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0. Peer Review.Where appropriate, prior to finalizing any significant technical products the Principal Investigator(PI) of this project must solicit advice, review, and feedback from a technical review or advisory group consisting of relevant subject matter specialists. A record of comments and a brief description of how respective comments are addressed by the PI will be provided to the Project Monitor prior to releasing any final reports or products resulting from the funded study. P. International Travel (Including Canada).All International Travel must be approved by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of International and Tribal Affairs (OITA) BEFORE travel occurs. Even a brief trip to a foreign country, for example to attend a conference, requires OITA approval. Please contact your Partnership Project manager as soon as possible if travel is planned out of the country, including Canada and/or Mexico, so that they can submit a request to the EPA Project Officer if they approve of such travel. Q. Unliquidated Obligations(ULO). Sub-recipients, and all sub-awardees of Sub-Recipients, if any, should manage their agreement and subaward funding in ways that reduce the length of time that federal funds obligated and committed to subaward projects are unspent (not yet drawn down through disbursements to sub-recipients and sub-awardees). SECTION 36. ORDER OF PRECEDENCE This Agreement is entered into, pursuant to, and under the authority granted by applicable federal and state laws. The provisions of the Agreement shall be construed to conform to those laws. In the event of a direct and irreconcilable conflict between the terms of this Agreement and any applicable statute, rule, or policy or procedure, the conflict shall be resolved by giving precedence in the following order: 1. Federal law and binding executive orders; 2. Code of federal regulations; 3. Terms and conditions of a grant award to the state from the federal government; 4. Federal grant program policies and procedures adopted by a federal agency that are required to be applied by federal law; 5. State law(constitution, statute); 6. Washington Administrative Code; 7. Funding board or RCO policies. SECTION 37. LIMITATION OF AUTHORITY Only RCO's Director or RCO's delegate by writing (delegation to be made prior to action) shall have the authority to alter, amend, modify, or waive any clause or condition of this Agreement; provided that any such alteration, amendment, modification, or waiver of any clause or condition of this Agreement is not effective or binding unless made as a written amendment to this Agreement and signed by the RCO Director or delegate. SECTION 38. WAIVER OF DEFAULT Waiver of any default shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any subsequent default. Waiver or breach of any provision of the Agreement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any other or subsequent breach and shall not be construed to be a modification of the terms of the Agreement unless stated to be such in writing, signed by the director, or the director's designee, and attached as an amendment to the original Agreement. SECTION 39. APPLICATION REPRESENTATIONS—MISREPRESENTATIONS OR INACCURACY OR BREACH RCO 16-1310D Revision Date: 1/11/2018 Page 33 of 37