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("Washington Effective Date"). Within the later of forty-five (45) days after the Washington Effective Date or December 31, 2022, each Settling Distributor will certify to the State that all medical claims data provided to it during the litigation (including Medicaid, PMP, LNI claims, and PEBB data) has been destroyed by the party and its agents, including all retained experts. ilI. Participation by Subdivisions A. Notice. The Office of the State of Washington Attorney General in consultation with the Settling Distributors shall send individual notice of the opportunity to participate in this Agreement and the requirements for participation to all Subdivisions eligible to participate who have not returned an executed Subdivision Settlement Participation Form within fifteen (15) days of the execution of this Agreement. The Office of the State of Washington Attorney General may also provide general notice reasonably calculated to alert Subdivisions, including publication and other standard forms of notification. Nothing contained herein shall preclude the State of Washington from providing further notice to, or from contacting any of its Subdivision(s) about, becoming a Participating Subdivision. B. Trigger Datefor Later Litigating Subdivisions. Notwithstanding Sections I.EE and I.GGGG of the Global Settlement, as to the State of Washington, Settling Distributors and the State of Washington agree to treat the Trigger Date for Primary Subdivisions as Septe mber 23 , 2022 and the Trigger Date for all other Subdivisions as May 3,2022. C. Initial and Later Participating Subdivisions. Notwithstanding Sections I.BB, I.CC, LFF and Section VILD and E of the Global Settlement, any Participating Subdivision in Washington that meets the applicable requirements for becoming a Participating Subdivision set forth in Section VII.B or Section VII.C of the Global Settlement on or before September 23,2022 shall be considered an Initial Participating Subdivision. Participating Subdivisions that are not Initial Participating Subdivisions but meet the applicable requirements for becoming Participating Subdivisions set forth in Section VII.B or Section VII.C of the Global Settlement after September 23,2022 shall be considered Later Participating Subdivisions. D. Subdivision Settlement Participation Forms. Each Subdivision Settlement Participation Form submitted by a Participating Subdivision from the State of Washington shall be materially identical to Exhibit F to this Agreement. Nothing in Exhibit F is intended to modify in any way either the terms of this Agreement or the terms of the Global Settlement, both of which the State of Washington and Participating Subdivisions agree to be bound. To the extent that any Subdivision Settlement Participation Form submitted by any Participating Subdivision is worded differently from Exhibit F to this Agreement or interpreted differently from the Global Agreement and this Agreement in any respect, the Global Agreement and this Agreement control. IV. Settlement Payments A. Schedule. Annual Payments under this Agreement shall be calculated as if the State of Washington were a Settling State under the Global Settlement and shall be made pursuant to the terms of Section IV of the Global Settlement except that, as to the State of Washington, the Payment Date for Payment Year I shall be December 1.,2022 and the Payment Date for Payment J