POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY TEXAS BONDING COMPANY
<br />UNITED STATES SURETY COMPANY U.S. SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That American Contractors Indemnity Company, a Calilirrnia corporation, Texas
<br />Bonding, Company, an assumed name of American Contractors Indemnity Company of the State of California, a California
<br />corporation, United States Surety Company, a Maryland corporation and U.S. Specialty Insurance Company, A Texas corporation
<br />(collectively, the -Companies "), do by these presents make, constituted and appoint -
<br />EdiN in H. Frank, iIi or W. Russell Broi%n, .lr, of Houston, Texas
<br />its true and lawful Attorney(s) -in -fact, each in their separate capacity if more than one is named above, with full power and authority
<br />hereby conferred in its name, place and stead, to execute, acknowledge and deliver any anti all bonds, recognizances, undertakings
<br />or other instruments or contracts of surteyship to include riders, amendments, and consents of surety, providing the bond
<br />penalty does not exceed * * * * * * * * * * * * ** *Three Million * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** Dollars (S ** *3,000.000.00 * ** ).
<br />This Power of Attorney shall expire without fitrther action on December 8, 2012 This Power of Attorney is granted tinder and by
<br />authority of the following resolutions adopted by the Boards of Directors of the Companies.
<br />Be it Resolved, that the President, any Vice- President, an)' Assistant Vice- President, any Secretary or any Assistant Secretary shall be
<br />and is hereby vested with full power and authority to appoint any one or more suitable persons as Attorney(s) -in -Fact to represent and
<br />act for and on behalf of the Company subject to tine following provisions:
<br />AItornev -M -Fact may be given full power and authority fix and in the name of and on behalf of the Company, to execute,
<br />acknowledge and deliver, any and all bonds, recognizances, contracts, agreements or indemnity and other conditional or obligatory
<br />undertakings and any and all notices and documents canceling or terminating the Company's liability thereunder, and any such
<br />instruments so executed by any such Attorney -in -Fact shall be binding upon the Company as if signed by the President and sealed and
<br />effected by the C'oiporate Secretary.
<br />Be it Resolved, that the signatuie of any authorized officer and seal of the Company licretofore or hereafter affixed to any power of
<br />attorney or any certificate relating thereto by facsimile, and any power of attorney or certificate bearing facsimile signature or
<br />facsimile seal y,hall be valid and binding upon the Company %with respect to any bond or undertaking to which it is attached.
<br />IN WITNESS WI IEREOF, The Companieti have caused this instrument to be signed and their corporate seals to be hereto affixed, this
<br />.Tune 15. 2009
<br />AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY TEXAS BONDING COMPANY
<br />UNITED STATES SURETY CON I PAN Y U.S. SPECIALTY INSURANCE CON IPANY
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<br />State of California
<br />County of Los Angeles SS:
<br />By.
<br />Daniel P. Aguilar, Vice President
<br />On this 15`t' day of June, 2009, before me, V. Wright, a notary public, personally appeared Daniel P. Aguilar, Vice President of
<br />American Contractor, Indemnity Company, Texas Bonding Company, United States Surety Company and U.S. Specialty Insurance
<br />Company who proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person Miose name is subscribed to the within instrument
<br />and to me that lie exe::nred the same in. his a itho6zeed capacity- -and -that- hv- his- signature en the instrument the
<br />person(s), or the entity upon behalf of which the person(s) acted, executed the instnnnetiL
<br />I certifv under PENALTY OF PERJURY under the lairs of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.
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<br />I, Jeannie J. Kim, Assiauuit Secretary of American Contractors Indemnity Company, Texas Bonding Company, United States Surety
<br />Company and IT S Specialty Insurance Company, do hereby certifN that the above mid l'oregoing is a trite and correct copy of a Poyver
<br />of Attorney, executed by said Companies, which is still in full force and effect, furthenuore, the resolutions of the Boards of Directors,
<br />set out in the Power of Attorney are in full force and effect.
<br />In ,fitness XN`hereof; I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seah ofsaid Companies at Los Angeles, California thisl8th day
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<br />Jeannie J. Kim, Assistant Secretary'
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