(a)  Each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers hereby irrevocably appoints Bank of America to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Intercreditor Agreement) and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the execution and delivery of the other Loan Documents (including the Intercreditor Agreement)), together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article, other than the final sentence of Section  9.10 , are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, and the Parent Borrower shall not have rights as a third-party beneficiary of any of such provisions. It is understood and agreed that the use of the term “agent” herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any other similar term) with reference to the Agents is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties.