Every Ontario community to benefit from federal Gas Tax Fund transfer

First of two installments delivered to support local infrastructure priorities

OTTAWA, Aug. 4, 2017 /CNW/ - Modern and up-to-date community infrastructure helps connect people to jobs and provides access to better community services, attracts new businesses and creates economic growth.

In July, the Government of Canada delivered the first of two annual $391 million federal Gas Tax Fund (GTF) installments to Ontario. In total, Ontario's municipal governments will be provided with over $782.1 million this year through the fund. The funding, which flows through the Association of Municipalities of Ontario with the exception of the Toronto allocation that flows directly to the City of Toronto, is now available to support community infrastructure projects.

GTF funding supports hundreds of local infrastructure projects across Ontario each year. A portion of the annual provincial allocation is also used by the province to maintain rural roads in northern Ontario on behalf of local roads boards.

Some examples of the projects being funded this year include transit fleet replacement and state of good repair in Toronto, upgrades to recreational facilities in Brampton, the purchase of transit buses in Barrie, and major road reconstruction in Sault Ste. Marie. Other communities will use the funding to improve and repair their local roads and bridges, among other projects. The Province of Ontario will use a portion of the annual allocation to maintain rural access roads in unincorporated areas of northern Ontario. The range of planned projects helps demonstrate the flexibility that the GTF provides.

The two Gas Tax Fund installments for this year are in addition to funds flowing to Ontario under the Investing in Canada Plan.

Quotes

"Through the federal Gas Tax Fund, communities across Ontario and the rest of Canada can direct federal funding to the infrastructure projects that address the most pressing needs of local residents and businesses, from improving drinking water to building new recreational facilities. The Government of Canada is proud to deliver this predictable, long-term funding to help ensure access to good middle class jobs, increased mobility, greater economic opportunities, sustainable communities and a high quality of life for all Canadians."

The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi,
Minister of Infrastructure and Communities

"The Gas Tax Fund benefits Ontario municipalities by allowing local communities to decide where and how to invest resources for their most pressing needs. Constructing and improving infrastructure across the province will create jobs, enhance municipal services, and help commuters get to and from work faster – allowing them to spend more time with their families."

The Honourable Bill Mauro,
Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs

"The federal Gas Tax Fund is a stable source of funding that helps municipal governments maintain, rehabilitate and build the vital local infrastructure that we all rely on, including everything from roads and bridges to wastewater systems to community recreation centres. Investing in local infrastructure plays a major role in growing Canada's economy, protecting the environment and building strong cities and communities. AMO will administer almost $620 million from the Fund in 2017 alone."

Lynn Dollin,
President of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)

"The City of Toronto welcomes this year's contribution of $160 million from the federal Gas Tax Fund, which is being directed to the TTC to make a much needed investment in our city's transit system. The funding will be used for TTC fleet replacement and state of good repair so people of Toronto can get around our city easier and faster. The City welcomes continued significant investment from the Government of Canada in our transit and transportation system."

His Worship John Tory,
Mayor of Toronto

Quick facts

• Since the program was first introduced in 2005, over $7.9 billion has been provided to Ontario communities through the federal Gas Tax Fund.
• The federal Gas Tax Fund makes over $2 billion available each year, and through it provides each community across Canada with a permanent, predictable and indexed source of long-term funding. The funding is made available in two annual installments, in July and November.
• The federal Gas Tax Fund offers significant flexibility. Local communities can make strategic investments across 18 different project categories, including roads and bridges, public transit, drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, and recreational facilities. Communities can use the funds immediately for priority projects, bank the funds for later use, pool the dollars with other communities for shared infrastructure projects or use it to finance major infrastructure expenditures.
• The Government of Canada will invest more than $180 billion over 12 years in public transit projects, green infrastructure, social infrastructure, trade and transportation routes, and Canada's rural and northern communities.

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Federal Gas Tax Allocations for Ontario communities in 2017-18

This month, the Government of Canada delivered the first of two annual $391 million federal Gas Tax Fund (GTF) installments to Ontario. In total, the province will be provided with over $782.1 million this year through the fund. The funding, which flows through the Association of Municipalities of Ontario with the exception of the Toronto allocation that flows directly to the City of Toronto, is now available to support community infrastructure projects. A portion of the annual provincial allocation is also used by the province to maintain rural roads in northern Ontario on behalf of local roads boards.

The following table indicates this year's federal Gas Tax Fund allocation for each of Ontario's communities.

Location	Federal Funding
14 Mile Island	$1,173
Aberdeen & McMahon	$19,993
Addington Highlands	$76,981
Adelaide-Metcalfe	$92,061
Adjala-Tosorontio	$322,365
Admaston/Bromley	$86,467
Ajax	$3,332,189
Alberton	$52,537
Alfred and Plantagenet	$279,588
Algonquin Highlands	$65,549
Alnwick/Haldimand	$201,178
Amaranth	$120,488
Amherstburg	$655,371
Anima-Nipissing	$2,239
Armour	$83,426
Armstrong	$3,252
Armstrong Lake	$3,252
Armstrong, Township of	$73,941
Arnprior	$246,691
Arran-Elderslie	$207,046
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh	$169,711
Asphodel-Norwood	$122,859
Assiginack	$58,374
Association of Municipalities of Ontario (Administration)	$2,483,684
Athens	$94,797
Atikokan	$169,467
Aubrey East	$10,236
Augusta	$225,896
Aurora	$1,617,541
Aylmer	$217,413
Baldwin	$33,504
Ballantyne & Pt. Laurier	$15,621
Bancroft	$117,964
Barrie	$8,273,497
Bayham	$212,488
Bears Passage	$2,559
Beauchamp	$17,807
Beaver Bay	$586
Beckwith	$212,397
Belleville	$3,007,118
Bidwell Lake	$1,546
Bigstone	$960
Billings	$30,768
Black River-Matheson	$146,543
Blandford-Blenheim	$223,737
Blind River	$215,802
Blindfold Lake	$2,079
Bluewater	$214,160
Bonfield	$122,586
Bonnechere Valley	$114,407
Bourkes	$12,156
Bracebridge	$468,635
Bradford West Gwillimbury	$853,630
Brampton	$15,928,563
Brant County	$2,167,017
Brantford	$5,694,516
Brethour	$7,844
Brighton	$332,246
Britt	$8,584
Britton	$17,700
Brock	$344,803
Brockton	$286,763
Brockville	$1,329,835
Brooke-Alvinston	$77,467
Brower	$7,197
Bruce Mines	$34,416
Bruce	$1,967,360
Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan	$50,408
Bryce	$7,517
Burk's Falls	$58,800
Burlington	$5,344,241
Burpee and Mills	$18,728
Burwash-Hendrie	$17,807
Caledon	$1,807,773
Callander	$234,956
Calvin	$34,538
Cambridge	$3,853,543
Cane	$27,297
Carleton Place	$298,225
Carling	$75,886
Carlow/Mayo	$27,120
Cartier	$2,559
Casey	$22,742
Casgrain	$15,035
Casselman	$110,242
Cavan-Monaghan	$261,498
Central Elgin	$387,428
Central Frontenac	$138,517
Central Huron	$230,791
Central Manitoulin	$119,059
Centre Hastings	$138,122
Centre Wellington	$811,552
Chamberlain	$18,059
Champlain	$260,647
Chapleau	$128,666
Chapple	$45,058
Charlton and Dack	$40,801
Chatham-Kent	$6,303,857
Chatsworth	$195,705
Chiniguchi River	$10,076
Chisholm	$76,798
Clarence-Rockland	$704,898
Clarington	$2,570,528
Clearview	$417,557
Clearwater Lake	$3,412
Cobalt	$68,894
Cobourg	$563,037
Cochrane	$324,706
Coleman	$36,301
Collingwood	$584,988
Conmee	$46,456
Coppell/Kendall/Way	$30,763
Cornwall	$2,817,767
Cramahe	$184,639
Crescent Point	$960
Crystal Lake	$3,412
Dance	$7,411
Dawn-Euphemia	$62,296
Dawson	$10,236
Dawson, Township of	$34,234
Dawson/Goldie	$28,523
Deep River	$127,481
Departure Lake	$5,172
Deseronto	$55,790
Devils Lake	$4,052
Devon	$3,892
Devon Landing	$2,506
Dorion	$20,553
Douro-Dummer	$206,894
Downes Lake	$1,013
Driftwood	$8,210
Drummond/North Elmsley	$227,629
Dryden	$463,162
Dubreuilville	$38,612
Dufferin	$1,729,364
Dunning	$15,994
Durham	$18,486,079
Dutton/Dunwich	$117,843
Dysart Et Al	$181,385
Ear Falls	$62,387
East Ferris	$289,803
East Garafraxa	$78,896
East Gwillimbury	$683,251
East Hawkesbury	$101,395
East Luther Grand Valley	$82,879
East Zorra-Tavistock	$207,836
Eby-Grenfell	$18,074
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal	$211,576
Eldee	$640
Elgin	$1,506,660
Elizabethtown-Kitley	$295,641
Elliot Lake	$690,031
Ellsmere	$1,386
Emo	$76,130
Ena Lake	$3,945
Englehart	$92,365
Enniskillen	$89,081
Erin	$327,442
Esher-Como-Healey	$13,915
Espanola	$326,165
Essa	$562,611
Essex, County of	$5,403,254
Essex, Township of	$595,902
Eton	$27,617
Evanturel	$27,484
Faraday	$44,632
Fauquier-Strickland	$32,227
Fenwick Penne & VanK	$19,620
Firehill	$640
Foleyet	$2,559
Forbes	$27,244
Fort Erie	$910,879
Fort Frances	$483,532
Foster-Truman	$13,702
Fournier	$19,033
Fowler	$30,443
Frederickhouse	$14,022
French River	$148,489
Front of Yonge	$83,670
Frontenac Islands	$56,672
Frontenac	$801,884
Galbraith & Morin	$13,382
Gananoque	$315,828
Garden Lake	$5,012
Gaudette & Hodgins	$4,532
Gauthier	$7,479
Georgian Bay	$75,461
Georgian Bluffs	$316,315
Georgina	$1,323,055
Ghost Lake	$2,399
Gillies	$28,761
Goderich	$228,662
Gogama	$9,064
Gordon Lake	$5,331
Gordon/Barrie Island	$31,984
Gore Bay	$51,685
Gorham	$62,432
Goulais Mission	$22,605
Gravenhurst	$366,510
Greater Madawaska	$75,552
Greater Napanee	$471,584
Greater Sudbury	$9,745,680
Greenstone	$287,249
Grey Highlands	$289,438
Grey	$2,814,362
Grimsby	$769,961
Guelph, City of	$7,399,405
Guelph/Eramosa	$376,391
Haldimand	$2,728,747
Haliburton	$517,645
Hallebourg	$13,595
Halton Hills	$1,794,031
Halton	$15,252,335
Hamilton, City of	$31,616,211
Hamilton, Township of	$325,375
Hanlan	$26,764
Hanover	$227,720
Hardwick	$11,303
Harley	$32,775
Harris Lake	$3,839
Harris	$31,802
Hastings Highlands	$126,720
Hastings, County of	$1,212,722
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen	$137,514
Hawk Junction	$2,719
Hawkesbury	$320,784
Head, Clara and Maria	$7,145
Hearst	$309,504
Henwood	$29,163
Hess	$2,986
Hicks Lake	$3,412
Highlands East	$98,780
Hilliard	$12,405
Hilton Beach	$8,817
Hilton	$15,870
Hornepayne	$63,847
Horseshoe Bay	$6,344
Horton	$82,666
Horwood Lake	$7,997
Howick	$117,235
Hudson	$28,944
Hunta	$17,114
Huntsville	$579,363
Huron East	$281,655
Huron Shores	$104,769
Huron, County of	$1,796,828
Huron-Kinloss	$206,438
Ignace	$73,089
Indian/Sand Lake	$8,530
Ingersoll	$369,277
Inglis Lake	$1,280
Ingolf	$1,120
Ingram	$29,163
Innisfil	$995,005
Inwood	$18,873
Iroquois Falls	$279,405
Jacques	$26,871
James	$25,782
Jocelyn	$14,411
Johnson	$45,605
Joly	$17,269
Kabaigon Bay	$2,346
Kapuskasing	$498,369
Kawartha Lakes	$4,451,877
Kearney	$51,138
Kendall Inlet	$2,826
Kenora	$933,256
Kenricia	$2,986
Kerns	$21,829
Kettle Lake	$2,879
Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards	$73,028
Killarney	$30,707
Kincardine	$339,725
King	$604,993
Kingsford	$20,260
Kingston	$7,501,256
Kingsville	$649,473
Kirkland Lake	$516,429
Kitchener	$6,662,949
Kitigan	$1,813
Kukagami	$8,477
La Vallee	$60,077
LaSalle	$870,838
Laclu	$7,038
Laird	$64,272
Lake of Bays	$106,594
Lake of the Woods	$17,999
Lakeshore	$1,050,308
Lambton Shores	$323,976
Lambton	$3,788,936
Lanark Highlands	$155,908
Lanark	$1,723,526
Lang Lake	$1,120
Larder Lake	$41,592
Latchford	$23,532
Laurentian Hills	$85,463
Laurentian Valley	$293,604
Laurier	$20,686
Leamington	$863,542
Leeds and Grenville	$2,068,329
Leeds and the Thousand Islands	$282,050
Lennox and Addington	$1,271,583
Limerick	$10,702
Lincoln	$683,676
London	$22,264,313
Long Lake	$5,651
Lost Channel	$11,143
Lount	$31,722
Loyalist	$493,170
Lucan Biddulph	$131,889
Lybster	$23,405
Lyon	$8,850
Mabella	$586
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional	$89,021
Machar	$56,124
Machin	$56,854
Madawaska Valley	$130,186
Madoc	$66,796
Magnetawan	$88,412
Malahide	$278,068
Manitouwadge	$127,997
Mapleton	$303,697
Marathon	$203,884
Marion Lake	$1,440
Markham	$9,172,914
Marks	$17,061
Markstay-Warren	$139,672
Marmora and Lake	$123,863
Marquis	$13,329
Marten Lake	$2,026
Matachewan	$24,870
Mattawa	$123,011
Mattawan	$9,851
Mattice-Val Côté	$41,713
McCallum Point	$2,293
McConnell Lake	$533
McDougall	$164,481
McGarry	$36,180
McIntosh	$13,169
McKellar	$69,562
McKenzie Portage	$3,732
McMurrich/Monteith	$47,368
McNab/Braeside	$224,102
Meaford	$337,475
Melancthon	$86,315
Melgund	$19,247
Memesagamesing	$8,477
Merrickville-Wolford	$86,649
Middlesex Centre	$501,257
Middlesex	$2,152,424
Midland	$503,842
Mills & Hardy	$27,031
Milton	$2,564,873
Minaki	$2,559
Minden Hills	$171,930
Mine Center	$1,919
Ministic Lake	$5,598
Minto	$253,380
Miscampbell	$7,677
Mississauga	$21,690,939
Mississippi Mills	$376,543
Mono	$229,422
Montague	$105,894
Moonbeam	$66,948
Moose Factory	$3,146
Moosonee	$104,891
Morley	$28,822
Morris-Turnberry	$103,766
Mountain Bay	$1,973
Mulmur	$103,097
Munroe Point	$693
Muskoka Lakes	$203,914
Muskoka	$1,800,477
Mutrie	$26,444
Nairn and Hyman	$29,005
Neebing	$120,761
Nelles	$14,502
Nellie Lake/Aurora	$1,493
New Tecumseth	$919,210
Newbury	$13,590
Newmarket	$2,431,586
Niagara Falls, City of	$2,523,373
Niagara, Region of	$13,114,292
Niagara-on-the-Lake	$468,209
Nickel Lake Shores	$960
Nipigon	$99,175
Nipissing	$103,614
Norembega	$8,370
Norfolk	$3,841,442
North Algona Wilberforce	$87,348
North Bay	$3,262,323
North Dumfries	$283,783
North Dundas	$341,276
North Frontenac	$56,003
North Glengarry	$311,663
North Grenville	$458,632
North Huron	$148,489
North Kawartha	$69,593
North Middlesex	$202,424
North Perth	$384,023
North Stormont	$205,982
Northeastern Manitoulin and The Islands	$164,542
Northern Bruce Peninsula	$113,830
Northern Light Lake	$28,630
Northland Lake	$1,866
Northumberland	$2,482,633
Norwich	$325,953
O'Connor	$41,652
Oakville	$5,549,189
Obonga Lake	$8,530
Oil Springs	$21,404
Oliver Paipoonge	$348,542
Onaping Lake	$2,559
Opasatika	$13,013
Orangeville	$850,529
Orillia	$1,859,824
Oro-Medonte	$610,435
Oshawa	$4,548,529
Otonabee-South Monaghan	$202,485
Ottawa	$53,715,799
Otto	$16,528
Owen Sound	$659,384
Oxford	$3,214,194
Pacaud-Catherine	$23,458
Papineau-Cameron	$59,469
Parry Sound	$376,452
Patterson	$13,809
Patton & Montgomery	$9,170
Peace Tree	$267
Pearson Landing	$3,892
Peel	$39,427,275
Pelee	$10,398
Pelham	$504,632
Pellatt # 2	$12,316
Pembroke	$873,179
Penetanguishene	$277,003
Perch Lake	$1,333
Perry	$140,888
Perth East	$365,690
Perth South	$121,400
Perth, County of	$1,142,278
Perth, Township of	$177,555
Petawawa	$486,086
Peterborough, City of	$4,785,340
Peterborough, County of	$1,668,223
Petrolia	$168,069
Phelps	$26,657
Pickerel Lake	$5,331
Pickering	$2,697,401
Pickle Lake	$25,843
Pine Ridge	$853
Plummer Additional	$39,524
Plympton-Wyoming	$230,335
Point Edward	$61,840
Polly Lake	$1,866
Port Colborne	$560,148
Port Hope	$492,957
Portage Bay	$2,399
Powassan	$205,404
Pratt	$5,705
Prescott and Russell	$2,595,854
Prescott	$260,494
Prince Edward County	$1,535,847
Prince	$62,691
Pringle	$23,299
Puslinch	$213,704
Quinte West	$2,619,903
Rainy River	$51,199
Ramara	$281,990
Red Deer Village	$3,945
Red Lake	$283,966
Red Pine Ridge	$3,039
Red Rock	$5,012
Red Rock, Township of	$57,280
Redditt	$3,412
Reef Point	$6,878
Renfrew, County of	$2,630,909
Renfrew, Town of	$249,853
Richmond Hill	$5,641,037
Rideau Lakes	$310,325
Robillard	$29,590
Robinson	$20,260
Rock Lake	$4,265
Rossmere Bay	$1,546
Rossport	$427
Rowell	$17,167
Rugby	$9,064
Rush Bay-Woodchuk	$24,525
Russell	$463,557
Ryerson	$38,551
Sables-Spanish Rivers	$186,978
Sarnia	$2,200,157
Saugeen Shores	$384,935
Sault Ste. Marie	$4,569,051
Savant Lake	$2,399
Savard	$39,613
Schreiber	$68,468
Scugog	$655,766
Secord	$6,718
Seguin	$242,496
Selwyn	$512,172
Severn	$376,300
Shebandowan	$1,973
Shelburne	$177,737
Sheraton	$9,490
Sherwood Lake	$4,212
Shuniah	$166,427
Sibley	$13,755
Simcoe	$8,429,648
Sioux Lookout	$306,282
Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls	$43,781
Smiths Falls	$545,920
Smooth Rock Falls	$83,670
South Algonquin	$73,637
South Bruce	$255,782
South Bruce Peninsula	$172,842
South Dundas	$328,172
South Frontenac	$550,693
South Glengarry	$400,167
South Huron	$302,360
South River	$63,786
South Stormont	$383,597
South-West Oxford	$229,362
Southgate	$218,599
Southwatten	$3,519
Southwest Middlesex	$178,163
Southwold	$136,632
Southworth	$19,940
Spanish	$42,321
Spohn	$8,477
Springwater	$554,037
Spruce Lake	$853
St. Catharines	$3,994,978
St. Charles	$77,954
St. Clair	$441,302
St. Joseph	$73,028
St. Marys	$404,666
St. Thomas	$2,304,865
Star Lake	$5,438
Stirling	$14,608
Stirling-Rawdon	$151,347
Stone Mills	$229,848
Storm Bay	$10,290
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry	$1,970,856
Strange	$9,703
Stratford	$1,878,066
Strathroy-Caradoc	$637,798
Strong	$81,541
Sultan	$2,879
Sundridge	$59,894
Sunny Slopes	$427
Sunset Lake	$3,785
Sutherland	$10,450
Tannis Lake	$2,133
Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional	$24,079
Tay Valley	$169,376
Tay	$296,005
Tecumseh	$717,819
Tehkummah	$24,687
Temagami	$51,077
Temiskaming Shores	$632,386
Terrace Bay	$89,446
Thames Centre	$395,241
The Archipelago	$34,416
The Blue Mountains	$196,192
The Nation	$354,744
The North Shore	$30,950
Thessalon	$77,771
Thorne	$1,066
Thornloe	$7,479
Thorold	$545,160
Thunder Bay	$6,588,917
Tilden Lake	$2,239
Tilley	$1,173
Tillsonburg	$465,199
Timmins	$2,624,707
Tiny	$341,489
Toronto	$159,811,360
Trent Hills	$383,202
Trent Lakes	$155,208
Trout Lake North	$7,731
Tudor and Cashel	$17,816
Tunis	$7,197
Tweed	$184,152
Tyendinaga	$126,173
Upsala	$16,901
Uxbridge	$627,005
Val Rita-Harty	$49,679
Van Horne	$20,739
Vankoughnet & Aweres	$14,555
Vaughan	$8,765,268
Vixen Lake	$3,412
Wabigoon Redvers W	$19,140
Wabigoon S.E.	$2,399
Wabos	$2,666
Wainfleet	$193,243
Wainwright	$22,925
Wallbridge South	$3,252
War Eagle Lake	$1,440
Ware	$56,727
Warwick	$113,009
Wasaga Beach	$533,181
Watabeag	$39,613
Waterloo, City of	$3,003,227
Waterloo, Region of	$15,417,333
Wawa	$180,899
Welland	$1,539,344
Wellesley	$325,709
Wellington North	$348,937
Wellington	$2,635,105
West Elgin	$156,789
West Grey	$373,534
West Lincoln	$420,689
West Nipissing	$860,349
West Perth	$271,166
West Riverside	$1,120
Westport	$19,093
Wharncliffe	$3,412
Whiskey Lake	$9,437
Whitby	$3,709,857
Whitchurch-Stouffville	$1,144,011
White Pines	$1,226
White River	$36,909
Whitesand Lake	$800
Whitestone	$55,820
Whitewater Region	$210,420
Willisville	$693
Wilmot	$584,440
Wilson & McConkey	$7,571
Windsor	$12,823,516
Wollaston	$21,525
Woodstock	$1,147,842
Woolwich	$703,682
Wyse & Poitras	$1,013
Yellowstone	$746
York	$31,383,657
Zealand 1	$19,300
Zealand 3	$12,369
Zorra	$244,989

For more information on the Gas Tax Fund, please visit: http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/gtf-fte-eng.html

For more information on the federal Gas Tax Fund in Ontario, please visit: http://www.amo.on.ca/AMO-Content/Gas-Tax/Canada-s-Gas-Tax-Fund.aspx

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More on the federal Gas Tax Fund: http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/gtf-fte-eng.html

The federal Gas Tax Fund in Ontario: https://www.amo.on.ca/AMO-Content/Gas-Tax/Canada-s-Gas-Tax-Fund

The federal Gas Tax Fund in Toronto: http://www.toronto.ca/gastaxworks

Federal infrastructure investments in Ontario: http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/map-carte/on-eng.html

Investing in Canada, the Government of Canada's new $180 billion infrastructure plan: http://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/plan/about-invest-apropos-eng.html

Twitter: @INFC_eng 
Web: Infrastructure Canada

SOURCE Infrastructure Canada

Brook Simpson, Press Secretary, Office of the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, 613-219-0149, [email protected]; Infrastructure Canada, 613-960-9251, Toll free: 1-877-250-7154, [email protected]

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