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Arkansas Lime Company Bargaining Unit 401(K) Plan

PROTOTYPE 401(k) PLAN


ARTICLE I. INTRODUCTION The Employer has established this Plan (the "Plan"), consisting of the Adoption Agreement and the following provisions (the "Prototype 401(k) Plan") for the exclusive benefit of Participants and their Beneficiaries.


ARTICLE II. DEFINITIONS Where the following words and phrases appear in this Plan, they shall have the respective meanings set forth below, unless their context clearly indicates a contrary meaning. The singular herein shall include the plural, and vice versa, and the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender, and vice versa, where the context requires. 2.01 "Account" shall mean the Trust assets held by the Trustee for the benefit of a Participant, which shall be the sum of the Participant's Salary Reduction Contribution Account, Deferred Cash Contribution Account, Employer Profit Sharing Contribution Account, Employer Matching Contribution Account, Nondeductible Voluntary Contribution Account, Deductible Voluntary Contribution Account, Rollover Account and Qualified Nonelective Contribution Account and any transfer account established pursuant to Section 4.07 hereof with respect to funds transferred to the Trust on the Participant's behalf. 2.02 "Act" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended. 2.03 "Administrator" shall mean the person or persons specified in Section 14.01 hereof. 2.04 "Adoption Agreement" shall mean the agreement by which the Employer has most recently adopted or amended the Plan. 2.05 "Annuity Starting Date" shall mean the first day of the first period for which an amount is paid to a Participant (other than loan(s) or in-service withdrawal(s)) from the Trust (whether or not such distributions are received in the form of an annuity). 2.06 "Applicable Life Expectancy" shall mean the life expectancy of the Participant or the joint life and last survivor expectancy of the Participant and Beneficiary calculated using the return multiples specified in Section 1.72-9 of the Treasury Regulations. Unless the Participant elects otherwise, life expectancies determined as of the First Required Distribution Year shall be calculated using the attained age of the Participant and, if applicable, the Beneficiary as of his or her birth date in the First Required Distribution Year. Life expectancies for subsequent calendar years shall be determined by reducing the life expectancy determined as of the First Required Distribution Year by one for each calendar year that has elapsed; provided, however, that the Participant may elect prior to April 1 of the year immediately following his or her First Required Distribution Year to have his or her life expectancy and, if the Participant's Beneficiary is his or her Spouse, the life expectancy of such Beneficiary, recalculated annually. If a Participant elects recalculation, life expectancies for each subsequent calendar year shall be determined using the attained ages of the Participant and, if applicable, his or her Beneficiary, as of their respective birth dates in such calendar year. With respect to a Beneficiary who is entitled to receive a distribution after the death of a Participant, "Applicable Life Expectancy" shall mean the life expectancy of the Beneficiary calculated using the return multiples specified in Section 1.72-9 of the Treasury Regulations as of the Beneficiary's birth date in the calendar year in which distributions are required to commence, and reduced by one for each subsequent calendar year. If the Beneficiary is the Participant's Spouse, he or she may elect, prior to the time distributions are required to commence, to have his or her life


expectancy recalculated annually. If a Spouse so elects, his or her life expectancy for each subsequent calendar year shall be determined as of his or her birth date in such calendar year. 2.07 "Beneficiary" shall mean any person or legal representative effectively designated by the Participant as a person entitled to receive benefits on or after the death of a Participant. Such term shall also include any person or legal representative designated by a Beneficiary as a person entitled to receive benefits on or after the death of such Beneficiary. 2.08 "Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Reference to a section of the Code shall include any comparable section or sections of future legislation that amends, supplements or supersedes such section. 2.09 "Compensation" shall mean: (a) except as provided in subsection (b), (c), and (d) and subject to the limitation of subsection (e), one of the following as elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement: (i) W-2 Compensation. Information required to be reported under Sections 6041, 6051 and 6052 of the Code (Wages, tips and other compensation as reported on Form W-2). Compensation is defined as wages within the meaning of Section 3401(a) and all other payments of compensation to an Employee by the Employer (in the course of the Employer's trade or business) for which the Employer is required to furnish the Employee a written statement under Sections 6041(d), 6051(a)(3) and 6052. Compensation must be determined without regard to any rules under Section 3401(a) that limit the remuneration included in wages based on the nature or location of the employment or the services performed (such as the exception for agricultural labor in Section 3401(a)(2)). (ii) 415 Safe Harbor Compensation. "Compensation" as defined in Section 5.05(b)(ii) of this Plan. (iii) Safe Harbor Alternative Definition. Compensation as defined in Section 2.09(a)(ii) above, reduced by all of the following items (even if includible in gross income): reimbursements or other expense allowances, fringe benefits (cash and non-cash), moving expenses, deferred compensation, and welfare benefits. (iv) In the case of a Self-Employed Individual, the determination of Compensation shall be made on the basis of the Self-Employed Individual's Earned Income. (b) If so specified in the Adoption Agreement, the Employer may elect to include in the definition of Compensation the Participant's Salary Reduction Contributions, Deferred Cash Contributions and any other amount which is contributed by the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement and which is not includible in the gross income of the employee under sections 125, 402(e)(3), 402(h) or 403(b) of the Code. (c) If so specified in the Adoption Agreement, an Employer may elect to exclude from the definition any one or more of the following types of compensation: (i) additional compensation for Participants working outside their regularly scheduled tour of duty such as overtime pay, premiums for shift differential and call-in premiums; (ii) bonuses; (iii) commissions; (iv) such other items as specified in the Adoption Agreement; provided, however, that if the Employer elects an alternative definition of Compensation pursuant to this Section 2.09(c) for purposes of allocating Employer Profit Sharing Contributions and forfeitures thereof, then such alternative definition must be tested by the Administrator to show that it


meets the nondiscrimination requirements of Section 414(s)(3) of the Code. Such alternative definition of Compensation may not be used for purposes of Articles V, VI and XXIII. (d) If this Plan is adopted, (i) as an amendment to an existing plan, (ii) to remove a disqualifying provision which results from a change in the qualification requirements of the Code made by the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and such other legislation as set forth in Section 1.401(b)-1(b)(2)(ii) of the regulations under Code Section 401(b), and (iii) within the remedial amendment period applicable to such disqualifying provision, then for Plan Years beginning before the date such amendment is adopted, "Compensation" shall, subject to the limitation of subsection (e), mean compensation as defined under the terms of the plan prior to its amendment. (e) In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the annual Compensation of each Participant taken into account under the Plan for any determination period shall not exceed the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit. The OBRA '93 annual compensation limit is $150,000, as adjusted by the Commissioner for increases in the cost of living in accordance with Section 401(a)(17) of the Code. The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not to exceed 12 months, beginning in such calendar year over which Compensation is determined ("determination period"). If a determination period is a short Plan Year (i.e., shorter than 12 months), the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit will be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the determination period, and the denominator of which is 12. In determining the Compensation of a Participant for purposes of this limitation, the rules of Section 414(q)(6) of the Code shall apply, except in applying such rules, the term "family" shall include only the Spouse of the Participant and any lineal descendants of the Participant who have not attained age 19 before the close of the year. If, as a result of the application of such rules the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit is exceeded, then (except for purposes of determining the portion of Compensation up to the integration level if this Plan provides for permitted disparity), the limitation shall be prorated among the affected individuals in proportion to each such individual's Compensation as determined under this Section prior to the application of this limitation. For Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, any reference in this Plan to the limitation under Section 401(a)(17) of the Code shall mean the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit. (f) Compensation shall be based on the amount actually paid to the Participant during the Plan Year. To the extent elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, for purposes of allocating Employer Profit Sharing Contributions and/or Employer Matching Contributions and/or applying the Section 401(m) non-discrimination test, Compensation shall be based on the amounts paid during that portion of the Plan Year during which the Employee is eligible to participate with respect to the allocation of such contributions. To the extent elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, for purposes of applying the Section 401(k) non-discrimination test, Compensation shall be based on the amount paid during that portion of the Plan Year during which the Employee is eligible to make a salary reduction election and/or to receive allocations of Deferred Cash Contributions. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, compensation for the purposes of Article V (Code Section 415 Limitations on Allocations) shall be based on the amount actually paid or made available to the Participant during the Limitation Year. Compensation for the initial Plan Year for a new plan shall be based upon eligible Participants'


Compensation, subject to the Adoption Agreement, from the Effective Date through the end of the first Plan Year. 2.10 "Deductible Voluntary Contribution Account" shall mean the separate account maintained pursuant to Section 7.03(g) for any deductible voluntary contributions under Code Section 219 that the Participant made for 1986 and earlier calendar years and the income, expenses, gains and losses attributable thereto. 2.11 "Deferred Cash Allocation" shall mean the contribution payable by the Employer to the Trust on behalf of a Participant subject to the Participant's right to elect to receive all or a portion of such contribution in cash in lieu of having it contributed to the Trust on his or her behalf. 2.12 "Deferred Cash Contribution Account" shall mean the separate account maintained pursuant to Section 7.03(b) hereof for Deferred Cash Contributions allocated to the Participant and the income, expenses, gains and losses attributable thereto. 2.13 "Deferred Cash Contributions" shall mean contributions to the Trust by the Employer in accordance with Section 4.02 hereof. 2.14 "Designated Investment" shall mean either a collective investment trust for the collective investment of assets of employee pension or profit sharing trusts pursuant to Revenue Ruling 81-100, a commingled investment vehicle for the collective investment of assets of institutional investors, or a regulated investment company, for which Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc., its successor or any of its affiliates, acts as investment adviser and any of which are designated by Scudder Investor Services, Inc. or its successors as eligible for investment under the Plan. 2.15 "Designation of Beneficiary" or "Designation" shall mean the document executed by a Participant under Article XVII. 2.16 "Disabled" or "Disability" shall mean the inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or last for a continuous period of 12 months or more, as certified by a licensed physician selected by the Participant and approved by the Employer. 2.17 "Distributor" shall mean Scudder Investor Services, Inc. or its successor. 2.18 "Earned Income" shall mean the net earnings from self-employment in the trade or business with respect to which the Plan is established, for which personal services of the Owner-Employee or Self-Employed Individual are a material income-producing factor. Net earnings will be determined without regard to items not included in gross income and the deductions allocable to such items, except that, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 1989, net earnings shall be determined with regard to the deduction allowed by Code Section 164(f). Net earnings are reduced by contributions by the Employer to a qualified plan, including this Plan, to the extent deductible under Code Section 404. In addition to other applicable limitations set forth in the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, for Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, the annual Earned Income of each Participant taken into account under the Plan for any determination period shall not exceed the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit. The OBRA '93 annual compensation limit is $150,000, as adjusted by the Commissioner for increases in the cost of living in accordance with Section 401(a)(17) of the Code. The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies to any period, not to exceed 12 months, beginning in such calendar year over which Earned Income is determined ("determination period"). If a determination period is a short Plan Year (i.e., shorter than 12 months), the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit will be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is


the number of months in the determination period, and the denominator of which is 12. In determining the Earned Income of a Participant for purposes of this limitation, the rules of Section 414(q)(6) of the Code shall apply, except in applying such rules, the term "family" shall include only the Spouse of the Participant and any lineal descendants of the Participant who have not attained age 19 before the close of the year. If, as a result of the application of such rules the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit is exceeded, then (except for purposes of determining the portion of Earned Income up to the integration level if this Plan provides for permitted disparity), the limitation shall be prorated among the affected individuals in proportion to each such individual's Earned Income as determined under this Section prior to the application of this limitation. For Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, any reference in this Plan to the limitation under Section 401(a)(17) of the Code shall mean the OBRA '93 annual compensation limit. 2.19 "Effective Date" shall mean the date specified by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement. 2.20 "Employee" shall mean any individual who performs services in any capacity in the business of the Employer (including any individual deemed to be an employee of the Employer under Code Section 414(n) or (o)). 2.21 "Employer" shall mean the organization or other entity named as such in the Adoption Agreement and any successor organization or entity which adopts the Plan. If the organization or other entity named as Employer in the Adoption Agreement is a sole proprietorship or a professional corporation and the sole proprietor of such proprietorship or the sole shareholder of the professional corporation dies, then the legal representative of the estate of such sole proprietor or shareholder shall be deemed to be the Employer until such time as, through the disposition of such sole proprietor's or sole shareholder's estate or otherwise, any organization or other entity succeeds to the interests of the sole proprietor in the proprietorship or the sole shareholder in the professional corporation. Unless the adopting organization or entity elects otherwise in the Adoption Agreement, any two or more organizations or entities which are members of (a) a controlled group of corporations (as defined under Code Section 414(b)) which includes the adopter, (b) a group of trades or businesses (whether or not incorporated) which are under common control (as defined under Code Section 414(c)) which includes the adopter, or (c) an affiliated service group (as defined under Code Section 414(m)) which includes the adopter, will be considered to be the Employer for the purposes of the Plan. Similarly, any other organization or entity which is required to be aggregated with the adopter pursuant to Code Section 414(o) and the regulations thereunder will be considered to be the Employer for the purposes of the Plan. 2.22 "Employer Contributions" shall mean Employer Profit Sharing Contributions, Employer Matching Contributions, Salary Reduction Contributions, Deferred Cash Contributions, Qualified Matching Contributions and Qualified Nonelective Contributions. 2.23 "Employer Profit Sharing Contribution Account" shall mean the separate account maintained pursuant to Section 7.03(c) hereof for Employer Profit Sharing Contributions allocated to the Participant and the income, expenses, gains and losses attributable thereto. 2.24 "Employer Profit Sharing Contributions" shall mean contributions to the Trust by the Employer in accordance with Section 4.03 hereof. Employer Profit Sharing Contributions may be fixed or discretionary as provided in the Adoption Agreement.


2.25 "Employer Matching Contribution Account" shall mean the separate account maintained pursuant to Section 7.03(d) hereof for Employer Matching Contributions allocated to the Participant and the income, expenses, gains and losses attributable thereto. 2.26 "Employer Matching Contributions" shall mean the contributions made to the Trust by the Employer in accordance with Section 4.04 hereof as matching contributions. 2.27 "Family Member" shall mean, with respect to a particular Employee, any individual who is a Spouse, lineal ascendant, lineal descendent, or a Spouse of a lineal ascendant or descendent of the Employee. "Family Member" as used in this Plan refers to an individual who is, or was during the Plan Year in question, an Employee. 2.28 "First Required Distribution Year" shall mean: (a) in the case of a Participant whose date of birth is July 1, 1917 or a later date, the calendar year during which the Participant attains age 70 1/2; (b) in the case of a Participant (i) whose date of birth is June 30, 1917 or an earlier date and (ii) who is not, and has not been at any time since the calendar year during which he or she attained age 65 1/2, a "5% owner" (as defined in Code Section 416(i)(1)(B)(i)) of the Employer (hereinafter a "5% owner"), the calendar year during which occurs the later of the Participant's separation from Service or the Participant's attainment of age 70 1/2, provided that if the Participant continues in Service after he or she attains age 70 1/2 and later becomes a 5% owner, such Participant's First Required Distribution Year shall be the calendar year during which the Participant attains the status of a 5% owner; (c) in the case of a Participant (i) whose date of birth is June 30, 1917 or an earlier date and (ii) who is, or has been at sometime since the calendar year during which he or she attained age 65 1/2, a 5% owner, the calendar year during which the Participant attains age 70 1/2. 2.29 "Highly Compensated Employee" shall mean: (a) any Employee who was, at any time in the look-back year or determination year, a 5% owner; (b) any Employee who, in the look-back year: (i) earned more than $75,000 (as adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury to reflect rises in the cost of living in accordance with Code Section 415(d)) in annual compensation, (ii) was an officer and earned more than 50% of the dollar limitation in effect for such year under Code Section 415(b)(1)(A); or
(iii) earned more than $50,000 (as adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury to reflect rises in the cost of living in accordance with Code Section 415(d)) in annual compensation and was among the top 20% of Employees when ranked on the basis of compensation paid during such year. For purposes of calculating the top 20% of Employees when ranked on the basis of compensation paid during the look-back year, there shall be excluded from the total number of Employees: (A) Employees with less than six months of Service, (B) Employees who normally work less than 17 1/2 hours per week, (C) Employees who normally work less than six months per year, (D) except as provided in Treasury Regulations, Employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, (E) Employees who have not attained 21 years of age, and (F) Employees who are nonresident aliens and who receive no earned income from the Employer that constitutes income from sources within the United States; (c) any Employee not described in paragraph (b) above but who is described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of paragraph (b) if the term "determination year" is substituted for the term "look-back year," and the Employee is among the 100 Employees who received the most compensation from the Employer during the determination year; and


(d) any former Employee who has separated from Service but who was a Highly Compensated Employee as described in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) above when he separated from Service or at any time after he attained age 55. For purposes of this Section, "compensation" shall mean the amount paid during the look-back year or determination year, whichever is applicable, by the Employer to the Employee for services rendered (regardless of whether the individual was a Participant at the time) as reportable to the Federal Government for the purpose of withholding federal income taxes and increased by any amount to which Code Sections 125, 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B) or 403(b) apply. Also for purposes of this Section, no more than 50 Employees or, if lesser, the greater of three Employees or 10% of Employees shall be treated as officers; however, if no officer has compensation in excess of the applicable stated dollar amount above in any year, the officer with the highest compensation shall be treated as described in paragraph (b) or (c), as applicable. For this purpose, the determination year shall be the Plan Year. The look-back year shall be the 12-month period immediately preceding the determination year. The Employer may elect to make the look-back year calculation for a determination on the basis of the calendar year ending with or within the applicable determination year, as prescribed by Section 414(q) of the Code and the regulations issued thereunder. If an Employee is, during a determination year or look-back year, a Family Member of either a 5% owner who is an active or former Employee or a Highly Compensated Employee who is one of the ten most Highly Compensated Employees ranked on the basis of compensation paid by the Employer during such year, then the Family Member and the 5% owner or top-ten Highly Compensated Employee shall be aggregated. In such case, the Family Member and the 5% owner or top-ten Highly Compensated Employee shall be treated as a single Employee receiving compensation and Plan contributions or benefits equal to the sum of such compensation and contributions or benefits of the Family Member and 5% owner or top-ten Highly Compensated Employee. Finally, all interpretative questions concerning whether an individual constitutes a Highly Compensated Employee shall be resolved in a manner consistent with Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service interpretations of Code Section 414(q). 2.30 "Highly Compensated Participant" shall mean a Highly Compensated Employee who was, at any time during the Plan Year in question, eligible to participate in the Plan. 2.31 "Hour of Service" shall mean each hour credited to an Employee in the applicable computation period (a 12-consecutive month period) pursuant to subsection (a) or (b) below, as the case may be. (a) If the Employer has so selected in the Adoption Agreement, Hours of Service shall be credited on the basis of weeks of employment and the rules in paragraphs (i) through (iii) below shall apply as modified by paragraphs (iv) and (v) below. (i) Each Employee shall be credited with 45 Hours of Service for each week in which the Employee would be credited with at least one hour of service under Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor Regulations which are incorporated herein by reference. In the case of a week which extends into two computation periods, the Hours of Service for such week shall be allocated between the two computation periods on a pro rata basis. (ii) In the case of a payment made or due to an Employee which is not calculated on the basis of units of time, the number of Hours of Service to be credited shall be equal to the amount of the payment divided by the Employee's most recent hourly rate of compensation as determined under Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor Regulations.


(iii) No more than 501 Hours of Service shall be credited under this Section for any single continuous period (whether or not such period occurs in a single computation period) during which no duties or services are performed for the Employer (or any other corporation during a time when such corporation was related to the Employer within the meaning of Code Section 414), but for which the individual is paid. (iv) The following hours shall be considered to be hours of service for which an Employee would be credited under Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor Regulations for the purposes of subsection (a)(i) of this Section: (A) An hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of duties or services for the Employer. (B) An hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, by the Employer (or any other corporation during a time when such corporation was related to the Employer within the meaning of Code Section 414) on account of a period of time during which no duties are performed (irrespective of whether the employment relationship has terminated) due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including Disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty or leave of absence (unless such payment is made or due solely to comply with applicable workman's compensation, unemployment compensation or disability insurance laws or solely as reimbursement for the Employee's medical expenses). (C) An hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either awarded or agreed to by the Employer (or any other corporation during a time when such corporation was related to the Employer within the meaning of Code Section 414). The same hours shall not be considered both under paragraph (iv)(A) or paragraph (iv)(B), as the case may be, and under this paragraph (iv)(C). Such hours shall be treated under paragraphs (i) through (iii) as occurring in the computation period or periods to which the award or agreement pertains rather than the computation period in which the award, agreement or payment is made. (v) Solely for the purpose of determining whether a One-Year Break in Service has occurred, an Employee shall be credited with any Hours of Service which would otherwise have been credited to such Employee but for such absence from work during a Plan Year which commences after December 31, 1984 because of: such Employee's pregnancy, birth of a child of the Employee, placement of an adopted child with the Employee, or caring for a natural or an adopted child for a period beginning immediately following birth or placement. Hours of Service shall be credited to an Employee pursuant to this paragraph in the manner indicated in paragraphs (i) through (iii) above for the computation period during which such absence begins, if the Employee would otherwise have suffered a One-Year Break in Service and, in all other cases, in the next following computation period. No more than 501 Hours o ...

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