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                                                                    EXHIBIT 4(d)

                           FIRST ALBANY COMPANIES INC.

                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

                                FOR KEY EMPLOYEES

                            EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 1998

                 AMENDED AND RESTATED EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2000

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Article 1

           Definitions.....................................................................................................5

Article 2

           Eligibility, Selection, Enrollment.............................................................................10
           2.01   Selection by Committee..................................................................................11
           2.02   Enrollment Requirements.................................................................................11
           2.03      Commencement of Participation........................................................................11
           2.04      Subsequent Elections.................................................................................11
           2.05      Termination of Participation and/or Deferrals........................................................11

Article 3

           Participant Deferrals, Commitments, Company Match, Investment Adjustments, Taxes and Vesting...................12
           3.01      Participant Deferrals................................................................................12
                     (a)       Deferral Election..........................................................................12
                     (b)       Minimum Deferral...........................................................................12
                               (i)        Minimum.........................................................................12
                               (ii)       Short Plan Year.................................................................13
                     (c)       Maximum Deferral...........................................................................13
                     (d)       Deferral Designations......................................................................13
                               (i)        Base Annual Salary..............................................................13
                               (ii)       Bonus Amounts...................................................................13
                               (iii)      Commission Payouts..............................................................13

           3.02      Annual Company Match.................................................................................14
           3.03      Selection of Investment Benchmarks...................................................................14
           3.04      Adjustment of Plan Accounts..........................................................................14
           3.05      FICA and Other Taxes.................................................................................15
                     (a)       Annual Deferral Amounts....................................................................15
                     (b)       Distributions..............................................................................15

           3.06      Vesting..............................................................................................15
                     (a)       Forfeiture of Unvested Amounts.............................................................15
                     (b)       Vesting of Amounts.........................................................................15
                     (c)       Vesting After Covered Termination..........................................................15
                     (d)       Vesting Upon Plan Termination..............................................................16
                     (e)       Acceleration of Vesting by Committee.......................................................16
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Article 4

           Suspension of Deferrals........................................................................................16
           4.01      Unforeseeable Financial Emergencies..................................................................16
           4.02      Disability...........................................................................................16
           4.03      Resumption of Deferrals..............................................................................16

Article 5

           Distribution of Plan Accounts..................................................................................16
           5.01      Distribution Elections...............................................................................16
           5.02      Early Distribution of Aggregate Vested Balance.......................................................17
           5.03      Withdrawal in the Event of an Unforeseeable Financial Emergency......................................17
           5.04      Distribution Restrictions............................................................................17
           5.05      Valuation of Plan Accounts Pending Distribution......................................................18
           5.06      Form of Payment......................................................................................18

Article 6

           Survivor Benefit...............................................................................................19
           6.01      Survivor Benefit.....................................................................................19
           6.02      Payment of Survivor Benefit..........................................................................19

Article 7

           Disability Benefit.............................................................................................19
           7.01      Disability Benefit...................................................................................19

Article 8

           Beneficiary Designation........................................................................................19
           8.01      Beneficiary..........................................................................................19
           8.02      Beneficiary Designation; Change; Spousal Consent.....................................................19
           8.03      Acknowledgment.......................................................................................20
           8.04      No Beneficiary Designation...........................................................................20
           8.05      Doubt as to Beneficiary..............................................................................20
           8.06      Discharge of Obligations.............................................................................20

Article 9

           Leave of Absence...............................................................................................20
           9.01      Paid Leave of Absence................................................................................20
           9.02      Unpaid Leave of Absence..............................................................................20
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Article 10

           Termination, Amendment or Modification.........................................................................21
           10.01     Termination..........................................................................................21
           10.02     Amendment............................................................................................21
           10.03     Effect of Payment....................................................................................21

Article 11

           Administration.................................................................................................22
           11.01     Committee Duties.....................................................................................22
           11.02     Agents...............................................................................................22
           11.03     Binding Effect of Decisions..........................................................................22
           11.04     Indemnity of Committee...............................................................................22
           11.05     Employer Information.................................................................................22

Article 12

           Other Benefits and Agreements..................................................................................23

Article 13

           Claims Procedures..............................................................................................23
           13.01     Presentation of Claim................................................................................23
           13.02     Notification of Decision.............................................................................23
           13.03     Review of a Denied Claim.............................................................................24
           13.04     Decision on Review...................................................................................24
           13.05     Arbitration..........................................................................................24

Article 14

           Trust..........................................................................................................25
           14.01     Establishment of the Trust...........................................................................25
           14.02     Interrelationship of the Plan and the Trust..........................................................25
           14.03     Distributions From the Trust.........................................................................25

Article 15

           Miscellaneous..................................................................................................25
           15.01     Status of Plan.......................................................................................25
           15.02     Unsecured General Creditor...........................................................................25
           15.03     Employer's Liability.................................................................................25
           15.04     Nonassignability.....................................................................................26
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           15.05     Not a Contract of Employment.........................................................................26
           15.06     Furnishing Information...............................................................................26
           15.07     Terms................................................................................................26
           15.08     Captions.............................................................................................26
           15.09     Governing Law........................................................................................26
           15.10     Notice...............................................................................................26
           15.11     Successors...........................................................................................27
           15.12     Spouse's Interest....................................................................................27
           15.13     Validity.............................................................................................27
           15.14     Incompetent..........................................................................................27
           15.15     Distribution in the Event of Taxation................................................................27
           15.16     Insurance............................................................................................28
           15.17     Legal Fees To Enforce Rights After Change in Control.................................................28
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                           FIRST ALBANY COMPANIES INC.
                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
                                FOR KEY EMPLOYEES

                            Effective January 1, 1998

                 Amended and Restated Effective January 1, 2000

                                     PURPOSE

                  The purpose of this Plan is to provide specified benefits to a
select group of management or highly compensated Employees who contribute
materially to the continued growth, development and future business success of
First Albany Companies Inc. and its subsidiaries, if any, that sponsor this
Plan. This Plan shall be unfunded for tax purposes and for purposes of Title I
of ERISA.

                                    ARTICLE 1

                                   Definitions

                  For purposes of this Plan, unless otherwise clearly apparent
from the context, the following phrases or terms shall have the meanings
indicated:

1.1        "Aggregate Vested Balance" or "Aggregate Vested Benefit" shall mean,
           with respect to the Plan Accounts of any Participant as of a given
           date, the sum of the amounts that have become vested under all of the
           Participant's Plan Accounts, as adjusted to reflect all applicable
           Investment Adjustments and all prior withdrawals and distributions,
           in accordance with Article 3 of the Plan and the provisions of the
           applicable Enrollment Forms.

1.2        "Amended Annual Election Form" shall mean the Amended Annual Election
           Form required by the Committee to be signed and submitted by a
           Participant to effect a permitted change in the elections previously
           made by the Participant under any Annual Election Form.

1.3        "Amended Distribution Election Form" shall mean the Amended
           Distribution Election Form required by the Committee to be signed and
           submitted by a Participant to effect a permitted change in the
           Distribution Election previously made by the Participant under any
           Distribution Election Form.

1.4        "Annual Company Match" shall mean the aggregate amount credited by
           the Company to a Participant in respect of a particular Plan Year
           under Section 3.02.

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1.5        "Annual Company Match Account" shall mean a Participant's Annual
           Company Match for a Plan Year, as adjusted to reflect all applicable
           Investment Adjustments and all prior distributions and withdrawals.

1.6        "Annual Deferral Account" shall mean a Participant's Annual
           Participant Deferral for a Plan Year, as adjusted to reflect all
           applicable Investment Adjustments and all prior distributions and
           withdrawals.

1.7        "Annual Deferral Agreement" shall mean the Annual Deferral Agreement
           required by the Committee to be signed and submitted by a Participant
           in connection with the Participant's deferral election with respect
           to a given Plan Year.

1.8        "Annual Election Form" shall mean the Annual Election Form required
           by the Committee to be signed and submitted by a Participant in
           connection with the Participant's deferral election with respect to a
           given Plan Year.

1.9        "Annual Participant Deferral" shall mean the aggregate amount
           deferred by a Participant in respect of a particular Plan Year under
           Section 3.01.

1.10       "Base Annual Salary" shall mean the annual base salary payable to a
           Participant by an Employer in cash in respect of services rendered
           during a Plan Year, including any Elective Deductions, but excluding
           Bonus Amounts, Commission Payouts or other additional incentives or
           awards payable to the Participant.

1.11       "Beneficiary" shall mean one or more persons, trusts, estates or
           other entities, designated in accordance with Article 10, that are
           entitled to receive a Participant's Aggregate Account Balance under
           this Plan in the event of the Participant's death.

1.12       "Beneficiary Designation Form" shall mean the Beneficiary Designation
           Form or Amended Beneficiary Designation Form last signed and
           submitted by a Participant and accepted by the Committee.

1.13       "Board" shall mean the board of directors of the Company.

1.14       "Bonus Amounts" shall mean Discretionary Bonus Amounts and Guaranteed
           Bonus Amounts.

1.15       "Change in Control" shall mean the earliest to occur of the following
           events:

           (a)      The consummation of any transaction or series of
                    transactions as a result of which any "Person" (as the term
                    person is used for purposes of Section 13(d) or 14(d) of the
                    Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange
                    Act")) other than an "Excluded Person" (as hereinafter
                    defined) has or obtains ownership or control, directly or
                    indirectly, of fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined
                    voting power of all securities of the Company or any
                    successor or surviving corporation of any merger,
                    consolidation or reorganization involving the Company (the
                    "Voting Securities"). The term "Excluded Person" means any
                    one or more of the following: (i) the Company or any
                    majority-owned

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                    subsidiary of the Company, (ii) an employee benefit plan (or
                    a trust forming a part thereof) maintained by (A) the
                    Company or (B) any majority-owned subsidiary of the Company,
                    (iii) any Person who as of the initial effective date of
                    this Plan owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, ten
                    percent (10%) or more of the then outstanding Voting
                    Securities, or any individual, entity or group that was part
                    of such a Person;

           (b)      A merger, consolidation or reorganization involving the
                    Company as a result of which the holders of Voting
                    Securities immediately before such merger, consolidation
                    or reorganization do not immediately following such
                    merger, consolidation or reorganization own or control,
                    directly or indirectly, at least fifty percent (50%) of
                    the Voting Securities in substantially the same proportion
                    as their ownership or control of the Voting Securities
                    immediately before such merger, consolidation or
                    reorganization; or

           (c)      The sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of
                    the assets of the Company to any Person (other than a
                    transfer to a majority-owned subsidiary of the Company).

1.16       "Claimant" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.1.

1.17       "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it may be
           amended from time to time.

1.18       "Commission Payouts" shall mean the amounts payable to a Participant
           by an Employer in cash in respect of services rendered during a Plan
           Year under any commission scheme or commission draw arrangement,
           including any Elective Deductions, but excluding Bonus Amounts,
           stock-related awards and other non-monetary incentives.

1.19       "Committee" shall mean the committee described in Article 11.

1.20       "Company" shall mean First Albany Companies Inc., a New York
           corporation, and any successor to all or substantially all of its
           assets or business.

1.21       "Company Stock" shall mean the common stock, par value $.01 per
           share, of the Company.

1.22       "Covered Termination" shall mean the Participant's Termination of
           Employment within two (2) years following a Change in Control as a
           result of the Participant's resignation for good reason or a
           termination by the Participant's Employer without cause. For these
           purposes a Participant's resignation for good reason shall mean a
           Participant's resignation following (i) a diminution in the
           Participant's status, title, position or responsibilities, or an
           assignment to the Participant of duties inconsistent with the
           Participant's status, title or position other than for cause or (ii)
           a reduction of more than ten percent (10%) in the Participant's
           aggregate annualized compensation rate solely as a result of a
           change adopted unilaterally by the Company. A Participant's
           resignation shall not be treated as a resignation for good reason
           unless it occurs after

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           one of the foregoing events and the Participant provides the
           Employer with written notice of the event within six (6) months of
           the occurrence of the event and within seven (7) days before the
           effective date of the Participant's resignation and the Employer
           shall not have cured such event prior to such resignation. A
           termination by the Participant's Employer without cause shall mean
           an involuntary termination of the Participant's employment by
           Participant's Employer other than by reason of the Participant's (i)
           willful and continued failure to perform the duties of his or her
           position after receiving notice of such failure and being given
           reasonable opportunity to cure such failure; (ii) willful misconduct
           which is demonstrably and materially injurious to the Employer;
           (iii) conviction of a felony; or (iv) material breach of applicable
           federal or state securities laws, regulations or licensing
           requirements or the applicable rules or regulations of any
           self-regulatory body. No act or failure to act on the part of a
           Participant shall be considered "willful" unless it is done or
           omitted to be done in bad faith or without reasonable belief that
           the action or omission was in the best interest of the Employer. No
           termination shall be considered a termination for cause unless it is
           effected by a written notice to the Participant stating in detail
           the grounds constituting cause.

1.23       "Disability" shall mean a period of disability during which a
           Participant qualifies for total permanent disability benefits under
           the Participant's Employer's long-term disability plan, or, if a
           Participant does not participate in such a plan, a period of
           disability during which the Participant would have qualified for
           total permanent disability benefits under such a plan had the
           Participant been a participant in such a plan, as determined in the
           sole discretion of the Committee. If the Participant's Employer does
           not sponsor such a plan, or discontinues to sponsor such a plan,
           Disability shall be determined by the Committee in its sole
           discretion.

1.24       "Disability Benefit" shall mean the benefit set forth in Article 9.

1.25       "Discretionary Bonus Amounts" shall mean such amounts that are
           determined in the sole discretion of an Employer and are payable in
           cash to a Participant in respect of services rendered during a Plan
           Year under any bonus or incentive plan or arrangement of an Employer,
           including any Elective Deductions, but excluding Commission Payouts,
           stock-related awards and other non-monetary incentives.

1.26       "Distribution Election" shall mean an election made in accordance
           with Section 5.01.

1.27       "Distribution Election Form" shall mean the Distribution Election
           Form required by the Committee to be signed and submitted by a
           Participant with respect to a Distribution Election.

1.28       "Election Form" shall mean, with respect to any Plan Account, the
           Annual Election Form or the Amended Annual Election Form last signed
           and submitted by the Participant and accepted by the Committee with
           respect to that Plan Account.

1.29       "Elective Deductions" shall mean deductions made from a Participant's
           Base Annual Salary, Bonus Amounts and Commission Payouts for amounts
           voluntarily deferred or

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           contributed by the Participant pursuant to all qualified and
           non-qualified compensation deferral plans, including, without
           limitation, amounts not included in the Participant's gross income
           under Code Sections 125, 402(e)(3) and 402(h), provided, however,
           that all such amounts would have been payable in cash to the Employee
           had there been no such plan.

1.30       "Employee" shall mean a person who is an employee of any Employer.

1.31       "Employer" shall mean the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries (now
           in existence or hereafter formed or acquired) that have been selected
           by the Board to participate in the Plan and have adopted the Plan as
           a sponsor.

1.32       "Enrollment Forms" shall mean, for any Plan Year, the Annual Deferral
           Agreement, the Annual Election Form, the Distribution Election Form,
           the Beneficiary Designation Form, the Subordination Agreement and any
           other forms or documents which may be required of a Participant by
           the Committee, in its sole discretion.

1.33       "ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of
           1974, as it may be amended from time to time.

1.34       "Guaranteed Bonus Amounts" shall mean predetermined amounts that are
           not subject to Employer discretion and are payable in cash to a
           Participant in respect of services rendered during a Plan Year under
           any bonus or incentive plan or arrangement of an Employer, including
           any Elective Deductions, but excluding Commission Payouts,
           stock-related awards and other non-monetary incentives.

1.35       "Investment Adjustment" shall mean an adjustment made to the balance
           of any Plan Account in accordance with Section 3.04 to reflect the
           performance of an Investment Benchmark pursuant to which the value of
           the Plan Account is measured.

1.36       "Investment Benchmark" shall mean a benchmark made available under
           the Plan from time to time by the Committee for purposes of valuing
           Plan Accounts.

1.37       "Participant" shall mean any Employee (i) who is selected to
           participate in the Plan, (ii) who elects to participate in the Plan,
           (iii) who signs the applicable Enrollment Forms (and other forms
           required by the Committee), (iv) whose signed Enrollment Forms (and
           other required forms) are accepted by the Committee, (v) who
           commences participation in the Plan, and (vi) whose participation has
           not terminated. A spouse or former spouse of a Participant shall not
           be treated as a Participant in the Plan or have an account balance
           under the Plan, even if he or she has an interest in the
           Participant's benefits under the Plan as a result of applicable law
           or property settlements resulting from legal separation or divorce.

1.38       "Plan" shall mean the First Albany Companies Inc. Deferred
           Compensation Plan For Key Employees (formerly known as the First
           Albany Companies Inc. Executive Oficers Deferred Compensation Plan),
           which shall be evidenced by this instrument and by each Enrollment
           Form, as they may be amended from time to time.

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1.39       "Plan Accounts" shall mean the Annual Deferral Accounts and Annual
           Company Match Accounts established under the Plan.

1.40       "Plan Year" shall mean the period beginning on January 1 of each year
           and ending December 31.

1.41       "Restricted Investment Benchmark" means an Investment Benchmark which
           is designated as a Restricted Investment Benchmark by the Committee
           at the time such Investment Benchmark is initially made available
           under the Plan.

1.42       "Subordination Agreement" means the New York Stock Exchange
           Subordination Agreement required by the Committee to be signed and
           submitted by a Participant in connection with the Participant's
           deferral election with respect to a given Plan Year.

1.43       "Survivor Benefit" shall mean the benefit set forth in Article 6.

1.44       "Termination of Employment" shall mean the severing of employment
           with all Employers, voluntarily or involuntarily, for any reason.

1.45       "Trust" shall mean the trust established in accordance with Article
           14.

1.45       "Unforeseeable Financial Emergency" shall mean an
           unanticipated emergency that is caused by an event beyond
           the control of the Participant that would result in
           severe financial hardship to the Participant resulting
           from (i) a sudden and unexpected illness or accident of
           the Participant or a dependent of the Participant, (ii) a
           loss of the Participant's property due to casualty, or
           (iii) such other extraordinary and unforeseeable
           circumstances arising as a result of events beyond the
           control of the Participant, all as determined in the sole
           discretion of the Committee.  In making its determination
           the Committee shall be guided by the prevailing
           authorities applicable under the Code.

1.46       "Vested Account Balance" shall mean, with respect to any Plan Account
           as of a given date, the sum of the amounts that have become vested,
           as adjusted to reflect all applicable Investment Adjustments and all
           prior withdrawals and distributions, in accordance with Article 3 of
           the Plan and the provisions of applicable Enrollment Forms.

1.47       "Years of Service" shall mean the total number of full Plan Years
           during which a Participant has been continuously employed by one or
           more Employers. Any partial Plan Year during which a Participant has
           been employed by an Employer shall not be counted.

                                    ARTICLE 2

                       Eligibility, Selection, Enrollment

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           2.1 Selection by Committee. Participation in the Plan shall be
limited to a select group of management or highly compensated Employees of the
Employers, as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion. From that
group, the Committee shall select, in its sole discretion, the Employees who
shall be eligible to make an Annual Participant Deferral in respect of each Plan
Year. The Committee's selection of an Employee to make an Annual Participant
Deferral in respect of a particular Plan Year will not entitle that Employee to
make an Annual Participant Deferral for any subsequent Plan Year, unless the
Employee is again selected by the Committee to make an Annual Participant
Deferral for such subsequent Plan Year.

           2.2 Enrollment Requirements. As a condition to being eligible to make
an Annual Participant Deferral for any Plan Year, each selected Employee shall
complete, execute and return to the Committee each of the required Enrollment
Forms, and shall have on file with the Committee a completed Beneficiary
Designation Form, all prior to the date specified by the Committee. In addition,
the Committee shall establish from time to time such other enrollment
requirements as it determines necessary, in its sole discretion.

           2.3 Commencement of Participation. Provided an Employee selected to
make an Annual Participant Deferral in respect of a particular Plan Year has met
all enrollment requirements set forth in this Plan and required by the
Committee, including returning all required documents to the Committee within
the specified time period, the Employee's designated deferrals shall commence as
of the date established by the Committee in its sole discretion. If an Employee
fails to meet all such requirements within the specified time period with
respect to any Plan Year, the Employee shall not be eligible to make any
deferrals for that Plan Year.

           2.4 Subsequent Elections. The Enrollment Forms submitted by a
Participant in respect of a particular Plan Year will not be effective with
respect to any subsequent Plan Year, except that the Beneficiary Designation
Form on file with the Committee will remain effective for all subsequent Plan
Years unless and until an Amended Beneficiary Designation Form is submitted. If
an Employee is selected to participate in the Plan for a subsequent Plan Year
and the required Enrollment Forms are not timely delivered for the subsequent
Plan Year, the Participant shall not be eligible to make any deferrals with
respect to such subsequent Plan Year.

           2.5 Termination of Participation and/or Deferrals. If the Committee
determines in good faith that a Participant no longer qualifies as a member of a
select group of management or highly compensated employees, as membership in
such group is determined in accordance with Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and
401(a)(1) of ERISA, the Committee shall have the right, in its sole discretion,
to (i) terminate any Annual Participant Deferral and Annual Company Match not
yet credited to the Participant's Plan Accounts and/or (ii) immediately
distribute the Participant's then Aggregate Vested Balance as a Termination
Benefit and terminate the Participant's participation in the Plan. Any Annual
Company Match credited on behalf of the Participant that is not vested prior to
the date of the Committee's determination shall be forfeited by the Participant.
If the Committee chooses to terminate the Participant's participation in the
Plan, the Committee may, in its sole discretion, select the Participant to
participate in the Plan at such time in the future as the Participant again
becomes a member of the select group described above. If a Participant's
Employer terminates the Participant's employment for cause (as described in
Section 1.19), then, (i) the Participant's participation in the Plan shall
automatically terminate, (ii) the

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Committee shall distribute to the Participant, at the time and in the manner
described in Section 5.02, the remainder of the Participant's Annual Participant
Deferrals that were credited to the Participant's Plan Accounts prior to the
date of termination after adjustment for all prior withdrawals and distributions
and (iii) all other amounts in any of the Participant's Plan Accounts shall be
forfeited by the Participant. Any distribution made pursuant to this Section
2.05 may be subject to deferred distribution pursuant to Section 5.04.

                                ARTICLE 3

               Participant Deferrals, Commitments, Company Match,
                   Investment Adjustments, Taxes and Vesting

           3.1    Participant Deferrals.

                              (a) Deferral Election. A Participant may make an
           election to defer the receipt of amounts payable to the Participant
           in the form of Base Annual Salary, Bonus Amounts and Commission
           Payouts for services rendered during a Plan Year. The Participant's
           election shall be evidenced by an Annual Deferral Agreement and
           Annual Election Form completed and submitted to the Committee in
           accordance with such procedures and time frames as may be established
           by the Committee in its sole discretion. Amounts deferred by a
           Participant in respect of services rendered during a Plan Year shall
           be referred to collectively as an Annual Participant Deferral and
           shall be credited to an Annual Deferral Account established in the
           name of the Participant. A separate Annual Deferral Account shall be
           established and maintained for each Annual Participant Deferral. The
           Committee shall have sole discretion to determine in respect of each
           Plan Year: (i) whether a Participant shall be eligible to make an
           Annual Participant Deferral; (ii) the form(s) of compensation which
           may be the subject of any Annual Participant Deferral; and (iii) any
           other terms and conditions applicable to the Annual Participant
           Deferral.

                              (b) Minimum Deferral.

                                            (i)      Minimum. For each Plan Year
                  the Committee may permit a Participant to elect to defer, as
                  his or her Annual Participant Deferral, one or more of the
                  following forms of compensation, payable to the Participant
                  but not yet received during the Plan Year, in the following
                  minimum amounts:

                                                                 Minimum
                                 Deferral                         Amount
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                           Base Annual Salary                     $3,000
                           Guaranteed Bonus Amounts               $3,000
                           Discretionary Bonus Amounts            $3,000
                           Commission Payouts                     $3,000

                  If an election is made for less than stated minimum amounts,
                  or if no election is made, the amount deferred shall be zero.

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                                            (ii)     Short Plan Year. If a
                  Participant first becomes a Participant after the first day of
                  a Plan Year, the minimum deferral of each of the Participant's
                  Base Annual Salary, Bonus Amounts and Commission Payouts shall
                  be an amount equal to the minimum set forth above, multiplied
                  by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of
                  complete months remaining in the Plan Year and the denominator
                  of which is 12.

                              (c) Maximum Deferral. For each Plan Year the
           Committee may permit a Participant to elect to defer, as his or her
           Annual Participant Deferral, one or more of the following forms of
           compensation, payable to the Participant but not yet received during
           the Plan Year, up to the following maximum percentages:

                                                                    Maximum
                           Deferral                                Percentage

                           Base Annual Salary                          50%
                           Guaranteed Bonus Amounts                    50%
                           Discretionary Bonus Amounts                100%
                           Commission Payouts                         100%

                              (d) Deferral Designations.

                                  (i)     Base Annual Salary. A Participant may
                  designate the amount of the Annual Participant Deferral to be
                  deducted from his or her Base Annual Salary as either a
                  percentage of his or her Base Annual Salary or a fixed dollar
                  amount. Such amount shall be withheld from each regularly
                  scheduled Base Annual Salary payment in equal amounts.

                                  (ii)    Bonus Amounts. A Participant may
                  designate the amount of the Annual Participant Deferral to be
                  deducted from his or her Bonus Amounts as either a percentage
                  or a fixed dollar amount of specified Bonus Amounts expected
                  by the Participant. Percentages may be expressed as
                  percentages of Bonus Amounts in excess of stated thresholds
                  selected by the Participant. If a Participant designates the
                  Annual Participant Deferral to be deducted from any Bonus
                  Amount as a fixed dollar amount and such fixed dollar amount
                  exceeds the Bonus Amount actually payable to the Participant,
                  the entire amount of such Bonus Amount shall be withheld.

                                  (iii)   Commission Payouts. A Participant may
                  designate the amount of the Annual Participant Deferral to be
                  deducted from his or her Commission Payouts as either a
                  percentage of his or her Commission Payouts or a fixed dollar
                  amount. Percentages may be expressed as percentages of the
                  amount of each regularly scheduled Commission Payout payment
                  in excess of a stated threshold selected by the Participant.
                  Such amount shall be withheld from the Commission Payout
                  portion of each regularly scheduled Commission Payout payment
                  in equal amounts.

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           3.2 Annual Company Match. A Participant may be credited with one or
more Company matches in respect of any Plan Year, expressed as a percentage of
the amount of Base Annual Salary, Bonus Amounts, Commission Payouts or any
combination of the foregoing deferred by the Participant pursuant to the
Participant's Annual Participant Deferral for the Plan Year. Such Company
matches credited to a Participant in respect of a Plan Year shall be referred to
collectively as the Annual Company Match for that Plan Year and shall be
credited to an Annual Company Match Account in the name of the Participant. A
separate Annual Company Match Account shall be established and maintained for
each Annual Company Match. The Board shall have sole discretion to determine in
respect of each Plan Year and each Participant: (i) whether any Annual Company
Match shall be made; (ii) the Participant(s) who shall be entitled to such
Annual Company Match; (iii) the amount of such Annual Company Match; (iv) the
date(s) on which any portion of such Annual Company Match shall be credited to
each Participant's Annual Company Match Account; (v) the Investment Benchmark(s)
that shall apply to such Annual Company Match; and (v) any other terms and
conditions applicable to such Annual Company Match.

           3.3 Selection of Investment Benchmarks. In connection with a
Participant's election to make an Annual Participant Deferral in respect of a
Plan Year, the Participant shall select one or more Investment Benchmarks and
the percentage of the Participant's Annual Deferral Account and Annual Company
Match Account (if any) for such Plan Year to be adjusted to reflect the
performance of each selected Investment Benchmark; provided, however, that a
Participant's ability to select Investment Benchmarks with respect to his or her
Annual Company Match Account is subject to, and may be limited by, the Board's
discretion under Section 3.02 to designate the Investment Benchmarks that shall
apply to all or a portion of such Annual Company Match Account. All selections
of Investment Benchmarks shall be in multiples of 10% unless the Committee
determines that lower increments are acceptable. A Participant may make changes
in his or her selected Investment Benchmarks with respect to any Plan Account at
such times as the Committee may designate by completing and submitting to the
Committee an Amended Election Form in accordance with such procedures and time
frames as may be established from time to time at the sole discretion of the
Committee; provided, however, that the Committee, in its sole discretion, may
limit a Participant's ability to make such changes with respect to certain
Investment Benchmarks.

           3.4 Adjustment of Plan Accounts. While a Participant's Plan Accounts
do not represent the Participant's ownership of, or any ownership interest in,
any particular assets, the Participant's Plan Accounts shall be adjusted in
accordance with the Investment Benchmark(s), subject to the conditions and
procedures set forth herein or established by the Committee from time to time.
Any cash earnings generated under an Investment Benchmark (such as interest and
cash dividends and distributions) shall, at the Committee's sole discretion,
either be deemed to be reinvested in that Investment Benchmark or reinvested in
one or more other Investment Benchmark(s) designated by the Committee. All
notional acquisitions and dispositions of Investment Benchmarks under a
Participant's Plan Accounts shall be deemed to occur at such times as the
Committee shall determine to be administratively feasible in its sole discretion
and the Participant's Plan Accounts shall be adjusted accordingly. In addition,
a Participant's Plan Accounts may be adjusted from time to time, in accordance
with procedures and practices established by the Committee, in its sole
discretion, to reflect any notional transactional costs and other fees and
expenses relating to the deemed investment, disposition or carrying of any

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Investment Benchmark for the Participant's Plan Accounts. Adjustments made in
accordance herewith shall be referred to as Investment Adjustments.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, any Investment Adjustments made to any
Plan Account following a Change in Control shall be made in a manner no less
favorable to Participants than the practices and procedures employed under the
Plan, or as otherwise in effect, as of the date of the Change in Control.

           3.5    FICA and Other Taxes.

                           (a)      Annual Deferral Amounts. For each Plan Year
           in which an Annual Participant Deferral is being withheld from a
           Participant, the Participant's Employer(s) shall withhold from that
           portion of the Participant's Base Annual Salary, Bonus Amounts,
           and/or Commission Payouts that is not being deferred, in a manner
           determined by the Employer(s), the Participant's share of FICA and
           other employment taxes; provided, however, that the Committee may
           reduce the Annual Participant Deferral if necessary to comply with
           applicable withholding requirements.

                           (b)      Distributions. The Participant's
           Employer(s), or the trustee of the Trust, shall withhold from any
           payments made to a Participant under this Plan all federal, state and
           local income, employment and other taxes required to be withheld by
           the Employer(s), or the trustee of the Trust, in connection with such
           payments, in amounts and in a manner to be determined in the sole
           discretion of the Employer(s) and the trustee of the Trust.

           3.6    Vesting.

                           (a)      Forfeiture of Unvested Amounts. As of the
           date of a Participant's Termination of Employment, Disability or
           death, the amounts credited to each of the Participant's Plan
           Accounts shall be reduced by the amount which has not become vested
           in accordance with the vesting provisions set forth below and in the
           Annual Deferral Agreement applicable to such Plan Account, and such
           unvested amounts shall be forfeited by the Participant.

                           (b)      Vesting of Amounts. The Participant shall be
           vested in the amounts credited to his or her Annual Deferral Account
           and Annual Company Match Account in respect of each given Plan Year
           as set forth in the Annual Deferral Agreement pertaining to such Plan
           Year. The vesting terms set forth in each Annual Deferral Agreement
           shall be established by the Committee in its sole discretion and may
           vary for each Participant and each Plan Year. Such vesting terms may,
           in the Committee's discretion, provide for acceleration of vesting
           upon a Change in Control.

                           (c)      Vesting After Covered Termination. Unless
           otherwise specifically provided under the terms of a particular
           Annual Deferral Agreement, in the event of a Participant's Covered
           Termination, such Participant, as of the effective date of such
           Covered Termination, shall be 100% vested in all amounts credited to
           each of the Participant's Plan Accounts, as adjusted for the
           applicable Investment Adjustments and all prior withdrawals and
           distributions.

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                           (d)      Vesting Upon Plan Termination. In the event
           of a termination of the Plan as it relates to any Participant, all
           amounts credited to any and all Plan Accounts of such Participant as
           of the effective date of such termination shall be 100% vested.

                           (e)      Acceleration of Vesting by Committee.
           Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Plan or any
           Annual Deferral Agreement, the Committee shall have the authority,
           exercisable in its sole discretion, to accelerate the vesting of any
           amounts credited to any Plan Account of any Participant and any such
           acceleration shall be evidenced by a written notice to the
           Participant setting forth in detail the Plan Account(s) and the
           amounts affected by the Committee's decision to accelerate vesting
           and the terms of the new vesting schedule applicable to such amounts.

                                    ARTICLE 4

                             Suspension of Deferrals

           4.1 Unforeseeable Financial Emergencies. If a Participant experiences
an Unforeseeable Financial Emergency, the Participant may petition the Committee
to suspend any deferrals required to be made by the Participant. The Committee
shall determine, in its sole discretion, whether to approve the Participant's
petition. If the petition for a suspension is approved, suspension shall take
effect upon the date of approval.

           4.2 Disability. From and after the date that a Participant is deemed
have suffered a Disability, any standing deferral election of the Participant
shall automatically be suspended and no further deferrals shall be made with
respect to the Participant.

           4.3 Resumption of Deferrals. If deferrals by a Participant have been
suspended during a Plan Year due to an Unforeseeable Financial Emergency or a
Disability, the Participant will not be eligible to make any further deferrals
in respect of that Plan Year. The Participant may be eligible to make deferrals
for subsequent Plan Years provided the Participant is selected to make deferrals
for such subsequent Plan Years and the Participant complies with the election
requirements under the Plan.

                                    ARTICLE 5

                          Distribution of Plan Accounts

           5.1    Distribution Elections. A Participant shall make a
Distribution Election at the time he or she makes an Annual Deferral Election
with respect to a given Plan Year, to have the Vested Account Balance of the
Participant's Annual Deferral Account and Annual Company Match Account (if any)
for that Plan Year distributed in either

           (i)    A single lump sum as of the first April 15 after the end of
                  either the fifth (5th), sixth (6th) seventh (7th) eighth
                  (8th), ninth (9th) or tenth (10th) Plan Year following the
                  Plan Year in respect of which the Annual Deferral Election was
                  made; or

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           (ii)   Substantially equal annual installments commencing no earlier
                  than the first April 15 after the end of the fifth (5th) Plan
                  Year following the Plan Year in respect of which the Annual
                  Deferral Election was made and ending no later than the first
                  April 15 after the end of the tenth (10th) Plan Year following
                  the Plan Year in respect of which the Annual Deferral Election
                  was made.

           Subject to any restrictions that may be imposed by the Committee, a
Participant may amend his or her Distribution Election with respect to any Plan
Account by completing and submitting to the Committee within such time frame as
the Committee may designate, an Amended Distribution Election Form; provided,
however, that such Amended Election Form is submitted no later than April 15 of
the Plan Year prior to the Plan Year in which distribution of the Vested Account
Balance of such Plan Account was scheduled to be made in accordance with the
Participant's original Distribution Election, and such Amended Election Form is
approved and accepted by the Committee in its sole discretion. A Participant may
amend his or her Distribution Election to change the distribution method from a
lump sum to installments, or from installments to a lump sum, and/or choose a
later distribution date (but in no event later than April 15 of the tenth (10th)
Plan Year following the end of the Plan Year in respect of which the Annual
Deferral Election was made). Notwithstanding a Participant's Distribution
Election with respect to the Vested Account Balance of any Plan Account, some or
all of such Vested Account Balance may be subject to earlier distribution
pursuant to Section 5.02 or deferred distribution pursuant to Section 5.04.

           5.2    Early Distribution of Aggregate Vested Balance.
Notwithstanding any Distribution Election, and subject to the provisions of
Section 5.04, distribution of a Participant's Vested Account Balance in the case
of a Participant who incurs a Termination of Employment prior to the end of the
fifth (5th) Plan Year following the end of the Plan Year in respect of which the
Annual Deferral Election was made shall be made no later than ninety (90) days
following such Participant's Termination of Employment.

           5.3    Withdrawal in the Event of an Unforeseeable Financial
Emergency. Subject to Section 5.04, in the event that a Participant or (after a
Participant's death) a Participant's Beneficiary experiences an Unforeseeable
Financial Emergency, the Participant or Beneficiary may petition the Committee
to receive a partial or full payout of amounts credited to one or more of the
Participant's Plan Accounts. The Committee shall determine, in its sole
discretion, whether the requested payout shall be made, the amount of the payout
and the Plan Accounts from which the payout will be made; provided, however,
that the payout shall not exceed the lesser of the Participant's Aggregate
Vested Benefit or the amount reasonably needed to satisfy the Unforeseeable
Financial Emergency. In making any determinations under this Section 5.03, the
Committee shall be guided by the prevailing authorities under the Code. If,
subject to the sole discretion of the Committee, the petition for a payout is
approved, the payout shall be made within ninety (90) days of the date of
approval.

           5.4    Distribution Restrictions. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Plan or in any Enrollment Form, Amended Distribution
Election Form or any other document, the Committee may impose limitations and
restrictions on the payment of amounts allocated by a Participant to any
Restricted Investment Benchmark(s) and may defer payment of those amounts for
such time periods as the Committee determines, in its good faith judgement, to

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be consistent with the nature of the investment on which such Restricted
Investment Benchmark is based. The Committee shall determine the amounts
affected, the nature of the limitations and restrictions on benefit payments,
and the length of deferral and time of payment of such amounts. In addition,
distributions under the Plan shall be subject to any constraints or restrictions
imposed under the Subordination Agreement or any other ancilliary agreements to
which a Participant becomes a party in conjunction with, or as a condition to,
participation in the Plan. Any such ancilliary agreement shall be incorporated
into and become a part of the Plan.

           5.5    Valuation of Plan Accounts Pending Distribution. To the extent
that the distribution of any portion of any Plan Account is deferred, whether
pursuant to the limitations imposed under this Article 5 or for any other
reason, any amounts remaining to the credit of the Plan Account shall continue
to be adjusted by the applicable Investment Adjustments in accordance with
Article 3.

           5.6    Form of Payment. Distributions under the Plan shall be paid in
cash in a single lump sum; except, however, that the Committee may provide, in
its discretion, that any distribution attributable to the portion of a Plan
Account that is deemed invested in an Investment Benchmark that tracks that
value of Company Stock shall be paid in shares of Company Stock.

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                                    ARTICLE 6

                                Survivor Benefit

           6.1    Survivor Benefit. Subject to Article 5, a Participant's
Beneficiary shall receive a Survivor Benefit equal to the Participant's
Aggregate Vested Balance, if the Participant dies before he or she has received
a complete distribution of his or her Aggregate Vested Benefit.

           6.2    Payment of Survivor Benefit. The Survivor Benefit shall be
payable to the Beneficiary indicated on the Participant's Beneficiary
Designation Form in a lump sum payment, provided, however that if the
Participant's Aggregate Vested Balance at the time of his or her death is
greater than $25,000, payment may be made, in the sole discretion of the
Committee, in a lump sum or in annual installment payments that do not exceed
five (5) years in duration. Subject to Article 5, the lump sum payment shall be
made, or installment payments shall commence, no later than ninety (90) days
after the date the Committee is provided with proof that is satisfactory to the
Committee of the Participant's death.

                                    ARTICLE 7

                               Disability Benefit

           7.1    Disability Benefit Notwithstanding any Distribution Election
under Article 5, a Participant suffering a Disability shall receive a Disability
Benefit equal to his or her Aggregate Vested Balance. Subject to Article 5, the
Disability Benefit shall be paid in a lump sum within ninety (90) days of the
Committee's determination of Disability.

                                    ARTICLE 8

                             Beneficiary Designation

           8.1    Beneficiary. Each Participant shall have the right, at any
time, to designate his or her Beneficiary(ies) (both primary as well as
contingent) to receive any benefits payable under the Plan to a beneficiary upon
the death of a Participant. The Beneficiary designated under this Plan may be
the same as or different from the Beneficiary designation under any other plan
of an Employer in which the Participant participates.

           8.2    Beneficiary Designation; Change; Spousal Consent. A
Participant shall designate his or her Beneficiary by completing and signing a
Beneficiary Designation Form, and returning it to the Committee or its
designated agent. A Participant shall have the right to change a Beneficiary by
completing, signing and submitting to the Committee an Amended Beneficiary

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Designation Form in accordance with the Committee's rules and procedures, as in
effect from time to time. If the Participant names someone other than his or her
spouse as a Beneficiary, a spousal consent, in the form designated by the
Committee, must be signed by that Participant's spouse and returned to the
Committee. Upon the acceptance by the Committee of an Amended Beneficiary
Designation Form, all Beneficiary designations previously filed shall be
canceled. The Committee shall be entitled to rely on the last Beneficiary
Designation Form filed by the Participant and accepted by the Committee prior to
his or her death.

           8.3    Acknowledgment. No designation or change in designation of a
Beneficiary shall be effective until received, accepted and acknowledged in
writing by the Committee or its designated agent.

           8.4    No Beneficiary Designation. If a Participant fails to
designate a Beneficiary as provided above or, if all designated Beneficiaries
predecease the Participant or die prior to complete distribution of the
Participant's Aggregate Vested Benefit, then the Participant's designated
Beneficiary shall be deemed to be his or her surviving spouse. If the
Participant has no surviving spouse, the benefits remaining under the Plan to be
paid to a Beneficiary shall be payable to the executor or personal
representative of the Participant's estate.

           8.5    Doubt as to Beneficiary. If the Committee has any doubt as to
the proper Beneficiary to receive payments pursuant to this Plan, the Committee
shall have the right, exercisable in its discretion, to cause the Participant's
Employer to withhold such payments until this matter is resolved to the
Committee's satisfaction.

           8.6    Discharge of Obligations. The payment of benefits under the
Plan to a Beneficiary shall fully and completely discharge all Employers and the
Committee from all further obligations under this Plan with respect to the
Participant, and each of the Participant's Annual Deferral Agreements shall
terminate upon such full payment of benefits.

                                    ARTICLE 9

                                Leave of Absence

           9.1    Paid Leave of Absence. If a Participant is authorized by the
Participant's Employer for any reason to take a paid leave of absence from the
employment of the Employer, the Participant shall continue to be considered
employed by the Employer and the appropriate amounts shall continue to be
withheld from the Participant's compensation pursuant to the Participant's then
current Annual Election Form.

           9.2    Unpaid Leave of Absence. If a Participant is authorized by the
Participant's Employer for any reason to take an unpaid leave of absence from
the employment of the Employer, the Participant shall continue to be considered
employed by the Employer and the Participant shall be excused from making
deferrals until the earlier of the date the leave of absence expires or the
Participant returns to a paid employment status. Upon such expiration or return,
deferrals shall resume for the remaining portion of the Plan Year in which the
expiration

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or return occurs, based on the deferral election, if any, made for that Plan
Year. If no election was made for that Plan Year, no deferral shall be withheld.

                                   ARTICLE 10

                     Termination, Amendment or Modification

           10.1   Termination. Although the Employers anticipate that they will
continue the Plan for an indefinite period of time, there is no guarantee that
any Employer will continue the Plan or will not terminate the Plan at any time
in the future. Accordingly, each Employer reserves the right to discontinue its
sponsorship of the Plan and to terminate the Plan, at any time, with respect to
its participating Employees by action of its board of directors. Upon the
termination of the Plan with respect to any Employer, subject to Section 5.04,
all amounts credited to each of the Plan Accounts of each affected Participant
shall be 100% vested and shall be paid to the Participant or, in the case of the
Participant's death, to the Participant's Beneficiary, in a lump sum
notwithstanding any elections made by the Participant, and the Annual Deferral
Agreements relating to each of the Participant's Plan Accounts shall terminate
upon full payment of such Aggregate Vested Balance.

           10.2   Amendment. The Company may, at any time, amend or modify the
Plan in whole or in part with respect to any or all Employers by the actions of
the Board; provided, however, that (i) no amendment or modification shall be
effective to decrease or restrict the value of a Participant's Aggregate Vested
Balance in existence at the time the amendment or modification is made,
calculated as if the Participant had experienced a Termination of Employment as
of the effective date of the amendment or modification and (ii) except as
specifically provided in Section 10.01, no amendment or modification shall be
made after a Change in Control which adversely affects the vesting, calculation
or payment of benefits hereunder or diminishes any other rights or protections
any Participant or Beneficiary would have had but for such amendment or
modification, unless each affected Participant or Beneficiary consents in
writing to such amendment.

           10.3   Effect of Payment. The full payment of the applicable benefit
under the provisions of the Plan shall completely discharge all obligations to a
Participant and his or her designated Beneficiaries under this Plan and each of
the Participant's Annual Deferral Agreements shall terminate.

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                                   ARTICLE 11

                                 Administration

           11.1   Committee Duties. This Plan shall be administered by a
Committee which shall consist of the Board, or such committee as the Board shall
appoint. Members of the Committee may be Participants under this Plan. The
Committee shall also have the discretion and authority to (i) make, amend,
interpret, and enforce all appropriate rules and regulations for the
administration of this Plan and (ii) decide or resolve any and all questions
including interpretations of this Plan, as may arise in connection with the
Plan. Any individual serving on the Committee who is a Participant shall not
vote or act on any matter relating solely to himself or herself. When making a
determination or calculation, the Committee shall be entitled to rely on
information furnished by a Participant or the Company.

           11.2   Agents. In the administration of this Plan, the Committee may,
from time to time, employ agents and delegate to them such administrative duties
as it sees fit (including acting through a duly appointed representative) and
may from time to time consult with counsel who may be counsel to any Employer.

           11.3   Binding Effect of Decisions. The decision or action of the
Committee with respect to any question arising out of or in connection with the
administration, interpretation and application of the Plan and the rules and
regulations promulgated hereunder shall be final and conclusive and binding upon
all persons having any interest in the Plan.

           11.4   Indemnity of Committee. All Employers shall indemnify and hold
harmless the members of the Committee, and any Employee to whom duties of the
Committee may be delegated, against any and all claims, losses, damages,
expenses or liabilities arising from any action or failure to act with respect
to this Plan, except in the case of willful misconduct by the Committee or any
of its members or any such Employee.

           11.5   Employer Information. To enable the Committee to perform its
functions, each Employer shall supply full and timely information to the
Committee on all matters relating to the compensation of its Participants, the
date and circumstances of the Retirement, Disability, death or Termination of
Employment of its Participants, and such other pertinent information as the
Committee may reasonably require.

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                                   ARTICLE 12

                          Other Benefits and Agreements

             The benefits provided for a Participant and Participant's
Beneficiary under the Plan are in addition to any other benefits available to
such Participant under any other plan or program for employees of the
Participant's Employer. The Plan shall supplement and shall not supersede,
modify or amend any other such plan or program except as may otherwise be
expressly provided.

                                   ARTICLE 13

                                Claims Procedures

              13.1   Presentation of Claim. Any Participant or Beneficiary of a
deceased Participant (such Participant or Beneficiary being referred to below as
a "Claimant") may deliver to the Committee a written claim for a determination
with respect to the amounts distributable to such Claimant from the Plan. If
such a claim relates to the contents of a notice received by the Claimant, the
claim must be made within 60 days after such notice was received by the
Claimant. The claim must state with particularity the determination desired by
the Claimant. All other claims must be made within 180 days of the date on which
the event that caused the claim to arise occurred. The claim must state with
particularity the determination desired by the Claimant.

              13.2   Notification of Decision. The Committee shall consider a
Claimant's claim within a reasonable time, and shall notify the Claimant in
writing:

              (a)    that the Claimant's requested determination has been made,
                     and that the claim has been allowed in full; or

              (b)    that the Committee has reached a conclusion contrary, in
                     whole or in part, to the Claimant's requested
                     determination, and such notice must set forth in a manner
                     calculated to be understood by the Claimant:

                     (i)    the specific reason(s) for the denial of the claim,
                            or any part of it;

                     (ii)   specific reference(s) to pertinent provisions of the
                            Plan upon which such denial was based;

                     (iii)  a description of any additional material or
                            information necessary for the Claimant to perfect
                            the claim, and an explanation of why such material
                            or information is necessary; and

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                     (iv)   an explanation of the claim review procedure set
                            forth in Section 13.03 below.

              13.3   Review of a Denied Claim. Within 60 days after receiving a
notice from the Committee that a claim has been denied, in whole or in part, a
Claimant (or the Claimant's duly authorized representative) may file with the
Committee a written request for a review of the denial of the claim. Thereafter,
but not later than 30 days after the review procedure began, the Claimant (or
the Claimant's duly authorized representative):

              (a)    may review pertinent documents;

              (b)    may submit written comments or other documents; and/or

              (c)    may request a hearing, which the Committee, in its sole
                     discretion, may grant.

              13.4   Decision on Review. The Committee shall render its decision
on review promptly, and not later than 60 days after the filing of a written
request for review of the denial, unless a hearing is held or other special
circumstances require additional time, in which case the Committee's decision
must be rendered within 120 days after such date. Such decision must be written
in a manner calculated to be understood by the Claimant, and it must contain:

              (a)    specific reasons for the decision;

              (b)    specific reference(s) to the pertinent Plan provisions upon
                     which the decision was based; and

              (c)    such other matters as the Committee deems relevant.

              13.5   Arbitration. A Claimant's compliance with the foregoing
provisions of this Article 13 is a mandatory prerequisite to a Claimant's right
to commence any arbitration with respect to any claim for benefits under this
Plan. Any and all claims that are not resolved to the satisfaction of a Claimant
under the above provisions of this Article 13 shall be subject to arbitration
conducted in Albany, New York before a panel of three (3) arbitrators pursuant
to rules of the National Association of Securities Dealers. Unless otherwise
provided herein each party shall bear its own costs and expenses in connection
with such arbitration and the parties shall contribute equally the arbitrator's
fees. The arbitrator's decision in any dispute shall be final and binding and
shall not be subject to appeal or judicial review.

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                                   ARTICLE 14

                                      Trust

              14.1   Establishment of the Trust. The Company may establish one
or more Trusts to which the Employers may transfer such assets as the Employers
determine in their sole discretion to assist in meeting their obligations under
the Plan.

              14.2   Interrelationship of the Plan and the Trust. The provisions
of the Plan and the relevant Annual Deferral Agreements shall govern the rights
of a Participant to receive distributions pursuant to the Plan. The provisions
of the Trust shall govern the rights of the Employers, Participants and the
creditors of the Employers to the assets transferred to the Trust.

              14.3   Distributions From the Trust. Each Employer's obligations
under the Plan may be satisfied with Trust assets distributed pursuant to the
terms of the Trust, and any such distribution shall reduce the Employer's
obligations under this Agreement.

                                   ARTICLE 15

                                  Miscellaneous

              15.1   Status of Plan. The Plan is intended to be a plan that is
not qualified within the meaning of Code Section 401(a) and that "is unfunded
and is maintained by an employer primarily for the purpose of providing deferred
compensation for a select group of management or highly compensated employee"
within the meaning of ERISA Sections 201(2), 301(a)(3) and 401(a)(1). The Plan
shall be administered and interpreted to the extent possible in a manner
consistent with that intent. All Plan Accounts and all credits and other
adjustments to such Plan Accounts shall be bookkeeping entries only and shall be
utilized solely as a device for the measurement and determination of amounts to
be paid under the Plan. No Plan Accounts, credits or other adjustments under the
Plan shall be interpreted as an indication that any benefits under the Plan are
in any way funded.

              15.2   Unsecured General Creditor. Participants and their
Beneficiaries, heirs, successors and assigns shall have no legal or equitable
rights, interests or claims in any property or assets of an Employer. For
purposes of the payment of benefits under this Plan, any and all of an
Employer's, assets, shall be, and remain, the general, unpledged unrestricted
assets of the Employer. An Employer's obligation under the Plan shall be merely
that of an unfunded and unsecured promise to pay money in the future.

              15.3   Employer's Liability. An Employer's liability for the
payment of benefits shall be defined only by the Plan and the Plan Agreement, as
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Participant. An Employer shall have no obligation to a Participant under the
Plan except as expressly provided in the Plan and his or her Plan Agreement.

              15.4   Nonassignability. Neither a Participant nor any other
person shall have any right to commute, sell, assign, transfer, pledge,
anticipate, mortgage or otherwise encumber, transfer, hypothecate, alienate or
convey in advance of actual receipt, the amounts, if any, payable hereunder, or
any part thereof, which are, and all rights to which are expressly declared to
be, unassignable and non-transferable. No part of the amounts payable shall,
prior to actual payment, be subject to seizure, attachment, garnishment or
sequestration for the payment of any debts, judgments, alimony or separate
maintenance owed by a Participant or any other person, be transferable by
operation of law in the event of a Participant's or any other person's
bankruptcy or insolvency or be transferable to a spouse as a result of a
property settlement or otherwise.

              15.5   Not a Contract of Employment. The terms and conditions of
this Plan and the Annual Deferral Agreements under this Plan shall not be deemed
to constitute a contract of employment between any Employer and the Participant.
Such employment is hereby acknowledged to be an "at will" employment
relationship that can be terminated at any time for any reason, or no reason,
with or without cause, and with or without notice, except as otherwise provided
in a written employment agreement. Nothing in this Plan or any Annual Deferral
Agreement shall be deemed to give a Participant the right to be retained in the
service of any Employer as an Employee or to interfere with the right of any
Employer to discipline or discharge the Participant at any time.

              15.6   Furnishing Information. A Participant or his or her
Beneficiary will cooperate with the Committee by furnishing any and all
information requested by the Committee and take such other actions as may be
requested in order to facilitate the administration of the Plan and the payments
of benefits hereunder, including but not limited to taking such physical
examinations as the Committee may deem necessary.

              15.7   Terms. Whenever any words are used herein in the masculine,
they shall be construed as though they were in the feminine in all cases where
they would so apply; and whenever any words are used herein in the singular or
in the plural, they shall be construed as though they were used in the plural or
the singular, as the case may be, in all cases where they would so apply.

              15.8   Captions. The captions of the articles, sections and
paragraphs of this Plan are for convenience only and shall not control or affect
the meaning or construction of any of its provisions.

              15.9   Governing Law. Subject to ERISA, the provisions of this
Plan shall be construed and interpreted according to the internal laws of the
State of New York without regard to its conflicts of laws principles.

              15.10  Notice. Any notice or filing required or permitted to be
given to the Committee under this Plan shall be sufficient if in writing and
hand-delivered, or sent by registered or certified mail, to the address below:

                          First Albany Companies Inc.

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                          30 South Pearl Street
                          Albany, New York  12207
                          Attn:  General Counsel

Such notice shall be deemed given as of the date of delivery or, if delivery is
made by mail, as of the date shown on the postmark or the receipt for
registration or certification.

Any notice or filing required or permitted to be given to a Participant under
this Plan shall be sufficient if in writing and hand-delivered, or sent by mail,
to the last known address of the Participant.

              15.11  Successors. The provisions of this Plan shall bind and
inure to the benefit of the Participant's Employer and its successors and
assigns and the Participant and the Participant's designated Beneficiaries.

              15.12  Spouse's Interest. The interest in the benefits hereunder
of a spouse of a Participant who has predeceased the Participant shall
automatically pass to the Participant and shall not be transferable by such
spouse in any manner, including but not limited to such spouse's will, nor shall
such interest pass under the laws of intestate succession.

              15.13  Validity. In case any provision of this Plan shall be
illegal or invalid for any reason, said illegality or invalidity shall not
affect the remaining parts hereof, but this Plan shall be construed and enforced
as if such illegal or invalid provision had never been inserted herein.

              15.14  Incompetent. If the Committee determines in its discretion
that a benefit under this Plan is to be paid to a minor, a person declared
incompetent or to a person incapable of handling the disposition of that
person's property, the Committee may direct payment of such benefit to the
guardian, legal representative or person having the care and custody of such
minor, incompetent or incapable person. The Committee may require proof of
minority, incompetence, incapacity or guardianship, as it may deem appropriate
prior to distribution of the benefit. Any payment of a benefit shall be a
payment for the account of the Participant and the Participant's Beneficiary, as
the case may be, and shall be a complete discharge of any liability under the
Plan for such payment amount.

              15.15  Distribution in the Event of Taxation. If, for any reason,
all or any portion of a Participant's benefit under this Plan becomes taxable to
the Participant prior to receipt, a Participant may petition the Committee
before a Change in Control, or the trustee of the Trust after a Change in
Control, for a distribution of that portion of his or her benefit that has
become taxable. Upon the grant of such a petition, which grant shall not be
unreasonably withheld, a Participant's Employer shall, subject to Section 5.4,
distribute to the Participant immediately available funds in an amount equal to
the taxable portion of his or her benefit (which amount shall not exceed a
Participant's unpaid Aggregate Vested Balance under the Plan). If the petition
is granted, the tax liability distribution shall be made within 90 days of the
date when the Participant's petition is granted. Such a distribution shall
affect and reduce the benefits to be paid under this Plan.

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              15.16  Insurance. The Employers, on their own behalf or on behalf
of the trustee of the Trust, and, in their sole discretion, may apply for and
procure insurance on the life of the Participant, in such amounts and in such
forms as the Trust may choose. The Employers or the trustee of the Trust, as the
case may be, shall be the sole owner and beneficiary of any such insurance. The
Participant shall have no interest whatsoever in any such policy or policies,
and at the request of the Employers shall submit to medical examinations and
supply such information and execute such documents as may be required by the
insurance company or companies to whom the Employers have applied for insurance.

              15.17  Legal Fees To Enforce Rights After Change in Control. The
Company and each Employer is aware that upon the occurrence of a Change in
Control, the Board or the board of directors of the Participant's Employer
(which might then be composed of new members) or a shareholder of the Company or
the Participant's Employer, or of any successor corporation might then cause or
attempt to cause the Company or the Participant's Employer or such successor to
refuse to comply with its obligations under the Plan and might cause or attempt
to cause the Company or the Participant's Employer to institute, or may
institute, arbitration or litigation seeking to deny Participants the benefits
intended under the Plan. In these circumstances, the purpose of the Plan could
be frustrated. Accordingly, if, following a Change in Control, it should appear
to any Participant that the Company, the Participant's Employer or any successor
corporation has failed to comply with any of its obligations under the Plan or
any agreement thereunder or, if the Company, such Employer or any other person
takes any action to declare the Plan void or unenforceable or institutes any
arbitration, litigation or other legal action designed to deny, diminish or to
recover from any Participant the benefits intended to be provided, then the
Company and the Participant's Employer irrevocably authorize such Participant to
retain counsel of his or her choice at the expense of the Company and the
Employer (who shall be jointly and severally liable) to represent such
Participant in connection with the initiation or defense of any arbitration,
litigation or other legal action, whether by or against the Company, the
Participant's Employer or any director, officer, shareholder or other person
affiliated with the Company, the Participant's Employer or any successor thereto
in any jurisdiction.

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                                                                    EXHIBIT 4(a)

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                                K N ENERGY, INC.

                                       TO

                       CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL BANK
                          AND TRUST COMPANY OF CHICAGO,

                                                  TRUSTEE

                                  -------------

                                    INDENTURE
                          DATED AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 1988

                                  -------------

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                                K N ENERGY, INC.

                              CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE

              (This Cross Reference Sheet shows the location in the
                  Indenture of the provisions inserted pursuant
                       to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                   TIA                                Indenture
                  Section                              Section
                 ---------                            ---------
<S>                                                  <C>
                 310(a)(1)                              7.10
                    (a)(2)                              7.10
                    (a)(3)                              N.A.
                    (a)(4)                              N.A.
                    (b)                                 7.08, 7.10, 10.02
                    (c)                                 N.A.
                 311(a)                                 7.11
                    (b)                                 7.11
                    (c)                                 N.A.
                 312(a)                                 10.01, 10.02
                    (b)                                 10.03
                    (c)                                 10.03
                 313(a)                                 7.06
                    (b)(1)                              N.A.
                    (b)(2)                              7.06
                    (c)                                 10.03
                    (d)                                 7.06
                 314(a)                                 4.08, 10.04
                    (b)                                 N.A.
                    (c)(1)                              10.04
                    (c)(2)                              10.04
                    (c)(3)                              N.A.
                    (d)                                 N.A.
                    (e)                                 14.05
                    (f)                                 N.A.
                 315(a)                                 7.01(b)
                    (b)                                 7.05, 10.02
                    (c)                                 7.01(a)
                    (d)                                 7.01(c)
                    (e)                                 6.11
                 316(a)(last sentence)                  2.09
                    (a)(1) (A)                          6.05
                    (a)(1) (B)                          6.04
                    (a)(2)                              N.A.
                    (b)                                 6.07
                 317(a)(1)                              6.08
                    (a)(2)                              6.09
                    (b)                                 4.03
                 318(a)                                 14.01
</TABLE>

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N.A. means Not Applicable.

This cross-reference table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this
Indenture.

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                                Page
<S>                                                                                                            <C>
ARTICLE ONE. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE...........................................................1
                  Section 1.01.     Definitions...................................................................1
                  Section 1.02.     Rules of Construction........................................................10

ARTICLE TWO. THE SECURITIES......................................................................................11
                  Section 2.01.     Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.........................................11
                  Section 2.02.     Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating...............................13
                  Section 2.03.     Denominations................................................................15
                  Section 2.04.     Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange..........................16
                  Section 2.05.     Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.............................17
                  Section 2.06.     Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved...............................18
                  Section 2.07.     Persons Deemed Owners........................................................20
                  Section 2.08.     Cancellation.................................................................20
                  Section 2.09.     Computation of Interest......................................................21
                  Section 2.10.     Temporary Securities.........................................................21
                  Section 2.11.     Payment to be in Proper Currency.............................................21

ARTICLE THREE. REDEMPTION........................................................................................22
                  Section 3.01.     Applicability of Article.....................................................22
                  Section 3.02.     Election to Redeem; Notices to Trustee.......................................22
                  Section 3.03.     Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.......................................23
                  Section 3.04.     Notice of Redemption.........................................................23
                  Section 3.05.     Effect of Notice of Redemption...............................................24
                  Section 3.06.     Deposit of Redemption Price..................................................25
                  Section 3.07.     Securities Redeemed in Part..................................................25

ARTICLE FOUR. COVENANTS..........................................................................................25
                  Section 4.01.     Payment of Securities........................................................25
                  Section 4.02.     Maintenance of Office or Agency..............................................25
                  Section 4.03.     Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust............................26
                  Section 4.04.     Corporate Existence..........................................................28
                  Section 4.05.     Maintenance of Properties....................................................28
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<TABLE>
<S>                                                                                                            <C>
                  Section 4.06.     Payment of Taxes and Other Claims............................................28
                  Section 4.07.     Limitation on Liens..........................................................28
                  Section 4.08.     Compliance Certificate.......................................................36
                  Section 4.09.     No Lien Created..............................................................37
                  Section 4.10.     No Conflict..................................................................37
                  Section 4.11.     Availability of Information..................................................37
                  Section 4.12.     Waiver of Certain Covenants..................................................37

ARTICLE FIVE. SUCCESSOR COMPANY..................................................................................38
                  Section 5.01.     When Company May Merge, etc..................................................38
                  Section 5.02.     When Securities Must be Secured..............................................38
                  Section 5.03.     Successor Substituted........................................................39

ARTICLE SIX. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES...............................................................................39
                  Section 6.01.     Events of Default............................................................39
                  Section 6.02.     Acceleration.................................................................41
                  Section 6.03.     Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee..............43
                  Section 6.04.     Waiver of Past Defaults......................................................44
                  Section 6.05.     Control by Majority..........................................................45
                  Section 6.06.     Limitation on Suits..........................................................45
                  Section 6.07.     Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.........................................46
                  Section 6.08.     Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities..................46
                  Section 6.09.     Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.............................................47
                  Section 6.10.     Priorities...................................................................48
                  Section 6.11.     Undertaking for Costs........................................................48

ARTICLE SEVEN. TRUSTEE...........................................................................................49
                  Section 7.01.     Duties of Trustee............................................................49
                  Section 7.02.     Rights of Trustee............................................................50
                  Section 7.03.     Individual Rights of Trustee.................................................52
                  Section 7.04.     Trustee's Disclaimer.........................................................52
                  Section 7.05.     Notice of Default............................................................52
                  Section 7.06.     Reports by Trustee to Holders................................................53
                  Section 7.07.     Compensation and Indemnity...................................................53
                  Section 7.08.     Replacement of Trustee.......................................................54
                  Section 7.09.     Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.............................................56
                  Section 7.10.     Eligibility..................................................................56
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<TABLE>
<S>                                                                                                            <C>
                  Section 7.11.     Preferential Claims Against Company..........................................57
                  Section 7.12.     Conflicts of Interest........................................................62
                  Section 7.13.     Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.......................................69
                  Section 7.14.     Appointment of Authenticating Agent..........................................71

ARTICLE EIGHT. DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE............................................................................73
                  Section 8.01.     Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture......................................73
                  Section 8.02.     Termination of Company's Obligations.........................................74
                  Section 8.03.     Certain Obligations Survive..................................................76
                  Section 8.04.     Condition to Discharge.......................................................76
                  Section 8.05.     Application of Trust Money...................................................76

ARTICLE NINE. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES............................................................................76
                  Section 9.01.     Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders...........................76
                  Section 9.02.     Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders..............................78
                  Section 9.03.     Execution of Supplemental Indentures.........................................80
                  Section 9.04.     Effect of Supplemental Indentures............................................80
                  Section 9.05.     Conformity with Trust Indenture Act..........................................80
                  Section 9.06.     Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures...........................80

ARTICLE TEN. HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY...................................................81
                  Section 10.01.    Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders....................81
                  Section 10.02.    Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.......................81
                  Section 10.03.    Reports by Trustee...........................................................83
                  Section 10.04.    Reports by Company...........................................................84

ARTICLE ELEVEN. SECURITY FORMS...................................................................................85
                  Section 11.01.    Forms Generally..............................................................85
                  Section 11.02.    Form of Face of Security.....................................................86
                  Section 11.03.    Form of Reverse of Security..................................................89
                  Section 11.04.    Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..............................94
</TABLE>

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<TABLE>
<S>                                                                                                            <C>
ARTICLE TWELVE. SINKING FUNDS....................................................................................94
                  Section 12.01.    Applicability of Article.....................................................94
                  Section 12.02.    Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities........................95
                  Section 12.03.    Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund....................................95

ARTICLE THIRTEEN. MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES..............................................................96
                  Section 13.01.    Purposes of Meetings.........................................................96
                  Section 13.02.    Call, Notice and Place of Meetings...........................................96
                  Section 13.03.    Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.........................................97
                  Section 13.04.    Quorum; Action...............................................................97
                  Section 13.05.    Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment of Meetings..........99
                  Section 13.06.    Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.............................100
                  Section 13.07.    Written Consent in Lieu of Meeting of Holders...............................100

ARTICLE FOURTEEN. MISCELLANEOUS.................................................................................101
                  Section 14.01.    Trust Indenture Act Controls................................................101
                  Section 14.02.    Notices.....................................................................101
                  Section 14.03.    No Recourse to Certain Persons..............................................102
                  Section 14.04.    Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent..........................103
                  Section 14.05.    Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion...............................103
                  Section 14.06.    Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee......................................104
                  Section 14.07.    Acts of Holders.............................................................104
                  Section 14.08.    Governing Law...............................................................105
                  Section 14.09.    No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements...............................106
                  Section 14.10.    Effect of Headings and Table of Contents....................................106
                  Section 14.11.    Legal Holidays..............................................................106
                  Section 14.12.    Severability Clause.........................................................106
                  Section 14.13.    Benefits of Indenture.......................................................106
                  Section 14.14.    Successors..................................................................107
                  Section 14.15.    Duplicate Originals.........................................................107
</TABLE>

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         INDENTURE, dated as of September 1, 1988, between K N Energy, Inc., a
Kansas corporation (the "Company"), and Continental Illinois National Bank and
Trust Company of Chicago, a national banking association (the "Trustee").

                             RECITALS OF THE COMPANY

         The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness (herein called the
"Securities"), to be issued in one or more series as in this Indenture provided.

         All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the
Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.

         NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:

         For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of series
thereof, as follows:

             ARTICLE ONE. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

         Section 1.01. Definitions.

         "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.

         "Agent" means any Registrar or Paying Agent.

         "Authenticating Agent" means any Trust Officer or other Person
authorized by the Trustee to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities.

         "Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the Company
or any duly authorized committee of that board.

         "Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors

<PAGE>   8

and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification, and
delivered to the Trustee.

         "Business Day," when used with respect to any Place of Payment, means
each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday which is not a day on which
banking institutions in that Place of Payment are authorized or obligated by law
to close.

         "Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or,
if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the TIA, then the
body performing such duties at such time.

         "Company" means the party named as such in the first paragraph of this
instrument until a successor replaces it pursuant to the applicable provisions
of this Indenture, and thereafter "Company" means the successor.

         "Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by an Officer, and delivered to the Trustee.

         "Consolidated Net Tangible Assets" means the total amount of assets
appearing on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries
less, without duplication, the following:

                  (a) all current liabilities (excluding any thereof which are
         extendible or renewable by their terms or replaceable or refundable
         pursuant to enforceable commitments at the option of the obligor
         thereon without requiring the consent of the obligee to a time more
         than 12 months after the time as of which the amount thereof is being
         computed and excluding current maturities of long-term indebtedness and
         preferred stock);

                  (b) all reserves for depreciation and other asset valuation
         reserves but excluding any reserves for deferred Federal income taxes
         arising from accelerated depreciation or otherwise;

                  (c) all goodwill, trademarks, trade names, patents,
         unamortized debt discount and expense and other

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         like intangible assets carried as an asset on said balance sheet; and

                  (d) all appropriate adjustments on account of minority
         interests of other persons holding common stock in any Subsidiary.

Consolidated Net Tangible Assets shall be determined in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles and as of a date not more than 90 days
prior to the happening of the event for which such determination is being made.

         "Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee in
Chicago, Illinois, at which at any particular time its corporate trust business
shall be administered which office at the date of original execution of this
Indenture is located at 30 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60697.

         "corporation" includes corporations, associations, companies and
business trusts.

         "Default" means any event which is, or after notice or passage of time
or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to Securities of a
series.

         "Event of Default" has the meaning specified in section 6.01.

         "Funded Indebtedness" means any Indebtedness maturing by its terms
(whether pursuant to a sinking fund, mandatory redemption or otherwise) more
than one year from the date of determination.

         "Holder" or "Securityholder" means the person in whose name a Security
is registered on the Security Register.

         "Indebtedness" of the Company or a Subsidiary means all items of
indebtedness for borrowed funds (other than unamortized debt discount and
premium), whether or not secured, which would be included in determining the
total liabilities of such Person and would be classified as a liability on the
balance sheet of such Person as of the date as of which Indebtedness is to be
determined, and shall include, without limitation, (a) indebtedness secured by
any mortgage, pledge or other lien or encumbrance of or upon, or any security
interest in, any properties or assets owned by such Person

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and upon which indebtedness such Person customarily pays interest, whether or
not the indebtedness secured thereby shall have been assumed, (b) indebtedness
incurred by other Persons which is guaranteed as to payment of principal by such
Person and (c) indebtedness which is in effect guaranteed by such Person through
a contingent agreement to purchase such indebtedness; provided that the term
"Indebtedness" of any Person shall not include

                  (i) any indebtedness evidence of which is held in treasury
         (but the subsequent resale of such indebtedness shall be deemed to
         constitute the creation thereof), or

                  (ii) any particular indebtedness if, upon or prior to the
         maturity thereof, there shall have been deposited with a depositary (or
         set aside and segregated, if permitted by the instrument creating such
         indebtedness as permitted by the instrument creating such
         indebtedness), in trust, money (or evidence of such indebtedness as
         permitted by the instrument creating such indebtedness) in the
         necessary amount to pay, redeem or satisfy such indebtedness, or

                  (iii) any obligation, whether or not secured, which is
         payable, with respect to principal, premium, if any, and interest,
         solely from the proceeds of sales of gas, oil or other hydrocarbons or
         minerals to be produced, sold and delivered by the Company or a
         Subsidiary, or

                  (iv) except as provided in clause (c) above, any contingent
         obligation of such Person in respect of indebtedness incurred by other
         Persons, including, without limitation, agreements to advance or supply
         funds to or invest in such other Persons, or

                  (v) any guarantees with respect to lease or other similar
         periodic payments to be made by other Persons, or

                  (vi) any indebtedness incurred to finance oil, gas,
         hydrocarbon or other mineral exploration or development to the extent
         that the issuer thereof has outstanding advances to finance oil, gas,
         hydrocarbon or other mineral exploration or development but only to the
         extent that such advances are not in default;

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provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any liability or
obligation described in clause (v) above incurred in connection with the
issuance of debt securities the interest on which is excludable from gross
income of the holder of such security pursuant to Section 103 of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, or any successor section, shall be Indebtedness for the
purpose of this Indenture.

         "Indenture" means this Indenture as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities established as
contemplated by Section 2.01.

         "Interest," when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.

         "Interest Payment Date," when used with respect to any Security, means
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.

         "Maturity," when used with respect to any Security, means the date on
which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal becomes due
and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.

         "Officer" means the Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman, the
President, any Vice President, the Treasurer or the Secretary of the Company.

         "Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by two Officers or
by an Officer (other than the Secretary) and an Assistant Treasurer or Assistant
Secretary of the Company.

         "Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from legal counsel who is
acceptable to the Trustee, and who may be an employee of or counsel to the
Company or the Trustee.

         "Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the principal amount

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thereof to be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.02.

         "Outstanding," when used with respect to Securities, means, as of the
date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:

                  (i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
         delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;

                  (ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption, money in the
         necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
         Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and
         segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own
         Paying Agent) for the Holders of such securities; provided that, if
         such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
         duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor
         satisfactory to the Trustee has been made; and

                  (iii) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 2.05
         or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
         authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
         such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
         the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a
         bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
         obligations of the Company;

provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder,

                  (a) the principal amount of an Original Issue Discount
         Security that may be counted in making such determination or
         calculation and that may be deemed to be Outstanding for such purpose
         shall be equal to the amount of principal thereof that would be (or
         shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at the time of such
         determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity
         thereof pursuant to Section 6.02;

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                  (b) the principal amount of a Security denominated in a
         foreign currency or currencies or currencies as composite currencies
         shall be the U.S. dollar equivalent, determined by the Company on the
         date of original issuance of such Security and set forth in an
         Officers' Certificate, of the principal amount (or, in the case of an
         Original Issue Discount Security, the U.S. dollar equivalent determined
         by the Company on the date of original issuance of such security and
         set forth in an Officers' Certificate of the amount determined as
         provided in (a) above) of the Security; and

                  (c) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon
         the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor
         shall be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that in
         determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
         such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
         waiver, only Securities which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be
         so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in good
         faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
         satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect
         to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other
         obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
         other obligor.

         "Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest on any Securities on behalf of the
Company.

         "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

         "Place of Payment," when used with respect to the Securities of any
series, means the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities of that series are payable as specified as
contemplated by Section 2.01.

         "Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and,

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for the purposes of this definition, any Security authenticated and delivered
under Section 2.05 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security.

         "Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture, as contemplated by Section 2.01.

         "Redemption Price," when used with respect to any security to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture, as contemplated by Section 2.01.

         "Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment
Date on the Securities of any series means the date specified for that purpose
as contemplated by Section 2.01.

         "Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Trustee, means the
Chairman or any Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chairman or any
Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, the Chairman
of the Trust Committee, the President, any Vice President, any Assistant Vice
President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, any Assistant
Treasurer, the Cashier, any Assistant Cashier, any Senior Trust Officer,
Trust~Officer or Assistant Trust Officer, the Controller or any Assistant
Controller or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing functions
similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and also
means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.

         "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first recital of this
Indenture and more particularly means any Securities authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture.

         "Security Register" and "Security Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 2.04.

         "Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted

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Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.06.

         "Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date specified
in such Security as the fixed date on which the principal of such Security or
such installment of principal or interest is due and payable.

         "Subordinated Indebtedness" means indebtedness which by its terms is
inferior in right of payment to the Securities in that, among other terms,
payment on account of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on, such
indebtedness is prohibited (i) unless full payment of amounts then due for
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, the Securities has been made or
duly provided for, (ii) if there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event
of Default, or (iii) upon (x) any acceleration of payment of principal due on
such indebtedness or (y) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
upon any dissolution, total or partial liquidation or reorganization of the
Company, unless full payment of amounts then due for principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on, the Securities shall first be made or duly provided for.

         "Subsidiary" means a corporation of which 80% or more of the
outstanding shares of stock (other than directors' qualifying shares, if any)
entitled to vote in the election of directors are owned directly or indirectly
by the Company or by one or more of its other Subsidiaries or by the Company in
conjunction with one or more of its other Subsidiaries; provided, however, that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, such term shall not include any corporation, the
principal business of which consists of finance, banking, credit, leasing,
insurance, financial services or other similar operations, or any combination
thereof.

         "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code Sections
77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of this Indenture, except as required by
Section 9.05.

         "Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder, and
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at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect
to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.

         "Trust Officer" means the Chairman of the Board, the President or any
other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee assigned by the Trustee to
administer its corporate trust matters.

         "United States" means the United States of America, including its
territories and possessions.

         "U.S. Government Obligations" shall mean securities which are (i)
direct obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its
full faith and credit is pledged; or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America, the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and
credit obligation by the United States of America. In either case such
securities shall not be callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer
thereof, and such securities may also include depository receipts issued by a
bank or trust company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government
Obligations or specific payments of interest on or principal of any such U.S.
Government Obligations held by such custodian for the account of the holder of
such depository receipts; provided, however, that (except as required by law)
such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable
to the holder of any such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the U.S. Government obligation or the specific payment
of interest on or principal of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such
depository receipt.

         "Vice President," when used with respect to the Company or the Trustee,
means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president."

         Section 1.02. Rules of Construction.

         For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:

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

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         (2)      all other terms used herein which are defined in the TIA,
                  either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
                  assigned to them therein;

         (3)      all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein
                  have the meanings assigned to them in accordance
                  with generally accepted accounting principles;

         (4)      "or" is not exclusive;

         (5)      words in the singular include the plural, and in
                  the plural include the singular;

         (6)      the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and words of
                  similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to
                  any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and

         (7)      provisions apply to successive events and transactions.

                           ARTICLE TWO. THE SECURITIES

         Section 2.01. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.

         The aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture is unlimited.

         The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an Officers'
Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior
to the issuance of Securities of any series,

                  (1) the title of the Securities of the series (which shall
         distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities);

                  (2) any limitation upon the aggregate principal amount of the
         Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered under
         this Indenture (except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon
         registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in

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         lieu of, other Securities of the series pursuant to Section 2.04, 2.05,
         2.10, 3.07 or 9.06);

                  (3) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities
         of the series is payable;

                  (4) the rate or rates, or method by which the rate or rates
         are determined, at which the Securities of the series shall bear
         interest, if any, the date or dates from which such interest shall
         accrue, the Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be
         payable and the Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any
         Interest Payment Date;

                  (5) the place or places where the principal of (and premium,
         if any) and interest on Securities of the series shall be payable;

                  (6) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
         which and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series
         may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company;

                  (7) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or
         purchase Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or
         analogous provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the
         period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and terms
         and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be redeemed or
         purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;

                  (8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
         multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series
         shall be issuable;

                  (9) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of
         the principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable
         upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
         Section 6.02;

                  (10) the currency or currencies, including composite
         currencies, in which payment of the principal of and any premium and
         interest on the Securities of the

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         series shall be payable if other than the currency of the United States
         of America;

                  (11) if the amount of payments of principal of and any premium
         and interest on the Securities of the series may be determined with
         reference to an index, the manner in which such amounts shall be
         determined; and

                  (12) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
         inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture) including any
         additional covenant or Event of Default with respect to the series.

         All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical
except as to denomination, interest rate and Maturity and except as may
otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in
such Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.

         If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action
shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.

         Section 2.02. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.

         The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board of Directors, its Vice Chairman, its President or one of
its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these
officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.

         Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.

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         At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of
this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities of any series executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company order for the
authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in accordance
with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided,
however, that, with respect to Securities of a series constituting a medium term
note program, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver Securities of such
series for original issue from time to time in the aggregate principal amount
established for such series pursuant to such procedures acceptable to the
Trustee and to such recipients as may be specified from time to time by a
Company Order. The maturity date, original issue date, interest rate and any
other terms of the Securities of such series shall be determined by or pursuant
to such Company Order and procedures. If provided for in such procedures, such
Company Order may authorize authentication and delivery pursuant to oral
instructions from the Company or its duly authorized agent, which instructions
shall be promptly confirmed in writing; provided, further, notwithstanding the
provisions of Section 2.01 and of this Section, if all Securities of a series
are not to be originally issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to
deliver, the Officers' Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 2.01,
or the Company Order and Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to this
Section at or prior to the time of authentication of each Security of such
series if such documents are delivered at or prior to the time of authentication
upon original issuance of the first Security of such series. If the form or
terms of the Securities of the series have been established in or pursuant to
one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 11.01, in
authenticating such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in
relying upon, an opinion of counsel stating

                  (a) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
         pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by Section 11.01, that such
         form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this
         Indenture;

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                  (b) if the terms of such Securities have been established by
         or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by Section 2.01, that
         such terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of
         this Indenture; and

                  (c) that such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by
         the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
         conditions specified in such opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid
         and legally binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the
         Company, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization and other
         laws of general applicability relating to or affecting the enforcement
         of creditors' rights and to general equity principles.

If such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee shall not be
required to authenticate such Securities if the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or otherwise in a manner
which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.

         Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.

         No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any
Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security
has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and is entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.

         Section 2.03. Denominations.

         The Securities of each series shall be issuable in registered form
without coupons in such denominations as shall be specified as contemplated by
Section 11.01. In the absence of any such provisions with respect to the
Securities of any series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.

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         Section 2.04. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange.

         The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in any other
office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment being herein sometimes
collectively referred to as the "Security Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Securities and of transfer of Securities. The Trustee is hereby
appointed "Security Registrar" for the purpose of registering Securities and
transfers of Securities as herein provided.

         Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any
series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for
Securities of that series, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of
any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount.

         At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged
for other Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are
so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Securities which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.

         All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.

         Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
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the Company and the Security Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or
his attorney duly authorized in writing.

         No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 2.05, 3.07 or 9.06 not involving any transfer.

         The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the transfer
or exchange Securities of any series during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before any selection of Securities of that series to be
redeemed and ending at the close of business on the date of the relevant mailing
of notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer or exchange of any
Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed
portion of any Security being redeemed in part.

         Section 2.05. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.

         If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

         If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss, or theft of any Security and
(ii) such security of indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, a new Security of the same series and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.

         In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable,

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the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such
Security.

         Every new Security of any series issued pursuant to this Section in
lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be
entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with
any and all other Securities of that series duly issued hereunder.

         The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to the
extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.

         Section 2.06. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.

         Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in
whose name that Security (or one or more Predecessor securities) is registered
at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest. Unless
otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 2.01 with respect to any series of
Securities, at the option of the Company, payment of interest on any Security
may be, made by check mailed on or before the due date to the address of the
Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or
by wire transfer to an account designated by such Person.

         Any interest on any Security of any series which is payable, but is not
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the
relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such
Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as
provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:

                  (1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
         Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series
         (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the
         close of

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         business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
         Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company
         shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest
         proposed to be paid on each Security of such series and the date of the
         proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with
         the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed
         to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
         arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the
         date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in
         trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted
         Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
         Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which
         shall be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the
         date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the
         receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
         Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date
         and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice
         of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special
         Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid to each
         Holder of Securities of such series at his address as it appears in the
         Security Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
         Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
         Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted
         Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of
         such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
         at the close of business on such Special Record Date and shall no
         longer be payable pursuant to the following Clause (2).

                  (2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on
         the Securities of any series in any other lawful manner not
         inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which
         such Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required
         by such exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee
         of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner of payment
         shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.

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         Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued
and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Security.

         Section 2.07. Persons Deemed Owners.

         Prior to due presentment of a Security for registration of transfer,
the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat
the Person in whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such
Security for the purpose of receiving payments of principal of (and premium, if
any) and (subject to Section 2.06) interest on such Security and for all other
purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and neither the
Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.

         Section 2.08. Cancellation.

         All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of
transfer or exchange or for credit against any sinking fund payment shall, if
surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee
and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to
the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and
delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner
whatsoever, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the
Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any
Securities cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted
by this Indenture. All cancelled Securities shall be destroyed by the Trustee
and the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such destruction to the Company
unless by a Company Order, the Company shall direct that cancelled Securities be
returned to it.

         If the Company shall acquire any of the Securities, such acquisition
shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness
represented by such Securities unless and until the same are delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation.

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         Section 2.09. Computation of Interest.

         Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.01 for
Securities of any series, interest on the Securities of each series shall be
computed on the basis of a year of twelve 30-day months.

         Section 2.10. Temporary Securities.

         Until definitive Securities of any series are ready for delivery, the
Company may prepare and execute and upon Company Order the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver temporary Securities which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they
are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.

         If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will
cause definitive Securities of that series to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such series, the
temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive
Securities of such series and of like tenor upon surrender of the temporary
Securities of such series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of
Payment for that series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of the same series of
authorized denominations. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities of any
series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.

         Section 2.11. Payment to be in Proper Currency.

         In the case of any Securities denominated in any currency (the
"Required Currency") other than U.S. dollars, except as otherwise provided
therein, the obligation of the Company to make any payment of the principal,
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tender by the Company, or recovery by the Trustee, in any currency other than
the Required Currency, except to the extent that such tender or recovery shall
result in the Trustee timely holding the full amount of the Required Currency
then due and payable. If any such tender or recovery is in a currency other than
the Required Currency, the Trustee may take such actions as it considers
appropriate to exchange such currency for the Required Currency. The costs and
risks of such exchange, including without limitation the risks of delay and
exchange rate fluctuation, shall be borne by the Company, the Company shall
remain fully liable for any shortfall or delinquency in the full amount of
Required currency then due and payable, and in no circumstances shall the
Trustee be liable therefor except in the case of its negligence of willful
misconduct. The Company hereby waives any defense of payment based upon any such
tender or recovery which is not in the Required Currency, or which, when
exchanged for the Required Currency by the Trustee, is less than the full amount
of Required Currency then due and payable.

                            ARTICLE THREE. REDEMPTION

         Section 3.01. Applicability of Article.

         Securities of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.01 for Securities of any
series) in accordance with this Article.

         Section 3.02. Election to Redeem; Notices to Trustee.

         The election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced
by an Officers' Certificate. In case of any redemption at the election of the
Company of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at
least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be
redeemed. In the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of
any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an

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Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.

         Section 3.03. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.

         If less than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed, the
Trustee shall select not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date from the
Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption the
Securities to be redeemed by a method the Trustee considers fair and appropriate
and may provide for the selection for redemption of portions (equal to the
minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series or any integral
multiple thereof) of the principal amount of Securities of such series of a
denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of
that series.

         The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected
for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.

         For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be
redeemed.

         Section 3.04. Notice of Redemption.

         At least 30 days but not more than 45 days before a Redemption Date, a
notice of redemption shall be mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to
each Holder of Securities to be redeemed at this address appearing in the
Security Register.

         The notice shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall
state:

         (1)      the Redemption Date;

         (2)      the Redemption Price;

         (3)      the place or places where such Securities are to be
                  surrendered for payment of the Redemption Price;

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         (4)      that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
                  case;

         (5)      that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
                  due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and, if
                  applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and
                  after the Redemption Date; and

         (6)      if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series are
                  to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of
                  partial redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular
                  Securities to be redeemed.

         Notice of redemption of securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, the
Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company's name and at the
expense of the Company.

         Section 3.05. Effect of Notice of Redemption.

         Notice of redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so
to be redeemed shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the
Redemption Price therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the
Company shall default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued
interest) such Securities shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any
such Security for redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall
be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest
to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest whose
Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be payable to the
Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor Securities, registered as
such at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates according to their
terms and the provisions of Section 3.07.

         If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall,
until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security.

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         Section 3.06. Deposit of Redemption Price.

         On or prior to any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section 4.03) an amount of
money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and (except if the Redemption
Date shall be an Interest Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities
which are to be redeemed on that date.

         Section 3.07. Securities Redeemed in Part.

         Any Security which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered
at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires,
due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without service
charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like tenor, of
any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered.

                             ARTICLE FOUR. COVENANTS

         Section 4.01. Payment of Securities.

         The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the
terms of such series of the Securities and this Indenture.

         Section 4.02.     Maintenance of Office or Agency.

         The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series of
securities an office or agency where Securities of that series may be presented
or surrendered for payment, where Securities of that series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices and

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demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and
this Indenture may be served. The Company will 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 Company 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, and the Company hereby appoints the
Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.

         The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind
such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission
shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office
or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such
purposes. The Company will 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.

         Section 4.03. Money for Securities Payments to be Held in Trust.

         If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with
respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of that
series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest
so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise
disposed of as herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure so to act.

         Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it will, prior to each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of that series, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying
Agent

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is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or
failure so to act.

         The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities
(other than the Trustee) to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:

                  (a) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
         of (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of that series in
         trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums
         shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
         provided;

                  (b) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or
         any other obligor upon the Securities of that series) in the making of
         any payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the
         Securities of that series; and

                  (c) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
         upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
         all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.

         The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.

         Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held
by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for three
years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security

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shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with
respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as trustee
thereof, shall thereupon cease.

         Section 4.04. Corporate Existence.

         Subject to Article Five, the Company will do or cause to be done all
things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence.

         Section 4.05. Maintenance of Properties.

         The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of
its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and kept in good
condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment
and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements,
betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may
be necessary so that the business carried on in connection therewith may be
properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the
operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such discontinuance is, in
the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of its business or the
business of any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any material respect to
the Holders.

         Section 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.

         The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or upon the income,
profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that
the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or
discharged any such tax or charge for which the amount, applicability or
validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings.

         Section 4.07. Limitation on Liens.

         Except as hereinafter in this Section 4.07 expressly permitted, so long
as any of the Securities remain outstanding,

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the Company shall not at any time directly or indirectly create, assume or
suffer to exist, and shall not cause, suffer or permit any Subsidiary to create,
assume or suffer to exist, otherwise than in favor of the Company, any mortgage,
pledge or other lien or encumbrance of or upon any of its properties or assets,
real, personal or mixed, whether owned at the date of this Indenture or
thereafter acquired, or of or upon any income or profits therefrom, without
making effective provision, and the Company covenants that in any such case it
shall make or cause to be made effective provision, whereby the Securities then
outstanding and any other indebtedness of the Company then entitled thereto
shall be secured by such mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance equally and
ratably with any and all other obligations and indebtedness thereby secured, so
long as any such other obligations or indebtedness shall be so secured.

         Nothing in this Section 4.07 shall be construed to prevent the Company
or any Subsidiary from creating, assuming or suffering to exist mortgages,
pledges, liens, or encumbrances evidencing or securing obligations or leases of
the following character to which the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall
not be applicable:

                  (a) Any mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance:

                           (i) existing on the date of this Indenture; or

                           (ii) existing on any property of a Subsidiary at the
                  time it becomes a Subsidiary; or

                           (iii) existing on any property at the time of the
                  acquisition thereof by the Company or a Subsidiary, whether or
                  not assumed by the Company or such Subsidiary; or

                           (iv) on any property acquired or constructed by the
                  Company or a Subsidiary and created by the Company or such
                  Subsidiary not later than 12 months after the date of such
                  acquisition or the completion of such construction; or

                           (v) arising by reason of deposits with or the giving
                  of any form of security to any governmental agency or any
                  other governmental body created or

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                  approved by law or governmental regulation for any purpose at
                  any time in connection with the financing of the acquisition
                  or construction of property to be used in the business of the
                  Company or a Subsidiary; or

                           (vi) created or assumed by the Company or a
                  Subsidiary in connection with the issuance of debt securities
                  the interest on which is excludable from gross income of the
                  holder of such security pursuant to Section 103 of the
                  Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any successor section, for
                  the purpose of financing, in whole or in part, the acquisition
                  or construction of property to be used by the Company or a
                  Subsidiary; or

                           (vii) created or assumed by the Company or a
                  Subsidiary on any contract for the sale of any product or
                  service or any rights thereunder or any proceeds therefrom,
                  including accounts and other receivables, related to the
                  operation or use of any property acquired by the Company or a
                  Subsidiary and created not later than 12 months after (x) the
                  date of such acquisition or (y) commencement of full operation
                  of such property, whichever is later; or

                           (viii) created or assumed by the Company or a
                  Subsidiary on oil, gas, hydrocarbon or mineral properties
                  owned or leased by the Company or such Subsidiary to secure
                  loans to the Company or such Subsidiary for the purpose of
                  developing such properties, irrespective of whether the
                  Company or a Subsidiary shall assume or guarantee such loans
                  or otherwise be liable in respect thereof; or

                           (ix) created to effect payments, both with respect to
                  principal, premium, if any, and interest, solely out of the
                  proceeds of gas, oil, hydrocarbons or other minerals to be
                  produced from the property subject thereto and to be sold or
                  delivered by the Company or a Subsidiary; or

                           (x) created by the Company or a Subsidiary on any
                  contract (or any rights thereunder or proceeds therefrom)
                  providing for advance by the Company or

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                  such Subsidiary to finance oil, gas, hydrocarbon or other
                  mineral exploration and development, which mortgage, pledge or
                  encumbrance is created to secure indebtedness incurred to
                  finance such advances;

         provided, however, that (A) any mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance
         referred to in clause (iii) or (iv) above shall be limited to the
         property described therein and any replacements thereof or improvements
         thereon, and (B) that the principal amount of the indebtedness secured
         by any mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance referred to in clauses
         (iii), (iv), (v) , (vi) and (vii) above, together with all other
         indebtedness secured by a lien on the property described therein, shall
         not exceed the purchase price (or the cost of construction, as the case
         may be) of the property acquired or constructed and any related
         financing costs;

                  (b) Any refunding or extension of maturity, in whole or in
         part, of any mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance created or assumed
         in accordance with the provisions of clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv),
         (v), (vi), (vii), (viii) and (x) of subdivision (a) above, provided
         that the principal amount of the indebtedness so secured shall not
         exceed the principal amount of the indebtedness to be refunded or
         extended outstanding at the time of such refunding or extension (except
         that, where an additional principal amount of indebtedness is incurred
         to provide funds for the completion of a specific project on such
         property, such additional principal amount, and any related financing
         costs, may be so secured), and that such refunding or extended
         mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance shall be limited in lien to the
         same property that secured the mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance so
         refunded or extended;

                  (c) Leases (excluding leases arising out of sale and leaseback
         arrangements) now or hereafter existing and any renewals or extension
         thereof;

                  (d) Any lease now or hereafter existing and any renewals or
         extensions thereof which arise out of the sale and leaseback of
         property if:

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                           (i) the term of such lease is for a temporary period
                  (not exceeding 36 months) by the end of which it is intended
                  that the use of such property by the lessee will be
                  discontinued; or

                           (ii) such lease is in connection with the issuance of
                  debt securities, the interest on which is excludable from
                  gross income of the holder of such security pursuant to
                  Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any
                  successor section for the purpose of financing, in whole or in
                  part, the acquisition or construction of property to be used
                  by or for the Company or a Subsidiary; or

                           (iii) the net proceeds of such sale are at least
                  equal to the fair value (as determined by the Board of
                  Directors of the Company) of such property, and (A) the
                  Company promptly gives notice of such sale to the Trustee, and
                  (B) the Company shall, within 120 days after such sale, apply
                  or cause a Subsidiary to apply an amount equivalent to the net
                  proceeds of such sale (to the greatest extent possible) to the
                  redemption of Securities in accordance with the provisions of
                  Article Three and at the applicable Redemption Price, or to
                  the repayment of other Funded Indebtedness of the Company
                  (other than Subordinated Indebtedness), or in part to such
                  redemption and in part to such repayment; provided that in
                  lieu of applying an amount equivalent to all or any part of
                  such net proceeds to such redemption, the Company may, within
                  75 days after such sale, deliver to the Trustee Securities for
                  cancellation and thereby reduce the amount to be applied to
                  any redemption of Securities by an amount equivalent to the
                  aggregate principal amount of the Securities so delivered; or

                           (iv) such lease arises out of a sale or transfer by a
                  Subsidiary to the Company or to another Subsidiary;

                  (e) Liens reserved in leases for rent and for compliance with
         the terms of the lease in the case of leasehold estates;

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                  (f) Liens arising by reason of deposits with or the giving of
         any form of security to any governmental agency or any other
         governmental body created or approved by law or governmental regulation
         for any purpose at any time as required by law or governmental
         regulation as a condition to the transaction of any business or the
         exercise of any privilege or license, or to enable the Company or a
         Subsidiary to maintain self-insurance or to participate in any fund for
         liability on any insurance risks or in connection with workmen's
         compensation, unemployment insurance, old age pensions or other social
         security or to share in the privileges or benefits required for
         companies participating in such arrangements;

                  (g) Mechanics' or materialmen's liens or any lien or charge
         arising by reason of pledges or deposits to secure payment of workmen's
         compensation or other insurance, good faith deposits in connection with
         tenders or leases of real estate, bids or contracts (other than
         contracts for the payment of money), deposits to secure public or
         statutory obligations, deposits to secure or in lieu of surety, stay or
         appeal bonds and deposits as security for the payment of taxes or
         assessments or other similar charges;

                  (h) Liens of taxes and assessments which are not at the time
         delinquent or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate
         proceedings by the Company or a Subsidiary;

                  (i) Liens of any uninsured judgments in an aggregate amount
         not in excess of $500,000, or the lien of any uninsured judgment the
         execution of which has been stayed or which has been appealed and
         secured, if necessary, by the filing of an appeal bond;

                  (j) Any obligations or duties, affecting the property of the
         Company or a Subsidiary, to any municipality or public authority with
         respect to any franchise, grant, license or permit;

                  (k) Rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or
         governmental or other public authority or railroad by the terms of any
         right, power, franchise,

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         grant, license, permit or by any provision of law, to terminate or to
         require annual or other periodic payments as a condition to the
         continuance of such right, power, franchise, grant, license or permit.

                  (l) Rights reserved to or vested in any municipality or
         public authority to control or regulate any property of the Company or
         a Subsidiary, or to use such property in any manner which does not
         materially impair the use of such property for the purposes for which
         it is held by the Company or such Subsidiary;

                  (m) Liens upon rights-of-way for pipeline purposes and
         undetermined liens and charges incidental to construction or
         maintenance;

                  (n) Any irregularities in or deficiencies of title to any
         right-of-way or pipelines, telephone lines, power lines, water lines
         and/or appurtenances thereto or other improvements thereon, and to any
         real estate used or to be used primarily for right-of-way purposes,
         provided that the Company or a Subsidiary shall have obtained from the
         apparent owner of the lands or estates therein covered by any such
         right-of way a sufficient right, by the terms of the instrument
         granting such right-of-way, to the use thereof for the construction,
         operation or maintenance of such liens, appurtenances or improvements
         for which the same are or are to be used, or the Company or such
         Subsidiary has power under eminent domain or similar statutes to remove
         such irregularities or deficiencies;

                  (o)(i) Zoning laws and ordinances and (ii) minor defects and
         irregularities in the titles to any property and liens securing
         indebtedness neither assumed nor guaranteed by the Company or a
         Subsidiary nor on which it customarily pays interest existing upon real
         estate or rights in or relating to real estate (including rights-
         of-way and easements) acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary for
         pipeline, metering station or right-of-way purposes, which defects,
         irregularities and liens do not materially impair the use of the
         property affected thereby for the purposes for which it is held by the
         Company or such Subsidiary;

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                  (p) Easements, exceptions or reservations in any property of
         the Company or a Subsidiary granted or reserved for the purpose of
         pipelines, roads, streets, alleys, highways, railroad purposes, and the
         removal of oil, gas, hydrocarbon, coal or other minerals, and other
         like purposes, or for the use of real property or interests therein,
         facilities and equipment, which do not materially impair the use
         thereof for the purposes for which it is held by the Company or such
         Subsidiary, and any and all rents, royalties, reservations, liens,
         encumbrances, and rights or interests of third parties arising by
         virtue of any lease or any exploration, development, drilling,
         unitization, communitization or operating agreement relating to or
         affecting any oil, gas, hydrocarbon, coal or other mineral properties
         in which the Company or any Subsidiary has an interest; and

                  (q) Any mortgage, pledge, lien or encumbrance not permitted by
         clauses (a) through (p) above if at the time of, and after giving
         effect to, the creation or assumption of any such mortgage, pledge,
         lien or encumbrance, the sum of (i) all liabilities included on the
         consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries
         representing capitalized lease obligations applicable to leases.
         arising from sale and leaseback transactions not permuted by clause
         (d), and (ii) the aggregate of all obligations of the Company and its
         Subsidiaries secured by any mortgages, pledges, liens or encumbrances
         not permitted by all other clauses of this Section 4.07 does not exceed
         5% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets.

         As used in this Section 4.07, the term "mortgage" or "lien" shall
include any security interest, and the term "encumbrance" shall include any type
of lease.

         If at any time the Company takes any action or a Subsidiary shall take
any action to which the covenant in the first paragraph of this Section 4.07 is
applicable, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate, stating that such covenant has been complied with, and an opinion
of Counsel, stating that in his opinion such covenant has been complied with and
that any instruments executed by the Company or a Subsidiary in the performance
of such covenant complied with the requirements thereof.

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         In the event that the Company or a Subsidiary shall hereafter secure
the Securities equally and ratably with any other obligation or indebtedness
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 4.07, the Trustee is hereby
authorized to enter into an indenture supplemental hereto and to take such
action, if any, as it may deem advisable to enable it to enforce effectively the
rights of the holders of the Securities so secured, equally and ratably with
such other obligation or indebtedness.

         Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01, the Trustee may receive an
Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such supplemental indenture
or steps to secure the securities equally and ratably comply with the provisions
of this Section 4.07.

         Section 4.08. Compliance Certificate.

         Annually, within 120 days after the close of each fiscal year beginning
with the fiscal year ending December 31, 1988, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee a certificate (which shall not be deemed to be an Officers' Certificate
within the meaning of this Indenture and need not conform to the provisions of
Section 15.05) of an officer (other than the Secretary) and the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, stating that a review of the activities of the Company and
of its Subsidiaries during such year has been made under their supervision with
a view to determining whether to the best knowledge of such officers the Company
has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled all its covenants, agreements and
obligations under Article Four of this Indenture, and that to the best of their
knowledge the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled each and every
covenant, agreement and obligation on its part under Article Four of this
Indenture and that to the best of their knowledge neither the Company nor any
Paying Agent of the Company is in Default in the performance, observance or
fulfillment of any of the terms, provisions and conditions hereof, and that no
Default exists or, if the Company or any Paying Agent shall be so in Default or
if any Default exists, specifying all such Defaults, and the nature thereof, of
which they may have knowledge.

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         Section 4.09. No Lien Created.

         This Indenture and the Securities do not create a lien, charge or
encumbrance on the property of the Company or any Subsidiary.

         Section 4.10. No Conflict.

         The delivery and performance of this Indenture and the issuance of the
Securities do not conflict with or violate any provisions of the Company's
Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws or any other constituent document or agreement
to which the Company is a party.

         Section 4.11. Availability of Information.

         From time to time, whenever reasonably requested by the Trustee, the
Company will furnish or make available to the Trustee such information as may be
necessary to permit the Trustee to carry out its duties hereunder in addition to
any information which the Company is specifically required to furnish pursuant
to this Indenture.

         Section 4.12. Waiver of Certain Covenants.

         The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any
term, provision or condition set forth in Sections 4.01 to 4.11, inclusive, with
respect to the Securities of any series if before the time for such compliance
the Holders of at least 66 2/3% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such
compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such term,
provision or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term,
provision or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such
waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of
the Trustee in respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in
full force and effect.

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                         ARTICLE FIVE. SUCCESSOR COMPANY

         Section 5.01. When Company May Merge, etc.

         The Company may consolidate with or merge into, or transfer all or
substantially all of its assets to, one or more other entities if:

         (1)      the corporation or other successor entity formed by or
                  surviving such transaction, in the case of a consolidation or
                  merger, and the transferee, in the case of a transfer, assumes
                  by supplemental indenture all the obligations of the Company
                  under all of the Securities and this Indenture;

         (2)      immediately after giving effect to the transaction,
                  no Default would occur and be continuing;

         (3)      the corporation or other successor entity formed by or
                  surviving such transaction, in the case of a consolidation or
                  merger, and the transferee, in the case of a transfer, is
                  organized under the laws of the United States or any state
                  thereof; and

         (4)      the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
                  Certificate and an opinion of Counsel, each stating that such
                  consolidation, merger or transfer and such supplemental
                  indenture comply with this Article and that all conditions
                  precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
                  have been complied with.

Subject to the provision of Section 7.01, the Trustee may receive such opinion
of Counsel and Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence with respect to the
matters therein set forth.

         Section 5.02. When Securities Must be Secured.

         If upon any consolidation, merger or transfer, any properties or assets
of the Company would become subject to any mortgages, pledges, liens or
encumbrances (other than mortgages, pledges, liens or encumbrances of the types
which such other corporation would have been permitted to create or assume under
any subdivisions (a)(v), (a)(vi), (a)(viii), (a) (x) and (c) to (p), inclusive,
of Section 4.07), the

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Company by supplemental indenture shall secure the Securities equally and
ratably with any other indebtedness of the Company entitled thereto by a direct
lien on all such properties and assets of the Company prior to all liens other
than theretofore existing thereon prior to such consolidation, merger or
transfer.

         Section 5.03. Successor Substituted.

         Upon any consolidation by the Company with or merger by the Company
into any other corporation or other entity or any transfer of the assets of the
Company substantially as an entirety in accordance with Section 5.01, the
successor corporation or other entity formed by such consolidation or into which
the Company is merged or to which such transfer is made shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under
this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor corporation or other
entity had been named as the Company herein, and thereafter the predecessor
shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the
Securities and may liquidate and dissolve.

                       ARTICLE SIX. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES

         Section 6.01. Events of Default.

         "Event of Default," whenever used herein with respect to Securities of
any series, means any one of the following events:

         (1)      default in the payment of any interest on any Security of that
                  series when the same becomes due and payable, and the default
                  continues for a period of 30 days; or

         (2)      default in the payment of the principal of, or premium, if
                  any, on, any Security of that series at its Maturity, upon
                  redemption or otherwise; or

         (3)      default in the payment of any sinking fund payment, when and
                  as due by the terms of a Security of that series; or

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         (4)      the Company fails to observe and perform any other of the
                  covenants or agreements on the part of the Company in respect
                  of the Securities of that series in this Indenture for a
                  period of 90 days after the date on which written notice
                  specifying such failure, stating that such notice is a "Notice
                  of Default" hereunder and demanding that the Company remedy
                  the same, shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee,
                  or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of not less
                  than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of
                  that series at the time Outstanding; or

         (5)      an event of default, as defined in any mortgage, indenture or
                  instrument under which there is or may be issued Funded
                  Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary in a principal
                  amount exceeding $2,000,000, shall occur with the result that
                  such Funded Indebtedness shall have been declared due and
                  payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become
                  due and payable or the Company or any Subsidiary shall fail to
                  pay or refund any Funded Indebtedness in a principal amount in
                  excess of $2,000,000 within 60 days after the maturity or
                  extended maturity of such Funded Indebtedness, but if any such
                  default or failure is cured by the Company or such Subsidiary
                  or is waived by the specified percentage of holders of such
                  mortgage, indenture or instrument entitled to so waive, then
                  the Event of Default under this Indenture by reason of such
                  default shall be deemed to have been cured; or

         (6)      the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of
                  (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in
                  an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal
                  or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
                  similar law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the Company
                  bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a
                  petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
                  composition of or in respect of the Company under any
                  applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian,
                  receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other
                  similar official of the Company or of any

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                  substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up
                  or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such
                  decree or order for relief or any such other decree or order
                  unstayed and in effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or

         (7)      the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or
                  proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
                  insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any
                  other case or proceeding to be adjudicated bankrupt or
                  insolvent, or the consent by it to the entry of a decree or
                  order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary
                  case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
                  bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or
                  to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or
                  proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or
                  answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any
                  applicable Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the
                  filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking
                  possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee,
                  trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of
                  any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of
                  an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the, admission
                  by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally
                  as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the
                  Company in furtherance of any such action; or

         (8)      any other Event of Default provided with respect to Securities
                  of that series.

         Section 6.02. Acceleration.

         If an Event of Default described in clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or (8) of
Section 6.01 with respect to Securities of any series at the time outstanding
occurs and is continuing, then in every such case, the Trustee by notice to the
Company, or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the principal amount of such
Securities (or, if the Securities of that series are Original Issue Discount
Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the
terms thereof) and accrued interest, if any,

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on all of the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately, by a
notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and
upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) and
accrued interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event
of Default described in clause (5), (6) or (7) of Section 6.01 occurs and is
continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than
25% in aggregate principal amount of all the securities then Outstanding
(treated as one class) may declare the principal amount (or, if any such
Securities are original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal
amount as may be specified in the terms thereof) of and accrued interest, if
any, or, all of the Securities to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by the Holders) and upon any
such declaration such principal amount (or specified portion thereof) and
accrued interest, if any, shall become immediately due and payable.

         At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of that series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) then
Outstanding, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and
annul such declaration and its consequences if

                  (1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
         sufficient to pay

                           (A) all overdue interest on all Securities of that
                  series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be);

                           (B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
                  securities of that series (or of all the Securities, as the
                  case may be) which have become due otherwise than by such
                  declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate
                  or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities;

                           (C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
                  lawful, interest upon overdue interest

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                  at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in such
                  Securities; and

                           (D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
                  hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
                  disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
                  counsel;

                  and

                  (2) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the
         principal of Securities of that series which have become due solely by
         such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided
         in Section 6.04.

No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.

         Section 6.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
                       Trustee.

         The Company covenants that if

                  (1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any of
         the Securities of any series when such interest becomes due and payable
         and such default continues for a period of 30 days, or

                  (2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or
         premium, if any, on) the Securities of such series at the Maturity
         thereof,

the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities of such series, the whole amount then due and payable
on all Securities of such series for principal (and premium, if any) or
interest, as the case may be, and, to the extent that payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal (and premium, if
any) and on any overdue interest, at the rate or rates prescribed therefor in
such Securities, and, in addition thereto, 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.

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         If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such securities and collect the
money adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.

         If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and
enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series by
such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most effectual
to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any
power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.

         Section 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults.

         Prior to the declaration of acceleration of the Securities of any
series as provided in Section 6.02, the Holders of not less than a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series may on
behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past
default or Event of Default described in clause (1), (2), (3), (4) or (8) of
Section 6.01 (or, in the case of an Event of Default specified in clause (5),
(6) or (7) of Section 6.01, the Holders of Securities of a majority in principal
amount of all the Securities then Outstanding (treated as one class) may waive
any such default or Event of Default), and its consequences, except a default

                  (1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
         interest on any Security, or

                  (2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
         Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
         Holder of each Outstanding Security affected.

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         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.

         The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding Securities of all series affected (treated as one class) shall have
the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred
on it with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that

                  (1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
         law or with this Indenture, and

                  (2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
         Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.

         Section 6.06. Limitation on Suits.

         No Holder of any Security of any series shall have the right to
institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture,
or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless

                  (1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
         Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities
         of that series;

                  (2) the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal
         amount of the Securities of that series (or, in the case of any
         proceeding relating to or arising under clause (5), (6) or (7) of
         Section 6.01, 25% in aggregate principal amount of all Securities)
         Outstanding shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute
         proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
         Trustee hereunder;

                  (3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
         reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses

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         and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;

                  (4) the Trustee for 90 days after its receipt of such notice,
         request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
         proceeding; and

                  (5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
         been given to the Trustee during such 90-day period pursuant to Section
         6.05;

it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other of
such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any
other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all of such
Holders.

         Section 6.07. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.

         Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Holder of
any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and (subject to Section
2.06) interest on such Security on the Stated Maturity or Maturities expressed
in such Security, (or, in the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to
bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall not be
impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.

         Section 6.08. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
                       Securities.

         All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities
may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of
the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and
any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name
as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be

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for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which
such judgment has been recovered.

         Section 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.

         In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation,
bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other
judicial proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor of their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or
otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on
the Company for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled
and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,

                  (i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
         principal (and premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in
         respect of the Securities and to file such 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
         of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and

                  (ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property
         payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same,

and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official 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 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.

         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 Securities
or the

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rights of any Holder thereof 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 be
applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and,
in the case of the distribution of such money on account of principal, or
premium, if any, or interest, upon presentation of the Securities and the
notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:

         FIRST:            to the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
                           Section 7.07;

         SECOND:           to the payment of the amounts then due and
                           unpaid for principal of, premium, if any, and
                           interest on the Securities in respect of which
                           or for the benefit of which such money has
                           been collected, ratably, without preference or
                           priority of any kind, according to the amounts
                           due and payable on such Securities for
                           principal, premium, if any, and interest,
                           respectively; and

         THIRD:            to the payment of the remainder, if any, to
                           the Company, its successors or assigns, or whomsoever
                           may lawfully be entitled thereto, or as a court of
                           competent jurisdiction may determine.

         The Trustee may fix a record date for any such payment to Holders of
any Security.

         Section 6.11. Undertaking for Costs.

         All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by
his acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have agreed that 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, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court
in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit,
other than the Trustee, of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the
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its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys'
fees, against any party litigant in such 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 any suit instituted by the Company, any suit
instituted by the Trustee, any suit instituted by a Holder pursuant to Section
6.07 or any suit instituted by Holders of more than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of Securities of any series (or, in the case of any suit relating to or
arising under clause (5), (6) or (7) of Section 6.01, 25% in aggregate principal
amount of all Securities) Outstanding.

                             ARTICLE SEVEN. TRUSTEE

         Section 7.01. Duties of Trustee.

         (a) If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series has
occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall with respect to the Securities of
such series exercise such of its rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in their 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 with respect
to Securities of any series:

                  (1) The Trustee undertakes to perform only such duties as are
         specifically set forth in this Indentures, and no implied covenants or
         obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.

                  (2) 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 be under a duty to examine
         the certificates and opinions to determine whether or not they conform
         to the requirements of this Indenture.

         (c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent

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action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except
that:

                  (1) This paragraph (c) does not limit the effect of paragraph
         (b) of this Section.

                  (2) 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.

                  (3) 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
         of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
         Outstanding Securities of any series, determined as provided in Section
         6.05 or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under
         this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series.

                  (4) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee
         to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
         liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the
         exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable
         grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate
         indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
         it.

         (d) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this Section.

         (e) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received
by it except as the Trustee may agree with the Company. 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.

         Subject to the provisions of Section 7.01:

         (a) the Trustee may relay and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice,

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request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have
been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;

         (b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;

         (c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence
be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officers' Certificate;

         (d) 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 in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder
in good faith and in reliance thereon;

         (e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
right or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have
offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction;

         (f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Trustee,
in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such
facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make
such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
and

         (g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not

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be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or
attorney appointed with due care by it hereunder.

         Section 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee.

         The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Security
Registrar or any agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity,
may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and, subject to Sections 7.11 and
7.12, may otherwise deal with the Company or an Affiliate with the same rights
it would have if it were not Trustee.

         Section 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer.

         The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except in the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statement of the
Company, and the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent assumes no responsibility
for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the securities. The Trustee or any
Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the Company's use or
application of the proceeds from the Securities.

         Section 7.05. Notice of Default.

         Within 90 days after the occurrence of any default hereunder with
respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to
all Holders of Securities of such series, as their names and addresses appear in
the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee,
unless such default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that,
except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any) or interest on any Security of such series or in the payment of any
sinking fund installment with respect to Securities of such series, the Trustee
shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of
directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding
of such notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities of such series;
and provided, further, that in the case of any default of the character
specified in clause (4) of Section 6.01 with respect to Securities of such
series, no such notice to

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Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.

         Section 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders.

         The Trustee shall prepare and forward reports to all Holders as
provided in Section 10.03.

         Section 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity.

         The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder. The Trustee's
compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a Trustee of an
express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon request for all
reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made
by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture. Such expenses
may include the reasonable compensation and out-of-pocket expenses of the
Trustee's agents and counsel.

         Except as otherwise provided in this Section 7.07, the Company shall
indemnify the Trustee against any loss, liability or expense arising out of or
in connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its
powers or duties hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any
claim for which it may seek indemnity. The Company shall defend the claim and
the Trustee shall cooperate in the defense. The Trustee may have separate
counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such
counsel. The Company need not pay for any settlement without its consent.

         The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any
loss or liability incurred by the Trustee through negligence or bad faith.

         To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.07, the
Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities, on all money or property held
or collected by the Trustee, except that held in trust to pay the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on, particular Securities.

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         When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 6.01(6) or (7) occurs, such expenses and
compensation of the Trustee for such services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law.

         Section 7.08. Replacement of Trustee.

         (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 7.13.

         (b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the securities
of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee require by Section 7.13 shall
not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.

         (c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the
Trustee and to the Company.

         (d) If at any time:

                  (1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 7.12 (a)
         after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has
         been a bona fide Holder of Security for at least six months, or

                  (2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.10
         and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
         or by any such Holder, or

                  (3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
         adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
         property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or

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         control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
         rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;

then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to section 6.11, any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months
may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court
of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect to all
Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or Trustees.

         (e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with
respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by a Board
Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees with respect
to the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such
successor Trustee may be appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more
or all of such series and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with
respect to the Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 7.13. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and the
retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of
Section 7.13, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
such series and to that extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the
Company. If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted
appointment in the manner required by Section 7.13, any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Securities of such series.

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         (f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each
appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series
by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to
all Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in
the Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its
Corporate Trust Office.

         If at the time a successor to the Trustee succeeds to the trusts
created by this Indenture any of the Securities shall have been authenticated
but not delivered, the successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver the Securities so
authenticated. If at that time any of the Securities shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate the Securities
either in the name of any predecessor Trustee hereunder or in the name of the
successor Trustee. In all such cases the certificate of authentication shall
have the same force and effect which the provisions of the Securities or this
Indenture provide that certificates of authentication of the Trustee shall have,
except that the right to adopt the certificate of authentication of any
predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities in the name of any predecessor
Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or
consolidation.

         Section 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, etc.

         Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto.

         Section 7.10. Eligibility.

         There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be a
corporation organized and doing business under the

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laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of
Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having
a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 subject to supervision or
examination by Federal or State authority and having its Corporate Trust Office
in the United States. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at
least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said supervising or
examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital
and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any
time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect
hereinafter specified in this Article.

         Section 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.

         (a) Subject to Subsection (b) of this Section, if the Trustee shall be
or shall become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the
Company within four months prior to a default as defined in Subsection (c) of
this Section, or subsequent to such a default, then, unless and until such
default shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special
account for the benefit of the Trustee individually, the Holders of the
Securities and the holders of other indenture securities, as defined in
Subsection (c) of this Section:

                  (1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount
         due and owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal
         or interest, effected after the beginning of such four months' period
         and valid as against the Company and its other creditors, except any
         such reduction resulting from the receipt or disposition of any
         property described in paragraph (2) of this Subsection, or from the
         exercise of any right of set-off which the Trustee could have exercised
         if a petition in bankruptcy had been filed by or against the Company
         upon the date of such default; and

                  (2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any
         claims as such creditor, either as security therefor, or in
         satisfaction or composition

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         thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such four months' period,
         or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property, if disposed
         of, subject, however, to the rights, if any, of the Company and its
         other creditors in such property or such proceeds.

Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the Trustee:

                  (A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on account
         of any such claim by any Person (other than the Company) who is liable
         thereon, and (ii) the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any such claim
         by the Trustee to a third Person, and (iii) distributions made in cash,
         securities or other property in respect of claims filed against the
         Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for
         reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable
         State law;

                  (B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by
         it as security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior
         to the beginning of such four months' period;

                  (C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of
         the claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as
         security for any such claim, if such claim was created after the
         beginning of such four months' period and such property was received as
         security therefor simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if the
         Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at the time such
         property was so received the Trustee had no reasonable cause to believe
         that a default, as defined in Subsection (c) of this Section, would
         occur within four months; or

                  (D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph
         (B) or (C), against the release of any property held as security for
         such claim as provided in paragraph (B) or (C), as the case may be, to
         the extent of the fair value of such property.

         For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property substituted
after the beginning of such four months' period for property held as security at
the time of such

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substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value of the property released,
have the same status as the property released, and, to the extent that any claim
referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in renewal of or in
substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding any pre- existing
claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have the same status as
such pre-existing claim.

         If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned among
the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture securities in such
manner that the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of other indenture
Securities realize, as a result of payments from such special account and
payments of dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or
receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal
Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law, the same percentage of their respective
claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee anything on account
of the receipt by it from the Company of the funds and property in such special
account and before crediting to the respective claims of the Trustee and the
Holders and the holders of other indenture securities dividends on claims filed
against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for
reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law,
but after crediting thereon receipts on account of the indebtedness represented
by their respective claims from all sources other than from such dividends and
from the funds and property so held in such special account. As used in this
paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term "dividends" shall include any
distribution with respect to such claim, in bankruptcy or receivership or
proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or
applicable State law, whether such distribution is made in cash, securities or
other property, but shall not include any such distribution with respect to the
secured portion, if any, of such claim. The court in which such bankruptcy,
receivership or proceedings for reorganization is pending shall have
jurisdiction (i) to apportion among the Trustee, the Holders and the holders of
other indenture securities, in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph,
the funds and property held in such special account and proceeds thereof, or
(ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to the
provisions of this paragraph due consideration in determining the fairness of
the

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distributions to be made to the Trustee and the Holders and the holders of other
indenture securities with respect to their respective claims, in which event it
shall not be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value of any securities
or other property held in such special account or as security for any such
claim, or to make a specific allocation of such distributions as between the
secured and unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply the
provisions of this paragraph as a mathematical formula.

         Any Trustee which has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such four months' period shall be subject to the provisions of this Subsection
as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has
resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such four months' period, it
shall be subject to the provisions of this Subsection if and only if the
following conditions exist:

                  (i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim, which would
         have given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had
         continued as Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such four months'
         period; and

                  (ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred
         within four months after such resignation or removal.

         (b) There shall be excluded from the operation of Subsection (a) of
this Section a creditor relationship arising from:

                  (1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under
         any indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one
         year or more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;

                  (2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court
         of competent jurisdiction or by this Indenture, for the purpose of
         preserving any property which shall at any time be subject to the lien
         of this Indenture or of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or
         encumbrances thereon, if notice of such advances and of the
         circumstances surrounding the making thereof is given to the Holders at
         the time and in the manner provided in this Indenture;

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                  (3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in
         the capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
         custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar
         capacity;

                  (4) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered
         or premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
         securities sold in a cash transaction, as defined in Subsection (c) of
         this Section;

                  (5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a
         corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the
         Federal Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a
         creditor of the Company; and

                  (6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of
         any drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall
         within the classification of self-liquidating paper, as defined in
         Subsection (c) of this Section.

         (c) For the purposes of this Section only:

                  (1) the term "default" means any failure to make payment in
         full of the principal of or interest on any of the Securities or upon
         the other indenture securities when and as such principal or interest
         becomes due and payable;

                  (2) the term "other indenture securities" means securities
         upon which the Company is an obligor outstanding under any other
         indenture (i) under which the Trustee is also trustee, (ii) which
         contains provisions substantially similar to the provisions of this
         Section, and (iii) under which a default exists at the time of the
         apportionment of the funds and property held in such special account;

                  (3) the term "cash transaction" means any transaction in
         which full payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven
         days after delivery of the goods or securities in currency or in checks
         or other

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         orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand;

                  (4) the term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, bill of
         exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
         incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase,
         processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or
         merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
         possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the
         receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
         merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the security
         is received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation of the
         creditor relationship with the Company arising from the making,
         drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, bill of exchange,
         acceptance or obligation;

                  (5) the term "Company" means any obligor upon the Securities;
         and

                  (6) the term "Federal Bankruptcy Act" means the Bankruptcy Act
         of Title 11 of the United States Code.

         Section 7.12. Conflicts of Interest.

         (a) If the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest, as
defined in this Section, with respect to the Securities of any series, it shall,
within 90 days after ascertaining that it has such conflicting interest, either
eliminate such conflicting interest or resign with respect to the Securities of
that series in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.

         (b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of Subsection (a) of this Section with respect to the Securities of
any series, the Trustee shall, within 10 days after the expiration of such
90-day period, transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of that series, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such
failure.

         (c) For the purposes of this Section, the Trustee shall be deemed to
have a conflicting interest with respect to the Securities of any series if

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                  (1) the Trustee is trustee under this Indenture with respect
         to the outstanding Securities of any series other than that series or
         is trustee under another indenture under which any other securities, or
         certificates of interest or participation in any other securities, of
         the Company are outstanding, unless such other indenture is a
         collateral trust indenture under which the only collateral consists of
         Securities issued under this indenture, provided that there shall be
         excluded from the operation of this paragraph the Indenture between the
         Company and Continental Illinois National dank and Trust Company of
         Chicago, as trustee, dated as of February 1, 1948, as supplemented by
         Supplemental Indentures dated as of January 1, 1975, January 1, 1976,
         April 1, 1978, and April 1, 1980, pursuant to which the Company issued
         its 9 7/8%, 9%, 8 1/2% and 12% Sinking Fund Debentures due January 1,
         1995, January 1, 1996, April 1, 1998 and April 1, 2000, and the
         Indenture between the Company and Continental Illinois National Bank
         and Trust Company of Chicago, as trustee, dated as of October 1, 1982,
         pursuant to which the company issued its 13% Sinking Fund Debentures
         due October 1, 2002, or any other indenture or indentures under which
         other securities, or certificates of interest or participation in other
         securities, of the Company are outstanding, if

                           (i) this Indenture and such other indenture or
                  indentures are wholly unsecured and such other indenture or
                  indentures are hereafter qualified under the TIA, unless the
                  Commission shall have found and declared by order pursuant to
                  Section 305 (b) or Section 307(c) of the TIA that differences
                  exist between the provisions of this Indenture with respect to
                  Securities of that series and one or sore other series or the
                  provisions of such other indenture or indentures which are so
                  likely to involve a material conflict of interest as to make
                  it necessary in the public interest or for the protection of
                  investors to disqualify the Trustee from acting as such under
                  this Indenture with respect to the Securities of that series
                  and such other series or under such other indenture or
                  indentures, or

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                  and after opportunity for hearing thereon, that trusteeship
                  under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of that
                  series and such other series or such other indenture or
                  indentures is not so likely to involve a material conflict of
                  interest as to make it necessary in the public interest or for
                  the protection of investors to disqualify the Trustee from
                  acting as such under this Indenture with respect to the
                  Securities of that series and such other series or under such
                  other indenture or indentures;

                  (2) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers
         is an obligor upon the Securities or an underwriter for the Company;

                  (3) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is directly
         or indirectly controlled by or is under direct or indirect common
         control with the Company or an underwriter for the Company;

                  (4) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers
         is a director, officer, partner, employee, appointee or representative
         of the Company, or of an underwriter (other than the Trustee itself)
         for the Company who is currently engaged in the business of
         underwriting, except that (i) one individual may be a director or an
         executive office, or both, of the Trustee and a director or an
         executive officer, or both, of the Company but may not be at the same
         time an executive officer of both the Trustee and the Company; (ii) if
         and so long as the number of directors of the Trustee in office is more
         than nine, one additional individual may be a director or an executive
         officer, or both, of the Trustee and a director of the Company; and
         (iii) the Trustee may be designated by the Company or by any
         underwriter for the Company to act in the capacity of transfer agent,
         registrar, custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent or
         depositary, or in any other similar capacity, or, subject to the
         provisions of paragraph (1) of this Subsection, to act as trustee,
         whether under an indenture or otherwise;

                  (5) 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is
         beneficially owned either by the Company or by any director, partner,
         or executive officer thereof,

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         or 20% or more of such voting securities is beneficially owned,
         collectively, by any two or more of such persons; or 10% or more of the
         voting securities of the Trustee is beneficially owned either by an
         underwriter for the Company or by any director, partner or executive
         officer thereof, or is beneficially owned, collectively, by any two or
         more such persons;

                  (6) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
         collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
         hereinafter in this Subsection defined), (i) 5% or more of the voting
         securities, or 10% or more of any other class of security, of the
         Company not including the Securities issued under this Indenture and
         securities issued under any other indenture under which the Trustee is
         also trustee, or (ii) 10% or more of any class of security of an
         underwriter for the Company;

                  (7) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
         collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
         hereinafter in this Subsection defined), 5% or more of the voting
         securities of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns 10%
         or more of the voting securities of, or controls directly or indirectly
         or is under direct or indirect common control with, the Company;

                  (8) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
         collateral security for an obligation which is in default (as
         hereinafter in this Subsection defined), 10% or more of any class of
         security of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee, owns 50%
         or more of the voting securities of the Company; or

                  (9) the Trustee owns, on May 15 in any calendar year, in the
         capacity of executor, administrator, testamentary or inter vivos
         trustee, guardian, committee or conservator, or in any other similar
         capacity, an aggregate of 25% or more of the voting securities, or of
         any class of security, of any person, the beneficial ownership of a
         specified percentage of which would have constituted a conflicting
         interest under paragraph (6), (7) or (8) of this Subsection. As to any
         such securities of which the Trustee acquired ownership through
         becoming executor, administrator or testamentary trustee of an estate
         which included them, the provisions

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         of the preceding sentence shall not apply, for a period of two years
         from the date of such acquisition, to the extent that such securities
         included in such estate do not exceed 25% of such voting securities or
         25% of any such class of security. Promptly after May 15 in each
         calendar year, the Trustee shall make a check of its holdings of such
         securities in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of such May 15.
         If the Company fails to make payment in full of the principal of (or
         premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities when and as the
         same becomes due and payable, and such failure continues for 30 days
         thereafter, the Trustee shall make a prompt check of its holdings of
         such securities in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of the date
         of the expiration of such 30-day period, and after such date,
         notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this paragraph, all such
         securities so held by the Trustee, with sole or joint control over such
         securities vested in it, shall, but only so long as such failure shall
         continue, be considered as though beneficially owned by the Trustee for
         the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7) and (8) of this Subsection.

         The specification of percentages in paragraphs (5) to (9), inclusive,
of this Subsection shall not be construed as indicating that the ownership of
such percentages of the securities of a person is or is not necessary or
sufficient to constitute direct or indirect control for the purposes of
paragraph (3) or (7) of this Subsection.

         For the purposes of paragraphs (6), (7), (8) and (9) of this
Subsection only, (i) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include only
such securities as are generally known as corporate securities, but shall not
include any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence an
obligation to repay moneys lent to a person by one or more banks, trust
companies or banking firms, or any certificate of interest or participation in
any such note or evidence of indebtedness; (ii) an obligation shall be deemed to
be "in default" when a default in payment of principal shall have continued for
30 days or more and shall not have been cured; and (iii) the Trustee shall not
be deemed to be the owner or holder of (A) any security which it holds as
collateral security, as trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not in
default as defined in clause (ii) above, or (B) any security which it holds as
collateral security under this

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Indenture irrespective of any default hereunder, or (C) any security which it
holds as agent for collection, or as custodian, escrow agent or depositary, or
in any similar representative capacity.

         (d) For the purposes of this Section:

                  (1) The term "underwriter", when used with reference to the
         Company, means every person who, within three years prior to the time
         as of which the determination is made, has purchased from the Company
         with a view to, or has offered or sold for the Company in connection
         with, the distribution of any security of the Company outstanding at
         such time, or has participated or has had a direct or indirect
         participation in any such undertaking, or has participated or has had a
         participation in the direct or indirect underwriting of any such
         undertaking, but such term shall not include a person whose interest
         was limited to a commission from a underwriter or dealer not in excess
         of the usual and customary distributors' or sellers' commission.

                  (2) The term "director" means any director of a corporation or
         any individual performing similar functions with respect to any
         organization, whether incorporate or unincorporated.

                  (3) The term "person" means an individual, a corporation, a
         partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an
         unincorporated organization or a government or political subdivision
         thereof. As used in this paragraph, the term "trust" shall include only
         a trust where the interest or interests of the beneficiary or
         beneficiaries are evidenced by a security.

                  (4) The term "voting security" means any security presently
         entitling the owner or holder thereof to vote in the direction or
         management of the affairs of a person, or any security issued under or
         pursuant to any trust, agreement or arrangement whereby a trustee or
         trustees or agent or agents for the owner or holder of such security
         are presently entitled to vote in the direction or management of the
         affairs of a person.

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                  (5) The term "Company" means any obligor upon the Securities.

                  (6) The term "executive officer" means the president, every
         vice president, every trust officer, the cashier, the secretary and the
         treasurer of a corporation, and any individual customarily performing
         similar functions with respect to any organization whether incorporated
         or unincorporated, but shall not include the chairman of the board of
         directors.

         (e) The percentages of voting securities and other securities specified
in this Section shall be calculated in accordance with the following provisions:

                  (1) A specified percentage of the voting securities of the
         Trustee, the Company or any other person referred to in this Section
         (each of whom is referred to a "person" in this paragraph) means such
         amount of the outstanding voting securities of such person as entitles
         the holder or holders thereof to cast such specified percentage of the
         aggregate votes which the holders of all the outstanding voting
         securities of such person are entitled to cast in the direction or
         management of the affairs of such person.

                  (2) A specified percentage of a class of securities of a
         person means such percentage of the aggregate amount of securities of
         the class outstanding.

                  (3) The term "amount", when used in regard to securities,
         means the principal amount if relating to evidences of indebtedness,
         the number of shares if relating to capital shares and the number of
         units if relating to any other, kind of security.

                  (4) The term "outstanding" means issued and not held by or for
         the account of the issuer. The following securities shall not be deemed
         outstanding within the meaning of this definition:

                           (i) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund
                  relating to securities of the issuer of the same class;

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                           (ii) securities of an issuer in a sinking fund
                  relating to another class of securities of the issuer, if the
                  obligation evidenced by such other class of securities is not
                  in default as to principal or interest or otherwise:

                           (iii) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as
                  security for an obligation of the issuer not in default as to
                  principal or interest or otherwise; and

                           (iv) securities held in escrow if placed in escrow by
                  the issuer thereof;

         provided, however, that any voting securities of an issuer shall be
         deemed outstanding if any person other than the issuer is entitled to
         exercise the voting rights thereof.

                  (5) A security shall be deemed to be of the same class as
         another security if both securities confer upon the holder or holders
         thereof substantially the same rights and privileges; provided,
         however, that, in the case of secured evidences of indebtedness, all of
         which are issued under a single indenture, differences in the interest
         rates or maturity dates of various series thereof shall not be deemed
         sufficient to constitute such series different classes and provided,
         further, that, in the case of unsecured evidences of indebtedness,
         differences in the interest rates or maturity dates thereof shall not
         be deemed sufficient to constitute them securities of different
         classes, whether or not they are issued under a single indenture.

         Section 7.13. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.

         (a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to all Securities, every such Trustee so appointed shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such

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retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and
trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder.

         (b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (1) shall
contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and
confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (2)
if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall
contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm
that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with
respect to the Securities of that or those series as to which the retiring
Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and
(3) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be
necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or
in such supplemental indenture shall constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the
same trust and that each such Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts
hereunder separate and apart from any trust or trusts hereunder administered by
any other such Trustee; and upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental
indenture the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective to the extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that or those series to which the appointment of such successor
Trustee relates; but, on request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such
retiring Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor
Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with
respect to the Securities of that or those

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series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.

         (c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred
to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.

         (d) No successor Trustee shall accept is appointment unless at the time
of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.

         Section 7.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent.

         At any time when any of the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee
may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series
of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of
transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 2.05, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture
and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the
District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent,
having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject
to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then
for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the

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provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect specified in this Section.

         Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.

         An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate
the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof to such
Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of
such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will
serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provisions of this Section.

         The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the
provisions of Section 7.07.

         If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made pursuant
to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed thereon, in
addition to the Trustee's

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certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication in the
following form:

         This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
         to in the within-mentioned Indenture.

                          CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL
                             BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
                             OF CHICAGO,
                                             as Trustee

                          By
                            --------------------------------------
                                  as Authenticating Agent

                          By
                            --------------------------------------
                                     Authorized Officer

                      ARTICLE EIGHT. DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE

         Section 8.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.

         This Indenture shall upon Company Request cease to be of further effect
(except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of
Securities herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee, at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when

         (1) either

                  (A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered
         (other than (i) Securities which have been destroyed, lost or stolen
         and which have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.05 and
         (ii) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited
         in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter
         repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust, as provided in
         Section 4.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or

                  (B) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
         Trustee for cancellation

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                           (i) have become due and payable, or

                           (ii) will become due and payable at their Stated
                  Maturity within one year, or

                           (iii) are to be called for redemption within one year
                  under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving
                  of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the
                  expense, of the Company,

         and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, has deposited
         or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for
         the purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
         indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the
         Trustee for cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and
         interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which
         have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption
         Date, as the case may be;

         (2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
    hereunder by the Company; and

         (3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
    and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein
    provided for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture
    have been complied with.

         Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 7.07, the obligations of
the Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 7.14 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (1) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 8.05 and the last
paragraph of Section 4.03 shall survive.

         Section 8.02. Termination of Company's Obligations.

         Subject to Sections 8.03 and 8.04, the Company may terminate all of its
obligations under this Indenture and the Securities with respect to the
Securities of any series if

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the Company irrevocably deposits in trust with the Trustee money or U.S.
Government Obligations the principal of and interest on which are sufficient
(without reinvestment and assuming no tax liability will be imposed on the
Trustee) to pay principal (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities
to Maturity or redemption, as the case may be.

         However, such termination shall not become effective until the later of
the ninety-first day following such deposit or the first day on which there is
not a continuing Event of Default described in Section 6.01(6) or 6.01(7)
(without giving effect to the period of time set forth therein). Moreover, such
termination shall not relieve the Company of its obligations under such
Securities and this Indenture to pay when due the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest on the Securities if such Securities are not paid or not
considered paid when due from the money or U.S. Government Obligations so
deposited (and the proceeds thereof).

         The Company will make any necessary arrangements for the redemption of
the Securities at a future date in accordance with Article Eleven.

         After a deposit is made in accordance with this Section 8.02 with
respect to any series and the termination of obligations with respect to that
series becomes effective:

                  (a) the Trustee (with respect to that series only) and each
         Holder of the Securities of that series shall no longer be entitled to
         the benefit of and security under this Indenture except as provided in
         Section 8.03; and

                  (b) the Trustee shall:

                           (1) acknowledge in writing the termination of the
                  Company's obligations with respect to the Securities of that
                  series except for the surviving obligations provided in
                  Section 8.03; and

                           (2) execute, deliver and file any instrument
                  necessary or appropriate to effect such termination and
                  release of such obligations of the Company.

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         Section 8.03. Certain Obligations Survive.

         The Company's obligations in Sections 2.03, 2.05, 2.06, 4.01, 4.02,
4.03, 7.07, 7.08, 7.09, 7.10 and Article Twelve shall survive until the
Securities are no longer Outstanding. Thereafter, the Company's obligation in
Section 7.07 shall survive.

         Section 8.04. Condition to Discharge.

         The Company shall not be entitled to deposit cash or U.S. Government
Obligations with the Trustee and terminate its obligations with respect to any
Securities in accordance with Section 8.02, unless the Company shall have
delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the
Holders of such Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal
income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and termination and (ii) such
Holders (and future Holders of such Securities) will be subject to tax in the
same manner as if such deposit and termination had not occurred.

         Section 8.05. Application of Trust Money.

         Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 4.03, the
Trustee shall hold in trust all money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited
with it pursuant to this Article Eight. The Trustee shall apply the deposited
money and the money from U.S. Government Obligations either directly or through
any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) and in
accordance with this Indenture to the payment to the Persons entitled thereto of
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, for whose payment such money
has been deposited with the Trustee. The Trustee and each Paying Agent shall
promptly pay to the Company upon Company Request any excess money or U.S.
Government Obligations held by them at any time.

                      ARTICLE NINE. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES

         Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.

         Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more

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indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of
the following purposes:

                  (1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
         Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
         the Company herein and in the Securities; or

                  (2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
         the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such covenants
         are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
         stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the
         benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein
         conferred upon the Company; or

                  (3) to add any additional Events of Defaults; or

                  (4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this
         Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate
         the issuance of Securities in bearer form, registrable or not
         registrable as to principal, and with or without interest coupons; or

                  (5) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
         Indenture, provided that any such change or elimination shall become
         effective only when there are no Securities outstanding of any series
         created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is
         entitled to the benefit of such provision; or

                  (6) to secure the Securities pursuant to the requirements of
         Section 4.07 or 5.02 or otherwise; or

                  (7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
         as permitted by Sections 11.01 and 2.01; or

                  (8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
         hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one
         or more series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this
         Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
         administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee,
         pursuant to the requirements of Section 7.13(b); or

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                  (9) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
         provision herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision
         herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to matters or
         questions arising under this Indenture, provided such action shall not
         adversely affect the interests of the Holders of Securities of any
         series in any material respect; or

                  (10) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of
         Securities of any series payable as to principal or premium, if any, or
         interest in any foreign currency or currencies (including without
         limitation European Currency Units), to provide for the payment for
         Securities of any series with any such currency or currencies and, if
         the currency for which Securities of any series may be purchased, or in
         which the principal of or any interest thereon may be payable, is at
         the purchaser's election, then to provide for the manner in which any
         such election may be made, and to make all appropriate changes for any
         such purpose.

         Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Holders.

         With the consent of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of all series affected by such
supplemental indenture (treated as one class), by Act of said Holders delivered
to the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in
any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of each such
series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby:

                  (1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
         installment of principal of or interest on, any Security, or reduce the
         principal amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium
         payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of the
         principal of an original Issue Discount Security that

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         would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the
         Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 6.02, or change any Place of
         Payment where, or the coin or currency or composite currency in which,
         any Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable, or
         impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
         payment on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of
         redemption, on or after the redemption Date), or

                  (2) reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the
         Outstanding Securities of any series or of all series (treated as one
         class), as the case may be, the consent of whose Holders is required
         for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is
         required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this
         Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences)
         provided for in the Indenture; or

                  (3) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 4.12
         or Section 6.04, except to increase any such percentage or to provide
         that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
         waived without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
         affected thereby, provided, however, that this clause shall not be
         deemed to require the consent of any Holder with respect to changes in
         the references to "the Trustee" and concomitant changes in this Section
         and Section 4.12, or the deletion of this proviso, in accordance with
         the requirements of Sections 7.13(b) and 9.01(8).

A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.

         It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.

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         Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.

         In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any
supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of
the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive,
and (subject to Section 7.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.

         Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.

         Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article,
this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder
of Securities theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder
shall be bound thereby.

         Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.

         Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall
conform to the requirements of the TIA as then in effect.

         Section 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.

         Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall
if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as
to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall
so determine, new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may
be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series and of like tenor.

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                   ARTICLE TEN. HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY
                               TRUSTEE AND COMPANY

         Section 10.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of
Holders.

         The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee

         (a) semi-annually, not later than January 15 and July 15 of each year,
a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders as of the preceding January 1 or July 1, as the case
may be, and

         (b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar
form and content as of a date not more than, 15 days prior to the time such list
is furnished;

provided that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Security Registrar,
such list need not be furnished.

         Section 10.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.

         (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 10.01 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 10.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.

         (b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants") apply
in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each
such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six months
preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the
applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights
under this Indenture or under the Securities and is accompanied by a copy of the
form of proxy or other communication which such applicants proposed to transmit,
then the Trustee shall, within five business

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days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either

                  (i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved
         at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.02(a), or

                  (ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of
         Holders whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved
         at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.02(a), and as
         to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or
         other communication, if any, specified in such application.

         If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder whose name and address appear in the information preserved
at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 10.02(a) a copy of the
form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of
mailing, unless within five days after such tender the Trustee shall mail to
such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the
material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of
the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interest of the Holders
or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify
the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing
upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an
order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an
order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find,
after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained
have been met and shall enter an order to declaring, the Trustee shall mail
copies of such material to all such Holders with reasonable promptness after the
entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall
be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.

         (c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee

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that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall
be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to
the names and addresses of the Holders in accordance with Section 10.02(b),
regardless of the source from which such information was derived, and that the
Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant
to a request made under Section 10.02(b).

         Section 10.03. Reports by Trustee.

         (a) On or before August 1 in each year following the date hereof, the
Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses
appear in the Security Register, a brief report dated as of the next preceding
June 1 with respect to:

                  (1) its eligibility under Section 7.10 and its qualifications
         under Section 7.12, or in lieu thereof, if to the best of its knowledge
         it has continued to be eligible and qualified under said Sections, a
         written statement to such effect;

                  (2) the character and amount of any advances (and if the
         Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making
         thereof) made by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date
         of such report, and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may
         claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities, on any
         property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee, except that the
         Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to report such advances
         if such advances so remaining unpaid aggregate not more than 1/2 of 1%
         of the principal amount of the Securities Outstanding on the date of
         such report;

                  (3) the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all other
         indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
         Securities) to the Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date of
         such report, with a brief description of any property held as
         collateral security therefor, except an indebtedness based upon a
         creditor relationship arising in any manner described in Section
         7.13(b)(2), (3), (4) or (6);

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                  (4)      the property and funds, if any, physically in
         the possession of the Trustee as such on the date of such
         report;

                  (5) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee has
         not previously reported; and

                  (6) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its
         duties hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its
         opinion materially affects the Securities, except action in respect of
         a default, notice of which has been or is to be withheld by the Trustee
         in accordance with Section 7.02.

         (b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names
and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report with respect to
the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee elects so to state,
the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made by the Trustee (as such)
since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to Subsection (a) of this
Section (or if no such report has yet been so transmitted, since the date of
execution of this instrument) for the reimbursement of which it claims or may
claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities, on property or funds
held or collected by it as Trustee and which it has not previously reported
pursuant to this Subsection, except that the Trustee shall not be required (but
may elect) to report such advances if such advances remaining unpaid at any time
aggregate 10% or less of the principal amount of the Securities Outstanding at
such time, such report to be transmitted within 90 days after such time.

         (c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.

         Section 10.04. Reports by Company.

         The Company shall:

                  (1) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
         required to file the same with the Commission,

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         copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and
         other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as
         the Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations
         prescribe) which the Company may be required to file with the
         Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities
         Exchange Act of 1934; or, if the Company is not required to file
         information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections,
         then it shall file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
         with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
         Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information,
         documents and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of
         the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 in respect of a security listed and
         registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from
         time to time in such rules and regulations;

                  (2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
         with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
         Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
         respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants
         of this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules
         and regulations; and

                  (3) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and
         addresses appear in the Security Register, within 30 days after the
         filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any information,
         documents and reports required to be filed by the Company pursuant to
         paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Section as may be required by rules and
         regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission

                         ARTICLE ELEVEN. SECURITY FORMS

         Section 11.01. Forms Generally.

         The Securities of each series shall be in substantially the form set
forth in this Article, or in such other form as shall be established by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more indentures supplemental hereto,
in each case with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as are required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have
such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such legends or
endorsements placed

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thereon as may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange
or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such
Securities, as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of
Securities of any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board
Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action shall be certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the
Trustee at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section
2.02 for the authentication and delivery of such Securities.

         The Trustee's certificates of authentication shall be in substantially
the form set forth in this Article.

         The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on
steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined
by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of
such Securities.

         Section 11.02. Form of Face of Security.

         [If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security, insert -- FOR
PURPOSES OF SECTIONS 1273 AND 1275 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE, THE AMOUNT OF
ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT ON THIS SECURITY IS    % OF ITS PRINCIPAL AMOUNT, THE
ISSUE DATE IS           , 19  . THE YIELD TO MATURITY IS    %. THE METHOD USED
TO DETERMINE THE YIELD IS THE            METHOD AND THE AMOUNT OF ORIGINAL ISSUE
DISCOUNT APPLICABLE TO THE SHORT ACCRUAL PERIOD FROM THE DATE OF ISSUANCE OF
THIS SECURITY TO                , 19        IS          % OF THE PRINCIPAL
AMOUNT OF THIS SECURITY.]

                                K N ENERGY, INC.

                          [Insert Title of Securities]

No.                                                              $

         K N Energy, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the
laws of Kansas (herein called the "Company," which term includes any successor
corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received,
hereby promises to pay to          , or registered assigns, the principal sum of

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Dollars on              [if the Security is to bear interest prior to Maturity,
insert -- , and to pay interest thereon from                   or from the most
recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly provided
for, [semi-annually in arrears on                and              in each year]
[annually in arrears on              in each year], commencing                ,
at the rate of   % per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or made
available for payment [if applicable, insert -- , and (to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable) at the rate of    % per
annum on any overdue principal and premium, if any, and on any overdue
installment of interest]. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in such Indenture,
be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor
Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date
for such interest, which shall be [      or      ] (whether or not a Business
Day) [,as the case may be,] next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such
interest not so punctually paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be
payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the
Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to
such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the
Securities of this series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture].

         [If the Security is not to bear interest prior to Maturity insert --
The principal of this Security shall not bear interest except in the case of a
default in payment of principal upon acceleration, upon redemption or at Stated
maturity and in such case the overdue principal of this Security shall bear
interest at the rate of % per annum (to the extent that the payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such
default in payment to the date payment of such principal has been made or duly
provided for. Interest on any overdue principal shall be payable on demand. Any
such interest on

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any overdue principal that is not so paid on demand shall bear interest at the
rate of    % per annum (to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be
legally enforceable), which shall accrue from the date of such demand for
payment to the date payment of such interest has been made or duly provided for,
and such interest shall also be payable on demand.]

         Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and if applicable
insert -- any such] interest on this Security will be made at the office or
agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in _______________, [insert
place of payment and, if applicable, also insert -- or, at the option of the
holder hereof, at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that
purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, State of New York] 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 [if applicable, insert
-- ; provided however, that at the option of the Company payment of interest may
be made by check mailed on or before the due date to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Security Register or by
wire transfer to an account designated by such person.]

         Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Security set
forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes
have the same effect as if set forth at this place.

         Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by
the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature, this Security
shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.

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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.

Dated:
                                           K N ENERGY, INC.

                                           By
                                             ----------------------------------

ATTEST:

--------------------------------
Secretary

         Section 11.03. Form of Reverse of Security.

         This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the
Company (herein called the "Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more
series under an Indenture, dated as of September 1, 1988 (herein called the
"Indenture"), between the Company and Continental Illinois National Bank and
Trust Company of Chicago, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee", which term
includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all
indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the
respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities and of the terms upon
which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. This
Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof [, limited in
aggregate principal amount to $       ].

         [If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are not
redeemable, in whole or in part, prior to the Stated Maturity thereof.]

         [If applicable, insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, [if applicable, insert --
(1) on            in any year commencing with the year          and ending with
the year           through operation of the sinking fund for this series at a
Redemption Price equal to 100% of the principal amount, and (2)] at any time [on
or after             , 19   ], as a whole or in part, at the election of the
Company, at the

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following Redemption Prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount):
If redeemed [on or before              ,     %, and if redeemed] during the
12-month period beginning                  of the years indicated,

                Redemption                                   Redemption
Year               Price                     Year               Price
----            ----------                   ----            ----------

and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to      % of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption [if applicable, insert -- (whether
through operation of the sinking fund or otherwise)] with accrued interest to
the Redemption Date, but interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or
prior to such Redemption Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities,
or one or more Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the
relevant Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the
Indenture.]

         [If applicable insert -- The Securities of this series are subject to
redemption upon not less than 30 days' notice by mail, (1) on      in any year
commencing with the year       and ending with the year      through operation
of the sinking fund for this series at the Redemption Prices for redemption
through operation of the sinking fund (expressed as percentages of the principal
amount) set forth in the table below, and (2) at any time [on or after        ],
as a whole or in part, at the election of the Company, at the Redemption Prices
for redemption otherwise than through operation of the sinking fund(expressed as
percentages of the principal amount) set forth in the table below: If redeemed
during the 12-month period beginning     of the years indicated,

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                      Redemption Price                 Redemption Price
                       For Redemption              For Redemption Otherwise
                      Through Operation             Than Through Operation
Year                 of the Sinking Fund              of the Sinking Fund
----                 -------------------           ------------------------

and thereafter at a Redemption Price equal to % of the principal amount,
together in the case of any such redemption (whether through operation of the
sinking fund or otherwise) with accrued interest to the Redemption Date, but
interest installments whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to such Redemption
Date will be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, of record at the close of business on the relevant
Record Dates referred to on the face hereof, all as provided in the Indenture.]

         [Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may not, prior to       ,
redeem any Securities of this series as contemplated by [Clause (2) of] the
preceding paragraph as a part of any refunding operation by the application of
the proceeds of moneys borrowed having an interest cost to the Company
(calculated in accordance with generally accepted financial practice) of less
than         % per annum.)

         [The sinking fund for this series provides for the redemption on
               in each year beginning with the year       and ending with the
year          of [not less than] $      [("mandatory sinking fund") and not more
than $    ] aggregate principal amount of Securities of this series. [Securities
of this series acquired or redeemed by the Company otherwise than through
(mandatory) sinking fund payments may be credited against subsequent [mandatory]
sinking fund payments otherwise required to be made.]

         In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities of this series and of like

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tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder
hereof upon the cancellation hereof.

         [If the Security is not an Original Issue Discount Security. -- If an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of and accrued interest on the securities of this
series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect
provided in the Indenture.]

         [If the Security is an Original Issue Discount Security. -- If an
Event of Default with respect to securities of this series shall occur and be
continuing, an amount of principal of and accrued interest on the Securities of
this series may be declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect
provided in the Indenture. Such amount shall be equal to -- insert formula for
determining the amount.] Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal and accrued
interest, if any, so declared due and payable and (ii) of interest on any
overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the extent that the
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of the Company's
obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and interest, if any,
on the Securities of this series shall terminate.

         The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each series to be
affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the
consent of the Holders of 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Securities at the
time Outstanding of all series to be affected (treated as one class). The
Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of specified
percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each series (or, in some
cases, of all of the Securities) at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Securities of such series (or of all of the securities, as the
case may be), to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.
Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive
and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of
any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in

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lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Security.

         No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security
or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.

         As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein
set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in any place where the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Security are payable, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities of
this series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same
aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees.

         The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered form
without coupons in denominations of $_______________ and any integral multiple
thereof [except as such amounts may be adjusted following a partial redemption
and related selections under Article Three of the Indenture]. As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities of
this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Securities
of this series and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.

         No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover
any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.

         Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and

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neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.

         All terms used in this Security which are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

         Section 11.04. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.

         This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred
         to in the within mentioned Indenture.

                                    CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL
                                     BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
                                     OF CHICAGO,
                                                 as Trustee

                                    By
                                      ----------------------------
                                         Authorized Officer

                          ARTICLE TWELVE. SINKING FUNDS

         Section 12.01. Applicability of Article.

         The provisions of this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund
for the retirement of Securities of a series except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.01 for Securities of such series.

         The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the
terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking
fund payment," and any payment in excess of such minimum-amount provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an "optional
sinking fund payment." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series,
the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as
provided in Section 12.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the
redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of
Securities of such series.

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         Section 12.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.

         The Company (1) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other
than any previously called for redemption) and (2) may apply as a credit
Securities of a series which have been redeemed either at the election of the
Company pursuant to the terms of such Securities or through the application of
permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of such
Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund
payment with respect to the Securities of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such
Series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such
Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.

         Section 12.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.

         Not less than 45 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any
series of Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee a Company Order
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, if the portion thereof, if any, which is
to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 12.02 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered. Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date the
Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 3.03 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company
in the manner provided in Section 3.04. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 3.06 and 3.07.

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              ARTICLE THIRTEEN. MEETINGS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES

         Section 13.01. Purposes of Meetings.

         A meeting of Holders of Securities of any or all series, as the case
may be, may be called at any time and from time to time pursuant to the terms of
this Article Thirteen for any of the following purposes:

                  (1) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee, or to
         give any directions to the Trustee, or to consent to the waiving of any
         default hereunder and its consequences, or to take any other action
         authorized to be taken by Holders of Securities of any or all series,
         as the case may be, pursuant to the provisions of Article Six;

                  (2) to remove the Trustee and appoint a successor trustee
         pursuant to the provisions of Article Seven;

                  (3) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures
         supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02; or

                  (4) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on
         behalf of the Holders of a percentage in aggregate principal amount of
         the Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, under any
         other provisions of this Indenture or under applicable law.

         Section 13.02. Call, Notice and Place of Meetings.

         (a) The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Holders of Securities
of any or all series, as the case may be, for any purpose specified in Section
13.01, to be held at such time and at such place in the United States as the
Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of Holders of Securities of any
or all series, as the case may be, setting forth the time and the place of such
meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting,
shall be given, in the manner provided in Section 14.02, not less than 21 nor
more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.

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         (b) In case at any time the Company, pursuant to a Board Resolution, or
the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any or all series, as the case may be, shall have requested the Trustee to call
a meeting of the Holders of such Securities for any purpose specified in Section
13.01, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed
to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of
such meeting within 21 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or
the Holders of such Securities in the amount above specified, as the case may
be, may determine the time and the place in the United States for such meeting
and may call such meeting for such purposes by giving notice thereof as provided
in subsection (a) of this Section.

         Section 13.03. Persons Entitled to Vote at Meetings.

         To the entitled to vote at any meeting of Holders of Securities of any
series, a Person shall be (1) a Holder of one or more Outstanding Securities of
the series with respect to which the meeting is called or, should the meeting be
called with respect to the Securities of all series, a Holder of one or more
Securities of any series, or (2) a Person appointed by an instrument in writing
as proxy for a Holder or Holders of one or more such Outstanding Securities. The
only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of
Holders of Securities shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and
their counsel, any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any
representatives of the Company and its counsel.

         Section 13.04. Quorum; Action.

         The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
Securities of a series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be)
Outstanding shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of Holders of Securities of
such series; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such
meeting with respect to a consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly
provides may be given by the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in principal
amount of the Securities of a series (or of all the Securities, as the case may
be) Outstanding, the Persons entitled to vote 66 2/3% in principal amount of the
Securities of such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be)
Outstanding shall constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within

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30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if
convened at the request of Holders of such Securities, be dissolved. In any
other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as
determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such
meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such
adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days
as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such
adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be
given as provided in Section 13.02(a), except that such notice need be given
only once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is
scheduled to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting
shall state expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount
of the Securities of such series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be)
Outstanding which shall constitute a quorum.

         Except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.02, any resolution
presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened at which a quorum is
present as aforesaid may be adopted only by the affirmative vote of the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Securities of that series (or of all
the Securities, as the case may be) Outstanding: provided, however, that, except
as limited by the proviso to Section 9.02, any resolution with respect to any
consent or waiver which this Indenture expressly provides may be given by the
Holders of not less than 66 2/3% in principal amount of the Securities of a
series (or of all the Securities, as the case may be) Outstanding may be adopted
at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly convened and at which a quorum is
present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of the Holders of 66 2/3% in
principal amount of such Outstanding securities; and provided, further, that,
except as limited by the proviso to Section 9.02, any resolution with respect to
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action which this Indenture expressly provides may be made, given or taken by
the Holders of a specified percentage, which is less than a majority, in
principal amount of the Securities of a series (or of all the Securities, as the
case may be) Outstanding may be adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting
duly reconvened and at which a quorum is present as aforesaid by the affirmative
vote of the Holders of such specified percentage in principal amount of such
Outstanding Securities.

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         Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of Holders of
Securities of any or all series, as the case may be, duly held in accordance
with this Section shall be binding on all the Holders of such Securities whether
or not present or represented at the meeting.

         Section 13.05. Determination of Voting Rights; Conduct and Adjournment
                        of Meetings.

         (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee
may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Holders of Securities in regard to proof of the holding of Securities of the
series with respect to which the meeting is called and of the appointment of
proxies and in regard to the appointment and duties of inspectors of votes, the
submission and examination of proxies, certificates and other evidence of the
right to vote, and such other matters concerning the conduct of the meeting as
it shall deem appropriate. Except as otherwise permitted or required by any such
regulations, the holding of Securities shall be proved in the manner specified
in Section 14.07 and the appointment of any proxy shall be proved in the manner
specified in Section 14.07. Such regulations may provide that written
instruments appointing proxies, regular on their face, may be presumed valid and
genuine without the proof specified in Section 14.07 or other proof.

         (b) The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Holders of Securities as provided in Section 13.02(b), in which
case the Company or the Holders of Securities calling the meeting, as the case
may be, shall in like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman
and a permanent secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Persons
entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
such series represented at the meeting.

         (c) At any meeting each Holder of a Security or proxy entitled to vote
as provided in this Article shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000
principal amount of Securities held or represented by him; provided, however,
that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security
challenged as not Outstanding and

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ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not Outstanding. The chairman of the
meeting shall have no right to vote, except as a Holder of a Security or proxy.

         (d) Any meeting of Holders of Securities duly called pursuant to
Section 13.02 at which a quorum is present may be adjourned from time to time by
Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities represented at the meeting; and the meeting may be held as so
adjourned without further notice.

         Section 13.06. Counting Votes and Recording Action of Meetings.

         The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Holders of
Securities shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the
signatures of the Holders of Securities or proxies entitled to vote thereat and
the principal amounts and serial numbers. of the Outstanding securities held or
represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting shall appoint two
inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the meeting for or against
any resolution and who shall make and file with the secretary of the meeting
their verified written reports in triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A
record, at least in triplicate, of the proceedings of each meeting of Holders of
Securities shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and there shall be
attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of votes on any
vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more persons having
knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting and
showing that said notice was given as provided in Section 13.02 and, if
applicable, Section 13.04. Each copy shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one such
copy shall be delivered to the Company, and another to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting. Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence
of the matters therein stated.

         Section 13.07. Written Consent in Lieu of Meeting of Holders.

         The written authorization or consent of the requisite percentage of
Holders herein provided, entitled to vote at

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any such meeting, evidenced as provided in Section 14.07 and filed with the
Trustee, shall be effective in lieu of a meeting of Holders, with respect to any
matter provided for in this Article Thirteen.

                         ARTICLE FOURTEEN. MISCELLANEOUS

         Section 14.01. Trust Indenture Act Controls.

         If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with
another provision hereof which is required to be included in this Indenture by
the TIA, the required provision shall control.

         Section 14.02. Notices.

         (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,

                  (1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
         sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
         filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
         Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or

                  (2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
         sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
         expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
         prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at P.O. Box 15265, Lakewood,
         Colorado 80215, or at any other address previously furnished in writing
         to the Trustee by the Company.

         The Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate
additional or different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.

         (b) Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event,
such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder
affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Security Register,
not later than the latest date, and not earlier

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than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case
where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such
notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other Holders. Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be waived in
writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice, either before or after
the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such notice. Waivers of
notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be
a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such
waiver.

         (c) In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by
mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee
shall constitute a sufficient notification, for every purpose hereunder.

         Section 14.03. No Recourse to Certain Persons.

         No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of this
Indenture, or of any Security or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in
respect thereof, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or
director, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of any successor
corporation, either directly or through the Issuer or such successor
corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or
by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it being expressly
understood that this Indenture and the obligations issued hereunder are solely
corporate obligations, and that no such personal liability whatever shall attach
to, or is or shall be incurred by, the incorporators, stockholders, officers or
directors, as such, past, present or future, of the Issuer or of any successor
corporation, or any of them, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby
authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements
contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities or implied therefrom:
and that any and all such personal liability, either at common law or in equity
or by constitution or statute, of, and any and all such rights and claims
against, every such incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, as such,

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because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by
reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in this Indenture
or in any of the Securities or implied therefrom, are hereby expressly waived
and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of
this Indenture and the issue of such Securities.

         Section 14.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.

         Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to
the Trustee:

                  (1) an Officers' Certificate stating that, in the opinion of
         the signers, all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this
         Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with, and

                  (2) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such
         counsel, all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied
         with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to
         which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
         provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or
         request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.

         Section 14.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.

         Each Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall
include:

                  (1) a statement that the Persons signing such certificate or
         opinion has read such covenant or condition and any definitions herein
         relating thereto;

                  (2) 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;

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                  (3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he 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 complied with; and

                  (4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such
         Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.

         Section 14.06. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.

         In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or
covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all
such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.

         Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.

         Section 14.07. Acts of Holders.

         (a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by
Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agents, duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise

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expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or
instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly
required, to the Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 7.01)
conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner
provided in this Section.

         (b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.

         (c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register.

         (d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder
of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the
Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon
such security.

         Section 14.08. Governing Law.

         This Indenture and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

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         Section 14.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.

         This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or
debt agreement of the Company or a Subsidiary. Any such indenture, loan or debt
agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.

         Section 14.10. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.

         The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are
for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

         Section 14.11. Legal Holidays.

         In any case where any Interest Payment Date, redemption Date or Stated
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of the
Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium, if any) need not be
made at such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect
as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date, or at the Stated
Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue for the period from and after
such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may
be.

         Section 14.12. Severability Clause.

         In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities 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 14.13. Benefits of Indenture.

         Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Indenture.

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         Section 14.14. Successors.

         All covenants and agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the
Securities shall bind its successors and assigns whether so expressed or not.

         Section 14.15. Duplicate Originals.

         The parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. One signed
copy shall be enough to prove this Indenture.

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                                   SIGNATURES

Dated:                                  K N ENERGY, INC.

September 23, 1988                      By /s/ E.W. LUNDHAGEN
                                          ---------------------------
                                           Vice President

                                                               (SEAL)

ATTEST:

 /s/ ROBERT C. MCHUGH
----------------------
Secretary

Dated:                                  CONTINENTAL ILLINOIS NATIONAL
                                             BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
                                             OF CHICAGO,
                                                             TRUSTEE

September 23, 1988                      By /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
                                          -------------------------
                                           Vice President

                                                              (SEAL)

ATTEST:

 /s/ [ILLEGIBLE]
----------------------
Trust Officer

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