Document:

Registration Rights Agreement

 Exhibit 4.1 
  
 Execution Copy 
  
 REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 AMONG 
  
 INERGY, L. P., 
  
 INERGY FINANCE CORP., 
  
 THE GUARANTORS 
  
 AND 
  
 THE INITIAL PURCHASERS 
  
 % Senior Notes due 2014 
  
 Dated: December 22, 2004 
  

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 INERGY, L.P. 
 (a Delaware limited partnership) 
  
 INERGY FINANCE CORP. 
 (a Delaware corporation) 
  
 $425,000,000 
  
 % Senior Notes due 2011 
  
 REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 December 22, 2004 
  
 LEHMAN BROTHERS, INC. 
 J.P.
MORGAN SECURITIES, LLC 
 WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC 
  
 c/o LEHMAN BROTHERS INC. 
 745 Seventh Avenue 
 New York, New York 10019 
  
 Dear Sirs: 
  
 Inergy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation
(“Finance Corp.” and together with the Partnership, the “Issuers”), and the Guarantors listed on the signature page hereto (the “Guarantors”), propose to issue and sell to you (the “Initial
Purchasers”), upon the terms set forth in a purchase agreement dated December 17, 2004 (the “Purchase Agreement”), $425,000,000 aggregate principal amount of their 6 7/8% Senior Notes due 2014 (collectively the “Initial Securities”). The Initial Securities will be issued pursuant to an Indenture, to be
dated as of the date hereof (the “Indenture”), among the Issuers, the Guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association as trustee (the “Trustee”). The Issuers and the Guarantors are collectively referred to herein as
the “Company.” To satisfy a condition to the obligations of the Initial Purchasers under the Purchase Agreement, the Issuers agree with the Initial Purchasers, for the benefit of the Initial Purchasers and the subsequent holders of
the Securities (as defined below) (collectively the “Holders”), as follows: 
  

	1.	Registered Exchange Offer. Unless not permitted by applicable law (after the Company has complied with the ultimate paragraph of this Section 1), the Company shall prepare
and, not later than 90 days (such 90th day being a “Filing Deadline”) after the date on which the Initial Purchasers purchase the Initial Securities pursuant to the Purchase Agreement (the “Closing Date”), file with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement (the “Exchange Offer Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities Act”), with respect to a proposed offer (the “Registered Exchange Offer”) to the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities (as defined in Section 6 hereof), who are not prohibited by any law or policy of
the Commission from participating in the 

 Registered Exchange Offer, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for the Initial Securities,
a like aggregate principal amount of debt securities of the Issuers issued under the Indenture, identical in all material respects to the Initial Securities and registered under the Securities Act (the “Exchange Securities”). The
Company shall (i) use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Exchange Offer Registration Statement to become effective under the Securities Act within 270 days after the Closing Date (such 270th day being an “Effectiveness
Deadline”) and (ii) keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement effective for not less than 30 days (or longer, if required by applicable law) after the date notice of the Registered Exchange Offer is mailed to the Holders (such period
being called the “Exchange Offer Registration Period”). 
  
 If the Company commences the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company (i) will be entitled to consummate the Registered Exchange Offer 30 days after such commencement (provided that the Company has accepted all the
Initial Securities theretofore validly tendered in accordance with the terms of the Registered Exchange Offer) and (ii) will be required to consummate the Registered Exchange Offer as soon as practicable after the date on which the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement is declared effective but no later than the 40th Business Day after such effectiveness date (the “Consummation Deadline”). 
  
 As soon as practicable after the declaration of the effectiveness of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, the Company
shall commence the Registered Exchange Offer, it being the objective of such Registered Exchange Offer to enable each Holder of Transfer Restricted Securities electing to exchange the Initial Securities for Exchange Securities (assuming that such
Holder is not an affiliate of the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act, acquires the Exchange Securities in the ordinary course of such Holder’s business and has no arrangements with any person to participate in the distribution of
the Exchange Securities and is not prohibited by any law or policy of the Commission from participating in the Registered Exchange Offer) to trade such Exchange Securities from and after their receipt without any limitations or restrictions under
the Securities Act and without material restrictions under the securities laws of the several states of the United States. 
  
 The Company acknowledges that, pursuant to current interpretations by the Commission’s staff of Section 5 of the Securities Act, in the absence of an
applicable exemption therefrom, (i) each Holder which is a broker-dealer electing to exchange Initial Securities, acquired for its own account as a result of market making activities or other trading activities, for Exchange Securities (an
“Exchanging Dealer”), is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information set forth in (a) Annex A hereto on the cover, (b) Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the “Purpose of the
Exchange Offer” section, and (c) Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution” section of such prospectus in connection with a sale of any such Exchange Securities received by such Exchanging Dealer pursuant to the Registered Exchange
Offer and (ii) an Initial Purchaser that elects to sell Securities (as defined below) acquired in exchange for Initial Securities constituting any portion of an unsold allotment, is required to deliver a prospectus containing the information
required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in connection with such sale. 
  

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 The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement
effective and to amend and supplement the prospectus contained therein, in order to permit such prospectus to be lawfully delivered by all persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act for such period of time as such
persons must comply with such requirements in order to resell the Exchange Securities; provided, however, that (i) in the case where such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto must be delivered by an Exchanging Dealer or an Initial
Purchaser, such period shall be the lesser of 180 days and the date on which all Exchanging Dealers and the Initial Purchasers have sold all Exchange Securities held by them (unless such period is extended pursuant to Section 3(j) below) and (ii)
the Company shall make such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any resale of any Exchange Securities for a period of not less than 180-days after the consummation of the
Registered Exchange Offer. 
  
 If, upon consummation of the
Registered Exchange Offer, any Initial Purchaser holds Initial Securities acquired by it as part of its initial distribution, the Company, simultaneously with the delivery of the Exchange Securities pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer, shall
issue and deliver to such Initial Purchaser upon the written request of such Initial Purchaser, in exchange (the “Private Exchange”) for the Initial Securities held by such Initial Purchaser, a like principal amount of debt
securities of the Issuers issued under the Indenture and identical in all material respects to the Initial Securities (the “Private Exchange Securities”). The Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities and the Private Exchange
Securities are herein collectively called the “Securities.” 
  
 In connection with the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company shall: 
  

	 	a.	mail to each Holder a copy of the prospectus forming part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an appropriate letter of transmittal; 

 

	 	b.	keep the Registered Exchange Offer open for not less than 30 days (or longer, if required by applicable law) after the date notice thereof is mailed to the Holders;

  

	 	c.	utilize the services of a depositary for the Registered Exchange Offer, which may be the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee; 

  

	 	d.	permit Holders to withdraw tendered Securities at any time prior to the close of business, New York time, on the last business day on which the Registered Exchange Offer shall
remain open; and 

  
 otherwise comply with all
applicable laws. 
  
 As soon as practicable after the close of
the Registered Exchange Offer or the Private Exchange, as the case may be, the Company shall: 
  
 (x) accept for exchange all the Securities validly tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and the Private Exchange; and 
  

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 (y) cause the Trustee to deliver promptly to each Holder of the Initial Securities, Exchange Securities
or Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, equal in principal amount to the Initial Securities of such Holder so accepted for exchange. 
  
 The Indenture will provide that the Exchange Securities will not be subject to the transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture and that all the
Securities will vote and consent together on all matters as one class and that none of the Securities will have the right to vote or consent as a class separate from one another on any matter. 
  
 Interest on each Exchange Security and Private Exchange Security issued
pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer and in the Private Exchange will accrue from the last interest payment date on which interest was paid on the Initial Securities surrendered in exchange therefor or, if no interest has been paid on the
Initial Securities, from the date of original issue of the Initial Securities. 
  
 Each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to represent to the Company that at the time of the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer (i) any Exchange Securities received by
such Holder will be acquired in the ordinary course of business, (ii) such Holder will have no arrangements or understanding with any person to participate in the distribution of the Initial Securities or the Exchange Securities within the meaning
of the Securities Act, (iii) such Holder is not an “affiliate,” as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act, of the Company or if it is an affiliate, such Holder will comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of
the Securities Act to the extent applicable, (iv) if such Holder is not a broker-dealer, that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, the distribution of the Exchange Securities and (v) if such Holder is a broker-dealer, that it will
receive Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities and that it will be required to acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus
in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the Company will ensure that (i) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all material
respects with the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, (ii) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state
a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (iii) any prospectus forming part of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and any supplement to such prospectus, does not include an
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. 
  
 If following the date hereof there has been announced a change in Commission
policy with respect to exchange offers that in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Company raises a substantial question as to whether the Registered Exchange Offer is permitted by applicable federal law, the Company will seek a no-action
letter or other favorable decision from the Commission allowing the Company to consummate the Registered Exchange Offer. The Company will pursue the issuance of such a decision to the 
  

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 Commission staff level. In connection with the foregoing, the Company will take all such other actions as
may be requested by the Commission or otherwise required in connection with the issuance of such decision, including without limitation (i) participating in telephonic conferences with the Commission, (ii) delivering to the Commission staff an
analysis prepared by counsel to the Company setting forth the legal bases, if any, upon which such counsel has concluded that the Registered Exchange Offer should be permitted and (iii) diligently pursuing a resolution (which need not be favorable)
by the Commission staff. 
  

	2.	Shelf Registration. If, (i) because of any change in law or in applicable interpretations thereof by the staff of the Commission, the Company is not permitted to effect a
Registered Exchange Offer, as contemplated by Section 1 hereof, (ii) any Initial Purchaser so requests within 90 days following consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Securities (or the Private Exchange Securities)
not eligible to be exchanged for Exchange Securities in the Registered Exchange Offer and held by it following consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer or (iii) any Holder (other than an Exchanging Dealer) is not eligible to participate in the
Registered Exchange Offer or, in the case of any Holder (other than an Exchanging Dealer) that participates in the Registered Exchange Offer, such Holder does not receive freely tradable Exchange Securities on the date of the exchange and any such
Holder so requests and the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement is not available for resales by such Holder, the Company shall take the following actions (the date on which any of the conditions described in the
foregoing clauses (i) through (iii) occur, including in the case of clause (iii) the receipt of the required notice, being a “Trigger Date”): 

  

	 	a.	The Company shall (but in no event more than 75 days after the Trigger Date (such 75th day being a “Shelf Filing Deadline”)) file with the Commission and thereafter
use its reasonable best efforts to cause to be declared effective on or prior to the 150th day after the Trigger Date (such 150th day being an “Effectiveness Deadline”) a registration statement (the “Shelf Registration
Statement” and, together with the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, a “Registration Statement”) on an appropriate form under the Securities Act relating to the offer and sale of the Transfer Restricted Securities by
the Holders thereof from time to time in accordance with the methods of distribution set forth in the Shelf Registration Statement and Rule 415 under the Securities Act (hereinafter, the “Shelf Registration”); provided, however,
that no Holder (other than an Initial Purchaser) shall be entitled to have the Securities held by it covered by such Shelf Registration Statement unless such Holder agrees in writing to be bound by all the provisions of this Agreement applicable to
such Holder. 

  
 The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts
to keep the Shelf Registration Statement continuously effective in order to permit the prospectus included therein to be lawfully delivered by the Holders of the relevant Securities, for a period of two years (or for such longer period if extended
pursuant to Section 3(j) below) from the date of its effectiveness or such shorter period that will terminate when all the Securities covered by the Shelf Registration Statement (i) have been sold pursuant thereto or (ii) are no longer subject to
restrictions on resale pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or any successor rule thereof. The Company shall be deemed not to 
  

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 have used its reasonable best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement effective during the requisite period if
it voluntarily takes any action that would result in Holders of Securities covered thereby not being able to offer and sell such Securities during that period, unless such action is required by applicable law; provided, however, if such Shelf
Registration Statement fails to remain effective solely because of the making, by the Company or any of its subsidiaries, of a material acquisition that requires financial statements to be filed with the Commission, the Company shall be deemed to
have used its best efforts to keep the Shelf Registration Statement effective during the requisite period so long as the period of time such Shelf Registration Statement is not effective does not exceed sixty (60) days. 
  

	 	b.	Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall cause the Shelf Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any amendment or
supplement thereto, as of the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement, amendment or supplement, (i) to comply in all material respects with the applicable requirements of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission
and (ii) not to contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
misleading. 

  

	3.	Registration Procedures. In connection with any Shelf Registration contemplated by Section 2 hereof and, to the extent applicable, any Registered Exchange Offer contemplated
by Section 1 hereof, the following provisions shall apply: 

  

	 	a.	The Company shall (i) furnish to each Initial Purchaser, prior to the filing thereof with the Commission, a copy of the Registration Statement and each amendment thereof and each
supplement, if any, to the prospectus included therein and, in the event that an Initial Purchaser (with respect to any portion of an unsold allotment from the original offering) is participating in the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf
Registration Statement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to reflect in each such document, when so filed with the Commission, such comments as such Initial Purchaser reasonably may propose; (ii) include the information set forth in
Annex A hereto on the cover, in Annex B hereto in the “Exchange Offer Procedures” section and the “Purpose of the Exchange Offer” section and in Annex C hereto in the “Plan of Distribution” section of the prospectus
forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and include the information set forth in Annex D hereto in the letter of transmittal delivered pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer; (iii) if requested by an Initial Purchaser, include
the information required by Item 507 or 508 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act, as applicable, in the prospectus forming a part of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement; (iv) include within the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement a section entitled “Plan of Distribution,” which shall contain a summary statement of the positions taken or policies made by the staff of the Commission with respect to the potential “underwriter” status
of any broker-dealer that is the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) of Exchange Securities received by such broker-dealer in the Registered Exchange
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 positions or policies have been publicly disseminated by the staff of the Commission or such positions or
policies, in the reasonable judgment of the Company based upon advice of counsel (which may be in-house counsel), represent the prevailing views of the staff of the Commission; and (v) in the case of a Shelf Registration Statement, include the names
of the Holders who propose to sell Securities pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement as selling securityholders. 
  

	 	b.	The Company shall give written notice to the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities (with respect to any Shelf Registration Statement) and any Participating Broker-Dealer
from whom the Company has received prior written notice that it will be a Participating Broker-Dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer (which notice pursuant to clauses (ii)-(v) hereof shall be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the
prospectus until the requisite changes have been made): 

  

	 	i.	when the Registration Statement or any amendment thereto has been filed with the Commission and when the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become
effective; 

  

	 	ii.	of any request by the Commission for amendments or supplements to the Registration Statement or the prospectus included therein or for additional information;

  

	 	iii.	of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for that purpose;

  

	 	iv.	of the receipt by the Company or its legal counsel of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the
initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose; and 

  

	 	v.	of the happening of any event that requires the Company to make changes in the Registration Statement or the prospectus in order that the Registration Statement or the prospectus do
not contain an untrue statement of a material fact nor omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of the prospectus, in light of the circumstances under which they were made)
not misleading. 

  

	 	c.	The Company shall make every reasonable effort to obtain the withdrawal at the earliest possible time, of any order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement.

  

	 	d.	The Company shall furnish to each Holder of Securities included within the coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, at least one copy of the Shelf Registration Statement
and any post-effective amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if the Holder so requests in writing, all exhibits thereto (including those, if any, incorporated by reference). 

  

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	 	e.	The Company shall deliver to each Exchanging Dealer and each Initial Purchaser, and to any other Holder who so requests, without charge, at least one copy of the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement and any post-effective amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if any Initial Purchaser or any such Holder requests, all exhibits thereto (including those incorporated by reference).

  

	 	f.	The Company shall, during the Shelf Registration Period, deliver to each Holder of Securities included within the coverage of the Shelf Registration, without charge, as many copies
of the prospectus (including each preliminary prospectus) included in the Shelf Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such person may reasonably request. The Company consents, subject to the provisions of this Agreement,
to the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders of the Securities in connection with the offering and sale of the Securities covered by the prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto,
included in the Shelf Registration Statement. 

  

	 	g.	The Company shall deliver to each Initial Purchaser, any Exchanging Dealer, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to deliver a prospectus following the
Registered Exchange Offer, without charge, as many copies of the final prospectus included in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment or supplement thereto as such persons may reasonably request. The Company consents, subject to
the provisions of this Agreement, to the use of the prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto by any Initial Purchaser, if necessary, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such other persons required to deliver a prospectus following the
Registered Exchange Offer in connection with the offering and sale of the Exchange Securities covered by the prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, included in such Exchange Offer Registration Statement. 

  

	 	h.	Prior to any public offering of the Securities pursuant to any Shelf Registration Statement the Company shall register or qualify or cooperate with the Holders of the Securities
included therein and their respective counsel in connection with the registration or qualification of the Securities for offer and sale under the securities or “blue sky” laws of such states of the United States as any Holder of the
Securities reasonably requests in writing and do any and all other acts or things necessary or advisable to enable the offer and sale in such jurisdictions of the Securities covered by such Shelf Registration Statement; provided, however, that the
Company shall not be required to (i) qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified or (ii) take any action which would subject it to general service of process or to taxation in any jurisdiction where it is
not then so subject. 

  

	 	i.	The Company shall cooperate with the Holders of the Securities to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing the Securities to be sold pursuant to
any Registration Statement free of any restrictive legends. 

  

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	 	j.	Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by paragraphs (ii) through (v) of Section 3(b) above during the period for which the Company is required to maintain an effective
Registration Statement, the Company shall promptly prepare and file a post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus and any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to Holders of the
Securities or purchasers of Securities, the prospectus will not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. If the Company notifies the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any known Participating Broker-Dealer in accordance with paragraphs (ii) through (v) of Section 3(b) above to
suspend the use of the prospectus until the requisite changes to the prospectus have been made, then the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any such Participating Broker-Dealers shall suspend use of such prospectus, and the period
of effectiveness of the Shelf Registration Statement provided for in Section 2(b) above and the Exchange Offer Registration Statement provided for in Section 1 above shall each be extended by the number of days from and including the date of the
giving of such notice to and including the date when the Initial Purchasers, the Holders of the Securities and any known Participating Broker-Dealer shall have received such amended or supplemented prospectus pursuant to this Section 3(j).

  

	 	k.	Not later than the effective date of the applicable Registration Statement, the Company will provide a CUSIP number for the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or the
Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, and provide the applicable trustee with certificates for the Initial Securities, the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, in a form eligible for deposit with The
Depository Trust Company. 

  

	 	l.	The Partnership will comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission to the extent and so long as they are applicable to the Registered Exchange Offer or the Shelf
Registration and will make generally available to its security holders (or otherwise provide in accordance with Section 11(a) of the Securities Act) an earnings statement satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act, no later
than 45 days after the end of a 12-month period (or 90 days, if such period is a fiscal year) beginning with the first month of the Partnership’s first fiscal quarter commencing after the effective date of the Registration Statement, which
statement shall cover such 12-month period. 

  

	 	m.	The Company shall cause the Indenture to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, in a timely manner and containing such changes, if any, as shall be
necessary for such qualification. In the event that such qualification would require the appointment of a new trustee under the Indenture, the Company shall appoint a new trustee thereunder pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Indenture.

  

	 	n.	The Company may require each Holder of Securities to be sold pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement to furnish to the Company such information regarding the Holder and the
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 from time to time reasonably require for inclusion in the Shelf Registration Statement, including
requiring the Holder to properly complete and execute such selling Security Holder notice and questionnaires, and any amendments or supplements thereto, as the Company may reasonably deem necessary or appropriate, and the Company may exclude from
such registration the Securities of any Holder that fails to furnish such information within a reasonable time after receiving such request. 
  

	 	o.	The Company shall enter into such customary agreements (including, if requested, an underwriting agreement in customary form) and take all such other action, if any, as any Holder
of the Securities shall reasonably request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Securities pursuant to any Shelf Registration. 

  

	 	p.	In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company shall (i) make reasonably available for inspection by the Holders of the Securities, any underwriter participating in any
disposition pursuant to the Shelf Registration Statement and any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by the Holders of the Securities or any such underwriter all relevant financial and other records, pertinent corporate documents and
properties of the Company and (ii) cause the Company’s officers, directors, employees, accountants and auditors to supply all relevant information reasonably requested by the Holders of the Securities or any such underwriter, attorney,
accountant or agent in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, in each case, as shall be reasonably necessary to enable such persons, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of Section 11 of the Securities Act; provided,
however, that the foregoing inspection and information gathering shall be coordinated on behalf of the Initial Purchasers by Lehman Brothers Inc. and on behalf of the other parties, by one counsel designated by and on behalf of such other parties as
described in Section 4 hereof. 

  

	 	q.	In the case of any Shelf Registration, the Company, if requested by any Holder of Securities covered thereby, shall cause (i) its counsel to deliver an opinion and updates thereof
relating to the Securities in customary form addressed to such Holders and the managing underwriters, if any, thereof and dated, in the case of the initial opinion, the effective date of such Shelf Registration Statement (it being agreed that the
matters to be covered by such opinion shall include, without limitation, the incorporation, organization or formation and good standing of the Company and its subsidiaries; the qualification of the Company and its subsidiaries to transact business
as foreign corporations, limited partnerships or limited liability companies; the due authorization, execution and delivery of the relevant agreement of the type referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the due authorization, execution, authentication
and issuance, and the validity and enforceability, of the applicable Securities; except as disclosed in the prospectus the absence of material legal or governmental proceedings involving the Company and its subsidiaries; except as disclosed in the
prospectus the absence of governmental approvals required to be obtained in connection with the Shelf Registration Statement, the offering and sale of the applicable Securities, or any agreement of the type referred to in Section 3(o) hereof; the
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 reference therein and of the Indenture with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Trust
Indenture Act, respectively; and, as of the date of the opinion and as of the effective date of the Shelf Registration Statement or most recent post-effective amendment thereto, as the case may be, the absence from such Shelf Registration Statement
and the prospectus included therein, as then amended or supplemented, and from any documents incorporated by reference therein of an untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein
or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading (in the case of any such documents, in the light of the circumstances existing at the time that such documents were filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act); (ii) its officers to
execute and deliver all customary documents and certificates and updates thereof requested by any underwriters of the applicable Securities and (iii) its independent public accountants and the independent public accountants with respect to any other
entity for which financial information is provided in the Shelf Registration Statement to provide to the selling Holders of the applicable Securities and any underwriter therefor a comfort letter in customary form and covering matters of the type
customarily covered in comfort letters in connection with primary underwritten offerings, subject to receipt of appropriate documentation as contemplated, and only if permitted, by Statement of Auditing Standards No. 72. 
  

	 	r.	In the case of the Registered Exchange Offer, if requested by any Initial Purchaser or any known Participating Broker-Dealer, the Company shall cause (i) its counsel to deliver to
such Initial Purchaser or such Participating Broker-Dealer a signed opinion in the form contemplated by Section 7(c) of the Purchase Agreement with such changes as are customary in connection with the preparation of a Registration Statement and (ii)
its independent public accountants and the independent public accountants with respect to any other entity for which financial information is provided in the Registration Statement to deliver to such Initial Purchaser or such Participating
Broker-Dealer a comfort letter, in customary form, meeting the requirements as to the substance thereof as contemplated by Section 7(f) of the Purchase Agreement, with appropriate date changes. 

  

	 	s.	If a Registered Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be consummated, upon delivery of the Initial Securities by Holders to the Company (or to such other Person as directed by
the Company) in exchange for the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be, the Company shall mark, or caused to be marked, on the Initial Securities so exchanged that such Initial Securities are being canceled in
exchange for the Exchange Securities or the Private Exchange Securities, as the case may be; in no event shall the Initial Securities be marked as paid or otherwise satisfied. 

  

	 	t.	In the event that any broker-dealer registered under the Exchange Act shall underwrite any Securities or participate as a member of an underwriting syndicate or selling group or
“assist in the distribution” (within the meaning of the Conduct Rules (the “Rules”) of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”)) thereof, whether as a Holder of such Securities or as
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 placement or sales agent or a broker or dealer in respect thereof, or otherwise, the Company will assist
such broker-dealer in complying with the requirements of such Rules, including, without limitation, by (i) if such Rules, including Rule 2720, shall so require, engaging a “qualified independent underwriter” (as defined in Rule 2720) to
participate in the preparation of the Registration Statement relating to such Securities, to exercise usual standards of due diligence in respect thereto and, if any portion of the offering contemplated by such Registration Statement is an
underwritten offering or is made through a placement or sales agent, to recommend the yield of such Securities, (ii) indemnifying any such qualified independent underwriter to the extent of the indemnification of underwriters provided in Section 5
hereof and (iii) providing such information to such broker-dealer as may be required in order for such broker-dealer to comply with the requirements of the Rules. 
  

	 	u.	The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to take all other steps necessary to effect the registration of the Securities covered by a Registration Statement contemplated
hereby. 

  

	4.	Registration Expenses. 

  

	 	a.	All expenses incident to the Company’s performance of and compliance with this Agreement will be borne by the Company, regardless of whether a Registration Statement is ever
filed or becomes effective, including without limitation; 

  

	 	i.	all registration and filing fees and expenses; 

  

	 	ii.	all fees and expenses of compliance with federal securities and state “blue sky” or securities laws; 

  

	 	iii.	all expenses of printing (including printing of prospectuses), messenger and delivery services and telephone; 

  

	 	iv.	all fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company; and 

  

	 	v.	all fees and disbursements of independent certified public accountants of the Company (including the expenses of any special audit and comfort letters required by or incident to
such performance). 

  
 The Company will bear its
internal expenses (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the expenses of any annual audit and the fees and expenses of any person, including special experts,
retained by the Company. 
  

	 	b.	In connection with any Registration Statement required by this Agreement, the Company will reimburse the Initial Purchasers and the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities who are
tendering Initial Securities in the Registered Exchange Offer and/or selling or reselling Securities pursuant to the “Plan of Distribution” contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the Shelf Registration Statement, as
applicable, for the reasonable fees and disbursements 

  

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 of not more than one counsel, who shall be Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. unless another firm shall be chosen
by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Transfer Restricted Securities for whose benefit such Registration Statement is being prepared. 
  

	5.	Indemnification. 

  

	 	a.	The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder of the Securities, any Participating Broker-Dealer and each person, if any, who controls such Holder or such
Participating Broker-Dealer within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act (each Holder, any Participating Broker-Dealer and such controlling persons are referred to collectively as the “Indemnified Parties”) from and
against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, or any actions in respect thereof (including, but not limited to, any losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions relating to purchases and sales of the Securities) to which
each Indemnified Party may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a
material fact contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration, or arise out of, or are based upon, the omission or alleged omission to
state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and shall reimburse, as incurred, the Indemnified Parties for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by them in
connection with investigating or defending any such loss, claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof; provided, however, that (i) the Company shall not be liable in any such case to the extent that such loss, claim, damage or liability
arises out of or is based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus relating to a
Shelf Registration in reliance upon and in conformity with written information pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company by or on behalf of such Holder specifically for inclusion therein and (ii) with respect to any untrue statement or
omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration Statement, the indemnity agreement contained in this subsection (a) shall not inure to the benefit of any Holder or Participating
Broker-Dealer from whom the person asserting any such losses, claims, damages or liabilities purchased the Securities concerned, to the extent that a prospectus relating to such Securities was required to be delivered by such Holder or Participating
Broker-Dealer under the Securities Act in connection with such purchase and any such loss, claim, damage or liability of such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer results from the fact that there was not sent or given to such person, at or prior to
the written confirmation of the sale of such Securities to such person, a copy of the final prospectus if the Company had previously furnished copies thereof to such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer; provided further, however, that this
indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have to such Indemnified Party. The 

  

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 Company shall also indemnify underwriters, their officers and directors and each person who controls such
underwriters within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act to the same extent as provided above with respect to the indemnification of the Holders of the Securities if requested by such Holders. 
  

	 	b.	Each Holder of the Securities, severally and not jointly, will indemnify and hold harmless the Company and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act from and against any losses, claims, damages or liabilities or any actions in respect thereof, to which the Company or any such controlling person may become subject under the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or
otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or actions arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in a Registration Statement or prospectus or in any amendment or
supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus relating to a Shelf Registration, or arise out of or are based upon the omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but in
each case only to the extent that the untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission was made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information pertaining to such Holder and furnished to the Company by or on behalf of
such Holder specifically for inclusion therein; and, subject to the limitation set forth immediately preceding this clause, shall reimburse, as incurred, the Company for any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by the Company or any such
controlling person in connection with investigating or defending any loss, claim, damage, liability or action in respect thereof. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which such Holder may otherwise have to the Company or
any of its controlling persons. 

  

	 	c.	Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under this Section 5 of notice of the commencement of any action or proceeding (including a governmental investigation), such
indemnified party will, if a claim in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under this Section 5, notify the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof; but the omission so to notify the indemnifying party will not, in any
event, relieve the indemnifying party from any obligations to any indemnified party other than the indemnification obligation provided in paragraph (a) or (b) above. In case any such action is brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies
the indemnifying party of the commencement thereof, the indemnifying party will be entitled to participate therein and, to the extent that it may wish, jointly with any other indemnifying party similarly notified, to assume the defense thereof, with
counsel reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party (who shall not, except with the consent of the indemnified party, be counsel to the indemnifying party), and after notice from the indemnifying party to such indemnified party of its election
so to assume the defense thereof the indemnifying party will not be liable to such indemnified party under this Section 5 for any legal or other expenses, other than reasonable costs of investigation, subsequently incurred by such indemnified party
in connection with the defense thereof. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any 

  

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 pending or threatened action in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and
indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party unless such settlement (i) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on any claims that are the subject matter of such action, and (ii) does
not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party. 
  

	 	d.	If the indemnification provided for in this Section 5 is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party under subsections (a) or (b) above, then each indemnifying
party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in respect thereof) referred to in subsection (a) or (b) above in such proportion as is appropriate
to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party or parties on the one hand and the indemnified party on the other in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities (or actions in
respect thereof) as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the parties shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or
alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company on the one hand or such Holder or such other indemnified party, as the case may be, on the other, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to
information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The amount paid by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to in the first sentence of this subsection (d) shall be deemed
to include any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any action or claim which is the subject of this subsection (d). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section
5(d), the Holders of the Securities shall not be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the net proceeds received by such Holders from the sale of the Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement exceeds the amount of
damages which such Holders have otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the
Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. For purposes of this paragraph (d), each person, if any, who controls such indemnified party within the meaning of the
Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to contribution as such indemnified party and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall have the same rights to
contribution as the Company. 

  

	 	e.	The agreements contained in this Section 5 shall survive the sale of the Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement and shall remain in full force and effect, regardless of any
termination or cancellation of this Agreement or any investigation made by or on behalf of any indemnified party. 

  

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	6.	Additional Interest Under Certain Circumstances. 

  

	 	a.	By way of liquidated damages, additional interest (the “Additional Interest”) with respect to the Securities shall be assessed as follows if any of the following
events occur (each such event in clauses (i) through (iv) below being herein called a “Registration Default”): 

  

	 	i.	any Registration Statement required by this Agreement is not filed with the Commission on or prior to the Filing Deadline or Shelf Filing Deadline, as applicable;

  

	 	ii.	any Registration Statement required by this Agreement is not declared effective by the Commission on or prior to the applicable Effectiveness Deadline; 

  

	 	iii.	the Registered Exchange Offer has not been consummated on or prior to the Consummation Deadline; or 

  

	 	iv.	any Registration Statement required by this Agreement has been declared effective by the Commission but (A) such Registration Statement thereafter ceases to be effective or (B) such
Registration Statement or the related prospectus ceases to be usable in connection with resales of Transfer Restricted Securities during the periods specified herein because either (1) any event occurs as a result of which the related prospectus
forming part of such Registration Statement would include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein in the light of the circumstances under which they were made not
misleading, or (2) it shall be necessary to amend such Registration Statement or supplement the related prospectus, to comply with the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or the respective rules thereunder. 

  
 Each of the foregoing will constitute a Registration Default whatever the
reason for any such event and whether it is voluntary or involuntary or is beyond the control of the Company or pursuant to operation of law or as a result of any action or inaction by the Commission. 
  
 Additional Interest shall accrue on the Securities over and above the
interest set forth in the title of the Securities from and including the date on which any such Registration Default shall occur to but excluding the date on which all such Registration Defaults have been cured, at a rate of 0.25% per annum (the
“Additional Interest Rate”) for the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of such Registration Default. The Additional Interest Rate shall increase by an additional 0.25% per annum with respect to each subsequent
90-day period until all Registration Defaults have been cured, up to a maximum Additional Interest Rate of 1.0 % per annum. 
  

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	 	b.	A Registration Default referred to in Section 6(a)(iv) hereof shall be deemed not to have occurred and be continuing in relation to a Shelf Registration Statement or the related
prospectus if (i) such Registration Default has occurred solely as a result of (x) the filing of a post-effective amendment to such Shelf Registration Statement to incorporate annual audited financial information with respect to the Company where
such post-effective amendment is not yet effective and needs to be declared effective to permit Holders to use the related prospectus or (y) other material events, with respect to the Company that would need to be described in such Shelf
Registration Statement or the related prospectus and (ii) in the case of clause (y), the Company is proceeding promptly and in good faith to amend or supplement such Shelf Registration Statement and related prospectus to describe such events;
provided, however, that Additional Interest shall be payable in accordance with the above paragraph from the day such Registration Default occurs until such Registration Default is cured (1) in any case, if such Registration Default occurs for a
continuous period in excess of 30 days or (2) solely in the case of a material acquisition by the Company or any of its subsidiaries requiring financial statements to be filed with the Commission, if such Registration Default occurs for a continuous
period in excess of sixty (60) days. 

  

	 	c.	Any amounts of Additional Interest due pursuant to Section 6(a) will be payable in cash on the regular interest payment dates with respect to the Securities. The amount of
Additional Interest will be determined by multiplying the applicable Additional Interest Rate by the principal amount of the Securities and further multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of days such Additional Interest Rate
was applicable during such period (determined on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months), and the denominator of which is 360. 

  

	 	d.	“Transfer Restricted Securities” means each Security until (i) the date on which such Security has been exchanged by a person other than a broker-dealer for a
freely transferable Exchange Security in the Registered Exchange Offer, (ii) following the exchange by a broker-dealer in the Registered Exchange Offer of an Initial Security for an Exchange Security, the date on which such Exchange Security is sold
to a purchaser who receives from such broker-dealer on or prior to the date of such sale a copy of the prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, (iii) the date on which such Security has been effectively registered under the
Securities Act and disposed of in accordance with the Shelf Registration Statement or (iv) the date on which such Security is distributed to the public pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or is saleable pursuant to Rule 144(k) under the
Securities Act. 

  

	7.	Rules 144 and 144A. The Company shall use its best efforts to file the reports required to be filed by it under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act in a timely manner
and, if at any time the Company is not required to file such reports, it will, upon the request of any Holder of Securities, make publicly available other information so long as necessary to permit sales of their securities pursuant to Rules 144 and
144A. The Company covenants that it will take such further action as any Holder of Securities may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell Securities 

  

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 without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rules
144 and 144A (including the requirements of Rule 144A(d)(4)). The Company will provide a copy of this Agreement to prospective purchasers of Initial Securities identified to the Company by the Initial Purchasers upon request. Upon the request of any
Holder of Initial Securities, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written statement as to whether it has complied with such requirements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Section 7 shall be deemed to require the Company to
register any of its securities pursuant to the Exchange Act. 
  

	8.	Underwritten Registrations. If any of the Transfer Restricted Securities covered by any Shelf Registration are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the investment banker
or investment bankers and manager or managers that will administer the offering (“Managing Underwriters”) will be selected, with the reasonable approval of the Company, by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
such Transfer Restricted Securities to be included in such offering. 

  
 No person may participate in any underwritten registration hereunder unless such person (i) agrees to sell such person’s Transfer Restricted Securities on the basis reasonably provided in any underwriting
arrangements approved by the persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (ii) completes and executes all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, underwriting agreements and other documents reasonably required under the terms
of such underwriting arrangements. 
  

	9.	Miscellaneous. 

  

	 	a.	Remedies. Each of the parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that the payment of Additional Interest as provided in Section 6 hereof shall be the exclusive remedy for any
failure by the Company to comply with its obligations under Sections 1 and 2 hereof. 

  

	 	b.	No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company will not on or after the date of this Agreement enter into any agreement with respect to its securities that is inconsistent with the
rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. The rights granted to the Holders hereunder do not in any way conflict with and are not inconsistent with the rights granted to the holders of the
Company’s securities under any agreement in effect on the date hereof. 

  

	 	c.	Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may
not be given, except by the Company and the written consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities affected by such amendment, modification, supplement, waiver or consent. Without the consent of the Holder of each
Security, however, no modification may change the provisions relating to the payment of Additional Interest. 

  

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	 	d.	Notices. All notices and other communications provided for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand delivery, first-class mail, facsimile transmission, or air
courier which guarantees overnight delivery: 

  
 (1) if to a Holder of the Securities, at the most current address given by such Holder to the Company; 
  
 (2) if to the Initial Purchasers, to them in care of: 
  
 Lehman Brothers, Inc. 
 745 Seventh Avenue 
 New York, NY 10019 
 Attention: Syndicate Department 
 (Fax: (212) 526-6588) 
  
 with a copy to: 
  
 Director of
Litigation 
 Office of the General Counsel 
 Lehman Brothers Inc. 
 745 Seventh Avenue 
 New York, New York 10019 
 (Fax: 212-526-0943) 
  
 (3) if to the Company at its address as follows: 
  

Inergy, L.P. 
 2 Brush Creek Blvd. 
 Kansas City, Missouri 64112 
 (Fax: (816) 471-3854), 
  
 with a copy to: 
  
 Laura Ozenberger 
 General Counsel 
 2 Brush Creek Blvd. 
 Kansas City, Missouri 64112 
 (Fax: (816) 531-3685) 
  
 All such
notices and communications shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if personally delivered; three business days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged by
recipient’s facsimile machine operator, if sent by facsimile transmission; and on the day delivered, if sent by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery. 
  

	 	e.	Third Party Beneficiaries. The Holders shall be third party beneficiaries to the agreements made hereunder between the Company, on the one hand, and the Initial Purchasers,
on the other hand, and shall have the right to enforce such agreements directly to the extent they may deem such enforcement necessary or advisable to protect their rights or the rights of Holders hereunder. 

  

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	 	f.	Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon the Company and its successors and assigns. 

  

	 	g.	Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed
to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. 

  

	 	h.	Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof. 

  

	 	i.	Governing Law. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.

  

	 	j.	Severability. If any one or more of the provisions contained herein, or the application thereof in any circumstance, is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality and enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining provisions contained herein shall not be affected or impaired thereby. 

  

	 	k.	Securities Held by the Company. Whenever the consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of principal amount of Securities is required hereunder, Securities held
by the Company or its affiliates (other than subsequent Holders of Securities if such subsequent Holders are deemed to be affiliates solely by reason of their holdings of such Securities) shall not be counted in determining whether such consent or
approval was given by the Holders of such required percentage. 

  

	 	l.	Submission to Jurisdiction. By the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company submits to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the competent Federal and state courts in
the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York in any suit or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby. 

  
 If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, please sign and return to the Company a counterpart hereof,
whereupon this instrument, along with all counterparts, will become a binding agreement among the several Initial Purchasers and the Company in accordance with its terms. 
  

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	Very truly yours,
	
	INERGY, L.P.
		
	By:	 	Inergy GP, LLC (its General Partner)
		
	    By:	 	 /s/ John J. Sherman

	 	 	John J. Sherman, President and
	 	 	Chief Executive Officer
	
	INERGY FINANCE CORP.
	INERGY PROPANE LLC
	INERGY SALES & SERVICE, INC.
	INERGY TRANSPORTATION, LLC
	L & L TRANSPORTATION, LLC
	INERGY ACQUISITION COMPANY, LLC
	INERGY GAS SERVICE, LLC
	STELLAR PROPANE, LLC
		
	    By:	 	 /s/ John J. Sherman

	 	 	John J. Sherman, President and
	 	 	Chief Executive Officer

  

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 The foregoing Registration Rights Agreement is hereby confirmed and accepted as of the date first above
written. 
  
 LEHMAN BROTHERS INC.

 J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES, LLC 
 WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC 
  

					
	By:	 	LEHMAN BROTHERS INC., as Authorized Representative
			
	 	 	By:	 	 /s/ Oscar K. Brown

	 	 	Name:	 	Oscar K. Brown
	 	 	Title:	 	Managing Director

  

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 ANNEX A 
  
 Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange Securities for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection
with any resale of such Exchange Securities. The Letter of Transmittal states that by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the
Securities Act. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were
acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date (as defined herein), it will make this Prospectus available to any
broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. See “Plan of Distribution.” 
  
 ANNEX B 
  
 Each broker-dealer that receives
Exchange Securities for its own account in exchange for Initial Securities, where such Initial Securities were acquired by such broker-dealer as a result of market- making activities or other trading activities, must acknowledge that it will deliver
a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. See “Plan of Distribution.” 
  
 ANNEX C 
  
 PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION 
  
 Each broker-dealer that receives Exchange
Securities for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer must acknowledge that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities. This Prospectus, as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, may
be used by a broker-dealer in connection with resales of Exchange Securities received in exchange for Initial Securities where such Initial Securities were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities. The Company has
agreed that, for a period of 180 days after the Expiration Date, it will make this prospectus, as amended or supplemented, available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any such resale. In addition, until, 200 , all dealers effecting
transactions in the Exchange Securities may be required to deliver a prospectus. 
  
 The Company will not receive any proceeds from any sale of Exchange Securities by broker-dealers. Exchange Securities received by broker-dealers for their own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer may be sold from time to time in one or
more transactions in the over-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions, through the writing of options on the Exchange Securities or a combination of such methods of resale, at market prices prevailing at the time of resale, at prices related
to such prevailing market prices or negotiated prices. Any such resale may be made directly to purchasers or to or through brokers or dealers who may receive compensation in the form of commissions or concessions from any such broker-dealer or the
purchasers of any such Exchange Securities. Any broker-dealer that resells Exchange Securities 
  

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 that were received by it for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer and any broker or dealer that participates in
a distribution of such Exchange Securities may be deemed to be an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act and any profit on any such resale of Exchange Securities and any commission or concessions received by any such
persons may be deemed to be underwriting compensation under the Securities Act. The Letter of Transmittal states that, by acknowledging that it will deliver and by delivering a prospectus, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an
“underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. 
  
 For a period
of 180 days after the Expiration Date the Company will promptly send additional copies of this Prospectus and any amendment or supplement to this Prospectus to any broker-dealer that requests such documents in the Letter of Transmittal. The Company
has agreed to pay all expenses incident to the Exchange Offer (including the expenses of one counsel for the Holders of the Securities) other than commissions or concessions of any brokers or dealers and will indemnify the Holders of the Securities
(including any broker-dealers) against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act. 
  
 ANNEX D 
  
 If the
undersigned is not a broker-dealer, the undersigned represents that it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in, a distribution of Exchange Securities. If the undersigned is a broker-dealer that will receive Exchange Securities for its
own account in exchange for Initial Securities that were acquired as a result of market-making activities or other trading activities, it acknowledges that it will deliver a prospectus in connection with any resale of such Exchange Securities;
however, by so acknowledging and by delivering a prospectus, the undersigned will not be deemed to admit that it is an “underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act. 
  

 24Indenture dated as of December 22, 2004

 Exhibit 4.2 
  

  
 INERGY, L.P., 
  
 INERGY FINANCE CORP. 
  
 AND 
  
 THE GUARANTORS NAMED ON THE SIGNATURE PAGE HEREOF 
  

  
 6.875% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2014 
  

  
 INDENTURE 
  
 Dated as of December 22, 2004 
  

  
 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
  
 As Trustee 
  

 CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE* 
  

			
	 Trust Indenture
 Act
Section

	  	 Indenture
 Section

	 310(a)(1)
	  	7.10
	 (a)(2)
	  	7.10
	 (a)(3)
	  	N/A
	 (a)(4)
	  	N/A
	 (a)(5)
	  	7.10
	 (b)
	  	7.10
	 (c)
	  	N/A
	 311(a)
	  	7.11
	 (b)
	  	7.11
	 (c)
	  	N/A
	 312(a)
	  	2.05
	 (b)
	  	11.03
	 (c)
	  	11.03
	 313(a)
	  	7.06
	 (b)(1)
	  	7.06
	 (b)(2)
	  	7.06, 7.07
	 (c)
	  	7.06, 11.02
	 (d)
	  	7.06
	 314(a)
	  	4.03, 4.04, 11.02
	 (b)
	  	N/A
	 (c)(1)
	  	11.04
	 (c)(2)
	  	11.04
	 (c)(3)
	  	N/A
	 (d)
	  	N/A
	 (e)
	  	11.05
	 (f)
	  	N/A
	 315(a)
	  	7.01
	 (b)
	  	7.05, 11.02
	 (c)
	  	7.01
	 (d)
	  	7.01
	 (e)
	  	6.11
	 316(a)(last sentence)
	  	2.08
	 (a)(1)(A)
	  	6.05
	 (a)(1)(B)
	  	6.04
	 (a)(2)
	  	N/A
	 (b)
	  	6.07
	 (c)
	  	9.04
	 317(a)(1)
	  	6.08
	 (a)(2)
	  	6.09
	 (b)
	  	2.04
	 318(a)
	  	11.01
	 (b)
	  	N/A
	 (c)
	  	11.01

	 	N/A means not applicable. 

	*	This Cross-Reference Table is not part of the Indenture. 

  

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
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	 ARTICLE 1 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
	  	 
	             Section 1.01.
	  	Definitions	  	1
	             Section 1.02.
	  	Other Definitions.	  	24
	             Section 1.03.
	  	Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.	  	24
	             Section 1.04.
	  	Rules of Construction.	  	24
		
	 ARTICLE 2 THE NOTES
	  	 
	             Section 2.01.
	  	Form and Dating.	  	25
	             Section 2.02.
	  	Execution and Authentication.	  	25
	             Section 2.03.
	  	Registrar and Paying Agent.	  	26
	             Section 2.04.
	  	Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust.	  	26
	             Section 2.05.
	  	Noteholder Lists.	  	26
	             Section 2.06.
	  	Transfer and Exchange.	  	27
	             Section 2.07.
	  	Replacement Notes.	  	27
	             Section 2.08.
	  	Outstanding Notes.	  	27
	             Section 2.09.
	  	Temporary Notes.	  	28
	             Section 2.10.
	  	Cancellation.	  	28
	             Section 2.11.
	  	Defaulted Interest.	  	28
	             Section 2.12.
	  	CUSIP Numbers.	  	28
	             Section 2.13.
	  	Issuance of Additional Notes.	  	28
		
	 ARTICLE 3 REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT
	  	 
	             Section 3.01.
	  	Notices to Trustee.	  	29
	             Section 3.02.
	  	Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed.	  	29
	             Section 3.03.
	  	Notice of Redemption.	  	30
	             Section 3.04.
	  	Effect of Notice of Redemption.	  	31
	             Section 3.05.
	  	Deposit of Redemption Price.	  	31
	             Section 3.06.
	  	Notes Redeemed in Part.	  	31
	             Section 3.07.
	  	Optional Redemption.	  	31
	             Section 3.08.
	  	Mandatory Redemption.	  	32
	             Section 3.09.
	  	Offer to Purchase by Application of Excess Proceeds.	  	32
		
	 ARTICLE 4 COVENANTS
	  	 
	             Section 4.01.
	  	Payment of Notes	  	34
	             Section 4.02.
	  	Maintenance of Office or Agency	  	34
	             Section 4.03.
	  	Reports	  	35
	             Section 4.04.
	  	Compliance Certificate	  	36
	             Section 4.05.
	  	Taxes	  	36
	             Section 4.06.
	  	Stay, Extension and Usury Laws	  	36
	             Section 4.07.
	  	Limitation on Restricted Payments	  	36
	             Section 4.08.
	  	Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries	  	39
	             Section 4.09.
	  	Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock	  	41
	             Section 4.10.
	  	Limitation on Asset Sales.	  	43

  

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	             Section 4.11.
	  	Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates	  	45
	             Section 4.12.
	  	Limitation on Liens	  	46
	             Section 4.13.
	  	Additional Subsidiary Guarantees	  	46
	             Section 4.14.
	  	Corporate Existence	  	47
	             Section 4.15.
	  	Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control	  	47
	             Section 4.16.
	  	No Inducements	  	49
	             Section 4.17.
	  	Permitted Business Activities.	  	50
	             Section 4.18.
	  	Sale and Leaseback Transactions.	  	50
	             Section 4.19.
	  	Covenant Termination.	  	50
	             Section 4.20.
	  	Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.	  	50
		
	 ARTICLE 5 SUCCESSORS
	  	 
	             Section 5.01.
	  	Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets	  	51
	             Section 5.02.
	  	Successor Substituted	  	52
		
	 ARTICLE 6 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
	  	 
	             Section 6.01.
	  	Events of Default	  	53
	             Section 6.02.
	  	Acceleration	  	55
	             Section 6.03.
	  	Other Remedies	  	55
	             Section 6.04.
	  	Waiver of Past Defaults	  	56
	             Section 6.05.
	  	Control by Majority	  	56
	             Section 6.06.
	  	Limitation on Suits	  	56
	             Section 6.07.
	  	Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment	  	56
	             Section 6.08.
	  	Collection Suit by Trustee	  	57
	             Section 6.09.
	  	Trustee May File Proofs of Claim	  	57
	             Section 6.10.
	  	Priorities	  	57
	             Section 6.11.
	  	Undertaking for Costs	  	58
		
	 ARTICLE 7 TRUSTEE
	  	 
	             Section 7.01.
	  	Duties of Trustee	  	58
	             Section 7.02.
	  	Rights of Trustee	  	59
	             Section 7.03.
	  	Individual Rights of Trustee	  	60
	             Section 7.04.
	  	Trustee’s Disclaimer	  	60
	             Section 7.05.
	  	Notice of Defaults	  	60
	             Section 7.06.
	  	Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes	  	60
	             Section 7.07.
	  	Compensation and Indemnity	  	61
	             Section 7.08.
	  	Replacement of Trustee	  	62
	             Section 7.09.
	  	Successor Trustee by Merger, etc	  	63
	             Section 7.10.
	  	Eligibility; Disqualification	  	63
	             Section 7.11.
	  	Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuers	  	63
		
	 ARTICLE 8 LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
	  	 
	             Section 8.01.
	  	Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance	  	63
	             Section 8.02.
	  	Legal Defeasance and Discharge	  	63
	             Section 8.03.
	  	Covenant Defeasance	  	64
	             Section 8.04.
	  	Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance	  	64
	             Section 8.05.
	  	Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions	  	66
	             Section 8.06.
	  	Repayment to Issuers	  	66
	             Section 8.07.
	  	Reinstatement	  	67
	             Section 8.08.
	  	Discharge	  	67

  

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	 ARTICLE 9 AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER
	  	 
	             Section 9.01.
	  	Without Consent of Holders of Notes	  	68
	             Section 9.02.
	  	With Consent of Holders of Notes	  	69
	             Section 9.03.
	  	Compliance with Trust Indenture Act	  	70
	             Section 9.04.
	  	Revocation and Effect of Consents	  	70
	             Section 9.05.
	  	Notation on or Exchange of Notes	  	71
	             Section 9.06.
	  	Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc	  	71
		
	 ARTICLE 10 GUARANTEES OF NOTES
	  	 
	             Section 10.01.
	  	Subsidiary Guarantees	  	71
	             Section 10.02.
	  	[Reserved]	  	72
	             Section 10.03.
	  	Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms	  	72
	             Section 10.04.
	  	Releases of Subsidiary Guarantees	  	73
	             Section 10.05.
	  	[Reserved]	  	73
	             Section 10.06.
	  	Limitation on Guarantor Liability	  	73
	             Section 10.07.
	  	“Trustee” to Include Paying Agent	  	74
		
	 ARTICLE 11 MISCELLANEOUS
	  	 
	             Section 11.01.
	  	Trust Indenture Act Controls	  	74
	             Section 11.02.
	  	Notices	  	74
	             Section 11.03.
	  	Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes	  	75
	             Section 11.04.
	  	Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent	  	75
	             Section 11.05.
	  	Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion	  	76
	             Section 11.06.
	  	Rules by Trustee and Agents	  	76
	             Section 11.07.
	  	No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Unitholders	  	76
	             Section 11.08.
	  	Governing Law	  	76
	             Section 11.09.
	  	No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements	  	76
	             Section 11.10.
	  	Successors	  	77
	             Section 11.11.
	  	Severability	  	77
	             Section 11.12.
	  	Table of Contents, Headings, etc	  	77
	             Section 11.13.
	  	Counterparts	  	77

  

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 APPENDIX AND ANNEXES 
  

							
	 RULE 144A/REGULATION S APPENDIX
	  	App. - 1
				
	 	  	EXHIBIT 1	  	Form of Initial Note	  	 
	 	  	EXHIBIT A	  	Form of Exchange Note or Private Exchange Note	  	 
			
	 ANNEX A
	  	Form of Supplemental Indenture	  	A - 1
			
	 ANNEX B
	  	Form of Registration Rights Agreement	  	B - 1
			
	 ANNEX C
	  	Certain Agreements	  	C - 1
			
	 ANNEX D
	  	Certain Leases	  	D - 1

  

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 This Indenture, dated as of December 22, 2004 is among Inergy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the
“Company”), Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Finance Corp.” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), the guarantors listed on the signature page hereof (each, a “Guarantor” and,
collectively, the “Guarantors”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as trustee (the “Trustee”). 
  
 The Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Issuers’ Initial Notes, Exchange Notes, Private Exchange Notes and Additional Notes: 
  
 ARTICLE 1 
 DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION 
 BY REFERENCE 
  
 Section
1.01. Definitions. 
  
 “Acquired Debt” means,
with respect to any specified Person: 
  
 (1)
Indebtedness of any other Person existing at the time such other Person was merged with or into or became a Subsidiary of such specified Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other
Person merging with or into, or becoming a Subsidiary of, such specified Person, but excluding Indebtedness which is extinguished, retired or repaid in connection with such Person merging with or becoming a Subsidiary or such specified Person; and

  
 (2) Indebtedness secured by a Lien
encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person. 
  
 “Additional Interest” means all Additional Interest then owing pursuant to Section 6 of the Registration Rights Agreement referred to in clause (1) of the definition of “Registration Rights Agreement” in the
Appendix. Unless the context indicates otherwise, all references to “interest” in this Indenture or the Notes shall be deemed to include any Additional Interest. 
  
 “Additional Notes” means, subject to the Company’s compliance with Section 4.09, 6.875% Senior Notes
due 2014 issued from time to time after the Initial Issuance Date under the terms of this Indenture (other than pursuant to Section 2.06, 2.07, 2.09 or 3.06 of this Indenture and other than Exchange Notes or Private Exchange Notes issued pursuant to
an exchange offer for other Notes outstanding under this Indenture). 
  
 “Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For purposes of this definition,
“control,” as used with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
agreement or otherwise; provided that beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the Voting Stock of a Person will be deemed to be control by the other Person; and provided, further, that any third Person which also beneficially owns 10% or more of the
Voting Stock of a specified Person shall not be deemed to be an Affiliate of either the specified Person or the other Person merely because of such common ownership in such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, the terms
“controlling,” “controlled by” and “under common control with” have correlative meanings. 

 “Agent” means any Registrar or Paying Agent. 
  
 “Agent Members” has the meaning provided in the Appendix.

  
 “Applicable Law,” except as the context may
otherwise require, means all applicable laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, judgments, decrees, injunctions, writs and orders of any court or governmental or congressional agency or authority and rules, regulations, orders, licenses and permits of
any United States federal, state, municipal, regional, or other governmental body, instrumentality, agency or authority. 
  
 “Applicable Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or exchange of beneficial interests in a Global Note, the rules and
procedures of the Depository that apply to such transfer and exchange. 
  
 “Asset Sale” means: 
  
 (1) the sale, lease, conveyance or other disposition of any properties or assets (including by way of a sale and leaseback transaction); provided that the disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company
and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole will be governed by the provisions of Section 4.15 and/or the provisions of Section 5.01 and not by the provisions of Section 4.10; and 
  
 (2) the issuance of Equity Interests in any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries or the sale of
Equity Interests in any of its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 Notwithstanding the preceding, the following items will not be deemed to be Asset Sales: 
  
 (1) any single transaction or series of related transactions that involves properties or assets having a fair market value of less than
$5.0 million; 
  
 (2) a transfer of assets
between or among any of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, 
  
 (3) an issuance or sale of Equity Interests by a Restricted Subsidiary to the Company or to another Restricted Subsidiary; 
  
 (4) the sale, lease or other disposition of equipment, inventory, accounts receivable or other properties or assets in the ordinary course
of business; 
  
 (5) the sale or other
disposition of cash or Cash Equivalents, Hedging Obligations or other financial instruments in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 (6) a Restricted Payment that is permitted by Section 4.07 or a Permitted Investment; 
  

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 (7) any trade or exchange by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of properties or
assets for properties or assets owned or held by another Person, provided that the fair market value of the properties or assets traded or exchanged by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary (together with any cash) is reasonably equivalent to
the fair market value of the properties or assets (together with any cash) to be received by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, and provided further that any net cash received must be applied in accordance with the provisions of Section
4.10; 
  
 (8) the creation or perfection of a
Lien that is not prohibited by Section 4.12; 
  
 (9) dispositions in connection with Permitted Liens; 
  
 (10) surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release or surrender of contract, tort or other claims of any kind; and 
  
 (11) the grant in the ordinary course of business of any non-exclusive license of patents, trademarks,
registrations therefor and other similar intellectual property. 
  
 “Attributable Debt” in respect of a sale and leaseback transaction means, at the time of determination, the present value of the obligation of the lessee for net rental payments during the remaining term of the lease
included in such sale and leaseback transaction including any period for which such lease has been extended or may, at the option of the lessor, be extended. Such present value shall be calculated using a discount rate equal to the rate of interest
implicit in such transaction, determined in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 “Available Cash” has the meaning assigned to such term in the Partnership Agreement, as in effect on the date of the indenture. 
  
 “Bankruptcy Law” means Title 11, United States Code, as may be amended from time to time, or any similar federal or state law for the
relief of debtors. 
  
 “Beneficial Owner” has the
meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such
“person” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such “person” has the right to acquire by conversion or exercise of other securities, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only
upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition. The terms “Beneficially Owns” and “Beneficially Owned” have correlative meanings. 
  
 “Board of Directors” means: 
  
 (1) with respect to Finance Corp., the board of directors of Finance Corp.; 
  
 (2) with respect to the Company, the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner or any authorized
committee thereof; and 
  
 (3) with respect to
any other Person, the board or committee of such Person serving a similar function. 
  

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 “Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary of the applicable Person to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the Trustee. 
  
 “Business Day” means each day that is not a Saturday, Sunday
or other day on which banking institutions in Kansas City, Missouri or in New York, New York or another place of payment are authorized or required by law to close. 
  
 “Capital Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination is to be made, the amount of the liability
in respect of a capital lease that would at that time be required to be capitalized on a balance sheet in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 “Capital Stock” means: 
  
 (1) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock; 
  
 (2) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights
or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock; 
  
 (3) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and 
  
 (4) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits
and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person. 
  
 “Cash Equivalents” means: 
  
 (1) United States dollars; 
  
 (2)
securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality of the United States government (provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support of
those securities) having maturities of not more than six months from the date of acquisition; 
  
 (3) certificates of deposit and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’
acceptances with maturities not exceeding one year and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with any lender party to the Credit Agreement or with any domestic commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $500.0 million and a Thomson
Bank Watch Rating of “B” or better; 
  
 (4) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2) and (3) above entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3)
above; 
  
 (5) commercial paper having the
highest rating obtainable from Moody’s or S&P and in each case maturing within six months after the date of acquisition; and 
  

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 (6) money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute Cash Equivalents of
the kinds described in clauses (1) through (5) of this definition. 
  
 “Change of Control” means the occurrence of any of the following: 
  
 (1) the direct or indirect sale, lease, transfer, conveyance or other disposition (other than by way of merger or consolidation), in one
or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the properties or assets (including Capital Stock of the Restricted Subsidiaries) of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole, to any “person” (as that
term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), which occurrence is followed by a Rating Decline with 90 days of the consummation of such transaction; 
  

(2) the adoption of a plan relating to the liquidation or dissolution of the Company or the removal of the Managing General Partner by
the limited partners of the Company; 
  
 (3) the
consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any “person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), excluding the Qualifying Owners
identified in clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of Qualifying Owners, becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Managing General Partner, measured by voting power rather than number of
shares, which occurrence is followed by a Rating Decline within 90 days thereof; 
  
 (4) the consummation of any transaction (including, without limitation, any merger or consolidation) the result of which is that any
“person” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), excluding the Qualifying Owners identified in clause (1) of the definition of Qualifying Owners, becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of more than
50% of the Voting Stock of Inergy Holdings, measured by voting power rather than number or percentage of membership interests, at a time when Inergy Holdings still Beneficially Owns more than 50% of the Voting Stock of the Managing General Partner,
measured by voting power rather than number or percentage of membership interests, which occurrence is followed by a Rating Decline within 90 days thereof; or 
  

(5) the first day on which a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner are not Continuing
Directors, which occurrence is followed by a Rating Decline within 90 days thereof. 
  
 Notwithstanding the preceding, a conversion of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from a limited partnership, corporation, limited liability company or other form of entity to a limited partnership,
corporation, limited liability company or other form of entity or an exchange of all of the outstanding Equity Interests in one form of entity for Equity Interests for another form of entity shall not constitute a Change of Control, so long as
following such conversion or exchange the “persons” (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act) who Beneficially Owned the Capital Stock of the Company immediately prior to such transactions continue to Beneficially Own
in the aggregate more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity, or continue to Beneficially Own sufficient Equity Interests in such entity to elect a 
  

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 majority of its directors, managers, trustees or other persons serving in a similar capacity for such entity, and, in
either case no “person”, excluding any Qualifying Owner identified in clause (1) or (2) of the definition of Qualifying Owner, Beneficially Owns more than 50% of the Voting Stock of such entity. 
  
 “Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking,
société anonyme, or any successor securities clearing agency. 
  
 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute. 
  
 “Commission” or “SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission. 
  
 “Consolidated Cash Flow” means, with respect to any
specified Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus: 
  
 (1) an amount equal to any net loss realized by such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale, to the
extent such losses were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus 
  
 (2) provision for taxes based on income or profits of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent that such
provision for taxes was deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus 
  
 (3) consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued and whether or
not capitalized (including, without limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments
associated with Capital Lease Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings), and net of the effect
of all payments made or received pursuant to interest rate Hedging Obligations, to the extent that any such expense was deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus 
  
 (4) depreciation and amortization (including amortization of intangibles but excluding amortization of
prepaid cash expenses that were paid in a prior period), impairment and other non-cash expenses (excluding any such non-cash expense to the extent that it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash expenses in any future period or amortization of
a prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period to the extent that such depreciation and amortization, impairment and other non-cash expenses were deducted in computing such
Consolidated Net Income; plus 
  
 (5) unrealized
non-cash losses resulting from foreign currency balance sheet adjustments required by GAAP to the extent such losses were deducted in computing such Consolidated Net Income; plus 
  

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 (6) all extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring items of gain or loss, or revenue or
expense; minus 
  
 (7) non-cash items increasing
such Consolidated Net Income for such period, other than items that were accrued in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 in each case, on a consolidated basis and determined in accordance with GAAP. 
  
 “Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and
its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that: 
  
 (1) the Net Income (but not loss) of any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or that is accounted for by the equity method of
accounting will be included, but only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid in cash to the specified Person or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Person; 
  
 (2) the Net Income of any Restricted Subsidiary will be excluded to the extent that the declaration or
payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary of that Net Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any prior governmental approval (that has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly, by
operation of the terms of its charter or any judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or governmental regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its stockholders, partners or members; 
  
 (3) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting
principles will be excluded; 
  
 (4) unrealized
losses and gains under derivative instruments included in the determination of Consolidated Net Income, including, without limitation those resulting from the application of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133 will be excluded; and

  
 (5) any nonrecurring charges relating to any
premium or penalty paid, write off of deferred finance costs or other charges in connection with redeeming or retiring any Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity will be excluded. 
  
 “Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, with respect to
any Person at any date of determination, the aggregate amount of total assets included in such Person’s most recent quarterly or annual consolidated balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP less applicable reserves reflected in such
balance sheet, after deducting the following amounts: (a) all current liabilities reflected in such balance sheet, and (b) all goodwill, trademarks, patents, unamortized debt discounts and expenses and other like intangibles reflected in such
balance sheet. 
  
 “Continuing Directors” means,
as of any date of determination, any member of the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner who: 
  
 (1) was a member of such Board of Directors on the date of this Indenture; or 
  

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 (2) was nominated for election or elected to such Board of Directors with the approval of
the Qualifying Owners identified in clauses (1) and (2) of the definition of Qualifying Owner or of a majority of the Continuing Directors who were members of such Board at the time of such nomination or election. 
  
 “Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee” means the office of
the Trustee in the City of New York at which at any time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 100 Wall Street, Suite 1600, New York, New York 10005, Attn: Corporate Trust Department, or
such other address in the City of New York as the Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuers, or the principal corporate trust office in the City of New York of any successor Trustee (or such other address as a
successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Issuers). 
  
 “Credit Agreement” means that certain 5-Year Credit Agreement, dated as of December 17, 2004, among the Company, the lenders party
thereto and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, consisting of an acquisition facility and a working capital and letter of credit facility, including any related notes, guarantees, collateral documents, instruments and agreements
executed in connection therewith, and in each case as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced from time to time. 
  
 “Credit Facilities” means one or more debt facilities (including, without limitation, the Credit Agreement), commercial paper facilities
or secured capital markets financings, in each case with banks or other institutional lenders or institutional investors providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of receivables to such
lenders or to special purpose entities formed to borrow from such lenders against such receivables), letters of credit or secured capital markets financings, in each case, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced
(including refinancing with any capital markets transaction) in whole or in part from time to time. 
  
 “Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law. 
  
 “Default” means any event that is, or with the passage of
time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of Default. 
  
 “Depository” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Disqualified Stock” means any Capital Stock that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the holder
of the Capital Stock), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock, in whole or in part, on or prior to
the date that is 91 days after the date on which the Notes mature. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any Capital Stock that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders of the Capital Stock have the right to require the
Company to repurchase or redeem such Capital Stock upon the occurrence of a change of control or an asset sale will not constitute Disqualified Stock if the terms of such Capital Stock provide that the Company may not repurchase or redeem any such
Capital Stock pursuant to such provisions unless such repurchase or redemption complies with Section 4.07. 
  

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 “Equity Interests” means Capital Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to
acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for, Capital Stock). 
  
 “Equity Offering” means any public or private sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock) made for cash on a primary basis by
the Company after the date of this Indenture. 
  
 “Euroclear” means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. or any successor securities clearing agency. 
  
 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  
 “Exchange Notes” has the meaning specified in the Appendix. 
  
 “Existing Indebtedness” means the aggregate principal amount
of Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Indebtedness under the Credit Agreement which is considered incurred under the first paragraph of Section 4.09 and other than intercompany indebtedness) in existence on the
date of this Indenture, until such amounts are repaid. 
  
 “FERC Subsidiary” means a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (or any successor thereof). 
  
 “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means with respect to any
specified Person for any four-quarter reference period, the ratio of the Consolidated Cash Flow of such Person for such period to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period. In the event that the specified Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries incurs, assumes, guarantees, repays, repurchases or redeems any Indebtedness (other than ordinary working capital borrowings) or issues, repurchases or redeems preferred stock subsequent to the commencement of the applicable
four-quarter reference period and on or prior to the date on which the event for which the calculation of the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the “Calculation Date”), then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio will be calculated giving pro
forma effect to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, repayment, repurchase or redemption of Indebtedness, or such issuance, repurchase or redemption of preferred stock, and the use of the proceeds therefrom as if the same had occurred at the
beginning of such period. 
  
 In addition, for purposes of
calculating the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio: 
  
 (1) acquisitions that have been made by the specified Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including through mergers, consolidations or otherwise (including acquisitions of assets used in a Permitted Business), and including in
each case any related financing transactions (including repayment of Indebtedness) during the four-quarter reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to the Calculation Date, will be given pro forma effect as if they had
occurred on the first day of the four-quarter reference period, including any Consolidated Cash Flow and any pro forma expense and cost reductions that have occurred or are reasonably expected to occur, in the reasonable judgment of the chief
financial or accounting officer of the Company (regardless of whether those cost savings or operating improvements could 
  

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 then be reflected in pro forma financial statements in accordance with Regulation S-X promulgated under
the Securities Act or any other regulation or policy of the Commission related thereto); 
  
 (2) the Consolidated Cash Flow attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or
businesses disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded; 
  
 (3) the Fixed Charges attributable to discontinued operations, as determined in accordance with GAAP, and operations or businesses disposed of prior to the Calculation Date, will be excluded, but only to the extent
that the obligations giving rise to such Fixed Charges will not be obligations of the specified Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries following the Calculation Date; and 
  
 (4) interest income reasonably anticipated by such Person to be received during the applicable four-quarter
period from cash or Cash Equivalents held by such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person, which cash or Cash Equivalents exist on the Calculation Date or will exist as a result of the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, will be included. 
  
 “Fixed
Charges” means, with respect to any specified Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of: 
  
 (1) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued (including,
without limitation, amortization of debt issuance costs and original issue discount, non-cash interest payments, the interest component of any deferred payment obligations, the interest component of all payments associated with Capital Lease
Obligations, imputed interest with respect to Attributable Debt, commissions, discounts and other fees and charges incurred in respect of letter of credit or bankers’ acceptance financings), and net of the effect of all payments made or
received pursuant to interest rate Hedging Obligations; plus 
  
 (2) the consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was capitalized during such period; plus 
  
 (3) any interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is guaranteed by such Person or one of its
Restricted Subsidiaries or secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries, whether or not such guarantee or Lien is called upon; plus 
  
 (4) all dividends, whether paid or accrued and whether or not in cash, on any series of preferred securities
of such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, other than dividends on Equity Interests payable solely in Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, 

 
 in each case, on a consolidated basis and in accordance with GAAP. 
  

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 “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, which are in
effect on the date of this Indenture. 
  
 “General
Partner” means each of the Non-managing General Partner and the Managing General Partner. 
  
 “Global Note” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Government Securities” means direct obligations of, or obligations guaranteed by, the United States of
America for the payment of which guarantee or obligations the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged. 
  
 The term “guarantee” means a guarantee other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of
business, direct or indirect, in any manner including, without limitation, by way of a pledge of assets or through letters of credit or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof, of all or any part of any Indebtedness. When used as a verb,
“guarantee” has a correlative meaning. 
  
 “Guarantors” means each of (a) the Operating Company and the other Restricted Subsidiaries executing this Indenture as initial Guarantors, (b) any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that executes a supplement to
this Indenture in accordance with Section 4.13 or 10.03 hereof and (c) the respective successors and assigns of such Restricted Subsidiaries, as required under Article 10 hereof, in each case until such time as any such Restricted Subsidiary shall
be released and relieved of its obligations pursuant to Section 8.02, 8.03 or 10.04 hereof. 
  
 “Hedging Obligations” means, with respect to any specified Person, the obligations of such Person incurred in the normal course of
business and consistent with past practices and not for speculative purposes under: 
  
 (1) interest rate swap agreements, interest rate cap agreements and interest rate collar agreements entered into with one of more
financial institutions and designed to protect the Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries entering into the agreement against fluctuations in interest rates with respect to Indebtedness incurred and not for purposes of speculation; 

 
 (2) foreign exchange contracts and currency protection
agreements entered into with one of more financial institutions and designed to protect the Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries entering into the agreement against fluctuations in currency exchanges rates with respect to Indebtedness
incurred and not for purposes of speculation; 
  
 (3) any commodity futures contract, commodity option or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect against fluctuations in the price of Hydrocarbons used, produced, processed or sold by that Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries at the time; and 
  
 (4) other
agreements or arrangements designed to protect such Person or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries against fluctuations in interest rates, commodity prices or currency exchange rates. 
  

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 “Holder” or “Noteholder” means a Person in whose name a Note is
registered. 
  
 “Hydrocarbons” means crude oil,
natural gas, casinghead gas, drip gasoline, natural gasoline, condensate, distillate, liquid hydrocarbons, gaseous hydrocarbons and all constituents, elements or compounds thereof and products refined or processed therefrom. 
  
 “Indebtedness” means, with respect to any specified Person,
any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not contingent: 
  
 (1) in respect of borrowed money; 
  
 (2) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit (or reimbursement agreements in respect thereof); 
  
 (3) in respect of bankers’ acceptances; 
  
 (4) representing Capital Lease Obligations; 
  
 (5) representing the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property, except any such
balance that constitutes an accrued expense or trade payable; or 
  
 (6) representing any Hedging Obligations, 
  
 if
and to the extent any of the preceding items (other than letters of credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of the specified Person prepared in accordance with GAAP. In addition, the term
“Indebtedness” includes all Indebtedness of others secured by a Lien on any asset of the specified Person (whether or not such Indebtedness is assumed by the specified Person) and, to the extent not otherwise included, the guarantee by the
specified Person of any Indebtedness of any other Person. 
  
 The
amount of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date will be: 
  
 (1) the accreted value of the Indebtedness, in the case of any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount; 
  
 (2) in the case of any Hedging Obligation, the termination value of the agreement or arrangement giving rise to such Hedging Obligation
that would be payable by such Person at such date; and 
  
 (3) the principal amount of the Indebtedness, together with any interest on the Indebtedness that is more than 30 days past due, in the case of any other Indebtedness. 
  
 “Indenture” means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Inergy Holdings” means Inergy Holdings, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company, and its successors. 
  
 “Initial Issuance Date” means December 22, 2004. 
  
 “Initial Notes” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  

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 “Initial Purchasers” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher
than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s or BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P. 
  
 “Investments” means, with respect to any Person, all direct or indirect investments by such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the forms of loans (including guarantees or other
obligations), advances or capital contributions (excluding (1) commission, travel and similar advances to officers and employees made in the ordinary course of business and (2) advances to customers in the ordinary course of business that are
recorded as accounts receivable on the balance sheet of the lender), purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other securities, together with all items that are or would be classified as investments on a
balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP. If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company sells or otherwise disposes of any Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of the Company such that, after giving
effect to any such sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, the Company will be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such sale or disposition in an amount equal to the fair market value of
the Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary not sold or disposed of in an amount determined as provided in the final paragraph of Section 4.07. The acquisition by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company of a Person that holds an
Investment in a third Person will be deemed to be an Investment made by the Company or such Subsidiary in such third Person in an amount equal to the fair market value of the Investment held by the acquired Person in such third Person on the date of
any such acquisition in an amount determined as provided in the final paragraph of Section 4.07. 
  
 “Joint Venture” means any Person that is not a direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company in which the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries makes any Investment. 
  
 “Legal
Holiday” means any calendar day other than a Business Day. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday, payment may be made on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.

  
 “Lien” means, with respect to any asset, any
mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected under Applicable Law, including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any
lease in the nature thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction other
than a precautionary financing statement respecting a lease not intended as a security agreement. 
  
 “Managing General Partner” means Inergy GP, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and permitted assigns as
managing general partner of the Company. 
  
 “Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor to the rating agency business thereof. 
  

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 “Net Income” means, with respect to any specified Person, the net income (loss) of such
Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in respect of preferred stock dividends, excluding, however: 
  
 (1) any gain (but not loss), together with any related provision for taxes on such gain (but not loss), realized in connection with: (a)
any Asset Sale; or (b) the disposition of any securities by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or the extinguishment of any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries; and 
  
 (2) any extraordinary gain (but not loss), together with any
related provision for taxes on such extraordinary gain (but not loss). 
  
 “Net Proceeds” means the aggregate cash proceeds received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any Asset Sale (including, without limitation, any cash received upon the sale or other
disposition of any non-cash consideration received in any Asset Sale), net of: 
  
 (1) the direct costs relating to such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees, and sales
commissions, and any relocation expenses incurred as a result of the Asset Sale, 
  
 (2) taxes paid or payable as a result of the Asset Sale, in each case, after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions
and any tax sharing arrangements, 
  
 (3) amounts
required to be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the properties or assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale, and 
  
 (4) any amounts to be set aside in any reserve established in accordance with GAAP or any amount placed in escrow, in either case for
adjustment in respect of the sale price of such properties or assets or for liabilities associated with such Asset Sale and retained by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries until such time as such reserve is reversed or such escrow
arrangement is terminated, in which case Net Proceeds shall include only the amount of the reserve so reversed or the amount returned to the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries from such escrow arrangement, as the case may be. 
  
 “Non-managing General Partner” means Inergy Partners, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company, and its successors and permitted assigns as non-managing general partner of the Company. 
  
 “Non-Recourse Debt” means Indebtedness: 
  
 (1) as to which neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) provides credit support of any kind (including any
undertaking, agreement or instrument that would constitute Indebtedness), (b) is directly or indirectly liable as a guarantor or otherwise, or (c) is the lender; 
  

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 (2) no default with respect to which (including any rights that the holders of the
Indebtedness may have to take enforcement action against an Unrestricted Subsidiary) would permit upon notice, lapse of time or both any holder of any other Indebtedness (other than the Notes) of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to
declare a default on such other Indebtedness or cause the payment of the Indebtedness to be accelerated or payable prior to its Stated Maturity; and 
  
 (3) as to which the lenders have been notified in writing that they will not have any recourse to the stock or assets of the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 For purposes of
determining compliance with Section 4.09, in the event that any Non-Recourse Debt of any of the Company’s Unrestricted Subsidiaries ceases to be Non-Recourse Debt of such Unrestricted Subsidiary, such event will be deemed to constitute an
incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company. 
  
 “Notes” has the meaning specified in the Appendix. 
  
 “Notes Custodian” has the meaning specified in the Appendix. 
  
 “Obligations” means any principal, premium, if any, interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in
bankruptcy or for reorganization, whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceeding), penalties, fees, charges, expenses, indemnifications, reimbursement obligations, damages, guarantees, and other liabilities or amounts
payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness or in respect thereto. 
  
 “Offering Memorandum” means the offering memorandum of the Issuers dated December 17, 2004 relating to the offering of the Initial Notes. 
  
 “Officer” means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the
President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary or any Vice President of such Person or, in the case of the Company, its Managing
General Partner. 
  
 “Officers’ Certificate”
means a certificate signed on behalf of each of the Company and Finance Corp. by two of its Officers, one of whom must be the principal executive officer, the principal financial officer, the treasurer or the principal accounting officer of the
Managing General Partner or Finance Corp., as the case may be, that meets the requirements of Section 11.05 hereof. 
  
 “Operating Company” means Inergy Propane, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors. 
  
 “Operating Surplus” has the meaning assigned to such term in
the Partnership Agreement, as in effect on the date of this Indenture. 
  
 “Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion from legal counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee, that meets the requirements of Section 11.05 hereof. The counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, any
Subsidiary of the Company or the Trustee. 
  

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 “Pari Passu Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Excess Proceeds from Asset Sales,
Indebtedness of an Issuer or any Guarantor that ranks equally in right of payment with the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees, as the case may be, and the terms of which require the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to apply such Excess
Proceeds to offer to repurchase such Indebtedness. 
  
 “Partnership Agreement” means the Second Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Inergy, L.P., dated as of February 9, 2004, as in effect on the date of this Indenture and as such may be further amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time. 
  
 “Permitted
Business” means either (1) marketing, distributing or otherwise handling propane or other Hydrocarbons, or activities or services reasonably related or ancillary thereto including entering into Hedging Obligations to support these
businesses, or (2) any other business that generates gross income that constitutes “qualifying income” under Section 7704(d) of the Code. 
  
 “Permitted Business Investments” means Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in any Unrestricted Subsidiary of
the Company or in any Joint Venture, provided that: 
  
 (1) either (a) at the time of such Investment and immediately thereafter, the Company could incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness under the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.09 or (b) such
Investment does not exceed the aggregate amount of Incremental Funds (as defined in Section 4.09) not previously expended at the time of making such Investment; 
  
 (2) if such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture has outstanding Indebtedness at the time of such
Investment, either (a) all such Indebtedness is Non-Recourse Debt or (b) any such Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiaries or Joint Venture that is recourse to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (which shall include, without
limitation, all Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture for which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may be directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, obligated to pay, whether pursuant to the terms of
such Indebtedness, by law or pursuant to any guarantee, including, without limitation, any “claw-back,” “make-well” or “keep-well” arrangement) could, at the time such Investment is made, be incurred at that time by the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries under the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.09; and 
  
 (3) such Unrestricted Subsidiary’s or Joint Venture’s activities are not outside the scope of the Permitted Business.

  
 “Permitted Investments” means: 
  
 (1) any Investment in the Company or in a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company; 
  
 (2) any Investment
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 (3) any Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in a
Person, if as a result of such Investment: 
  
 (a) such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or 
  
 (b) such Person is merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys substantially all of its properties or assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company; 
  
 (4) any Investment made as a result
of the receipt of non-cash consideration from: 
  
 (a) an Asset Sale that was made pursuant to and in compliance with Section 4.10; 
  
 (b) pursuant to clause (7) of the items deemed not to be Asset Sales under the definition of “Asset Sale;” 
  
 (5) any Investment in any Person solely in exchange for the
issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company; 
  
 (6) any Investments received in compromise of obligations of trade creditors or customers that were incurred in the ordinary course of business, including pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement
upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of any trade creditor or customer, or as a result of a foreclosure by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to any secured Investment in default; 
  
 (7) Hedging Obligations permitted to be incurred under
Section 4.09; 
  
 (8) Permitted Business
Investments; and 
  
 (9) other Investments in any
Person having an aggregate fair market value (measured on the date each such Investment was made and without giving effect to subsequent changes in value), when taken together with all other Investments made pursuant to this clause (9) that are at
the time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of $25.0 million or 5.0% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible Assets. 
  
 “Permitted Liens” means: 
  
 (1) Liens securing any Indebtedness under any of the Credit Facilities and all Obligations and Hedging Obligations relating to such
Indebtedness; 
  
 (2) Liens in favor of the
Company or the Guarantors; 
  
 (3) Liens on
property of a Person existing at the time such Person is merged with or into or consolidated with the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, provided that such Liens were in existence prior to the contemplation of such merger or
consolidation and do not extend to any assets other than those of the Person merged into or consolidated with the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary; 
  

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 (4) Liens on property existing at the time of acquisition of the property by the Company
or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, provided that such Liens were in existence prior to the contemplation of such acquisition; 
  
 (5) any interest or title of a lessor to the property subject to a Capital Lease Obligation; 
  
 (6) Liens on any property or asset acquired, constructed or
improved by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a “Purchase Money Lien”), which (a) are in favor of the seller of such property or assets, in favor of the Person developing, constructing, repairing or improving such asset or
property, or in favor of the Person that provided the funding for the acquisition, development, construction, repair or improvement cost, as the case may be, of such asset or property, (b) are created within 360 days after the acquisition,
development, construction, repair or improvement, (c) secure the purchase price or development, construction, repair or improvement cost, as the case may be, of such asset or property in an amount up to 100% of the fair market value (as determined
by the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner if such fair market value is $15.0 million or more) of such acquisition, construction or improvement of such asset or property, and (d) are limited to the asset or property so acquired,
constructed or improved (including the proceeds thereof, accessions thereto and upgrades thereof); 
  
 (7) Liens existing on the date of this Indenture other than Liens securing the Credit Facilities; 
  
 (8) Liens to secure the performance of tenders, bids,
statutory obligations, surety or appeal bonds, government contracts, performance bonds or other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 (9) Liens on and pledges of the Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Joint Venture owned
by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the extent securing Non-Recourse Debt or other Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary or Joint Venture; 
  
 (10) Liens on pipelines or pipeline facilities that arise by operation of law; 
  
 (11) Liens arising under operating agreements, joint venture
agreements, partnership agreements, oil and gas leases, farmout agreements, division orders, contracts for sale, transportation or exchange of crude oil and natural gas, unitization and pooling declarations and agreements, area of mutual interest
agreements and other agreements arising in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are customary in the Permitted Business; 
  
 (12) Liens upon specific items of inventory, receivables or other goods or proceeds of the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries securing such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’ acceptances or receivables securitizations issued or created for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such
inventory, receivables or other goods and permitted by Section 4.09; 
  

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 (13) Liens securing Obligations of the Issuers or any Guarantor under the Notes or the
Subsidiary Guarantees, as the case may be; 
  
 (14) Liens securing any Indebtedness equally and ratably with all Obligations due under the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to a contractual covenant that limits Liens in a manner substantially similar to Section 4.12;

  
 (15) Liens to secure performance of Hedging
Obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; 
  
 (16) Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with respect to obligations that do not exceed $10.0 million at any one time outstanding; and

  
 (17) any Lien renewing, extending,
refinancing or refunding a Lien permitted by clauses (1) through (15) above; provided that (a) the principal amount of the Indebtedness secured by such Lien is not increased and (b) no assets encumbered by any such Lien other than the assets
permitted to be encumbered immediately prior to such renewal, extension, refinance or refund are encumbered thereby. 
  
 After termination of the covenants referred to in the first paragraph of Section 4.19, for purposes of complying with Section 4.12, the Liens described in
clauses (1) and (16) of this definition of “Permitted Liens” will be Permitted Liens only to the extent those Liens secure Indebtedness not exceeding, at the time of determination, 10% of the Consolidated Net Tangible Assets of the
Company. Once effective, this 10% limitation on Permitted Liens will continue to apply during any later period in which the Notes do not have an Investment Grade Rating by both S&P and Moody’s. 
  
 “Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness
of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other
than intercompany Indebtedness); provided that: 
  
 (1) the principal amount of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the principal amount of the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded (plus all accrued interest on the Indebtedness
and the amount of all expenses and premiums incurred in connection therewith); 
  
 (2) such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness has a final maturity date later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average
Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded; 
  
 (3) if the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded is subordinated
in right of payment to the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees on terms at least as favorable to the Noteholders as those contained
in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded; and 
  

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 (4) such Indebtedness is not incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company if the
Company is the obligor on the Indebtedness being extended, refinanced, renewed, replaced, defeased or refunded. 
  
 Notwithstanding the preceding, any Indebtedness incurred under Credit Facilities pursuant to Section 4.09 shall be subject only to the refinancing
provision in the definition of Credit Facilities and not pursuant to the requirements set forth in the definition of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness. 
  
 “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization, limited liability company or government or other entity. 
  
 “Private Exchange” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Private Exchange Notes” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Purchase Agreement” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “QIB” means a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

  
 “Qualifying Owners” means (1) the significant
owners of the parent company of the Managing General Partner, Inergy Holdings, on the date of this Indenture, consisting of John J. Sherman or any of his Affiliates, (2) Inergy Holdings and its subsidiaries and (3) any transferee of any of the
foregoing to the extent such transferee is approved by the holders of a majority of the membership interests of the Managing General Partner (other than the transferor) or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing. 
  
 “Rating Category” means: 
  
 (1) with respect to S&P, any of the following
categories: AAA, AA, A, BBB, BB, B, CCC, CC, C and D (or equivalent successor categories); and 
  
 (2) with respect to Moody’s, any of the following categories: Aaa, Aa, A, Baa, Ba, B, Caa, Ca, C and D (or equivalent successor
categories). 
  
 “Rating Decline” means a
decrease in the rating of the Notes by either Moody’s or S&P by one or more gradations (including gradations within Rating Categories as well as between Rating Categories). In determining whether the rating of the Notes has decreased by one
or more gradations, gradations within Rating Categories, namely + or – for S&P, and 1, 2, and 3 for Moody’s, will be taken into account; for example, in the case of S&P, a rating decline either from BB+ to BB or BB- to B+ will
constitute a decrease of one gradation. 
  
 “Registered
Exchange Offer” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Registration Rights Agreement” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Regulation S” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  

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 “Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Trustee, means any officer within
the corporate trust department of the Trustee having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture. 
  
 “Restricted Global Note” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Restricted Investment” means an Investment other than a Permitted Investment. 
  
 “Restricted Subsidiary” of a Person means any Subsidiary of
the referent Person that is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary. Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, Finance Corp. shall be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company. 
  
 “Rule 144A” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services,
a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., or any successor to the rating agency business thereof. 
  
 “Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means an arrangement relating to property owned by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary on the Initial
Issuance Date or thereafter acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary whereby the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary transfers such property to a Person and the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person. 
  
 “SEC” or “Commission” means the Securities
and Exchange Commission. 
  
 “Securities Act”
means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. 
  
 “Senior
Debt” means 
  
 (1) all Indebtedness of
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding under Credit Facilities and all Hedging Obligations with respect thereto; 
  
 (2) any other Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted to be incurred under the terms of this
Indenture, unless the instrument under which such Indebtedness is incurred expressly provides that it is on a parity with or subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee; and 
  
 (3) all Obligations with respect to the items listed in the
preceding clauses (1) and (2). 
  
 Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in the preceding sentence, Senior Debt will not include: 
  

	 	(a)	any intercompany Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the Company or any of its Affiliates; or 

  

	 	(b)	any Indebtedness that is incurred in violation of this Indenture. 

  

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 For the avoidance of doubt, “Senior Debt” will not include any trade payables or taxes owed or owing by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary. 
  
 “Shelf
Registration Statement” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Significant Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in Article 1, Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to the Securities Act, as
such Regulation is in effect on the date of this Indenture. 
  
 “Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any installment of interest or principal on any series of Indebtedness, the date on which the payment of interest or principal was scheduled to be paid in the original documentation
governing such Indebtedness, and will not include any contingent obligations to repay, redeem or repurchase any such interest or principal prior to the date originally scheduled for the payment thereof. 
  
 “Subsidiary” means, with respect to any specified Person:

  
 (1) any corporation, association or other
business entity (other than a partnership or limited liability company) of which more than 50% of the total voting power of Voting Stock is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more of the other
Subsidiaries of that Person (or a combination thereof); and 
  
 (2) any partnership (whether general or limited) or limited liability company (a) the sole general partner or the managing general partner or managing member of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person, or
(b) if there are more than a single general partner or member, either (x) the only general partners or managing members of which are such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof) or (y) such Person owns or
controls, directly or indirectly, a majority of the outstanding general partner interests, member interests or other Voting Stock of such partnership or limited liability company, respectively. 
  
 “Subsidiary Guarantees” means the joint and several
guarantees issued by all of the Guarantors pursuant to Article 10 hereof. 
  
 “TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. §§ 77aaa-77bbbb) and the rules and regulations thereunder, as in effect on the date on which this Indenture is qualified under the TIA
(except as provided in Section 9.01(i) and 9.03 hereof). 
  
 “Transfer Restricted Securities” has the meaning provided in the Appendix. 
  
 “Trustee” means the party named as such above until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable provisions of this
Indenture and thereafter means the successor serving hereunder. 
  
 “Uniform Commercial Code” means the New York Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time. 
  

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 “Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Company (other than Finance Corp.
or the Operating Company) that is designated by the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to a Board Resolution, but only to the extent that such Subsidiary: 
  
 (1) has no Indebtedness other than Non-Recourse Debt;

  
 (2) is not party to any agreement, contract,
arrangement or understanding with the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company unless the terms of any such agreement, contract, arrangement or understanding are no less favorable to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary than those
that might be obtained at the time from Persons who are not Affiliates of the Company; 
  
 (3) is a Person with respect to which neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has any direct or indirect obligation (a)
to subscribe for additional Equity Interests or (b) to maintain or preserve such Person’s financial condition or to cause such Person to achieve any specified levels of operating results; and 
  
 (4) has not guaranteed or otherwise directly or indirectly
provided credit support for any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 Any designation of a Subsidiary of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be evidenced to the Trustee by filing with the Trustee a Board
Resolution giving effect to such designation and an Officers’ Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the preceding conditions and was permitted by Section 4.07. If, at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet
the preceding requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it will thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of this Indenture and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary will be deemed to be incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company as of such date and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be incurred as of such date under Section 4.09, the Company will be in default of such covenant. 
  
 “Voting Stock” of any Person as of any date means the Capital Stock of such Person that is at the time
entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person. 
  
 “Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing:

  
 (1) the sum of the products obtained by
multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect of the Indebtedness, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the
nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by 
  
 (2) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness. 
  

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 Section 1.02. Other Definitions. 
  

			
	 Term

	  	Defined in Section

	 “Affiliate Transaction”
	  	4.11
	 “Appendix”
	  	2.01
	 “Asset Sale Offer”
	  	3.09
	 “Change of Control Offer”
	  	4.15
	 “Change of Control Payment”
	  	4.15
	 “Change of Control Purchase Date”
	  	4.15
	 “Change of Control Settlement Date”
	  	4.15
	 “Covenant Defeasance”
	  	8.03
	 “Discharge”
	  	8.08
	 “Event of Default”
	  	6.01
	 “Excess Proceeds”
	  	4.10
	 “Incremental Funds”
	  	4.07
	 “incur”
	  	4.09
	 “Legal Defeasance”
	  	8.02
	 “Offer Amount”
	  	3.09
	 “Offer Period”
	  	3.09
	 “Paying Agent”
	  	2.03
	 “Payment Default”
	  	6.01
	 “Permitted Debt”
	  	4.09
	 “Registrar”
	  	2.03
	 “Restricted Payments”
	  	4.07
	 “Settlement Date”
	  	3.09
	 “Termination Date”
	  	3.09

  
 Section 1.03. Incorporation by
Reference of Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Whenever this Indenture
refers to a provision of the TIA, the provision is incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. Any terms incorporated in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC
rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned to them. 
  
 Section 1.04. Rules
of Construction. 
  
 Unless the context otherwise requires:

  
 (1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;

  
 (2) an accounting term not otherwise defined
has the meaning assigned to it in accordance with GAAP; 
  
 (3) “or” is not exclusive; 
  
 (4) words in the singular include the plural, and in the plural include the singular; 
  
 (5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions; 
  

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 (6) references to sections of or rules under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act shall
be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to time; and 
  
 (7) “herein,” “hereof” and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole (as amended or
supplemented from time to time) and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision 
  
 ARTICLE 2 
 THE NOTES 
  

Section 2.01. Form and Dating. 
  
 Provisions relating to the Initial Notes, the Private Exchange Notes and the Exchange Notes are set forth in the Rule 144A/Regulation S Appendix attached
hereto (the “Appendix”) which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made part of this Indenture. The Initial Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication therefor shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit 1 to the
Appendix which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Exchange Notes, the Private Exchange Notes and the Trustee’s certificate of authentication therefor shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A to the
Appendix, which is hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which an Issuer is subject, if any, or usage (provided
that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form acceptable to the Company). Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication. The terms of the Notes set forth in the Appendix are part of the terms of this Indenture. 
  
 Section 2.02. Execution and Authentication. 
  
 An Officer shall sign the Notes on behalf of each Issuer by manual or
facsimile signature. 
  
 If an Officer whose signature is on a
Note no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid nevertheless. 
  
 A Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Note. The signature shall
be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated under this Indenture. 
  
 On the Initial Issuance Date, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver $425 million of 6.875% Senior Notes due 2014 and, at any time and from time to time thereafter, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Notes
for original issue in an aggregate principal amount specified in such order, in each case upon a written order of the Issuers. Such order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Notes is to
be authenticated and to whom the Notes shall be registered and delivered and, in the case of an issuance of Additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.13 after the Initial Issuance Date, shall certify that such issuance is in compliance with Section
4.09. 
  
 The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent
reasonably acceptable to the Issuers to authenticate the Notes. Unless limited by the terms of such appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as any Registrar, Paying Agent or agent for service of notices and demands. 
  

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 Section 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent. 
  
 The Issuers shall maintain an office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange
(the “Registrar”) and an office or agency where Notes may be presented for payment (the “Paying Agent”). The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange. The Issuers may have one or more
co-registrars and one or more additional paying agents. The term “Registrar” includes any co-registrar, and the term “Paying Agent” includes any additional paying agent. 
  
 The Issuers shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any
Registrar or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture, which shall incorporate the terms of the TIA. The agreement shall implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Issuers shall notify the Trustee of the name and
address of any such agent. If the Issuers fail to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section 7.07. The Company or any Subsidiary may act as
Paying Agent or Registrar. 
  
 The Issuers initially appoint the
Trustee as Registrar and Paying Agent in connection with the Notes. 
  
 Section
2.04. Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust. 
  
 Prior to 11:00
a.m. New York City time, on each due date of the principal and interest on any Note, an Issuer shall deposit with the Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal and interest when so becoming due. The Issuers shall require each Paying Agent
(other than the Trustee) to agree in writing that the Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Noteholders or the Trustee all money held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of or interest on the Notes and shall notify the
Trustee of any default by the Issuers in making any such payment. If the Company or a Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held by it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund. The Issuers at any time may require
a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed by the Paying Agent. Upon complying with this Section, the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee.

  
 Section 2.05. Noteholder Lists. 
  
 The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably practicable
the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of Noteholders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Issuers shall furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least five Business Days before each interest payment date and at such other
times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list in such form and as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Noteholders. 
  

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 Section 2.06. Transfer and Exchange. 
  
 The Notes shall be issued in registered form and shall be transferable only upon the surrender of a Note for registration of
transfer. When a Note is presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request to register a transfer, the Registrar shall register the transfer as requested if the requirements of this Indenture and Section 8-401(a) of the Uniform Commercial
Code are met. When Notes are presented to the Registrar with a request to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Notes of other denominations, the Registrar shall make the exchange as requested if the same requirements are met. The Issuers
may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any taxes, assessments or other governmental charges in connection with any transfer or exchange pursuant to this Section (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental
charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Section 3.06, 4.10, 4.15 or 9.05). 
  
 Section 2.07. Replacement Notes. 
  
 If a mutilated Note
is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Issuers shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note if the requirements of Section 8-405 of the
Uniform Commercial Code are met and the Holder satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Trustee. If required by the Trustee or the Issuers, such Holder shall furnish an indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the Issuers and the
Trustee to protect the Issuers, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Note is replaced. The Issuers and the Trustee may charge the Holder for their expenses in replacing a Note. 

 
 Every replacement Note is an additional obligation of the Issuers.

  
 Section 2.08. Outstanding Notes. 
  
 Notes outstanding at any time are all Notes authenticated by the Trustee
except for those canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation and those described in this Section as not outstanding. Except as otherwise provided in TIA §316(a), a Note does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company holds the Note. 
  
 If a Note is replaced
pursuant to Section 2.07, it ceases to be outstanding unless the Trustee and the Issuers receive proof satisfactory to them that the replaced Note is held by a bona fide purchaser. 
  
 If the Paying Agent segregates and holds in trust, in accordance with this Indenture, by 11:00 a.m. New York time, on a
redemption date or other maturity date money sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest, if any, payable on that date with respect to the Notes (or portions thereof) to be redeemed or maturing, as the case may
be, then on and after that date such Notes (or portions thereof) cease to be outstanding and interest and Additional Interest, if any, on them cease to accrue. 
  

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 Section 2.09. Temporary Notes. 
  

Until definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Issuers may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes shall be
substantially in the form of definitive Notes but may have variations that the Issuers consider appropriate for temporary Notes. Without unreasonable delay, the Issuers shall prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate definitive Notes and deliver
them in exchange for temporary Notes. 
  
 Section 2.10. Cancellation. 

 
 An Issuer at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation.
The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel (subject to the record retention requirements of the Exchange
Act) all Notes surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation. Upon written request, the Trustee will deliver a certificate of such cancellation to the Issuers unless the Issuers direct the Trustee to deliver canceled
Notes to the Issuers instead. The Issuers may not issue new Notes to replace Notes they have redeemed, paid or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation. 
  
 Section 2.11. Defaulted Interest. 
  
 If the Issuers default in a payment of interest on the Notes, the Issuers shall pay defaulted interest (plus interest on such defaulted interest to the
extent lawful) in any lawful manner. The Issuers may pay the defaulted interest to the Persons who are Noteholders on a subsequent special record date. The Issuers shall fix or cause to be fixed any such special record date and payment date to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee and shall promptly mail to each Noteholder a notice that states the special record date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest to be paid. 
  
 Section 2.12. CUSIP Numbers. 
  
 The Issuers in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers and corresponding “ISINs” (if then generally in
use) and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers and corresponding “ISINs” in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and any such redemption shall not be affected by
any defect in or omission of such numbers. 
  
 Section 2.13. Issuance of
Additional Notes. 
  
 The Issuers shall be entitled, subject to
their compliance with Section 4.09, to issue Additional Notes under this Indenture which shall have identical terms as the Initial Notes issued on the Initial Issuance Date, other than with respect to the date of issuance and issue price. The
Initial Notes issued on the Initial Issuance Date, any Additional Notes and all Exchange Notes or Private Exchange Notes issued in exchange therefor shall be treated as a single class for all purposes under this Indenture, including, without
limitation, waivers, consents, directions, declarations, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase. 
  

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 With respect to any Additional Notes, the Issuers shall set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, which
shall be delivered to the Trustee, the following information: 
  
 (1) the aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture; 
  
 (2) the issue price, the issue date and the CUSIP number and any corresponding ISIN of such Additional Notes; provided, however, that no
Additional Notes may be issued at a price that would cause such Additional Notes to have “original issue discount” within the meaning of Section 1273 of the Code; and 
  
 (3) whether such Additional Notes shall be Transfer Restricted Securities and issued in the form of Initial
Notes as set forth in Exhibit 1 to the Appendix to this Indenture or shall be issued in the form of Exchange Notes as set forth in Exhibit A to the Appendix. 
  
 ARTICLE 3 
 REDEMPTION AND PREPAYMENT

  
 Section 3.01. Notices to Trustee. 
  
 If the Issuers elect to redeem Notes pursuant to the optional redemption
provisions of Section 3.07 hereof, they shall furnish to the Trustee, at least five Business Days (unless a shorter period shall be agreeable to the Trustee) before the date of giving notice of the redemption pursuant to Section 3.03, an
Officers’ Certificate setting forth (i) the clause of Section 3.07 pursuant to which the redemption shall occur, (ii) the redemption date, (iii) the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed, (iv) the redemption price, and (v) whether it
requests the Trustee to give notice of such redemption. Any such notice may be cancelled at any time prior to the mailing of notice of such redemption to any Holder and shall thereby be void and of no effect. 
  
 Section 3.02. Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed. 
  
 If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed at any time, the Trustee
shall select the Notes to be redeemed among the Holders of the Notes as follows: (1) if the Notes are listed on any national securities exchange, in compliance with the requirements of the principal national securities exchange on which the Notes
are listed; or (2) if the Notes are not listed on any national securities exchange, on a pro rata basis. In the event of partial redemption other than on a pro rata basis, the particular Notes to be redeemed shall be selected, not less than five (5)
Business Days (unless a shorter period shall be agreeable to the Trustee) prior to the giving of notice of the redemption pursuant to Section 3.03, by the Trustee from the outstanding Notes not previously called for redemption. 
  
 The Trustee shall promptly notify the Issuers in writing of the Notes
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Note selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. Notes and portions of Notes selected shall be in amounts of $1,000 or whole multiples of $1,000; except that if all of
the Notes of a Holder are to be redeemed, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held by such Holder, even if not a multiple of $1,000, shall be redeemed. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for redemption also apply to portions
of Notes called for redemption. 
  

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 The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs of this Section 3.02 shall not apply with respect to any
redemption affecting only a Global Note, whether such Global Note is to be redeemed in whole or in part. In case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Global Note shall be in an authorized
denomination. 
  
 Section 3.03. Notice of Redemption. 
  
 Subject to the provisions of Section 3.09 hereof, at least 30 days but not
more than 60 days before a redemption date, except that redemption notices may be mailed more than 60 days prior to a redemption date if the notice is issued in connection with a Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or Discharge, the Issuers shall
mail or cause to be mailed, by first class mail, a notice of redemption to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. 
  
 The notice shall identify the Notes to be redeemed and shall state: 
  
 (a) the redemption date; 
  
 (b) the redemption price; 
  
 (c) if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed
and that, after the redemption date upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in a principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion shall be issued in the name of the Holder upon cancellation of the original Note; 
  
 (d) the name and address of the Paying Agent; 
  
 (e) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to
the Paying Agent to collect the redemption price; 
  
 (f) that, unless the Issuers default in making such redemption payment, interest and Additional Interest, if any, on Notes called for redemption cease to accrue on and after the redemption date and the only remaining right of the Holders of
such Notes is to receive payment of the redemption price upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed; 
  
 (g) the paragraph of the Notes and/or Section of this Indenture pursuant to which the Notes called for redemption are being redeemed; and

  
 (h) that no representation is made as to the
correctness or accuracy of the CUSIP or ISIN number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the Notes. 
  
 If any of the Notes to be redeemed is in the form of a Global Note, then the Issuers shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the
procedures of the Depository applicable to redemption. 
  

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 At the Issuers’ request, the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Issuers’ names
and at their expense; provided, however, that the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee, as provided in Section 3.01, an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the Trustee give such notice and setting forth the information to be stated in
such notice as provided in the second preceding paragraph. 
  
 Section 3.04.
Effect of Notice of Redemption. 
  
 Once notice of redemption is
mailed in accordance with Section 3.03 hereof, Notes called for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption date at the redemption price. A notice of redemption may not be conditional. If mailed in the manner provided for in
Section 3.03, the notice of redemption shall be conclusively presumed to have been given whether or not a Holder receives such notice. Failure to give timely notice or any defect in the notice shall not affect the validity of the redemption.

  
 Section 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. 
  
 Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the redemption date, the Issuers
shall deposit with the Paying Agent (or, if the Company or a Subsidiary thereof is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 2.04 hereof) money sufficient in same day funds to pay the redemption price of and
accrued interest and Additional Interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed on that date. The Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Issuers any money deposited with the Paying Agent by an Issuer in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the
redemption price of and accrued interest and Additional Interest, if any, on all Notes to be redeemed. 
  
 If the Issuers comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, on and after the redemption date, interest and Additional Interest, if any, shall
cease to accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption whether or not such Notes are presented for payment, and the only remaining right of the Holders of such Notes shall be to receive payment of the redemption price upon
surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed. If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of an Issuer to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall be paid on the
unpaid principal, from the redemption date until such principal is paid, and to the extent lawful, on any interest and Additional Interest, if any, not paid on such unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01
hereof. 
  
 Section 3.06. Notes Redeemed in Part. 
  
 Upon surrender of a Note that is redeemed in part, the Issuers shall issue
in the name of the Holder and the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder at the expense of the Issuers a new Note equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note surrendered. 
  
 Section 3.07. Optional Redemption. 
  
 (a) Except as set forth in clause (b) of this Section 3.07, the Issuers
shall not have the option to redeem the Notes pursuant to this Section 3.07 prior to December 15, 2009. On or after December 15, 2009, the Issuers shall have the option to redeem the Notes, in whole or in part at any time, at the redemption prices
(expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth 
  

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 below, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date, if redeemed
during the twelve-month period beginning on December 15 of the years indicated below: 
  

			
	 YEAR

	  	PERCENTAGE

	 2009
	  	103.438%
	 2010
	  	102.292%
	 2011
	  	101.146%
	 2012 and thereafter
	  	100.000%

  
 (b) Notwithstanding
the provisions of clause (a) of this Section 3.07, at any time on or prior to December 15, 2007, the Issuers may on one or more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under this
Indenture at a redemption price of 106.875% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the redemption date, with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings, provided that:

  
 (1) at least 65% of the aggregate principal
amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under this Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (excluding any Notes held by the Company and its Subsidiaries); and 
  
 (2) each such redemption occurs within 120 days of the date
of the closing of each such Equity Offering. 
  
 (c) Any
redemption pursuant to this Section 3.07 shall be made pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01 through Section 3.06 hereof. 
  
 Section 3.08. Mandatory Redemption. 
  
 Except as set forth under Sections 4.10 and 4.15 hereof, neither of the Issuers shall be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments
with respect to the Notes or to repurchase the Notes at the option of the Holders. 
  
 Section 3.09. Offer to Purchase by Application of Excess Proceeds. 
  
 In the event that, pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof, the Company shall be required to commence an offer to all Holders to purchase Notes (an “Asset Sale Offer”), it shall follow the procedures specified
below. 
  
 The Asset Sale Offer shall remain open for a period of
20 Business Days following its commencement and no longer, except to the extent that a longer period is required by Applicable Law (the “Offer Period”). No later than five Business Days after the termination of the Offer Period (the
“Settlement Date”), the Company shall purchase and pay for the principal amount of Notes required to be purchased pursuant to Section 4.10 hereof (the “Offer Amount”) or, if less than the Offer Amount has been tendered, all Notes
validly tendered in response to the Asset Sale Offer. Payment for any Notes so purchased shall be made in the manner prescribed in the Notes. 
  

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 Upon the commencement of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company shall send, by first class mail, a notice to
each of the Holders, with a copy to the Trustee. The notice shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer. The Asset Sale Offer shall be made to all Holders. The
notice, which shall govern the terms of the Asset Sale Offer, shall state: 
  
 (a) that the Asset Sale Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 3.09 and Section 4.10 hereof and the length of time the Asset Sale Offer shall remain open, including the time and date the Asset Sale Offer will
terminate (the “Termination Date”); 
  
 (b) the Offer Amount and the purchase price; 
  
 (c) that any Note not tendered or accepted for payment shall continue to accrue interest and Additional Interest, if any; 
  
 (d) that, unless the Company defaults in making such payment, any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer shall cease
to accrue interest and Additional Interest, if any, after the Settlement Date; 
  
 (e) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer may only elect to have all of such Note purchased and
may not elect to have only a portion of such Note purchased; 
  
 (f) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to any Asset Sale Offer shall be required to surrender the Note, with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the
Note completed, to the Company or a Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice, before the Termination Date; 
  
 (g) that Holders shall be entitled to withdraw their election if the Company or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives, prior to
the Termination Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Note the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to have
such Note purchased; 
  
 (h) that, if the
aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by Holders, and Pari Passu Indebtedness surrendered by holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount the Company is required to repurchase, the Trustee shall select the Notes and Pari Passu
Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of tendered Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness (with such adjustments as may be deemed appropriate by the Trustee so that only Notes in denominations of
$1,000, or integral multiples thereof, shall be purchased); and 
  
 (i) that Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part shall be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered (or transferred by book-entry transfer). 
  
 If any of the Notes subject to an Asset Sale Offer is in the form of a Global
Note, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the procedures of the Depository applicable to repurchases. 
  

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 Promptly after the Termination Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful, accept for payment Notes or
portions thereof tendered pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer in the aggregate principal amount required by Section 4.10 hereof, and prior to the Settlement Date it shall deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Notes or
portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in accordance with the terms of this Section 3.09 and Section 4.10. Prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Settlement Date, the Company or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, shall
mail or deliver to each tendering Holder an amount equal to the purchase price of the Notes tendered by such Holder and accepted by the Company for purchase, and the Company shall issue a new Note, and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail or
deliver such new Note to such Holder, in a principal amount equal to any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered. Any Note not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the Holder thereof. The Company shall publicly
announce the results of the Asset Sale Offer on or before the Settlement Date. 
  
 ARTICLE 4 
 COVENANTS 
  

Section 4.01. Payment of Notes. 
  
 The Issuers shall pay or cause to be paid the principal of, premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest, if any, on the Notes on the dates and in
the manner provided in the Notes. Principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest, if any, shall be considered paid on the date due if the Paying Agent, if other than the Company or a Subsidiary thereof, holds as of 11:00 a.m., New York
City time, on the due date money deposited by an Issuer or a Guarantor in immediately available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay all principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest, if any, then due. 
  
 The Issuers shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any
proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal at the rate equal to the interest rate on the Notes to the extent lawful; and they shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue
installments of interest and Additional Interest, if any (without regard to any applicable grace period), at the same rate to the extent lawful. 
  
 Section 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. 
  
 The Issuers shall maintain an office or agency (which may be an office of the Trustee or an affiliate of the Trustee) where Notes may be presented or
surrendered for payment, where Notes may be surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Issuers in respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Issuers shall give prompt written
notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Issuers shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee. 
  
 The Issuers may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such
purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations. Further, if at any time there shall be no such office or agency in the City of New York where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment, 
  

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 the Issuers shall forthwith designate and maintain such an office or agency in the City of New York, in order that the
Notes shall at all times be payable in the City of New York. The Issuers shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. 
  
 The Issuers hereby designate the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as one
such office or agency of the Company in accordance with Section 2.03. 
  
 Section
4.03. Reports. 
  
 (a) Notwithstanding that the Company may not
be subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company will file with the SEC (unless the SEC will not accept such a filing) for public availability within the time
periods specified in the SEC’s rules and regulations under the Exchange Act and, within five Business Days of filing, or attempting to file, the same with the SEC, furnish to the Trustee and, upon its prior request, to any of the Holders or
Beneficial Owners of the Notes: 
  
 (1) all
quarterly and annual financial and other information with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries that would be required to be contained in a filing with the SEC on Forms 10-Q and 10-K if the Company were required to file such forms, including a
“Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and, with respect to the annual information only, a report thereon by the Company’s certified independent accountants; and 
  
 (2) all current reports that would be required to be filed
with the SEC on Form 8-K if the Company were required to file such reports. 
  
 The Company shall at all times comply with TIA § 314(a). 
  
 (b) The Company and the Guarantors shall furnish to the Holders and Beneficial Owners of the Notes, prospective purchasers of the Notes and securities analysts, upon their request, the information, if any, required to be delivered pursuant
to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act. 
  
 (c) If the
Company has designated any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries, then the quarterly and annual financial information required by paragraph (a) of this Section 4.03 shall include a reasonably detailed presentation, either on the face of
the financial statements or in the footnotes to the financial statements and in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, of the financial condition and results of operations of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries separate from the financial condition and results of operations of the Unrestricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 (d) Delivery of reports, information and documents to the Trustee under this Section is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s receipt of
the foregoing shall not constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or determinable from information contained therein. 
  

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 Section 4.04. Compliance Certificate. 
  
 (a) The Issuers shall deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, an Officers’
Certificate stating that a review of the activities of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept,
observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture, and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of his or her knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and
every covenant contained in this Indenture and is not in default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (or, if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred, describing all such
Defaults or Events of Default of which he or she may have knowledge and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto) and that to the best of his or her knowledge no event has occurred and remains in existence by reason
of which payments of interest on the Notes are prohibited or if such event has occurred, a description of the event and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 
  
 (b) [Reserved]. 
  
 (c) The Issuers shall, so long as any of the Notes are outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, forthwith upon any of their
respective Officers becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default, an Officers’ Certificate specifying such Default or Event of Default and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. 
  
 Section 4.05. Taxes. 
  
 The Company shall pay, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes,
assessments, and governmental levies except such as are contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings or where the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes. 
  
 Section 4.06. Stay, Extension and Usury Laws. 
  
 Each of the Issuers and each of the Guarantors covenants (to the extent that
it may lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, that may affect
the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each Issuer (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any such law, hinder,
delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but shall suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law has been enacted. 
  
 Section 4.07. Limitation on Restricted Payments. 
  

The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly: 
  
 (1) declare or pay any dividend or make any other payment or
distribution on account of the Company’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity Interests or to the 
  

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 direct or indirect holders of the Company’s or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries’ Equity
Interests in their capacity as such (other than dividends or distributions payable in Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company or payable to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company); 
  
 (2) purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for
value (including, without limitation, in connection with any merger or consolidation involving the Company) any Equity Interests of the Company or any direct or indirect parent of the Company; 
  
 (3) make any payment on or with respect to, or purchase,
redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Indebtedness that is subordinated to the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees, except a payment of interest or principal at the Stated Maturity thereof; or 
  
 (4) make any Restricted Investment (all such payments and
other actions set forth in these clauses (1) through (4) above being collectively referred to as “Restricted Payments”), 
  
 unless, at the time of and after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would occur as a consequence
of such Restricted Payment and either: 
  
 (1) if
the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment is not less than 1.75 to 1.0, such Restricted Payment,
together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (2), (3), (4) and (5) of the next succeeding paragraph) with respect to the
quarter for which such Restricted Payment is made, is less than the sum, without duplication, is less than the sum, without duplication, of: 
  
 (a) Available Cash from Operating Surplus with respect to the Company’s preceding fiscal quarter, plus 
  
 (b) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds received by the
Company (including the fair market value of any Permitted Business or long-term assets that are used or useful in a Permitted Business to the extent acquired in consideration of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock)) after
the date of this Indenture as a contribution to its common equity capital or from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock) or from the issue or sale of convertible or exchangeable Disqualified Stock or
convertible or exchangeable debt securities of the Company that have been converted into or exchanged for such Equity Interests (other than Equity Interests (or Disqualified Stock or debt securities) sold to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company),
plus 
  
 (c) to the extent that any Restricted
Investment that was made after the date of this Indenture is sold for cash or otherwise liquidated or repaid for cash, the lesser of (i) the cash return of capital with respect to such Restricted Investment (less the cost of disposition, if any) and
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 (d) the net reduction in Restricted Investments resulting from dividends, repayments of
loans or advances, or other transfers of assets in each case to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from any Person (including, without limitation, Unrestricted Subsidiaries) or from redesignations of Unrestricted Subsidiaries as
Restricted Subsidiaries, to the extent such amounts have not been included in Available Cash from Operating Surplus for any period commending on or after the date of the indenture (items (b), (c) and (d) being referred to as “Incremental
Funds”), minus 
  
 (e) the aggregate amount
of Incremental Funds previously expended pursuant to this clause (1) and clause (2) below; or 
  
 (2) if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial
statements are available at the time of such Restricted Payment is less than 1.75 to 1.00, such Restricted Payment, together with the aggregate amount of all other Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (excluding
Restricted Payments permitted by clauses (2), (3), (4) and (5) of the next succeeding paragraph) with respect to the quarter for which such Restricted Payment is made (such Restricted Payments for purposes of this clause (2) meaning only
distributions on limited partnership interests of the Company, plus the related distribution on the general partner interest and any distributions made with respect to incentive distribution rights), is less than the sum, without duplication, of:

  
 (a) $75 million less the aggregate amount of
all Restricted Payments made by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to this clause (2)(a) during the period ending on the last day of the fiscal quarter immediately preceding the date of such Restricted Payment and beginning on the
date of this Indenture, plus 
  
 (b) Incremental
Funds to the extent not previously expended pursuant to this clause (2) or clause (1) above. 
  
 So long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would be caused thereby (except with respect to clause (1) below under which the payment of a distribution or dividend is permitted), the
preceding provisions will not prohibit: 
  
 (1)
the payment of any dividend or distribution within 60 days after the date of its declaration, if at the date of declaration the payment would have complied with the provisions of this Indenture; 
  
 (2) the redemption, repurchase, retirement, defeasance or
other acquisition of any subordinated Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor or of any Equity Interests of the Company in exchange for, or out of the net cash proceeds of the substantially concurrent (a) contribution (other than from a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) to the equity capital of the Company or (b) sale (other than to a Restricted 
  

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 Subsidiary of the Company) of, Equity Interests of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock), with a
sale being deemed substantially concurrent if such redemption, repurchase, retirement, defeasance or acquisition occurs not more than 120 days after such sale; provided, however, that the amount of any such net cash proceeds that are utilized for
any such redemption, repurchase, retirement, defeasance or other acquisition will be excluded or deducted from the calculation of Available Cash from Operating Surplus and Incremental Funds; 
  
 (3) the defeasance, redemption, repurchase, retirement or
other acquisition of subordinated Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor with the net cash proceeds from an incurrence of, or in exchange for, Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness; 
  
 (4) the payment of any dividend or distribution by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the holders of
its Equity Interests on a pro rata basis; or 
  
 (5) the repurchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of any Equity Interests of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to any director or employee equity subscription agreement or equity
option agreement or other employee benefit plan or to satisfy obligations under any Equity Interests appreciation rights or option plan or similar arrangement; provided that the aggregate price paid for all such repurchased, redeemed, acquired or
retired Equity Interests may not exceed $2.0 million in any calendar year. 
  
 The amount of all Restricted Payments (other than cash) will be the fair market value on the date of the Restricted Payment of the asset(s) or securities proposed to be transferred or issued by the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, pursuant to the Restricted Payment. The fair market value of any assets or securities that are required to be valued by this covenant will be determined, in the case of amounts under $5.0 million, by an
officer of the Managing General Partner and, in the case of amounts over $5.0 million, by the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner, whose determination shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution. Not later than the date of making any
Restricted Payment (excluding any Restricted Payment described in the preceding clause (2), (3), (4) or (5)) the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that such Restricted Payment is permitted and setting forth
the basis upon which the calculations required by this Section 4.07 were computed. For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.07, in the event that a Restricted Payment meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of
Restricted Payments described in the preceding clauses (1) – (5), the Company will be permitted to classify (or later classify or reclassify in whole or in part in its sole discretion) such Restricted Payment in any manner that complies with
this Section 4.07. 
  
 Section 4.08. Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment
Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries. 
  
 The Company will not,
and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary to: 
  
 (1) pay dividends or make any other distributions on its
Capital Stock to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or pay any Indebtedness or other obligations owed to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; 
  

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 (2) make loans or advances to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; or

  
 (3) transfer any of its properties or assets
to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 However,
the preceding restrictions of this Section 4.08 will not apply to encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of: 
  
 (1) agreements as in effect on the date of this Indenture and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases,
supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of those agreements or the Indebtedness to which they relate, provided that the amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases, supplements, refundings, replacement or refinancings
are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, with respect to such dividend, distribution and other payment restrictions than those contained in those agreements on the date of this Indenture; 
  
 (2) this Indenture, the Notes and the Subsidiary Guarantees;

  
 (3) Applicable Law; 
  
 (4) any instrument governing Indebtedness or Capital Stock
of a Person acquired by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as in effect at the time of such acquisition, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the
Person, or the property or assets of the Person, so acquired, provided that, in the case of Indebtedness, such Indebtedness was otherwise permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be incurred; 
  
 (5) customary non-assignment provisions in Hydrocarbon
purchase and sale or exchange agreements or similar operational agreements or in licenses or leases, in each case entered into in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices; 
  
 (6) Capital Lease Obligations, mortgage financings or
purchase money obligations, in each case for property acquired in the ordinary course of business that impose restrictions on that property of the nature described in clause (3) of the preceding paragraph; 
  
 (7) any agreement for the sale or other disposition of a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that restricts distributions by that Restricted Subsidiary pending its sale or other disposition; 
  
 (8) Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness, provided that the restrictions contained in the agreements governing such Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness are not materially more restrictive, taken as a whole, than those contained in the agreements governing the Indebtedness being refinanced; 
  
 (9) Liens securing Indebtedness otherwise permitted to be incurred under the provisions of Section 4.12 that limit the right of the debtor
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 (10) provisions with respect to the disposition or distribution of assets or property in
joint venture agreements, asset sale agreements, stock sale agreements and other similar agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business; 
  
 (11) any agreement or instrument relating to any property or assets acquired after the date of this Indenture, so long as such encumbrance
or restriction relates only to the property or assets so acquired and is not and was not created in anticipation of such acquisitions; 
  
 (12) restrictions on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in the ordinary course of
business; and 
  
 (13) any instrument governing
Indebtedness of an FERC Subsidiary, provided that such Indebtedness was otherwise permitted by the terms of this Indenture to be incurred. 
  
 Section 4.09. Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of Preferred Stock. 
  
 The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur,
issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to (collectively, “incur”) any Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt), the Company will not issue any Disqualified Stock,
and the Company will not permit any of its or its Restricted Subsidiaries Restricted Subsidiaries to issue any preferred securities; provided, however, that the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may incur Indebtedness (including
Acquired Debt) or issue Disqualified Stock, if the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio for the Company’s most recently ended four full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are available immediately preceding the date on which such
additional Indebtedness is incurred or such Disqualified Stock is issued would have been at least 2.0 to 1.0, determined on a pro forma basis (including a pro forma application of the net proceeds therefrom), as if the additional Indebtedness had
been incurred or Disqualified Stock had been issued, as the case may be, at the beginning of such four-quarter period. 
  
 The first paragraph of this Section 4.09 will not prohibit the incurrence of any of the following items of Indebtedness (collectively, “Permitted
Debt”) or the issuance of any preferred securities described in clause (10) below: 
  
 (1) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of additional Indebtedness (including letters of credit) under one
or more Credit Facilities in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding under this clause (1) (with letters of credit being deemed to have a principal amount equal to the maximum potential liability of the Company and its Subsidiaries
thereunder) not to exceed the greater of (a) $325.0 million or (b) 20% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible Assets; 
  
 (2) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of the Existing Indebtedness; 
  
 (3) the incurrence by the Company and the Guarantors of
Indebtedness represented by the Notes issued and sold on the Initial Issuance Date and the related Subsidiary Guarantees issued on the date of this Indenture and the Exchange Notes and the related Subsidiary Guarantees issued pursuant to any
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 (4) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness
represented by Capital Lease Obligations, mortgage financings or purchase money obligations, in each case, incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of construction or improvement of property, plant or
equipment used in the business of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, in an aggregate principal amount, including all Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred to refund, refinance or replace any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this
clause (4), not to exceed $15.0 million at any time outstanding; 
  
 (5) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to refund, refinance or replace Indebtedness that
was permitted by this Indenture to be incurred under the first paragraph of this Section 4.09 or clause (2) or (3) of this paragraph or this clause (5); 
  
 (6) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Company and any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that: 
  
 (a) if the Company is the obligor on such Indebtedness and a Guarantor is not the obligee, such Indebtedness must be expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations with respect to the
Notes, or if a Guarantor is the obligor on such Indebtedness and neither the Company nor another Guarantor is the obligee, such Indebtedness must be expressly subordinated to the prior payment in full in cash of all Obligations with respect to the
Subsidiary Guarantee of such Guarantor; and 
  
 (b) (i) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Equity Interests that results in any such Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and (ii) any sale or other transfer of any such
Indebtedness to a Person that is neither the Company nor a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company will be deemed, in each case, to constitute an incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, that was
not permitted by this clause (6); 
  
 (7) the
incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Hedging Obligations; 
  
 (8) the guarantee by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries that was permitted to be incurred by another provision of this Section 4.09; 
  
 (9) the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of Indebtedness in respect of bid, performance, surety and similar
bonds issued for the account of the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, including guarantees and obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to letters of credit
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 (10) the issuance by any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries to the Company or
to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any preferred securities; provided, however, that: 
  
 (a) any subsequent issuance or transfer of Equity Interests that results in any such preferred securities being held by a Person other
than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; and 
  
 (b) any sale or other transfer of any such preferred securities to a Person that is not either the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company 
  
 shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute an issuance of such preferred securities by such Restricted Subsidiary that was
not permitted by this clause (10); and 
  
 (11)
the incurrence by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (a) $25.0 million or (b) 5% of the Company’s Consolidated Net
Tangible Assets. 
  
 For purposes of determining compliance with
this Section 4.09, in the event that an item of Indebtedness (including Acquired Debt) meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Permitted Debt described in clauses (1) through (11) above, or is entitled to be incurred pursuant to the
first paragraph of this Section 4.09, the Company will be permitted to classify (or later classify or reclassify in whole or in part in its sole discretion) such item of Indebtedness in any manner that complies with this covenant. Any Indebtedness
under Credit Facilities on the date of this Indenture shall be considered incurred under the first paragraph of this Section 4.09. 
  
 The accrual of interest, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of interest on any Indebtedness in the form of additional
Indebtedness with the same terms, and the payment of dividends on Disqualified Stock in the form of additional shares of the same class of Disqualified Stock will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness or an issuance of Disqualified Stock
for purposes of this Section 4.09; provided, in each such case, that the amount thereof is included in Fixed Charges of the Company as accrued. 
  
 Section 4.10. Limitation on Asset Sales. 
  
 The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless: 
  
 (1) the Company (or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case
may be) receives consideration at the time of the Asset Sale at least equal to the fair market value of the assets or Equity Interests issued or sold or otherwise disposed of; 
  
 (2) the fair market value is determined by (a) an executive officer of the Managing General Partner if the
value is less than $15.0 million and evidenced by a Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, or (b) the Managing General Partner’s Board of Directors if the value is $15.0 million or more and evidenced by a resolution of the Board
of Directors set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee; and 
  

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 (3) at least 75% of the consideration received in the Asset Sale by the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary is in the form of cash. For purposes of this provision, each of the following will be deemed to be cash: 
  
 (a) any liabilities, as shown on the Company’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet, of the Company or any
Subsidiary (other than contingent liabilities and liabilities that are by their terms subordinated to the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee) that are assumed by the transferee of any such assets pursuant to a customary novation agreement that
releases the Company or such Subsidiary from further liability; and 
  
 (b) any securities, notes or other obligations received by the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary from such transferee that are, within 90 days after the Asset Sale, converted by the Company or such Subsidiary
into cash, to the extent of the cash received in that conversion. 
  
 Within 360 days after the receipt of any Net Proceeds from an Asset Sale, the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary may apply those Net Proceeds at its option to any combination of the following: 
  
 (I) to repay Senior Debt; 
  
 (II) to acquire all or substantially all of the properties or assets of a
Person primarily engaged in a Permitted Business; 
  
 (III) to
acquire a majority of the Voting Stock of a Person primarily engaged a Permitted Business; 
  
 (IV) to make capital expenditures; or 
  
 (V) to acquire other long-term assets that are used or useful in a Permitted Business. 
  
 Pending the final application of any Net Proceeds, the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary may invest the Net Proceeds in any manner that is not
prohibited by this Indenture. Any Net Proceeds from Asset Sales that are not applied or invested as provided in the preceding paragraph will constitute “Excess Proceeds.” 
  
 On the 361st day after the Asset Sale (or, at the Company’s option, any earlier date), if the aggregate amount of
Excess Proceeds then exceeds $20.0 million, the Company will make an Asset Sale Offer to all Holders of Notes, and to all holders of Pari Passu Indebtedness then outstanding, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and such Pari Passu
Indebtedness that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds. The offer price in any Asset Sale Offer will be equal to 100% of principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the Settlement Date, subject to the right of Holders of
record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the Settlement Date, and will be payable in cash. If any Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale 
  

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 Offer, the Company may use those Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by this Indenture. If the
aggregate principal amount of Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness tendered into such Asset Sale Offer exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee will select the Notes and such Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis. Upon
completion of each Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Excess Proceeds will be reset at zero. 
  
 The Company will comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent those laws and regulations are applicable in connection with
each repurchase of Notes pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 4.10, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and
regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its obligations under such provisions by virtue of such conflict. 
  
 Section 4.11. Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates. 
  
 The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, make any payment to, or sell, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any
of its properties or assets to, or purchase any property or assets from, or enter into or make or amend any transaction, contract, agreement, understanding, loan, advance or guarantee with, or for the benefit of, any Affiliate (each, an
“Affiliate Transaction”), unless: 
  
 (1) the Affiliate Transaction is on terms that are no less favorable to the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary than those that would have been obtained in a comparable transaction by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with
an unrelated Person; and 
  
 (2) the Company
delivers to the Trustee: 
  
 (a) with respect to
any Affiliate Transaction or series of related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $15.0 million, a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner set forth in an Officers’ Certificate
certifying that such Affiliate Transaction complies with this Section 4.11 and that such Affiliate Transaction has been approved by a majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors; and 
  
 (b) with respect to any Affiliate Transaction or series of
related Affiliate Transactions involving aggregate consideration in excess of $25.0 million, a written opinion as to the fairness to the Holders of such Affiliate Transaction from a financial point of view issued by an accounting, appraisal or
investment banking firm of national standing. 
  
 The following
items will not be deemed to be Affiliate Transactions and, therefore, will not be subject to the provisions of the prior paragraph of this Section 4.11: 
  
 (1) any employment equity award, equity option or equity appreciation agreement or plan entered into by the Company or any of its
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 (2) transactions between or among any of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

  
 (3) transactions with a Person that is an
Affiliate of the Company solely because the Company owns an Equity Interest in such Person; 
  
 (4) transactions permitted by the terms of (a) the Partnership Agreement with respect to accounting, treasury, information technology,
insurance and other corporate services, general overhead and other administrative matters and (b) any other agreements with Inergy Holdings and its Subsidiaries that are identified in Annex C to this Indenture, in each case as such agreements are in
effect on the date of this Indenture, and any amendment or replacement of any of such agreements so long as such amendment or replacement agreement is no less advantageous to the Company in any material respect than the agreement so amended or
replaced; 
  
 (5) customary compensation,
indemnification and other benefits made available to officers, directors or employees of the Company, a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or the Managing General Partner, including reimbursement or advancement of out-of-pocket expenses and
provisions of officers’ and directors’ liability insurance; 
  
 (6) sales of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Stock) to Affiliates of the Company; 
  
 (7) Restricted Payments that are permitted by Section 4.07; and 
  
 (8) transactions effected in accordance with the terms of the leases with Robert A. Pascal and his
Affiliates that are identified in Annex D to this Indenture, in each case as such leases are in effect on the date of this Indenture, and any amendment or extension of any of such leases so long as such amendment or extension agreement is no less
advantageous to the Company in any material respect than the lease so amended or extended. 
  
 Section 4.12. Limitation on Liens. 
  
 The Company will not and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, create, incur, assume or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any Lien of any kind (other than Permitted Liens) securing Indebtedness or
Attributable Debt upon any of their property or assets, now owned or hereafter acquired, unless the Notes or any Subsidiary Guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, is secured on an equal and ratable basis (or on a senior basis to, in
the case of obligations subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or such Subsidiary Guarantee, as the case may be) with the obligations so secured until such time as such obligations are no longer secured by a Lien. 
  
 Section 4.13. Additional Subsidiary Guarantees. 
  
 If, after the date of this Indenture, any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company that is not already a Guarantor guarantees any other Indebtedness of either of the Issuers or any Indebtedness of the Operating Company, or the Operating Company, if not then a Guarantor, guarantees any other Indebtedness of either of the
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 of the Credit Facilities, then in either case that Subsidiary will become a Guarantor by executing a supplemental
indenture substantially in the form of Annex A hereto and delivering it to the Trustee within ten Business Days of the date on which it guaranteed or incurred such Indebtedness, as the case may be, together with any Officers’ Certificate or
Opinion of Counsel required by Section 9.06; provided, however, that the preceding shall not apply to Subsidiaries of the Company that have properly been designated as Unrestricted Subsidiaries in accordance with this Indenture for so long as they
continue to constitute Unrestricted Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding the preceding, any Guarantee of a Restricted Subsidiary that was incurred pursuant to this Section 4.13 as a result of a guarantee of any Indebtedness shall provide by its terms that
it shall be automatically and unconditionally released upon the release or discharge of the guarantee or repayment of the Indebtedness that resulted in the creation of such Restricted Subsidiary’s Guarantee, except a discharge or release by, or
as a result of payment under, such Guarantee. 
  
 Section 4.14. Corporate
Existence. 
  
 Except as otherwise permitted pursuant to the
terms hereof (including consolidation and merger permitted by Section 5.01), the Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence, and the corporate, partnership or other
existence of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in accordance with the respective organizational documents (as the same may be amended from time to time) of the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that the Company shall
not be required to preserve the existence of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (except Finance Corp.) if the Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole and that the loss thereof is not adverse in any material respect to the Holders of the Notes. 
  
 Section 4.15. Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control. 
  
 (1) Within 30 days following the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of Control
Offer”) to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of each Holder’s Notes at a purchase price (the “Change of Control Payment”) in cash equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes
repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, thereon to the date of settlement (the “Change of Control Settlement Date”), subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive
interest due on an interest payment date that is on or prior to the Change of Control Settlement Date. Within 30 days following a Change of Control, the Company shall mail a notice of the Change of Control Offer to each Holder and the Trustee
describing the transaction that constitutes the Change of Control and stating: 
  
 (a) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 4.15 and that all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn
will be accepted for payment; 
  
 (b) the
purchase price and the purchase date, which shall be no earlier than 30 days but no later than 60 days from the date such notice is mailed (the “Change of Control Purchase Date”); 
  

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 (c) that the Change of Control Offer will expire as of the time specified in such notice
on the Change of Control Purchase Date and that the Company shall pay the Change of Control Purchase Price for all Notes purchased as of the Change of Control Purchase Date promptly thereafter on the Change of Control Settlement Date; 
  
 (d) that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue
interest and Additional Interest, if any; 
  
 (e)
that, unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Payment, all Notes accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest and Additional Interest, if any, after the Change of Control
Settlement Date; 
  
 (f) that Holders electing to
have any Notes purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the Notes, properly endorsed for transfer, together with the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of the Notes
completed and such customary documents as the Company may reasonably request, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior to the termination of the Change of Control Offer on the Change of Control Purchase Date; 
  
 (g) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election
if the Paying Agent receives, prior to the termination of the Change of Control Offer, a telegram, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of Notes delivered for purchase, and a statement that such
Holder is withdrawing its election to have the Notes purchased; and 
  
 (h) that Holders whose Notes are being purchased only in part will be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, which unpurchased portion must be equal to $1,000
in principal amount or an integral multiple thereof. 
  
 If any
of the Notes subject to a Change of Control Offer is in the form of a Global Note, then the Company shall modify such notice to the extent necessary to accord with the procedures of the Depository applicable to repurchases. Further, the Company
shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the repurchase of Notes as a result of a
Change of Control. To the extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with the provisions of this Section 4.15, the Company will comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have
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 (2) On the Change of Control Purchase Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful,
accept for payment all Notes or portions thereof (in integral multiples of $1,000) properly tendered pursuant to the Change of Control Offer. Promptly thereafter on the Change of Control Settlement Date the Company shall: 
  
 (a) deposit with the Paying Agent by 11:00 a.m., New York
City time, an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered; and 
  
 (b) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes so accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating the
aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of Notes being purchased by the Company. 
  
 On the Change of Control Settlement Date, the Paying Agent shall mail to each Holder of Notes properly tendered the Change of Control Payment for such Notes (or, if all the Notes are then in global form, make such
payment through the facilities of the Depository) and the Trustee shall authenticate and mail (or cause to be transferred by book entry) to each Holder a new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered, if any;
provided, however, that each such new Note will be in a principal amount of $1,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000. The Company shall publicly announce the results of the Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of
Control Purchase Date. 
  
 (3) The Change of
Control provisions described above shall be applicable whether or nor any other provisions of this Indenture are applicable. 
  
 (4) Prior to complying with any of the provisions of this Section 4.15, but in any event no later than the Change of Control Purchase
Date, the Company or any Guarantor must either repay all of its other outstanding Senior Debt or obtain the requisite consents, if any, under all agreements governing such Senior Debt to permit the repurchase of Notes required by this Section 4.15.

  
 (5) The Company shall not be required to make
a Change of Control Offer following a Change of Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at the time and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this Indenture applicable to a Change of Control
Offer made by the Company and purchases all Notes properly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of Control Offer. 
  
 Section 4.16. No Inducements. 
  
 The Company shall not, and the Company shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries, either directly or indirectly, to pay (or cause to be paid) any
consideration, whether by way of interest, fee or otherwise, to any Beneficial Owner or Holder of the Notes for or as an inducement to any consent to any waiver, amendment or supplement of any terms or provisions of this Indenture or the Notes,
unless such consideration is offered to be paid (or agreed to be paid) to all Beneficial Owners and Holders of the Notes which so consent in the time frame set forth in the solicitation documents relating to such consent. 
  

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 Section 4.17. Permitted Business Activities. 
  
 The Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, engage in any business other than a Permitted
Business, except to such extent as would not be material to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries taken as a whole. 
  
 Finance Corp. shall not incur Indebtedness unless (1) the Company is a co-obligor or guarantor of such Indebtedness or (2) the net proceeds of such
Indebtedness are loaned to the Company, used to acquire outstanding debt securities issued by the Company or used to repay Indebtedness of the Company as permitted under Section 4.09. Finance Corp. shall not engage in any business not related
directly or indirectly to obtaining money or arranging financing for the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 Section 4.18. Sale and Leaseback Transactions. 
  
 The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction; provided that the Company
or any Guarantor may enter into a Sale and Leaseback Transaction if: 
  
 (1) the Company or that Guarantor, as applicable, could have (a) incurred Indebtedness in an amount equal to the Attributable Debt relating to such sale and leaseback transaction under the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
test in the first paragraph of Section 4.09 and (b) incurred a Lien to secure such Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.12; 
  
 (2) the gross cash proceeds of that Sale and Leaseback Transaction are at least equal to the fair market value, as determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner and set forth in an Officers’ Certificate delivered to the Trustee, of the property that is the subject of that Sale and Leaseback Transaction; and 
  
 (3) the transfer of assets in that Sale and Leaseback
Transaction is permitted by, and the Company applies the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with, Section 4.10. 
  
 Section 4.19. Covenant Termination. 
  
 If at any time (a) the rating assigned to the Notes by either S&P or Moody’s is an Investment Grade Rating and (b) no Default has occurred and is
continuing under this Indenture, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will no longer be subject to the provisions of Sections 3.09, 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 4.11, 4.17, clauses (1)(a) and (3) of Section 4.18, and clause (d) of Section 5.01 of
this Indenture. However, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will remain subject to all of the other provisions of this Indenture. 
  
 Section 4.20. Designation of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries. 
  
 The Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner may designate any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary if that
designation would not cause a Default. If a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, the aggregate fair market value of all outstanding Investments owned by the 
  

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 Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the Subsidiary properly designated will be deemed to be an Investment made as
of the time of the designation and will reduce the amount available for Restricted Payments under the first paragraph of Section 4.07 or represent Permitted Investments, as determined by the Company. That designation shall only be permitted if the
Investment would be permitted at that time and if the Subsidiary so designated otherwise meets the definition of an Unrestricted Subsidiary. 
  
 The Board of Directors of the Managing General Partner may at any time designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
provided that such designation will be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of any outstanding Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary and such designation will only be permitted if (1) such
Indebtedness is permitted under Section 4.09, calculated on a pro forma basis as if such designation had occurred at the beginning of the four-quarter reference period, and (2) no Default or Event of Default would be in existence following such
designation. 
  
 ARTICLE 5 
 SUCCESSORS 
  
 Section 5.01. Merger, Consolidation, or Sale of Assets. 
  
 Neither of the Issuers may, directly or indirectly, (1) consolidate or merge with or into another Person (whether or not such Issuer is the survivor), or (2) sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose
of all or substantially all of its properties or assets in one or more related transactions to another Person, unless: 
  
 (a) either (1) such Issuer is the survivor or (2) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than such
Issuer ) or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made is a Person organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state of the United States or the District of Columbia;
provided, however, that Finance Corp. may not consolidate or merge with or into any Person other than a corporation satisfying such requirement so long as the Company is not a corporation; 
  
 (b) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation
or merger (if other than such Issuer) or the Person to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made assumes all the obligations of such Issuer under the Notes, this Indenture and the applicable
Registration Rights Agreement pursuant to a supplemental indenture or other agreement in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee; 
  
 (c) immediately after such transaction no Default or Event of Default exists; 
  
 (d) in the case of a transaction involving the Company and
not Finance Corp., the Company or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than the Company), or to which such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition shall have been made will, at the
time of such transaction and after giving pro forma effect thereto and any related financing transaction as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter period, be permitted to incur at least $1.00 of additional
Indebtedness pursuant to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio test set forth in the first paragraph of Section 4.09 hereof; and 
  

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 (e) such Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or disposition and such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture. 
  
 Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph of this Section 5.01, the Company may reorganize as any other form of entity in accordance with the following
procedures provided that: 
  
 (1) the
reorganization involves the conversion (by merger, sale, contribution or exchange of assets or otherwise) of the Company into a form of entity other than a limited partnership formed under Delaware law; 
  
 (2) the entity so formed by or resulting from such
reorganization is an entity organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia; 
  
 (3) the entity so formed by or resulting from such reorganization assumes all the obligations of the Company under the Notes, the
Indenture and the applicable Registration Rights Agreement pursuant to agreements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee; 
  
 (4) immediately after such reorganization no Default or Event of Default exists; and 
  
 (5) such reorganization is not materially adverse to the
Holders or Beneficial Owners of the Notes (for purposes of this clause (5) a reorganization will not be considered materially adverse to the Holders or Beneficial Owners of the Notes solely because the successor or survivor of such reorganization
(a) is subject to federal or state income taxation as an entity or (b) is considered to be an “includable corporation” of an affiliated group of corporations with the meaning of Section 1504(b)(i) of the Code or any similar state or local
law). 
  
 Section 5.02. Successor Substituted. 
  
 Upon any consolidation or merger, or any sale, assignment, transfer, lease,
conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of an Issuer in accordance with Section 5.01 hereof, the successor formed by such consolidation or into or with which such Issuer is merged or to which such
sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to, and may exercise every right and power of, such Issuer under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor had been named as such Issuer herein
and shall be substituted for such Issuer (so that from and after the date of such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition, the provisions of this Indenture referring to the “Company” or
“Finance Corp.,” as the case may be, shall refer instead to the successor and not to the Company or Finance Corp., as the case may be); and thereafter, if an Issuer is dissolved following a transfer of all or substantially all of its
properties or assets in accordance with this Indenture, it shall be discharged and released from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Notes. The Trustee shall enter into a supplemental indenture to evidence the succession and
substitution of such successor and such discharge and release of such Issuer. 
  

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 ARTICLE 6 
 DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES 
  
 Section 6.01. Events of
Default. 
  
 An “Event of Default” occurs if one of the
following shall have occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be involuntary or be effected by operation of law): 
  
 (a) an Issuer defaults in the payment when due of interest or Additional Interest, if any, with respect to,
the Notes, and such default continues for a period of 30 days; 
  
 (b) an Issuer defaults in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on the Notes when due at its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise;

  
 (c) the Company fails to comply with the
provisions of Section 3.09, 4.10, 4.15 or 5.01 hereof; 
  
 (d) the Company fails to comply with any other covenant or other agreement in this Indenture or the Notes for 60 days after notice to the Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding of such failure; 
  
 (e) a default
occurs under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is
guaranteed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or guarantee now exists or is created after the Initial Issuance Date, if such default: 
  
 (1) is caused by a failure to pay principal of, or interest or premium, if any, on such Indebtedness prior
to the expiration of any grace period provided in such Indebtedness (a “Payment Default”); or 
  
 (2) results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity 
  
 and, in each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together
with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates $15.0 million or more; provided that if any such default is cured or waived or any
such acceleration rescinded, or such Indebtedness is repaid, within a period of 30 days from the continuation of such default beyond the applicable grace period or the occurrence of such acceleration, as the case may be, such Event of Default and
any consequential acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically rescinded, so long as such rescission does not conflict with any judgment or decree; 
  

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 (f) the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries fails to pay final judgments
aggregating in excess of $15.0 million, which judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed for a period of 60 days; 
  
 (g) except as permitted by this Indenture, any Subsidiary Guarantee is held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or
ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or any Person acting on behalf of any Guarantor, denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee; and 
  
 (h) the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s
Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to or within the meaning of
Bankruptcy Law: 
  
 (1) commences a
voluntary case, 
  
 (2) consents in writing to
the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case, 
  
 (3) consents in writing to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for all or substantially all of its property, 
  
 (4) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or 
  
 (5) admits in writing it generally is not paying its debts as they become due; or 
  
 (i) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or
decree under any Bankruptcy Law that: 
  
 (1) is
for relief against the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a
Significant Subsidiary of the Company in an involuntary case; 
  
 (2) appoints a Custodian of the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that,
taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or for all or substantially all of the property of the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company
or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company, that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company; or 
  

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 (3) orders the liquidation of the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s
Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company; 
  
 and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive
days. 
  
 Section 6.02. Acceleration. 
  
 If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, by notice to
the Issuers, or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, by notice to the Issuers and the Trustee, may declare all the Notes to be due and payable immediately. Upon any such declaration, the Notes shall become
due and payable immediately, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, and premium, if any, thereon. Notwithstanding the preceding, if an Event of Default specified in clause (h) or (i) of Section 6.01 hereof occurs
with respect to the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant
Subsidiary of the Company, all outstanding Notes shall become due and payable without further action or notice, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, Additional Interest, if any, and premium, if any, thereon. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of all of the Holders rescind an acceleration and its consequences if the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree and if all existing Events of
Default (except with respect to nonpayment of principal, interest, premium or Additional Interest, if any, that have become due solely because of the acceleration) have been cured or waived. 
  
 If an Event of Default occurs by reason of any willful action (or inaction)
taken (or not taken) by or on behalf of an Issuer with the intention of avoiding payment of the premium that the Issuers would have had to pay if the Issuers then had elected to redeem the Notes pursuant to Section 3.07(a) hereof, an equivalent
premium shall also become and be immediately due and payable to the extent permitted by law upon the acceleration of the Notes. If an Event of Default occurs prior to December 15, 2009 by reason of any willful action (or inaction) taken (or not
taken) by or on behalf of an Issuer with the intention of avoiding the prohibition on redemption of the Notes prior to that date, then the premium specified in Section 3.07(a) with respect to the first year that the Notes may be redeemed at the
Issuers’ option pursuant to Section 3.07(a) will also become immediately due and payable to the extent permitted by law upon the acceleration of the Notes. 
  
 Section 6.03. Other Remedies. 
  
 If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal of and premium, interest
and Additional Interest, if any, on the Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this Indenture. 
  
 The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission
by the Trustee or any Holder of a Note in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. All remedies are cumulative to the
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 Section 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults. 
  
 Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the
Holders of all of the Notes waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences hereunder, except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or premium, interest or Additional Interest, if any, on the
Notes (including in connection with an offer to purchase). Upon any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver
shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent thereon. 
  
 Section 6.05. Control by Majority. 
  
 Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for exercising any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on it. However, the Trustee
may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture or that the Trustee determines may be unduly prejudicial to the rights of other Holders of Notes or that may involve the Trustee in personal liability. 
  
 Section 6.06. Limitation on Suits. 
  
 A Holder of a Note may pursue a remedy with respect to this Indenture or the
Notes only if: 
  
 (a) the Holder of a Note gives
to the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of Default; 
  
 (b) the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy; 
  
 (c) such Holder of a Note or Holders of Notes offer and, if requested, provide to the Trustee indemnity or
security satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense; 
  
 (d) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 60 days after receipt of the request and the offer and, if requested, the provision of indemnity; and 
  
 (e) during such 60-day period the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes do not give the Trustee a direction inconsistent with the request. 
  
 A Holder of a Note may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder of a Note or to obtain a preference or priority over another Holder of a Note.

  
 Section 6.07. Rights of Holders of Notes to Receive Payment. 
  
 Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of any
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 Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the Note (including in connection with an offer to purchase), or
to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder. 
  

Section 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee. 
  
 If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a) or (b) occurs and is continuing, the Trustee is authorized to recover judgment in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust against the Issuers and the Guarantors for the whole amount of principal of, premium, interest and Additional Interest, if any, remaining unpaid on the Notes and interest on overdue principal and, to the extent lawful,
interest and Additional Interest, if any, and such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel. 
  
 Section 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. 
  
 The Trustee is authorized to file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the Holders of the Notes
allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Issuers (or any other obligor upon the Notes), their creditors or their property and shall be entitled and empowered to collect, receive and distribute any money or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and any custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee, and in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the
Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof. To the extent that the
payment of any such compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07 hereof out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason,
payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and other properties that the Holders may be entitled to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under
any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding. 
  

Section 6.10. Priorities. 
  
 If the Trustee collects any money pursuant to this Article, it shall pay out the money in the following order: 
  
 First: to the Trustee, its agents and attorneys for amounts
due under Section 7.07 hereof, including payment of all compensation, expense and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the Trustee’s costs and expenses of collection; 
  
 Second: to Holders of Notes for amounts due and unpaid on
the Notes for principal, premium, interest and Additional Interest, if any, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal, premium, interest and Additional Interest, if any,
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 Third: to the Issuers or to such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.

  
 The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to Holders of Notes pursuant to this Section 6.10. 
  
 Section 6.11.
Undertaking for Costs. 
  
 In any suit for the enforcement of any
right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the
suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party
litigant. This Section does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder of a Note pursuant to Section 6.07 hereof, or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. 
  
 ARTICLE 7 
 TRUSTEE 
  
 Section 7.01.
Duties of Trustee. 
  
 (a) If an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
his own affairs. 
  
 (b) Except during the continuance of an Event
of Default: 
  
 (i) the duties of the Trustee
shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this Indenture and the Trustee need perform only those duties that are specifically set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
Indenture against the Trustee; and 
  
 (ii) in
the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture. However, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture. 
  
 (c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liabilities for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its
own willful misconduct, except that: 
  
 (i) this
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 (ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a
Responsible Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 
  
 (iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 6.05 hereof. 
  
 (d) Whether or
not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section 7.01. 
  
 (e) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with
an Issuer. Money held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. 
  
 Section 7.02. Rights of Trustee. 
  
 (a) The Trustee may conclusively rely upon any document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The
Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document. 
  
 (b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance on such
Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in respect of any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon. 
  
 (c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due care. 
  
 (d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take
in good faith that it believes to be authorized or within the rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture. 
  
 (e) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request, direction or notice from an Issuer shall be sufficient if signed by an
Officer of such Issuer. 
  
 (f) The Trustee shall be under no
obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders unless such Holder shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against the
costs, expenses and liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction. 
  
 (g) The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance of the Company’s covenants in Article 4 hereof. In addition, the Trustee shall
not be deemed to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except: (1) any Event of Default occurring pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b) hereof; or (2) any Default or Event of Default of which a Responsible Officer shall have received
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 (h) The permissive right of the Trustee to act hereunder shall not be construed as a duty. 
  
 Section 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee. 
  
 The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuers, any Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. However, in the event that the Trustee acquires any conflicting interest (as defined
in the TIA) after a Default has occurred and is continuing, it must eliminate such conflict within 90 days, apply to the SEC for permission to continue as trustee or resign. Any Agent may do the same with like rights and duties. The Trustee is also
subject to Sections 7.10 and 7.11 hereof. 
  
 Section 7.04. Trustee’s
Disclaimer. 
  
 The Trustee shall not be responsible for and
makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, it shall not be accountable for either Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the Notes or any money paid to an Issuer or upon either Issuer’s direction
under any provision of this Indenture, it shall not be responsible for the use or application of any money received by any Paying Agent other than the Trustee, and it shall not be responsible for any statement or recital herein or any statement in
the Notes or any other document in connection with the sale of the Notes or pursuant to this Indenture other than its certificate of authentication. 
  
 Section 7.05. Notice of Defaults. 
  
 If a Default or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to Holders of Notes a notice of the
Default or Event of Default within 90 days after it occurs. Except in the case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or premium, if any, interest or Additional Interest, if any, on any Note, the Trustee may withhold the notice
if and so long as a committee of its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders of the Notes. 
  

Section 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes. 
  
 Within 60 days after each May 15 beginning with the May 15 following the date of this Indenture, and for so long as Notes remain outstanding, the Trustee
shall mail to the Holders of the Notes a brief report dated as of such reporting date that complies with TIA § 313(a) (but if no event described in TIA § 313(a) has occurred within the twelve months preceding the reporting date, no report
need be transmitted). The Trustee also shall comply with TIA § 313(b)(2) and § 313(b)(1). The Trustee shall also transmit by mail all reports as required by TIA § 313(c). 
  
 A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to the Holders of Notes shall be mailed to the Issuers and filed with the
SEC and each stock exchange on which the Notes are listed in accordance with TIA § 313(d). The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange. 
  

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 Section 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity. 
  
 The Issuers shall pay to the Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation as the Issuers and the Trustee may agree
in writing for the Trustee’s acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder. The Trustee’s compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express trust. The Issuers shall reimburse the Trustee promptly
upon request for all reasonable disbursements, advances and expenses incurred or made by it in addition to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee’s
agents and counsel. 
  
 The Issuers and the Guarantors shall
indemnify the Trustee, jointly and severally, against any and all losses, liabilities or expenses incurred by it arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties under this Indenture, including the costs and
expenses of enforcing this Indenture against the Issuers and the Guarantors (including this Section 7.07) and defending itself against any claim (whether asserted by an Issuer, any Guarantor or any Holder or any other Person) or liability in
connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent any such loss, liability or expense may be attributable to its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. The Trustee shall notify the
Issuers and the Guarantors promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the Trustee to so notify the Issuers and the Guarantors shall not relieve the Issuers or the Guarantors of their obligations hereunder. The Issuers and the
Guarantors shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have separate counsel and the Issuers and the Guarantors shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel; provided that the Issuers
and the Guarantors will not be required to pay such fees and expenses if they assume the Trustee’s defense with counsel acceptable to and approved by the Trustee (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld) and there is no conflict of
interest between the Issuers and the Trustee in connection with such defense. The Issuers and the Guarantors need not pay for any settlement made without their consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. Neither the Issuers nor the
Guarantors need reimburse the Trustee for any expense or indemnity against any liability or loss of the Trustee to the extent such expense, liability or loss is attributable to the negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of the Trustee.

  
 The obligations of the Issuers and the Guarantors under this
Section 7.07 shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. 
  
 To secure the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the Trustee shall have a Lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except that
held in trust to pay principal and interest on particular Notes. Such Lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture. 
  
 When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(h) or (i) hereof occurs, the expenses and the
compensation for the services (including the fees and expenses of its agents and counsel) are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law. 
  
 The Trustee shall comply with the provisions of TIA § 313(b)(2) to the extent applicable. 
  

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 Section 7.08. Replacement of Trustee. 
  
 A resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a successor Trustee shall become effective only upon the
successor Trustee’s acceptance of appointment as provided in this Section. 
  
 The Trustee may resign in writing upon 30 days notice at any time and be discharged from the trust hereby created by so notifying the Issuers. The Holders of Notes of a majority in principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee by so notifying the Trustee and the Issuers in writing and may appoint a successor trustee with the consent of the Issuers. The Issuers may remove the Trustee if: 
  
 (a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof;

  
 (b) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an
insolvent or an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under any Bankruptcy Law; 
  
 (c) a receiver, Custodian or public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property; or 
  
 (d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting. 
  
 If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office of
Trustee for any reason, the Issuers shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may appoint a successor Trustee to
replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Issuers. 
  
 If a
successor Trustee does not take office within 30 days after the retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Issuers or the Holders of Notes of at least 10% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee. 
  
 If the Trustee, after written request by any Holder of a Note who has been a Holder of a Note for at least six months, fails to comply with Section 7.10 hereof, such Holder of a Note may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee. 
  
 A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Issuers. Thereupon, the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Holders of the Notes.
The retiring Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the successor Trustee, provided all sums owing to the Trustee hereunder have been paid and subject to the Lien provided for in Section 7.07 hereof. Notwithstanding
replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08, the Issuers’ and the Guarantors’ obligations under Section 7.07 hereof shall continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee. 
  

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 Section 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, etc. 
  
 If the Trustee consolidates, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business
to, another corporation, the successor corporation without any further act shall be the successor Trustee. As soon as practicable, the successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to the Issuers and the Holders of the Notes. 

 
 Section 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification. 
  
 There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder that is a corporation
organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America or of any state thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trustee power, that is subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authorities
and that has a combined capital and surplus of at least $100 million as set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. 
  
 This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the requirements of TIA § 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee is subject to TIA §
310(b). 
  
 Section 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Issuers.

  
 The Trustee is subject to TIA § 311(a), excluding any
creditor relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated therein. 
  
 ARTICLE 8 
 LEGAL
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE 
  
 Section 8.01. Option to Effect Legal
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. 
  
 The Issuers may, at the
option of their respective Boards of Directors evidenced by a resolution set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, at any time, exercise their rights under either Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof with respect to all outstanding Notes upon compliance
with the conditions set forth below in this Article 8. 
  
 Section 8.02. Legal
Defeasance and Discharge. 
  
 Upon the Issuers’ exercise
under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.02, the Issuers shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, be deemed to have discharged their obligations with respect to all
outstanding Notes, and each Guarantor shall be deemed to have discharged its obligations with respect to its Subsidiary Guarantee, on the date the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Legal Defeasance”).
For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Issuers shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the outstanding Notes, and each Guarantor shall be deemed to have paid and discharged its Subsidiary
Guarantee (which in each case shall thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the purposes of Section 8.05 hereof and the other Sections of this Indenture referred to in (a) and (b) below) and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under such Notes or Subsidiary Guarantee and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the Issuers, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except for the following provisions 
  

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 which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to
receive solely from the trust fund described in Section 8.04 hereof, and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest, if any, on such Notes when such payments
are due, (b) the Issuers’ obligations with respect to such Notes under Sections 2.03, 2.04, 2.07, 2.09 and 4.02 hereof and the Appendix, (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Issuers’ and
the Guarantors’ obligations in connection therewith and (d) the Legal Defeasance provisions of this Article 8. Subject to compliance with this Article 8, the Issuers may exercise their option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior
exercise of its option under Section 8.03 hereof. 
  
 If the
Issuers exercise their Legal Defeasance option, each Guarantor will be released and relieved of any obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee, and any security for the Notes (other than the trust) will be released. 
  
 Section 8.03. Covenant Defeasance. 
  
 Upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option
applicable to this Section 8.03, the Issuers shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, be released from their obligations under the covenants contained in Article 4 (other than those in Sections 4.01,
4.02, 4.06 and 4.14) and in clause (d) of Section 5.01 hereof on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Covenant Defeasance”), and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for
the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it
being understood that such Notes shall not be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose, Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the outstanding Notes, the Issuers and any Guarantor may omit to comply with and shall have
no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any
other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.01 hereof, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes shall be
unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Issuers’ exercise under Section 8.01 hereof of the option applicable to this Section 8.03 hereof, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 hereof, Sections 6.01(e) through
6.01(g) hereof shall not constitute Events of Default. 
  
 If the
Issuers exercise their Covenant Defeasance option, each Guarantor will be released and relieved of any obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee and any security for the Notes (other than the trust) will be released. 
  
 Section 8.04. Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance. 
  
 In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance:

  
 (a) the Issuers must irrevocably deposit with
the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally 
  

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 recognized firm of independent public accountants, to pay the principal of and premium, interest and
Additional Interest, if any, on the outstanding Notes on the date of fixed maturity or on the applicable redemption date, as the case may be, and the Issuers must specify whether the Notes are being defeased to the date of fixed maturity or to a
particular redemption date; 
  
 (b) in the case
of an election under Section 8.02 hereof, the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that: 
  
 (1) the Issuers have received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling;
or 
  
 (2) since the Initial Issuance Date, there
has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, 
  
 in either case to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that, the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal
Defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had not occurred; 
  
 (c) in the case of an election under Section 8.03 hereof, the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the Holders of the outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be subject to
federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred; 
  
 (d) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or Event of
Default resulting from the incurrence of Indebtedness or the grant of Liens securing such Indebtedness, all or a portion of the proceeds of which will be used to defease the Notes pursuant to this Article 8 concurrently with such incurrence or
within 30 days thereof) or insofar as Events of Default described in clause (h) or (i) of Section 6.01 are concerned, at any time in the period ending on the 91st day after the day of deposit; 
  
 (e) such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not
result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
bound; 
  
 (f) the Issuers shall have delivered
to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (which may be based on such solvency certificates or solvency opinions as counsel deems necessary or appropriate) to the effect that after the 91st day following the deposit, the trust funds will not be subject
to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally; 
  

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 (g) the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating
that the deposit was not made by the Issuers with the intent of preferring the Holders over any other creditors of the Issuers or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors of the Issuers or others; and 
  
 (h) the Issuers shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for or relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant Defeasance have been complied with. 
  
 Section 8.05. Deposited Money and Government Securities to be Held in Trust; Other
Miscellaneous Provisions. 
  
 Subject to Section 8.06 hereof, all
money and non-callable Government Securities (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 8.04 or 8.08 hereof in respect of the outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance
with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company or any of its Subsidiaries acting as Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes of
all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest, if any, but such money need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. 
  
 The Issuers shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other
charge imposed on or assessed against the cash or non-callable Government Securities deposited pursuant to Section 8.04 or 8.08 hereof or the principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by
law is for the account of the Holders of the outstanding Notes. 
  
 Anything in this Article 8 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Issuers from time to time upon the written request of the Issuers any money or non-callable Government Securities held by it as provided in
Section 8.04 or 8.08 hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee (which may be the opinion delivered under Section 8.04(a)
hereof), are in excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or Discharge, as the case may be. 
  
 Section 8.06. Repayment to Issuers. 
  
 Subject to applicable escheat and abandoned property laws, any money or non-callable Government Securities deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent,
or then held by an Issuer, in trust for the payment of the principal of or premium, interest or Additional Interest, if any, on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium, interest or Additional Interest, if any,
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuers on their written request or (if then held by an Issuer) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured creditor, look only to the Issuers for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money or non-callable Government Securities, and all liability of the Issuers as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the
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 required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Issuers cause to be published once, in the New York
Times and The Wall Street Journal (national edition), notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such notification or publication, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Issuers. 
  
 Section
8.07. Reinstatement. 
  
 If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable
to apply any money or non-callable Government Securities in accordance with Section 8.05 hereof, by reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the
Issuers’ obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.02 or 8.03 hereof until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such
money in accordance with Section 8.05 hereof; provided, however, that, if an Issuer makes any payment of principal of or premium, interest, Additional Interest, if any, on any Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, such Issuer shall be
subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent. 
  
 Section 8.08. Discharge. 
  
 This Indenture shall be satisfied and discharged and shall cease to be of further effect as to all Notes issued hereunder (except for (a) the rights of
Holders of outstanding Notes to receive solely from the trust fund described in clause (b) of this Section 8.08, and as more fully set forth in such clause (b), payments in respect of the principal of and premium, if any, interest and Additional
Interest, if any, on such Notes when such payments are due, (b) the Issuers’ obligations with respect to such Notes under Sections 2.03, 2.04, 2.07, 2.09 and 4.02 hereof and the Appendix and (c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities
of the Trustee hereunder and the Issuers’ obligations in connection therewith), when: 
  
 (1) either: 
  
 (a) all Notes that have been authenticated, except lost, stolen or destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose payment money has been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Issuers, have been delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation; or 
  
 (b) all
Notes that have not been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable or will become due and payable within one year by reason of the mailing of a notice of redemption or otherwise, and the Issuers or any Guarantor has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, non-callable Government Securities, or a combination of cash in U.S. dollars and non-callable
Government Securities, in amounts as will be sufficient without consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on the Notes not delivered to the Trustee for cancellation for principal, premium, if any,
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 (2) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of the deposit or will
occur as a result of the deposit and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party
or by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound; 
  
 (3) the Issuers or any Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it under this Indenture; 
  
 (4) the Issuers have delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at fixed maturity or
the redemption date, as the case may be; and 
  
 (5) the Issuers
have delivered an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture (“Discharge”) have been satisfied. 
  
 ARTICLE 9 
 AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER 
  
 Section 9.01. Without Consent of Holders of Notes. 
  
 Notwithstanding Section 9.02 of this Indenture, the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without the consent of any Holder of a Note: 
  
 (a) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency;

  
 (b) to provide for uncertificated Notes in
addition to or in place of certificated Notes; 
  
 (c) to provide for the assumption of an Issuer’s obligations to the Holders of Notes pursuant to Article 5 hereof; 
  
 (d) to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect
the legal rights hereunder of any Holder, provided that any change to conform this Indenture to the Offering Memorandum shall not be deemed to adversely affect the legal rights hereunder of any Holder; 
  
 (e) to secure the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees
pursuant to the requirements of Section 4.12 or otherwise; 
  
 (f) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in this Indenture; 
  
 (g) to add any additional Guarantor with respect to the Notes or to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its Subsidiary Guarantee in
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 (h) to comply with requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the
qualification of this Indenture under the TIA; or 
  
 (i) to evidence or provide for the acceptance of appointment under this Indenture of a successor Trustee. 
  
 Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a resolution of its Board of Directors authorizing the execution of any such amended or supplemental
indenture, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 9.06 hereof, the Trustee shall join with the Issuers and the Guarantors in the execution of any amended or supplemental indenture authorized or permitted by the terms
of this Indenture and to make any further appropriate agreements and stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into such amended or supplemental Indenture that affects its own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. 
  
 Section 9.02. With Consent of
Holders of Notes. 
  
 Except as provided above in Section 9.01
and below in this Section 9.02, the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture and the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes), and, subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07 hereof, any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision
of this Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, tender offer or exchange offer for Notes).
However, without the consent of each Holder affected, an amendment, supplement or waiver may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting Holder): 
  

(a) reduce the principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver; 
  
 (b) reduce the principal of or change the fixed maturity of any Note or alter
any of the provisions with respect to the redemption or repurchase of the Notes (except as provided in Sections 3.09, 4.10 and 4.15 hereof); 
  
 (c) reduce the rate of or change the time for payment of interest on any Note; 
  
 (d) waive a Default or Event of Default in the payment of principal of or premium, interest or Additional Interest, if any,
on the Notes (except a rescission of acceleration of the Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes and a waiver of the payment default that resulted from such acceleration); 
  
 (e) make any Note payable in money other than that stated in the Notes;

  
 (f) make any change in the provisions of this Indenture
relating to waivers of past Defaults or Events of Default or the rights of Holders of Notes to receive payments of principal of or premium, interest or Additional Interest, if any, on the Notes (except as permitted in clause (g) below); 

 

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 (g) waive a redemption or repurchase payment with respect to any Note (other than a payment required by
Sections 3.09, 4.10 and 4.15 hereof); 
  
 (h) release any
Guarantor from any of its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee or this Indenture, except in accordance with the terms of this Indenture; or 
  
 (i) make any change in the preceding amendment, supplement and waiver provisions. 
  
 Upon the request of the Issuers accompanied by Board Resolutions authorizing their execution of any such amended or
supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence satisfactory to the Trustee of the consent of the Holders of Notes as aforesaid, and upon receipt by the Trustee of the documents described in Section 9.06 hereof, the Trustee
shall join with the Issuers and the Guarantors in the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture, unless such amended or supplemental indenture affects the Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise,
in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such amended or supplemental indenture. 
  
 It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of Notes under this Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment,
supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof. 
  
 After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders of Notes affected thereby a notice
briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any such amended or supplemental Indenture or waiver.

  
 Section 9.03. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. 
  
 Every amendment or supplement to this Indenture or the Notes shall be set
forth in an amended or supplemental Indenture that complies with the TIA as then in effect. 
  
 A consent to any amendment, supplement or waiver under this Indenture by any Holder given in connection with a purchase, tender or exchange of such Holder’s Notes shall not be rendered invalid by such purchase,
tender or exchange. 
  
 Section 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents.

  
 Until an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, a
consent to it by a Holder of a Note is a continuing consent by the Holder of a Note and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the consent is not
made on any Note. However, any such Holder of a Note or subsequent Holder of a Note may revoke the consent as to its Note if the Trustee receives written notice of revocation before the date the waiver, supplement or amendment becomes effective. An
amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective in accordance with its terms and thereafter binds every Holder. 
  
 The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment,
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 record date is fixed, then notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who
were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those Persons, shall be entitled to consent to such amendment or waiver or revoke any consent previously given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after
such record date. No consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days after such record date except to the extent that the requisite number of consents to the amendment, supplement or waiver have been obtained within such 90-day period or
as set forth in the next paragraph of this Section 9.04. 
  
 After
an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (a) through (i) of Section 9.02, in which case, the amendment, supplement or waiver shall bind only each Holder of
a Note who has consented to it and every subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same indebtedness as the consenting Holder’s Note. 
  
 Section 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Notes. 
  
 The Trustee may place an appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated. The Issuers, in exchange for
all Notes, may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate new Notes that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver. 
  
 Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall not affect the validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or waiver. 

 
 Section 9.06. Trustee to Sign Amendments, etc. 
  
 The Trustee shall sign any amended or supplemental indenture authorized
pursuant to this Article 9 if the amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. In executing any amended or supplemental indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and
(subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.

  
 ARTICLE 10 
 GUARANTEES OF NOTES 
  
 Section 10.01. Subsidiary Guarantees. 
  
 Subject to this Article 10, each of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally guarantees, on a senior unsecured basis, to each Holder
of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the Notes held thereby and the Obligations of the Issuers hereunder and
thereunder, that: (a) the principal of and premium, interest and Additional Interest, if any, on the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, upon repurchase
or redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and premium, (to the extent permitted by law) interest and Additional Interest, if any, on the Notes, and all other payment Obligations of the Issuers to the Holders or the Trustee
hereunder or thereunder will be promptly paid in full and performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (b) in case of any extension 
  

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 of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other Obligations, the same will be promptly paid in full when
due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, subject to any applicable grace period, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration, upon repurchase or redemption or otherwise. Failing payment when so due of any amount so
guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors will be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately. An Event of Default under this Indenture or the Notes shall constitute an event of default under the Subsidiary Guarantees, and shall
entitle the Holders to accelerate the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder in the same manner and to the same extent as the Obligations of the Issuers. 
  
 The Guarantors hereby agree that their obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the
Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against an Issuer, any action to enforce the same or any other
circumstance (other than complete performance) which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor. Each Guarantor further, to the extent permitted by law, hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of
payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of an Issuer, any right to require a proceeding first against an Issuer, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that its Subsidiary Guarantee will not
be discharged except by complete performance of the Obligations contained in the Notes and this Indenture. 
  
 If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to an Issuer, the Guarantors, or any Custodian, Trustee or other similar
official acting in relation to any of the Issuers or the Guarantors, any amount paid by an Issuer or any Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder, the Subsidiary Guarantees, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and
effect. Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to, and hereby waives, any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any Obligations guaranteed hereby. 
  
 Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the
other hand, (a) the maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 hereof for the purposes of its Subsidiary Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration
in respect of the Obligations guaranteed thereby, and (b) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such Obligations as provided in Article 6 hereof, such Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable
by the Guarantor for the purpose of its Subsidiary Guarantee. The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Subsidiary
Guarantees. 
  
 Section 10.02. [Reserved]. 
  
 Section 10.03. Guarantors May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms. 
  
 (a) No Guarantor shall sell or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all
of its properties or assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving Person), another Person (other than the Company or another Guarantor), unless, (i) either (1) the Person acquiring the
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 the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than such Guarantor) unconditionally assumes
all the obligations of such Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental indenture, substantially in the form of Annex A hereto, under the Notes, this Indenture and its Subsidiary Guarantee on terms set forth therein, or (2) the Net Proceeds of such sale
or other disposition are applied in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.10, and (ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists. 
  
 (b) In the case of any such consolidation or merger and upon the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental
indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and substantially in the form of Annex A hereto, of the Subsidiary Guarantee and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants of this Indenture to be performed by the Guarantor, such
successor Person shall succeed to and be substituted for the Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein as a Guarantor. 
  
 Section 10.04. Releases of Subsidiary Guarantees. 
  
 The Subsidiary Guarantee of a Guarantor shall be released: (1) in connection with any sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the
properties or assets of such Guarantor (including by way of merger or consolidation) to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, if the sale or other disposition complies
with Section 4.10; (2) in connection with any sale or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, if the
sale or other disposition complies with Section 4.10; (3) if the Company designates any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 4.20 of this Indenture; (4) upon Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance or Discharge in accordance with Article 8; (5) in the case of any Guarantor other than the Operating Company, at such time as such Guarantor ceases to guarantee any other Indebtedness of either of the Issuers and any Indebtedness of the
Operating Company; or (6) in the case of the Operating Company, at such time as the Operating Company ceases to guarantee any other Indebtedness of either of the Issuers, provided that it is then no longer an obligor with respect to any Indebtedness
under any Credit Facility. 
  
 Upon delivery by the Company to the
Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate to the effect that any of the conditions described in the foregoing clauses (1) – (6) has occurred, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably requested by the Company in order to evidence the
release of any Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee. Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and premium, interest and Additional
Interest, if any, on the Notes and for the other obligations of such Guarantor under this Indenture as provided in this Article 10. 
  
 Section 10.05. [Reserved]. 
  
 Section 10.06. Limitation on Guarantor Liability. 
  
 The obligations of each Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee will be limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other
contingent and fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee or
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 obligations of such Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent
transfer under federal or state law and not otherwise being void or voidable under any similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally. 
  
 Section 10.07. “Trustee” to Include Paying Agent. 
  
 In case at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee” as used
in this Article 10 shall in each case (unless the context shall otherwise require) be construed as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully and for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this
Article 10 in place of the Trustee. 
  
 ARTICLE 11 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
  
 Section 11.01. Trust Indenture Act Controls. 
  
 If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by TIA §318(c), such TIA-imposed duties shall control. 
  
 Section 11.02. Notices. 
  
 Any notice or communication by an Issuer, any Guarantor or the Trustee to the others is duly given if in writing (in the English language) and delivered
in person or mailed by first class mail (registered or certified, return receipt requested), telecopier or overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery, to the others’ address: 
  
 If to any of the Issuers or the Guarantors: 
  
 Inergy, L.P. 
 Two Brush Creek Boulevard, Suite 200 
 Kansas City, Missouri 64112 
 Attention: Chief Financial Officer 
 Telecopier No.: (816) 471-3854 
  
 with a copy to: 
  
 Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. 
 2300 First City Tower 
 1001 Fannin St. 
 Houston, TX 77002-6760 
 Attention: David P. Oelman 
 Telecopier No.: (713) 615-5861 
  

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 If to the Trustee: 
  
 U.S. Bank National Association 
 EP-MN-WS3C 
 60 Livingston Avenue 
 St. Paul, MN 55107-2292 
 Attention: Corporate Trust Department 
 Telecopier No.: (651) 495-8096 
  
 An Issuer, any of the Guarantors or the Trustee, by notice to the others, may designate additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications. 
  
 All notices and communications (other than those sent to Holders) shall be deemed to have been duly given: at the time
delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and the next Business Day after timely delivery to the courier, if sent by
overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery in each case to the address shown above. 
  
 Any notice or communication to a Holder shall be mailed by first class mail, certified or registered, return receipt requested, or by overnight air courier guaranteeing next day delivery to its address shown on the
register kept by the Registrar. Any notice or communication shall also be so mailed to any Person described in TIA § 313(c), to the extent required by the TIA. Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not
affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. 
  
 If a
notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above within the time prescribed, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it. 
  
 If either of the Issuers mails a notice or communication to Holders, it shall mail a copy to the Trustee and each Agent at the same time. 
  
 Section 11.03. Communication by Holders of Notes with Other Holders of Notes. 
  
 Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The Issuers, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c). 
  
 Section 11.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. 
  
 Upon any request or application by an Issuer to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, such Issuer shall
furnish to the Trustee: 
  
 (a) an Officers’
Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 11.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions precedent and covenants, if any, provided for
in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been satisfied; and 
  
 (b) an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee (which shall include the statements set forth in Section 11.05 hereof) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such
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 Section 11.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. 
  
 Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a certificate provided pursuant to TIA § 314(a)(4)) shall comply with the provisions of TIA § 314(e) and shall include: 
  
 (a) a statement that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition;

  
 (b) a brief statement as to the nature and
scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based; 
  
 (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been satisfied; and 
  
 (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been satisfied. 
  
 Section 11.06. Rules by Trustee and Agents. 
  
 The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of
Holders. The Registrar or Paying Agent may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for its functions. 
  
 Section 11.07. No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and Unitholders. 
  
 Neither General Partner nor any past, present or future director, officer, partner, employee, incorporator, manager or
unitholder or other owner of Capital Stock of the Issuers, the General Partners or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuers or any Guarantor under the Notes, the Subsidiary Guarantees or this Indenture or
for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the
Notes. 
  
 Section 11.08. Governing Law. 
  
 THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
  
 Section 11.09. No Adverse
Interpretation of Other Agreements. 
  
 This Indenture may not be
used to interpret any other indenture, loan or debt agreement of the Company or its Subsidiaries or of any other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture. 
  

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 Section 11.10. Successors. 
  
 All agreements of the Issuers and the Guarantors in this Indenture and the Notes shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in
this Indenture shall bind its successors. 
  
 Section 11.11. Severability.

  
 In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall
be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. 
  
 Section 11.12. Table of Contents, Headings, etc. 
  

The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of
reference only, are not to be considered a part of this Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof. 
  
 Section 11.13. Counterparts. 
  
 This Indenture may be signed in counterparts and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which shall constitute an original and
all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. 
  
 [Signatures on following page] 
  

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 SIGNATURES 
  

			
	INERGY, L.P.
		
	BY:	 	INERGY GP, LLC, ITS MANAGING GENERAL PARTNER
		
	By:	 	 /s/ John J. Sherman

	John J. Sherman
	President and Chief Executive Officer
	
	INERGY FINANCE CORP.
		
	By:	 	 /s/ John J. Sherman

	John J. Sherman
	President and Chief Executive Officer
	
	GUARANTORS
	
	INERGY PROPANE, LLC
	L & L TRANSPORTATION, LLC
	INERGY TRANSPORTATION, LLC
	INERGY ACQUISITION COMPANY, LLC
	INERGY SALES & SERVICE INC.
	INERGY GAS, LLC
	STELLAR PROPANE SERVICE, LLC
		
	BY:	 	 /s/ John J. Sherman

	John J. Sherman
	President and Chief Executive Officer
	
	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as TRUSTEE
		
	BY:	 	 /s/ Lori-Anne Rosenberg

	Lori-Anne Rosenberg
	Vice President

  

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 RULE 144A/REGULATION S APPENDIX 
  
 PROVISIONS RELATING TO INITIAL NOTES, 
 PRIVATE EXCHANGE NOTES 
 AND EXCHANGE NOTES 
  
 1. Definitions 
  
 1.1 Definitions. 
  
 For the purposes of this Appendix the following terms shall have the meanings indicated below: 
  
 “Depository” means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and
their respective successors. 
  
 “Exchange Notes” means
(1) the 6.875% Senior Notes due 2014 issued pursuant to the Indenture in connection with a Registered Exchange Offer pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement and (2) Additional Notes, if any, issued pursuant to a registration statement filed with
the SEC under the Notes Act. 
  
 “Initial Notes” means
(1) $425 million aggregate principal amount of 6.875% Senior Notes due 2014 issued on the Initial Issuance Date and (2) Additional Notes, if any, issued in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. 
  
 “Initial Purchasers” means (1) with respect to the Initial Notes
issued on the Initial Issuance Date, Lehman Brothers Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, and (2) with respect to each issuance of Additional Notes, the Persons purchasing such Additional Notes under the related
Purchase Agreement. 
  
 “Notes” means the Initial Notes,
the Additional Notes, the Exchange Notes and the Private Exchange Notes, treated as a single class. 
  
 “Notes Custodian” means the custodian with respect to a Global Note (as appointed by the Depository), or any successor Person thereto and shall
initially be the Trustee. 
  
 “Private Exchange” means
the offer by the Company, pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement, to the Initial Purchasers to issue and deliver to each Initial Purchaser, in exchange for the Initial Notes held by the Initial Purchaser as part of its initial distribution, a
like aggregate principal amount of Private Exchange Notes. 
  
 “Private Exchange Notes” means any 6.875% Senior Notes due 2014 issued in connection with a Private Exchange. 
  
 “Purchase Agreement” means (1) with respect to the Initial Notes issued on the Initial Issuance Date, the Purchase Agreement dated December 17,
2004 among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers, and (2) with respect to each issuance of Additional Notes, the purchase agreement or underwriting agreement among the Issuers and the Persons purchasing such Additional Notes.

  

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 “Registered Exchange Offer” means the offer by the Issuers, pursuant to a Registration Rights
Agreement, to certain Holders of Initial Notes, to issue and deliver to such Holders, in exchange for the Initial Notes, a like aggregate principal amount of Exchange Notes registered under the Securities Act. 
  
 “Registration Rights Agreement” means (1) with respect to the
Initial Notes issued on the Initial Issuance Date, the Registration Rights Agreement dated December 22, 2004 among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Initial Purchasers, a form of which is attached to this Indenture as Annex B, and (2) with respect
to each issuance of Additional Notes issued in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, the registration rights agreement, if any, among the Issuers and the Persons purchasing such Additional Notes under the
related Purchase Agreement. 
  
 “Shelf Registration
Statement” means the registration statement issued by the Company in connection with the offer and sale of Initial Notes or Private Exchange Notes pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement. 
  
 “Transfer Restricted Securities” means Notes that bear or are
required to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.3(b) hereof. 
  
 1.2 Other Definitions. 
  

			
	 Term

	  	Defined in Section:

	 “Agent Members”
	  	2.1(b)
	 “Distribution Compliance Period”
	  	2.1(b)
	 “Global Note”
	  	2.1(a)
	 “Regulation S”
	  	2.1(a)
	 “Regulation S Notes”
	  	2.1(a)
	 “Restricted Global Note”
	  	2.1(a)
	 “Rule 144A”
	  	2.1(a)
	 “Rule 144A Notes”
	  	2.1(a)

  
 2. The Notes. 
  
 2.1 (a) Form and Dating. Initial Notes offered and sold to QIBs in
reliance on Rule 144A (“Rule 144A Notes”) under the Securities Act (“Rule 144A”) or in reliance on Regulation S (“Regulation S Notes”) under the Securities Act (“Regulation S”), in each case as provided in a
Purchase Agreement, and Private Exchange Notes, as provided in a Registration Rights Agreement, shall be issued initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons with the global
Notes legend and restricted Notes legend set forth in Exhibit 1 hereto (each, a “Restricted Global Note”), which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Initial Notes represented thereby with the Trustee, as custodian for the
Depository (or with such other custodian as the Depository may direct), and registered in the name of the Depository or a nominee of the Depository, duly executed by the Issuers and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided. Beneficial
interests in a Restricted Global Note representing Initial Notes sold in reliance on either 
  

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 Rule 144A or Regulation S may be held through Euroclear or Clearstream, as indirect participants in the Depository. The
aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee and the Depository or its nominee as hereinafter provided. Exchange Notes shall be issued in global form
(with the global Notes legend set forth in Exhibit 1 hereto) or in certificated form as provided in Section 2.4 of this Appendix. Exchange Notes issued in global form and Restricted Global Notes are sometimes referred to in this Appendix as
“Global Notes”. 
  
 (b) Book-Entry Provisions.
This Section 2.1(b) shall apply only to a Global Note deposited with or on behalf of the Depository. 
  
 The Issuers shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this Section 2.1(b), authenticate and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that
(a) shall be registered in the name of the Depository for such Global Note or Global Notes or the nominee of such Depository and (b) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such Depository or pursuant to such Depository’s instructions or held by
the Trustee as custodian for the Depository. If such Global Notes are Restricted Global Notes, then separate Global Notes shall be issued to represent Rule 144A Notes and Regulation S Notes so long as required by law or the Depository. 

 
 Members of, or participants in, the Depository (“Agent Members”)
shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the Depository or by the Trustee as the custodian of the Depository or under such Global Note, and the Issuers, the Trustee and any agent of the
Issuers or the Trustee shall be entitled to treat the Depository as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Issuers, the Trustee or any agent of the Issuers
or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depository or impair, as between the Depository and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of such Depository governing
the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Note. 
  
 Until the 40th day after the later of the commencement of the offering of any Initial Notes and the original issue date of such Initial Notes (such period, the “Distribution Compliance Period”), a beneficial
interest in a Restricted Global Note representing Regulation S Notes may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in a Restricted Global Note representing Rule 144A Notes only if the transferor first delivers to the
Trustee a written certificate (in the form provided in Exhibit 1 hereto) to the effect that such transfer is being made to a Person who the transferor reasonably believes is purchasing for its own account or accounts as to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that such Person is a QIB, in each case in a transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or any other jurisdiction. After the
expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, such certification requirements shall not apply to such transfers of beneficial interests in a Restricted Global Note representing Regulation S Notes. 
  
 Beneficial interests in a Restricted Global Note representing Rule 144A Notes
may be transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an interest in a Restricted Global Note representing Regulation S Notes, whether before or after the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period, only if the transferor first
delivers to the Trustee a written certificate (in the form provided in Exhibit 1 hereto) to the effect that such transfer is being made in accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S or Rule 144 (if available). 
  

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 (c) Certificated Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.3 or 2.4, owners of beneficial interests
in Restricted Global Notes shall not be entitled to receive physical delivery of certificated Notes. Certificated Notes shall not be exchangeable for beneficial interests in Global Notes. 
  
 2.2 Authentication. The Trustee shall authenticate and deliver: (1) on the Initial Issuance Date, an aggregate
principal amount of $425 million 6.875% Senior Notes due 2014, (2) any Additional Notes for an original issue in an aggregate principal amount specified in the written order of the Issuers pursuant to Section 2.02 of the Indenture and (3) Exchange
Notes or Private Exchange Notes for issue only in a Registered Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange, respectively, pursuant to a Registration Rights Agreement, for a like principal amount of Initial Notes, in each case upon a written order of the
Issuers. Such order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated, the date on which the original issue of Notes is to be authenticated and to whom the Notes shall be registered and delivered and, in the case of any issuance of
Additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.13 of the Indenture, shall certify that such issuance is in compliance with Section 4.09 of the Indenture. 
  
 2.3 Transfer and Exchange. 
  
 (a) Transfer and Exchange of Global Notes. (i) The transfer and exchange of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected through
the Depository, in accordance with this Indenture (including applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and the procedures of the Depository therefor. A transferor of a beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver to the
Registrar a written order given in accordance with the Depository’s procedures containing information regarding the participant account of the Depository to be credited with a beneficial interest in the Global Note. The Registrar shall, in
accordance with such instructions instruct the Depository to credit to the account of the Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note and to debit the account of the Person making the transfer the beneficial
interest in the Global Note being transferred. 
  
 (ii) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Appendix, a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of
the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such successor Depository. 
  
 (iii) In the event that a Restricted Global Note is exchanged for Notes in certificated form pursuant to Section 2.4 of this Appendix,
prior to the consummation of a Registered Exchange Offer or the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Notes, such Notes may be exchanged only in accordance with such procedures as are substantially consistent with the
provisions of this Section 2.3 (including the certification requirements set forth on the reverse of the Initial Notes intended to ensure that such transfers comply with Rule 144A or Regulation S, as the case may be) and such other procedures as may
from time to time be adopted by the Company. 
  

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 (b) Legend. 
  
 (i) Except as permitted by the following paragraphs (ii), (iii) and (iv), each Note certificate evidencing
the Restricted Global Notes (and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form: 
  
 THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE
MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER. 
  
 THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF INERGY, L.P. AND INERGY FINANCE CORP. THAT (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED, ONLY (I) TO AN ISSUER, (II) IN THE UNITED STATES TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE
144A, (III) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE) OR (V)
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AND IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (V) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES, AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER
IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE. 
  
 (ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security (including any Transfer Restricted Security represented by a Restricted
Global Note) pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Registrar shall permit the transferee thereof to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a certificated Note that does not bear the legend set forth above and rescind any
restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Security, if the transferor thereof certifies in writing to the Registrar that such sale or transfer was made in reliance on Rule 144 (such certification to be in the form set forth on the
reverse of the Note). 
  
 (iii) After a transfer
of any Initial Notes or Private Exchange Notes pursuant to and during the period of the effectiveness of a Shelf Registration Statement with respect to such Initial Notes or Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be, all requirements pertaining to
legends on such Initial Note or such Private Exchange Note will cease to 
  

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 apply, the requirements requiring any such Initial Note or such Private Exchange Note issued to certain
Holders be issued in global form will cease to apply, and a certificated Initial Note or Private Exchange Note or an Initial Note or Private Exchange Note in global form, in each case without restrictive transfer legends, will be available to the
transferee of the Holder of such Initial Notes or Private Exchange Notes upon exchange of such transferring Holder’s certificated Initial Note or Private Exchange Note or directions to transfer such Holder’s interest in the Global Note, as
applicable. 
  
 (iv) Upon the consummation of a
Registered Exchange Offer with respect to the Initial Notes, all requirements pertaining to such Initial Notes that Initial Notes issued to certain Holders be issued in global form will still apply with respect to Holders of such Initial Notes that
do not exchange their Initial Notes, and Exchange Notes in certificated or global form will be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Notes in such Registered Exchange Offer. 
  
 (v) Upon the consummation of a Private Exchange with respect to the Initial Notes, all requirements
pertaining to such Initial Notes that Initial Notes issued to certain Holders be issued in global form will still apply with respect to Holders of such Initial Notes that do not exchange their Initial Notes, and Private Exchange Notes in global form
with the global Notes legend and the Restricted Notes legend set forth in Exhibit 1 hereto will be available to Holders that exchange such Initial Notes in such Private Exchange. 
  
 (c) Cancellation or Adjustment of Global Note. At such time as all beneficial interests in a Global Note have either
been exchanged for certificated Notes, redeemed, purchased or canceled, such Global Note shall be returned to the Depository for cancellation or retained and canceled by the Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest
in a Global Note is exchanged for certificated Notes, redeemed, purchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment shall be made on the books and records of the Trustee (if it is
then the Notes Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such Global Note, by the Trustee or the Notes Custodian, to reflect such reduction. 
  
 (d) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of Notes. 
  
 (i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Issuers shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate certificated Notes and Global Notes at the Registrar’s request. 
  
 (ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Issuers may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any transfer tax, assessments or similar governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 3.06, 4.10,
4.15 and 9.05 and of the Indenture). 
  
 (iii)
The Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of or exchange of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, it need not exchange or register the
transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed. 
  
 (iv) Prior to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Issuers, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or
the Registrar may deem and treat the Person in whose name a Note is registered as the absolute owner of such Note 
  

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 for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of, premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest,
if any, on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue, and none of the Issuers, the Guarantors, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary. 
  
 (v) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant
to the terms of this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange. 
  
 (e) No Obligation of the Trustee. 
  
 (i) The Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a
member of, or a participant in the Depository or other Person with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depository or its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect
to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other Person (other than the Depository) of any notice (including any notice of redemption) or the payment of any amount, under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and
communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to or upon the order of the registered Holders (which shall be the Depository or its nominee in the case of a Global Note).
The rights of beneficial owners in any Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depository subject to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depository. The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon information
furnished by the Depository with respect to its members, participants and any beneficial owners. 
  
 (ii) The Trustee shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer
imposed under this Indenture or under Applicable Law with respect to any transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers between or among Depository participants, members or beneficial owners in any Global Note) other than to require
delivery of such certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the terms of this Indenture, and to examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form with
the express requirements hereof. 
  
 2.4 Certificated
Notes. 
  
 (a) A Global Note deposited with the Depository or
with the Trustee as custodian for the Depository pursuant to Section 2.1 shall be transferred to the beneficial owners thereof in the form of certificated Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Note, in
exchange for such Global Note, only if such transfer complies with Section 2.3 and (i) the Depository notifies the Issuers that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such Global Note or if at any time such Depository ceases to be a
“clearing agency” registered under the Exchange Act and in either event a successor depositary is not appointed by the Issuers within 90 days, or (ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and DTC notifies the Trustee of its
decision to exchange the Global Notes. 
  
 (b) Any Global Note
that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof pursuant to this Section shall be surrendered by the Depository or the Notes Custodian to the Trustee located at its Corporate Trust Office to be so transferred, in whole or from time to time in
part, without charge, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of such 
  

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 Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of certificated Notes of authorized denominations. Any portion of a
Global Note transferred pursuant to this Section shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in denominations of $1,000 principal amount and any integral multiple thereof and registered in such names as the Depository shall direct. Any
certificated Note or Private Exchange Note delivered in exchange for an interest in the Global Note shall, except as otherwise provided by Section 2.3(b), bear the restricted Notes legend set forth in Exhibit 1 hereto. 
  
 (c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.4(b), the Holder of a Global Note
shall be entitled to grant proxies and otherwise authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.

  
 (d) In the event of the occurrence of any of the events
specified in Section 2.4(a), the Issuers shall promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of certificated Notes in definitive, fully registered form without interest coupons. 
  

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 EXHIBIT 1 TO RULE 144A/REGULATION S APPENDIX 
  
 [FORM OF FACE OF INITIAL NOTE] 
  
 [Global Notes Legend] 
  
 UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO AN ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER
NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO., OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC) ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE
BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 
  
 TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH
SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL NOTE SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. 
  
 [Restricted Notes Legend] 
  
 THIS NOTE (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT
FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM.
EACH PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER OF THIS NOTE MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER. 
  
 THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT OF INERGY, L.P. AND INERGY
FINANCE CORP. THAT (A) THIS NOTE MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (I) TO AN ISSUER, (II) IN THE UNITED STATES TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) IN A TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (III) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF AVAILABLE) OR (V) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, AND IN EACH OF CASES (I) THROUGH (V) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF
THE UNITED STATES, AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER OF THIS NOTE FROM IT OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE. 
  

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 INERGY, L.P. 
  
 INERGY FINANCE CORP. 
  

			
	 No.
	 	$                    

  
 CUSIP No. 
 ISIN No. 
  
 6.875% Senior Note due 2014 
  
 Inergy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation, jointly and severally promise to pay to
                    , or registered assigns, the principal sum of
                     Dollars on December 15, 2014 [or such greater or lesser amount as may be indicated on Schedule A hereto].1 
  
 Interest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15. 
  
 Record Dates: June 1 and December 1. 
  
 Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note. 
  

			
	INERGY, L.P.
	
	BY: INERGY GP, LLC, ITS MANAGING GENERAL PARTNER
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	 
	
	INERGY FINANCE CORP.
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:	 	  

	Title:	 	  

	1	If this Note is a Global Note, add this provision. 

  

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	TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
		
	 	 	U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
	 	 	as Trustee, certifies that
	 	 	this is one of the Notes
	 	 	referred to in the Indenture.
		
	By	 	  

	 	 	Authorized Signatory

  
 Dated: 
  

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 [FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF INITIAL NOTE] 
  
 6.875% Senior Note due 2014 
  
 Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated.

  
 1. Interest. Inergy, L.P., a Delaware limited
partnership (the “Company”), and Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the “Finance Corp.” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), jointly and severally promise to pay interest on the principal amount of
this Note at 6.875% per annum from December 22, 2004 until maturity and shall pay the Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 6 of the Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. The Issuers will pay interest and Additional Interest, if
any, semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing June 15, 2005, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each an “Interest Payment Date”). Interest on the Notes will
accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of original issuance; provided that if there is no existing Default or Event of Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is
authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except in the case of the original issuance of Notes, in which
case interest shall accrue from the date of authentication. The Issuers shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate
that is the rate then in effect; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest and Additional Interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from
time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. 
  
 2. Method of Payment. The Issuers will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) and Additional Interest to the Persons who are
registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the June 1 or December 1 next preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are cancelled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in
Section 2.11 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. Holders must surrender Notes to the Paying Agent to collect payments of principal and premium, if any, together with accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, due
at maturity. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Interest, if any, at the office or agency of the Issuers maintained for such purpose within the City and State of New York, or, at the option of the
Issuers, payment of interest and Additional Interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders, and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with
respect to any amounts due on all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to the Issuers or the Paying Agent. Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America
as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts. 
  
 3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, U.S. Bank National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without
notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity. 
  

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 4. Indenture. The Issuers issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of December 22, 2004
(“Indenture”) among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code
§§ 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. The Notes are unsecured senior obligations of the Issuers limited to $425,000,000 aggregate
principal amount in the case of Notes issued on the Initial Issuance Date (as defined in the Indenture). 
  
 5. Optional Redemption. 
  
 (a) Except as set forth in subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph 5, the Issuers shall not have the option to redeem the Notes prior to December 15, 2009. On
or after December 15, 2009, the Issuers shall have the option to redeem the Notes, in whole or in part at any time, upon prior notice as set forth in Paragraph 8, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth
below, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior
to the redemption date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on December 15 of the years indicated below: 
  

				
	 YEAR

	  	PERCENTAGE

	 
	 2009
	  	103.438	%
	 2010
	  	102.292	%
	 2011
	  	101.146	%
	 2012 and thereafter
	  	100.000	%

  
 (b) Notwithstanding
the provisions of subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph 5, at any time on or prior to December 15, 2007, the Company may on any one or more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued
under the Indenture at a redemption price of 106.875% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, thereon to the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record
date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the redemption date), with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings by the Company; provided that (i) at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of
Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under the Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (excluding any Notes held by the Company and its Subsidiaries) and (ii) each such redemption occurs within
120 days of the date of the closing of each such Equity Offering. 
  
 6. Mandatory Redemption. 
  
 Except as set forth
in Paragraph 7 below, neither of the Issuers shall be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes or to repurchase the Notes at the option of the Holders. 
  

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 7. Repurchase at Option of Holder. 
  
 (a) Within 30 days following the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of
Control Offer”) to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of each Holder’s Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid
interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the date of settlement (the “Change of Control Settlement Date”), subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that
is on or prior to the Change of Control Settlement Date. Within 30 days following a Change of Control, the Company shall mail a notice of the Change of Control Offer to each Holder and the Trustee describing the transaction that constitutes the
Change of Control and setting forth the procedures governing the Change of Control Offer as required by Section 4.15 of the Indenture. 
  
 (b) On the 361st day after an Asset Sale, if the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds then exceeds $20.0 million, the Company shall commence an offer to
all Holders of Notes (an “Asset Sale Offer”) pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Indenture, and to all holders of any Pari Passu Indebtedness then outstanding, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and such Pari Passu Indebtedness
that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds, at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, thereon to the date of settlement, subject
to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Change of Control Settlement Date, in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture. If any
Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company may use such remaining Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by the Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by Holders thereof
and Pari Passu Indebtedness surrendered by holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be
deemed appropriate by the Trustee so that only Notes in denominations of $1,000, or integral multiples thereof, shall be purchased) on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of tendered Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness. Holders of Notes that
are the subject of an offer to purchase will receive an Asset Sale Offer from the Company prior to any related purchase date and may elect to have such Notes purchased by completing the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on
the reverse of the Notes. 
  
 8. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days (except as otherwise provided in the Indenture if the notice is issued in connection with a Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or Discharge) before the redemption date
to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. If mailed in the manner provided for in Section 3.03 of the Indenture, the notice of redemption shall be conclusively presumed to have been given whether or not a Holder
receives such notice. Failure to give timely notice or any defect in the notice shall not affect the validity of the redemption. Notes in denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of
the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. On and after the redemption date interest and Additional Interest, if any, cease to accrue on Notes or portions thereof called for redemption. 
  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 6 

 9. Denominations, Transfer, Exchange. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate
endorsements and transfer documents, and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes due on transfer or exchange. The Issuers need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the
unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, they need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed. 
  
 10. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Note may be
treated as its owner for all purposes. 
  
 11. Amendment,
Supplement and Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, and any existing default or
compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture or the Notes may be
amended or supplemented (1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, (2) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, (3) to provide for the assumption of an Issuer’s obligations to Holders of the
Notes pursuant to Article 5 of the Indenture, (4) to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect the legal rights under the Indenture of any such Holder, provided
that any change to conform the Indenture to the Offering Memorandum shall not be deemed to adversely affect the legal rights under the Indenture of any Holder, (5) to secure the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees pursuant to Section 4.12 of the
Indenture or otherwise, (6) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in the Indenture, (7) to add any additional Guarantor with respect to the Notes or to evidence the release of any Guarantor from
its Subsidiary Guarantee, in each case as provided in the Indenture, (8) to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act or (9) to evidence or provide for the
acceptance of appointment under the Indenture of a successor Trustee. 
  
 12. Defaults and Remedies. Events of Default include: (i) default for 30 days in the payment when due of interest or Additional Interest, if any, on the Notes; (ii) default in payment when due of the principal of or premium, if any,
on the Notes when due at Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise; (iii) failure by the Company to comply with Section 3.09, 4.10, 4.15 or 5.01 of the Indenture; (iv) failure by the Company
for 60 days after notice to comply with any of its other agreements in the Indenture or the Notes; (v) default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness
for money borrowed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or guarantee now exists or is created after the Initial
Issuance Date, if such default (a) is caused by a failure to pay principal of, or premium or interest, if any, on such Indebtedness prior to the expiration of any grace period provided in such Indebtedness (a “Payment Default”) or (b)
results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity and, in each case, the principal 
  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 7 

 amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has
been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates in excess of $15.0 million provided that if any such default is cured or waived or any such acceleration rescinded, or such Indebtedness is repaid, within a period
of 30 days from the continuation of such default beyond the applicable grace period or the occurrence of such acceleration, as the case may be, such Event of Default and any consequential acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically rescinded,
so long as such rescission does not conflict with any judgment or decree; (vi) failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay final judgments aggregating in excess of $15.0 million, which judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed for a
period of 60 days; (vii) except as permitted by the Indenture, any Subsidiary Guarantee is held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or any Person acting
on behalf of any Guarantor, denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee; and (viii) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization with respect to the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted
Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company as specified in Section 6.01(h) or 6.01(i) of the
Indenture. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, by notice to the Issuers, or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, by notice to the Issuers and the Trustee, may declare all the Notes
to be due and payable immediately. Notwithstanding the preceding, in the case of an Event of Default arising from such events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization described in Section 6.01(h) or 6.01(i) of the Indenture, all outstanding Notes
will become due and payable without further action or notice. Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power conferred on it. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of the Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default or Event of Default relating to the payment
of principal, interest, premium or Additional Interest) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders
of all of the Notes waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences under the Indenture except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or premium, interest or Additional Interest, if any, on
the Notes. The Issuers are required to deliver to the Trustee annually a statement regarding compliance with the Indenture, and, so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Issuers are required upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default,
to deliver to the Trustee a statement specifying such Default or Event of Default. 
  
 13. Defeasance and Discharge. The Notes are subject to defeasance and discharge upon the terms and conditions specified in the Indenture. 
  
 14. No Recourse Against Others. Neither General Partner, nor any past, present or future director, officer, partner,
employee, incorporator, manager or unitholder or other owner of Capital Stock of the Issuers, the General Partners or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuers or any Guarantor under the Notes, the
Subsidiary Guarantees or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes. 
  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 8 

 15. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of an
authorized signatory of the Trustee or an authenticating agent. 
  
 16. Abbreviations. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not
as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act). 
  
 17. Additional Rights of Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities. In addition to the rights provided to Holders of Notes under the Indenture, Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities shall have all the
rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of                     , among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Initial
Purchasers (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). 
  
 18. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuers have caused CUSIP numbers and corresponding ISIN numbers to be printed on the Notes and the
Trustee may use CUSIP numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed
only on the other identification numbers placed thereon. 
  
 19.
Governing Law. THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
  
 20. Successors. In the event a successor assumes all the obligations of an Issuer under the Notes and the Indenture, pursuant to the terms thereof,
such Issuer will be released from all such obligations. 
  
 The
Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge a copy of the Indenture or the Registration Rights Agreement. Requests may be made to: 
  
 Inergy, L.P. 
 Two Brush Creek Boulevard, Suite 200 
 Kansas City, Missouri 64112 

Attention: Chief Financial Officer 
  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 9 

 ASSIGNMENT FORM 
  

To assign this Note, fill in the form below: 
  
 I or we assign and transfer this Note to 
  

	
	 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

	 Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
  

	 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

	(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

  
 and irrevocably appoint
                     agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuers. The agent may substitute another to act for him. 
  

							
	 Date:                      
	  	Your Signature:	 	  

	 	 	 	  	Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.

  
 Signature Guarantee: 
  

	
	  

	 (Signature must be guaranteed)

  
 Signatures must be guaranteed by an
“eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other “signature guarantee
program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  
 In connection with any transfer of any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate occurring prior to the expiration of the period referred
to in Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act after the later of the date of original issuance of such Notes and the last date, if any, on which such Notes were owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company (or, in the case of Regulation S
Notes, prior to the expiration of the Distribution Compliance Period), the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being transferred in accordance with its terms: 
  
 CHECK ONE BOX BELOW 
  

					
	(1)	  	 ̈	  	to an Issuer; or
			
	(2)	  	 ̈	  	pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933; or
			
	(3)	  	 ̈	  	inside the United States to a person who the undersigned reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933) that is
purchasing for its own account or for the account of a qualified institutional buyer to whom notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securities
Act of 1933; or

  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 10 

					
	(4)	  	 ̈	  	Outside the United States in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation S under the Securities Act in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act of 1933;
or
			
	(5)	  	 ̈	  	pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933.

  
 Unless one of the boxes is checked,
the Trustee will refuse to register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any person other than the registered holder thereof; provided, however, that if box (4) or (5) is checked, the Trustee shall be entitled to require,
prior to registering any such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions, certifications and other information as the Company has reasonably requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not
subject to, the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, such as the exemption provided by Rule 144 under such Act. 
  

	
	  

	Signature

  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 11 

 TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (3) ABOVE IS CHECKED. 
  
 The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises
sole investment discretion and that it and any such account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and
acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Issuers and any Guarantors as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying
upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A. 
  

			
	Dated:                     	  	                                      
                                        
      
	 	  	Notice: To be executed by an executive officer

  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 12 

 OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE 
  
 If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or 4.15 of the Indenture, check the
box below: 
  

								
	  ̈
	 	Section 4.10	    	 ̈	 	 	Section 4.15

  
 If you want to elect
to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, state the amount (in minimum denomination of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) you elect to have purchased:
$                     
  

					
	 Date:
                    
	  	Your Signature:	 	  

	 	  	(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)

  
 Soc. Sec. or Tax
Identification No.:                      
  

			
	 Signature Guarantee:
	 	  

	 	 	(signature must be guaranteed)

  
 Signatures must be
guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other
“signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 13 

 [TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL NOTE] 
  
 SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE 
  
 The following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been made: 
  

									
	 Date

	 	 Amount of
 decrease in
 Principal Amount of this
Global Note

	 	 Amount of
 increase in
 Principal
 Amount of this
 Global Note

	 	 Principal
 Amount of this
 Global Note
 following such
 decrease or
 increase

	 	 Signature of
 authorized
 officer
 of Trustee or
 Notes Custodian

  

 Ex. 1 to App. - 14 

 EXHIBIT A TO RULE 144A/REGULATION S APPENDIX 
  
 [FORM OF FACE OF EXCHANGE NOTE 
 OR PRIVATE EXCHANGE NOTE]         */**/ 
  
 */ If the Note is to be issued in global form add the Global Notes Legend from Exhibit 1 to Rule 144A/Regulation S Appendix and the
attachment from such Exhibit 1 captioned “[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL NOTES] - SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE”. 
  
 **/ If the Note is a Private Exchange Note issued in a Private Exchange to an Initial Purchaser holding an unsold portion of its initial allotment, add the Restricted
Notes Legend from Exhibit 1 to Rule 144A/Regulation S Appendix and replace the Assignment Form included in this Exhibit A with the Assignment Form included in such Exhibit 1. 
  
 All references to “Additional Interest” in the Note shall be deleted unless if at the date of issuance of the Exchange Note or
Private Exchange Note (as the case may be) any Registration Default (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) has occurred with respect to the related Initial Notes during the interest period in which such date of issuance occurs.

  

 Ex. A to App. - 1 

 [FORM OF FACE OF EXCHANGE NOTE OR 
 PRIVATE EXCHANGE NOTE] 
  
 INERGY, L.P. 
  
 INERGY
FINANCE CORP. 
  

			
	 No.
	 	$                  

  
 CUSIP No. 
 ISIN No. 
  
 6.875% Senior Note due 2014 
  
 Inergy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, and Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation, jointly and severally promise to pay to
                    , or registered assigns, the principal sum of
                     Dollars on December 15, 2014 [or such greater or lesser amount as may be indicated on Schedule A hereto].2 
  
 Interest Payment Dates: June 15 and December 15. 
  
 Record Dates: June 1 and December 1. 
  
 Additional provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this Note. 
  

			
	INERGY, L.P.
	
	BY: INERGY GP, LLC, ITS GENERAL MANAGING PARTNER
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:	 	 
	Title:	 	 
	
	INERGY FINANCE CORP.
		
	By:	 	  

	Name:	 	  

	Title:	 	  

  

	2	If this Note is a Global Note, add this provision. 

  

 Ex. A to App. - 2 

			
	TRUSTEE’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
	
	 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee, certifies that this is one of the
Notes referred to in the Indenture.

	 By
	  	  

	 	  	Authorized Signatory

  
 Dated: 
  

 Ex. A to App. - 3 

 [FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF EXCHANGE NOTE OR 
 PRIVATE EXCHANGE NOTE] 
  
 6.875% Senior Note due 2014 
  
 Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture referred to below unless otherwise indicated. 
  

1. Interest. Inergy, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Company”), and Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the
“Finance Corp.” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), jointly and severally promise to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 6.875% per annum from December 22, 2004 until maturity and shall pay the
Additional Interest payable pursuant to Section 6 of the Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. The Issuers will pay interest and Additional Interest, if any, semi-annually in arrears on June 15 and December 15 of each year, commencing
June 15, 2005, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each an “Interest Payment Date”). Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest
has been paid, from the date of original issuance; provided that if there is no existing Default or Event of Default in the payment of interest, and if this Note is authenticated between a record date referred to on the face hereof and the next
succeeding Interest Payment Date, interest shall accrue from such next succeeding Interest Payment Date, except in the case of the original issuance of Notes, in which case interest shall accrue from the date of authentication. The Issuers shall pay
interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any, from time to time on demand at a rate that is the rate then in effect; it shall pay interest (including post-petition
interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue installments of interest and Additional Interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at the same rate to the extent lawful. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. 
  
 2. Method of Payment. The Issuers will pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) and Additional Interest to the Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the June 1 or December 1 next
preceding the Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are cancelled after such record date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as provided in Section 2.11 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest. Holders must surrender
Notes to the Paying Agent to collect payments of principal and premium, if any, together with accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, due at maturity. The Notes will be payable as to principal, premium, if any, interest and
Additional Interest, if any, at the office or agency of the Issuers maintained for such purpose within the City and State of New York, or, at the option of the Issuers, payment of interest and Additional Interest may be made by check mailed to the
Holders at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders, and provided that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with respect to any amounts due on all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of which
shall have provided wire transfer instructions to the Issuers or the Paying Agent. Such payment shall be in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts.

  
 3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, U.S. Bank
National Association, the Trustee under the Indenture, will act as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act in any such capacity.

  

 Ex. A to App. - 4 

 4. Indenture. The Issuers issued the Notes under an Indenture dated as of December 22, 2004
(“Indenture”) among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended (15 U.S. Code
§§ 77aaa-77bbbb). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and such Act for a statement of such terms. The Notes are unsecured senior obligations of the Issuers limited to $425,000,000 aggregate
principal amount in the case of Notes issued on the Initial Issuance Date (as defined in the Indenture). 
  
 5. Optional Redemption. 
  
 (a) Except as set forth in subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph 5, the Issuers shall not have the option to redeem the Notes prior to December 15, 2009. On
or after December 15, 2009, the Issuers shall have the option to redeem the Notes, in whole or in part at any time, upon prior notice as set forth in Paragraph 8, at the redemption prices (expressed as percentages of principal amount) set forth
below, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior
to the redemption date), if redeemed during the twelve-month period beginning on December 15 of the years indicated below: 
  

				
	 YEAR

	  	PERCENTAGE

	 
	 2009
	  	103.438	%
	 2010
	  	102.292	%
	 2011
	  	101.146	%
	 2012 and thereafter
	  	100.000	%

  
 (b) Notwithstanding
the provisions of subparagraph (a) of this Paragraph 5, at any time on or prior to December 15, 2007, the Company may on any one or more occasions redeem up to 35% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued
under the Indenture at a redemption price of 106.875% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, thereon to the redemption date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record
date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the redemption date), with the net cash proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings by the Company; provided that (i) at least 65% of the aggregate principal amount of
Notes (including any Additional Notes) issued under the Indenture remains outstanding immediately after the occurrence of each such redemption (excluding any Notes held by the Company and its Subsidiaries) and (ii) each such redemption occurs within
120 days of the date of the closing of each such Equity Offering. 
  
 6. Mandatory Redemption. 
  
 Except as set forth
in Paragraph 7 below, neither of the Issuers shall be required to make mandatory redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes or to repurchase the Notes at the option of the Holders. 
  

 Ex. A to App. - 5 

 7. Repurchase at Option of Holder. 
  
 (a) Within 30 days following the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall make an offer (a “Change of
Control Offer”) to repurchase all or any part (equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) of each Holder’s Notes at a purchase price equal to 101% of the aggregate principal amount of Notes repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid
interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the date of settlement (the “Change of Control Settlement Date”), subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that
is on or prior to the Change of Control Settlement Date. Within 30 days following a Change of Control, the Company shall mail a notice of the Change of Control Offer to each Holder and the Trustee describing the transaction that constitutes the
Change of Control and setting forth the procedures governing the Change of Control Offer as required by Section 4.15 of the Indenture. 
  
 (b) On the 361st day after an Asset Sale, if the aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds then exceeds $20.0 million, the Company shall commence an offer to
all Holders of Notes (an “Asset Sale Offer”) pursuant to Section 3.09 of the Indenture, and to all holders of any Pari Passu Indebtedness then outstanding, to purchase the maximum principal amount of Notes and such Pari Passu Indebtedness
that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds, at an offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, thereon to the date of settlement, subject
to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Change of Control Settlement Date, in accordance with the procedures set forth in the Indenture. If any
Excess Proceeds remain after consummation of an Asset Sale Offer, the Company may use such remaining Excess Proceeds for any purpose not otherwise prohibited by the Indenture. If the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by Holders thereof
and Pari Passu Indebtedness surrendered by holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount of Excess Proceeds, the Trustee shall select the Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness to be purchased on a pro rata basis (with such adjustments as may be
deemed appropriate by the Trustee so that only Notes in denominations of $1,000, or integral multiples thereof, shall be purchased) on the basis of the aggregate principal amount of tendered Notes and Pari Passu Indebtedness. Holders of Notes that
are the subject of an offer to purchase will receive an Asset Sale Offer from the Company prior to any related purchase date and may elect to have such Notes purchased by completing the form entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on
the reverse of the Notes. 
  
 8. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption will be mailed at least 30 days but not more than 60 days (except as otherwise provided in the Indenture if the notice is issued in connection with a Legal Defeasance, Covenant Defeasance or Discharge) before the redemption date
to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed at its registered address. If mailed in the manner provided for in Section 3.03 of the Indenture, the notice of redemption shall be conclusively presumed to have been given whether or not a Holder
receives such notice. Failure to give timely notice or any defect in the notice shall not affect the validity of the redemption. Notes in denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part but only in whole multiples of $1,000, unless all of
the Notes held by a Holder are to be redeemed. On and after the redemption date interest and Additional Interest, if any, cease to accrue on Notes or portions thereof called for redemption. 
  

 Ex. A to App. - 6 

 9. Denominations, Transfer, Exchange. The Notes are in registered form without coupons in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. The transfer of Notes may be registered and Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Registrar and the Trustee may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate
endorsements and transfer documents, and the Company may require a Holder to pay any taxes due on transfer or exchange. The Issuers need not exchange or register the transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption, except for the
unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in part. Also, they need not exchange or register the transfer of any Notes for a period of 15 days before a selection of Notes to be redeemed. 
  
 10. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Note may be
treated as its owner for all purposes. 
  
 11. Amendment,
Supplement and Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, and any existing default or
compliance with any provision of the Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes. Without the consent of any Holder of a Note, the Indenture or the Notes may be
amended or supplemented (1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, (2) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated Notes, (3) to provide for the assumption of an Issuer’s obligations to Holders of the
Notes pursuant to Article 5 of the Indenture, (4) to make any change that would provide any additional rights or benefits to the Holders of the Notes or that does not adversely affect the legal rights under the Indenture of any such Holder, provided
that any change to conform the Indenture to the Offering Memorandum shall not be deemed to adversely affect the legal rights under the Indenture of any Holder, (5) to secure the Notes or the Subsidiary Guarantees pursuant to Section 4.12 of the
Indenture or otherwise, (6) to provide for the issuance of Additional Notes in accordance with the limitations set forth in the Indenture, (7) to add any additional Guarantor with respect to the Notes or to evidence the release of any Guarantor from
its Subsidiary Guarantee, in each case as provided in the Indenture, (8) to comply with the requirements of the SEC in order to effect or maintain the qualification of the Indenture under the Trust Indenture Act or (9) to evidence or provide for the
acceptance of appointment under the Indenture of a successor Trustee. 
  
 12. Defaults and Remedies. Events of Default include: (i) default for 30 days in the payment when due of interest or Additional Interest, if any, on the Notes; (ii) default in payment when due of the principal of or premium, if any,
on the Notes when due at Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise; (iii) failure by the Company to comply with Section 3.09, 4.10, 4.15 or 5.01 of the Indenture; (iv) failure by the Company
for 60 days after notice to comply with any of its other agreements in the Indenture or the Notes; (v) default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured or evidenced any Indebtedness
for money borrowed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is guaranteed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries), whether such Indebtedness or guarantee now exists or is created after the Initial
Issuance Date, if such default (a) is caused by a failure to pay principal of, or premium or interest, if any, on such Indebtedness prior to the expiration of any grace period provided in such Indebtedness (a “Payment Default”) or (b)
results in the acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its Stated Maturity and, in each case, the principal 
  

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 amount of any such Indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under which there has
been a Payment Default or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates in excess of $15.0 million provided that if any such default is cured or waived or any such acceleration rescinded, or such Indebtedness is repaid, within a period
of 30 days from the continuation of such default beyond the applicable grace period or the occurrence of such acceleration, as the case may be, such Event of Default and any consequential acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically rescinded,
so long as such rescission does not conflict with any judgment or decree; (vi) failure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to pay final judgments aggregating in excess of $15.0 million, which judgments are not paid, discharged or stayed for a
period of 60 days; (vii) except as permitted by the Indenture, any Subsidiary Guarantee is held in any judicial proceeding to be unenforceable or invalid or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect or any Guarantor, or any Person acting
on behalf of any Guarantor, denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee; and (viii) certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization with respect to the Company, Finance Corp., any of the Company’s Restricted
Subsidiaries that is a Significant Subsidiary of the Company or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary of the Company as specified in Section 6.01(h) or 6.01(i) of the
Indenture. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee, by notice to the Issuers, or the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, by notice to the Issuers and the Trustee, may declare all the Notes
to be due and payable immediately. Notwithstanding the preceding, in the case of an Event of Default arising from such events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization described in Section 6.01(h) or 6.01(i) of the Indenture, all outstanding Notes
will become due and payable without further action or notice. Holders may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes may direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power conferred on it. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of the Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default or Event of Default relating to the payment
of principal, interest, premium or Additional Interest) if it determines that withholding notice is in their interest. The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then outstanding by notice to the Trustee may on behalf of the Holders
of all of the Notes waive any existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences under the Indenture except a continuing Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of or premium, interest or Additional Interest, if any, on
the Notes. The Issuers are required to deliver to the Trustee annually a statement regarding compliance with the Indenture, and, so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Issuers are required upon becoming aware of any Default or Event of Default,
to deliver to the Trustee a statement specifying such Default or Event of Default. 
  
 13. Defeasance and Discharge. The Notes are subject to defeasance and discharge upon the terms and conditions specified in the Indenture. 
  
 14. No Recourse Against Others. Neither General Partner, nor any past, present or future director, officer, partner,
employee, incorporator, manager or unitholder or other owner of Capital Stock of the Issuers, the General Partners or any Guarantor, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Issuers or any Guarantor under the Notes, the
Subsidiary Guarantees or the Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Notes. 
  

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 15. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature of an
authorized signatory of the Trustee or an authenticating agent. 
  
 16. Abbreviations. Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not
as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act). 
  
 17. [Additional Rights of Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities. In addition to the rights provided to Holders of Notes under the Indenture, Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities shall have all the
rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement dated as of                     , among the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Initial
Purchasers (the “Registration Rights Agreement”).]3 
  
 18. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Issuers have caused CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes and the Trustee may use CUSIP numbers and corresponding ISIN numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers placed thereon. 
  
 19. Governing Law. THE INDENTURE AND THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY,
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
  
 20. Successors. In the event a successor assumes all the obligations of an Issuer under the Notes and the Indenture, pursuant to the terms thereof, such Issuer will be released from all such obligations. 
  
 The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without
charge a copy of the Indenture [and/or the Registration Rights Agreement]4. Requests may be made to: 
  
 Inergy, L.P. 
 Two Brush Creek Boulevard, Suite 200 
 Kansas City, Missouri 64112 
 Attention: Chief Financial Officer 
  

	3	Delete if this Note is not being issued in exchange for an Initial Note. 

	4	Delete if this Note is not being issued in exchange for an Initial Note. 

  

 Ex. A to App. - 9 

 ASSIGNMENT FORM 
  

To assign this Note, fill in the form below: 
  
 I or we assign and transfer this Note to 
  

	
	 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

	 Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
  

	 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

	(Insert assignee’s soc. sec. or tax I.D. No.)

  
 and irrevocably appoint
                     agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuers. The agent may substitute another to act for him. 
  

					
	 Date:
                    
	  	Your Signature:	 	  

	 	  	Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.

  
 Signatures must be
guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other
“signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  

 Ex. A to App. - 10 

 OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE 
  
 If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or 4.15 of the Indenture, check the
box below: 
  
  ̈ 
  
 If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.15 of the Indenture, state the amount (in minimum denomination of $1,000 or integral multiples thereof) you elected to have
purchased: $                     
  

					
	 Date:
                    
	 	Your Signature:	 	  

	 	 	(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note)
		
	 	 	Soc. Sec. or Tax Identification No.:
                    

  
  

			
	 Signature Guarantee:
	 	  

	 	 	(Signature must be guaranteed)

  
 Signatures must be
guaranteed by an “eligible guarantor institution” meeting the requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program (“STAMP”) or such other
“signature guarantee program” as may be determined by the Registrar in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. 
  

 Ex. A to App. - 11 

 ANNEX A 

 INERGY, L.P. 
  
 INERGY FINANCE CORP. 
  
 and 
  
 the Guarantors named herein

  
 6.875% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2014 
  
 FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE 
 AND AMENDMENT — SUBSIDIARY GUARANTEE 
  
 DATED AS OF                     
    ,          
  

  
 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 
  
 Trustee 
  

  

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 This SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE, dated as of
                         ,          is among Inergy, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership (the “Company”), Inergy Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation ( “Finance Corp.” and, together with the Company, the “Issuers”), each of the parties identified under the caption
“Guarantors” on the signature page hereto (the “Guarantors”) and U.S. Bank National Association, a national banking association, as Trustee. 
  

RECITALS 
  
 WHEREAS, the Issuers, the initial Guarantors and the Trustee entered into an Indenture, dated as of December 22, 2004 (the “Indenture”),
pursuant to which the Company has issued $                     in principal amount of 6.875% Senior Notes due 2014 (the “Notes”);

  
 WHEREAS, Section 9.01(g) of the Indenture provides that the
Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee may amend or supplement the Indenture in order to comply with Section 4.13 or 10.03 thereof, without the consent of the Holders of the Notes; and 
  
 WHEREAS, all acts and things prescribed by the Indenture, by law and by the Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws (or
comparable constituent documents) of the Issuers, of the Guarantors and of the Trustee necessary to make this Supplemental Indenture a valid instrument legally binding on the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee, in accordance with its terms,
have been duly done and performed; 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, to comply
with the provisions of the Indenture and in consideration of the above premises, the Issuers, the Guarantors and the Trustee covenant and agree for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective Holders of the Notes as follows: 
  
 ARTICLE 1 
  
 Section 1.01. This Supplemental Indenture is supplemental to the Indenture and does and shall be deemed to form a part of,
and shall be construed in connection with and as part of, the Indenture for any and all purposes. 
  
 Section 1.02. This Supplemental Indenture shall become effective immediately upon its execution and delivery by each of the Issuers, the Guarantors and
the Trustee. 
  
 ARTICLE 2 
  
 From this date, in accordance with Section 4.13 or 10.03 and by executing
this Supplemental Indenture, the Guarantors whose signatures appear below are subject to the provisions of the Indenture to the extent provided for in Article 10 thereunder. 
  
 ARTICLE 3 
  
 Section 3.01. Except as specifically modified herein, the Indenture and the Notes are in all respects ratified and confirmed (mutatis mutandis) and
shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms with all capitalized terms used herein without definition having the same respective meanings ascribed to them as in the Indenture. 
  

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 Section 3.02. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, no duties, responsibilities or liabilities
are assumed, or shall be construed to be assumed, by the Trustee by reason of this Supplemental Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture is executed and accepted by the Trustee subject to all the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture with
the same force and effect as if those terms and conditions were repeated at length herein and made applicable to the Trustee with respect hereto. 
  
 Section 3.03. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 
  
 Section 3.04. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental
Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of such executed copies together shall represent the same agreement. 
  
 [NEXT PAGE IS SIGNATURE PAGE] 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, all
as of the date first written above. 
  

			
	 INERGY, L.P.

		
	 By:
	 	INERGY GP, LLC, ITS MANAGING GENERAL PARTNER
		
	 By
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	  

	 Title:
	 	  

	
	 INERGY FINANCE CORP.

		
	 By:
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	  

	 Title:
	 	  

	
	 GUARANTORS

	 [                                      
                                        
                               ]

		
	 By
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	  

	 Title:
	 	  

	
	 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

	 as Trustee

		
	 By
	 	  

	 Name:
	 	  

	 Title:
	 	  

  

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 ANNEX B 
  
 FORM OF REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 See attached. 
  

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 ANNEX C 
  
 CERTAIN AGREEMENTS 
  
 None. 
  

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 ANNEX D 
  
 CERTAIN LEASES 
  
 Five (5) separate leases dated August 1, 2003 by and between United Propane, Inc (“Landlord”) and Inergy Propane, LLC (“Tenant”) for the following
properties: 
  

	 	1.	6560 Hughesville Industrial Parkway 

 Hughesville, MD

	 	2.	201-203 Najoles Rd 

 Millersville, MD 

	 	3.	205 Najoles (Land) 

 Millersville, MD 

	 	4.	5020 St. Leonard Rd 

 St. Leonard, MD 

	 	5.	104 W Ridgeville Blvd 

 Mount Airy, MD 
  
 Two (2) separate leases dated August 1, 2003 by and between Robert A. Pascal
(“Landlord”) and Inergy Propane, LLC (“Tenant) for the following properties: 
  

	 	1.	205 Najoles (building) 

 Millersville, MD 

	 	2.	929 S. Talbot St 

 St. Michaels, MD 
  
 Three (3) separate leases dated August 1, 2003 by and between Pascal Enterprises, Inc.
(“Landlord”) and Inergy Propane, LLC (“Tenant) for the following properties: 
  

	 	1.	10306 Sharpsburg Pike 

 Hagerstown, MD 

	 	2.	8351 Pulaski Highway 

 Rosedale, MD 

	 	3.	3210 Washington St 

 Leonardtown, MD 
  
 One (1) lease dated May 1, 2004 by and between United Leasing, Inc. (“Landlord”)
and Inergy Propane, LLC (“Tenant) for the following property: 
  

	 	1.	3101 Shell Rd. 

 Baltimore, MD 
  

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