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LOBBYING REPORT |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (Section 5) - All Filers Are Required to Complete This Page
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Address1 | 1775 Eye St, NW |
Address2 | Suite 1100 |
City | WASHINGTON |
State | DC |
Zip Code | 20006 |
Country | USA |
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TYPE OF REPORT | 8. Year | 2022 |
Q1 (1/1 - 3/31) | Q2 (4/1 - 6/30) | Q3 (7/1 - 9/30) | Q4 (10/1 - 12/31) |
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Provide a good faith estimate, rounded to the nearest $10,000, of all lobbying related income for the client (including all payments to the registrant by any other entity for lobbying activities on behalf of the client). | 14. REPORTING Check box to indicate expense accounting method. See instructions for description of options. | ||||||||
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Reporting amounts using LDA definitions only
Method B. Reporting amounts under section 6033(b)(8) of the Internal Revenue Code Method C. Reporting amounts under section 162(e) of the Internal Revenue Code |
Signature | Digitally Signed By: Cynthia Chetti |
Date | 7/19/2022 1:01:31 PM |
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENG
16. Specific lobbying issues
Building Codes / Building Efficiency Standards
HVAC Efficiency Standards
Building performance disclosure
H.R. 1512-To build a clean and prosperous future by addressing the climate crisis, protecting the health and welfare of all Americans, and putting the Nation on the path to net-zero greenhouse has economy by 2050, and for other purposes. Title III- Efficiency
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Energy - Dept of, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code ENV
16. Specific lobbying issues
Building Codes / Resiliency
Lead hazards in housing
Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule
H.R. 8713 (116th) Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act to amend the Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act to provide additional procedures for families with children under the age of 6. and for other purposes.
S. 2746, Keep Children and Families Safe from Lead Hazard Act
HUD radon testing protocols
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
First Name | Last Name | Suffix | Covered Official Position (if applicable) | New |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code HOU
16. Specific lobbying issues
Housing Affordability
Biden Housing Supply Action Plan.
Balanced Housing Policy Issues
Proposals to expand the availability of affordable and workforce housing
Rent Control
Barriers to Housing Development, Housing Affordability and Infrastructure Issues: Promoted policy that reinvests in the nations infrastructure and drives new investment in housing by eliminating barriers to development, reducing the cost of regulations and incentivizing apartment construction.
General Rural Housing/U.S. Department of Agriculture
Public policies affecting consumer reporting, resident screening (both financial and criminal) and consumer debt collection.
Public policies surrounding the use of rent payment history in consumer reporting
COVID-19-Related Housing Issues (Rental Assistance, Housing Development/Construction/Materials, Displacement and Eviction Moratoriums, Liability, Fair Housing, Debt Collection, Resident Screening and Reporting)
Housing Stability and Eviction
Fair Housing (Fair Housing Act, Disparate Impact Rule, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule, Screening and Reporting)
United States Treasury Implementation/Reallocation of Emergency Rental Assistance Programs created in: PL 117-2/H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. I. PL 116-260/''Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and. Economic Security Act'' or the ''CARES Act''
Legislation
Section 8 voucher program updates/improvements
H.R 6880/ S 1820: Choice in Affordable Housing Act 2022- all provisions
Signed a joint industry advocacy letter to the House Financial Services Committee in support of H.R. 3880 being included in the Committee markup schedule. (June 2022)
H.R. _The Housing Inspections Accountability Act of 2022 - Reviewed DRAFT legislation
H.R. 7981, the Public Federally Assisted Housing Fire Safety Act of 2022
Section 2, Smoke Alarms in Federally Assisted Housing
H.R. 6528, the Housing Temperature Safety Act of 2022 - Reviewed legislation
H.R.6529 - To require owners of a covered federally assisted rental dwelling units to install self-closing doors in such units, and for other purposes.
Section 2. Self-Closing Doors, (b) Certification
H.R. 5828, the Pets Belong with Families Act - Section 2. Prohibition on Breed Restrictions
H.R. 3198 and S. 1614 Yes in My Backyard (YIMBY) Act
Housing Supply and Affordability Act
Housing Development and Construction (Zoning and Land Use Practices, Affordability)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
NMHC participated/cosponsored HUDs Innovative Housing Showcase (June 2022)
Community Development Block Grants (CDBG)
HOME
Project-Based Voucher Programs
Section 8 Source of Income Issues
HUD Regulatory Reform Issues
Fair Market Rents (FMRs) & Small Area Fair Market Rents (SAFMRs)
Rental Assistance Demonstration Program (RAD)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
FY 22 Funding -
Initiatives Related to Housing
Bureau of Labor Statistics funding
Census Bureau Funding
HUD Housing Program Funding - Section 8 Programs
FY 2023 Funding/Appropriations
Bureau of Labor Statistics Funding
Census Bureau Funding
HUD Housing Program Funding - Section 8 Programs
Rural Housing Program Funding - Department of Agriculture
Signed a joint industry advocacy letter to the House and Senate Appropriators in support of (FY) 2023 funding and policy provisions that support and strengthen the effectiveness of the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program. (June 2022)
Emergency Rental Assistance Implementation/Reallocation and federal eviction moratorium issues
NMHC participated in the White House stakeholder listening session on renters rights and responsibilities. (June 2022)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Treasury - Dept of, Government Accountability Office (GAO), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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Donnelly |
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Borsos |
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Julianne |
Goodfellow |
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
LOBBYING ACTIVITY. Select as many codes as necessary to reflect the general issue areas in which the registrant engaged in lobbying on behalf of the client during the reporting period. Using a separate page for each code, provide information as requested. Add additional page(s) as needed.
15. General issue area code FIN
16. Specific lobbying issues
Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 12 CFR Part 25, Docket ID OCC-2022-0002, RIN 1557-AF15; Federal Reserve System, 12 CFR Part 228, Regulation BB, Docket No. R-1769, RIN 7100-AG29; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 12 CFR Part 345, RIN 3064-AF81, Community Reinvestment Act
Access to capital related to FHFA conservatorship of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
Biden Administration steps to increase affordable housing supply announced September 1, 2021, provisions impacting multifamily housing (i.e., Relaunching the Federal Financing Bank and HUD Risk Sharing Program, Increasing Fannie Mae and Freddie Macs Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Investment Cap, and Making Funding Available for Affordable Housing Production Under the Capital Magnet Fund).
President Biden Announces New Actions to Ease the Burden of Housing Costs (announced May 15, 2022), proposals to increase the supply of multifamily housing.
Fannie Mae multifamily pilot program to expand the number of landlords that accept Housing Choice Vouchers.
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, 12 CFR Part 1002, Docket No. CFPB-2021-0015, RIN 3170-AA09, Small Business Lending Data Collection Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (Regulation B).
Securities and Exchange Commission, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, Proposed Rule, 17 CFR 210, 229, 232, 239, and 249, RIN 3235-AM87.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Treasury - Dept of, Federal Reserve System, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Small Business Administration (SBA), Executive Office of the President (EOP), Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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15. General issue area code CAW
16. Specific lobbying issues
Safe drinking water including revisions to the Lead and Copper Rule
S. 914, the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize programs under those Acts, and for other purposes.
Navigable Water Protection Rule-issues related to rescinding and replacing rule
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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15. General issue area code TAX
16. Specific lobbying issues
Reconciliation Legislation
H.R. 5376 Build Back Better Act,
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and Middle-Income Housing Tax Credit
Support making permanent and augmenting by an additional 50 percent the increased Low-Income Housing Tax Credit authority enacted in March 2018 to enable the production of new units.
Support establishment of Middle-Income Housing Tax Credit to spur production of multifamily units serving middle-income families.
H.R. 2573 / S. 1136, Affordable Housing Credit Improvement Act of 2021, to reform the low-income housing credit, and for other purposes, all provisions.
S. 2820, Decent, Affordable, Safe Housing for All Act (DASH Act), to provide rental housing vouchers for the homeless, and for other purposes,
H.R. 7078, LIHTC Financing Enabling Long-term Investment in Neighborhood Excellence (LIFELINE) Act, to amend title VI of the Social Security Act to allow coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds to be used for low-income housing credit projects, all provisions.
S. 4181, LIHTC Financing Enabling Long-term Investment in Neighborhood Excellence (LIFELINE) Act, to amend title VI of the Social Security Act to allow coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds to be used for low-income housing credit projects, all provisions.
Monitored possible issuance of final rule on Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Average Income Test: Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, 26 CFR Part 1, REG-119890-18, RIN 1454 BO92, Section 42, Low-Income Housing Credit Average Income Test Regulations.
Signed letter of trade associations (sent April 5, 2022) to Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen requesting that the Treasury Department preserve the value of community development tax incentives, including the Low-Income Tax Credit, as the OECD moves forward on Pillar 2 rules establishing a global minimum tax.
Monitored mitigation of potential negative impact OECD Pillar 2 of global minimum tax on Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
Biden Administration Tax Proposals
General Explanations of the Administration's Fiscal Year 2023 Revenue Proposals: Allow selective basis boosts for bond-financed low-income housing tax credit projects; increase the top marginal income tax rate for high earners; reform the taxation of capital income; impose a minimum tax on the wealthiest taxpayers, tax carried (profits) interests as ordinary income; repeal deferral of gain from like-kind exchanges; and require 100 percent depreciation recapture of depreciation deductions as ordinary income for certain depreciable property.
President Biden Announces New Actions to Ease the Burden of Housing Costs (announced May 15, 2022), proposals to increase the supply of multifamily housing.
Taxation of Business and Capital Income, Estates, and FIRPTA
Like-kind exchanges: Support retaining current law.
Capital Gains - Oppose doubling the long-term capital gains tax rate and support current-law capital gains tax rates.
Carried interest: NMHC believes that carried interest should be treated as a long-term capital gain if the underlying asset is held for at least one year.
Stepped-Up Basis at Death and Taxation of Unrealized Capital Gains at Death: Support retaining current law providing for stepped-up basis at death and taxation of capital gains upon actual sale.
Business Interest Deductibility: Support full deductibility of business interest for multifamily industry.
Section 199A Pass-Through Deduction: Support 199A pass-through deduction.
Estate Tax: Support making permanent the Estate Tax rules enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA): Support repealing FIRPTA to promote investment in U.S. multifamily industry.
Extension of Expiring Tax Provisions
NMHC supports extending the 12.5 increase in LIHTC credit authority available in 2018-2021. NMHC also supports extending the New Energy Home Credit (IRC 45L).
Opportunity Zones
Support reducing the basis increase necessary to qualify a multifamily rehabilitation project for Opportunity Zone purposes.
H.R. 7467 and S. 4065, Opportunity Zones Transparency, Extension, and Improvement Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the rules relating to qualified opportunity zones, and for other purposes, all provisions.
Adaptive Reuse
Federal tax policies impacting the conversion of property (e.g, conversion of office buildings into housing)
H.R. 4759, Revitalizing Downtowns Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an investment credit for the conversion of office buildings into other uses, all provisions. Also, analyzed proposals to expand bill to enable commercial property types other than office buildings to be converted, as well as to allow REITs to benefit from the incentive
S. 2511, Revitalizing Downtowns Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an investment credit for the conversion of office buildings into other uses, all provisions. Also, analyzed proposals to expand bill to enable commercial property types other than office buildings to be converted, as well as to allow REITs to benefit from the incentive
Tax Depreciation
H.R. 7229, Renewing Investment in American Workers and Supply Chains Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the depreciation of nonresidential real property and residential rental property, all provisions.
S. 4012, Renewing Investment in American Workers and Supply Chains Act, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the depreciation of nonresidential real property and residential rental property, all provisions.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Treasury - Dept of, Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
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15. General issue area code IMM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Immigration reforms related to multifamily industry labor shortages
Reauthorization of the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Treasury - Dept of, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)
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15. General issue area code TEC
16. Specific lobbying issues
Broadband deployment, maintenance, access and adoption issues at multifamily communities. Federal policies impacting availability and reliability of voice, video and data services to multifamily housing communities, including but not limited to inside wiring, broadband and cellular services.
FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making and Declaratory Ruling: Improving Competitive Broadband Access to Multiple Tenant Environments (GN Docket No. 17-142)
PL 117-58/H.R. 3684, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, provisions related to the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program and the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP)
FCC Notice of Inquiry on Implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Prevention and Elimination of Digital Discrimination (GN Docket No. 22-69)
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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15. General issue area code CPT
16. Specific lobbying issues
Federal policies on patent enforcement and litigation impacting the multifamily industry.
Federal policies surrounding music copyright law and licensing.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Justice - Dept of (DOJ)
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15. General issue area code POS
16. Specific lobbying issues
Federal policies affecting mail and parcel delivery service to multifamily housing communities.
HR 3076 The Postal Service Reform Act
S 1720 The Postal Service Reform Act
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
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15. General issue area code HOM
16. Specific lobbying issues
Federal policies affecting data security, breach notification and privacy policies affecting owners, developers, managers and suppliers of the multifamily industry.
Public policies affecting risk management for flood, terrorism, disaster, cyber pandemic, and other areas of risk faced by multifamily firms.
S.2499 Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability (SAFE DATA) Act
S.1494 - Consumer Data Privacy and Security Act of 2021
H.R. 8152 The American Data Privacy and Protection Act
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)
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15. General issue area code INS
16. Specific lobbying issues
Public policies affecting risk management for flood, terrorism, disaster, cyber, business interruption, liability, builders risk, workers compensation, pandemic and other lines of insurance utilized by multifamily firms.
National Flood Insurance Program policies, guidance, and requirements affecting existing and future multifamily and single-family properties.
Reauthorization and reform of the National Flood Insurance Program.
FEMAs Risk Rating 2.0 program
Cost of insurance for the multifamily industry.
H.R. 5823, the Pandemic Risk Insurance Act of 2021
Draft Legislation: The National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2022
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS)
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15. General issue area code DEF
16. Specific lobbying issues
National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023 (Personnel, Housing)
Military Housing Privatization Initiative / Basic Allowance for Housing
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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15. General issue area code LBR
16. Specific lobbying issues
S. 3941, Housing Supply Expansion Act, to amend subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code, regarding prevalent wage determinations in order to expand access to affordable housing, and for other purposes, all provisions.
Potential Department of Labor Notice of Proposed Rulemaking impacting the exemption of bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees from the Fair Labor Standards Acts minimum wage and overtime requirements.
Signed letter of trade associations to Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh requesting the U.S. Department of Labor abandon or postpone the issuance of an anticipated Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the exemption of bona fide executive, administrative, and professional employees from the Fair Labor Standards Acts minimum wage and overtime requirements.
Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Updating the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts Regulations, 29 CFR 1, 3, and 5, RIN 1235-AA40, WHD-2022-0001- co-authored joint trade association comment letter
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Labor - Dept of (DOL)
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15. General issue area code MAN
16. Specific lobbying issues
H.R. 4521, United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, provisions being debated in conference between House and Senate pertaining to supply chains for products used by multifamily industry and availability of semiconductors for products used by multifamily industry.
17. House(s) of Congress and Federal agencies Check if None
U.S. SENATE, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
18. Name of each individual who acted as a lobbyist in this issue area
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19. Interest of each foreign entity in the specific issues listed on line 16 above Check if None
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LOBBYIST UPDATE
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ISSUE UPDATE
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AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS
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FOREIGN ENTITIES
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28. Name of each previously reported foreign entity that no longer owns, or controls, or is affiliated with the registrant, client or affiliated organization
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CONVICTIONS DISCLOSURE
29. Have any of the lobbyists listed on this report been convicted in a Federal or State Court of an offense involving bribery,
extortion, embezzlement, an illegal kickback, tax evasion, fraud, a conflict of interest, making a false statement, perjury, or money laundering?
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