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any payment from the Backstop Funds shall be transparent, public, final, and not appealable. I. Distribution of Any Excess Funds. To the extent the special master determines that the Backstop Fund exceeds the amount necessary for payment to Counsel, the special master shall distribute any excess amount to ParticipatingLocal Governments according to the percentages set forth in Exhibit B. J.Term. The Backstop Fund will be administered for (a) the length of the National Litigation Settlement payments; or (b) until all Counsel for Litigating Local Governments have either (i) received payments equal to the Backstop Fund Payment Cap above or (ii) received the full amount determined by the special master; whichever occurs first. K. No State Funds Toward Attorney Fees. For the avoidance of doubt, no portion of the State Abatement Fund will be used to fund the Backstop Fund or in any other way to fund any Litigating Local Government’s attorney fees and expenses. Any funds that the State receives from the National Settlement Agreements as attorney fees and costs or in lieu of attorney fees and costs, including the Additional Restitution Amounts, will be treated as State Abatement Funds. VII.GeneralTerms A. Scope of agreement. This MOA applies toall settlements under theNational Settlement Agreements with Settling Defendants and the Bankruptcy Resolutionswith Bankruptcy 4 Defendants. The Parties agree to discuss the use, as the Parties may deem appropriate in the future, of the settlement terms set out herein (after any necessary amendments) for resolutions with Opioid Supply Chain Participants not covered by the National Settlement Agreements or a Bankruptcy Resolution. The Parties acknowledge that this MOA does not excuse any requirements placed upon them by the terms of the National Settlement Agreements or any Bankruptcy Resolution, except to the extent those terms allow for a State-Subdivision Agreement to do so. B.When MOA takes effect. 1. This MOA shall become effective at the time a sufficient number of Local Governments have joined the MOA to qualify this MOA as a State-Subdivision Agreement under the National Settlement Agreements or as a Statewide Abatement Agreement under any Bankruptcy Resolution. If this MOA does not thereby qualify as a State-Subdivision Agreement or Statewide Abatement Agreement, this MOA will have no effect. 2. The Parties may conditionally agree to sign on to the MOA through a letter of intent, resolution, or similar written statement, declaration, or pronouncement declaring 4 For the avoidance of doubt, this includes settlements reached with AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, andJanssen, and Bankruptcy Resolutions involving Purdue Pharma L.P., and Mallinckrodt plc. 11