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There is an option to allow exactly what you're looking for. In fact it's one I ALWAYS have set. From the docs:

die_on_bad_params - if set to 0 the module will let you call $template->param(param_name => 'value') even if 'param_name' doesn't exist in the template body. Defaults to 1.

Change your constructor to 

$tmpl = HTML::Template->new('filename' => $TEMPLATE,
                            'die_on_bad_params' => 0
                           );

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And you'll be good to go.

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