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accession: "0001193125-22-154042"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CLW"
cik: "0001441236"
company_name: "Clearwater Paper Corp"
filed_at: "2022-05-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T09:52:54.983582+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Clearwater Paper amends annual incentive plan; raises CEO award cap to $3M, adds clawback for reputational harm

## Summary
- Compensation Committee approved amendments to Annual Incentive Plan, effective Jan 1, 2022.
- New CEO award cap $3.0M; other participants cap raised to $2.0M.
- Added flexibility to include strategic and ESG performance goals.
- Committee gains discretion to adjust awards up/down and to clawback awards for reputational harm.
- Shareholders elected Kevin J. Hunt and Ann C. Nelson as Class II directors; ratified KPMG as auditor; approved say-on-pay.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-154042
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CLW
- cik: 0001441236
- company_name: Clearwater Paper Corp
- filed_at: 2022-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441236/000119312522154042/0001193125-22-154042-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441236/000119312522154042/d320695d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-154042.txt

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