<PAGE>

     AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON AUGUST 9, 2002
                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ----------------------

                         SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)

<TABLE>
<S>                                                         <C>
                     WASHINGTON                                          91-1603837
  (STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF INCORPORATION OR          (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)
                   ORGANIZATION)
</TABLE>

                          1155 VALLEY STREET, SUITE 400
                            SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98109
          (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES, INCLUDING ZIP CODE)

                         SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.
                          2000 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)

                                CHARLES K. BARBO
                 CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                         SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.
                          1155 VALLEY STREET, SUITE 400
                            SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98109
                                 (206) 624-8100
 (NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)
                             ----------------------
                                    COPY TO:
                              MICHAEL E. STANSBURY
                                PERKINS COIE LLP
                          1201 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 4800
                         SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101-3099
                             ----------------------
                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
=================================================================================================
  TITLE OF SECURITIES     NUMBER TO    PROPOSED MAXIMUM     PROPOSED MAXIMUM        AMOUNT OF
   TO BE REGISTERED          BE         OFFERING PRICE     AGGREGATE OFFERING     REGISTRATION
                         REGISTERED(1)   PER SHARE(2)           PRICE(2)               FEE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                      <C>           <C>                 <C>                    <C>
Class A Common Stock,     1,400,000         $33.50             $46,900,000           $4,315
par value $0.001 per
share
=================================================================================================
</TABLE>

(1)     Includes Preferred Share Purchase Rights associated with the Class A
        Common Stock. Also includes an indeterminate number of additional shares
        (including the associated Preferred Share Purchase Rights) that may be
        necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant
        to the 2000 Long-Term Incentive Plan as the result of any future stock
        split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding Class A
        Common Stock of the Registrant.

(2)     Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) solely for the purpose of calculating
        the amount of the registration fee. The price per share is estimated to
        be $33.50 based on the average of the high ($33.80) and low ($33.20)
        sales prices for the Common Stock as traded on the New York Stock
        Exchange on August 8, 2002.



<PAGE>

                                     PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

        The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement:

        (a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2001 filed on March 29, 2002, which contains audited financial
statements for the most recent fiscal year for which such statements have been
filed;

        (b) The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended
March 31, 2002 filed on May 7, 2002;

        (c) The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on June 21, 2002,
June 25, 2002 and June 27, 2002; and

        (d) The description of the Class A Common Stock contained in the
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated April 19, 1995, as amended
by Amendment No. 1 on Form 8-A/A dated April 26, 1995 and the description of the
Preferred Share Purchase Rights contained in the Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form 8-A dated April 19, 1995, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on
Form 8-A/A dated April 26, 1995, under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), (No. 1-11455), including any
amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such descriptions.

        All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment that indicates that the securities offered hereby
have been sold or that deregisters the securities covered hereby then remaining
unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof commencing on the respective
dates on which such documents are filed.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

        Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

        None.

ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

        Sections 23B.08.500 through 23B.08.600 of the Washington Business
Corporation Act authorize a court to award, or a corporation's board of
directors to grant, indemnification to directors and officers on terms
sufficiently broad to permit indemnification under certain circumstances for
liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"). Section 11.1 of the Registrant's Amended and Restated Bylaws
provides for indemnification of the Registrant's directors and officers and,
with the approval of the Board of Directors, the Registrant's employees and
agents, to the maximum extent permitted by Washington law.



                                      II-1
<PAGE>

        Section 23B.08.320 of the Washington Business Corporation Act authorizes
a corporation to limit a director's liability to the corporation or its
shareholders for monetary damages for acts or omissions as a director, except in
certain circumstances involving intentional misconduct, self-dealing or illegal
corporate loans or distributions, or any transactions from which the director
personally receives a benefit in money, property or services to which the
director is not entitled. Article 11.2 of the Registrant's Restated Articles of
Incorporation contains provisions implementing, to the fullest extent permitted
by Washington law, such limitations on a director's liability to the Registrant
and its shareholders.

        The directors and officers of the registrant also may be indemnified
against liability they may incur for serving in that capacity pursuant to a
liability insurance policy maintained by the Registrant for such purpose.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

        Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
    EXHIBIT
     NUMBER                                 DESCRIPTION
     ------                                 -----------
<S>               <C>
      5.1         Opinion of Perkins Coie LLP regarding legality of the Class A
                  Common Stock being registered

     23.1         Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

     23.2         Consent of Perkins Coie LLP (included in opinion filed as
                  Exhibit 5.1)

     24.1         Power of Attorney (see Signature Page)

     99.1         Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc. 2000 Long-Term Incentive Plan
</TABLE>

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

A.      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

        (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

                (i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
the Securities Act;

                (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
after the effective date of this Registration Statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) that, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration
Statement; and



                                      II-2
<PAGE>

                (iii) To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or
any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement.

        (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

        (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

B. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefits plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

C. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant
has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the
successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.



                                      II-3
<PAGE>

                                   SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Seattle, State of Washington, on the 9th day of
August, 2002.

                                            SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.


                                            By: /s/ Charles K. Barbo
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Charles K. Barbo,
                                                Chairman, President and Chief
                                                Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

        Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby authorizes
and appoints Charles K. Barbo and Harrell L. Beck, or either of them, as
attorneys-in-fact with full power of substitution, to execute in the name and on
the behalf of each person, individually and in each capacity stated below, and
to file, any and all post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement.

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated below on the 9th day of August, 2002.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                   SIGNATURE                                             TITLE
                   ---------                                             -----
<S>                                              <C>
             /s/ Charles K. Barbo                Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive
-----------------------------------------------  Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
               CHARLES K. BARBO
                                                 Senior Vice President, Treasurer, Chief Financial
              /s/ Harrell L. Beck                Officer and Director (Principal Financial and
-----------------------------------------------  Accounting Officer)
                HARRELL L. BECK

             /s/ George Hutchinson               Director
-----------------------------------------------
               GEORGE HUTCHINSON

              /s/ Raymond Johnson                Director
-----------------------------------------------
                RAYMOND JOHNSON

                /s/ W. J. Smith                  Director
-----------------------------------------------
                  W. J. SMITH

             /s/ W. Thomas Porter                Director
-----------------------------------------------
               W. THOMAS PORTER
</TABLE>



                                      II-4
<PAGE>

                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
    EXHIBIT
     NUMBER                                 DESCRIPTION
     ------                                 -----------
<S>               <C>
      5.1         Opinion of Perkins Coie LLP regarding legality of the Class A
                  Common Stock being registered

     23.1         Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

     23.2         Consent of Perkins Coie LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

     24.1         Power of Attorney (see Signature Page)

     99.1         Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc. 2000 Long-Term Incentive Plan
</TABLE>



                                      II-5
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AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON AUGUST 9, 2002
                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
                             ----------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                             ----------------------

                         SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.
             (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
WASHINGTON                                          91-1603837
  (STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION OF INCORPORATION OR          (I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NO.)
                   ORGANIZATION)
1155 VALLEY STREET, SUITE 400
                            SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98109
          (ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES, INCLUDING ZIP CODE)

                         SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.
                          2000 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)

                                CHARLES K. BARBO
                 CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                         SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.
                          1155 VALLEY STREET, SUITE 400
                            SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98109
                                 (206) 624-8100
 (NAME, ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE, OF AGENT FOR SERVICE)
                             ----------------------
                                    COPY TO:
                              MICHAEL E. STANSBURY
                                PERKINS COIE LLP
                          1201 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 4800
                         SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 98101-3099
                             ----------------------
                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
=================================================================================================
  TITLE OF SECURITIES     NUMBER TO    PROPOSED MAXIMUM     PROPOSED MAXIMUM        AMOUNT OF
   TO BE REGISTERED          BE         OFFERING PRICE     AGGREGATE OFFERING     REGISTRATION
                         REGISTERED(1)   PER SHARE(2)           PRICE(2)               FEE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Class A Common Stock,     1,400,000         $33.50             $46,900,000           $4,315
par value $0.001 per
share
=================================================================================================
(1)     Includes Preferred Share Purchase Rights associated with the Class A
        Common Stock. Also includes an indeterminate number of additional shares
        (including the associated Preferred Share Purchase Rights) that may be
        necessary to adjust the number of shares reserved for issuance pursuant
        to the 2000 Long-Term Incentive Plan as the result of any future stock
        split, stock dividend or similar adjustment of the outstanding Class A
        Common Stock of the Registrant.

(2)     Estimated pursuant to Rule 457(c) solely for the purpose of calculating
        the amount of the registration fee. The price per share is estimated to
        be $33.50 based on the average of the high ($33.80) and low ($33.20)
        sales prices for the Common Stock as traded on the New York Stock
        Exchange on August 8, 2002.
PART II

                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

        The following documents filed by the Registrant with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are hereby incorporated by reference in
this Registration Statement:

        (a) The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended
December 31, 2001 filed on March 29, 2002, which contains audited financial
statements for the most recent fiscal year for which such statements have been
filed;

        (b) The Registrant's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended
March 31, 2002 filed on May 7, 2002;

        (c) The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K filed on June 21, 2002,
June 25, 2002 and June 27, 2002; and

        (d) The description of the Class A Common Stock contained in the
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated April 19, 1995, as amended
by Amendment No. 1 on Form 8-A/A dated April 26, 1995 and the description of the
Preferred Share Purchase Rights contained in the Registrant's Registration
Statement on Form 8-A dated April 19, 1995, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on
Form 8-A/A dated April 26, 1995, under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), (No. 1-11455), including any
amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating such descriptions.

        All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c),
14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act after the date hereof and prior to the filing
of a post-effective amendment that indicates that the securities offered hereby
have been sold or that deregisters the securities covered hereby then remaining
unsold, shall also be deemed to be incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement and to be a part hereof commencing on the respective
dates on which such documents are filed.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

        Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

        None.

ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

        Sections 23B.08.500 through 23B.08.600 of the Washington Business
Corporation Act authorize a court to award, or a corporation's board of
directors to grant, indemnification to directors and officers on terms
sufficiently broad to permit indemnification under certain circumstances for
liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act"). Section 11.1 of the Registrant's Amended and Restated Bylaws
provides for indemnification of the Registrant's directors and officers and,
with the approval of the Board of Directors, the Registrant's employees and
agents, to the maximum extent permitted by Washington law.

                                      II-1
Section 23B.08.320 of the Washington Business Corporation Act authorizes
a corporation to limit a director's liability to the corporation or its
shareholders for monetary damages for acts or omissions as a director, except in
certain circumstances involving intentional misconduct, self-dealing or illegal
corporate loans or distributions, or any transactions from which the director
personally receives a benefit in money, property or services to which the
director is not entitled. Article 11.2 of the Registrant's Restated Articles of
Incorporation contains provisions implementing, to the fullest extent permitted
by Washington law, such limitations on a director's liability to the Registrant
and its shareholders.

        The directors and officers of the registrant also may be indemnified
against liability they may incur for serving in that capacity pursuant to a
liability insurance policy maintained by the Registrant for such purpose.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED

        Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT
     NUMBER                                 DESCRIPTION
     ------                                 -----------
5.1         Opinion of Perkins Coie LLP regarding legality of the Class A
                  Common Stock being registered

     23.1         Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

     23.2         Consent of Perkins Coie LLP (included in opinion filed as
                  Exhibit 5.1)

     24.1         Power of Attorney (see Signature Page)

     99.1         Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc. 2000 Long-Term Incentive Plan
ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS

A.      The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

        (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made,
a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

                (i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of
the Securities Act;

                (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
after the effective date of this Registration Statement (or the most recent
post-effective amendment thereof) that, individually or in the aggregate,
represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration
Statement; and

                                      II-2
(iii) To include any material information with respect to the
plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or
any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;

provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) above do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by the Registrant pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement.

        (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

        (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment
any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of
the offering.

B. The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the
Registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefits plan's annual
report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by
reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new
registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

C. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act
may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant
has been advised that in the opinion of the Commission such indemnification is
against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore,
unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such
liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or
paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the
successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

                                      II-3
SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets
all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this
Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto
duly authorized, in the City of Seattle, State of Washington, on the 9th day of
August, 2002.

                                            SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, INC.

                                            By: /s/ Charles K. Barbo
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Charles K. Barbo,
                                                Chairman, President and Chief
                                                Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY

        Each person whose individual signature appears below hereby authorizes
and appoints Charles K. Barbo and Harrell L. Beck, or either of them, as
attorneys-in-fact with full power of substitution, to execute in the name and on
the behalf of each person, individually and in each capacity stated below, and
to file, any and all post-effective amendments to this Registration Statement.

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities indicated below on the 9th day of August, 2002.
SIGNATURE                                             TITLE
                   ---------                                             -----
/s/ Charles K. Barbo                Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive
-----------------------------------------------  Officer (Principal Executive Officer)
               CHARLES K. BARBO
                                                 Senior Vice President, Treasurer, Chief Financial
              /s/ Harrell L. Beck                Officer and Director (Principal Financial and
-----------------------------------------------  Accounting Officer)
                HARRELL L. BECK

             /s/ George Hutchinson               Director
-----------------------------------------------
               GEORGE HUTCHINSON

              /s/ Raymond Johnson                Director
-----------------------------------------------
                RAYMOND JOHNSON

                /s/ W. J. Smith                  Director
-----------------------------------------------
                  W. J. SMITH

             /s/ W. Thomas Porter                Director
-----------------------------------------------
               W. THOMAS PORTER
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT
     NUMBER                                 DESCRIPTION
     ------                                 -----------
5.1         Opinion of Perkins Coie LLP regarding legality of the Class A
                  Common Stock being registered

     23.1         Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP

     23.2         Consent of Perkins Coie LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)

     24.1         Power of Attorney (see Signature Page)

     99.1         Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc. 2000 Long-Term Incentive Plan
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