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The Company experienced de-obligations of previously awarded FEMA funding totaling $1,736,959 related to two projects under the Disaster Grants – Public Assistance (Presidentially Declared Disasters) Program (ALN 97.036). The de-obligations resulted from duplication of benefits (DoB) determinations identified during reviews performed by the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC), operated by the RAND Corporation and acting on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and FEMA. The Company performed its duplication of benefit analysis using its fiscal year-end 2019 financial results (July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019) as the baseline period. FEMA, utilizing HSOAC's standard methodology described in Methods of Assessing Duplication of Benefits with Patient Care Revenue, As Applied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Health Care Providers' Public Assistance Claims During the COVID-19 Emergency (December 18, 2024), required the use of calendar year 2019 financial results as the baseline period. Application of FEMA's standard methodology resulted in the determination that previously awarded funding represented a duplication of benefits and led to the de-obligation of grant funding.