AMPAC FINE CHEMICALS LLC PENSION
PLAN
FOR BARGAINING UNIT
EMPLOYEES
Amended and Restated
October 1, 2007
AMPAC FINE CHEMICALS LLC PENSION
PLAN
FOR BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES
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ARTICLE I GENERAL MATTERS AND PURPOSE
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ARTICLE II EFFECTIVE DATE
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3.21 Normal Retirement Date
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3.23 Pension Plan Committee
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6.1 Normal Retirement Date
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ARTICLE VII DETERMINATION OF RETIREMENT
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7.1 Retirement at Normal Retirement
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7.4 Retirement on Late Retirement
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ARTICLE VIII DISABILITY BENEFIT
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8.2 Total and Permanent Disability
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8.5 Deduction from Disability
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ARTICLE IX VESTING AND VESTED
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9.2 Vested Termination of Employment
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ARTICLE X PAYMENT OF BENEFITS
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10.1 Normal Form of Payment
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10.3 Election Not to Take Joint & Survivor
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10.6 Limitations on Distribution of
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10.8 Consent to Certain Distribution of
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ARTICLE XI NO PAYMENT OF BENEFITS DURING
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ARTICLE XII SPOUSAL DEATH BENEFIT
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ARTICLE XIII TRANSFER OF EMPLOYMENT
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ARTICLE XIV AFFILIATED SERVICE
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ARTICLE XV APPLICATION FOR BENEFITS
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ARTICLE XVI ADMINISTRATION
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16.1 The Pension Plan Committee
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16.2 Pension Plan Committee Procedure
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16.4 Allocation and Delegation of
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16.8 Investment Administration
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16.9 Compensation and Expenses of
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ARTICLE XVIII RIGHT TO DISCONTINUE OR TERMINATE;
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18.1 No Contractual Obligation
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19.1 No Enlargement of Employee
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19.15 Veterans’ Reemployment
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ARTICLE XX LIMITATIONS ON BENEFITS
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ARTICLE XXI SPECIAL QUALIFICATION
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AMPAC FINE CHEMICALS LLC PENSION
PLAN
FOR BARGAINING UNIT EMPLOYEES
GENERAL MATTERS AND
PURPOSE
1.1
General . This document sets forth the provisions of the
Ampac Fine Chemicals LLC Pension Plan for Bargaining Unit Employees
(“Plan”) as in effect from and after October 1,
2007. This document reflects provisions of the Plan applicable to
hourly-paid employees at Ampac Fine Chemicals LLC.
This Plan was
established on December 1, 2005 and received a transfer of
assets and liabilities from the GenCorp Consolidated Pension Plan
(Program “C”) with respect to certain participants
therein who become bargaining employees of Ampac Fine Chemicals LLC
on December 1, 2005. The Plan subsequently received a transfer
of assets and liabilities from Program C with respect to a
Participant who was on a leave of absence on December 1, 2005
and was not included in the original transfer of assets.
The Plan has now
been amended and restated effective October 1, 2007 (the
“Effective Date of this Restatement”) to comply with
the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
(“EGTRRA”) and to incorporate changes described in
Internal Revenue Notice 2007-94 (the “2007 Cumulative
List”).
1.2 Purpose
of Plan. The purpose of the Plan is to provide retirement
benefits for certain Employees of the Member Companies, as defined
herein.
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The effective date
of the Ampac Fine Chemicals LLC Pension Plan for Bargaining
Employees is October 1, 2007, except as otherwise specifically
provided herein.
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The following
words and phrases as used in this instrument shall have the meaning
stated in this Article III unless it shall appear from the
context that they have a plainly different meaning:
3.1
Actuarial Equivalent . “Actuarial
Equivalent” means an amount which, at the date of
determination, is actuarially equivalent to any benefit required to
be calculated hereunder, computed using the interest rate and the
mortality table specified below:
(a) (1) For
distributions prior to October 1, 2007, except as provided in
subsection (b), the interest rate shall be 8 1/2% and the mortality
table shall be the Group Annuity Table for 1983, set back by two
years for a Participant and four years for a spouse or other joint
participant.
(2)
For distributions on and after October 1, 2008, except as
provided in subsection (b), the interest rate shall be six percent
(6%) and the mortality table shall be the RP-2000 Mortality Table
Projected to 2007 with Scale AA (50% Male).
(3)
For distributions during the period beginning October 1, 2007
and ending September 30, 2008, except as provided in subsection
(b), the interest rate and mortality table shall be as described in
(a)(1) or (a)(2), whichever provides the greater
benefit.
In no event
shall the application of Section (a)(2) cause a benefit to be less
than a benefit in the same form, but calculated by applying the
factors described in Section 3.1(a) as in effect on
September 30, 2008 to the Participant’s Accrued Benefit
as of that date.
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(b) For
determinations of actuarial equivalents of benefits in the form of
lump sum payments, the actuarial factors shall be determined using
whichever of the factors described below results in the largest
value: (i) the factors specified in subsection (a);
(ii) the mortality table specified in subsection (a) and
the interest rate published by the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation (as of the first day of the Plan Year in which such
determination is made) for the purpose of determining the present
value of benefits for terminating single-employer plans; or
(iii) the applicable mortality table and the applicable
interest rate, as defined below:
(A) The term
“applicable mortality table” shall mean the table
prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury under Code
Section 417(e)(3). As of December 1, 2005, the applicable
mortality table is the table prescribed in Rev. Rul.
2001-62.
(B) The term
“applicable interest rate” shall mean the annual rate
of interest on 30-year Treasury securities as specified by the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the month preceding the Plan
Year in which falls the Annuity Starting Date for the
distribution.
3.2 Aerojet
Plan. “Aerojet Plan” shall mean the
Aerojet-General Corporation Consolidated Pension Plan.
3.3 AFC
Plan. “AFC Plan” shall mean the “Aerojet
Fine Chemicals LLC Consolidated Pension Plan.”
3.4
Affiliated Company . “Affiliated Company”
shall mean (a) any corporation which is included in a
controlled group of corporations (within the meaning of Section
414(b) of the Internal Revenue Code), which group also includes the
Company, (b) any trade or business
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which is under
common control with the Company (within the meaning of Section
414(c) of the Internal Revenue Code), and (c) any member of an
affiliated service group (within the meaning of Section 414(m) of
the Internal Revenue Code) which includes the Company.
3.5 Annuity
Starting Date . “Annuity Starting Date” shall
mean the first day of the first period for which an amount is
payable as an annuity, or in the case of a benefit not payable as
an annuity, the first day on which all events have occurred which
entitle the Participant to such benefit.
3.6
Beneficiary . “Beneficiary” shall mean the
person (other than a Joint Annuitant) designated by a Participant
pursuant to a Qualified Election, to receive any benefits payable
in the event of the death of the Participant, his Spouse, and his
designated Joint Annuitant, as the case may be.
Wherever provision
is made hereunder for the payment of any death benefit to the
Beneficiary of a Participant and there shall be no properly
designated Beneficiary surviving such Participant, such benefit
shall be paid to the Participant’s Spouse, if any, or if
there is no spouse, to the executor or administrator of the estate
of such Participant, or, if no executor or administrator has been
duly designated and qualified, then such benefit shall be paid to
the survivors of the Participant in the following order of
priority:
(c) Brothers
and sisters;
3.7 Board
of Directors . “Board of Directors” shall mean
the Board of Directors of American Pacific Corporation.
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3.8 Break
in Service . “Break in Service” or
“Break” shall mean a Plan Year during which a
Participant completes fewer than five hundred (500) Hours of
Service. Solely for purposes of determining whether a Participant
has sustained a Break in Service, an Employee’s Hours of
Service shall also include the following (to the extent not
included in the definition of Hours of Service in this
Article III):
(a) Any period of
layoff, provided that the Employee is recalled and returns to the
employ of a Member Company or Affiliated Company within the period
of time provided under a Labor Agreement applicable to him or under
the practice of the company if no Labor Agreement is applicable to
him;
(b) Any period of
absence (other than an absence described in subsection
(c) below) pursuant to a Leave of Absence (not in excess of
one year), provided that the Employee returns to the employ of a
Member Company or an Affiliated Company immediately upon expiration
of such Leave of Absence, and
(c) Any period of
absence, by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, by reason of
the birth of a child of the Employee, by reason of the placement of
a child with the Employee in connection with the adoption of such
child by the Employee, or for purposes of caring for such child for
a period beginning immediately following the birth or placement of
such child.
The number of
additional Hours of Service deemed completed pursuant to
subsections (a) and (b) above, shall be in accordance with the
Employee’s customary schedule of employment. The number of
additional Hours of Service deemed completed pursuant to subsection
(c) above, shall be in accordance with the Employee’s
customary schedule of employment, provided, however that no more
than five hundred and one (501) Hours of Service shall be
deemed to have
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been completed
with respect to absences with respect to a single pregnancy, birth
or placement described in subsection (c). Hours deemed completed
pursuant to subsection (c) shall be credited to the Plan Year
in which the absence from work begins if the Employee would be
prevented from incurring a Break in Service in such Plan Year
solely because of such additional Hours, and in any other case, in
the immediately following Plan Year. The Pension Plan Committee may
require, as a condition of recognizing any Hours pursuant to
subsection (c), that the Employee provide such information as the
Pension Plan Committee reasonably requests to establish the reason
for the absence and the number of days for which there was such an
absence.
3.9
Company . “Company” shall mean Ampac Fine
Chemicals LLC.
3.10
Credited Service . “Credited Service” shall
mean the number of years of Credited Service of a Participant
determined in accordance with this Section, which shall be
considered in determining a Participant’s benefits under this
Plan. A Participant shall be deemed to accrue a full year of
Credited Service in each Plan Year in which he completes at least
one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service. In addition,
in any Plan Year in which the Participant completes less than one
thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service, a Participant
shall be deemed to complete one-twelfth (1/12th) of a year of
Credited Service for each one hundred fifty (150) Hours of
Service completed during such Plan Year. With respect to employees
who became Participants on December 1, 2005 (or as of
December 1, 2005 due to a subsequent transfer of assets
described in Section 1.1), as the result of the transfer of
assets and liabilities to this Plan from Program C, “Credited
Service” shall also include “Credited Service” as
of November 30, 2005 as that term was defined in Program C as
in effect on that date and as set forth in Schedule D. For
purposes of determining a Participant’s Credited Service the
following rules shall apply:
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(a) Except as
provided above with respect to credited service recognized under
Program C prior to December 1, 2005, Hours of Service shall
not be taken into account which are accrued by a Participant for
service other than as an Employee, as defined in this
instrument;
(b) Hours of
Service shall not be taken into account which are accrued by any
person during any period of time during which he is covered under
any other pension or retirement plan to which a Member Company
contributes, except a federal or state, social security or similar
welfare program;
(c) Hours of
Service shall not be taken into account which are accrued by a
Participant while on Leave of Absence or during lay-off, provided,
however, that the period of a Leave of Absence to conduct local
Union activities approved by the Company shall be part of such
Employee’s Credited Service;
(d) In the case of
any Participant who has a Break in Service and who, immediately
preceding such Break does not have a vested right to Benefits under
this Plan, the Credited Service of such Participant accrued under
this Plan prior to such Break shall not be taken into account if
the number of consecutive Breaks in Service exceeds the greater of
(i) five (5) or (ii) the aggregate number of years
of Cumulative Service (including Cumulative Service deemed to be
earned by reason of service for a Member Company or an Affiliated
Company pursuant to Article XIII) prior to such Break. Such
aggregate number of years of Cumulative Service prior to such Break
shall not include any years of Cumulative Service not required to
be taken into account under this subsection (d) by reason of
any prior Break in Service;
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(e) In the case of
any Participant who has a Break in Service and who, immediately
preceding such Break does not have a vested right to Benefits under
this Plan, the Credited Service of such Participant prior to such
Break shall not be taken into account until the end of a twelve
(12) consecutive month period commencing after such Break in
which the Participant completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours
of Service.
(f) A Participant
who was employed by Aerojet Fine Chemicals LLC on June 1, 2000
shall have included in his Credited Service, for the purpose of
determining his Pension Benefit, all service which is counted as
Credited Service under the Aerojet Plan or the Non-Contributory
Pension Plan of GenCorp Inc.
A Participant
shall in no event be deemed to accrue more than one (1) full
year of Credited Service with respect to any Plan Year.
3.11
Cumulative Service . “Cumulative Service”
shall mean the number of years of Cumulative Service of an Employee
determined in accordance with this Section and Article XIII,
which shall be considered in determining an Employee’s
vesting in benefits under this Plan. An Employee shall be deemed to
accrue a full year of Cumulative Service in each Plan Year in which
he completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service. In
addition, in any Plan Year in which the Employee completes less
than one thousand (1000) Hours of Service, an Employee shall
be deemed to complete one-twelfth (1/12) of a year of Cumulative
Service for each one hundred fifty (150) Hours of Service completed
during such Plan Year. With respect to employees who became
Participants on December 1, 2005 as the result of the transfer
of assets and liabilities to this Plan from Program C (or as of
December 1, 2005 due to a subsequent transfer of assets
described in Section 1.1), “Cumulative Service”
shall also include “Cumulative
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Service”
as of November 30, 2005 as that term was defined in Program C
as in effect on that date and as set forth in
Schedule D.
For purposes of
determining an Employee’s Cumulative Service, the following
rules apply:
(a) In the case of
any Employee who has a Break in Service and who, immediately
preceding such Break does not have a vested right to benefits under
this Plan, the Cumulative Service of such Employee prior to such
Break shall not be taken into account if the number of consecutive
Breaks in Service exceeds the greater of (i) five (5) or
(ii) the aggregate number of years of Cumulative Service
(including Cumulative Service deemed to be earned by reason of
service for a Member Company or an Affiliated Company pursuant to
Article XIII) prior to such Break. Such aggregate number of
years of Cumulative Service prior to such Break shall be deemed not
to include any years of Cumulative Service not required to be taken
into account under this subsection (a) by reason of any prior
Break in Service.
(b) In the case of
any Employee who has a Break in Service and who, immediately
preceding such Break does not have a vested right to benefits under
this Plan, the Cumulative Service of such Employee prior to such
Break shall not be taken into account until the end of a twelve
(12) consecutive month period commencing after such Break in
which the Employee completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of
Service.
An Employee shall
in no event be deemed to accrue more than one (1) full year of
Cumulative Service with respect to any Plan Year.
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Solely for
purposes of determining a Participant’s vested benefits
pursuant to Section 9.1, the Participant’s Cumulative
Service shall include any period during which the Participant was
performing services for a Member Company pursuant to an arrangement
between the Member Company and a leasing organization, whether or
not the Participant was a Leased Employee during such
period.
Employment with
any Affiliated Company or any other entity required to be
aggregated with the Company pursuant Code Section 414(o), will
be treated as employment with the Company solely for purposes of
determining a Participant’s Cumulative Service for vesting
purposes under this Plan; provided, however, that unless otherwise
specifically provided under the Plan, any individual receiving
credited Hours of Service under this provision shall not be
eligible to participate in the Plan or eligible to accrue benefits
under the Plan unless the individual is an Employee of a Member
Company.
3.12 Early
Retirement Date . “Early Retirement Date” shall
mean the Early Retirement Date determined in accordance with
Section 6.2.
3.13
Employee . “Employee” shall mean any person
employed on an hourly basis by a Member Company and may, with the
approval of the Pension Plan Committee, include any Employee who is
loaned to another organization or entity for a period of time;
provided in each case that the Member Company is required by
applicable law to deduct federal income tax and social security tax
amounts. However, unless otherwise designated by the Board of
Directors, “Employee” does not include a person who
becomes employed by a Member Company through the:
(a) Legal
dissolution and winding up of an Affiliated Company which was not a
Member Company; or
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(b) Merger into a
Member Company of any other corporation or Affiliated Company which
is not a Member Company; or
(c) Transfer of
all or part of the assets to a Member Company by another company
together with a group of the transferor’s
employees.
3.14 Hour
of Service . “Hour of Service” shall mean
(a) each hour for which an Employee is directly or indirectly
paid, or entitled to payment, by a Member Company for the
performance of duties as an Employee, (b) each hour for which
an Employee is paid or entitled to payment by the Member Company on
account of a period during which no duties are performed, and (c)
each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of
damages, is either awarded or agreed to by the Member Company.
Overtime work shall be credited as straight time. The determination
of an Employee’s “Hours of Service” shall be
governed by the following rules:
(1) Hours of
Service to be recognized during any period of time during which no
duties are performed by the Employee shall be determined and
credited pursuant to Department of Labor Regulations
Sections 2530.200b-2(b) and (c), 29 C.F.R. §§
2530.200b-2(b) and (c), with the following special
provisions:
(i) An Employee
shall be deemed to complete eight (8) Hours of Service for
each paid holiday not worked;
(ii) An Employee
shall be deemed to complete forty (40) Hours of Service for
each week of paid vacation or week of paid sick leave not
worked;
(iii) An Employee
shall be deemed to complete forty (40) Hours of Service for
each week of military service with respect to which he is entitled
to
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credit for such
Hours of Service under applicable federal law (but only for such
purposes as credit is required to be given under such
law);
(iv) An Employee
shall be deemed to complete forty (40) Hours of Service for
each week absent from work due to illness or accident and for which
he is entitled to Workers’ Compensation benefits, subject to
a maximum of six (6) months for each such accident or
illness.
(v) No more than
five hundred and one (501) Hours of Service shall be credited
to an Employee on account of any single continuous period during
which the Employee performs no duties.
(2) No Employee
shall be deemed to earn Hours of Service solely by reason of
receiving payments pursuant to a plan maintained for the purpose of
complying with applicable worker’s compensation, unemployment
compensation or disability insurance laws, nor shall an Employee be
deemed to earn Hours of Service by reason of the receipt of
payments which reimburse such Employee for medical or medically
related expenses incurred by the Employee.
(3) With respect
to any period of service, an Employee shall not receive credit for
Hours of Service pursuant to more than one provision of this
definition.
3.15
Investment Manager . “Investment Manager”
shall mean any person who the Pension Plan Committee designates
pursuant to Section 16.8 and is either a registered investment
advisor, bank or insurance company as described in ERISA
Section 3(38).
3.16 Joint
Annuitant . “Joint Annuitant” shall mean the
person designated by a Participant, pursuant to the options
provided by Section 10.2, to receive an annuity for life upon
the death of the Participant after his retirement.
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3.17 Labor
Agreement . “Labor Agreement” shall mean an
agreement between the Company and a recognized collective
bargaining agent.
3.18 Leave
of Absence . “Leave of Absence” shall mean a
period of absence from regular employment which is approved by a
Member Company. The employment of an Employee whose approved Leave
of Absence is terminated without his returning to regular
employment with the Company shall be terminated effective at the
commencement of such approved Leave of Absence.
3.19 Leased
Employee . Effective December 1, 2005, “Leased
Employee” means any person (other than an Employee of a
Member Company) who has performed services for a Member Company (or
for a Member Company and related persons as determined under Code
Section 414(n)(6) which services (i) are performed under
an agreement between a Member Company and a leasing organization on
a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one
(1) year, and (ii) are performed under the direction or
control of the Member Company.
Any Leased
Employee will not be treated as an Employee of a Member Company for
purposes of eligibility to participate in the Plan or for purposes
of accrual of benefits under the Plan. However, a Leased Employee
will be treated as an Employee of a Member Company for purposes of
Code Sections 401(a), 410, 411, 415, and 416; provided,
however, that a Leased Employee will not be treated as employed by
the Member Company if (i) the Leased Employee is covered by a
money purchase pension plan maintained by the leasing organization
that provides (A) a nonintegrated employer contribution of at
least 10% of compensation, as defined in Code
Section 415(c)(3), including amounts contributed pursuant to a
salary reduction agreement that are excludible from the
employee’s gross income under Code Sections 125,
402(e)(3), 401(h)(1)(B) or 403(b); (B) immediate
participation; and (C) full and immediate
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vesting, and
(ii) Leased Employees do not constitute more than twenty
percent (20%) of the leasing organization’s nonhighly
compensated employees, as that term is defined under Code Section
414(q).
3.20 Member
Company . “Member Company” shall mean the
Company, any Affiliated Company, or any division or unit of the
Company or of an Affiliated Company which may be included in this
Plan by designation of the Board of Directors, and in the case of
an Affiliated Company, by adoption of this Plan by such Affiliated
Company.
3.21 Normal
Retirement Date . “Normal Retirement Date”
shall mean the Normal Retirement Date determined in accordance with
Section 6.1.
3.22
Participant . “Participant” shall mean a
person who has become eligible to participate in this Plan in
accordance with the provisions of Article IV, and who has not
yet been paid in full any benefits to which he is entitled under
the terms of this Plan.
3.23
Pension Plan Committee . “Pension Plan
Committee” shall mean the Committee described in
Section 16.1.
3.24
Plan . “Plan” shall mean the Ampac Fine
Chemicals LLC Pension Plan for Bargaining Unit
Employees.
3.25 Plan
Administrator . “Plan Administrator” shall mean
the Sponsor or such other entity or person the Board of Directors
may designate.
3.26 Plan
Year . “Plan Year” shall mean the fiscal year
of the Plan. The Plan Year shall be the twelve (12) month
period commencing each October 1 and ending the following September
30. The first Plan year will be the period beginning
December 1, 2005 and ending on September 30,
2006.
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3.27
Program C . “Program C” shall mean the
GenCorp Consolidated Pension Plan (Program C).
3.28
Qualified Election . “Qualified Election”
shall mean a Participant’s election, designation or waiver
made under this Plan in accordance with the requirements of this
Section and in the manner and form as prescribed by the Pension
Plan Committee.
(a) To the extent
required under Section 417 of the Internal Revenue Code, no
election, designation or waiver shall be deemed to be a Qualified
Election unless the Spouse, if any, of the Participant consents in
writing to such election, designation or waiver and acknowledges
the effect of such election, designation or waiver. The
Spouse’s consent to an election, designation or a waiver must
be witnessed by a notary public.
(b)
Notwithstanding this consent requirement, if the Participant
warrants to the Pension Plan Committee that such written consent
may not be obtained because there is no Spouse or the Spouse cannot
be located or for any other reason as the Pension Plan Committee
determines to be consistent with the requirements of
Section 417 of the Code, a related election, designation or
waiver without spousal consent may be deemed a Qualified Election;
provided, however, that the Pension Plan Committee may require the
Participant in such case to produce such evidence of the
Spouse’s unavailability or other circumstances as the Pension
Plan Committee deems to be appropriate.
(c) A Qualified
Election under this provision will be valid only with respect to
the Spouse who consented to the Qualified Election, or in the event
of a Qualified Election in which the Spouse’s consent has not
been obtained, with respect to a designated Spouse (e.g., that
Spouse who cannot be located).
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(d) A revocation
of a prior election, designation or waiver may be made by a
Participant without the consent of the Spouse at any time before
the commencement of benefits, but any subsequent election,
designation or waiver shall again be subject to the foregoing
rules. Subject to the foregoing (relating to a change by a
Participant), the consent by a Spouse to an election, designation
or waiver shall be irrevocable. The number of revocations and
subsequent elections, designations or waivers shall not be limited
during any applicable election period.
(e) An election,
designation or waiver which, by reason of a failure to obtain
required spousal consent could not be given effect when made, may
later be given effect if at the relevant date the Participant has
no Spouse or is not then otherwise required to have spousal
consent.
3.29
Sponsor . “Sponsor” shall mean the American
Pacific Corporation.
3.30
Spouse . “Spouse” shall mean, as required by
the context of specific provisions of this instrument, the person
to whom the Participant is lawfully married on the date on which
payment of benefits commences or for purposes of the spousal death
benefit under Article XII, the person to whom such deceased
Participant is married on the date of such Participant’s
death.
3.31 Trust
Agreement . “Trust Agreement” shall mean the
trust agreement effective as of December 1, 2005, by and
between Ampac Fine Chemicals LLC and/or American Pacific
Corporation and the trustee designated therein, or such other trust
agreement or agreements that may be established from time to time
hereunder and as the same may from time to time be amended and/or
restated.
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3.32 Trust
Fund . “Trust Fund” shall mean all cash and
securities and all other assets of whatever nature deposited with
or acquired by the Trustee or Trustees in the capacity of Trustee
of this Plan and all accumulated income thereon.
3.33
Trustee . “Trustee” shall mean the
individual(s) and/or entity designated in the Trust Agreement or
any successor named as provided in the Trust Agreement and which
executes a Trust Agreement as Trustee, or any other Trustee or
Trustees designated in any trust agreement or trust agreements
which may be established to carry out the purposes of this
Plan.
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Every Employee who
was a participant in Program C on November 30, 2005 and who
became an Employee on December 1, 2005 shall become a
Participant in this Plan and become eligible to accrue benefits
under this Plan on December 1, 2005.
Every other
Employee, as defined herein, shall become a Participant in this
Plan on the date on which he becomes an Employee. No person shall
be eligible to be a Participant in and accrue benefits under this
Plan during any period of time during which he is covered under any
other pension or retirement plan to which the Company contributes
(including the Ampac Fine Chemicals Pension Plan for Salaried
Employees), except a federal or state, social security or similar
welfare program; nor shall any person be eligible to accrue
benefits under this Plan during any period of time that such person
is not an Employee, as defined in Article III.
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The Member
Companies will from time to time contribute such amounts as are
required under the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, and at their option may contribute additional
amounts as they deem desirable. No Participant shall make any
contribution under the Plan. All Member Company contributions made
hereunder shall be deposited with the Trustee and held as part of
the Trust Fund.
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6.1 Normal
Retirement Date . The Normal Retirement Date of any
Participant shall be the first day of the month coinciding with or
next following his sixty-fifth (65th) birthday. Normal Retirement
Age is age sixty-five (65).
6.2 Early
Retirement Date . Any Participant who is an Employee or in
the active employment of an Affiliated Company, and who has
attained age fifty-five (55) and completed at least ten
(10) years of Cumulative Service may elect to retire on an
Early Retirement Date. Such Early Retirement Date shall be the
first day of any month selected by the Participant which occurs
before his Normal Retirement Date and after his satisfaction of the
age and service requirements set forth in the first sentence of
this Section 6.2
6.3 Late
Retirement Date . A Participant who remains employed by the
Company or an Affiliated Company beyond the date which would have
been his Normal Retirement Date may retire as of the first day of
any month thereafter, and the date of such subsequent retirement
shall be his Late Retirement Date.
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DETERMINATION OF RETIREMENT
INCOME
7.1
Retirement at Normal Retirement Date . The retirement
income payable on Normal Retirement Date shall be payable as
provided in Article X. The monthly amount of retirement income
commencing on Normal Retirement Date and payable as a single life
annuity for the life of a Participant who retires on his Normal
Retirement Date shall be equal to the “Benefit Factor”
(as set forth in the Appendix attached to this Plan) multiplied by
the number of years of Credited Service recognized under this
Plan.
The Pension
Benefit to which any Participant, who was employed by Aerojet Fine
Chemicals LLC on June 1, 2000, is entitled under this Plan
shall be offset and reduced by the amount of Pension Benefit such
Participant is entitled to receive under the Aerojet Plan, assuming
that payment of such Pension Benefit under the Aerojet Plan
commences at the same time the Participant commences to receive his
Pension Benefit under this Plan. The Pension Benefit of the
Participant for whom a subsequent transfer of assets was made as
described in Section 1.1 will not be offset as he has no
benefit under the Aerojet Plan.
As of
December 1, 2005, the Accrued Benefit of each Participant who
became an Employee on that date in connection with the purchase of
assets of Aerojet Fine Chemicals LLC (or as of December 1,
2005 due to a subsequent transfer of assets described in
Section 1.1) is indicated on Schedule D of this
Plan.
For purposes of
this Section 7.1, the following special rules shall
apply:
(a) The applicable
Benefit Factor to be applied with respect to a period of
participation at any employee unit of a Member Company shall be the
Benefit Factor applicable to Participants terminating employment
from such employee unit on the date
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of the
Participant’s termination of employment from the Company and
all Affiliated Companies;
(b) If a
Participant’s retirement income is determined with respect to
periods of participation at more than one employee unit of a Member
Company, and, if on the effective date of such Participant’s
termination of employment from the Company and all Affiliated
Companies the Appendices attached to this instrument provide for
special rules for the determination of retirement benefits
(including but not limited to special benefit limitations or
special factors to be used in computing adjustments for benefits
commencing prior to age sixty-five (65)), such special rules shall
apply, but only to the increment of retirement income determined
for participation at the employee unit covered by such
Appendix;
7.2
Retirement at Early Retirement Date .
(a) The retirement
income payable on or after Early Retirement Date shall be payable
as provided in Article X. A Participant who elects an Early
Retirement Date may elect to have his retirement income commence
either as of his Normal Retirement Date, or as of the first day of
any month selected by him which is after his Early Retirement Date
and prior to his Normal Retirement Date. The monthly amount of
retirement income commencing on Normal Retirement Date and payable
as a single life annuity for the life of a Participant electing an
Early Retirement Date shall be determined as provided in
Section 7.1 and 7.5, based, however, upon the
Participant’s years of Credited Service as of his Early
Retirement Date. If a Participant (other than a Participant
described in subsection (b) below) elects to have his
retirement income commence prior to his Normal Retirement Date, as
provided above, the monthly amount of retirement income
otherwise
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payable shall
be reduced by four-tenths of one percent (0.4%) for each month that
the commencement of such person’s retirement income precedes
the first day of the month coinciding or next following his
sixty-second (62nd) birthday.
(b) In the case of
a person whose employment terminates prior to Early Retirement Date
with a vested right to a retirement income and who elects to
receive such retirement income commencing on the first day of any
month coinciding with or following his fifty-fifth (55th) birthday
as provided in Section 9.2, the monthly amount of such
retirement income shall be a reduced percentage of the retirement
income otherwise payable. Such reduced percentage shall be
determined in accordance with Schedule A attached hereto and
not in accordance with the percentage reduction set forth in the
preceding Section 7.2(a ).
7.3
Limitation on Benefits . In no event shall the annual
benefit payable to any Participant hereunder exceed the limitation
on benefits provided in Article XX.
7.4
Retirement On Late Retirement Date . If a Participant
retires on a date which is subsequent to his Normal Retirement
Date, the benefits to which he may be entitled shall commence as of
the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the
date of his actual retirement as though such date were his Normal
Retirement Date; provided, however, in the case of a Participant
who is a Five Percent Owner, as defined in Section 22.2(b),
benefits shall commence no later than the April 1 following the
calendar year in which the Participant attains age seventy and
one-half (70-1/2) even if he has not actually retired. Except as
provided in Section 10.6(d), the amount of benefit payable
shall not be actuarially or otherwise increased to reflect that
benefits have commenced subsequent to Normal Retirement
Date.
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8.1
Eligibility . A Participant employed by a Member Company
or an Affiliated Company, who ceases active work due to total and
permanent disability, (1) with at least ten (10) years of
Cumulative Service, and (2) who at the commencement of
disability has not attained the age of sixty-five (65), and
(3) who shall have remained totally and permanently disabled
for a period of six (6) consecutive months shall be eligible
for a disability benefit upon termination of employment and
submission of proof as provided herein. In order to be valid, all
claims for disability benefits must be made within one
(1) year from the last day of active employment.
8.2 Total
and Permanent Disability . A Participant shall be deemed to
be totally and permanently disabled when, on the basis of proof
satisfactory to the Pension Plan Committee, the Pension Plan
Committee determines that as a result of any physical or mental
condition he is wholly prevented from engaging in any regular
occupation or employment for wage or profit (except such employment
as is found by the Pension Plan Committee to be for purposes of
rehabilitation) and the condition will, in the opinion of the
physician or physicians, clinic or hospital who make the
examination provided herein, be permanent, total and continuous for
the remainder of his life. To the extent permitted by law, a
Participant shall not be deemed disabled for the purposes of this
Article, if, on the basis of proof satisfactory to it, the Pension
Plan Committee determines that his disability arose from any
intentionally self-inflicted injury or injury resulting from
participation in any criminal undertaking or from service in the
armed forces of any country, or consists of chronic alcoholism or
addiction to narcotics (or injury or disease resulting there
from).
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8.3 Medical
Examinations . A Participant applying for a disability
benefit hereunder shall be required to submit to a medical
examination and shall be required to submit to such reexamination
as the Pension Plan Committee shall deem necessary from time to
time in order to make a determination concerning his mental or
physical condition. An individual who shall be receiving disability
benefits hereunder may be required to submit to a medical
examination at any time, but not more often than once every six
(6) months, to determine whether he is eligible for
continuance of the disability benefit. If, on the basis of such
reexamination, it is determined by the Pension Plan Committee that
such individual prior to attaining age sixty-five (65) has
sufficiently recovered to engage in any regular occupation or
employment for wage or profit, or if it is determined by the
Pension Plan Committee that such individual has engaged in any
regular occupation or employment subsequent to his disability
(except such employment as is found by the Pension Plan Committee
to be for purposes of rehabilitation), payment of his disability
benefit shall cease. In the event that such individual shall fail
within thirty (30) days after notice to submit to medical
examination, his disability benefit will be discontinued until he
has submitted to such examination after which his continued
eligibility may be determined as provided above. The medical
examinations provided herein shall be made by a competent physician
or physicians or clinic or hospital selected by the Pension Plan
Committee, at no cost to the Participant.
8.4
Disability Benefit . A monthly disability benefit to
such a disabled Participant shall commence as of the first day of
the month following the receipt by the Pension Plan Committee of
satisfactory proof of such disability or the first day of the month
following the completion of a period of six (6) months from
the date on which the injury or disease was incurred, whichever is
later; provided, however, that in those cases where timely
submission of
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such proof was
prevented by unavoidable and extreme circumstances, the six
(6) month period shall be used.
An eligible
Participant shall receive a monthly disability benefit payment
computed in accordance with Sections 7.1 and 7.5 without
actuarial reduction as if he has become eligible for a normal
retirement benefit under this Plan on the date of his termination
due to permanent and total disability. The disability benefit
payable under this Article VIII shall be payable in accordance
with the provisions of Article X.
The disability
benefit payable under this Article VIII shall continue (unless
sooner discontinued or terminated as provided in Section 8.3
or by the disabled Participant’s death) until the month in
which the disabled Participant attains age sixty-five (65). From
and after attainment of age sixty-five (65) benefits shall be
payable to a Participant under this Plan only in accordance with
the provisions of Article IX (governing the benefits payable
to a Participant whose employment terminates when he has a vested
right to benefits) and in the case of such benefits the applicable
form of benefit shall be as provided in Article X and the
Benefit Factor(s) applicable to the Participant shall be the same
Benefit Factor(s) applicable to calculation of the
Participant’s disability benefit.
A Participant
whose termination of employment by reason of total and permanent
disability occurs prior to his eligibility to retire on an Early
Retirement Date may, at any time after attainment of age fifty-five
(55) elect, in such manner as the Pension Plan Committee may
prescribe (but only if he is then receiving a disability benefit),
to have his benefits thereafter payable as retirement income in
accordance with Article X, in lieu of receiving any further
disability benefits under this Article VIII. In the event of
such an election, such Participant’s retirement income shall
be reduced to the extent provided in Section 7.2(a) if the
payment of
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such retirement
income pursuant to Article X commences prior to age sixty-five
(65). For purposes of determining the amount of reduction, if any,
provided by Section 7.2(a), the date of commencement of
retirement income shall be the date payments commence pursuant to
Article X (without regard to the date benefits commenced under
this Article VIII).
8.5
Deduction from Disability Benefits . In determining the
amount of the disability benefit a deduction shall be made from the
amount provided by Section 8.4 equal to (1) any
Workers’ Compensation benefits, (2) disability payments
received from the United States or a foreign country by reason of
service in the armed forces of the United States or such other
country, and (3) any other disability benefits (other than
social security disability benefits) from time to time payable if
such benefits have been provided in whole or in part by premiums,
taxes or other payments paid by or at the expense of the Company or
an Affiliated Company. If the Workers’ Compensation benefit
is paid on a lump sum basis, whether pursuant to an award or a
settlement, the amount of such lump sum payment shall be deducted
from the monthly disability benefits as determined by
Section 8.4 until the entire amount of the lump sum payment
will have been liquidated.
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VESTING AND VESTED
TERMINATION
9.1
Vesting . All benefits to which a Participant may be
entitled under this Plan shall be vested in the Participant upon
such Participant’s completion of five (5) years of
Cumulative Service, or upon such Participant’s sixty-fifth
(65th) birthday if he is then employed by the Company or an
Affiliated Company, whichever event shall occur first. Vested
benefits shall be nonforfeitable and a Participant shall be
entitled to receive such benefits in accordance with the provisions
of this Plan.
9.2 Vested
Termination of Employment . If for any reason other than
death, or retirement in accordance with the provisions of this
Plan, the employment of the Participant is terminated and at the
time of such termination such Participant has a vested right to
benefits hereunder, the Participant shall be entitled to receive a
monthly retirement income (determined and payable in accordance
with Section 9.3) commencing on Normal Retirement Date, or, if
the Participant so elects on or after his attainment of age
fifty-five (55), commencing as of the first day of any month
selected by him which is after his fifty-fifth (55th) birthday and
prior to his Normal Retirement Date.
9.3 Form
and Amount of Vested Termination Benefits . The retirement
income hereunder shall be payable as provided in Article X.
The monthly amount of retirement income commencing on Normal
Retirement Date shall be determined in accordance with
Sections 7.1 and 7.5, based, however, on the Participants
years of Credited Service and the Benefit Factor(s) as of the date
of his termination of employment. The monthly amount of retirement
income commencing prior to Normal Retirement Date shall be a
reduced percentage of the retirement income otherwise payable. Such
reduced percentage shall be determined in accordance with
Schedule A attached hereto and the percentage reduction
specified in Section 7.2(a) shall not apply.
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10.1 Normal
Form of Payment . Unless a Participant elects an optional
form of benefits as provided in this Article X, the retirement
income to which a Participant may be entitled, commencing at his
Normal Retirement Date (or on a date which is on or after his Early
Retirement Date as provided in Section 7.2), shall be payable
in equal monthly installments, as follows:
(a) The retirement
income payable to a Participant who has a Spouse on his Annuity
Starting Date shall be a reduced benefit payable for the lifetime
of the Participant, with fifty percent (50%) of the amount payable
to the Participant continued thereafter to the Spouse of the
Participant, for the lifetime of such Spouse. The reduced monthly
amount payable to a Participant during his lifetime (as provided in
this Section 10.1(a)), shall be a percentage of the amount
otherwise payable in the form described in Section 10.1(b)
below, and such percentage shall be determined in accordance with
Schedule B, attached hereto. In no event, however, shall the
value of the joint and survivor annuity payable under this
Section 10.1(a) be less than the value of any optional form of
payment payable under the Plan at the same time;
(b) The retirement
income payable to any Participant who does not have a Spouse on his
Annuity Starting Date shall be a single life annuity, payable for
the lifetime of the Participant, which is the amount provided in
Article VII, VIII or IX, as appropriate.
10.2
Optional Form of Payment. Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.3, below, a Participant (including a former
Employee with a vested interest as provided in Article IX) may
make an election, at any time prior to the date with respect to
which his retirement income
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commences, to
receive the retirement income otherwise payable to him in an
optional form described in either Section 10.2(a),
Section 10.2(b) or Section 10.2(c) below:
(a) A single life
annuity, as described in Section 10.1(b), payable to the
Participant for his lifetime.
(b) A joint and
survivor annuity, with reduced monthly payments to the Participant
for his lifetime, with the percentage of such monthly amount
continued thereafter to the Participant’s designated Joint
Annuitant, to be paid monthly for the lifetime of such Joint
Annuitant, ending with the last payment made prior to the death of
such Joint Annuitant. Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.6, the applicable Joint Annuitant’s
percentage shall be specified by the Participant at the time of
electing the joint and survivor annuity described in this
Section 10.2(b), and shall be either fifty percent (50%) or
one hundred percent (100%). The reduced monthly amount payable to a
Participant during his lifetime (as provided in this
Section 10.2(b)), shall be a percentage of the amount
otherwise payable in the form described in Section 10.1(b)
above, and such percentage shall be determined in accordance with
Schedule B (where fifty percent (50%) is payable to the Joint
Annuitant) or Schedule C (where one hundred percent (100%) is
payable to the Joint Annuitant).
(c) A reduced
pension, which shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of the amount
otherwise payable in the form described in Section 11.1(b),
payable during the Participant’s life, but for a term certain
of 5, 10, 15 or 20 years (as the Participant shall so elect
provided the period specified shall not exceed the maximum period
permitted under Section 10.6, with the payment to his
Beneficiary of any pension payments remaining to be paid after the
Participant’s death, or if such Beneficiary shall have
predeceased him,
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with the
commuted value of such remaining pension payments to be paid to his
estate in one lump sum, and with the payment to the estate of the
Beneficiary in one lump sum of the commuted value of any pension
payments remaining
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