ENRON July l~ ~RP Kenneth L Lay P 0. Box 1188 O~awman and Ho~js~on. Tans 77251.1185 O~~uI E,.cuti. Officer (713) 853.6773 Mr. James H. Shelton Vice President Private Banking NationsBank of Texas 700 Louisiana Houston, Texas 77002 Dear James: As we discussed, I would like for NationsBank to consider providing a line of credit for up to 70% of the market value of the assets to be held by the KLL & LPL Investments~ Ltd. Partnership. In addition, I would request a standby line of credit of up to $2 million to be used to purchase other assets to be placed inthe partnership in the future, subject to the limitation that no more than 50% of the market value of such assets could be borrowed to purchase such assets. This partnership will hold assets as listed in Appendix K The collateral for these loans would be all of Linda's and my ownership in the KLL & LPL hvestments~ Ltd. Partnership. In addition, Linda and I and the partnership will guarantee the above-described debt. The partnership and Linda and I will execute the necessary pledge agreements. The debt will be a personal debt of mine and Linda's (i.e., it will not be a partnership debt). The partnership has the power to guarantee our personal debt and to pledge partnership assets for our personal debts in consideration of an appropriate guarantee fee. We will pay that fee. Please call me with any questions that you may have. When your attorneys have completed the necessary documents, please forward those documents to S. Stacy Eastland at Baker & Botta, LIP. for his review and comments. Sincerely, Enclosure: Appendix A ~ LAYG2' i842