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Performance-Based Awards. Any Award may be granted as a performance-based Award if the Committee establishes one or more measures of corporate, business unit or individual performance that must be attained, and the performance period over which the specified performance is to be attained, as a condition to the vesting, exercisability, lapse of restrictions and/or settlement in cash or Shares of such Award. In connection with any such Award, the Committee shall determine the extent to which performance measures have been attained and other applicable terms and conditions have been satisfied, and the degree to which vesting, exercisability, lapse of restrictions and/or settlement in cash or Shares of such Award has been earned. Any performance-based Award that is intended by the Committee to qualify as Performance-Based Compensation shall additionally be subject to the requirements of Section 16 of this Plan. Except as provided in Section 16 with respect to Performance-Based Compensation, the Committee shall also have the authority to provide, in an Agreement or otherwise, for the modification of a performance period and/or an adjustment or waiver of the achievement of performance measures upon the occurrence of certain events, which may include a Change of Control, a Fundamental Change, a recapitalization, a change in the accounting practices of the Company, or the Participant’s death or Disability.

Any Award may be granted as a Performance-Based Award. As determined by the Committee in its sole discretion, the grant, vesting, exercisability, and/or settlement of any Performance-Based Award shall be conditioned on the attainment of performance goals based upon one or more Performance Criteria during a performance period established by the Committee.

Performance Based Awards. The Committee will establish a performance goal or goals (“Performance Goal”) for each Award not later than the 90th day of the calendar yearAward Year to which the Award relates. The period for each Performance Goal will commence on January 1 and end on December 31 of such year (the “Performance Period”). The Committee may authorize that Awards of Restricted Shares and Stock Units be made subject to or granted upon the attainment of specified performance goals over a designated performance period of at least one year in addition to time-vesting and other vesting requirements. If so authorized, Awards intended to qualify as “performance-based compensation” under Code Section 162(m) shall be made in accordance with the requirements thereof. Performance goals Goals for this purpose will be based on objective criteria specifically defined by the Committee on a Company, business unit or peer group comparison basis, which may include or exclude specified items of an unusual or nonrecurring nature and are based on one or more of the following: earnings per share, net income, return on assets, return on sales, return on capital, return on equity, return on revenue, cash flow, cost reduction, total shareholder return, economic value added, cash flow return on investment, and cash value added. The Committee, in its sole discretion, may reduce or eliminate any Award otherwise earned based on an assessment of individual performance, but in no event may any such reduction result in an increase of the Award payable to any other participantParticipant. The Committee shall determine the amount of any such reduction by taking into account such factors as it deems relevant including, without limitation: # performance against other financial or strategic objectives; # its subjective assessment of the executive’s overall performance for the year; and # prevailing levels of total compensation among similar companies.

Performance Awards may be denominated as a cash amount, number of Shares or a combination thereof and are Awards which may be earned upon achievement or satisfaction of performance conditions specified by the Committee. In addition, the Committee may specify that any other Award shall constitute a Performance Award by conditioning the right of a Participant to exercise the Award or have it settled, and the timing thereof, upon achievement or satisfaction of such performance conditions as may be specified by the Committee. The Committee may use such business criteria and other measures of performance as it may deem appropriate in establishing any performance conditions. Subject to the terms of the Plan, the performance goals to be achieved during any Performance Period, the length of any Performance Period, the amount of any Performance Award granted and the amount of any payment or transfer to be made pursuant to any Performance Award shall be determined by the Committee. If the Performance Award relates to Shares on which dividends are declared prior to vesting or satisfaction of the

Performance-Based Awards. The Committee, at any time, and from time to time, may grant Performance-Based Awards to a Participant in such amounts and upon such terms as the Committee shall determine. Each grant of a Performance-Based Award shall have an initial value or target number of shares of Common Stock that is established by the Committee. The Committee shall establish # performance goals in its discretion which, depending on the extent to which they are achieved, shall determine the value and/or number of shares subject to a Performance-Based Award that will be paid out to the Participant, and # the Performance Period, which shall mean the period of time during which the performance goals must be achieved in order to determine the degree of payout after vesting with respect to any such Performance-Based Award.

Performance-Based Awards will vest and all restrictions thereon will terminate upon the certification by the Committee of the achievement of the specified Performance Goals, provided all other conditions to vesting have been met. In the Committee’s discretion, Performance-Based Awards may # stipulate that an Award will vest only in its entirety upon the satisfaction of the specified Performance Goals, # stipulate a portion of the Award that will vest either in whole or in part, depending on the level of achievement in comparison to the specified Performance Goals, pursuant to a formula, calculation or other objective mechanism approved by the Committee at the time of the Award, or # stipulate a target number of shares of Stock or Units (the “Target”) that may vest in part, in whole or up to a specified multiple of the Target, depending on the level of achievement in comparison to the specified Performance Goals pursuant to a formula, calculation or other objective mechanism approved by the Committee at the time of the Award. In the case of any Award authorized under clause (C) of the previous sentence, a number of shares of Stock equal to the maximum possible number of shares of Stock that may be delivered to the Participant under such Award will be reserved by the Company until such time as the applicable multiple of the Target has been determined by the Committee, even if the certification of achievement of results does not occur at that time due to additional Performance Goals that must be met prior to vesting, or if the actual exercise, vesting or delivery of Stock does not occur at that time due to any delay in delivery imposed for purposes of [Section 409A]. If, or to the extent that, Performance-Based Awards do not vest under the applicable Performance Goals on or before the Expiration Date established by the Committee for such Award, such Award will be forfeited automatically.

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