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EBP, Minimum Hours Required To Earn Year Of Service For Vesting

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EBP, Participant Contribution, Maximum Contribution to Eligible Compensation, Percentage

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EBP, Participant Contribution, Voluntary Contribution, Percentage

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Topic 962
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-Publisher FASB
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Percentage of participant compensation eligible for employer matching contribution for participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of plan asset, in forfeited nonvested account, no longer allocated to participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)).

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Amount of decrease in forfeited nonvested account of employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) from employer contribution.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/exampleRef
-Topic 962
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Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
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-Publisher FASB
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Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
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-Paragraph 1
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-Publisher FASB
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Amount of maximum account balance that participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) can borrow.

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Percentage of maximum account balance that participant in employee stock purchase, saving, or similar plan (employee benefit plan (EBP)) can borrow to total participant account balance.

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