EXHIBIT 10(i)
Weyerhaeuser
Company
Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan
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Approved by
shareholders on April 16, 1992 and including all amendments
through February 12, 1998
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Table of Contents
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4.1 Authorized Number of Shares
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5.1 Administration and Interpretation by the
Committee
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5.2 Interpretation; Change of Control
Adjustments
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ARTICLE III. STOCK OPTIONS; STOCK APPRECIATION
RIGHTS
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3.1 Types of Stock Options
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3.1.2 Stock Appreciation Rights
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3.1.3 Exercise/Sell Election
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3.3 Maximum Annual Award of Shares
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3.4 Vesting; Exercise Upon Termination of
Employment
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3.4.1 Initial Vesting Period
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3.4.2 Term of Options and Stock Appreciation
Rights
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3.4.3 Exercise by Personal
Representative
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3.4.4 Exercises of Options and Rights
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3.4.5 Post-Termination Exercises
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3.6 Acquired Company Options
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4.3 Waiver of Restrictions
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4.4 Maximum Annual Stock Awards
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ARTICLE V. PERFORMANCE SHARE AWARDS
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5. Performance Share Awards
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5.1 Performance Share Awards
Authority
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5.2 Payout Upon Termination
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5.3 Maximum Amount of Performance Share
Awards
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6.1 Amendment and Termination of Plan
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6.2 Continued Employment; Rights in Options and
Awards
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6.3 Other Compensation Plans
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6.4 Certificates for Shares;
Registration
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6.5 No Rights as Shareholder
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6.6 No Assignment or Transfer of
Interests
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6.7 Compliance with Laws and
Regulations
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Weyerhaeuser Company Long-Term Incentive
Compensation Plan
ARTICLE I. GENERAL
1 . Name of
Plan
The
name of the plan set forth herein is the “Weyerhaeuser
Company Long-Term Incentive Compensation Plan,” herein called
the “Plan.”
2. Purposes
The
purposes of the Plan are to enhance the long-term profitability and
shareholder value of Weyerhaeuser Company by offering stock based
incentives to those employees of the Company and Subsidiaries who
are key to the growth and success of Weyerhaeuser, to attract and
retain executives with experience and ability on a basis
competitive with industry practices and to encourage executives to
acquire and maintain stock ownership in Weyerhaeuser
Company.
3. Effective
Date
The effective date of the Plan is
the date on which it is approved by the shareholders of the
Company, in accordance with the Washington Business Corporation
Act, at the annual meeting of shareholders on April 16, 1992
or any adjournment thereof The Plan shall have no fixed expiration
date.
4. Number of
Shares
4.1
Authorized Number of Shares . The number of Shares that may
be issued under the Plan shall not exceed ten (10) million.
Shares issued pursuant to the Plan will be authorized and unissued
Shares which may includes Shares which from time to time have been
reacquired by the Company.
4.2
Reuse of Shares . To the extent that (a) any Stock
Option or Stock Appreciation Right expires, or is terminated,
canceled or surrendered, without being exercised (including,
without limitation, in connection with the grant of a replacement
option); (b) Shares are not issued upon exercise of any Stock
Appreciation Right; (c) the underlying Shares are not issued
because the Award is forfeited, terminated, surrendered or
canceled; or (d) Shares are not issued pursuant to any
Performance Share Award, shares underlying or subject to such Stock
Option, Stock Appreciation Right or Award shall again be available
for issuance in connection with future grants of Stock Options,
Stock Appreciation Rights and Awards under the Plan.
4.3
Adjustment of Shares . In the event that at any time or from
time to time a stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization,
merger, consolidation, or other change in capitalization of the
Company, or a sale by the Company of all or part of its assets, or
any distribution to shareholders other than a cash dividend,
results in (a) the outstanding Shares, or any securities
exchanged therefore or received in their place being exchanged for
a different number or class of securities of the Company or of any
other corporation, or (b) new, different or additional
securities of the Company or of any other corporation being
received by the holders of Shares of the Company, then:
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(i) the
limitation to 10,000,000 Shares set forth in Section 4.1 of
Article I;
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(ii) the
number and class of Shares that may be made subject to Stock
Options, Stock Appreciation Rights and Awards;
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(iii) the
Option Price of unexercised Stock Options and Stock appreciation
Rights; and
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(iv) Share
values or prices used for calculation purposes shall in each case
be equitably adjusted as determined by the Committee in its sole
discretion.
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5.
Administration
5.1
Administration and Interpretation by the Committee . The
Plan shall be administered by the Committee. Members of the
Committee shall not be eligible to participate in the Plan, and no
member of the Committee shall have been, during the period of one
year prior to Committee service, granted or awarded equity
securities of the Company pursuant to the Plan or pursuant to any
other plan of the Company. Members of the committee must be
“Outside Directors” for the purposes of
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, which
section was adopted as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1993, or any successor provision. The Committee shall have
exclusive authority to designate the employees of the Company and
Subsidiaries who are eligible to participate in the Plan as
Participants. The Committee shall also have exclusive authority to
interpret the Plan and may from time to time adopt, and change,
rules and regulations of general application for the administration
of the Plan, including rules and regulations relating to the manner
of exercise and settlement of Stock Options and Stock Appreciation
Rights, issuance and custody of Restricted Stock and the manner of
settlement of Performance Share Awards. The Committee’s
interpretation of the Plan and its rules and regulations, and all
actions taken and determinations made by the Committee pursuant to
the Plan, shall be conclusive and binding on all parties involved
or affected. The Committee may delegate administrative duties to
such of the officers of the Company as it so determines.
5.2
Interpretation; Change of Control Adjustments . Without
limiting the preceding Section 5.1, and notwithstanding any
other provisions of the Plan, the Committee is authorized to take
such action as it determines to be necessary or advisable, and fair
and equitable to Participants, with respect to Stock Options, Stock
Appreciation Rights and Awards in the event of. a merger of the
Company with, consolidation of the Company into, or the acquisition
of the Company by, another corporation, or a sale or transfer of
all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to another
corporation or any other person or entity, a tender or exchange
offer for Shares made by any corporation, person or entity (other
than the Company), or other reorganization, as a result of which
the Company is not likely to continue as an independent,
publicly-owned corporation. Such authorized action may include (but
shall not be limited to) establishing, amending or waiving the
type, terms, conditions, or duration of, or restrictions on, Stock
Options, Stock Appreciation Rights and Awards so as to provide for
earlier, later, extended or additional times for exercise, payments
or settlement or lifting of restrictions, differing methods for
calculating payments or settlements and other modifications, and
the Committee may take such actions by adopting rules and
regulations applicable to all Participants, to certain categories
of Participants or only to individual Participants. The Committee
may take such actions before or after making the grants of Stock
Options, Stock Appreciation Rights or
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Stock Awards to which the action
relates and before or after any public announcement with respect to
such merger, consolidation, acquisition, sale or transfer of
assets, tender or exchange offer or other reorganization that is
the reason for such action.
ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS
2. Definitions
For
purposes of the Plan, the following terms shall be defined as set
forth below:
2.1
“Award” means any award or grant of Shares under
Section 4 of Article IV and any award or grant of Performance
Shares under Section 5 of Article V.
2.2
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code as amended from
time to time.
2.3
“Committee” means the Compensation Committee of the
Board of Directors of the Company.
2.4
“Company” means Weyerhaeuser Company, a Washington
corporation.
2.5
“Disability” means “disability” as that
term is defined for purposes of the Company’s Retirement Plan
for Salaried Employees.
2.6
“Early Retirement” means retirement pursuant to the
Company’s Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees on a date
prior to the individual’s normal retirement date..
2.7
“Exercise/Sell Election” means the election set forth
in Section 3.1.3 of Article
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“Fair Market Value” means the arithmetic average of the
highest and lowest sales prices per Share on a day as reported on
the consolidated transaction reporting system for New York Stock
Exchange issues for the day.
2.9
“Grant Date” means the date designated in a resolution
of the Committee as the date the Stock Option, Stock Appreciation
Right or Award is granted, which date shall not be earlier than the
date the Committee completed the act of adoption of the resolution.
If the Committee does not designate a Grant date in the resolution,
the Grant Date shall be the date the Committee completed the act of
adoption of the resolution.
2.10
“Holder” means the Participant to whom is granted a
Stock Option, Stock Appreciation Right or Award, or the personal
representative of the Holder who has died.
2.11
“Incentive Stock Option” means an option to purchase
Shares granted under Article III of the Plan with the
intention that it qualify as an “incentive stock
option” as that term is defined in Section 422 of the
Code.
2.12
“Non-Qualified Stock Option” means an option to
purchase Shares granted under Article III of the Plan other
than an Incentive Stock Option.
2.13 “Option
Price” means the purchase price of Shares, as prescribed by
the Committee, in respect to any Stock Option or Stock Appreciation
Right.
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2.14
“Participant” means an individual who is a Holder of
Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights and/or Awards or, as the
context may require, any employee of the Company or a Subsidiary
who has been designated by the Committee as eligible to participate
in the Plan.
2.15
“Performance Measures” means objective criteria
specifically defined by the Committee on a Company-specific basis,
business-unit basis or in comparison with peer group performance,
which may include or exclude specified items of an unusual or
nonrecurring nature, and are based on one or more of the following:
earnings before interest and taxes, net earnings, earnings per
share, return on equity, return on assets, return on capital
employed, cash flow, cost reduction, stock price appreciation,
total shareholder return, economic value added, cash flow return on
investment, and cash value added.
2.16
“Performance Share” means a unit of value, equal on the
Grant Date to the Fair Market Value of a Share on such Date or such
greater value as the Committee shall prescribe, used to calculate
the total value of a Performance Share Award.
2.17
“Performance Share Award” means an award granted under
Article V of the Plan the payout of which is subject to
achievement through a performance period of performance goals
prescribed by the Committee.
2.18
“Restricted Stock Award” means an award of Shares
granted under Article IV of the Plan the rights of ownership
of which are subject to restrictions prescribed by the
Committee.
2.19
“Retirement” means retirement as of the
individual’s normal retirement date under the Company’s
Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees.
2.20
“Shares” means the common shares (par value $1.25 per
share) of the Company.
2.21 “Stock
Appreciation Right” means a right, granted under
Section 3.1.2 of Article III, to surrender to the Company
all or a portion of the related Stock Option, if any, and to
receive an amount (in Shares or cash or any combination of Shares
and cash, as the Committee shall determine) equal to the excess of
the Window Period Fair Market Value per Share for the date the
Stock Appreciation Right is exercised over the Option Price per
Share,