Item P

Synthesis of
Operating Vacation Agreement
Revised November 15, 1982
By The

UTU - R&S Department
This is intended as a guide and is not to be construed as
constituting a separate Agreement between the parties.)

Originally Prepared November 2, 1967, By Section 10 Committee Of The

April 29, 1949 Operating Vacation Agreement, As Amended By Various

National Agreements Up To And Including October 15, 1982.

Furnished For Your Information And Convenience By

President
United Transportation Union

Synthesis

of
OPERATING VACATION AGREEMENTS

The following represents a synthesis in one document for the convenience
of the parties, of the National Vacation Agreement of April 29, 1949,. between
certain carriers represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee
and their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and
the United Transportation Union (formerly the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire-
men and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen and Switchmen's Union of North America), and the several
amendments made thereto in various national agreements up to October 15,
1982:*

This is intended as a guide and is not to be construed as constituting a
separate agreement between the parties. If any dispute arises as to the
proper interpretation or application of any vacation provision, the terms of
the appropriate vacation agreement shall govern.

Section 1 (a) - Effective January 1, 1982, each employee, subject to the scope
of schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29,
1949 Vacation Agreement, will be qualified for an annual vacation of one week
with pay, or pay in lieu thereof, if during the preceding calendar year the
employee renders service under schedule agreements held by the organizations
signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement amounting to one hundred
sixty (160) basic days in miles or hours paid for, as provided in individual
schedules.

Beginning with the effective date of the provisions of Article
3 of Agreement "A" dated September 21, 1950, May 25, 1951 or May 23, 1952, on
an individual carrier, but not earlier than the year 1960, in the application
of this Section l(a) each basic day in yard service performed by a yard
service employee or by an employee having interchangeable road and yard rights
shall be computed as 1.3 days, and each basic day in all other services shall
be computed as 1.1 days, for purposes of determining qualifications for vaca-
tions. (This is the equivalent of 120 qualifying days in a calendar year in
yard service and 144 qualifying days in a calendar year in road service.) (See
NOTE below.)

Beginning with the year 1960 on all other carriers, in the
application of this Section l(a) each basic day in all classes of service
shall be computed as 1.1 days for purposes of determining qualifications for
vacation. (This is the equivalent of 144 qualifying days.) (See NOTE below.)

*Agreenent of 9/28/32 with the BLE

*Agreement of 10/15/82 with the UTU

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(b) - Effective January 1, 1982, ea,ch employee, subject to the scope
of schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29,
1949 Vacation Agreement, having two or more years of continuous service with
employing carrier will be qualified for an annual vacation of two weeks with
pay, or pay in lieu thereof, if during the preceding calendar year the em-
ployee renders service under schedule agreements held by the. organizations
signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement amounting to one hundred
sixty (160) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided 1n Individual
schedules and during the said two or more years of continuous service renders
service of not less than three hundred twenty (320) basic days in miles or
hours paid for as provided in individual schedules.

Beginning with the effective date of the provisions of Article
3 of Agreement "A" dated September 21, 1950, May 25, 1951, or May 23, 1952, on
an individual carrier, but not earlier than the year 1960, in the application
of this Section l(b) each basic day in yard service performed by a yard ser-
vice employee or by an employee having interchangeable road and yard rights
shall be computed as 1.4 days, and each basic day in all other services shall
be computed as 1.2 days, for purposes of determining qualifications for vaca-
tions. (This is the equivalent of 110 qualifying days in a calendar year in
yard service and 132 qualifying days in a calendar year in road service.) (See
NOTE below.)

Beginning with the year 1960 on all other carriers, in the
application of this Section l(b) each basic day in all classes of service
shall be computed as 1.2 days for purposes of determining qualifications for
vacation. (This is the equivalent of 132 qualifying days.) (See NOTE below.)

(e) - Effective January 1, 1982, each employee, subject to the scope
of schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29,
1949 Vacation Agreement, having eight or more years of continuous service with
employing carrier will be qualified for an annual vacation of three weeks with
pay, or pay in lieu thereof, if during the preceding calendar year the em-
ployee renders service under schedule agreements held by the organizations
signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement amounting to one hundred
sixty (160) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual
schedules and during the said eight or more years of continuous service ren-
ders service of not less than one thousand two hundred and eighty (1280) basic
days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual schedules.

Beginning with the effective date of the provisions of Article
3 of Agreement "A" dated September 21, 1950, May 25, 1951 or May 23, 1952, on
an individual carrier, but not earlier than the year 1960, in the application
of this Section l(c) each basic day in yard service performed by a yard ser-
vice employee or by an employee having interchangeable road and yard rights
shall be computed as 1.6 days, and each basic day in all other services shall
be computed as 1.3 days, for purposes of determining qualifications for vaca-
tions. (This is the equivalent of 100 qualifying days in a calendar year in
yard service and 120 qualifying days in a calendar year in road service.)
(See NOTE below.)

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Beginning with the year 1960 on all other carriers, in the
application of this Section l{c) each basic day in all classes of service
shall be computed as 1.3 days for purposes of determining qualifications for
vacation. (This is the equivalent of 120 qualifying days.) (See NOTE below.)

(d) - Effective January 1, 1982, each employee, subject to the scope
of schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the ' April 29,
1949 Vacation Agreement, having seventeen or more years of continuous service
with employing carrier will be qualified for an annual vacation of four weeks
with pay, or pay in lieu thereof, if during the preceding calendar year the
employee renders service under schedule agreements held by the organizations
signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement amounting to one hundred
sixty (160) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual
schedules and during the said seventeen or more years of continuous service
renders service of not less than two thousand seven hundred and twenty (2720)
basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individual schedules.

Beginning with the effective date of the provisions of Article
3 of Agreement "A" dated September 21, 1950, May 25, 1951 or May 23, 1952, on
an individual carrier, but not earlier than the year 1960, in the application
of this Section l(d) each basic day in yard service performed by a yard ser-
vice employee or by an employee having interchangeable road and yard rights
shall be computed as 1.6 days, and each basic day in all other services shall
be computed as 1.3 days, for purposes of determining qualifications for vaca-
tions. (This is the equivalent of 100 qualifying days in a calendar year in
yard service and 120 qualifying days in a calendar year in road service.)
(Sec NOTE below.)

Beginning with the year 1960 on all other carriers, in the
application of this Section l(d) each basic day in all classes of service
shall be computed as 1.3 days for purposes of determining qualifications for
vacation. (This is the equivalent of 120 qualifying days.) (See NOTE below.)

(e) - Effective January 1, 1982, each employee, subject to the scope
of schedule agreements held by the organizations signatory to the April 29,
1949 Vacation Agreement, having twenty five or more years of continuous ser-
vice with employing carrier will be qualified for an annual vacation of five
weeks with pay, or pay in lieu thereof, if during the preceding calendar year
the employee renders service under schedule agreements held by the organiza-
tions signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement amounting to one hun-
dred sixty (160) basic days in miles or hours paid for as provided in individ-
ual schedules and during the said twenty five or more years of continuous ser-
vice renders service of not less than four thousand (4,000) basic days in
miles or hours paid for as provided in individual schedules.

Beginning with the effective date of the provisions of Article
3 of Agreement "A" dated September 21, 1950, May 25, 1951 or May 23, 1952, on
an individual carrier, but not earlier than the year 1960, in the application
of this Section l(e) each basic day in yard service performed by a yard ser-
vice employee or by an employee having interchangeable road and yard rights
shall be computed as 1.6 days, and each basic day in all other services shall
be computed as 1.3 days, for purposes of determining qualifications for vaca-

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tions. (This is the equivalent of 100 qualifying days in a calendar year in
yard service and 120 qualifying days in a calendar year in road service.)
(See NOTE below.)

Beginning with the year 1960 on all other carriers, in the
application of this Section l(e) each basic day in all classes of service
shall be computed as 1.3 days for purposes of determining qualifications for
vacation. (This is the equivalent of 120 qualifying days.) (See NOTE below.)

NOTE: In the application of Section l(a), (b),
(e), (d) and (e), qualifying years accumulated,
also qualifying requirements for years accumu-
lated, prior to the effective date of the respec-
tive provisions hereof, for extended vacations
shall not be changed.

(f) - In dining car service, for service performed on and after
July 1, 1949 each 1% hours paid for shall be considered the equivalent of one
basic day in the application of Section 1 (a), (b), (e), (d) and (e).

(g) - Calendar days on which an employee assigned to an extra list
is available for service and on which days he performs no service, not exceed-
ing sixty (60) such days, will be included in the determination of qualifica-
tion for vacation; also, calendar days, not in excess of thirty (30), on which
an employee is absent from and unable to perform service because of injury
received on duty will be included.

The 60 and 30 calendar days referred to in this Section l(g)
shall not be subject to the 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6 computations provided
for in Section l(a), (b), (e), (d) and (e), respectively.

(h) - Where an employee is discharged from service and thereafter
restored to service during the same calendar year with seniority unimpaired,
service performed prior to discharge and subsequent to reinstatement during
that year shall be included in the determination of qualification for vacation
during the following year.

Where an employee is discharged from service and thereafter
restored to service with seniority unimpaired, service before and after such
discharge and restoration shall be included in computing three hundred twenty
(320) basic days under Section l(b), one thousand two hundred and eighty
(1280) basic days under Section l(c), two thousand seven hundred and twenty
(2720) basic days under Section l(d), and four thousand (4,000) basic days
under Section l(e).

(i) - Only service performed on one railroad may be combined in de-
termining the qualifications provided for in this Section 1, except that ser-
vice of an employee on his home road may be combined with service performed
on other roads when the latter service is performed at the direction of the
management of his home road or by virtue of the employee's seniority on his
home road. Such service will not operate to relieve the home road of its re-
sponsibility under this agreement.

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(j) - In instances where employees who have become members of the
Armed Forces of the United States return to 'the service of the employing car-
rier in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, as
amended, the time spent by such employees in the Armed Forces subsequent to
their employment by the employing carrier will be credited as qualifying ser-
vice in determining the length of vacations for which they may qualify upon
their return to the service of the employing carrier,

(k) - In instances where an employee who has become a member of the
Armed Forces of the United States returns to the service of the employing car-
rier in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, as
amended, and in the calendar year preceding his return to railroad service had
rendered no compensated service or had rendered compensated service on fewer
days than are required to qualify for a vacation in the calendar year of his
return to railroad service, but could qualify for a vacation in the calendar
year of his return to railroad service if he had combined for qualifying pur-
poses days on which he was in railroad service in such preceding calendar year
with days in such year on which he was in the Armed Forces, he will be.
granted, in the calendar year of his return to railroad service, a vacation of
such length as he could so qualify for under Section l(a), (b), (e), (d) or
(e) and (j) hereof.

(1) - In instances where an employee who has become a member of the
Armed Forces of the United States returns to the service of the employing car-
rier in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act of 1967, as
amended, and in the calendar year of his return to railroad service renders
compensated service on fewer days than are required to qualify for a vacation
in the following calendar year, but could qualify for a vacation in such fol-
lowing calendar year if he had combined for qualifying purposes days on which
he was in railroad service in the year of his return with days in such year on
which he was in the Armed Forces, he will be granted, in such following cal-
endar year, a vacation of such length as he could so qualify for under Section
1 (a), (b), (e), (d) or (e) and (j) hereof.

Section 2 Employees qualified under Section 1 hereof shall be paid for
their vacations as follows:

General

(a) - An employee receiving a vacation, or pay in lieu thereof, un-
der Section 1 shall be paid for each week of such vacation 1/52 of the compen-
sation earned by such employee under schedule agreements held by the organiza-
tions signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement, on the carrier on
which he qualified under Section 1 (or carriers in case he qualified on more
than one carrier under Section l(i)) during the calendar year preceding the
year in which the vacation is taken, but in no event shall such pay for each
week of vacation be less than six (6) minimum basic days' pay at the rate of
the last service rendered, except as provided in subparagraph (b).

(b) - Beginning on the date Agreement "A" dated September 21, 1950,
May 25, 1951 or May 23, 1952, became or becomes effective on any carrier, the
following shall apply insofar as yard service employees and employees having
interchangeable yard and road rights covered by said agreement are concerned:

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Yard Service

(1) An employee receiving a vacation, or pay
in lieu thereof, under Section 1 shall be paid
for each week of such vacation 1/52 of the com-
pensation earned by such employee under schedule
agreements held by the organizations signatory
to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement, on the
carrier on which he qualified under Section 1
(or carriers in case he qualified on more than
one carrier under Section l(i)) during the cal-
endar year preceding the year in which the vaca-
tion is taken, but in no event shall such pay
for each week of vacation be less than five (5)
minimum basic days' pay at the rate of the last
service rendered.

Combination of Yard and Road Service

(2) An employee having interchangeable yard
and road rights receiving a vacation, or pay in
lieu thereof, under Section 1 shall be paid for
each week of such vacation 1/52 of the compensa-
tion earned by such employee under schedule
agreements held by the organizations signatory
to the April 29, 1949 Vacation Agreement, on the
carrier on which he qualified under Section 1
(or carriers in case he qualified on more than
one carrier under Section l(i)) during the calen-
dar year preceding the year in which the vaca-
tion is taken; provided that, if the vacation is
taken during the time such employee is working
in road service such pay for each week of vaca-
tion shall be not less than six (6) minimum
basic days' pay at the rate of the last road
service rendered, and if the vacation is taken
during the time such employee is working in yard
service such pay for each week of vacation shall
not be less than five (5) minimum basic days'
pay at the rate of the last yard service ren-
dered.

NOTE Section 2(b) applicable to yard service
shall apply to yard, belt line and transfer ser-
vice and combinations thereof, and to hostling
service.

Section 3 Vacations, or allowances therefor, under two or more schedules
held by different organizations on the same carrier shall not be combined to
create a vacation of more than the maximum number of days provided for in any
of such schedules.

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Section 4 Time off on account of vacation will not be considered as time

off account employee's own accord under any guarantee rules and will not be

considered as breaking such guarantees.

Section 5 The absence of an employee on vacation with pay, as provided
in this agreement, will not be considered as a vacancy, temporary, or other-
wise, in applying the bulletin rules of schedule agreements.

Section 6 Vacations shall be taken between January 1st and December
31st; however, it is recognized that the exigencies of the service create prac-
tical difficulties in providing vacations in all instances. Due regard, con-
sistent with requirements of the service, shall be given to the preference of
the employee in his seniority order in the class of service in which engaged
when granting vacations. Representatives of the carriers and of the employees
will cooperate in arranging vacation periods, administering vacations and re-
leasing employees when requirements of the service will permit. It is under-
stood and agreed that vacationing employees will be paid their vacation allow-
ances by the carriers as soon as possible after the vacation period but the
parties recognize that there may be some delay in such payments. It is under-
stood that in any event such employee will be paid his vacation allowance no
later than the second succeeding payroll period following the date claim for
vacation allowance is filed.

Section 7 (a) - Vacations shall not be accumulated or carried over from one
vacation year to another. However, to avoid loss of time by the employee at
end of his vacation period, the number of vacation days at the request of the
employee may be reduced in one year and adjusted in the next year.

(b) - After the vacation begins layover days during the vacation
period shall be counted as a part of the vacation.

Section 8 The vacation provided for in this Agreement shall be consid-
ered to have been earned when the employee has qualified under Section 1
hereof. If an employee's employment status is terminated for any reason what-
soever, including but not limited to retirement, resignation, discharge, non-
compliance with a union shop agreement, or failure to return after furlough,
he shall, at the time of such termination, be granted full vacation pay earned
up to the time he leaves the service, including pay for vacation earned in the
preceding year or years and not yet granted, and the vacation for the succeed-
ing year if the employee has qualified therefor under Section 1. If an em-
ployee thus entitled to vacation or vacation pay shall die, the vacation pay
earned and not received shall be paid to such beneficiary as may have been
designated, or, in the absence of such designation, the surviving spouse or
children or his estate, in that order of preference.

Section 9 The terms of this agreement shall not be construed to deprive
any employee of such additional vacation days as he may be entitled to receive
under any existing rule, understanding or custom, which additional vacation
days shall be accorded under and in accordance with the terms of such existing
rule, understanding or custom.

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Beginning on the date Agreement "A" dated September 21, 1950,
May 25, 1951, or May 23, 1952, became or becomes effective on any carrier,
such additional vacation days shall be reduced by l/6th with respect to yard
service employees, and with respect to any yard service employee having inter-
changeable yard and road rights who receives a vacation in yard service.

Section 10 Any dispute or controversy arising out of the interpretation
or application of any of the provisions of this agreement will be handled on
the property in the same manner as other disputes. If the dispute or contro-
versy is not settled on the property and either the carrier or the organiza-
tion desires that the dispute or controversy be handled further, it shall be
referred by either party for decision to a committee, the carrier members of
which shall be five members of the Carriers' Conference Committees signatory
hereto, or their successors; and the employee members of which shall be the
chief executives of the five organizations signatory hereto, or their repre-
sentatives or successors. It is agreed that the Committee herein provided
will meet between January 1 and June 30 and July 1 and December 31 of each
year if any disputes or controversies have been filed for consideration. In
event of failure to reach agreement the dispute or controversy shall be arbi-
trated in accordance with the Railway Labor Act, as amended, the arbitration
being handled by such Committee. Interpretation or application agreed upon by
such Committee, or fixed by such arbitration, shall be final and binding as an
interpretation or application of this agreement.

Section 11 This vacation agreement shall be construed as a separate agree-
ment by and on behalf of each carrier party hereto, and its railroad employees
represented by the respective organizations signatory hereto, and effective
July 1, 1949 supersedes the Consolidated Uniform Vacation Agreement dated
June 6, 1945, insofar as said agreement applies to and defines the rights and
obligations of the carriers parties to this agreement and the employees of
such carriers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the
United Transportation Union.

Section 12 This vacation agreement shall continue in effect until changed
or modified in accordance with provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as
amended.

Section 13 This agreement is subject to approval of courts with respect
to carriers in hands of receivers or trustees.

Section 14 The parties hereto having in mind conditions which exist or
may arise on individual carriers in making provisions for vacations with pay,
agree that the duly authorized representative (General Chairman) of the em-
ployees, party to this agreement, and the officer designated by the carrier,
may enter into additional written understandings to implement the purposes of
this agreement, provided that such understandings shall not be inconsistent
with this agreement.

SIGNATURES OMITTED

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MEMORANDUM

Chicago, Illinois, April 29, 1949

Referring to agreement, signed this date, between employees repre-
sented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, and the Switchmen's Union of North America, and Carriers represented
by the Eastern, Western and Southeastern Carriers' Conference Committees, with
respect to vacations with pay:

In computing basic days in miles or hours paid for, as provided in
Section 1 of said agreement, the parties agree that the following interpreta-
tions shall apply:

1. A trainman in passenger service, on a trip of 300 miles, upon
which no overtime or other allowances accrue, will be credited
with two basic days.

2. An employee in freight service on a run of 125 miles, upon which
no overtime or other allowances accrue, will be credited with
1-1/4 basic days.

3. An employee in freight service on a run of 125 miles, with a
total time on duty of 14 hours on the trip, will be credited with

1-3/4 basic days.

4. An employee in yard service working 12 hours will be credited
with 1-1/2 basic days.

5. An employee in freight service, run-around and paid 50 miles for
same, will be credited with 1/2 basic day.

6. An employee in freight service, called and released and paid 50
miles for same, will be credited with 1/2 basic day.

7. An employee in freight service, paid no overtime or other allow-
ances, working as follows:

1st trip, 150 miles

2nd trip, 140 miles

3rd trip, 120 miles

4th trip, 150 miles

5th trip, 140 miles

TOTAL 700 miles

will be credited with seven basic days.

8. An employee in freight service makes trip of 80 miles in 8 hours
or less, for which he is paid 100 miles, will be credited with 1
basic day.

9. An engineman in passenger service makes a trip of 100 miles or less in 5 hours, will be credited with 1 basic day.

10. An engineman in short-turn-around passenger service, makes a trip of 100 miles or less, on duty eight hours within a spread of nine hours, will be credited with 1 basic day.

11. A trainman in short-turn-around passenger service, makes a trip of 150 miles or less, on duty eight hours within a spread of nine hours, will be credited with 1 basic day.

12. A trainman in short-turn-around passenger service, makes a trip
of 150 miles or less, total spread of time 10 hours, on duty eight hours within the first nine hours, will be credited with 1-1/8 basic days.

13. An employee in freight service, deadheading is paid 50 miles for
same, will be .credited with 1/2 basic day.

14. An employee is paid eight hours under the held-away-from-home
terminal rule, will be credited with 1 basic day.

15. An employee is allowed one hour as arbitrary allowance, will be
credited with 1/8 basic day.

S/ A. Johnston_

Grand Chief Engineer
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

_______S/ P. P. Loomis_______

Chairman
Western Carriers' Conference Committee

S/ C. J. Goff

Asst. President

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Enginemen

_____S/ H. A. Enochs by S. M. F.
————————Chairman

Eastern Carriers' Conference Conmittee

S/ R. 0. Huahes by J. P.

Vice President
Order of Railway Conductors

_____• S/ A. F Hhitney______

President
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

S/ T. H. Benton

Chai man

Southeastern Carriers' Conference Com-
mittee

S/ A. J. Glover

Intl. President
Switchmen's Union of North America

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ATTACHMENT 1

INTERPRETATION OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 1 OF VACATION AGREEMENT

In the granting of vacations subject to agreements held by the five
operating organizations, service rendered for the carrier will be counted in
establishing five or fifteen or more years of continuous service, as the case
may be, where the employee transferred in service to a position subject to an
agreement held by an organization signatory to the April 29, 1949 Vacation
Agreement, provided there was no break in the employee's service as a result
of the transfer from a class of service not covered by an agreement held by an
organization signatory to the April 29, 1949 Agreement. This understanding
will apply only where there was a transfer of service.

This understanding will apply commencing with the year 1956 but will
also be applicable to claims of record properly filed with the carrier on or
after January 1, 1955, for 1955 vacations and on file with the carrier at the
date of this understanding. No other claims for 1955 based on continuous ser-
vice will be paid. Standby agreements will be applied according to their
terms and conditions for the year 1955.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 18th day of January, 1956.

CARRIER MEMBERS EMPLOYEE MEMBERS
SECTION 10 COMMITTEE SECTION 10 COMMITTEE

S/ Frank J. Goebel

S/ L. W.Horning

S/ P. P. Loomis

S/ E. H. Mailman

S/ F. K. Day, Jr.

s/	R.	E.	Davidson
s/	S.	C.	Phillips
s/	J.	A.	Paddock
s/	s.	Vander Hei
s/	e.	E.	McDaniels

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