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Item 5.02	Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

•	To ensure that any awards payable under the Annual Incentive Plan can be funded by the Company's earnings, no awards will be made unless the Company achieves certain threshold Incentive Earnings Per Share targets.

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“Incentive Earnings Per Share” equals the Company's diluted earnings per share for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012, as reported in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, adjusted to exclude non-recurring items that do not factor into ongoing earnings. The Incentive Earnings Per Share targets set forth in the Annual Incentive Plan have been established solely for purposes of measuring performance under the Annual Incentive Plan and have no effect on, and are not necessarily identical to, any earnings guidance that may be announced by the Company.

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Awards are payable at threshold, target and maximum levels for the Company's named executive officers based upon a percentage of their respective January 1, 2012 base salaries. For the Company's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, award opportunities under the Annual Incentive Plan range from 36% to 180%. Award opportunities range from 18% to 110% for the Company's Executive Vice President and Senior Vice Presidents, and from 14% to 70% for the Company's Vice Presidents. Actual awards under the Annual Incentive Plan (if any) will be determined as follows:

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The overall award pool will be determined based on the Company's actual Incentive Earnings Per Share during 2012. As noted above, if the Company does not achieve at least the threshold level of Incentive Earnings Per Share specified in the Annual Incentive Plan, no awards will be paid to the named executive officers regardless of the Company's achievement levels with respect to the corporate and business area goals specified pursuant to the Annual Incentive Plan. This award pool (if any) will be allocated to individual named executive officers by the Compensation Committee (each named executive officer's allocated amount of the award pool being his or her “Allocated Pool Amount”).

◦	The Compensation Committee will determine individual awards (if any) (each named executive officer's individual award being his or her “Individual Award Amount”) based on achievement

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◦	Each named executive officer would receive the lesser of his or her (i) Allocated Pool Amount or (ii) Individual Award Amount.

◦	The Annual Incentive Plan provides for the payment of partial or pro rata awards in certain events involving the hiring, departure, promotion, demotion or transfer of officers eligible to participate in the plan. In the event that the plan is modified (to reduce awards) following a change in control with respect to the Company, a minimum award is provided in certain instances.

•	70% are allocated to performance share awards, which will be granted (if at all) based on the Company's level of attainment of a Relative TSR Goal and a FFO/Debt Ratio Goal (each as defined below) over the LTIP Performance Period; and

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30% are allocated to time-vested restricted stock rights awards, which will be granted (if at all) depending on the named executive officer's position and base salary, as well as the discretion of the Compensation Committee, following the end of the LTIP Performance Period. Such restricted stock rights would vest 33% on the first anniversary of the grant date, 34% on the second anniversary of the grant date, and 33% on the third anniversary of the grant date.

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“Relative TSR Goal” refers to the Company's Total Shareholder Return (“TSR”) for the LTIP Performance Period as compared to the TSR of the other utilities included in the S&P 400 Mid-Cap Utility Index. For this purpose, TSR will be measured by comparing the average closing price of the Company's common stock (or the other applicable utility's common stock) for the 20 trading days immediately preceding the beginning of the LTIP Performance Period with the average closing price for the last 20 trading days of the LTIP Performance Period. TSR will be determined by adding any dividends paid by the Company (or other applicable utility) to the appreciation in value of the Company's (or other utility's) common stock.

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“FFO/Debt Ratio Goal” refers to the Company's funds from operations for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2014, divided by the Company's total debt outstanding (including any long-term leases and/or unfunded pension plan obligations) as of December 31, 2014. Funds from operations are equal to the Company's net cash flow from operating activities, as reported in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, adjusted for certain items. The calculation is also intended to be consistent with Moody's Investors Service, Inc.'s calculation of the Company's FFO/Debt Ratio.

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