ECF system; (i) the words “include” and 

“including,” and variations thereof, shall not be deemed to be terms of limitation, and shall be 

deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation;” (j) any immaterial effectuating 

provisions may be interpreted by PREPA in such a manner that is consistent with the overall 

purpose and intent of the Plan, all without further notice to or action, order, or approval of the 

Title III Court or any other Entity; and (k) unless the context otherwise requires, any capitalized 

term used and not defined herein or elsewhere in the Plan that is defined in PROMESA or the 

Bankruptcy Code shall, if defined in PROMESA, have the meaning assigned to that term in 

PROMESA or, if not defined in PROMESA, but defined in the Bankruptcy Code, shall have the 

meaning ascribed thereto in the Bankruptcy Code.

C. Computation of Time

Unless otherwise specifically stated herein, the provisions of Bankruptcy Rule 9006(a) 

shall apply in computing any period of time prescribed or allowed herein. If the date on which a 

transaction may occur pursuant to the Plan shall occur on a day that is not a Business Day, then 

such transaction shall instead occur on the next succeeding Business Day.

D. Governing Law

Except to the extent that other federal law is applicable, or to the extent that an exhibit 

hereto or any document to be entered into in connection herewith provides otherwise, the rights, 

duties, and obligations arising under this Plan shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in 

accordance with, PROMESA (including the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code made applicable 

under PROMESA section 301) and, to the extent not inconsistent therewith, the laws of the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of laws.

E. Reference to Monetary Figures

All references in the Plan to monetary figures refer to currency of the United States of 

America, unless otherwise expressly provided.

F. Controlling Document

In the event of an inconsistency between the Plan and the Disclosure Statement, the terms 

of the Plan shall control in all respects. In the event of an inconsistency between the Plan and the 

Plan Supplement, the Plan shall control. In the event of any inconsistency between the Plan and 

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the Confirmation Order, the Confirmation Order shall control and be deemed a modification of the 

Plan; provided, however, that under no circumstances shall the Confirmation Order materially 

modify the economic terms set forth herein absent consent of the Oversight Board.

ARTICLE II

ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL CLAIMS

In accordance with Bankruptcy Code section 1123(a)(1), made applicable to this Title III 

Case pursuant to PROMESA section 301(a), Administrative Expense Claims and Professional 

Claims have not been classified as voting Classes.

A. Administrative Expense Claims

On the later to occur of (i) the Effective Date and (ii) the date on which an Administrative 

Expense Claim shall become an Allowed Claim, the Reorganized Debtor shall (a) pay to each 

Holder of an Allowed Administrative Expense Claim, in Cash, the full amount of such 

Administrative Expense Claim or (b) satisfy and discharge such Allowed Administrative Expense 

Claim in accordance with such other terms no more favorable to the claimant than as may be 

agreed upon by and between the Holder thereof and the Reorganized Debtor; provided, however, 

that Allowed Administrative Expense Claims representing indebtedness incurred in the ordinary 

course prior to the Effective Date by the Debtor shall be paid in full and performed by the 

Reorganized Debtor in accordance with the terms and subject to the conditions of any agreement 

governing, investment evidencing, or other document relating to such transactions; and, provided, 

further, that, if any such ordinary course expense is not billed, or a written request for payment is 

not made, within one hundred twenty (120) days after the Effective Date, such ordinary course 

expense shall be barred and the Holder thereof shall not be entitled to, or receive, a distribution 

pursuant to the Plan.

B. Disallowance of Claims Filed After the Administrative Claim Bar Date

After the Administrative Claim Bar Date, any Administrative Expense Claim, proof of 

which has not been filed, shall be deemed forever barred, and the Debtor and the Reorganized 

Debtor shall have no obligation with respect thereto; provided, however, that no proof of 

Administrative Expense Claim shall be required to be filed if such Administrative Expense Claim 

(a) shall have been incurred (i) in accordance with an order of the Title III Court or (ii) with the 

written consent of the applicable Government Parties expressly granting such Administrative 

Expense Claim, (b) is a Professional Claim, (c) is an Administrative Expense Claim of the IRS for 

the payment of taxes incurred by the Debtor during the period from and after the Petition Date, or 

(d) is the subject of a pending motion seeking allowance of an administrative expense.

C. Professional Compensation and Reimbursement Claims

All Entities awarded compensation, including, without limitation, to the fullest extent 

provided in respective letters of engagement or similar instruments or agreements, or 

reimbursement of expenses by the Title III Court shall be paid in full, in Cash, in the amounts 

allowed by the Title III Court (i) as soon as reasonably practicable following the later to occur of 

(a) the Effective Date and (b) the date upon which the Title III Court order allowing such Claims 

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is deemed to be a Final Order or (ii) upon such other terms no more favorable to the claimant than 

as may be mutually agreed upon between such claimant and the Government Parties; provided, 

however, that, except as provided herein, each Professional must file its application for final 

allowance of compensation for professional services rendered and reimbursement of expenses on 

or prior to the date that is one hundred twenty (120) days following the Effective Date. The 

Reorganized Debtor shall pay compensation for professional services extended and reimbursement 

of expenses incurred after the Effective Date in the ordinary course and without the need for Title 

III Court approval.

From and after the Confirmation Date, any requirement that Professionals comply with 

PROMESA sections 316 and 317 in seeking compensation for services rendered after such date 

shall terminate, and PREPA may employ and shall pay any Professional without any further notice 

to or action, order, or approval of the Title III Court. 

ARTICLE III

CLASSIFICATION OF CLAIMS

A. Classification of Claims 

Except for the Claims addressed in Article II of the Plan, all Claims are classified in the 

Classes set forth below in accordance with Bankruptcy Code section 1122. A Claim is classified 

in a particular Class only to the extent the Claim qualifies within the description of that Class and 

is classified in other Classes to the extent any portion of the Claim qualifies within the description 

of such other Classes. A Claim also is classified in a particular Class for the purpose of receiving 

distributions under the Plan only to the extent such is an Allowed Claim in that Class and has not 

been paid, released, or otherwise satisfied prior to the Effective Date.

Claims are classified as follows:

Class Claim Status Voting Rights

1 Settling Bondholder and Settling 

Monoline Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

2 Non-Settling Bondholder and NonSettling Monoline Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

3 Pension Claim Impaired Entitled to Vote

4 Fuel Line Loan Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

5 General Unsecured Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

6 Vitol Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

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Class Claim Status Voting Rights

7 Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps

Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

8 Ordinary Course Customer Claims Unimpaired Not Entitled to Vote

(Deemed to Accept)

9 Eminent Domain/Inverse 

Condemnation Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

10 Federal Claims Impaired Entitled to Vote

11 Convenience Claims Unimpaired Not Entitled to Vote

(Deemed to Accept)

12 Section 510(b) Subordinated Claims Impaired Not Entitled to Vote

(Deemed to Reject)

B. Special Provision Governing Unimpaired Claims

Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, nothing under the Plan shall affect PREPA’s 

rights regarding any Unimpaired Claim, including all rights regarding legal and equitable defenses 

to, or setoffs or recoupments against, any such Unimpaired Claim.

C. Elimination of Vacant Classes

Any Class of Claims that does not have a Holder of an Allowed Claim or a Claim 

temporarily Allowed by the Title III Court as of the date of the Confirmation Hearing shall be 

deemed eliminated from the Plan for purposes of voting to accept or reject the Plan and for 

purposes of determining acceptance or rejection of the Plan by such Class pursuant to Bankruptcy 

Code section 1129(a)(8).

D. Voting Classes; Presumed Acceptance by Non-Voting Classes

An Impaired Class of Holders of Claims shall have accepted the Plan if the Plan is accepted 

by at least two-thirds (2/3) in dollar amount and more than one-half (1/2) in number of the Allowed 

Claims of such Class that have voted to accept or reject the Plan. If a Class contains Claims eligible 

to vote and no Holders of Claims eligible to vote in such Class vote to accept or reject the Plan, 

that Class shall be deemed to accept the Plan; provided, however, such Class will not be used as 

an Impaired accepting Class pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 1129(a)(10).

E. Subordinated Claims

The allowance, classification, and treatment of all Allowed Claims and the respective 

distributions and treatments under the Plan take into account and conform to the relative priority 

and rights of the Claims in each Class in connection with any contractual, legal, and equitable 

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subordination rights relating thereto, whether arising under general principles of equitable 

subordination, Bankruptcy Code section 510(b), or otherwise. Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code 

section 510, the Oversight Board reserves the right to re-classify any Allowed Claim in accordance 

with any contractual, legal, or equitable subordination relating thereto.

F. Confirmation Pursuant to PROMESA Section 314

The Oversight Board shall seek Confirmation of the Plan pursuant to PROMESA 

section 314 with respect to any rejecting Class of Claims. The Oversight Board reserves the right 

to modify the Plan in accordance with Article XVI of the Plan to the extent, if any, that 

Confirmation pursuant to PROMESA section 314 requires modification, including by modifying 

the treatment applicable to a Class of Claims to render such Class of Claims Unimpaired to the 

extent permitted by PROMESA, the Bankruptcy Code ,and the Bankruptcy Rules.

G. Confirmation Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 1129(b)

In the event that any Impaired Class of Claims shall fail to accept, or be deemed to reject, 

the Plan in accordance with Bankruptcy Code section 1129(a), the Debtor reserves the right to 

(i) request that the Bankruptcy Court confirm the Plan in accordance with Bankruptcy Code 

section 1129(b) or (ii) amend the Plan, in accordance with the Fuel Line Lender PSA.

ARTICLE IV

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF 

SETTLING BONDHOLDER OR SETTLING MONOLINE CLAIMS (CLASS 1)

A. Treatment of Class 1 Claims

On the Effective Date, each Settling Bondholder or Settling Monoline that is a Holder of 

an Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claim shall receive, in full consideration, satisfaction, release, 

settlement, and exchange of such Holder’s Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claim, up to the full 

amount of such Holder’s Allowed Claim, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable treatment, 

in the following order:

(i) such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the funds deposited in the Sinking Fund;

(ii) Series B Bonds in the face amount equal to the product of (A) fifty percent (50.00%) times

(B) the amount of such Holder’s Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claim minus (C) the 

amount distributed to such Holder pursuant to the immediately preceding clause (i);

(iii) with respect to such Holder’s Remaining Claim after the collective distributions are made 

pursuant to the immediately preceding clauses (i) and (ii): (A) forty percent (40.0%) of 

such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the Net Remaining New Bonds, if any, available for 

distribution, to the Remaining Series B Bond Claims Pool; and (B) up to an additional sixty 

percent (60.0%) of such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the Net Remaining New Bonds, if any, 

available for distribution, to the Remaining Series B Bond Claims Pool, if and only if both 

(I) the face amount of the GUC New Bonds equal one hundred percent (100.0%) of the 

Unsecured Claims Pool Estimate and (II) the Remaining Claims of the Fuel Line Lenders 

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described in Article VII.A(iii) of the Plan receive Net Remaining New Bonds in the face 

amount equal to one hundred percent (100.0%) of such Remaining Claims; and

(iv) with respect to such Holder’s Remaining Claim after the collective distributions are made 

pursuant to the immediately preceding clauses (i), (ii), and (iii), such Holder’s Pro Rata 

Share of CVI along with all other Creditors of PREPA entitled to receive CVI pursuant to 

the Plan.

ARTICLE V

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

NON-SETTLING BONDHOLDER OR NON-SETTLING 

MONOLINE CLAIMS (CLASS 2)

A. Treatment of Class 2 Claims 

On the Effective Date, each Non-Settling Bondholder or Non-Settling Monoline that is a 

Holder of an Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claim shall receive, in full consideration, 

satisfaction, release, and exchange of such Holder’s Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claim, up to 

the full amount of such Holder’s Allowed Claim, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable 

treatment, in the following order:

(i) such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the amounts in the Sinking Fund;

(ii) the lesser of (A) such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of Series B Bonds in the face amount equal 

to the value of the Bond Collateral (as determined in connection with the Confirmation 

Hearing or any other appropriate proceeding), if any, minus the amount distributed to such

Holder pursuant to the immediately preceding clause (i), and (B) such Holder’s Pro Rata 

Share of the Series B Bonds available after the distributions of Series B Bonds are made 

pursuant to Article IV.A(ii);

(iii) with respect to such Holder’s Deficiency Claim that is a Remaining Claim, if any, after the 

collective distributions are made pursuant to the immediately preceding clauses (i) and (ii), 

such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the General Unsecured Claim Recovery; and 

(iv) if the Non-Settling CVI Conditions are met, each Holder shall receive, based on the amount 

of principal and interest accrued and unpaid through the Petition Date with respect to such 

Holder’s PREPA Revenue Bonds minus the Cash distributions made to such Holder 

pursuant to the preceding clause (i) (the “Remaining Disallowed Non-Settling Claim”),

such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of CVI along with all other Creditors of PREPA entitled to 

receive CVI pursuant to the Plan.

ARTICLE VI

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

PENSION CLAIM (CLASS 3)

A. Treatment of Class 3 Claims

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From and after the Effective Date, in full consideration, satisfaction, release, and exchange 

of the Pension Claim held by PREPA ERS, Reorganized PREPA shall pay to the PREPA PayGo

Trust, for the benefit of PREPA ERS, the amounts described in Article XXIII.B, sufficient to 

satisfy of Participants’ claims against PREPA ERS to the extent described in this Article VI.

1. Reimbursement of Benefit Payments by PREPA ERS to PREPA ERS 

Participants

a) The PREPA PayGo Trust shall reimburse the PREPA ERS for retirement 

benefits paid and administrative costs incurred in the prior Fiscal Year ending June 30; provided

that benefit payments for which PREPA ERS is entitled to reimbursement hereunder shall be 

limited to (i) benefits payable to any Participant who is a Retiree as of the Effective Date, without 

any further cost of living adjustments from and after the Effective Date, and (ii) benefits payable 

to Participants who are Active PREPA ERS Participants as of the Effective Date, (A) with benefit 

accruals frozen as of the Effective Date in the manner set forth in Schedule C hereto, and (B) not 

subject to any cost of living adjustments from and after the Effective Date.

b) The contractual obligations of PREPA to PREPA ERS as of the Petition 

Date, including, without limitation, the obligation to pay employer contributions sufficient to fund 

benefits as set forth in the PREPA ERS Regulations, shall be rescinded or deemed rejected 

pursuant to section 365(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, and, other than the obligations set forth in this 

Article VI and Article XXIII.B, no further obligation of PREPA or Reorganized PREPA to PREPA 

ERS shall arise in connection with such rejection.

2. Preemption

All provisions of the Commonwealth Constitution, Commonwealth statutes, 

executive orders, rules, regulations, and policies that create, require, or enforce employee pension 

and other pension-related benefits that are modified and/or preserved in whole or in part herein, to 

the extent inconsistent with the treatment of Allowed Pension Claim hereunder, including any 

provisions that would prohibit the enrollment of Active PREPA ERS Participants and subsequently 

hired employees of PREPA in the defined contribution plan for Commonwealth employees under 

Act 106-2017 as set forth in Article XVI, are preempted as inconsistent with PROMESA.

ARTICLE VII

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF 

FUEL LINE LOAN CLAIMS (CLASS 4)

A. Treatment of Class 4 Claims

On the Effective Date, each Holder of an Allowed Fuel Line Loan Claim shall receive, 

unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable treatment, in full consideration, satisfaction, 

settlement, release, and exchange of such Holder’s Allowed Fuel Line Loan Claim, up to the full 

amount of such Holder’s Allowed Claim, in the following order:

(i) Series A Bonds in the face amount equal to eighty-four percent (84.0%) of the amount of 

such Holder’s Allowed Fuel Line Loan Claim; 

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(ii) Series A Bonds or Cash, in the sole discretion of the Oversight Board, in the face amount 

of interest at a rate of six percent (6.0%) per annum deemed to have accrued on account of 

each Holder’s Pro Rata Share of Series A Bonds to be distributed pursuant to the 

immediately preceding clause (i), during a period equal to the shorter of (a) December 1, 

2022 to the Effective Date, and (b) one (1) year; and 

(iii) with respect to such Holder’s Remaining Claim after the collective distributions are made 

pursuant to the preceding clause (i), such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the Net Remaining 

New Bonds, if any, available for distribution to the Remaining Series B Bond Claims Pool.

B. Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Fees

On the Effective Date, each Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditor shall also receive, in the form 

of either additional Series A Bonds or Cash, in the Oversight Board’s sole discretion, and not on 

account of their Allowed Claim, such Fuel Line Lenders PSA Creditors’ (i) Pro Rata Share of the 

Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Consummation Fees in consideration for their assistance in 

formulating the Plan and (ii) pro rata share of the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Professionals’ 

Reimbursement Fees to compensate for the reasonable fees and expenses incurred in connection 

with the Title III Case and negotiating and executing the Fuel Line Lender PSA; provided, that ten 

percent (10%) of the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Professionals’ Reimbursement Fees shall be 

allocated to the Fuel Line Lenders PSA Creditor of record as of the Agreement Effective Date (as 

defined in the Fuel Line Lender PSA) under the Fuel Line Citi Facility and ninety percent (90%) 

of the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors Professionals’ Reimbursement Fees shall be allocated to 

the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors (party to the Fuel Line Lender PSA as of the Agreement 

Effective Date) under the Fuel Line Scotia Facility (and pro rata among such Fuel Line Lender 

PSA Creditors). The Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditor Fees compensate the Fuel Line Lender PSA 

Creditors for value received and constitute an essential component of the compromises and 

settlements embodied herein and are not severable from the other terms and provisions set forth 

herein. 

ARTICLE VIII

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

GENERAL UNSECURED CLAIMS (CLASS 5)

A. Treatment of Class 5 Claims

On the Effective Date, each Holder of an Allowed General Unsecured Claim shall receive 

in full consideration, satisfaction, release, and exchange of such Holder’s Allowed General 

Unsecured Claim, such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the General Unsecured Claim Recovery, up to 

the full amount of such Holder’s Allowed Claim, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable 

treatment.

B. Election to be Treated as a Convenience Claim

Notwithstanding the provisions of Article VIII.A of the Plan, any Holder of (i) an Allowed 

General Unsecured Claim, other than a General Unsecured Claim that is a component of a larger 

General Unsecured Claim, portions of which may be held by such or any other Holder of an 

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Allowed Claim, whose Allowed General Unsecured Claim is more than ten thousand dollars 

($10,000), and who elects to reduce the amount of such Allowed General Unsecured Claim to ten 

thousand dollars ($10,000) and (ii) multiple Allowed General Unsecured Claims that are greater 

than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) in the aggregate, and who elects to reduce the aggregate 

amount of such Allowed General Unsecured Claims to twenty thousand dollars ($20.000) shall, at 

such Holder’s option, be entitled to receive, based on such Allowed General Unsecured Claim as 

so reduced, distributions pursuant to Article XIV hereof. Such election must be made on the Ballot 

and be received by the Oversight Board on or prior to the Ballot Date. Any election made after 

the Ballot Date shall not be binding upon PREPA unless the Ballot Date is expressly waived, in 

writing, by the Oversight Board; provided, however, that, under no circumstances may such waiver 

by the Oversight Board occur on or after the Effective Date.

ARTICLE IX

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

VITOL CLAIM (CLASS 6)

A. Treatment of Class 6 Claims

On the Effective Date, the Holder of the Allowed Vitol Claim shall receive in full 

consideration, satisfaction, release, settlement, and exchange of such Holder’s Allowed Vitol 

Claim, fifty percent (50.0%) of the Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the General Unsecured Claim 

Recovery, up to the amount equal to fifty percent (50.0%) of such Holder’s Allowed Claim, unless 

such Holder agrees to a less favorable treatment.

ARTICLE X

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

ASSURED INSURED INTEREST RATE SWAPS CLAIMS (CLASS 7)

A. Treatment of Class 7 Claims

On the Effective Date, each Holder of an Allowed Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps 

Claim shall receive in full consideration, satisfaction, release, and exchange of such Holder’s 

Allowed Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claim, such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the Assured 

Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claim Recovery, up to the full amount of such Holder’s Allowed 

Claim, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable treatment.

ARTICLE XI

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

ORDINARY COURSE CUSTOMER CLAIMS (CLASS 8)

A. Treatment of Class 8 Claims

On the Effective Date, each Holder of an Allowed Ordinary Course Customer Claim shall 

receive in full consideration, satisfaction, release, and exchange of such Holder’s Allowed 

Ordinary Course Customer Claim, payment in full of such Holder’s Allowed Ordinary Course 

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Customer Claim in the ordinary course of business, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable 

treatment.

ARTICLE XII

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

EMINENT DOMAIN/INVERSE CONDEMNATION CLAIMS (CLASS 9)

A. Treatment of Class 9 Claims

From and after the Effective Date, (a) to the extent not modified prior thereto, the automatic 

stay extant pursuant to section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code and the discharge injunction pursuant 

to Article XXIV hereof shall be deemed modified in order to permit the Holder of an Eminent 

Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim to (i) liquidate such Eminent Domain/Inverse 

Condemnation Claim in such Holder’s Eminent Domain Proceeding and (ii) cause the Clerk of the 

Court of First Instance to distribute to such Holder the amount of monies on deposit with the Court 

of First Instance with respect to the condemned property, and (b) subject to the entry of the 

Confirmation Order and the Commonwealth Confirmation Order providing such Claims must be 

paid in full to the extent they are Allowed Claims for just compensation, upon each such order 

becoming a Final Order, and upon the occurrence of another Final Order determining the validity 

and amount of just compensation attributable to an Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation 

Claim, the Holder of an Allowed Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim shall be entitled 

to receive, in full consideration, satisfaction, release, and exchange of such Holder’s unpaid 

balance of its Allowed Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim, in Cash, one hundred 

percent (100.0%) of such unpaid balance, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable treatment; 

provided, however, that, in the event of a Takings Clause SCOTUS Victory, the Holder of such 

unpaid balance of an Allowed Eminent Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim shall receive, in full 

consideration, satisfaction, release, and exchange therefor, such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the 

General Unsecured Claim Recovery, up to the full amount of such Holder’s Allowed Eminent 

Domain/Inverse Condemnation Claim.

ARTICLE XIII

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

FEDERAL CLAIMS (CLASS 10)

A. Treatment of Class 10 Claims

On the Effective Date, each Holder of an Allowed Federal Claim shall receive in full 

consideration, satisfaction, release, and exchange of such Holder’s Allowed Federal Claim, the 

greater of (i) such Holder’s Pro Rata Share of the General Unsecured Claim Recovery, up to the 

full amount of such Holder’s Allowed Claim, and (ii) the treatment of such Allowed Federal 

Claims as required by section 304(h) of PROMESA, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable 

treatment.

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ARTICLE XIV

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

CONVENIENCE CLAIMS (CLASS 11)

A. Treatment of Class 11 Claims

On the later of the Effective Date and the date such Allowed Convenience Claim becomes 

an Allowed Claim, or as soon thereafter as possible, the GUC Trustee shall pay to each Holder of 

an Allowed Convenience Claim, in Cash, from Reorganized PREPA, the full amount of such 

Allowed Convenience Claim, in full satisfaction, settlement, release, and discharge of, and in 

exchange for such Allowed Convenience Claim, unless such Holder agrees to a less favorable 

treatment.

ARTICLE XV

PROVISIONS FOR TREATMENT OF

SECTION 510(b) SUBORDINATED CLAIMS (CLASS 12)

A. Treatment of Class 12 Claims

Section 510(b) Subordinated Claims shall not receive a distribution pursuant to the Plan 

and each Holder of an Allowed Section 510(b) Subordinated Claim shall be deemed to have 

rejected the Plan with respect to such Section 510(b) Subordinated Claims.

ARTICLE XVI

PROVISIONS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN

A. Allowance of Claims

For purposes of confirmation and consummation of the Plan and distributions to be made

hereunder, unless otherwise Allowed pursuant to an order of the Title III Court, on the Effective 

Date: (a) the Fuel Line Loan Claims shall be deemed Allowed in the aggregate amount of 

$700,887,093.58, and not subject to challenge, objection, or revocation; (b) the Vitol Claims shall 

be deemed Allowed in the aggregate amount of $41,457,382.88; (c) each PREPA Revenue Bond 

Claim held by a Settling Bondholder or a Settling Monoline shall be deemed Allowed in the 

aggregate amount equal to the principal amount of the PREPA Revenue Bonds held or insured by 

such Holder as of the Settlement Offer Deadline plus interest accrued and unpaid on such PREPA 

Revenue Bonds through the Petition Date; and (d) each Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claim 

held by a Settling Monoline shall be Allowed in an amount to be agreed upon between the 

Oversight Board and the Holder of such Claim; provided that, if no agreement can be reached on 

the amount of the Assured Insured Interest Rate Swaps Claim to be Allowed, the Oversight Board 

and Holder of the Claim shall submit such dispute to the Title III Court (or other Person or Entity 

upon mutual agreement of the Oversight Board and Holder) to determine the amount of such Claim 

to be Allowed, which amount shall be determined in accordance with applicable law.

B. Releases, Injunction, and Exculpation

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The releases, injunctions, and exculpations provided in Article XXIV herein are integral to 

obtaining the value provided hereunder and constitute an essential component of the compromises 

reached and are not severable from the other provisions of this Plan.

C. Dismissal of Fuel Line Lender Priority Action

No later than ten (10) days after the Effective Date, the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors 

shall file all appropriate notices, pleadings, and motions necessary to dismiss, with prejudice, the 

Fuel Line Lender Priority Action.

D. Effectuating Documents; Further Transactions

On and after the Effective Date, PREPA, and the officers and members of the boards of 

directors and managers thereof, are authorized to and shall issue, execute, deliver, file, or record 

such contracts, securities, instruments, releases, and other agreements or documents and take such 

actions necessary or appropriate to effectuate, implement, and further evidence the terms and 

conditions of the Plan, and any other securities issued pursuant to the Plan in the name of and on 

behalf of PREPA, notwithstanding any requirements of Commonwealth law, regulations, or 

executive orders, and without the need for any approvals, authorizations, or consents except for 

those expressly required under the Plan or otherwise required by PROMESA.

E. Enrollment of Active PREPA ERS Participants in Act 106 Plan

As of the Effective Date, new defined contribution accounts in the retirement plan 

established for Commonwealth employees under Act 106-2017 will be established for all Active 

PREPA ERS Participants, with minimum employee contributions of eight and one-half percent 

(8.5%) of their payroll in accordance with the contribution requirements of Act 106-2017. After 

the Effective Date, newly hired employees of Reorganized PREPA will also participate in the same 

defined contribution program.

F. Legacy Charge

On the Effective Date, the Legacy Charge shall be implemented by the Reorganized Debtor 

and approved by PREB, as detailed in Schedule B hereto and required by the New Master 

Indenture; provided, further, that, with the approval of the Oversight Board (while in existence), 

Reorganized PREPA and/or PREB, can modify the fixed fee and volumetric charge that comprise 

the Legacy Charge in a neutral economic manner, in structure and amounts that do not delay or 

extend the Series A Bonds’ expected repayment date and expected weighted average life as set 

forth in the Fuel Line Lender PSA, and otherwise that are reasonably acceptable to the Required 

Fuel Line Lenders, which shall not decrease the projected Revenues attributable to the Legacy

Charge as projected using the 2022 Fiscal Plan Projections (the “Amendment Test”). The 

Oversight Board as representative of the Debtor and/or Reorganized Debtor are authorized to take 

all actions necessary to enter into, implement, and enforce the Legacy Charge.

As required by the Plan, consistent with the PREPA Fiscal Plan, mandated by 11 U.S.C. 

§ 1142(b) and the Confirmation Order, PREB shall approve and implement the Legacy Charge as 

required by §§ 6.3(p) and (q) of Act 17-2019 and the New Master Indenture (subject to its right, 

in accordance with the Amendment Test, to modify the fixed fee and volumetric charge that 

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comprise the Legacy Charge in a neutral economic manner), until the New Bonds, Refunding 

Bonds (if any), and CVI are defeased in full or have expired in accordance with their terms and 

shall refrain from taking any actions that will frustrate, diminish, or otherwise impair the value of 

the Legacy Charge or PREPA’s ability to collect the Legacy Charge.

G. PREPA Operational Restructuring

Prior to or as soon as practicable following the Effective Date, the Debtor and the 

Reorganized Debtor, as applicable, shall be operationally restructured, including that PREPA shall, 

as required by the Fiscal Plan and applicable law:

(a) take all necessary actions to (i) complete the competitive procurement 

process for substantially all of PREPA’s generation assets and (ii) complete 

ongoing efforts to transfer operation and maintenance of existing PREPA 

generation assets to professional and independent private operators; and

(b) maintain operation and maintenance contracts with private operators for the 

transmission and distribution system; provided that such contracts will not 

adversely impact the tax exemption on any outstanding Reorganized 

PREPA tax-exempt New Bonds, Refunding Bonds, or Additional Bonds..

H. Purchase and Sale of the Administrative Expense Bonds 

On the Effective Date, in order to provide for payment of the Allowed Administrative

Expense Claims, the Commonwealth shall purchase, and Reorganized PREPA shall sell, assign, 

transfer, and convey to the Commonwealth the Administrative Expense Bonds for Cash in an 

aggregate purchase price equal to the sum of Administrative Expense Bonds Amount.

ARTICLE XVII

PROVISIONS REGARDING THE ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE NEW 

BONDS

A. Issuance and Distribution 

1. New Bonds

The New Bonds shall be issued pursuant to the terms and provisions of the New Master 

Indenture and shall be distributed as set forth in the Plan. The definitive documentation governing 

the New Bonds generally shall provide for the terms set forth herein, subject to the results of any 

election permitted by the Plan and other adjustments permitted or required by the Plan.

2. CVI

The CVI will be issued pursuant to the terms and provisions of the New Master Indenture 

and will be distributed as set forth in this Plan. The definitive documentation governing the CVI 

generally shall provide for the terms set forth in the Plan.

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B. General Terms

1. New Bonds

On the Effective Date, Reorganized PREPA shall issue two series of New Bonds: Series

A Bonds; and Series B Bonds.

a) Series A Bonds

Series A Bonds shall be issued in a principal amount sufficient to comply with the terms 

of the Fuel Line Lender PSA and Article VII hereof. They shall have a final stated maturity of

fifteen (15) years from the Effective Date, with an expected repayment of five (5) years from the 

Effective Date based upon 2022 Fiscal Plan Projections. The Series A Bonds shall be issued on 

the Effective Date but shall accrue interest from the deemed issuance date of December 1, 2022 

for purposes of the calculation of interest accrued; provided, however, the period for accrual of 

interest prior to the Effective Date shall not exceed one (1) year and that the interest accrued prior 

to the Effective Date shall be payable upon the Effective Date in the form of Series A Bonds or 

Cash, at the Oversight Board’s sole discretion. Series A Bonds shall bear interest at a rate of six 

percent (6.00%) per annum payable semi-annually in Cash.

b) Series B Bonds

The Series B Bonds shall be issued in a principal amount equal to the aggregate principal 

amount of New Bonds minus the aggregate principal amount of Series A Bonds. Series B Bonds 

shall have a final stated maturity of fifty (50) years from the Effective Date, with an expected 

repayment of thirty-five (35) years from the Effective Date based upon 2022 Fiscal Plan 

Projections. The Series B Bonds shall be dated as of the Effective Date. Series B Bonds may be 

issued in the form of current interest bonds, capital appreciation bonds, convertible bonds, and/or 

convertible capital appreciation bonds in one or multiple series of bonds. The Series B Bonds shall 

bear interest at a rate at or between a range of five and six hundred and twenty-five thousandths 

percent (5.625%) to six and one-half percent (6.50%).

2. CVI

On the Effective Date, Reorganized PREPA shall issue the CVI in the amount of the CVI 

Notional Amount with a zero percent (0.00%) coupon and a final maturity date of the CVI Maturity 

Date. The CVI shall not be payable unless and until the principal and interest on the New Bonds 

and the Refunding Bonds, if any, are indefeasibly paid in full in Cash by Reorganized PREPA or 

otherwise deemed not to be outstanding in accordance with the terms of the New Master Indenture

prior to the CVI Maturity Date. If the New Bonds and the Refunding Bonds are satisfied in full in 

accordance with their terms prior to the CVI Maturity Date, the CVI shall be payable from that 

portion of Net Revenues constituting the Remaining Legacy Charge Revenues deposited to the 

credit of the Debt Service Fund in accordance with the Payment Waterfall until the earlier of (a) the 

date on which the CVI Notional Amount has been paid in full and (b) the CVI Maturity Date.

On the CVI Maturity Date, any amount of principal outstanding on account of the CVI 

shall be deemed waived and entirely unenforceable. 

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The CVI shall not carry any default rate of interest. The CVI will be issued in 

denominations to be specified in the New Master Indenture.

C. Excess New Bonds

On the Effective Date, Reorganized PREPA shall, in its sole discretion, issue some, all, or 

none of the Excess New Bonds to the PREPA PayGo Trust. Any amount of Excess New Bonds 

that are available for distribution to the PREPA PayGo Trust, but that Reorganized PREPA 

determines to not issue to the PREPA PayGo Trust, shall be deemed to have not been issued, and 

the amount of New Bonds issued pursuant to the Plan shall be reduced on dollar-for-dollars basis 

by the aggregate principal amount of such unissued Excess New Bonds.

D. Payment Provisions

Interest on the New Bonds shall be paid on the next January 1 or July 1 date following the 

Effective Date and each January 1 and July 1 thereafter until the earlier of the New Bonds

(a) reaching their respective maturity or (b) their payment or satisfaction in full in accordance with 

their terms. 

All unpaid principal on the New Bonds not paid when due, whether at or prior to final 

scheduled maturity, shall remain outstanding and due and payable until paid in full. Interest shall 

not accrue on any outstanding obligations under the New Bonds after the New Bonds’ respective 

stated maturity; only unpaid principal shall be payable following the respective final maturity 

dates. Interest on the New Bonds will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of 

twelve 30-day months. The New Bonds will not carry any default rate of interest.

E. Security

1. New Bonds

The New Bonds shall be secured by Reorganized PREPA’s Net Revenues up to an amount 

equal to the Legacy Charge Revenues and the right to receive such Net Revenues up to an amount 

equal to the Legacy Charge Revenues, as more particularly described in the New Master Indenture. 

For the avoidance of doubt, the Lien securing the New Bonds is not limited to the Net Revenues 

deposited in the Debt Service Fund.

2. CVI

The CVI shall be secured by Reorganized PREPA’s Remaining Net Revenues up to an 

amount equal to the Remaining Legacy Charge Revenues and the right to receive such Remaining 

Net Revenues up to an amount equal to the Remaining Legacy Charge Revenues, as more 

particularly described in the New Master Indenture

F. Call Provisions 

1. New Bonds

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The New Bonds are subject to redemption prior to maturity, at the election or direction of 

Reorganized PREPA, in whole or in part (and, if in part, in an authorized denomination provided 

for under the New Master Indenture), on any date that is on or after ten (10) years following the 

Effective Date, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice, at a redemption price equal to the par 

amount thereof, plus accrued interest to the redemption date. 

If less than all the New Bonds of a particular tenor are called for redemption prior to 

maturity, Reorganized PREPA will select the maturity or maturities of such tenor of the New 

Bonds to be redeemed, and DTC, on behalf of the New Master Trustee, will select the New Bonds 

within the same maturity of such series to be redeemed by means of a random lottery.

The New Bonds are not subject to redemption prior to maturity at the election of the holders 

thereof.

2. CVI

The CVI is subject to redemption prior to maturity, at the election or direction of 

Reorganized PREPA, in whole or in part (and, if in part, in an authorized denomination provided 

for under the New Master Indenture), on any date that is on or after ten (10) years following the 

Effective Date, upon thirty (30) days’ prior written notice. The redemption price shall be equal to 

the CVI Redemption Price.

G. Accounts and Payment Waterfall

All Revenues shall be deposited in the “General Fund” held by Reorganized PREPA. On 

the first Business Day of each month, Reorganized PREPA shall transfer such Revenues in the 

following amounts and in the order of priority set forth below and as more particularly set forth in 

the New Master Indenture (the “Payment Waterfall”):

- First, to the payment of Operating Expenses;

- Second, to the payment of New Master Trustee fees and expenses not to exceed one 

hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per year;

- Third, to the Debt Service Fund held by the New Master Trustee (i) up to the amount of

the Legacy Charge Revenues, and from and after the New Bond Defeasance Date and until 

the CVI Maturity Date, up to the amount of the Remaining Legacy Charge Revenues, and 

(ii) up to the amount of other Net Revenues for the purpose of paying debt service on 

Additional Bonds as permitted by and provided in the New Master Indenture;

- Fourth, to the payment of capital expenditures; 

- Fifth, to the payment of subordinate debt (if any); and

- Sixth, for general corporate purposes.

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H. Key Covenants for New Bonds

The Definitive Documents, including the New Master Indenture and the Confirmation 

Order, shall contain customary terms, conditions, and covenants, including, without limitation, 

covenants by Reorganized PREPA that it shall, among other things:

1. make reasonable efforts to (a) continue to levy and collect rates, fees, and charges, 

including, but not limited to, the Legacy Charge and the Remaining Legacy Charge and (b) deposit 

Net Revenues collected from such rates, fees, and charges into the Debt Service Fund in 

accordance with the Payment Waterfall;

2. take no action that would (a) limit or alter the rights vested in PREPA or 

Reorganized PREPA in accordance with the Plan and the Confirmation Order to fulfill the terms 

of any agreements with the holders of the New Bonds or the CVI or (b) limit or impair the rights 

and remedies of the holders of the New Bonds or the CVI; 

3. take all reasonable action to cause the Series A Bonds to be tax-exempt to the extent 

permitted by law (including seeking any appropriate no-action, clearance determination, or 

favorable ruling from the IRS);

4. do and perform all acts and things permitted by law and reasonably necessary or 

desirable to ensure that interest paid to holders of any federally tax-exempt New Bonds shall be 

and remain excludable from gross income for federal income tax purposes; and

5. not create any Lien, pledge, or charge on the Net Revenues up to the amount of the 

Legacy Charge Revenues, or right to receive the same, except in connection with issuance of 

Additional Bonds as permitted under the New Master Indenture.

I. Application of Moneys in Debt Service Fund

From and after the Effective Date, until the New Bonds, Refunding Bonds, and/or CVI

have been paid or satisfied in full in accordance with their terms, Reorganized PREPA shall 

deposit, in accordance with the Payment Waterfall, Net Revenues up to the amount of the Legacy

Charge Revenues with respect to the New Bonds and up to the amount of the Remaining Legacy

Charge Revenues with respect to the CVI to the credit of the Debt Service Fund which shall be 

held by the New Master Trustee. Such monies deposited in the Debt Service Fund shall be applied, 

to the extent available, by the New Master Trustee, as follows:

1. New Bonds

- First, to the payment of stated interest due and payable on the New Bonds;

- Second, to the payment of principal on the Series A Bonds and any Refunding 

Bonds issued to refund the Series A Bonds until repaid indefeasibly in full in Cash

or otherwise deemed not to be outstanding in accordance with the terms of the New 

Master Indenture; and 

- Third, to the payment of principal on the Series B Bonds and any Refunding Bonds 

(other than the Refunding Bonds described in Second above) until repaid 

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indefeasibly in full in Cash or otherwise deemed not to be outstanding in accordance 

with the terms of the New Master Indenture.

2. CVI

- Then, to the payment of the CVI Notional Amount.

3. Additional Bonds:

Net Revenues other than Legacy Charge Revenues, if any, shall be deposited to the 

credit of the Debt Service Fund to pay debt service on any Additional Bonds 

pursuant to the terms of the New Master Indenture.

J. Interest Rate Covenant 

Until the earlier of repayment of the Series A Bonds or the final maturity of the Series A 

Bonds, if, in any given year, the Net Revenues up to the amount of the Legacy Charge Revenues 

deposited in the Debt Service Fund are insufficient to satisfy the interest due and owing on the 

New Bonds that Fiscal Year, Reorganized PREPA shall (and absent Reorganized PREPA’s action, 

the New Master Trustee shall) (a) exercise its powers to the fullest extent of the law to implement 

an increase in the Legacy Charge sufficient to repay such interest due and payable on the New 

Bonds in the succeeding fiscal year and/or (b) initiate a rate case before PREB or any other 

proceeding to compel PREB to implement an increase in the Legacy Charge sufficient to repay 

such interest due and payable on the New Bonds in the succeeding fiscal year (the “Interest Rate 

Covenant”). The New Master Trustee shall have the right to compel specific performance of the 

Interest Rate Covenant.

K. No Rights of Acceleration

The New Bonds and the CVI shall not be subject to acceleration.

L. Limited Default

1. New Bonds

There shall be no event of default on the New Bonds (prior to stated final maturity of the 

Series A Bonds, solely with respect to the Series A Bonds, and generally with respect to the Series 

B Bonds) for failure to pay scheduled debt service, so long as Reorganized PREPA (a) charges 

and employs its reasonable best efforts to (i) levy the Legacy Charge, (ii) collect the Revenues

generated by the Legacy Charge, and (iii) deposit the full amount of Net Revenues up to the amount 

of the Legacy Charge Revenues into the Debt Service Fund after providing for distributions made 

in accordance with the Payment Waterfall, and (b) complies with the Interest Rate Covenant.

2. CVI

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There shall be no event of default on the CVI so long as Reorganized PREPA takes 

reasonable actions to collect Revenues generated by the Remaining Legacy Charge and deposits 

such monies received into the Debt Service Fund.

M. Limited Remedies

Upon the occurrence of an event of default on the New Bonds or the CVI, the New Master

Trustee’s sole remedies shall be to: (a) seek enforcement of Reorganized PREPA’s obligation to 

take reasonable measures to levy rates, fees, and charges, including, but not limited to, the Legacy

Charge and the Remaining Legacy Charge and collect Revenues generated by the Legacy Charge 

and Remaining Legacy Charge and deposit Net Revenues up to the amount of the Legacy Charge 

Revenues with respect to the New Bonds and up to the amount of the Remaining Legacy Charge 

Revenues with respect to the CVI into the Debt Service Fund in accordance with the Payment 

Waterfall; and/or (b) prior to the Series A Bond Defeasance Date, as applicable, at the request of 

twenty-five percent (25.0%) or more of the Series A Bonds, enforce the Interest Rate Covenant. 

All provisions of the Commonwealth Constitution, Commonwealth statutes, executive orders, 

rules, regulations, and policies that provide the “Right to Receivership Upon Default,” codified at 

22 L.P.R.A. § 207, are preempted as inconsistent with PROMESA.

N. Additional Bonds and Refunding Bonds 

Reorganized PREPA may issue Refunding Bonds to refund, refinance, or defease 

outstanding New Bonds authorized under the New Master Indenture, so long as such Refunding 

Bonds are issued (i) at an average coupon at or lower than the New Bonds being refunded, (ii) with 

no increase in principal amount, and (iii) with a maturity date no later than that of the New Bonds 

being refunded. Such Refunding Bonds shall be secured by Net Revenues as more specifically set 

forth in the New Master Indenture.

Reorganized PREPA may issue Additional Bonds for any lawful purpose in accordance 

with the additional bonds test and other terms of the New Master Indenture. Such Additional 

Bonds shall be secured by Net Revenues as more specifically set forth in the New Master 

Indenture; provided that any Additional Bonds shall not be payable from the Legacy Charge while 

the New Bonds or any Refunding Bonds, or the CVI remain outstanding. 

O. Force Majeure

1. New Bonds

In the event of a federally-declared disaster as a result of a storm or other catastrophic event 

that disrupts Reorganized PREPA’s operations such that Reorganized PREPA cannot collect 

Revenues necessary to cover Operating Expenses and deposit Net Revenues up to the amount of 

the Legacy Charge Revenues with respect to the New Bonds in accordance with the Payment 

Waterfall for a given fiscal year, Reorganized PREPA may elect, in its sole discretion, to defer up 

to two (2) consecutive semi-annual debt service payments. 

For the avoidance of doubt, if Reorganized PREPA exercises such election, interest on the 

New Bonds will continue to accrue until paid. All deferred principal and interest on Series A 

Bonds impacted by such election shall be paid on or before the earlier of the Series A Bonds’ final 

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maturity date or the first scheduled payment date five (5) years after the end of the debt service

deferral period.

2. CVI

In the event of a federally-declared disaster as a result of a storm or other catastrophic event 

that disrupts Reorganized PREPA’s operations such that Reorganized PREPA cannot collect 

Revenues necessary to cover Operating Expenses and deposit Remaining Net Revenues up to the 

amount of the Remaining Legacy Charge Revenues with respect to the CVI into the Debt Service 

Fund in accordance with the Payment Waterfall for a given fiscal year, Reorganized PREPA shall 

be under no obligation to make CVI payments for any shortfalls in Remaining Legacy Charge 

Revenues.

P. Direct Right of Action

Pursuant to the New Master Indenture, and subject to such additional rights as provided 

therein, the New Master Trustee shall have a direct right of action to enforce the terms of the New 

Master Indenture, including, without limitation, with respect to funding deposits in the Debt 

Service Fund and seeking specific performance remedies for any breach of covenants in the New 

Master Indenture. 

Q. New Master Indenture

Provisions requiring the Legacy Charge to be added to bills issued by Reorganized PREPA 

to its customers to pay principal and interest on the New Bonds, make payments on the CVI, and 

governing, among other things, amendments of or supplements to the New Bonds, the CVI, or the 

New Master Indenture, events of default, remedies, priority of payments after default under the 

New Master Indenture, and defeasance under the New Master Indenture will be set forth in the 

New Master Indenture. The New Master Indenture will be executed and delivered on or prior to 

the Effective Date. 

R. Governing Law

The New Master Indenture, and the New Bonds and CVI issued thereunder, as applicable,

will be governed by the laws of the State of New York and, for certain limited matters, the laws of 

the Commonwealth, without giving effect to principles of conflicts of law.

ARTICLE XVIII

TREATMENT OF EXECUTORY CONTRACTS AND UNEXPIRED LEASES

A. Rejection or Assumption of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases

Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 365(b)(2) and subject to the provisions of Article 

XVIII.F and Article XVIII.H hereof, all Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases that exist 

between the Debtor and any Entity, and which have not expired by their own terms on or prior to 

the Confirmation Date, shall be deemed rejected by the Debtor as of the Effective Date, except for 

any Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease (a) that has been assumed, assumed and assigned, or 

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rejected pursuant to an order of the Title III Court entered prior to the Effective Date, (b) that is 

specifically designated as a contract or lease to be assumed or assumed and assigned on the 

Schedule of Assumed Contracts and Leases to the Plan Supplement, or (c) that has been registered 

with the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico or has been approved by the Oversight Board or 

authorized by the Title III Court, unless specifically designated a contract to be rejected in the Plan 

Supplement; provided, however, that the Debtor reserves the right, on or prior to the Confirmation 

Date, to amend such schedules to delete any Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease therefrom 

or add any Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease thereto, in which event such Executory 

Contract(s) and Unexpired Lease(s) shall be deemed to be, as the case may be, either rejected, 

assumed, or assumed and assigned as of the Effective Date. The Debtor shall serve (y) notice of 

any Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease to be assumed or assumed and assigned through the 

operation of this Article XVIII.A by including a schedule of such contracts and leases in the Plan 

Supplement and (z) notice of any Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease to be rejected through 

the operation of this Article XVIII.A, by serving a separate notice to the relevant counterparties to 

such agreements. To the extent there are any amendments to such schedules, the Debtor shall 

provide notice of any such amendments to the parties to the Executory Contract and Unexpired 

Lease affected thereby. The listing of a document on the schedules to the Plan Supplement or in 

any separate notice shall not constitute an admission by the Debtor that such document is an 

Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease or that the Debtor has any liability thereunder. 

Except as otherwise provided herein or agreed to by the Debtor and the applicable 

counterparty, each assumed Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease shall include all 

modifications, amendments, supplements, restatements, or other agreements related thereto, and 

all rights related thereto, if any, including all easements, licenses, permits, rights, privileges, 

immunities, options, rights of first refusal, and any other interests. Modifications, amendments, 

supplements, and restatements to prepetition Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases that have 

been executed by PREPA during the Title III Case shall not be deemed to alter the prepetition 

nature of the Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease or the validity, priority, or amount of any 

Claims that may arise in connection therewith.

B. Approval of Rejection or Assumption of Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases

Entry of the Confirmation Order by the Title III Court shall constitute approval, pursuant 

to Bankruptcy Code sections 365(a) and 1123(b)(2), of the rejection, assumption, or assumption 

and assignment, as the case may be, of an Executory Contract and an Unexpired Lease pursuant 

to Article XVIII.A of the Plan.

C. Inclusiveness

Unless otherwise specified on the schedules to the Plan Supplement, each Executory 

Contract and Unexpired Lease listed or to be listed therein shall include any and all modifications, 

amendments, supplements, restatements, or other agreements made directly or indirectly by any 

agreement, instrument, or other document that in any manner affects such Executory Contract and 

Unexpired Lease, without regard to whether such agreement, instrument, or other document is 

listed on such schedule.

D. Cure of Defaults and Objections to Cure and Assumption

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Except to the extent that different treatment has been agreed to by the non-Debtor party or 

parties to any Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease to be assumed or assumed and assigned 

pursuant to Article XVIII.A of the Plan, the Debtor shall, pursuant to the provisions of Bankruptcy 

Code section 1123(a)(5)(G) and 1123(b)(2) and consistent with the requirements of Bankruptcy 

Code section 365, within at least twenty (20) days prior to the Confirmation Hearing, file with the 

Title III Court and serve by first class mail on each non-Debtor party to such Executory Contracts 

and Unexpired Leases to be assumed pursuant to Article XVIII.A of the Plan, a notice, which shall 

list the cure amount as to each Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease to be assumed or assumed 

and assigned. The parties to such Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases will have twenty 

(20) days from the date of service of such notice to file and serve any objection to the cure amounts 

listed by the Debtor. If there are any objections filed, the Title III Court shall hold a hearing on a 

date to be set by the Title III Court. Any counterparty to an Executory Contract or Unexpired 

Lease that fails to timely object to the proposed assumption or assumption and assignment

of any Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease will be deemed to have consented to such 

assumption or assumption and assignment. Notwithstanding the terms and provisions of Article 

XVIII.A of the Plan, the Debtor shall retain its rights to reject any of its Executory Contracts and 

Unexpired Leases that are subject to a dispute concerning amounts necessary to cure any defaults 

through the Effective Date.

Any Cure Claim shall be deemed fully satisfied, released, and discharged upon payment 

by PREPA of the Cure Claim; provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent PREPA from 

paying any Cure Claim despite the failure of the relevant counterparty to file such request for 

payment of such Cure Claim. PREPA also may settle any Cure Claim without any further notice 

to or action, order, or approval of the Title III Court. If there is any dispute regarding any Cure

Claim, the ability of PREPA or any assignee to provide “adequate assurance of future 

performance” within the meaning of Bankruptcy Code section 365, or any other matter pertaining 

to assumption, then payment of Cure Claim shall occur as soon as reasonably practicable after 

entry of a Final Order resolving such dispute, approving such assumption (and, if applicable, 

assignment), or as may be agreed upon by PREPA and the counterparty to the Executory Contract 

or Unexpired Lease.

Assumption of any Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease pursuant to the Plan or 

otherwise shall result in the full release and satisfaction of any Cure Claims, Claims, or defaults, 

whether monetary or nonmonetary, including defaults of provisions restricting the change in 

control or ownership interest composition or other bankruptcy-related defaults, arising under any 

assumed Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease at any time prior to the effective date of 

assumption. Any and all Proofs of Claim (but, for the avoidance of doubt, not including Cure

Claims) based upon Executory Contracts or Unexpired Leases that have been assumed in 

the Title III Case, including pursuant to the Confirmation Order, shall be deemed Disallowed 

and expunged as of the Effective Date without the need for any objection thereto or any 

further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Title III Court.

E. Contracts and Leases Entered Into After the Petition Date

Contracts, leases, and other agreements entered into after the Petition Date by PREPA and 

any Executory Contracts and Unexpired Leases assumed by PREPA may be performed by PREPA

in the ordinary course of its operations.

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F. Insurance Policies

Subject to the terms and provisions of Article XVIII.H hereof, each of the Debtor’s

Insurance Policies and any agreements, documents, or instruments relating thereto, are treated as 

Executory Contracts under the Plan and shall be assumed as of the Effective Date; provided, 

however, that such treatment shall not, and shall not be construed to, discharge or relieve any 

Monoline Insurer with respect to its respective obligations to Holders of Claims under policies of 

insurance and applicable law and governing documents with respect thereto, as applicable, under 

this Plan.

G. Rejection Damage Claims

If the rejection of an Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease by the Debtor hereunder 

results in damages to the other party or parties to such contract or lease, any Claim for such 

damages, if not heretofore evidenced by a filed Proof of Claim, shall be forever barred and shall 

not be enforceable against the Debtor, or its properties or agents, successors, or assigns, including, 

without limitation, the Reorganized Debtor, unless a Proof of Claim is filed with the Title III Court 

and served upon attorneys for the Oversight Board and Reorganized Debtor, as the case may be, 

on or before thirty (30) days after the later to occur of (i) the Confirmation Date, and (ii) the date 

of entry of an order by the Title III Court authorizing rejection of a particular Executory Contract 

and Unexpired Lease.

H. Indemnification and Reimbursement Obligations

For purposes of the Plan, (i) to the extent executory in nature, the obligations of the Debtor, 

including, without limitation, directors and officers Insurance Policies, to indemnify and reimburse 

its directors or officers that were directors or officers, respectively, on or prior to the Petition Date, 

as the case may be, shall be deemed assumed as of the Effective Date, and (ii) indemnification 

obligations of the Debtor arising from conduct of officers and directors during the period from and 

after Petition Date, as the case may be, shall be Administrative Expense Claims; provided, 

however, that, under no circumstances shall the Debtor or the Reorganized Debtor, as the case may 

be, be responsible for any indemnification obligation, cost, or expense associated with the gross 

negligence, intentional fraud, or willful misconduct of their respective officers or directors.

I. Nonoccurrence of Effective Date

If the Effective Date does not occur, the Title III Court shall retain jurisdiction with respect 

to any request to extend the deadline for assuming or rejecting Executory Contracts and Unexpired 

Leases pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 365(d)(4), unless such deadline(s) have expired.

J. Reservation of Rights

Nothing contained in the Plan or the Plan Supplement shall constitute an admission by the 

Debtor, Reorganized Debtor, or any other party that any such contract or lease is in fact an 

Executory Contract and Unexpired Lease or that the Debtor has any liability thereunder. If there 

is a dispute regarding whether a contract or lease is or was executory or unexpired at the time of 

assumption, the Debtor or Reorganized Debtor shall have forty-five (45) days following entry of 

a Final Order resolving such dispute to alter their treatment of such contract or lease.

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ARTICLE XIX

GUC TRUST

A. Execution of GUC Trust Deed of Trust 

On or before the Effective Date, PREPA and the GUC Trustee shall execute the GUC Trust 

Deed of Trust, and shall take all other necessary steps to establish the GUC Trust and the GUC

Trust Interests therein, which shall be for the benefit of the GUC Trust Beneficiaries, whether their 

Claims are Allowed before, on, or after the Effective Date. The GUC Trust Deed of Trust may 

provide powers, duties, and authorities in addition to those explicitly stated herein, but only to the 

extent that such powers, duties, and authorities do not affect the status of the GUC Trust as a 

“liquidating trust” for United States federal income tax purposes.

B. Purpose of the GUC Trust 

The GUC Trust shall be established for the sole purpose of receiving and distributing the 

GUC Trust Assets in accordance with Treasury Regulation section 301.7701-4(d), with no 

objective to continue or engage in the conduct of a trade or business except to the extent reasonably

necessary to, and consistent with, the liquidating purpose of the GUC Trust.

C. GUC Trust Assets 

The GUC Trust shall consist of the GUC Trust Assets. On the Effective Date, PREPA 

shall transfer all the GUC Trust Assets to the GUC Trust. The GUC Trust Assets may be 

transferred subject to certain liabilities, as provided in the Plan or the GUC Trust Deed of Trust. 

Such transfer shall be exempt from any stamp, real estate transfer, mortgage reporting, sales, use,

or other similar Tax, pursuant to section 1146(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Upon delivery of the 

GUC Trust Assets to the GUC Trust, PREPA and its predecessors, successors and assigns, and 

each other Entity released pursuant to Article XXIV hereof shall be discharged and released from 

all liability with respect to the delivery of such distributions.

D. Administration of the GUC Trust 

The GUC Trust shall be administered by the GUC Trustee according to the GUC Trust 

Deed of Trust and the Plan. In the event of any inconsistency between the Plan and the GUC Trust 

Deed of Trust, the GUC Trust Deed of Trust shall govern.

E. The GUC Trustee 

If the GUC Trustee dies, becomes incapacitated, is terminated, or resigns for any reason, 

the GUC Trust Board shall designate a successor; provided, however, that under no circumstance 

shall the GUC Trustee be a director or officer with respect to any Affiliate of the GUC Trust.

F. Role of the GUC Trustee 

In furtherance of and consistent with the purpose of the GUC Trust and the Plan, and 

subject to the terms of the Confirmation Order, the Plan, and the GUC Trust Deed of Trust, and 

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the oversight of the GUC Trust Board, the GUC Trustee shall, among other things, have the 

following rights, powers, and duties: (i) to hold the GUC Trust Assets for the benefit of the GUC

Trust Beneficiaries, whether their Claims are Allowed on or after the Effective Date; (ii) to prepare 

and file (or cause to be prepared and filed), from and after the Effective Date, all tax and regulatory 

forms, returns, reports, and other documents required, or that the GUC Trustee otherwise deems 

appropriate with respect to the GUC Trust; (iii) to hold, manage, and timely distribute Cash 

obtained through the exercise of its power and authority to the GUC Trust Beneficiaries; and (iv) to 

not unduly prolong the duration of the GUC Trust. In all circumstances, the GUC Trustee shall 

act in the best interests of all GUC Trust Beneficiaries and in furtherance of the purpose of the 

GUC Trust. The GUC Trustee shall be obligated to provide prompt written responses to the 

Oversight Board’s questions, from time to time, about the GUC Trust’s progress in administering 

its Assets and distributions and its finances.

G. GUC Trustee’s Tax Power for Reorganized PREPA 

From and after the Effective Date, the GUC Trustee shall prepare and file (or cause to be 

prepared and filed), on behalf of Reorganized PREPA, all tax returns or other tax information 

statements required to be filed or that the GUC Trustee otherwise deems appropriate.

H. Transferability of GUC Trust Interests 

The GUC Trust Interests shall not be transferable or assignable except by will, intestate 

succession, or operation of law.

I. Cash 

The GUC Trustee may invest Cash (including any earnings thereon or proceeds therefrom) 

as permitted by section 345 of the Bankruptcy Code; provided, however, that such investments are 

investments permitted to be made by a liquidating trust within the meaning of Treasury Regulation 

section 301.7701-4(d), as reflected therein, or under applicable IRS guidelines, rulings, or other 

controlling authorities.

J. Distribution of GUC Trust Assets 

The GUC Trustee shall make distributions to Holders of Claims in the Unsecured Claims 

Pool in accordance with Article XXI of the Plan.

K. Funding, Costs, and Expenses of the GUC Trust 

On the Effective Date, the GUC Trust shall be funded on a one-time basis in an amount of 

one million dollars ($1,000,000). The reasonable costs and expenses of the GUC Trust, including 

the fees and expenses of the GUC Trust and its retained professionals, shall be paid out of the GUC 

Trust Assets, including the fifty percent (50.0%) of the Holder of the Allowed Vitol Claim’s Pro 

Rata Share of the General Unsecured Claim Recovery not distributed to the Holder of the Allowed 

Vitol Claim pursuant to Article IX of the Plan, which shall be retained by the GUC Trust. The 

GUC Trustee shall be authorized to use proceeds of GUC Trust Assets to fund the GUC Trust, if 

necessary.

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L. Compensation of the GUC Trustee 

The individual(s) serving as or comprising the GUC Trustee shall be entitled to reasonable 

compensation in an amount consistent with that of similar functionaries in similar roles, the 

payment of which shall not be subject to the approval of the Title III Court.

M. Retention of Professionals/Employees by the GUC Trustee 

Subject to the approval and consent of the GUC Trust Board, the GUC Trust may retain 

and compensate attorneys, other professionals, and employees to assist the GUC Trust Board on 

such terms as the GUC Trustee deems appropriate without Title III Court approval.

N. Federal Income Tax Treatment of the GUC Trust

1. GUC Trust Assets Treated as Owned by Creditors. For all United States federal 

income tax purposes, all parties (including, without limitation, the Debtor, the GUC Trustee, and 

the GUC Trust Beneficiaries) shall treat the transfer of the GUC Trust Assets to the GUC Trust as 

(1) a transfer of the GUC Trust Assets (subject to any obligations relating to those Assets) directly 

to the GUC Trust Beneficiaries, followed by (2) the transfer by such beneficiaries to the GUC

Trust of the GUC Trust Assets in exchange for GUC Trust Interests. Accordingly, the GUC Trust 

Beneficiaries shall be treated for United States federal income tax purposes as the deemed grantors 

and owners of their respective share of the GUC Trust Assets. The foregoing treatment shall also 

apply, to the extent permitted by applicable law, for state and local income tax purposes.

2. Tax Reporting.

a) The GUC Trustee shall prepare and file (or cause to be prepared and 

filed) tax returns for the GUC Trust treating the GUC Trust as a grantor trust pursuant to Treasury 

Regulation section 1.671-4(a) and in accordance with this Article XIX.N. The GUC Trustee also 

will annually send to each Holder of a GUC Trust Interest a separate statement regarding the 

receipts and expenditures of the GUC Trust as relevant for U.S. federal income tax purposes and 

will instruct all such Holders to use such information in preparing their U.S. federal income tax 

returns or to forward the appropriate information to such Holder’s underlying beneficial holders 

with instructions to utilize such information in preparing their U.S. federal income tax returns. 

The GUC Trustee shall also file (or cause to be filed) any other statement, return, or disclosure 

relating to the GUC Trust that is required by any Governmental Unit.

b) The GUC Trustee shall then in good faith value all other GUC Trust 

Assets, and shall make all such values available from time to time, to the extent relevant, and such 

values shall be used consistently by all parties to the GUC Trust (including, without limitation, the 

Debtor, the GUC Trustee, and GUC Trust Beneficiaries) for all United States federal income tax 

purposes.

c) Allocations of GUC Trust taxable income among the GUC Trust 

Beneficiaries shall be determined by reference to the manner in which an amount of Cash 

representing such taxable income would be distributed (were such Cash permitted to be distributed 

at such time) if, immediately prior to such deemed distribution, the GUC Trust had distributed all 

its assets to the holders of the GUC Trust Interests, adjusted for prior taxable income and loss and 

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taking into account all prior and concurrent distributions from the GUC Trust. Similarly, taxable 

loss of the GUC Trust shall be allocated by reference to the manner in which an economic loss 

would be borne immediately after a hypothetical liquidating distribution of the remaining GUC 

Trust Assets. The tax book value of the GUC Trust Assets for purpose of this paragraph shall 

equal their fair market value on the Effective Date, adjusted in accordance with tax accounting 

principles prescribed by the IRC, the applicable Treasury Regulations, and other applicable 

administrative and judicial authorities and pronouncements.

d) Subject to definitive guidance from the IRS or a court of competent 

jurisdiction to the contrary (including the receipt by the GUC Trustee of a private letter ruling if 

the GUC Trustee so requests one, or the receipt of an adverse determination by the IRS upon audit 

if not contested by the GUC Trustee), the GUC Trustee shall (A) timely elect to treat any reserve 

for the GUC Trust Assets as a “disputed ownership fund” governed by Treasury Regulation section 

1.468B-9, and (B) to the extent permitted by applicable law, report consistently with the foregoing 

for state and local income tax purposes. All parties (including the GUC Trustee and the GUC

Trust Beneficiaries) shall report for United States federal, state, and local income tax purposes 

consistently with the foregoing.

e) The GUC Trustee shall be responsible for payment, out of the GUC 

Trust Assets, of any taxes imposed on the trust or its Assets. In the event, and to the extent, any 

Cash retained on account of Disputed Claims insufficient to pay the portion of any such taxes 

attributable to the taxable income arising from the assets allocable to, or retained on account of, 

Disputed Claims, such taxes may be (i) reimbursed from any subsequent Cash amounts retained 

on account of Disputed Claims, or (ii) to the extent such Disputed Claims have subsequently been 

resolved, deducted from any amounts otherwise distributable by the GUC Trustee as a result of 

the resolution of such Disputed Claims.

3. Tax Withholdings by GUC Trustee. The GUC Trustee may withhold and pay to 

the appropriate tax authority all amounts required to be withheld pursuant to the IRC or any 

provision of any foreign, state, or local tax law with respect to any payment or distribution to the 

holders of GUC Trust Interests. All such amounts withheld and paid to the appropriate tax 

authority (or placed in escrow pending resolution of the need to withhold) shall be treated as 

amounts distributed to such holders of GUC Trust Interests for all purposes of the GUC Trust Deed 

of Trust, and it being understood that any such amount withheld shall reduce the amount actually 

realized by the applicable holder upon distribution. The GUC Trustee shall be authorized to collect 

such tax information from the holders of GUC Trust Interests (including, without limitation, social 

security numbers or other tax identification numbers) as in its sole discretion the GUC Trustee 

deems necessary to effectuate the Plan, the Confirmation Order, and the GUC Trust Deed of Trust. 

In order to receive distributions under the Plan, all holders of GUC Trust Interests shall be required 

to identify themselves to the GUC Trustee and provide tax information and the specifics of their 

holdings, to the extent the GUC Trustee deems appropriate in the manner and in accordance with 

the procedures from time to time established by the GUC Trustee for these purposes. This 

identification requirement generally applies to all holders of GUC Trust Interests, including those 

who hold their securities in street name. The GUC Trustee may refuse to make a distribution to 

any holder of a GUC Trust Interest that fails to furnish such information in a timely fashion, and 

until such information is delivered, and may treat such holder’s GUC Trust Interests as disputed; 

provided, however, that, if such information is not furnished to the GUC Trustee within six (6) 

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months of the original request to furnish such information, no further distributions shall be made 

to the holder of such GUC Trust Interest; and, provided, further, that, upon the delivery of such 

information by a holder of a GUC Trust Interest, the GUC Trustee shall make such distribution to 

which the holder of the GUC Trust Interest is entitled, without additional interest occasioned by 

such holder’s delay in providing tax information; and, provided, further, that, if the GUC Trustee 

fails to withhold in respect of amounts received or distributable with respect to any such holder 

and the GUC Trustee is later held liable for the amount of such withholding, such holder shall 

reimburse the GUC Trustee for such liability (to the extent such amounts were actually distributed 

to such holder).

O. Dissolution of GUC Trust

The GUC Trustee and the GUC Trust shall be discharged or dissolved, as the case may be, 

upon the earlier to occur of (i) all of the GUC Trust Assets have been distributed pursuant to the 

Plan and the GUC Trust Deed of Trust, and (ii) all distributions required to be made by the GUC 

Trustee under the Plan and the GUC Trust Deed of Trust have been made. Upon the dissolution 

of the GUC Trust, all remaining GUC Trust Assets, if any, shall revert to PREPA.

P. Indemnification of GUC Trustee and Members of GUC Trust Board 

The GUC Trustee or the individual(s) comprising the GUC Trustee, as the case may be, 

the GUC Trust Board, the members of the GUC Trust Board and their respective employees, 

agents, and professionals, shall not be liable to the GUC Trust Beneficiaries for actions taken or 

omitted in their capacity as, or on behalf of, the GUC Trustee or the GUC Trust Board, as 

applicable, except those acts arising out of their own willful misconduct or gross negligence, and 

each shall be entitled to indemnification and reimbursement by the GUC Trust for fees and 

expenses in defending any and all actions or inactions in their capacity as, or on behalf of, the 

GUC Trustee or the GUC Trust Board, as applicable, except for any actions or inactions involving 

willful misconduct or gross negligence. Any indemnification claim of the GUC Trustee, the GUC 

Trust Board, the members of the GUC Trust Board, and the other parties entitled to indemnification 

under this subsection shall be satisfied solely from the GUC Trust Assets and shall be entitled to 

a priority distribution therefrom, ahead of the GUC Trust Interests and any other claim to or interest 

in such assets. The GUC Trustee, the GUC Trust Board, and the members of the GUC Trust Board 

shall be entitled to rely, in good faith, on the advice of their retained professionals.

ARTICLE XX

AVOIDANCE ACTIONS TRUST

A. Execution of Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement 

On or before the Effective Date, PREPA and the Avoidance Actions Trustee shall execute 

the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement, and shall take all other necessary steps to establish the 

Avoidance Actions Trust and the Avoidance Actions Trust Interests therein, which shall be for the 

benefit of the Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries, whether their Claims are Allowed before, 

on, or after the Effective Date. The Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement may provide powers, 

duties, and authorities in addition to those explicitly stated herein, but only to the extent that such 

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powers, duties, and authorities do not affect the status of the Avoidance Actions Trust as a 

“liquidating trust” for United States federal income tax purposes.

B. Purpose of the Avoidance Actions Trust 

The Avoidance Actions Trust shall be established for the sole purpose of prosecuting the 

Avoidance Actions and distributing its assets, in accordance with Treasury Regulation section 

301.7701-4(d), with no objective to continue or engage in the conduct of a trade or business except 

to the extent reasonably necessary to, and consistent with, the liquidating purpose of the Avoidance 

Actions Trust.

C. Avoidance Actions Trust Assets 

The Avoidance Actions Trust shall consist of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets. On the 

Effective Date, PREPA shall transfer all of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets to the Avoidance 

Actions Trust. The Avoidance Actions Trust Assets may be transferred subject to certain 

liabilities, as provided in the Plan or the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement. Such transfer shall 

be exempt from any stamp, real estate transfer, mortgage reporting, sales, use or other similar Tax, 

pursuant to section 1146(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. Upon delivery of the Avoidance Actions 

Trust Assets to the Avoidance Actions Trust, PREPA and its predecessors, successors and assigns, 

and each other Entity released pursuant to Article XXIV hereof shall be discharged and released 

from all liability with respect to the delivery of such distributions.

D. Administration of the Avoidance Actions Trust 

The Avoidance Actions Trust shall be administered by the Avoidance Actions Trustee 

according to the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement and the Plan. In the event of any 

inconsistency between the Plan and the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement, the Avoidance 

Actions Trust Agreement shall govern.

E. The Avoidance Actions Trustee 

If the Avoidance Actions Trustee dies, becomes incapacitated, is terminated, or resigns for 

any reason, the Avoidance Actions Trust Board shall designate a successor; provided, however, 

that under no circumstance shall the Avoidance Actions Trustee be a director or officer with 

respect to any Affiliate of the Avoidance Actions Trust.

F. Role of the Avoidance Actions Trustee 

In furtherance of and consistent with the purpose of the Avoidance Actions Trust and the 

Plan, and subject to the terms of the Confirmation Order, the Plan and the Avoidance Actions Trust 

Agreement, and the oversight of the Avoidance Actions Trust Board, the Avoidance Actions 

Trustee shall, among other things, have the following rights, powers, and duties: (i) to hold, 

manage, convert to Cash, and timely distribute the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets to the GUC 

Trust, including prosecuting and resolving the Claims belonging to the Avoidance Actions Trust;

(ii) to hold the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets for the benefit of the Avoidance Actions Trust 

Beneficiaries, whether their Claims are Allowed on or after the Effective Date; (iii) in the 

Avoidance Actions Trustee’s reasonable business judgment, to investigate, prosecute, settle and/or 

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abandon rights, Causes of Action, or litigation of the Avoidance Actions Trust; (iv) to prepare and 

file (or cause to be prepared and filed), from and after the Effective Date, all tax and regulatory 

forms, returns, reports, and other documents required, or that the Avoidance actions Trustee 

otherwise deems appropriate with respect to the Avoidance Actions Trust; (v) in the Avoidance 

Actions Trustee’s reasonable business judgment, to control, prosecute, and/or settle on behalf of 

the Avoidance Actions Trust, objections to Claims on account of which the Avoidance Actions 

Trustee will be responsible; (vi) to hold, manage, and timely distribute Cash or non-Cash 

Avoidance Actions Trust Assets obtained through the exercise of its power and authority to the 

GUC Trustee; and (vii) to not unduly prolong the duration of the Avoidance Actions Trust. In all 

circumstances, the Avoidance Actions Trustee shall act in the best interests of all Avoidance 

Actions Trust Beneficiaries and in furtherance of the purpose of the Avoidance Actions Trust. The 

Avoidance Action Trustee shall be obligated to provide prompt written responses to the Oversight 

Board’s questions, from time to time, about the Avoidance Action Trust’s progress in 

administering its assets and distributions and its finances.

G. Avoidance Actions Trustee’s Tax Power for Reorganized PREPA 

From and after the Effective Date, the Avoidance Actions Trustee shall prepare and file (or 

cause to be prepared and filed), on behalf of Reorganized PREPA, all tax returns or other tax 

information statements required to be filed or that the Avoidance Actions Trustee otherwise deems 

appropriate.

H. Transferability of Avoidance Actions Trust Interests

The Avoidance Actions Trust Interests shall not be transferable or assignable except by 

will, intestate succession, or operation of law

I. Cash 

The Avoidance Actions Trustee may invest Cash (including any earnings thereon or 

proceeds therefrom) as permitted by section 345 of the Bankruptcy Code; provided, however, that 

such investments are investments permitted to be made by a liquidating trust within the meaning 

of Treasury Regulation section 301.7701-4(d), as reflected therein, or under applicable IRS 

guidelines, rulings, or other controlling authorities.

J. Distribution of Avoidance Actions Trust Assets 

The Avoidance Actions Trustee shall distribute to the GUC Trust, on a monthly basis, all 

unrestricted Cash on hand (including any Cash received from PREPA on the Effective Date), 

except (i) Cash reserved pursuant to the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement to fund the activities 

of the Avoidance Actions Trust, (ii) such amounts as are allocable to or retained to pay reasonable 

incurred or anticipated expenses (including, but not limited to, any taxes imposed on or payable 

by the Avoidance Actions Trust in respect of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets); provided, 

however, that the Avoidance Actions Trustee shall not be required to make a distribution pursuant 

to this Article XX.J if the aggregate, net amount of unrestricted Cash available for distribution 

(taking into account the above listed exclusions) is such that it would make the distribution 

impracticable as reasonably determined by the Avoidance Actions Trustee, with the consent of the 

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Avoidance Actions Trust Board, in accordance with applicable law, and so long as such aggregate 

amount is less than one million dollars ($1,000,000).

K. Funding, Costs, and Expenses of the Avoidance Actions Trust 

On the Effective Date, the Avoidance Actions Trust shall be funded on a one-time basis in 

an amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000). The reasonable costs and expenses of the 

Avoidance Actions Trust, including the fees and expenses of the Avoidance Actions Trustee and 

its retained professionals, shall be paid out of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets. Fees and 

expenses incurred in connection with the prosecution and settlement of any Avoidance Actions

shall be considered costs and expenses of the Avoidance Actions Trust. The Avoidance Action 

Trustee shall be authorized to use proceeds of trust assets to fund the Avoidance Action Trust, if 

necessary.

L. Compensation of the Avoidance Actions Trustee 

The individual(s) serving as or comprising the Avoidance Actions Trustee shall be entitled 

to reasonable compensation in an amount consistent with that of similar functionaries in similar 

roles, the payment of which shall not be subject to the approval of the Title III Court.

M. Retention of Professionals/Employees by the Avoidance Actions Trustee 

Subject to the approval and consent of the Avoidance Actions Trust Board, the Avoidance 

Actions Trust may retain and compensate attorneys, other professionals, and employees to assist 

the Avoidance Actions Trust Board on such terms as the Avoidance Actions Trustee deems 

appropriate without Title III Court approval.

N. Federal Income Tax Treatment of the Avoidance Actions Trust

1. Avoidance Actions Trust Assets Treated as Owned by Creditors. For all 

United States federal income tax purposes, all parties (including, without limitation, the Debtor, 

the Avoidance Actions Trustee, and the Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries) shall treat the 

transfer of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets to the Avoidance Actions Trust as (1) a transfer of 

the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets (subject to any obligations relating to those Assets) directly 

to the Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries, followed by (2) the transfer by such beneficiaries to 

the Avoidance Actions Trust of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets in exchange for Avoidance 

Actions Trust Interests. Accordingly, the Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries shall be treated 

for United States federal income tax purposes as the deemed grantors and owners of their 

respective share of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets. The foregoing treatment shall also apply, 

to the extent permitted by applicable law, for state and local income tax purposes.

2. Tax Reporting.

a) The Avoidance Actions Trustee shall prepare and file (or cause to 

be prepared and filed) tax returns for the Avoidance Actions Trust treating the Avoidance Actions 

Trust as a grantor trust pursuant to Treasury Regulation section 1.671-4(a) and in accordance with 

this Article XX.N. The Avoidance Actions Trustee also will annually send to each holder of an 

Avoidance Actions Trust Interest a separate statement regarding the receipts and expenditures of 

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the Avoidance Actions Trust as relevant for U.S. federal income tax purposes and will instruct all 

such holders to use such information in preparing their U.S. federal income tax returns or to 

forward the appropriate information to such Holder’s underlying beneficial holders with 

instructions to utilize such information in preparing their U.S. federal income tax returns. The 

Avoidance Actions Trustee shall also file (or cause to be filed) any other statement, return, or 

disclosure relating to the Avoidance Actions Trust that is required by any Governmental Unit.

b) The Avoidance Actions Trustee will then in good faith value all 

other Avoidance Actions Trust Assets, and shall make all such values available from time to time, 

to the extent relevant, and such values shall be used consistently by all parties to the Avoidance 

Actions Trust (including, without limitation, the Debtor, the Avoidance Actions Trustee, and 

Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries) for all United States federal income tax purposes.

c) Allocations of Avoidance Actions Trust taxable income among the 

Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries shall be determined by reference to the manner in which 

an amount of Cash representing such taxable income would be distributed (were such Cash 

permitted to be distributed at such time) if, immediately prior to such deemed distribution, the 

Avoidance Actions Trust had distributed all its assets to the holders of the Avoidance Actions 

Trust Interests, adjusted for prior taxable income and loss and taking into account all prior and 

concurrent distributions from the Avoidance Actions Trust. Similarly, taxable loss of the 

Avoidance Actions Trust shall be allocated by reference to the manner in which an economic loss 

would be borne immediately after a hypothetical liquidating distribution of the remaining 

Avoidance Actions Trust Assets. The tax book value of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets for 

purpose of this paragraph shall equal their fair market value on the Effective Date, adjusted in 

accordance with tax accounting principles prescribed by the IRC, the applicable Treasury 

Regulations, and other applicable administrative and judicial authorities and pronouncements.

d) Subject to definitive guidance from the IRS or a court of competent 

jurisdiction to the contrary (including the receipt by the Avoidance Actions Trustee of a private 

letter ruling if the Avoidance Actions Trustee so requests one, or the receipt of an adverse 

determination by the IRS upon audit if not contested by the Avoidance Actions Trustee), the 

Avoidance Actions Trustee shall (A) timely elect to treat any reserve for the Avoidance Actions 

Trust Assets as a “disputed ownership fund” governed by Treasury Regulation section 1.468B-9, 

and (B) to the extent permitted by applicable law, report consistently with the foregoing for state 

and local income tax purposes. All parties (including the Avoidance Actions Trustee and the 

Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries) shall report for United States federal, state, and local 

income tax purposes consistently with the foregoing.

e) The Avoidance Actions Trustee shall be responsible for payment, 

out of the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets, of any taxes imposed on the trust or its assets. In the 

event, and to the extent, any Cash retained on account of Disputed Claims insufficient to pay the

portion of any such taxes attributable to the taxable income arising from the assets allocable to, or 

retained on account of, Disputed Claims, such taxes may be (i) reimbursed from any subsequent 

Cash amounts retained on account of Disputed Claims, or (ii) to the extent such Disputed Claims 

have subsequently been resolved, deducted from any amounts otherwise distributable by the 

Avoidance Actions Trustee as a result of the resolution of such Disputed Claims.

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3. Tax Withholdings by Avoidance Actions Trustee. The Avoidance Actions 

Trustee may withhold and pay to the appropriate tax authority all amounts required to be withheld 

pursuant to the IRC or any provision of any foreign, state, or local tax law with respect to any 

payment or distribution to the holders of Avoidance Actions Trust Interests. All such amounts 

withheld and paid to the appropriate tax authority (or placed in escrow pending resolution of the 

need to withhold) shall be treated as amounts distributed to such holders of Avoidance Actions 

Trust Interests for all purposes of the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement, and it being understood 

that any such amount withheld shall reduce the amount actually realized by the applicable holder 

upon distribution. The Avoidance Actions Trustee shall be authorized to collect such tax 

information from the holders of Avoidance Actions Trust Interests (including, without limitation, 

social security numbers or other tax identification numbers) as in its sole discretion the Avoidance 

Actions Trustee deems necessary to effectuate the Plan, the Confirmation Order, and the 

Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement. In order to receive distributions under the Plan, all holders 

of Avoidance Actions Trust Interests shall be required to identify themselves to the Avoidance 

Actions Trustee and provide tax information and the specifics of their holdings, to the extent the 

Avoidance Actions Trustee deems appropriate in the manner and in accordance with the 

procedures from time to time established by the Avoidance Actions Trustee for these purposes. 

This identification requirement generally applies to all holders of Avoidance Actions Trust 

Interests, including those who hold their securities in street name. The Avoidance Actions Trustee 

may refuse to make a distribution to any holder of a Avoidance Actions Trust Interest that fails to 

furnish such information in a timely fashion, and until such information is delivered, and may treat 

such holder’s Avoidance Actions Trust Interests as disputed; provided, however, that, if such 

information is not furnished to the Avoidance Actions Trustee within six (6) months of the original 

request to furnish such information, no further distributions shall be made to the holder of such 

Avoidance Actions Trust Interest; and, provided, further, that, upon the delivery of such 

information by a holder of a Avoidance Actions Trust Interest, the Avoidance Actions Trustee 

shall make such distribution to which the holder of the Avoidance Actions Trust Interest is entitled, 

without additional interest occasioned by such holder’s delay in providing tax information; and, 

provided, further, that, if the Avoidance Actions Trustee fails to withhold in respect of amounts 

received or distributable with respect to any such holder and the Avoidance Actions Trustee is 

later held liable for the amount of such withholding, such holder shall reimburse the Avoidance 

Actions Trustee for such liability (to the extent such amounts were actually distributed to such 

holder).

O. Dissolution of Avoidance Action Trust

The Avoidance Actions Trustee and the Avoidance Actions Trust shall be discharged or 

dissolved, as the case may be, upon the earlier to occur of (i) all of the Avoidance Actions Trust 

Assets have been distributed pursuant to the Plan and the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement, 

(ii) the Avoidance Actions Trustee determines, with the consent of the Avoidance Actions Trust 

Board, that the administration of any remaining Avoidance Actions Trust Assets is not likely to 

yield sufficient additional Avoidance Actions Trust proceeds to justify further pursuit, including 

because the expense of administering the Avoidance Actions Trust so as to make a final 

distribution to its beneficiaries is likely to exceed the value of the Assets remaining in the 

Avoidance Actions Trust, and (iii) all distributions required to be made by the Avoidance Actions 

Trustee under the Plan and the Avoidance Actions Trust Agreement have been made. Upon the 

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dissolution of the Avoidance Actions Trust, all remaining Avoidance Action Trust Assets, if any, 

shall be transferred to the GUC Trust.

P. Indemnification of Avoidance Actions Trustee and Members of Avoidance Actions 

Trust Bond 

The Avoidance Actions Trustee or the individual(s) comprising the Avoidance Actions 

Trustee, as the case may be, the Avoidance Actions Trust Board, the members of the Avoidance 

Actions Trust Board and their respective employees, agents, and professionals, shall not be liable 

to the Avoidance Actions Trust Beneficiaries for actions taken or omitted in their capacity as, or 

on behalf of, the Avoidance Actions Trustee or the Avoidance Actions Trust Board, as applicable, 

except those acts arising out of their own willful misconduct or gross negligence, and each shall 

be entitled to indemnification and reimbursement by the Avoidance Actions Trust for fees and 

expenses in defending any and all actions or inactions in their capacity as, or on behalf of, the 

Avoidance Actions Trustee or the Avoidance Actions Trust Board, as applicable, except for any 

actions or inactions involving willful misconduct or gross negligence. Any indemnification claim 

of the Avoidance Actions Trustee, the Avoidance Actions Trust Board, the members of the 

Avoidance Actions Trust Board, and the other parties entitled to indemnification under this

subsection shall be satisfied solely from the Avoidance Actions Trust Assets and shall be entitled 

to a priority distribution therefrom, ahead of the Avoidance Actions Trust Interests and any other 

claim to or interest in such assets. The Avoidance Actions Trustee, the Avoidance Actions Trust 

Board, and the members of the Avoidance Actions Trust Board shall be entitled to rely, in good 

faith, on the advice of their retained professionals.

ARTICLE XXI

PROVISIONS GOVERNING DISTRIBUTIONS

A. Appointment of Distribution Agent

PREPA, Reorganized PREPA, the GUC Trustee, and/or the Solicitation Agent shall act as 

Distribution Agent or may employ or contract with other Entities, to act as the Distribution Agent 

or to assist in or make the distributions required by the Plan. Any Distribution Agent appointed 

by PREPA or the GUC Trustee shall serve without bond. Other than as specifically set forth in 

the Plan, the Distribution Agent shall make all distributions required to be made under the Plan. 

Except as otherwise provided herein, all distributions under the Plan shall be made by the 

Distribution Agent.

B. Distributions on Account of Claims Allowed as of the Effective Date

Except as otherwise provided herein, a Final Order, or as otherwise agreed to by PREPA

and the Holder of the applicable Claim, on the first Distribution Date, the Distribution Agent shall 

make initial distributions under the Plan on account of Claims Allowed on the Effective Date or 

as soon as practicable thereafter, subject to PREPA’s right to object to Claims; provided, however, 

that Allowed Administrative Expense Claims with respect to liabilities incurred by PREPA in the 

ordinary course of its operations during the Title III Case or assumed by PREPA prior to the 

Effective Date shall be paid or performed in the ordinary course of its operations in accordance 

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with the terms and conditions of any controlling agreements, course of dealing, course of 

operations, or industry practice; provided, further, that the Distribution Agent may make 

distributions of Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditor Fees to a party entitled thereto in a manner

mutually agreed upon between such party and the Distribution Agent and to the extent the Fuel

Line Lender PSA Creditor Fees shall be payable in Cash, such Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditor

Fees shall be paid no later than ten (10) Business Days following the Effective Date. Except as 

otherwise provided in the Plan, Holders of Claims shall not be entitled to interest, dividends, or 

accruals on the distributions provided for in the Plan, regardless of whether such distributions are 

delivered on or at any time after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in 

the Plan, no Holder of an Allowed Claim shall, on account of such Allowed Claim, receive a 

distribution in excess of the Allowed amount of such Claim.

C. Rights and Powers of Distribution Agent

1. Powers of the Distribution Agent

Except as may be provided otherwise hereunder, the Distribution Agent shall be 

empowered to (a) take all steps and execute all instruments and documents necessary to effectuate 

the Plan, (b) make distributions contemplated by the Plan, (c) comply with the Plan and the 

obligations thereunder, and (d) exercise such other powers as may be vested in the Distribution 

Agent pursuant to order of the Title III Court, pursuant to the Plan, or as deemed by the Distribution 

Agent to be necessary and proper to implement the provisions of the Plan.

2. Fees and Expenses Incurred On and After the Effective Date

Except as otherwise ordered by the Title III Court, the amount of any reasonable fees and 

expenses incurred by the Distribution Agent on and after the Effective Date and any reasonable 

compensation and expense reimbursement claims, including, without limitation, reasonable fees 

and expenses of counsel, incurred by the Distribution Agent, shall be paid in Cash without further 

order of the Title III Court.

D. Special Rules for Distributions to Holders of Disputed Claims

Notwithstanding any provision otherwise in the Plan and except as otherwise agreed by the 

relevant parties: (a) no partial payments and no partial distributions shall be made with respect to 

a Disputed Claim until all such disputes in connection with such Disputed Claim have been 

resolved by settlement or Final Order; and (b) any Entity that holds both an Allowed Claim and a 

Disputed Claim shall not receive any distribution on the Allowed Claim unless and until all 

objections to the Disputed Claim have been resolved by settlement or Final Order or the Claims 

have been Allowed or expunged. Any dividends or other distributions arising from property 

distributed to Holders of Allowed Claims in a Class and paid to such Holders under the Plan shall 

also be paid, in the applicable amounts, to any Holder of a Disputed Claim in such Class that 

becomes an Allowed Claim after the date or dates that such dividends or other distributions were 

earlier paid to Holders of Allowed Claims in such Class.

At such time as a Disputed Claim becomes, in whole or in part, an Allowed Claim, 

Reorganized Debtor shall distribute to the Holder thereof the distributions, if any, to which such 

Holder is then entitled under the Plan, together with any earnings that have accrued thereon (net 

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of any expenses, including any taxes, relating thereto), but only to the extent that such earnings 

are attributable to the amount of the Allowed Claim. Such distribution, if any, shall be made as 

soon as practicable after the date that the order or judgement of the Title III Court allowing such 

Disputed Claim becomes a Final Order.

E. Delivery of Distributions

1. Timeliness of Distributions

Any distribution to be made pursuant to the Plan shall be deemed to be timely made if 

made within ten (10) Business Days after the date specified in the Plan. Whenever any distribution 

to be made under this Plan shall be due on a day other than a Business Day, such distribution shall 

instead be made, without interest, on the immediately succeeding Business Day, but shall be 

deemed to have been made on the date due.

2. Record Date for Distributions

Subject to the provisions of Bankruptcy Rule 9010, and except as provided in the 

Confirmation Order or herein, distributions and deliveries to Holders of Allowed Claims shall be 

made through DTC or at the address of each such Holder as set forth on the Schedules filed with 

the Court, unless superseded by the address set forth on Proofs of Claim filed by such Holders, or 

at the last known address of such Holder if no Proof of Claim is filed or if the Debtor has been 

notified in writing of a change of address; provided, however, that initial distributions by the 

Distribution Agent for the benefit of Holders of Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claims shall be 

made to the Bond Trustee, as applicable, for such obligation in accordance with the respective 

governing documents for such obligations. Neither PREPA nor any Distribution Agent, including 

the GUC Trustee, will have any obligation to recognize the transfer of, or the sale of any 

participation in, any Claim that occurs after the close of business on the Distribution Record Date, 

and will be entitled for all purposes herein to recognize and distribute only to those Holders of 

Allowed Claims (including Holders of Claims that become Allowed after the Distribution Record

Date) that are Holders of such Claims, or participants therein, as of the close of business on the 

Distribution Record Date. PREPA and any Distribution Agent shall instead be entitled to 

recognize and deal for all purposes under the Plan with only those record Holders stated on the 

official Claims Register as of the close of business on the Distribution Record Date.

3. Distribution Process

The Distribution Agent shall make all distributions required under the Plan, except that 

distributions to Holders of Allowed Claims governed by a separate agreement and administered 

by a Servicer shall be deposited with the appropriate Servicer, at which time such distributions 

shall be deemed complete, and the Servicer shall deliver such distributions in accordance with the 

Plan and the terms of the governing agreement. Except as otherwise provided herein, and 

notwithstanding any authority to the contrary, distributions to Holders of Allowed Claims, 

including Claims that become Allowed after the Effective Date, shall be made to Holders of record 

as of the Effective Date by the Distribution Agent or a Servicer, as appropriate: (1) to the address 

of such Holder as set forth in the books and records of the Debtor (or if the Debtor has been notified 

in writing, on or before the date that is ten (10) days before the Effective Date, of a change of 

address, to the changed address); (2) in accordance with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4, as 

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modified and made applicable by Bankruptcy Rule 7004, if no address exists in the Debtor’s books 

and records, no Proof of Claim has been filed and the Distribution Agent has not received a written 

notice of a change of address on or before the date that is ten (10) days before the Effective Date; 

or (3) on any counsel that has appeared in the Title III Case on the Holder’s behalf. The Debtor 

and the Distribution Agent, as applicable, shall not incur any liability whatsoever on account of 

any distributions under the Plan.

4. Foreign Currency Exchange Rate

Except as otherwise provided in a Final Order, as of the Effective Date, any Claim asserted 

in currency other than U.S. dollars shall be automatically deemed converted to the equivalent U.S. 

dollar value using the exchange rate for the applicable currency as published in The Wall Street 

Journal, National Edition, on the Effective Date.

5. De Minimis, Fractional, Undeliverable, and Unclaimed Distributions

(a) De Minimis and Fractional Distributions. No distribution of (i) New Bonds 

shall be made by the Distribution Agent on account of an Allowed Claim if 

the amount to be distributed to the specific Holder of an Allowed Claim on 

the applicable Distribution Date has an economic value of less than 

$1,000.00 and (ii) Cash shall be made by the Distribution Agent on account 

of an Allowed Claim if the amount to be distributed to the specific Holder 

of an Allowed Claim on the applicable Distribution Date has an economic 

value of less than $100.00. No fractional New Bonds shall be distributed. 

Where a fractional portion of a New Bond otherwise would be called for 

under the Plan, the actual issuance shall reflect a rounding down to the 

nearest whole New Bond.

(b) Undeliverable Distributions. If any distribution to any Holder is returned 

to the Distribution Agent as undeliverable, no further distribution shall be 

made to such Holder unless and until the Distribution Agent is notified, in 

writing, of such Holder’s then-current address. Subject to the terms and 

provision of Article XXI.E.5(c) of the Plan, undeliverable distributions shall 

remain in the possession of the Distribution Agent until such time as a 

distribution becomes deliverable. All Entities ultimately receiving 

previously undeliverable Cash shall not be entitled to any interest or other 

accruals thereon of any kind. Nothing contained in the Plan shall require 

the Distribution Agent to attempt to locate any Holder of an Allowed Claim.

(c) Reversion of Unclaimed Distributions. If (i) a check is sent, by the 

Distribution Agent to a Holder in respect of distributions and such check is 

not negotiated within one hundred twenty (120) days following the date on 

which such check was issued, or (ii) any other form of distribution to a 

Holder is otherwise undeliverable or that has become an Unclaimed 

Distribution, the Distribution Agent (or its duly authorized agent) shall, on 

or prior to the date that is one hundred eighty (180) days from (i) the 

Effective Date, with respect to all Allowed Claims as of the Effective Date, 

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and (ii) the date that a distribution is made with respect to any Disputed 

Claim that becomes an Allowed Claim subsequent to the Effective Date, 

file a list with the Title III Court setting forth the names of those Entities for 

which distributions have been made hereunder that have not been negotiated 

or have been returned as undeliverable as of the date thereof. Any Holder 

of an Allowed Claim on such list that does not identify itself and assert its 

rights pursuant to the Plan to receive a distribution within six (6) months 

from the date so listed shall have its entitlement to such undeliverable 

distribution discharged and shall be forever barred from asserting any 

entitlement pursuant to the Plan, against the Reorganized Debtor or the 

GUC Trustee, or their respective professionals, agents, or property, and any 

(1) Cash in the possession of the Distribution Agent or the trustee with 

respect to existing securities, as the case may be, shall be released to the 

Reorganized Debtor for use to discharge operating expenses of the 

Reorganized Debtor and (2) the New Bonds in the possession of the 

Distribution Agent with respect to existing securities, shall be released to 

the Reorganized Debtor for cancellation or deposit into the treasury of the 

Reorganized Debtor, as determined by Reorganized Debtor in its sole and 

absolute discretion.

6. Surrender of Cancelled Instruments 

As a condition to participation under this Plan, the Holder of a note, debenture, or other 

evidence of indebtedness of PREPA that desires to receive the property to be distributed on account 

of an Allowed Claim based on such note, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness shall 

surrender such note, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness to PREPA or its designee (unless 

such Holder’s Claim will not be Impaired by the Plan, in which case such surrender shall not be 

required), and shall execute and deliver such other documents as are necessary to effectuate the 

Plan; provided, however, that, if a claimant is a Holder of a note, debenture, or other evidence of 

indebtedness for which no physical certificate was issued to the Holder but which instead is held 

in book-entry form pursuant to a global security hold by DTC or other securities depository or 

custodian thereof, there shall be no requirement of surrender. In PREPA’s sole discretion, if no 

surrender of a note, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness occurs and the Holder of a Claim 

does not provide an affidavit and indemnification agreement, in form and substance reasonably 

satisfactory to PREPA, that such note, debenture, or other evidence of indebtedness was lost, then 

no distribution may be made to such Holder in respect of the Claim based on such note, debenture,

or other evidence of indebtedness.

7. Cancellation of Notes, Instruments, Certificates, and Other Documents

Except (a) as provided in any contract, instrument, or other agreement or document entered 

into or delivered in connection with the Plan, (b) for purposes of evidencing a right to distribution 

under the Plan, or (c) as specifically provided otherwise in the Plan (including any rejection of 

Executory Contracts or Unexpired Leases pursuant to Article XVIII.A hereof), on the Effective 

Date, the PREPA Revenue Bonds and Fuel Line Facilities and all instruments and documents 

related thereto will be deemed automatically cancelled, terminated, and of no further force or effect 

against the Debtor without any further act or action under any applicable agreement, law, 

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regulation, order or rule, with the Debtor and the applicable trustee, paying agent, or fiscal agent, 

as the case may be, having no continuing obligations or duties and responsibilities thereunder and 

the obligations of the parties to the Debtor, as applicable, under the PREPA Revenue Bonds and 

Fuel Line Facilities and all instruments and documents related thereto shall be discharged; 

provided, however, that, notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, the PREPA 

Revenue Bonds and Fuel Line Facilities and such other instruments and documents shall continue 

in effect solely (i) to allow the Distribution Agent to make any distributions as set forth in the Plan 

and to perform such other necessary administrative or other functions with respect thereto, (ii) to 

allow Holders of Allowed PREPA Revenue Bond Claims and Allowed Fuel Line Loan Claims to 

receive distributions in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Plan, (iii) for any trustee, 

agent, contract administrator, or similar entity under all instruments and documents related thereto, 

to perform necessary functions, including making distributions, in accordance with the Plan and 

to have the benefit of all the rights and protections and other provisions of such instruments and 

documents, as applicable, and all other related agreements, (iv) to set forth the terms and conditions 

applicable to parties to such documents and instruments other than the Debtor, or (v) as may be 

necessary to preserve any claims under the respective Insurance Policies and related documents 

issued by a Monoline Insurer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, and except as otherwise expressly 

provided in the Plan, such bonds or bond documents that remain outstanding shall not form the 

basis for the assertion of any Claim against the Debtor or Reorganized Debtor, as the case may be.

F. Claims Paid or Payable by Third Parties

1. Claims Paid by Third Parties

A Claim shall be reduced in full, and such Claim shall be Disallowed without an objection 

to such Claim having to be filed and without any further notice to or action, order, or approval of 

the Title III Court, to the extent that the Holder of such Claim receives payment in full on account 

of such Claim from a party that is not the Distribution Agent. To the extent a Holder of a Claim 

receives a distribution on account of such Claim and receives payment from a party that is not the 

Distribution Agent on account of such Claim, such Holder shall repay, return, or deliver any 

distribution held by or transferred to the Holder to the applicable Distribution Agent to the extent 

the Holder’s total recovery on account of such Claim from the third party and under the Plan 

exceeds the amount of such Claim as of the date of any such distribution under the Plan.

2. Claims Payable by Insurance Carriers

No distributions under the Plan shall be made on account of an Allowed Claim that is 

payable pursuant to one of PREPA’s Insurance Policies until the Holder of such Allowed Claim 

has exhausted all remedies with respect to such insurance policy. To the extent that one or more 

of PREPA’s insurers agrees to satisfy in full a Claim, then immediately upon such insurers’ 

agreement, such Claim may be expunged to the extent of any agreed upon satisfaction on the 

Claims Register by the Solicitation Agent without a Claims objection having to be filed and 

without any further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Title III Court.

3. Applicability of Insurance Policies

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Except as otherwise provided herein, distributions to Holders of Allowed Claims shall be 

in accordance with the provisions of an applicable insurance policy. Except as otherwise expressly 

provided herein, nothing contained in the Plan shall constitute or be deemed a waiver of any Cause 

of Action that PREPA or any Entity may hold against any other Entity, including insurers under 

any policies of insurance, nor shall anything contained herein constitute or be deemed a waiver by 

such insurers of any defenses, including coverage defenses, held by such insurers.

G. Withholding and Reporting Requirements

Any party issuing any instrument or making any distribution under the Plan shall comply 

with all applicable withholding and reporting requirements imposed by any United States federal, 

state or local tax law or tax authority, and all distributions under the Plan shall be subject to any 

such withholding or reporting requirements. Notwithstanding the above, each holder of an 

Allowed Claim that is to receive a distribution under the Plan shall have the sole and exclusive 

responsibility for the satisfaction and payment of any taxes imposed on such Holder by any 

Governmental Unit, including income, withholding and other tax obligations, on account of such 

distribution. Any party issuing any instrument or making any distribution under the Plan has the 

right, but not the obligation, to not make a distribution until such Holder has made arrangements 

satisfactory to such issuing or distributing party for payment of any such withholding tax 

obligations and, if any party issuing any instrument or making any distribution under the Plan fails 

to withhold with respect to any such Holder’s distribution, and is later held liable for the amount 

of such withholding, the Holder shall reimburse such party. The Distribution Agent may require, 

as a condition to the receipt of a distribution, that the Holder complete the appropriate Form W-8 

or Form W-9, as applicable to each Holder. If the Holder fails to comply with such a request 

within one year, such distribution shall be deemed an Unclaimed Distribution. PREPA reserves 

the right to allocate all distributions made under the Plan in compliance with all applicable wage 

garnishments, alimony, child support, and other spousal awards, Liens, and encumbrances.

H. Time Bar to Cash Payments

Checks issued by the Distribution Agent on account of Allowed Claims shall be null and 

void if not negotiated within one hundred twenty (120) days from and after the date of issuance 

thereof. Requests for reissuance of any check shall be made directly to the Distribution Agent by 

the holder of the Allowed Claim with respect to which such check originally was issued. Any claim 

in respect of such a voided check shall be made on or before the later of (i) the first (1st) 

anniversary of the Effective Date or (ii) ninety (90) days after the date of issuance of such check, 

if such check represents a final distribution hereunder on account of such Claim. After such date, 

all Claims in respect of voided checks shall be discharged and forever barred and the Distribution 

Agent shall retain all monies related thereto for the sole purpose of redistribution to Holders of 

Allowed Claims in accordance with the terms and provisions hereof.

I. Distributions After Effective Date

Distributions made after the Effective Date to Holders of Claims that are not Allowed 

Claims as of the Effective Date, but which later become Allowed Claims, shall be deemed to have 

been made in accordance with the terms and provisions of Article XXI.E of the Plan.

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J. Setoffs

Except as otherwise provided in the Plan or in the Confirmation Order, the Distribution 

Agent may, pursuant to applicable bankruptcy or non-bankruptcy law, set off against any Allowed 

Claim and the distributions to be made pursuant to the Plan on account thereof (before any 

distribution is made on account of such Claim by the Distribution Agent), the claims, rights, and 

Causes of Action of any nature that the Debtor or Reorganized Debtor may hold against the Holder 

of such Allowed Claim; provided, however, that neither the failure to effect such a setoff nor the 

allowance of any Claim hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release by the Debtor or 

Reorganized Debtor of any such claims, rights, and Causes of Action that the Debtor or the 

Reorganized Debtor may possess against such Holder; and, provided, further, that nothing 

contained herein is intended to limit the ability of any Creditor to effectuate rights of setoff or 

recoupment preserved or permitted by the provisions of Bankruptcy Code sections 553, 555, 559, 

or 560 or pursuant to the common law right of recoupment; and, provided, further, that nothing in 

this Article XXI.J shall affect the releases and injunctions provided in Article XXIV of the Plan.

K. Allocation Between Principal and Accrued Interest

To the extent that any Allowed Claim entitled to a distribution under the Plan consists of 

indebtedness and other amounts (such as accrued but unpaid interest thereon), such distribution 

shall be allocated first, to interest accrued and unpaid as of the date immediately preceding the 

Petition Date, second, to the principal amount of the Claim (as determined for federal income tax 

purposes) and third, to the extent the consideration exceeds the principal amount of the Claim, to 

such other amounts; provided, however, that the Debtor’s or Reorganized Debtor’s treatment of 

any distributions for its tax purposes will not be binding on any Creditor as to the treatment of such 

distributions for any regulatory, tax, or other purposes.

L. Holder of Claim

For all purposes of the Plan, including, without limitation, for purposes of distributions 

pursuant to the terms and provisions of this Article XXI, the Holder of a Claim shall mean any 

Entity who, directly or indirectly, has investment power with respect to any Claim, which includes 

the power to dispose or to direct the disposition of such Claim; provided, however, that, solely 

with respect to Insured PREPA Revenue Bonds and Bankruptcy Code section 1126, the Holder of 

any Insured PREPA Revenue Bond Claims shall be determined in accordance with PROMESA 

section 301(c)(3) and any law or governing documents applicable to such Insured PREPA Revenue 

Bond Claims.

M. Exculpation

From and after the Effective Date, the Distribution Agent shall be exculpated by all 

Entities, including, without limitation, Holders of Claims and other parties in interest, from any 

and all claims, Causes of Action, and other assertions of liability arising out of the discharge of 

the powers and duties conferred upon such Distribution Agent by the Plan or any order of the Title 

III Court entered pursuant to or in furtherance of the Plan, or applicable law, except for actions or 

omissions to act arising out of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Distribution

Agent. No Holder of a Claim or other party in interest shall have or pursue any claim or cause of 

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action against the Distribution Agent for making payments in accordance with the Plan or for 

implementing the provisions of the Plan.

ARTICLE XXII

PROCEDURES FOR RESOLVING DISPUTED CLAIMS

A. Objections to Claims and Prosecution of Disputed Claims

Except with respect to Allowed Claims, and subject to the terms and conditions of the ADR 

Procedures and the ADR Order, the Reorganized Debtor, by and through the Oversight Board, 

shall object to, and shall assume any pending objection filed by the Debtor to, the allowance of 

Claims filed with the Title III Court with respect to which it disputes liability, priority or amount, 

including, without limitation, objections to Claims that have been assigned and the assertion of the 

doctrine of equitable subordination with respect thereto. All objections, affirmative defenses, and 

counterclaims shall be litigated to Final Order; provided, however, that the Reorganized Debtor, 

by and through the Oversight Board, shall have the authority to file, settle, compromise, or 

withdraw any objections to Claims, without approval of the Title III Court. Unless otherwise 

ordered by the Title III Court, to the extent not already objected to by the Debtor, the Reorganized 

Debtor shall file and serve all objections to Claims as soon as practicable, but, in each instance, 

not later than the Claims Objection Bar Date. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Plan to 

the contrary, on the Effective Date, any (i) PREPA Revenue Bond Claim or Fuel Line Loan Claim 

filed by any Entity for amounts due under existing securities and (ii) Proofs of Claim included on

a schedule to the Plan Supplement, if any, shall be deemed satisfied and expunged and the 

Oversight Board shall instruct the Solicitation Agent, its court-appointed representative, to remove 

such Claims from the Claims Register maintained for the benefit of the Title III Court.

Except as otherwise provided herein, no Claim shall become an Allowed Claim unless and 

until such Claim is deemed Allowed under the Plan or PROMESA, or the Title III Court has 

entered a Final Order allowing such Claim. For the avoidance of doubt, there is no requirement to 

file a Proof of Claim (or move the Title III Court for allowance) to be an Allowed Claim under the 

Plan. Except as otherwise provided herein, all Proofs of Claim filed after the Effective Date 

shall be Disallowed and forever barred, estopped, and enjoined from assertion, and shall not 

be enforceable against PREPA or Reorganized PREPA, without the need for any objection 

by PREPA or Reorganized PREPA or any further notice to or action, order, or approval of 

the Title III Court.

B. Estimation of Claims

Except with respect to Allowed Claims, on and after the Effective Date, and unless 

otherwise limited by an order of the Title III Court, including, without limitation, the ACR Order

and the ADR Order, the Reorganized Debtor, by and through the Oversight Board, may at any 

time request the Title III Court to estimate for final distribution purposes any contingent, 

unliquidated or Disputed Claim pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 502(c) regardless of whether 

the Debtor previously objected to or sought to estimate such Claim, and the Title III Court will 

retain jurisdiction to consider any request to estimate any Claim at any time during litigation 

concerning any objection to any Claim, including, without limitation, during the pendency of any 

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appeal relating to any such objection. Unless otherwise provided in an order of the Title III Court, 

in the event that the Title III Court estimates any contingent, unliquidated, or Disputed Claim, the 

estimated amount shall constitute either the allowed amount of such Claim or a maximum 

limitation on such Claim, as determined by the Title III Court; provided, however, that, if the 

estimate constitutes the maximum limitation on such Claim, the Reorganized Debtor, by and 

through the Oversight Board, may elect to pursue supplemental proceedings to object to any 

ultimate allowance of such Claim; and, provided, further, that the foregoing is not intended to limit 

the rights granted by Bankruptcy Code section 502(j). All of the aforementioned Claims objection, 

estimation, and resolution procedures are cumulative and not necessarily exclusive of one another.

C. Claims Administration Responsibilities

Except as otherwise specifically provided in the Plan, after the Effective Date, PREPA 

shall have the sole authority: (1) to file, withdraw, or litigate to judgment, objections to Claims; 

(2) to settle or compromise any Disputed Claim without any further notice to or action, order, or 

approval by the Title III Court; and (3) to administer and adjust the Claims Register to reflect any 

such settlements or compromises without any further notice to or action, order, or approval by the 

Title III Court. For the avoidance of doubt, except as otherwise provided herein, from and after 

the Effective Date, PREPA shall have and retain any and all rights and defenses PREPA had 

immediately prior to the Effective Date with respect to any Disputed Claim.

D. Adjustment to Claims Without Objection

Any duplicate Claim or any Claim that has been paid, satisfied, amended, or superseded 

may be adjusted or expunged on the Claims Register by PREPA without PREPA having to file an 

application, motion, complaint, objection, or any other legal proceeding seeking to object to such 

Claim and without any further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Title III Court.

E. Extension of Claims Objection Bar Date

Upon motion by Reorganized PREPA to the Title III Court, Reorganized PREPA may 

request, and the Title III Court may grant, an extension to the Claims Objection Bar Date generally 

or with respect to specific Claims. Any extension granted by the Title III Court shall not be 

considered to be a modification of the Plan under PROMESA section 313.

F. Authority to Amend Creditor List

PREPA will have the authority to amend the Creditor List with respect to any Claim and

to make distributions based on such amended Creditor List without approval of the Title III Court. 

If any such amendment to the Creditor List reduces the amount of a Claim or changes the nature 

or priority of a Claim, PREPA will provide the Holder of such Claim with notice of such 

amendment and such Holder will have twenty (20) days to file an objection to such amendment 

with the Title III Court. If no such objection is filed, the Distribution Agent may proceed with 

distributions based on such amended Creditor List without approval of the Title III Court.

G. No Interest

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Unless otherwise specifically provided for herein or by order of the Title III Court, 

postpetition interest shall not accrue or be paid on Claims, and no Holder of a Claim shall be 

entitled to interest accruing on or after the Petition Date on any Claim or right. Additionally, and 

without limiting the foregoing, interest shall not accrue or be paid on any Disputed Claim with 

respect to the period from the Effective Date to the date a final distribution is made on account of 

such Disputed Claim, if and when such Disputed Claim becomes an Allowed Claim.

H. Disallowance of Claims 

All Claims of any Entity from which property is sought by PREPA under Bankruptcy Code 

sections 550 or 553 or that PREPA alleges is a transferee of a transfer that is avoidable under 

Bankruptcy Code sections 544, 545, 547, 548, or 549 shall be Disallowed if: (a) the Entity, on the 

one hand, and PREPA, on the other hand, agree or the Title III Court has determined by Final

Order that such Entity or transferee is liable to turn over any property or monies under any of the 

aforementioned Bankruptcy Code sections; and (b) such Entity or transferee has failed to turn over 

such property by the date set forth in such agreement or Final Order.

ARTICLE XXIII

GOVERNANCE AND PROVISIONS REGARDING PREPA PAYGO TRUST AND 

PENSION SYSTEM

A. Formation and Responsibilities of the PREPA PayGo Trust 

On or prior to the Effective Date, PREPA shall take all necessary steps to establish the 

PREPA PayGo Trust, including, without limitation, by execution and delivery of the PREPA 

PayGo Deed of Trust.

B. Funding of the PREPA PayGo Trust 

1. Initial Funding

On the Effective Date, PREPA shall contribute, or cause to be contributed to the PREPA 

PayGo Trust, one million dollars ($1,000,000) to fund the initial administrative fees, costs, and 

expenses of the PREPA PayGo Trust.

2. Ongoing Funding of the PREPA PayGo Trust

Reorganized PREPA shall make debt service payments with respect to the PREPA PayGo 

New Bonds Distribution and Excess New Bonds, if any, held by the PREPA PayGo Trust in 

accordance with the New Master Indenture. In addition, from and after the Fiscal Year in which 

the Effective Date occurs, Reorganized PREPA shall make, or cause to be made, annual (but in no 

event later than September 30th following the conclusion of each Fiscal Year) contributions to the 

PREPA PayGo Trust such that:

(a) the combined payments on account of the PREPA PayGo New Bonds 

Distribution and Excess New Bonds and this clause (a) shall be sufficient 

for the PREPA PayGo Trust to reimburse PREPA ERS for retirement 

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benefits paid and administrative expenses incurred in the prior Fiscal Year 

ending June 30, and

(b) the contribution in the immediately foregoing clause (a) shall be increased 

or limited such that, after such contribution, the PREPA PayGo Trust assets 

shall equal two (2) times the expected retirement benefits to be paid and 

administrative expenses to be incurred during the current Fiscal Year, with 

any resulting increase to amount paid pursuant to the immediately foregoing 

clause (a) not to exceed fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) in a given Fiscal 

Year.

C. Management of PREPA PayGo Trust

The PREPA PayGo Trust will be managed by an independent entity whose members shall 

meet the independence, professionalism, experience, and qualification standards set forth in the 

PREPA PayGo Deed of Trust.

D. Non-Impairment Covenant 

PREPA covenants herein, and will covenant in the PREPA PayGo Deed of Trust, for the 

benefit of all Participants that, with respect to payments and other obligations owed to PREPA 

ERS pursuant to the Plan, all such obligations shall remain in place and not otherwise be altered, 

modified, or amended until all such obligations have been satisfied in full in accordance with the 

provisions of the Plan and the Definitive Documents, enforceable by any and each of the Oversight 

Board, the PREPA PayGo Trust, and PREPA ERS and, with respect to any such provision, the 

PREPA PayGo Deed of Trust shall not be amended or modified by Reorganized PREPA except 

(i) with the express prior written consent of the Oversight Board (if in existence), and PREPA 

ERS, or (ii) pursuant to a new or re-opened Title III case for Reorganized PREPA and a confirmed 

new or modified, and effective, plan of adjustment. 

E. Maintenance of Pension 

Before the tenth (10th) anniversary of the Effective Date, both the Government of the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Reorganized PREPA, including, without limitation, by any 

Entity or Person acting for or on behalf thereof, shall not (a) implement existing legislation, enact 

new legislation, or enter into new collective bargaining agreements or other contracts to create or 

increase any defined benefit pension payment or obligation to current or future retirees from or 

related to any defined benefit plans over the benefits provided by the Plan, regardless of funding 

source, or (b) undo (in whole or part) the Plan’s eliminations of defined benefit plan accruals and 

cost of living adjustments for PREPA ERS Participants.

ARTICLE XXIV

EFFECT OF CONFIRMATION OF THE PLAN

A. Discharge and Release of Claims and Causes of Action

1. Complete Satisfaction, Discharge, and Release

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Except as expressly provided in the Plan or the Confirmation Order, all distributions and 

rights afforded under the Plan shall be, and shall be deemed to be, in exchange for, and in complete 

satisfaction, settlement, discharge, and release of, all Claims or Causes of Action against PREPA 

and Reorganized PREPA that arose, in whole or in part, prior to the Effective Date, relating to the 

Title III Case, the Debtor or Reorganized Debtor or any of their respective Assets, property, or 

interests of any nature whatsoever, including any interest accrued on such Claims from and after 

the Petition Date, and regardless of whether any property will have been distributed or retained 

pursuant to the Plan on account of such Claims or Causes of Action. Upon the Effective Date, the 

Debtor and Reorganized Debtor shall be deemed discharged and released from any and all Claims, 

Causes of Action, and any other Debts that arose, in whole or in part, prior to the Effective Date 

(including prior to the Petition Date), and all Debts of the kind specified in Bankruptcy Code 

sections 502(g), 502(h), or 502(i), whether or not (a) a Proof of Claim based upon such Debt is 

filed or deemed filed under Bankruptcy Code section 501, (b) a Claim based upon such Debt is 

allowed under Bankruptcy Code section 502 (or is otherwise resolved), or (c) the Holder of a Claim 

based upon such Debt voted to accept the Plan.

2. Preclusion from Assertion of Claims Against the Debtor

All Entities shall be precluded from asserting any and all Claims or other obligations, suits, 

judgments, damages, Debts, rights, remedies, Causes of Action, or liabilities, of any nature 

whatsoever, including any interest accrued on such Claims from and after the Petition Date, against 

the Debtor and Reorganized Debtor and each of their respective Assets, property and rights, 

relating to the Title III Case, regardless of whether any property will have been distributed or 

retained pursuant to the Plan on account of such Claims or other obligations, suits, judgments, 

damages, Debts, rights, remedies, Causes of Action, or liabilities. In accordance with the 

foregoing, except as expressly provided in the Plan or the Confirmation Order, the Confirmation 

Order shall constitute a judicial determination, as of the Effective Date, of the discharge and release 

of all such Claims, Causes of Action, or Debt of or against the Debtor and the Reorganized Debtor 

pursuant to Bankruptcy Code sections 524 and 944, applicable to the Title III Case pursuant to 

PROMESA section 301, and such discharge shall void and extinguish any judgment obtained 

against the Debtor or Reorganized Debtor and their respective Assets, and property at any time, to 

the extent such judgment is related to a discharged Claim, Debt, or liability. As of the Effective 

Date, and in consideration for the value provided under the Plan, each Holder of a Claim in any 

Class under this Plan shall be and hereby is deemed to release and forever waive and discharge as 

against the Debtor and Reorganized Debtor, and their respective Assets and property and all such 

Claims.

3. Injunction Related to Discharge of Claims

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Article XXIV of the Plan, the Confirmation 

Order or such other Final Order of the Title III Court that may be applicable, all Entities who have 

held, hold, or may hold Claims or any other Debt or liability that is discharged or released pursuant 

to Article XXIV hereof or who have held, hold, or may hold Claims or any other Debt or liability 

that is discharged or released pursuant to Article XXIV hereof are permanently enjoined, from and 

after the Effective Date, from (a) commencing or continuing, directly or indirectly, in any manner, 

any action or other proceeding (including, without limitation, any judicial, arbitral, administrative,

or other proceeding) of any kind on any such Claim or other Debt or liability that is discharged or 

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released pursuant to the Plan against any of the Released Parties or any of their respective Assets 

or property, (b) the enforcement, attachment, collection, or recovery by any manner or means of 

any judgment, award, decree, or order against any of the Released Parties or any of their respective 

assets or property on account of any Claim or other Debt or liability that is discharged or released 

pursuant to the Plan, (c) creating, perfecting, or enforcing any encumbrance of any kind against 

any of the Released Parties or any of their respective assets or property on account of any Claim 

or other Debt or liability that is discharged or released pursuant to the Plan, and (d) except to the 

extent provided, permitted, or preserved by Bankruptcy Code sections 553, 555, 556, 559, or 560

or pursuant to the common law right of recoupment, asserting any right of setoff, subrogation, or 

recoupment of any kind against any obligation due from any of the Released Parties or any of their 

respective assets or property, with respect to any such Claim or other Debt or liability that is 

discharged or released pursuant to the Plan. Such injunction shall extend to all successors and 

assigns of the Released Parties and their respective assets and property.

B. Releases by the Debtor and Reorganized Debtor

Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Plan or the Confirmation Order, on the 

Effective Date, and for good and valuable consideration, each of the Debtor and Reorganized 

Debtor, the Distribution Agent and each of the Debtor’s and Reorganized Debtor’s Related 

Persons shall be deemed to have and hereby does irrevocably and unconditionally, fully, 

finally, and forever waive, release, acquit, and discharge the Released Parties from any and 

all Claims or Causes of Action that the Debtor, Reorganized Debtor, and the Distribution 

Agent, or any of them, or anyone claiming through them, on their behalf or for their benefit, 

have or may have or claim to have, now or in the future, against any Released Party that are 

Released Claims or otherwise are based upon, relate to, or arise out of or in connection with, 

in whole or in part, any act, omission, transaction, event or other circumstance relating to 

the Title III Case, the Fuel Line Lender PSA, the Debtor taking place or existing on or prior 

to the Effective Date, and/or any Claim, act, fact, transaction, occurrence, statement, or 

omission in connection with or alleged or that could have been alleged, including, without 

limitation, any such Claim, demand, right, liability, or cause of action for indemnification, 

contribution, or any other basis in law or equity for damages, costs, or fees.

C. Releases by Holders of Claims

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Plan to the contrary, as of the Effective 

Date, for good and valuable consideration, each Releasing Party is deemed to have released 

and discharged the Debtor and the Reorganized Debtor from any and all Causes of Action, 

whether known or unknown, including any derivative claims, asserted on behalf of the 

Debtor, that such Entity would have been legally entitled to assert (whether individually or 

collectively), based on or relating to, or in any manner arising from, in whole or in part, the 

Debtor (including management, ownership, or operation thereof), the Debtor’s in- or out-ofcourt restructuring efforts, intercompany transactions, the Title III Case, the formulation, 

preparation, dissemination, negotiation, or filing of the Disclosure Statement, the Plan, the 

Restructuring Transactions, the Fuel Line Lender PSA, or any contract, instrument, release, 

or other Definitive Documents, agreement, or document created or entered into in 

connection with the Disclosure Statement, or the Plan, the filing of the Title III Case, the 

pursuit of Confirmation, the pursuit of consummation, the administration and 

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implementation of the Plan, including the issuance or distribution of securities pursuant to 

the Plan, or the distribution of property under the Plan or any other related agreement, or 

upon any other related act or omission, transaction, agreement, event, or other occurrence 

taking place on or before the Effective Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in 

the foregoing, the releases set forth above do not release any post-Effective Date obligations 

of any party or Entity under the Plan, the Restructuring Transactions, or any document, 

instrument, or agreement (including those set forth in the Plan Supplement) executed to 

implement the Plan.

D. Exculpation

Except as otherwise specifically provided in the Plan, no Exculpated Party shall have 

or incur, and each Exculpated Party is released and exculpated from any Cause of Action 

for any claim related to any act or omission in connection with, relating to, or arising out of, 

the Title III Case, the formulation, preparation, dissemination, negotiation, or filing of the

Fuel Line Lender PSA, Disclosure Statement, the Plan, or any Restructuring Transaction, 

contract, instrument, release or other Definitive Document, agreement, or document created 

or entered into in connection with the Disclosure Statement or the Plan, the filing of the Title 

III Case, the pursuit of Confirmation, the pursuit of consummation, the administration and 

implementation of the Plan, including the issuance of securities pursuant to the Plan, or the 

distribution of property under the Plan or any other related agreement, except for claims 

related to any act or omission that is determined in a Final Order to have constituted actual 

fraud or gross negligence, but in all respects such Entities shall be entitled to reasonably rely 

upon the advice of counsel with respect to their duties and responsibilities pursuant to the 

Plan. The Exculpated Parties have, and upon completion of the Plan shall be deemed to 

have, participated in good faith and in compliance with the applicable laws with regard to 

the solicitation of votes and distribution of consideration pursuant to the Plan and, therefore, 

are not, and on account of such distributions shall not be, liable at any time for the violation 

of any applicable law, rule, or regulation governing the solicitation of acceptances or 

rejections of the Plan or such distributions made pursuant to the Plan.

E. Injunction

As of the Effective Date, all Entities that hold, have held, or may hold a Released 

Claim that is released pursuant to this Article XXIV of the Plan, are, and shall be, 

permanently, forever and completely stayed, restrained, prohibited, barred, and enjoined 

from taking any of the following actions, whether directly or indirectly, derivatively, or 

otherwise, on account of or based on the subject matter of such discharged Released Claims: 

(i) commencing, conducting, or continuing in any manner, directly or indirectly, any suit, 

action, or other proceeding (including, without limitation, any judicial, arbitral, 

administrative, or other proceeding) in any forum; (ii) enforcing, attaching (including, 

without limitation any prejudgment attachment), collecting, or in any way seeking to recover 

any judgment, award, decree, or other order; (iii) creating, perfecting, or in any way 

enforcing in any matter, directly or indirectly, any Lien; (iv) setting off, seeking 

reimbursement or contributions from, or subrogation against, or otherwise recouping in any 

manner, directly or indirectly, any amount against any liability or obligation owed to any 

Entity released under Article XXIV hereof; and (v) commencing or continuing in any 

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manner, in any place of any judicial, arbitration, or administrative proceeding in any forum, 

that does not comply with or its inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan or the 

Confirmation Order.

F. Non-Severability of Releases, Injunctions, and Exculpations

Notwithstanding anything else contained in the Plan, the releases, injunctions, and 

exculpation provided in this Article XXIV are integral to obtaining the value provided hereunder 

and constitute an essential component of the compromises reached and are not severable from the 

other provisions of this Plan.

G. Document Retention

On and after the Effective Date, the Debtor may maintain documents in accordance with 

their standard document retention policy, as may be altered, amended, modified, or supplemented 

by the Debtor.

H. Reimbursement or Contribution

If the Bankruptcy Court disallows a Claim for reimbursement or contribution of an Entity 

pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 502(e)(1)(B), then to the extent that such Claim is contingent 

as of the time of allowance or disallowance, such Claim shall be forever Disallowed and expunged 

notwithstanding Bankruptcy Code section 502(j), unless prior to the Confirmation Date: (1) such 

Claim has been adjudicated as non-contingent; or (2) the relevant Holder of a Claim has filed a 

non-contingent Proof of Claim on account of such Claim and a Final Order has been entered prior 

to the Confirmation Date determining such Claim as no longer contingent.

I. Release of Liens

Except (a) with respect to the Liens securing the New Bonds and CVI, or (b) as otherwise 

provided herein or in any contract, instrument, release, or other agreement or document created 

pursuant to the Plan, on the Effective Date, all mortgages, deeds of trust, Liens, pledges, or other 

security interests against any property of the Debtor shall be fully released and discharged, and the 

Holders of such mortgages, deeds of trust, Liens, pledges, or other security interests shall execute 

such documents as may be reasonably requested by the Debtor, as applicable, to reflect or 

effectuate such releases, and all of the right, title, and interest of any holder of such mortgages, 

deeds of trust, Liens, pledges, or other security interests shall revert to the Debtor and itssuccessors 

and assigns.

ARTICLE XXV

MODIFICATION, REVOCATION, OR WITHDRAWAL OF THE PLAN

A. Modification of Plan

Subject to sections 104(j) and 313 of PROMESA and sections 942 and 1127(d) of the 

Bankruptcy Code, applicable to the Title III Cases pursuant to PROMESA section 301 of 

PROMESA, PREPA may alter, amend, or modify the Plan or the Exhibits at any time prior to or 

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after the Confirmation Date but prior to the Effective Date. A Holder of a Claim that has accepted 

the Plan shall be deemed to have accepted the Plan as altered, amended, or modified so long as the 

proposed alteration, amendment or modification does not materially and adversely change the 

treatment of the Claim of such Holder.

B. Revocation or Withdrawal

The Plan may be revoked or withdrawn prior to the Confirmation Date by the Oversight 

Board. If the Plan is revoked or withdrawn prior to the Confirmation Date, or if the Plan does not 

become effective for any reason whatsoever, then the Plan shall be deemed null and void. In such 

event, nothing contained herein shall be deemed to constitute a waiver or release of any claim by 

the Debtor or any other Entity, or to prejudice in any manner the rights of the Debtor or any other 

Entity in any further proceeding involving the Debtor.

C. Amendment of Plan Documents

From and after the Effective Date, the authority to amend, modify, or supplement the Plan 

Supplement, the exhibits and schedules to the Plan Supplement and the exhibits and schedules to 

the Plan, and any document attached to any of the foregoing, shall be as provided in such Plan 

Supplement, exhibits and schedules to the Plan Supplement, or exhibits and schedules to the Plan 

and their respective attachments, as the case may be.

D. No Admission of Liability

The submission of this Plan is not intended to be, nor shall it be construed as, an admission 

or evidence in any pending or subsequent suit, action, proceeding, or dispute of any liability, 

wrongdoing, or obligation whatsoever (including as to the merits of any claim or defense) by any 

Entity with respect to any of the matters addressed in this Plan.

None of this Plan (including, without limitation, the exhibits and schedules hereto), or any 

settlement entered, act performed, or document executed in connection with this Plan: (i) is or may 

be deemed to be or may be used as an admission or evidence of the validity of any claim or of any 

wrongdoing or liability of any Entity; (ii) is or may be deemed to be or may be used as an admission 

or evidence of any liability, fault, or omission of any Entity in any civil, criminal, or administrative 

proceeding in any court, administrative agency, or other tribunal; (iii) is or may be deemed to be 

or used as an admission or evidence against Reorganized Debtor, the Debtor, or any other Entity 

with respect to the validity of any Claim. None of this Plan or any settlement entered, act 

performed, or document executed in connection with this Plan shall be admissible in any 

proceeding for any purposes, except to carry out the terms of this Plan, and except that, once 

confirmed, any Entity may file this Plan in any action for any purpose, including, but not limited 

to, in order to support a defense or counterclaim based on the principles of res judicata, collateral 

estoppel, release, good faith settlement, judgment bar, or reduction or any other theory of claim 

preclusion or issue preclusion or similar defense of counterclaim.

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ARTICLE XXVI

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF REORGANIZED DEBTOR

A. Corporate Action

On the Effective Date, all matters provided for under the Plan that would otherwise require 

approval of the directors of the Debtor or Reorganized Debtor, including, without limitation, to 

the extent applicable, the authorization to issue or cause to be issued the New Bonds, the 

authorization to enter into the Definitive Documents, the adoption of Reorganized Debtor ByLaws, and the election or appointment, as the case may be, of directors and officers of Reorganized 

Debtor pursuant to the Plan, as applicable, shall be authorized and approved in all respects, in each 

case, in accordance with the New Master Indenture and the new corporate governance documents, 

as applicable, and without further action by any Entity under any other applicable law, regulation, 

order, or rule. Other matters provided under the Plan involving the corporate structure of the 

Reorganized Debtor, or corporate action by the Reorganized Debtor, shall be deemed to have 

occurred, be authorized, and shall be in effect in accordance with the New Master Indenture and 

the new corporate governance documents, as applicable, and without requiring further action by 

any Entity under any other applicable law, regulation, order, or rule. Without limiting the 

foregoing, from and after the Confirmation Date, the Debtor and Reorganized Debtor shall take 

any and all actions deemed appropriate in order to consummate the transactions contemplated 

herein in accordance with the New Master Indenture, and the new corporate governance 

documents, as applicable.

B. Reorganized Debtor’s By-Laws

To the extent applicable, the by-laws of the Reorganized Debtor shall be amended as of the 

Effective Date to provide substantially as set forth in the Reorganized Debtor By-Laws.

C. Officers of Reorganized Debtor

The Reorganized Debtor’s officers and governing directors will remain the same as of the 

Effective Date, unless disclosed otherwise in the Plan Supplement.

ARTICLE XXVII

IDENTIFICATION OF CLAIMS IMPAIRED BY THE PLAN AND NOT IMPAIRED BY 

THE PLAN

A. Impaired Classes

The Claims in Classes 1–7, and 9–10 are Impaired and receiving distributions pursuant to 

the Plan, and are therefore entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan. The Claims in Class 12 are

Impaired and not receiving a distribution pursuant to the Plan and, therefore, Class 12 is deemed 

to have rejected the Plan.

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B. Unimpaired Classes

The Claims in Classes 8 and 11 are Unimpaired pursuant to the Plan, are deemed to have 

accepted the Plan, and are not entitled to vote to accept or reject the Plan.

ARTICLE XXVIII

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CONFIRMATION OF THE PLAN

A. Conditions Precedent to Confirmation Date

It shall be a condition precedent to Confirmation of the Plan that the following conditions 

shall have been satisfied or waived pursuant to Article XXVIII.B of the Plan:

(a) Fiscal Plan Certification: The Oversight Board shall have certified a 

Fiscal Plan consistent with the Plan and shall have certified the submission 

of the Plan, and any modifications to the Plan through the Confirmation 

Date, in accordance with PROMESA sections 104(j) and 313.

(b) Required Orders: The Title III Court shall have entered an order or orders 

(including, without limitation, the Disclosure Statement Order and the 

Confirmation Order in accordance with PROMESA section 314 and 

Bankruptcy Code section 1129, made applicable to the Title III Cases 

pursuant to PROMESA section 301) providing for the following:

(i) Approving the Disclosure Statement as containing “adequate 

information” pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 1125;

(ii) Authorizing the solicitation of votes and elections with respect to 

the Plan;

(iii) Determining that all votes and elections or deemed elections are 

binding and have been properly tabulated;

(iv) Confirming and giving effect to the terms and provisions of the Plan, 

including the releases set forth in Article XXIV of the Plan;

(v) Determining that the compromises and settlements set forth in the 

Plan are appropriate, reasonable, and approved and authorizing the 

transactions contemplated therein;

(vi) Determining that all applicable tests, standards, and burdens in 

connection with the Plan have been duly satisfied and met by the 

Oversight Board, the Debtor, and the Plan;

(vii) Determining the amount, if any, of the Deficiency Claim;

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(viii) Determining that PREB is required to approve the Legacy Charge 

as a rate, fee, and/or charge necessary to guarantee that Reorganized 

PREPA meets its obligations to holders of New Bonds;

(ix) Approving the documents in the Plan Supplement, and determining 

that such documents are valid and binding on parties with respect 

thereto; and

(x) Authorizing the Reorganized Debtor to execute, enter into, and 

deliver the documents in the Plan Supplement, and to execute, 

implement, and take all actions otherwise necessary or appropriate 

to give effect to the transactions contemplated by the Plan, and the 

documents in the Plan Supplement;

(xi) Authorizing the Debtor to take all actions necessary to enter into, 

implement, and consummate the contracts, instruments, securities, 

releases, leases, indentures, and other agreements or documents 

created in connection with the Plan, including setting, 

implementing, and enforcing the Legacy Charge;

(xii) Decreeing that the provisions of the Confirmation Order and the 

Plan are nonseverable and mutually dependent;

(xiii) Authorizing the Debtor and Reorganized Debtor to: (1) make all 

distributions and issuances as required under the Plan; and (2) enter 

into any agreements and transaction as set forth in the Plan 

Supplement;

(xiv) Authorizing the implementation of the Plan in accordance with its 

terms;

(xv) PREB shall approve rates, fees, and charges, including the Legacy

Charge, necessary to guarantee that Reorganized PREPA meets its 

obligations to holders of New Bonds;

(xvi) Determining the New Bonds, and the covenants by the Reorganized 

Debtor, for the benefit of the holders of the New Bonds, as provided 

in the New Master Indenture or the Confirmation Order, as 

applicable, constitute valid, binding, legal, and enforceable 

obligations, under Puerto Rico, New York, and federal law;

(xvii) Determining the CVI, and the covenants by the Reorganized Debtor, 

for the benefit of the holders of the CVI, as provided in the New 

Master Indenture or the Confirmation Order, as applicable, 

constitute valid, binding, legal, and enforceable obligations, under 

Puerto Rico and federal law;

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(xviii) Determining that the Lien on and security interest in the Net 

Revenues up to the amount of the Legacy Charge Revenues, and the 

right to receive Net Revenues up to the amount of the Legacy

Charge Revenues, and all other provisions to pay the New Bonds, 

are valid, binding, legal, and enforceable; 

(xix) Determining that the Lien on and security interest in the Remaining 

Net Revenues up to the amount of the Remaining Legacy Charge 

Revenues, and the right to receive the Remaining Net Revenues up 

to the amount of the Legacy Charge Revenues, and all other 

provisions to pay the CVI, are valid, binding, legal, and enforceable; 

(xx) Determining that the Lien on and security interest in the Net

Revenues up to the amount of the Debt Charge Revenues shall be 

deemed automatically perfected on the Effective Date, subject only 

to Liens and security interests permitted under the New Master 

Indenture, and shall not be subject to recharacterization or equitable 

subordination for any purposes whatsoever and shall not constitute 

preferential transfers or fraudulent conveyances under PROMESA 

or any applicable non-bankruptcy law, to the fullest extent permitted 

by law; 

(xxi) Providing that no party, Person, or Entity shall enact, adopt, or 

implement any law, rule, regulation, or policy that impedes, 

financially or otherwise, consummation and implementation of the 

transactions contemplated by the Plan; and

(xxii) Determining the Plan is consistent with the Debtor’s Fiscal Plan and 

satisfies PROMESA section 314(b)(7).

(c) Form of Orders: The Confirmation Order and the Plan are each in form 

and substance acceptable to the Oversight Board and reasonably acceptable 

to the Required Fuel Line Lenders.

(d) Confirmation Order: The Confirmation Order includes (i) determinations 

that all of the settlements and compromises contained in the Plan satisfy 

applicable standard Bankruptcy Code sections 365, 1123(b)(3), and 1129 

and Bankruptcy Rule 9019, to the extent applicable, (ii) the releases, 

exculpations, and injunctions set forth in Article XXIV of the Plan, and 

(iii) the applicable provisions set forth in this Article XXVIII.

B. Waiver of Conditions Precedent to Confirmation

To the extent practicable and legally permissible, each of the conditions precedent Article 

XXVIII.A hereof may be waived, in whole or in part, by the Oversight Board. Any such waiver 

of a condition precedent may be effected at any time by filing a notice thereof with the Title III

Court executed by the Oversight Board. 

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ARTICLE XXIX

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE

A. Conditions Precedent to the Effective Date

It shall be a condition precedent to the Effective Date that the following conditions shall 

have been satisfied or waived pursuant to Article XXIX.B of the Plan:

1. Fiscal Plan Certification: The Oversight Board shall have determined that the Plan 

is consistent with the Debtor’s Fiscal Plan and shall have certified the submission 

of the Plan, and any modifications to the Plan through the Confirmation Date, in 

accordance with PROMESA sections 104(j) and 313.

2. Confirmation: All conditions precedent to Confirmation, including entry of the 

Confirmation Order, shall have been satisfied or waived pursuant to Article

XXVIII.B of the Plan.

3. Final Order; No Injunction: The Confirmation Order shall be a Final Order, and 

shall not be stayed in any respect.

4. Authorizations: All (1) authorizations, consents, regulatory approvals, rulings, or 

documents, if any, that are necessary to implement and effectuate the Plan,

including that PREB approves rates, fees, and charges necessary to guarantee that 

Reorganized PREPA meets its obligations to holders of New Bonds, have been 

obtained or enacted or entered and not revoked or reversed, and (2) except to the 

extent expressly provided herein and not inconsistent with any other provision of 

the Plan, unless otherwise permitted or required by PROMESA or similar authority, 

completion of any other required legislative or other governmental action required 

to consummate the Plan.

5. Execution of Documents; Other Actions: All actions and all contracts, 

instruments, settlements, releases and other agreements or documents, including 

Definitive Documents, necessary to implement the terms and provisions of the Plan, 

including the Definitive Documents, are effected or executed and delivered, as 

applicable, are in full force and effect, and are in form and substance satisfactory 

to the Oversight Board.

6. Plan Supplement: The final version of the Plan Supplement and all of the 

schedules, documents, and exhibits contained therein shall have been filed in a 

manner consistent in all material respects with the Plan and the Fuel Line Lender 

PSA and shall be in form and substance acceptable to PREPA.

B. Waiver of Conditions Precedent

The Oversight Board may waive any of the conditions to the Effective Date set forth in 

Article XXIX.A of the Plan at any time without any notice to any other parties in interest and 

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without any further notice to or action, order, or approval of the Title III Court, and without any 

formal action other than proceeding to confirm and consummate the Plan.

C. Effect of Non-Occurrence of Conditions to Effective Date

If prior to the Effective Date, the Confirmation Order is vacated pursuant to a Final Order, 

then except as provided in any order of the Title III Court vacating the Confirmation Order, the 

Plan will be null and void in all respects, and nothing contained in the Plan or Disclosure Statement 

shall: (a) constitute a waiver or release of any Claims or Causes of Action; (b) prejudice in any 

manner the rights of the Debtor or any other Entity; or (c) constitute an admission, 

acknowledgment, offer, or undertaking of any sort by the Debtor or any other Entity.

ARTICLE XXX

PROVISIONS REGARDING COMMITTEE

A. Dissolution of Committee

On the Effective Date, the Creditors’ Committee shall be (a) dissolved and be deemed to 

have satisfied all of its respective duties and obligations, and (b) released and discharged from any 

action or activity taken, or required to be taken, in connection with the Title III Case. To the extent 

that, as of the date immediately prior to the Effective Date, the Creditors’ Committee was a party 

to a contested matter or adversary proceeding in connection with the Title III Case or any objection 

to claim, from and after the Effective Date and to the extent not already a party thereto, the 

Reorganized Debtor shall be deemed to have assumed such role and responsibility in connection 

with such contested matter or adversary proceeding and, upon such assumption, the Creditors’ 

Committee shall be relieved of any role, responsibility, or obligation with respect thereto.

ARTICLE XXXI

PROVISIONS REGARDING OVERSIGHT BOARD AND COMPLIANCE WITH 

PROMESA

A. Effect of Confirmation

Nothing in this Plan or the Confirmation Order shall discharge, substitute, alter, or 

otherwise modify the powers and responsibilities of the Oversight Board pursuant to PROMESA 

or the obligations of the Reorganized Debtor under PROMESA. From and after the Effective Date, 

the Reorganized Debtor shall continue to have all of its obligations pursuant to PROMESA, 

including, without limitation, the terms and conditions of Titles I and II thereof.

B. Ongoing Role of the Oversight Board

Nothing in the Plan or the Confirmation Order shall discharge any or all obligations of each 

Debtor under PROMESA and, from and after the Effective Date, the Oversight Board’s powers 

and responsibilities under PROMESA shall continue, and the Debtor’s duties and obligations shall 

continue and be unaffected by the Plan and the consummation thereof.

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C. Preemption of Laws

As of the Effective Date, and to the extent not previously preempted pursuant to an order 

of the Title III Court, provisions of Commonwealth laws, rules, or regulations that affect PREPA 

or Reorganized PREPA and are inconsistent with PROMESA shall be preempted for the reasons, 

and to the extent, set forth in Exhibit “A” to the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, such 

preempted laws, rules, and regulations include, without limitation, (a) pursuant to Section 4 of 

PROMESA, all laws, rules, and regulations (or such portions thereof) of the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico to the extent they give rise to obligations of the Debtor discharged by the Plan and the 

Confirmation Order pursuant to PROMESA, and such discharge shall prevail over any general or 

specific provisions of territory laws, rules, and regulations, and (b) laws enacted prior to June 30, 

2016, to the extent they provide for transfers or other appropriations after the enactment of 

PROMESA, including transfers from PREPA or Reorganized PREPA to the Commonwealth or 

any agency or instrumentality, whether to enable such agency or instrumentality to pay or satisfy 

indebtedness or for any other purpose, are preempted to the extent inconsistent with the Plan’s 

discharge of the Debtor’s obligations and all such laws shall not be enforceable to the extent they 

are inconsistent with the Plan’s discharge of the Debtor’s obligations or any of the transactions 

contemplated by the Plan. Without in any way limiting the foregoing, (y) the Commonwealth laws 

preempted by PROMESA that affect the Debtor include, without limitation, those listed on 

Schedule D hereto for the reasons and to the extent set forth in Exhibit “A” to the Findings of Fact 

and Conclusions of Law, and (z) all litigation in which any Government Party is a defendant, over 

whether Commonwealth law listed on Schedule D hereto is preempted by PROMESA shall be 

dismissed, with prejudice, as of the Effective Date and the parties thereto shall provide the 

Oversight Board prompt notice of such dismissal. For the avoidance of doubt, the non-inclusion 

of a payment obligation arising from a valid law in a certified Fiscal Plan or PREPA budget is not 

a basis for disallowance of such obligation to the extent the claim arising therefrom otherwise 

satisfies the requirements for allowance of a claim under the relevant provisions of the Bankruptcy 

Code.

ARTICLE XXXII

RETENTION OF JURISDICTION

The Title III Court shall retain all its exclusive and concurrent subject matter jurisdiction, 

as the case may be, over any matter arising under PROMESA, arising in or related to, the Title III 

Cases and the Plan, or that relates to the following:

1. allow, disallow, determine, liquidate, classify, estimate, or establish the priority, 

secured or unsecured status, or amount of any Claim not compromised or settled hereby, including 

the resolution of any request for payment of any Claim and the resolution of any and all objections 

to the secured or unsecured status, priority, amount, or allowance of Claims not compromised or 

settled hereby;

2. resolve any matters related to Executory Contracts or Unexpired Leases, including: 

(a) the assumption or assumption and assignment of any Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease 

to which PREPA is party or with respect to which PREPA may be liable and to hear, determine, 

and, if necessary, liquidate, any Cure Claim, including pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 365; 

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(b) any potential contractual obligation under any Executory Contract or Unexpired Lease that is 

assumed or assumed and assigned; and (c) any dispute regarding whether a contract or lease is or 

was executory or expired;

3. ensure that distributions to Holders of Allowed Claims are accomplished pursuant 

to the provisions of the Plan and adjudicate any and all disputes arising from or relating to 

distributions under the Plan;

4. adjudicate, decide, or resolve any motions, adversary proceedings, contested or 

litigated matters, and any other matters, and grant or deny any applications involving PREPA or 

the Reorganized Debtor that may be pending on the Effective Date or brought thereafter;

5. decide and resolve all matters related to the granting and denying, in whole or in 

part, any applications for allowance of compensation or reimbursement of expenses to 

Professionals authorized pursuant to PROMESA, the Plan, or orders entered by the Title III Court;

6. enter and implement such orders as may be necessary or appropriate to execute, 

implement, consummate, or enforce the provisions of (a) contracts, instruments, releases, 

indentures, and other agreements or documents approved by Final Order in the Title III Case and 

(b) the Plan, the Confirmation Order, and any other contracts, instruments, securities, releases, 

indentures, and other agreements or documents created in connection with the Plan;

7. adjudicate, decide, or resolve any cases, controversies, suits, disputes, or other 

challenges of any kind that may arise in connection with the consummation, interpretation, or 

enforcement of the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or any other contract, instrument, security, 

release, or other agreement or document that is entered into or delivered pursuant to the Plan or 

any Entity’s rights arising from or obligations incurred in connection with the Plan or such 

documents, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any issues relating to setting, implementing, and 

enforcing the Legacy Charge and rate covenant and any amendments to the Legacy Charge and 

rate covenant, as well as PREB’s authorization over the Legacy Charge and any amendments to 

the Legacy Charge;

8. approve any modification of the Plan or approve any modification of the 

Confirmation Order or any other contract, instrument, security, release, or other agreement or 

document created in connection with the Plan or the Confirmation Order, or remedy any defect or 

omission or reconcile any inconsistency in any order, the Plan, the Confirmation Order, or any 

other contract, instrument, security, release, or other agreement or document created in connection 

with the Plan or the Confirmation Order, or enter any order in aid of confirmation pursuant to 

Bankruptcy Code sections 945 and 1142(b), in such manner as may be necessary or appropriate to 

consummate the Plan;

9. adjudicate, decide, or resolve any matters relating to PREPA’s compliance with the 

Plan and the Confirmation Order consistent with Bankruptcy Code section 945;

10. determine any other matters that may arise in connection with or relate to the Plan, 

the Disclosure Statement, the Confirmation Order or any other contract, instrument, security, 

release, or other agreement or document entered into or delivered in connection with the Plan, the 

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Disclosure Statement, or the Confirmation Order, in each case, solely to the extent that any such 

document does not provide for another court or courts to have exclusive jurisdiction;

11. issue injunctions, enter and implement other orders, or take such other actions as 

may be necessary or appropriate to enforce or restrain interference by any Entity with 

Consummation or enforcement of the Plan or the Confirmation Order;

12. adjudicate any and all controversies, suits, or issues that may arise regarding the 

validity of any actions taken by any Entity pursuant to or in furtherance of the Plan or Confirmation 

Order, including, without limitation, issuance of the New Bonds, and enter any necessary or 

appropriate orders or relief in connection with such adjudication; 

13. determine any other matters that may arise in connection with or relate to the Plan, 

the Disclosure Statement, the Confirmation Order, the Definitive Documents, or any other 

contract, instrument, security, release, other agreement, or document created in connection with 

the Plan, in each case, solely to the extent that any such document does not provide for another 

court or courts to have exclusive jurisdiction;

14. enforce the New Bonds and the New Master Indenture, including, without

limitation, the Interest Rate Covenant, or, in the event that the Title III Court declines such

retention of jurisdiction or the Title III Case has been closed in accordance with the terms and 

provisions of PROMESA, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico is hereby 

designated to enforce the New Bonds and the New Master Indenture, including, without limitation, 

the Interest Rate Covenant;

15. enter and implement such orders as are necessary or appropriate if the Confirmation 

Order is for any reason modified, stayed, reversed, revoked, or vacated;

16. enter an order or final decree concluding or closing the Title III Case pursuant to 

Bankruptcy Code section 945(b);

17. enforce and clarify any orders previously entered by the Title III Court in the Title 

III Case; and

18. hear any other matter over which the Title III Court has jurisdiction under the 

provisions of PROMESA subject to any limits on the Title III Court’s jurisdiction and powers 

under PROMESA sections 305 and 306.

ARTICLE XXXIII

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

A. Title to Assets

Except as otherwise provided in the Confirmation Order or this Plan, on the Effective Date, 

title to all Assets and properties of the Debtor encompassed by the Plan shall vest in the 

Reorganized Debtor, free and clear of all Liens (except the Liens granted pursuant to the Plan and 

Confirmation Order).

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B. No Waiver

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the releases and injunctions set 

forth in the Plan shall not, and shall not be deemed to, limit, abridge or otherwise affect the rights 

of the Oversight Board, AAFAF, the Reorganized Debtor, or the Fuel Line Lender PSA Creditors 

(consistent with the Fuel Line Lender PSA) to enforce, sue on, settle or compromise the rights, 

claims, and other matters expressly retained by any of them.

C. Supplemental Injunction

Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, except to the limited extent 

provided in the Plan, all Entities, including Entities acting on their behalf, who currently hold or 

assert, have held or asserted, or may hold or assert, any Released Claims against any of the 

Released Parties based upon, attributable to, arising out of or relating to the Title III Case or any 

Claim against the Debtor, whenever and wherever arising or asserted, whether in the U.S. or 

anywhere else in the world, whether sounding in tort, contract, warranty, statute, or any other 

theory of law, equity or otherwise, shall be, and shall be deemed to be, permanently stayed, 

restrained and enjoined from taking any action against any of the Released Parties for the purpose 

of directly or indirectly collecting, recovering or receiving any payment or recovery with respect 

to any Released Claims arising prior to the Effective Date (including prior to the Petition Date), 

including, but not limited to:

1. Commencing or continuing in any manner any action or other proceeding of any 

kind with respect to any such Released Claim against any of the Released Parties 

or the assets or property of any Released Party;

2. Enforcing, attaching, collecting, or recovering, by any manner or means, any 

judgment, award, decree, or order against any of the Released Parties or the assets 

or property of any Released Party with respect to any such Released Claim;

3. Creating, perfecting, or enforcing any Lien of any kind against any of the Released 

Parties or the assets or property of any Released Party with respect to any such 

Released Claim;

4. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the Plan or the Confirmation Order, 

asserting, implementing or effectuating any setoff, right of subrogation, indemnity, 

contribution, or recoupment of any kind against any obligation due to any of the 

Released Parties or against the property of any Released Party with respect to any 

such Released Claim; and

5. Taking any act, in any manner, in any place whatsoever, that does not conform to, 

or comply with, the provisions of the Plan or the Confirmation Order, provided, 

however, that the Debtor’s compliance with the formal requirements of Bankruptcy 

Rule 3016 shall not constitute an admission that the Plan provides for any injunction 

against conduct not otherwise enjoined under the Bankruptcy Code.

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D. Immediate Binding Effect

Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 944(a), applicable to the Title III Cases pursuant to 

PROMESA section 301, and notwithstanding Bankruptcy Rules 3020(e), 6004(h), or 7062 or any 

other provision, upon the occurrence of the Effective Date, the terms of the Plan and the Plan 

Supplement shall be immediately effective and enforceable and deemed binding on any and all 

Holders of Claims and their respective successors and assigns, whether or not the Claim of any 

such Holder is Impaired under the Plan and whether or not such Holder has accepted the Plan. The 

releases, exculpations, and settlements effected under the Plan shall be operative, and subject to 

enforcement by the Title III Court, from and after the Effective Date, including pursuant to the 

injunctive provisions of the Plan. Once approved, the compromises and settlements embodied in 

the Plan, along with the treatment of any associated Allowed Claims, shall not be subject to 

collateral attack or other challenge by any Entity in any court or other forum. As such, any Entity 

that opposes the terms of any compromise and settlement set forth in the Plan must (a) challenge 

such compromise and settlement prior to confirmation of the Plan and (b) demonstrate appropriate 

standing to object and that the subject compromise and settlement does not meet the standards 

governing settlements under Bankruptcy Rule 9019 and other applicable law.

E. Additional Documents

On or before the Effective Date, the Oversight Board may file with Clerk of the Title III 

Court such agreements and other documents as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate and 

further evidence the terms and conditions of the Plan and the Fuel Line Lender PSA. The Debtor

and all Holders of Claims receiving distributions pursuant to the Plan and all other parties in 

interest, from time to time, may prepare, execute, and deliver any agreements or documents and 

take any other actions as may be necessary or advisable to effectuate the provisions and intent of 

the Plan.

F. Reservation of Rights

Except as expressly set forth herein, the Plan shall have no force or effect unless the Title 

III Court shall enter the Confirmation Order. None of the filing of the Plan, any statement or 

provision contained in the Plan, or the taking of any action by the Debtor with respect to the Plan, 

the Disclosure Statement, or the Plan Supplement shall be or shall be deemed to be an admission 

or waiver of any rights of the Debtor with respect to the Holders of Claims prior to the Effective 

Date. Except as expressly set forth herein, the rights and powers of the government of the 

Commonwealth under the Puerto Rico Constitution and PROMESA, including, without limitation, 

under PROMESA sections 303 and 305, are expressly reserved (subject to any limitation thereon 

imposed by the Puerto Rico Constitution, the U.S. Constitution or PROMESA), and nothing herein 

shall be deemed a waiver of any such rights and powers.

G. Successors and Assigns

Except as expressly provided otherwise in the Plan, the rights, benefits, and obligations of 

any Entity named or referred to in the Plan or the Confirmation Order shall be binding on, and 

shall inure to the benefit of any heir, executor, administrator, successor or assign, Affiliate, officer, 

director, agent, representative, attorney, beneficiaries, or guardian, if any, of each Entity.

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H. Post-Effective Date Fees and Expenses

From and after the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtor shall, in the ordinary course of 

business and without the necessity for any approval by the Title III Court, retain professionals and 

pay the reasonable professional fees and expenses incurred by the Reorganized Debtor related to 

implementation and consummation of the Plan without further approval from the Title III Court. 

Without limiting the foregoing, from and after the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtor shall, 

in the ordinary course of business and without the necessity for any approval by the Title III Court, 

but in no event later than forty-five (45) days following the submission of invoices or statements 

with respect to the incurrence of fees and expenses to the Reorganized Debtor, pay the reasonable 

and documented fees and reimburse the expenses of the Oversight Board and its professionals 

related to the implementation and consummation of the Plan and in connection with its duties and 

responsibilities pursuant to PROMESA and the terms and provisions of the Plan.

I. Securities Act Exemption

Pursuant to Bankruptcy Code section 1145 and/or Securities Act section 3(a)(2), the 

offering, issuance, and distribution of the New Bonds pursuant to the terms hereof shall be exempt 

from registration under the Securities Act and any state or local law requiring registration for the 

offer, issuance or distribution of securities, including, but not limited to, the registration 

requirements of Securities Act section 5 and any other applicable state or federal law requiring 

registration and/or prospectus delivery or qualification prior to the offering, issuance, distribution, 

or sale of securities.

J. Governing Law

Except to the extent that other federal law is applicable, or to the extent that an exhibit hereto 

or any document to be entered into in connection herewith provides otherwise, the rights, duties, 

and obligations arising under this Plan shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in

accordance with, PROMESA (including the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code made applicable 

under section 301 of PROMESA) and, to the extent not inconsistent therewith, the laws of the 

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, giving effect to principles of conflicts of laws.

K. Closing Case

The Oversight Board shall, promptly upon the full administration of the Title III Cases, file 

with the Title III Court all documents required by Bankruptcy Rule 3022 and any applicable order 

of the Title III Court. Notwithstanding the closing of the Title III Cases, the Title III Court shall 

retain jurisdiction of all of the matters set forth in Article XXXII of the Plan.

L. Section Headings

The section headings contained in this Plan are for reference purposes only and shall not affect 

in any way the meaning or interpretation of the Plan.

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M. Document Retention

From and after the Effective Date, the Reorganized Debtor may maintain documents in 

accordance with their standard document retention policy, as may be altered, amended, modified, 

or supplemented by the Reorganized Debtor.

N. Service of Documents

All notices, requests to, demands, or other document(s) required by the Plan or the 

Confirmation Order to be served on or delivered to the Oversight Board, PREPA, or AAFAF to 

be effective shall be in writing including by facsimile transmission and unless otherwise expressly 

provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when actually delivered or, in 

the case of notice by facsimile transmission, when received and telephonically confirmed, 

addressed as follows:

PREPA or the Oversight Board Financial Oversight and Management 

Board for Puerto Rico

268 Muñoz Rivera Ave, Suite 1107

San Juan, PR 00918-1813

Attn: Executive Director

– with a copy to –

PROSKAUER ROSE LLP

Eleven Times Square

New York, NY 10036

Attn: Martin J. Bienenstock, Esq. 

 Paul V. Possinger, Esq.

 Ehud Barak, Esq.

 Daniel S. Desatnik, Esq.

Tel: (212) 969-3000

Fax: (212) 969-2900

AAFAF Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority

Roberto Sánchez Vilella (Minillas) Government Center

De Diego Ave. Stop 22

San Juan, Puerto Rico 00907

– with a copy to –

O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP

Seven Times Square

New York, NY 10036

Attn: John Rapisardi, Esq.

 Peter Friedman, Esq. 

 Maria J. DiConza, Esq.

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Tel: (212) 326-2000

Fax: (212) 326-2061

O. Term of Injunctions or Stays

Unless otherwise provided herein or in the Confirmation Order, all injunctions or 

stays in effect in the Title III Case (pursuant to Bankruptcy Code sections 105, 362, or 922 

or any order of the Title III Court) and existing on the Confirmation Date (excluding any 

injunctions or stays contained in the Plan or the Confirmation Order) shall remain in full 

force and effect until the Effective Date. All injunctions or stays contained in the Plan or the 

Confirmation Order shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms.

P. Entire Agreement

Except as otherwise indicated, the Plan supersedes all previous and contemporaneous 

negotiations, promises, covenants, agreements, understandings, and representations on such 

subjects, all of which have become merged and integrated into the Plan.

Q. Plan Supplement Exhibits

All exhibits and documents included in the Plan Supplement are incorporated into and are 

a part of the Plan as if set forth in full in the Plan. Upon the filing of the Plan Supplement with the 

Clerk of the Title III Court, copies of the documents contained therein shall be made available 

upon written request to the Oversight Board’s counsel at the address above or by downloading 

such documents from https://dm.epiq11.com/case/prepa/info or the Title III Court’s website, 

available via PACER. After the exhibits and documents are filed, copies of such exhibits and 

documents shall be made available upon written request to the Oversight Board’s counsel at the 

address above or by downloading such exhibits and documents from 

https://dm.epiq11.com/case/prepa/info or the Title III Court’s website, available via PACER. 

Unless otherwise ordered by the Title III Court, to the extent any exhibit or document in the Plan 

Supplement is inconsistent with the terms of any part of the Plan that does not constitute the Plan 

Supplement, such part of the Plan that does not constitute the Plan Supplement shall control.

R. Non-Severability

Except to the extent otherwise expressly specified in this Plan, if any term or provision of 

the Plan is held by the Title III Court to be invalid, void, or unenforceable, the Title III Court, in 

each case at the election of and with the consent of PREPA, shall have the power to alter and 

interpret such term or provision to make it valid or enforceable to the maximum extent practicable, 

consistent with the original purpose of the term or provision held to be invalid, void, or 

unenforceable, and such term or provision shall then be applicable as altered or interpreted. 

Notwithstanding any such holding, alteration or interpretation, the remainder of the terms and 

provisions of the Plan shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired,

or invalidated by such holding, alteration, or interpretation. The provisions of the Plan, including 

its release, injunction, exculpation, and compromise provisions, are mutually dependent and 

non-severable. The Confirmation Order shall constitute a judicial determination and shall provide 

that each term and provision of the Plan is: (a) valid and enforceable pursuant to its terms; (b) 

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integral to the Plan and may not be deleted or modified without the consent of PREPA; and (c) nonseverable and mutually dependent.

S. Votes Solicited in Good Faith

Upon entry of the Confirmation Order, PREPA will be deemed to have solicited votes on 

the Plan in good faith and in compliance with the Bankruptcy Code, and pursuant to Bankruptcy 

Code section 1125(e), PREPA and its agents, representatives, members, principals, shareholders, 

officers, directors, employees, advisors, and attorneys will be deemed to have participated in good 

faith and in compliance with the Bankruptcy Code in the offer, issuance, sale, and purchase of 

securities offered and sold under the Plan and any previous plan, and, therefore, neither any of 

such parties or individuals or PREPA will have any liability for the violation of any applicable 

law, rule, or regulation governing the solicitation of votes on the Plan or the offer, issuance, sale, 

or purchase of the securities offered and sold under the Plan and any previous plan.

T. Waiver or Estoppel

Each Holder of a Claim shall be deemed to have waived any right to assert any argument, 

including the right to argue that its Claim should be Allowed in a certain amount, in a certain 

priority, secured, or not subordinated by virtue of an agreement made with PREPA or its counsel, 

or any other Entity, if such agreement was not disclosed in the Plan, the Disclosure Statement, or 

papers filed with the Title III Court prior to the Confirmation Date.

Respectfully submitted,

PUERTO RICO ELECTRIC POWER 

AUTHORITY, by and through the Financial 

Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico 

as its sole Title III representative

By: /s/ David A. Skeel

Name: David A. Skeel

Title: Chairman

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