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1. payment on acceleration, as a result of a call for redemption (other than mandatory sinking <br />fund redemption) or as a result of any other advancement of maturity. <br />2. payment of any redemption, prepayment or acceleration premium. <br />3. nonpayment ofprincipal or interest caused by the insolvency or negligence of any Trustee <br />, Paying Agent or Bond Registrar, if any. <br />If it becomes necessary to call upon the Financial Guaranty Insurance Policy, payment ofprincipal <br />requires surrender of Obligations to the Insurance Trustee together with an appropriate instrument of <br />assignment so as to permit ownership of such Obligations to be registered in the name ofAmbac Assurance <br />to the extent of the payment under the Financial Guaranty Insurance Policy. Payment of interest pursuant <br />to the Financial Guaranty Insurance Policy requires proof of Holder entitlement to interest payments and <br />an appropriate assignment of the Holder's right to payment to Ambac Assurance. <br />Upon payment of the insurance benefits, Ambac Assurance will become the owner of the <br />Obligation, appurtenant coupon, if any, or right to payment of principal or interest on such Obligation and <br />will be fully subrogated to the surrendering Holder's rights to payment. <br />The insurance provided by the Financial Guaranty Insurance Policy is not covered by the Florida <br />Insurance Guaranty Association. <br />Ambac Assurance Corporation <br />Ambac Assurance Corporation ("Ambac Assurance") is a Wisconsin -domiciled stock insurance <br />corporation regulated by the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Wisconsin and <br />licensed to do business in 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Guam and the <br />Commonwealth ofPuerto Rico, with admitted assets of approximately $6,115,000,000 (unaudited) and <br />statutory capital ofapproximately $3,703,000,000 (unaudited) as of December 31, 2002. Statutory capital <br />consists of Ambac Assurance's policyholders' surplus and statutory contingency reserve. Standard & <br />Poor's Credit Markets Services, a Division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Moody's Investors Service <br />and Fitch, Inc. have each assigned a triple-A financial strength rating to Ambac Assurance. <br />Ambac Assurance has obtained a Wiling from the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that the <br />insuring of an obligationbyAmbac Assurance will not affect the treatment for federal income tax purposes <br />of interest on such obligation and that insurance proceeds representing maturing interest paid by Ambac <br />Assurance under policy provisions substantially identical to those contained in its financial guaranty <br />insurance policy shall be treated for federal income tax purposes in the same manner as if such payments <br />were made by the Obligor of the Obligations. <br />19 <br />