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on a contingency fee contract and City X receives $1,000,000 from the <br /> Distributors Settlement,then the maximum that the firm can receive is $150,000 <br /> for fees.) <br /> 7. No portion of the Washington Fees and Costs as defined in Section V of the <br /> Distributors Settlement and/or the State Share as defined in Paragraph 8.A of this <br /> Allocation Agreement shall be used to fund the Government Fee Fund("GFF") <br /> referred to in Paragraph 10 of this Allocation Agreement and Section D of the <br /> MOU, or in any other way to fund any Participating Local Government's <br /> attorneys' fees, costs, or common benefit tax other than the aforementioned <br /> payment by the Settling Distributors to Participating Litigating Subdivisions' <br /> attorneys for fees and costs in Section V.B.2 of the Distributors Settlement. <br /> 8. The Washington Abatement Amount shall and must be used by the State and <br /> Participating Local Governments for Opioid Remediation as defined in Section <br /> I.SS of the Global Settlement, except as allowed by Section V of the Global <br /> Settlement. Exhibit 4 is a non-exhaustive list of expenditures that qualify as <br /> Opioid Remediation. Further,the Washington Abatement Amount shall and must <br /> be used by the State and Participating Local Governments as provided for in the <br /> Distributors Settlement. <br /> 9. The State and the Participating Local Governments agree to divide the <br /> Washington Abatement Amount as follows: <br /> A. Fifty percent(50%)to the State of Washington("State Share"). <br /> B. Fifty percent(50%)to the Participating Local Governments ("LG Share"). <br /> 10. The LG Share shall be distributed pursuant to the MOU attached hereto as Exhibit <br /> 3 as amended and modified in this Allocation Agreement. <br /> 11. For purposes of this Allocation Agreement only,the MOU is modified as follows <br /> and any contrary provisions in the MOU are struck: <br /> A. The MOU is amended to add new Section E.6, which provides as follows: <br /> A Local Government may elect in its discretion to execute the <br /> MOU for purposes of this Allocation Agreement only. If a Local <br /> Governments executes the MOU for purposes of this Allocation <br /> Agreement only,then the MOU will only bind such Local <br /> Government and be effective with respect to this Allocation <br /> Agreement and the Distributors Settlement, and not any other <br /> Settlement as that term is defined in Section A.14 of the MOU. To <br /> execute the MOU for purposes of this Allocation Agreement only, <br /> the Local Government may either(a) check the applicable box on <br /> its signature page of this Allocation Agreement that is returned or <br /> (b) add language below its signature lines in the MOU that is <br /> returned indicating that the Local Government is executing or has <br /> 3 <br />