POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY UNITED STATES SURETY COMPANY U.S. SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That American Contractors Indemnity Company, a California corporation, United States
<br />Surety Company, a Maryland corporation and U.S. Specialty Insurance Company, a Texas corporation (collectively, the
<br />"Companies"), do by these presents make, constitute and appoint:
<br />Shawn Blume, Stephanie Hoang, Eric Lowey or Mark Richardson of Costa Mesa, California
<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 deliverany and all bonds, recognizances, undertakings
<br />or other instruments or contracts of suretyship to include riders, amendments, and .consents of surety, providing the bond
<br />penalty does not exceed *******Three Million******** Dollars ($ **3,000,000.00** ).
<br />This Power of Attorney shall expire without further action on March 18, 2015. This Power of Attorney is granted under 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, any Assistant Vice-President, any Secretary or any Assistant Secretary shall be and is hereby vested with full
<br />power and authority to appoint any one or more suitable persons as Attorney(s)-in-Fact to represent and act for and on behalf of the Company subject to the following
<br />provisions:
<br />Attorne)-in-F'oct maybe given full power and.authoilty for and in the name of and on behalf of the Company, to execute, acknowledge and deliver, any and all bonds,
<br />recogni:ances, contracts, agreements or indemnity and aiher-conditional or obligatory undertakings, including any and all consents for the release of-retained
<br />percentages and/or final estimates on engineering and construction contracts, and any and all notices and documents canceling or terminating the Company's liability
<br />thereunder, and any such instruments so executed by any such Attomey-in-Fact shall be binding upon the Company as if signed by the President and sealed and effected
<br />by the Corporate Secretary.
<br />Be it Resolved, that the signature of any authorized officer and seal of the Company heretofore or hereafter affixed to any power of attomey or any certificate relating
<br />thereto by facsimile; and any power ofattomey or certificate bearing facsimile signature or facsimile seat-shall be valid and binding upon the Company with respect to
<br />any bond or undertaking to which it is attached.
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The Companies have caused this instrument to be4igned-and their corporate seals to be hereto affixed, this
<br />3'd day of October, 2011.
<br />AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY UNITED STATES SURETY COMPANY U.S. SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY
<br />By:
<br />State of California
<br />County of Los Angeles SS:
<br />Daniel P. Aguilar,
<br />On this 3'd day of October, 20 t 1, before me, Deborah Reese, a notary public, personally appeared Daniel P. Aguilar, Vice President of
<br />American Contractors Indemnity Company, United States Surety Company and U.S. Specialty Insurance Company who proved to me
<br />on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me that
<br />he executed the same in his authorized capacity, and that by his signature on the instrument the person(s), or the entity upon behalf of
<br />which the person(s) acted, executed the instrument.
<br />I certify under PENALTY OF PERJURY--under the-laws of the State of California that the foregoing paragraph is true and correct.
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<br />I, Jeannie Lee, Assistant Secretary of American Contractors Indemnity Company, United States Surety Company and U.S. Specialty
<br />Insurance Company, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of a Power of Attorney, executed by
<br />said Companies, which is still in full force and effect; furthermore, the resolutions of the Boards of Directors, set out in the Power of
<br />Attorney are in full force and effect.
<br />In Witness Whereof, t have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seals of said Companies at Los Angeles, California this day
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