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Timing and Manner of Payment of Restricted Stock Units. Subject to the terms of the Plan and this Award, any Restricted Stock Units that vest pursuant to Paragraph 2 shall be released and settled in whole Shares within 60 days of the applicable vesting date by the Company delivering to the Participant (and, in the event of death, as provided in the following sentence of this Paragraph 8) a number of Shares (in such manner as the Committee in its discretion may determine, e.g., by entering such Shares in book entry form, and/or causing the vested Shares to be deposited in an account maintained by a broker designated by the Company) equal to the number of Restricted Stock Units subject to the Award that vest on the vesting date, less tax withholdings as provided under Paragraph 9; provided, that, any Restricted Stock Units that vest on account of the Participant’s Approved Separation, Mandatory Retirement or Qualified Termination under Paragraphs 2(b)(ii), (iii) or (iv) shall be released and settled as provided herein, but according to the same payment timing resulting from the normal course vesting schedule set forth in Paragraph 2(a), and in such circumstance the Participant must only be in continuous Employment from the Grant Date to the applicable vesting event (i.e., the Participant’s Approved Separation, Mandatory Retirement or Qualified Termination is a vesting event and not a payment event). Notwithstanding the preceding sentence of this Paragraph 8, if the event of death, any Shares that are otherwise deliverable under this Award (including Shares resulting from the vesting of any Restricted Stock Units on account of death) will be distributed to the correlated brokerage account (or the SPS Participant Trust if an international employee) and will be subject to the designated beneficiary on file and then in effect with the recordkeeper for such brokerage (or the SPS Participant Trust, where applicable), or in the absence of a designated beneficiary, to the executor or administrator of the estate.

Timing and Manner of Payment of Restricted Stock Units. Subject to the terms of the Plan and this Award, any Restricted Stock Units that vest pursuant to Paragraph 2 shall be released and settled in whole Shares within 60 days of the applicable vesting date by the Company delivering to the Participant (and, in the event of death, as provided in the following sentence of this Paragraph 8) a number of Shares (in such manner as the Committee in its discretion may determine, e.g., by entering such Shares in book entry form, and/or causing the vested Shares to be deposited in an account maintained by a broker designated by the Company) equal to the number of Restricted Stock Units subject to the Award that vest on the vesting date, less tax withholdings as provided under Paragraph 9; provided, that, any Restricted Stock Units that vest on account of the Participant’s Approved Separation, Mandatory Retirement or Qualified Termination under Paragraphs 2(b)(ii), (iii) or (iv) shall be released and settled as provided herein, but according to the same payment timing resulting from the normal course vesting schedule set forth in Paragraph 2(a), and in such circumstance the Participant must only be in continuous Employment from the Grant Date to the applicable vesting event (i.e., the Participant’s Approved Separation, Mandatory Retirement or Qualified Termination is a vesting event and not a payment event). Notwithstanding the preceding sentence of this Paragraph 8, if in the event of death, any Shares that are otherwise deliverable under this Award (including Shares resulting from the vesting of any Restricted Stock Units on account of death) will be distributed to the correlated brokerage account (or the SPS Participant Trust if an international employee) and will be subject to the designated beneficiary on file and then in effect with the recordkeeper for such brokerage (or the SPS Participant Trust, where applicable), or in the absence of a designated beneficiary, to the executor or administrator of the estate.