Cessation of Participation. Effective as of ​, # Pivotal LNG, Inc. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries will cease to be affiliated companies of Southern Company Gas for purposes of determining Employing Company status under the Plan; and # Participants who cease to be Employees due to the sale of Pivotal LNG, Inc. will cease to be eligible to participate in the Plan.

Cessation of Participation. Effective as of January 1, 2019, Participants who cease to be Employees due to the sale of Gulf Power Company will cease to be eligible to actively participate in the Plan.

Cessation of Participation. Effective as of November 18, 2022, # Golden Triangle Storage, Inc. and its direct and indirect subsidiaries will cease to be affiliated companies of Southern Company Gas for purposes of determining Employing Company status under the Plan; and # Participants who cease to be Employees due to the sale of Golden Triangle Storage, Inc. will cease to be eligible to actively participate in the Plan.

Cessation of Participation. Effective as of July 1, 2021, # Sequent Energy Management, LP and Sequent Energy Canada Corp. and their direct and indirect subsidiaries will cease to be affiliated companies of Southern Company Gas for purposes of determining Employing Company status under the Plan; and # Participants who cease to be Employees due to the sale of Sequent Energy Management, LP and Sequent Energy Canada Corp., will cease to be eligible to actively participate in the Plan.

Cessation. Immediately following the admission of Purchaser as the sole member of the Blocker described in Section 2 of this Agreement, Blocker Parent does hereby cease to be a member of the Blocker and shall cease to have or exercise any right or power of a member of the Blocker.

Participation. Any Employee who satisfies the requirements of Section 3.01 shall become a Participant as of the first Plan Year in which such requirements are met. The Employee shall continue to be a Participant until the payment or forfeiture of the balance of the Employee’s Account. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Employee must be a member of the Employer's select group of management or highly compensated employees as of the end of the applicable Plan year in order to be credited with any additional amounts based upon Excess Earnings for such Plan Year.

Participation. The Administrator may, from time to time, select from among all Eligible Individuals, those to whom one or more Awards shall be granted and shall determine the nature and amount of each Award, which shall not be inconsistent with the requirements of the Plan. No Eligible Individual shall have any right to be granted an Award pursuant to the Plan.

Participation. Borrowers recognize and acknowledge that the Bank may sell participating interests in the Loans (or either of them) to one or more financial institutions (the "Participants"). Upon receipt of notice of the identity and address of each such Participant, Borrowers shall thereafter supply such Participant with the same information and reports communicated to the Bank, whether written or oral. Borrowers hereby acknowledge that each Participant shall be deemed a holder of the Revolver Note to the extent of its participation, and Borrowers hereby waive their rights, if any, to offset amounts owing to the Bank from Borrowers against any Participant's portion of such Revolver Note.

Participation. Officers of the Company who are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act (“Executive Officers”), management-level employees with “vice president” titles (together with the Executive Officers, “Executive Participants”), and certain other employees identified by the Committee upon the recommendation of the CEO (“Other Participants”), shall participate in the LTIP. Each participating employee is referred to herein as a “Participant”.

Eligibility and Participation. All common-law employees of Telos ID who are classified as executives are eligible to participate in this Plan. However, participation in this Plan is limited to the President of Telos ID (the "President") and such other eligible executives selected to participate by the President immediately before the consummation of a transaction described in [Section 3.1] (each, a "Participant").

Partial Year Participation. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee or the CEO (with respect to individuals who are not [Section 16] Officers) # if a Participant begins employment or is promoted to an eligible position after the beginning of a Plan Year but before October 1 of such Plan Year, such Participant will be eligible to receive an Annual Incentive Award for such Plan Year, which will be prorated based on the number of days such person participated in the Plan during the Plan Year; and # if a Participant begins employment or is promoted to an eligible position after October 1 of a Plan Year, the Participant will not be eligible to receive an Annual Incentive Award for such Plan Year. If a Participant takes a leave of absence during the Plan Year for any reason, the Committee or the CEO (with respect to individuals who are not [Section 16] Officers) in their discretion, may determine whether such employee may participate in this Plan and the terms of such participation, if any.

Maximum Participation Amount. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, ​ shall not purchase and hold, at any one time, Participation Interests such that the Outstanding Participation Amount exceeds the Maximum Participation Amount; provided, however, that ​ may, in its sole and absolute discretion, elect to temporarily increase the Maximum Participation Amount upon written notice to ​ pursuant to [Section 2.8]. Nothing contained in this Section shall limit, impair or affect the provisions of [Section 2.2].

Each Issuing Bank irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce each Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from each Issuing Bank, on the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage in each Issuing Bank’s obligations and rights under each Letter of Credit issued hereunder and the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Bank thereunder. Each L/C Participant unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with each Issuing Bank that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Bank is not reimbursed in full by ​ in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Bank upon demand at the Issuing Bank’s address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Commitment Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, which is not so reimbursed. Each L/C Participant’s obligation to purchase participations pursuant to this ​ shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including # any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such L/C Participant may have against the Issuing Bank, ​ or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, # the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in [Section 5], # any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of ​, # any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by ​ or any other L/C Participant or # any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.

Swing Loan Participation. If prior to the time a Revolving Loan would otherwise have been made as provided above as a consequence of a Notice of Swing Loan Refunding, any of the events specified in [Section 8.01(h)] shall have occurred in respect of the Borrower or one or more of the Revolving Lenders with Revolving Commitments shall determine that it is legally prohibited from making a Revolving Loan under such circumstances, each Lender (other than the Swing Line Lender), or each Lender (other than such Swing Line Lender) so prohibited, as the case may be, shall, on the date such Revolving Loan would have been made by it (the “Purchase Date”), purchase an undivided participating interest (a “Swing Loan Participation”) in the outstanding Swing Loans to which such Notice of Swing Loan Refunding relates, in an amount (the “Swing Loan Participation Amount”) equal to such Lender’s Revolving Facility Percentage of such outstanding Swing Loans. On the Purchase Date, each such Lender or each such Lender so prohibited, as the case may be, shall pay to the Swing Line Lender, in immediately available funds, such Lender’s Swing Loan Participation Amount, and promptly upon receipt thereof the Swing Line Lender shall, if requested by such other Lender, deliver to such Lender a participation certificate, dated the date of the Swing Line Lender’s receipt of the funds from, and evidencing such Lender’s Swing Loan Participation in, such Swing Loans and its Swing Loan Participation Amount in respect thereof. If any amount required to be paid by a Lender to the Swing Line Lender pursuant to the above provisions in respect of any Swing Loan Participation is not paid on the date such payment is due, such Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender on demand interest on the amount not so paid at the overnight Federal Funds Effective Rate from the due date until such amount is paid in full. Whenever, at any time after the Swing Line Lender has received from any other Lender such Lender’s Swing Loan Participation Amount, the Swing Line Lender receives any payment from or on behalf of the Borrower on account of the related Swing Loans, the Swing Line Lender will promptly distribute to such Lender its ratable share of such amount based on its Revolving Facility Percentage of such amount on such date on account of its Swing Loan Participation (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s participating interest was outstanding and funded); provided, however, that if such payment received by the Swing Line Lender is required to be returned, such Lender will return to the Swing Line Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swing Line Lender.

Eligibility and Participation. Participants in the Plan shall be selected by the Committee from among those Eligible Employees who, in the opinion of the Committee, are Eligible Employees in a position to contribute to the Company’s continued growth and development and to its long-term financial success.

Termination of Participation. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Plan Statement or by the Plan Administrator, an Employee who ceases to satisfy the requirements of [Section 2.1] is not eligible to continue to participate in the Plan, provided, that any deferral elections in effect, and irrevocable, will continue to apply with respect to any Eligible Compensation received from a Participating Employer or other Affiliate. The Participant’s Account will continue to be governed by the terms of the Plan until such time as the Participant’s Account balance is paid in accordance with the terms of the Plan. A Participant or Beneficiary will cease to be such as of the date on which his or her entire Account balance has been distributed.

Continuation of Participation. Subject only to the provisions of [Section 2.04] and [Article 7], an individual designated as a Participant shall continue to be a Participant for the purpose of eligibility to receive the supplemental retirement benefits provided by the Program and his or her participation in the Program shall not be terminated; provided, however, that a Participant who terminates employment at a time when he or she is not eligible for a benefit under [Article 3] shall cease to be a Participant in the Program.

Purchase of Participation. (a) You will, on or before A.M. (New York City time) on ​, pay to us, at our office at , , (the “Payment Office”), as the purchase price for your Participation in the Loan(s) outstanding on the date hereof, an amount equal to the Purchased Interest (as defined in [Section 1(b)] below) of the aggregate principal amount of such Loans in [Currency] and in same day funds [plus accrued interest and fees to the Effective Date]. We will, promptly upon our receipt of this purchase price from you, send you a participation certificate, in substantially the form of [Exhibit A], confirming and evidencing your Participation in the Loan(s) outstanding on the date hereof.

Termination of Participation. In the event that a Participant ceases to be an eligible employee, the Participant’s Basic Deferral election shall remain in effect through the end of the Plan Year in which the Participant remains employed but has ceased to be an eligible employee, and thereafter, the Participant shall make no further Basic Deferrals unless and until the Participant again becomes an eligible employee.