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Director
Qualification Standards
The Board of
Directors (the “Board”) of Magellan
Midstream Holdings GP, LLC (the
“Company”) will have three directors
who meet the independence
requirements of the New York Stock
Exchange (“NYSE”). A director will
not qualify as independent unless
the Board affirmatively determines
that the director has no material
relationship with the sole member of
the Company, MGG Midstream Holdings,
L.P. (“MGG Holdings”), the Company,
Magellan Midstream Holdings, L.P.
(the “Partnership”), Magellan GP,
LLC or Magellan Midstream Partners,
L.P. (collectively the "Magellan
Group") either directly or as a
partner, unitholder or officer of an
organization that has a relationship
with the Magellan Group. In order to
make this determination, the Board
will broadly consider all relevant
facts and circumstances and will
apply the following categorical
standards:
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A director
will not be considered
independent if the director is,
or has been within the last
three years, an employee of the
Magellan Group, or if an
immediate family member of a
director is, or has been within
the last three years, an
executive officer, of the
Magellan Group; provided,
however, that employment as an
interim Chairman or Chief
Executive Officer (“CEO”) or
other executive officer will not
disqualify a director from being
considered independent following
that employment.
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A director
who has received, or has an
immediate family member who has
received, during any
twelve-month period within the
last three years, more than
$100,000 in direct compensation
from the Magellan Group, other
than director and committee fees
and pension or other forms of
deferred compensation for prior
service (provided such
compensation is not contingent
in any way on continued
service), will not be considered
independent; provided, however,
that the following need not be
considered in determining
independence under this test: (i)
compensation received by a
director for former service as
an interim Chairman or CEO or
other executive officer and (ii)
compensation received by an
immediate family member for
service as an employee (other
than an executive officer) of
the Magellan Group.
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A director
will not be considered
independent if (i) the director
or an immediate family member is
a current partner of a firm that
is the Partnership’s internal or
external auditor; (ii) the
director is a current employee
of such a firm, (iii) the
director has an immediate family
member who is a current employee
of such a firm and who
participates in the firm’s
audit, assurance or tax
compliance (but not tax
planning) practice; or (iv) the
director or an immediate family
member was within the last three
years (but is no longer) a
partner or employee of such a
firm and personally worked on
the Partnership’s audit within
that time.
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A director
will not be considered
independent if the director or
an immediate family member is,
or has been within the last
three years, employed as an
executive officer of another
company where any of the
Magellan Group's present
executive officers at the same
time serves or served on that
company’s compensation
committee.
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A director
who is a current employee, or
whose immediate family member is
a current executive officer, of
a company that has made payments
to, or received payments from,
the Magellan Group for property
or services in an amount which,
in any of the last three fiscal
years, exceeds the greater of $1
million, or 2% of such other
company’s consolidated gross
revenues, will not be considered
independent; provided, however,
that charitable organizations
will not be considered
“companies” for purposes of this
test.
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Director
Responsibilities
Directors are
expected to exercise their business
judgment and to act in what they
reasonably believe to be in the best
interests of the Company, the
Partnership and the Partnership’s
unitholders. In order to perform
this responsibility, directors may
rely on the honesty and integrity of
the Company’s executive officers and
its outside advisors and auditors.
The directors are entitled (a) to
have the Company or the Partnership
purchase reasonable directors’ and
officers’ liability insurance on
their behalf and (b) to the benefits
of indemnification to the fullest
extent permitted by law, the Limited
Liability Company Agreement of the
Company and the Partnership
Agreement of the Partnership.
Directors are
expected to attend Board meetings
and Committee meetings, for
Committees on which they serve, and
to spend the time needed and to meet
as frequently as necessary to
properly discharge their
responsibilities. To the extent
feasible, information and data
important to the Board's
understanding of the business to be
conducted at a Board or Committee
meeting should be distributed in
writing to the directors before the
meeting and directors should be
prepared to contribute substantively
at the meeting by reviewing these
materials in advance of the meeting.
Directors should
advise the Chairman of the Board in
advance of accepting an invitation
to serve on another public company
board or if the principal
responsibility they held when they
were elected to the Board changes.
The executive
officers of the Company will
recommend to the Board the long-term
strategic plan for the Partnership,
major acquisitions and divestitures
and major changes to the
Partnership's capital structure.
With respect to all other matters,
the Chairman of the Board will
arrange the agenda for Board
meetings and shall report to the
Board and arrange for other
executives and advisors to report to
the Board. Each Board member is free
to suggest the inclusion of items on
the agenda of any Board Meetings.
Each Board member is free to raise
at any Board meeting subjects that
are not on the agenda for that
meeting. The Board will review the
Partnership's long-term strategic
plans, including succession plans,
and the principal issues that the
Partnership will face in the future
during at least one Board meeting
each year.
The
non-management directors will meet
in executive session at each
regularly scheduled board meeting.
An independent director shall
preside at these meetings and his
name will be disclosed in the
Partnership's annual proxy
statement.
The independent
directors will meet in executive
session at least annually.
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Board
Committees
The Board will at
all times have an Audit Committee.
The members of the Audit Committee
shall meet the independence and
experience requirements of the NYSE
rules, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002 and any other applicable
statutes, rules or regulations.
Because the
Partnership is a publicly traded
limited partnership, the NYSE does
not require the Board to have a
Compensation Committee or Nominating
and Governance Committee. Despite
this exemption, the Board has chosen
to have a Compensation Committee,
which is currently comprised of each
member of the Board. The Board has
chosen not to have a Nominating and
Governance Committee, but instead
prefers for the full Board to
provide that function.
The Board also
has a Conflicts Committee, which
will be comprised only of directors
that meet the independence
requirements of the NYSE rules. The
Conflicts Committee reviews specific
material matters that the Board
believes may involve conflicts of
interest with the Company and its
affiliates. If the Board refers a
particular matter to the Conflicts
Committee, the Conflicts Committee
will determine if the resolution of
the conflict of interest is fair and
reasonable to the Partnership. Any
matters approved by the Conflicts
Committee are conclusively deemed to
be fair and reasonable to the
Partnership, approved by all of the
Partnership's partners and not a
breach by the Company of any duties
it may owe to the Partnership or its
unitholders.
The Audit and
Compensation Committees have their
own charters. The Board appoints
committee members, including the
chairman of each committee. The
chairman of each committee, in
consultation with the committee
members, determines the frequency
and length of the committee meetings
and the agenda for each meeting
consistent with any requirements set
forth in the committee's charter.
The Board may,
from time to time, establish or
maintain additional committees as it
deems necessary or appropriate.
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Director
Access to Management and, as
Necessary and Appropriate,
Independent Advisors
Directors have
full, free and direct access to the
management of the Company and the
Partnership. The directors will use
their judgment to ensure that any
such contact is not disruptive to
the business operations of the
Company or the Partnership and will,
to the extent not inappropriate,
copy the CEO on any written
communications between a director
and an officer or employee of the
Company. Such communications will
not be directive other than as
relates to routine administrative
matters. In addition, the Board
expects the executive officers of
the Company to attend and
participate at each regularly
scheduled board meeting.
The Board and
each Committee of the Board have the
authority to hire independent legal,
financial or other advisors as they
may deem necessary.
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Director
Compensation
Management and
non-independent directors of the
Board receive no compensation for
serving as a director. The form and
amount of compensation for
independent directors will be
determined annually by the
Compensation Committee of the Board.
In making this annual determination,
the Compensation Committee will
consider that directors'
independence may be jeopardized when
directors' compensation exceeds what
is customary or if the Company or
the Partnership makes substantial
charitable contributions to
organizations in which a director is
affiliated, or enters into
consulting contracts with (or
provides other indirect forms of
compensation to) a director.
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Director
Orientation and Continuing Education
All new directors
will be oriented to the Company and
the Partnership in a manner to be
determined by the CEO. The Board
will consider whether or not
continuing education for all, or
certain directors, may be warranted.
The Company will pay reasonable
expenses for a director's
participation in continuing
education programs approved by the
Board.
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Management Succession
The
non-management directors will
oversee CEO selection, after
consultation with the presiding CEO,
and review the performance of the
CEO on an annual basis.
Additionally, the non-management
directors will set policies
regarding succession in the event of
an emergency or the retirement of
the CEO.
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Annual
Performance Evaluation of the Board
The Board will
conduct an annual self-evaluation to
determine whether it and its
Committees are functioning
effectively.
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