Exhibit 10.2
POTLATCH
CORPORATION
MANAGEMENT DEFERRED COMPENSATION
PLAN
Effective June 1,
2008
Amended and Restated as of
December 5, 2008
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ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE
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(a) The Potlatch Corporation
Management Deferred Compensation Plan was adopted on May 16,
2008, by the Board of Directors of Potlatch Corporation to provide
an opportunity for senior management who have made the maximum
elective contributions permitted under the 401(k) Plan to elect to
defer additional compensation and to invest and accumulate such
compensation on a tax-deferred basis.
(b) This Plan is also intended to
provide the rules and regulations for deferral of awards under the
Potlatch Corporation Management Performance Award Plan II
(“MPAP II”) for the 2008 performance period and under
the Potlatch Corporation Annual Incentive Plan (the
“AIP”) beginning with the 2009 performance
period.
(c) Effective as of October 1,
2008, this Plan also provides the rules and regulations for the
administration of deferrals previously made under the MPAP II. For
avoidance of doubt, deferrals made under the Potlatch Corporation
Management Performance Award Plan, which are not subject to
Section 409A of the Code, continue to be subject to the rules
of that plan and the administrative rules and regulations
applicable thereto.
(d) Pursuant to the Employee Matters
Agreement by and between Potlatch Corporation and Clearwater Paper
Corporation (the “EMA”), all deferred compensation
liabilities with respect to “Clearwater Employees” (as
defined in the EMA) under this Plan, the MPAP II and the Potlatch
Corporation Management Performance Award Plan have been transferred
to and assumed by the Clearwater Paper Corporation Management
Deferred Compensation Plan (the “Clearwater Plan”).
Deferral and payment elections made by Clearwater Employees under
this Plan and the MPAP II shall be given effect under the
Clearwater Plan.
(e) The provisions of this Plan for
elections to defer base salary are effective for base salary earned
on or after January 1, 2009.
(f) The Plan is intended to comply
with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code. The Plan is
intended to constitute an unfunded program for the benefit of a
select group of management or highly compensated employees of
ERISA, and, as such, to be exempt from all of the provisions of
Parts 2, 3, and 4 of Title I of ERISA.
(a) “Affiliate” means
any other entity which would be treated as a single employer with
the Corporation under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code,
provided that in applying such Sections and in accordance with the
rules of Treasury Regulations Section 1.409A-1(h)(3), the
language “at least 50 percent” shall be used instead of
“at least 80 percent.”
(b) “AIP” means the
Potlatch Corporation Annual Incentive Plan and any successor plan
thereto.
(c) “Beneficiary” means
the person or persons designated by the Employee to receive payment
of the Employee’s Deferred Compensation Account in the event
of the death of the Employee.
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(d) “Board” and
“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of
the Corporation.
(e) “Code” means the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(f) “Committee” means
the Executive Compensation and Personnel Policies Committee of the
Board.
(g) “Compensation” means
the amount of compensation due by the Corporation to an Employee
for his or her services as an Employee as either (i) annual
base salary or (ii) an award under the MPAP II or
AIP.
(h) “Corporation” means
Potlatch Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
(i) “Deferred Compensation
Account” means the bookkeeping account established pursuant
to Section 6 on behalf of each Employee who elects to
participate in the Plan. Within an Employee’s Deferred
Compensation Account, a Directed Investment Account, Stock Unit
Account, Cash Account, and appropriate sub-accounts, shall be
maintained as are necessary for the proper administration of a
Participant’s Deferred Compensation Account. An Employee who
has made a deferral under the MPAP II shall be deemed to have
elected to participate in this Plan.
(j) “Disabled” means an
Employee is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by
reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment
which can be expected to result in death or can be expected to last
for a continuous period of not less than twelve months.
(k) “Distribution” means
the distribution by the Corporation to its stockholders of all of
the outstanding shares of the common stock of Clearwater Paper
Corporation then owned by the Corporation, pursuant to the
Separation and Distribution Agreement between the Corporation and
Clearwater Paper Corporation.
(l) “Dividend
Equivalent” means an amount equal to the cash distribution
paid on an outstanding share of the Corporation’s common
stock. Dividend Equivalents shall be credited to Stock Units as if
each Stock Unit were an outstanding share of the
Corporation’s common stock, except that Dividend Equivalents
shall also be credited to fractional Stock Units.
(m) “ERISA” means the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended.
(n) “Employee” means a
full-time salaried employee of the Corporation or any subsidiary
thereof.
(o) “401(k) Plan” means
the Potlatch Salaried 401(k) Plan, as amended.
(p) “MPAP II” means the
Potlatch Corporation Management Performance Award Plan II, as
amended.
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(q) “Performance-Based
Compensation” means compensation the amount of which, or the
entitlement to which, is contingent on the satisfaction of
preestablished organizational or individual performance criteria
relating to a performance period of at least twelve
(12) consecutive months. Organizational or individual
performance criteria are considered preestablished if established
in writing by not later than ninety (90) days after the
commencement of the period of service to which the criteria
relates, provided that the outcome is substantially uncertain at
the time the criteria are established. Performance-Based
Compensation does not include any amount or portion of any amount
that will be paid either regardless of performance, or based upon a
level of performance that is substantially certain to be met at the
time the criteria is established. Compensation may be
Performance-Based Compensation where the amount will be paid
regardless of satisfaction of the performance criteria due to the
Employee’s death, disability, or a Change in Control Event
(as defined in Treasury Regulation Section l .409A-3(i)(5)),
provided that a payment made under such circumstances without
regard to the satisfaction of the performance criteria will not
constitute performance-based compensation. For this purpose, a
disability refers to any medically determinable physical or mental
impairment resulting in the Participant’s inability to
perform the duties of his or her position or any substantially
similar position, where such impairment can be expected to result
in death or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not
less than six months. Performance-Based Compensation may include
payments based upon subjective performance criteria, provided that:
(i) the subjective performance criteria are bona fide and
relate to the performance of the Participant, a group of service
providers that includes the Participant, or a business unit for
which the Participant provides services (which may include the
entire organization); and (ii) the determination that any
subjective performance criteria have been met is not made by the
Participant or a family member of the Participant (as defined in
Section Code 267(c)(4) applied as if the family of an individual
includes the spouse of any member of the family), or a person under
the effective control of the Participant or such a family member,
and no amount of the compensation of the person making such
determination is effectively controlled in whole or in part by the
Participant or such a family member.
(r) “Plan” means the
Potlatch Corporation Management Deferred Compensation
Plan.
(s) “Plan Year” means
the 12-month period beginning January 1 and ending
December 31.
(t) “Separation from
Service” means termination of an Employee’s service as
an Employee consistent with Section 409A of the Code and the
regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of the Plan,
“Separation from Service” generally means termination
of an Employee’s employment as a common-law employee of the
Corporation and each Affiliate of the Corporation. A Separation
from Service will not be deemed to have occurred if an Employee
continues to provide services to the Corporation or an Affiliate in
a capacity other than as an employee and if the former employee is
providing a level of bona fide services that is fifty percent
(50%) or more of the average level of services rendered,
during the immediately preceding thirty-six (36) months of
employment with the Corporation or Affiliate; provided, however,
that a Separation from Service will be deemed to have occurred if
it is reasonably anticipated that an Employee’s service with
the Corporation and its Affiliates will terminate after a certain
date or the level of bona fide services that the Employee will
perform after such date
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(whether as an employee or another capacity)
will permanently reduce to a rate that is less than twenty percent
(20%) of the bona fide level of services rendered, on average,
during the immediately preceding thirty-six (36) months (or if
employed by the Corporation and its Affiliates less than thirty-six
(36) months, such lesser period). However, the employment
relationship is treated as continuing intact while the individual
is on military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of
absence if the period of such leave does not exceed six months, or
if longer, so long as the individual’s right to reemployment
with the service recipient is provided either by statute or by
contract. If the period of leave exceeds six months and the
individual’s right to reemployment is not provided either by
statute or by contract, the employment relationship is deemed to
terminate on the first date immediately following such six-month
period.
(u) “Stock Units” means
the deferred portion of Compensation, which is converted into a
unit denominated in shares of the Corporation’s common
stock.
(v) “Value” means the
closing price of the Corporation’s common stock as reported
in the New York Stock Exchange, Inc., composite transactions
reports for the relevant date.
(w) “Variable Fractions
Method” is a distribution method for amounts payable in
installments. The amount of the first installment is determined by
dividing the Participant’s account balance by the total
number of installments due. Each subsequent annual installment is
equal to the Participant’s account balance as adjusted for
earnings or losses since the last distribution date divided by a
denominator equal to the total number of installments due minus the
number of installments previously paid.
(x) “Year” shall mean
the calendar year.
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3.
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ELIGIBILITY
TO MAKE DEFERRALS
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(a) Each Employee who is in a
position that is eligible for Long-Term Incentive awards (an
“Eligible Employee”) and who has made the maximum
elective deferrals under Section 402(g) of the Code or the
maximum elective contributions permitted under the terms of the
401(k) Plan shall be eligible to elect to defer base salary under
the Plan.
(b) Each Eligible Employee who is
eligible to receive an award under the MPAP II or AIP (other than
an award under an AIP Special Awards Fund) shall be eligible to
defer such award under the Plan; provided that, an Employee who is
required to defer his or her award shall automatically become a
participant in this Plan.
(a) Each Employee who is eligible to
participate in the Plan pursuant to Section 3 above shall,
prior to the beginning of each Year and in accordance with the
applicable deadline established by the Committee, have the option
to make an irrevocable election to defer a percentage of his or her
Compensation earned during the following Year before the beginning
of each such Year. Compensation paid after December 31 of a
Plan Year for services performed by the Employee during the final
payroll period of the calendar year and which payroll
period
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includes the last day of such calendar year
shall be treated as earned for services performed in the year
paid.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing,
an Employee may make an irrevocable election to participate during
a Year with respect to Compensation earned during that Year and
subsequent to the filing of such election, provided such election
is made within thirty (30) days of the Employee’s
initial eligibility to participate in this Plan and any other
nonqualified deferred compensation plans treated as a single plan
with this Plan under Section 409A of the Code. Any such
initial election shall apply only to Compensation earned for
services performed after the date of the election. If compensation
is due for services performed over a period of time which includes
the period both before and the period after the date of the
election, the election will apply to an amount equal to the total
amount of the compensation paid for such performance period
multiplied by the ratio of the number of days remaining in the
performance period after the election over the total number of days
in the performance period.
(c) Notwithstanding the preceding
rules, a deferral election for an award of Compensation under the
MPAP II or AIP, which constitutes Performance-Based Compensation,
may be made no later than six months before the end of such
performance period. This special election rule is available only
(i) if the Employee performs services for the Company or its
Affiliate continuously from the later of the beginning of the
performance period or the date the performance criteria are
established through the date an Election is made with respect to
such payment, (ii) the Election is made before the amount of
the Performance-Based Compensation to be received becomes
reasonably ascertainable or, if the Performance-Based Compensation
is a specified or calculable amount, when the amount is
substantially certain to be paid, and (iii) the performance
period is at least twelve (12) months in duration.
(d) The Committee may also adopt
such additional or alternative election rules provided that such
rules comply with the rules of Section 409A of the Code and
applicable regulatory authority.
(a) An Employee who elects to
participate in the Plan with respect to annual base salary or an
award under the MPAP II or AIP for a Year shall file a deferral
election with respect to each type of Compensation on such form as
the Committee shall prescribe, which shall indicate:
(i) The amount or percentage of each
type of Compensation that such Employee elects to defer pursuant to
the terms of the Plan. The percentage must be in increments of ten
percent (10%) and may not exceed fifty percent (50%) in
the case of annual base salary. An election to voluntarily defer an
award under the MPAP II or AIP shall be for not less than fifty
percent (50%) of such award. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an
election to defer compensation may not reduce the Employee’s
remaining compensation below the amount necessary to satisfy
applicable employment tax withholding, income tax withholding, and
benefit plan withholding. This election shall be irrevocable with
respect to each type of Compensation for that Year to which it
applies after the applicable deadline for making such election as
provided in Section 4 for that Year.
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(ii) The percentage of the
Compensation deferred pursuant to the election that is to be
converted into Stock Units or deemed invested in any other
investment account available under Section 7.
(b) An Employee who elects to
Participate in the Plan shall have only one form of payment
election in effect for all amounts deferred under the Plan. Subject
to Section 5(c), below, at the time of an Employee’s
initial election to defer base salary or an award under the MPAP II
or AIP, the Employee shall file an election and shall
indicate:
(i) Whether the deferred
Compensation shall be paid in a lump sum or paid in five (5), ten
(10), or fifteen (15) annual installments. For purposes of the
Plan, installment payments shall be treated as a single
distribution for purposes of Section 409A of the Code.
Deferred Compensation shall be paid in fifteen (15) annual
installments unless the Employee elects otherwise.
(ii) Whether benefit payments shall
commence immediately upon Separation from Service or attainment of
a specified age, if later.
(c) A Participant’s election
as to the time and form of payment of deferred Compensation shall
be irrevocable and binding on all deferred Compensation under the
Plan. For avoidance of doubt it is intended that a Participant
shall have only one method of payment in effect. Notwithstanding
any provision herein to the contrary, an Employee or former
Employee may revoke a previous election and make a new election as
to the time and form of distribution under the Plan. Such new
election shall take effect twelve (12) months after it is
filed with the Committee and shall apply only to that portion of
the Employee’s or former Employee’s Deferred
Compensation Account and/or Stock Units scheduled to be paid more
than twelve (12) months after the date the election is filed
with the Committee; provided, however, that the newly scheduled
distribution date must be at least five years later than the
originally scheduled distribution date.
(d) For purposes of determining the
payment election in effect for a participant with existing
deferrals under MPAP II as of the date this Plan is effective, such
existing payment election shall remain in effect for all existing
and future deferrals under the Plan unless the Employee elects and
becomes subject to a new payment election in accordance with the
rules of this paragraph. Notwithstanding the limitations on changes
in the time or form of payment under this Section, a Participant
may, not later than the date permitted by the Committee, which
shall in no event be later than December 31, 2008, change his
or her election with respect to the time or form of payment for his
or her Deferred Compensation Account, provided that such election
shall not be effective if it would defer payment of an amount
otherwise payable in the year the election to change payment is
made or would accelerate any payment into the year the election to
change the payment date is made.
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6.
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ESTABLISHMENT OF DEFERRED
ACCOUNTS
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(a) For each Employee who has
defe