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DATA SHARING AGREEMENT Between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Women, Infants and Children and This Data Sharing Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into by and between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting through the Department of Health, Bureau of Women, Infants and Children (“PA DOH”), and the (the “Foreign WIC Program” or “FWP”). In consideration of the mutual understandings and covenants set forth herein, the parties agree as follows: I. PURPOSE PA DOH and FWP enter into this Agreement for the purpose of detecting and preventing dual participation among participants of the WIC program as required by 7 CFR 246.7(I)(1)-(4). II. TERM This Agreement shall become effective either January 1, 2023 or when it is fully executed by the parties and all approvals required by Commonwealth contracting procedures have been obtained, as indicated by the date of the last Commonwealth signature, whichever is later, and shall remain in effect for five (5) years thereafter. III. CONDITIONS On a semi-annual basis, the parties will compare their lists of participants in their respective WIC programs in a mutually agreed upon electronic format. The data exchanged will be for the contiguous service areas located across borders. If dual participation is suspected, the parties will take appropriate follow-up action within 120 calendar days of detecting instances of suspected dual participation. IV. DATA FLOW A. FWP shall post its electronic file for PA DOH comparison on a semi-annual basis. The electronic file posted by January 15th each year shall contain data for the six previous months of December, November, October, September, August, and July. The electronic file posted by July 15th each year shall contain data for the six previous months of June, May, April, March, February, and January. FWP data will be provided on the secure website for download by PA DOH and will be in an XML schema format. PA DOH will provide the “Interstate Dual Participation State West Virginia Office of Nutritio State ITO/WIC Entity