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Dec. 31, 2011
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(7) Debt
We have a loan agreement with a group of banks that was entered into in June 2011 to make the WBI acquisition and provide working capital for our continuing operations. The loan agreement expires in June 2016 and consists of a term loan facility and a revolving loan facility, and the revolving loan facility provides us with letters of credit. Financing costs associated with the loan inception of approximately $1.7 million were capitalized and will be amortized over the five-year life of the loan. The loan agreement replaced a predecessor loan agreement that also consisted of a term loan, revolving loan, and letters of credit.
The term loan requires quarterly installments payable based on an accelerating amortization schedule, with 15% of the original $125 million principal amount due in each of the first two years, 20% due in each of years three and four, and 30% due in year five. The amount of term loan borrowings outstanding as of December 31, 2011 is approximately $110.9 million. The amount of term loan borrowings outstanding on the predecessor loan agreement as of December 31, 2010 was approximately $17.8 million.
Our scheduled term loan payments following December 31, 2011 are: $18.8 million in 2012, $23.4 million in 2013, $25 million in 2014, $34.3 million in 2015, and $9.4 million in 2016.
The maximum amount of credit available to us from the banking group for revolving loans and letters of credit as of December 31, 2011 was $125 million and the loan agreement has a provision whereby we may elect to increase this maximum to a total of $175 million. Under the terms of the loan agreement, we may borrow revolving loan amounts at any time and can repay the borrowings at any time without premium or penalty. We pay an unused commitment fee and fees on letters of credit that are issued. We had approximately $53.3 million in revolving loan borrowings outstanding and $5 million of letters of credit outstanding as of December 31, 2011. We had approximately $6.9 million of letters of credit outstanding and no revolving loan borrowings outstanding as of December 31, 2010 on the predecessor loan agreement.
Total bank loan borrowed funds outstanding as of December 31, 2011, including both term loan borrowings and revolving loan borrowings, were approximately $164.2 million. Total bank loan borrowed funds outstanding as of December 31, 2010, were approximately $17.8 million.
We pay interest on the term loan borrowings and revolving loan borrowings at LIBOR plus a base margin or at a base rate (typically the prime rate) plus a base margin. The LIBOR base margin as of December 31, 2011 is 2.25% and the base rate base margin as of December 31, 2011 is 0.5%. The base margins decline in steps as our Total Funded Debt/EBITDA Ratio declines.
We have employed interest rate hedges on a significant portion of our outstanding borrowings. In July 2011, we purchased a three-year amortizing LIBOR interest rate swap on the term loan debt for an initial amount of $101 million. The swap amount amortizes as the term loan amortizes, with reductions in the swap amount occurring on the same dates and for approximately the same amounts as term loan repayments. With the swap in place, we will pay an effective rate on the hedged term debt of 0.56% plus our base margin from July 2011 through June 2012, and an effective rate of 1.615% plus our base margin from July 2012 through June 2014. In July 2011, we purchased a two-year LIBOR interest rate swap on the revolving loan debt for an initial amount of $40 million. The swap amount declines to $20 million in June 2012, and expires in June 2013. With the swap in place, we will pay an effective rate on the hedged term debt of 0.7775% plus our base margin during the two years.
As of December 31, 2011, interest rates on portions of our outstanding debt ranged from 2.53% to 3.75%. The effective interest rate on our aggregate outstanding debt after taking into account the impact of the interest rate hedges was 2.85%.
Interest expense incurred on bank loan borrowings was approximately $3.1 million, $253 thousand and $117 thousand for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
The loan agreement contains collateral requirements that secure our assets, restrictive covenants, other affirmative and negative covenants, and subjects us to certain conditions and limitations. Restrictive covenants include a maximum Total Funded Debt/EBITDA Ratio, which decreases over time, and a minimum Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. We were in compliance with required ratios and other terms and conditions at December 31, 2011.
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