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            <rptOwnerCity>LOS ALAMOS</rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>NM</rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>87544</rptOwnerZipCode>
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                </directOrIndirectOwnership>
            </ownershipNature>
        </nonDerivativeTransaction>
    </nonDerivativeTable>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>Jennifer Pearson Attorney-in-Fact for Jeffrey F Howell</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2017-11-15</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>
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Jennifer Pearson Attorney-in-Fact for Jeffrey F Howell
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