Company: CLH
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000822818-25-000011
Chunk: 7

Company: CLEAN HARBORS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 on which the Company’s common stock is listed. To be considered independent under the NYSE rules, the Board must affirmatively determine that a director does not have a direct or indirect material relationship with the Company, except as a director or shareholder. In making that determination, the Board must consider all relevant facts and circumstances. In particular, a director is not independent if:

• The director is, or has been within the last three years, an employee of the Company or the director has an immediate family member who is, or has been within the last three years, an executive officer of the Company.

• The director has received, or has an immediate family member who has received, more than $120,000 in direct compensation from the Company during any 12-month period within the last three years, other than certain types of compensation including director and committee fees, stock incentives awarded to non-employee directors of the Company, and pension or other forms of deferred compensation for prior service (provided such deferred compensation is not contingent in any way on continued service).

• The director or an immediate family member of the director is a current partner of the Company’s internal or external auditor; the director is a current employee of the Company’s external auditing firm; the director has an immediate family member who is a current employee of the Company’s external auditing firm and who participates in the firm’s audit, assurance or tax compliance (but not tax planning) practice; or the director or an immediate family member of the director is, or has been within the last three years, a partner or employee of the Company’s external auditing firm and personally worked on the Company’s audit within that time.

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• The director or an immediate family member of the director is, or has been within the last three years, employed as an executive officer of another company where any of the Company’s present executive officers serve or served at the same time on that other company’s compensation committee.

• The director is a current employee, or an immediate family member of the director is a current executive officer, of a company that has made payments to or received payments from the Company 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.

The Board also has established the following categorical standards to assist it in determining director independence in accordance with the NYSE rules:

• Stock Ownership. Ownership of stock in the Company by a director or a director’s immediate