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In the Local Group, almost all satellite dwarf galaxies that are within the virial radius of the Milky Way (MW) and M31 exhibit strong environmental influence.  We examine the environmental quenching timescales of satellites with $\mstar=10^{4-10} \msun$ using the ELVIS suite of cosmological zoom-in dissipationless simulations of 48 MW/M31-like halos.  Many satellites experienced ``group preprocessing'' in another host halo before falling into the MW/M31 halos. More...