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14 <br />County employees, solid waste collection contractors, solid waste <br />collection licensees or solid waste collection franchisees, or <br />properly placed in a designated container at a convenience center, <br />will be County property upon such delivery. <br />The County will have the right to refuse to accept for disposal <br />at System Management Facilities any material or substance which the <br />County reasonably determines is barred from such disposal by the Solid <br />Waste Management Plan and Policies, by any applicable law or <br />regulation or by the restrictions of any permit. Notwithstanding the <br />provisions of the previous paragraph, the County shall in no event be <br />deemed the owner of any such barred substance without its express <br />consent. <br />If at any time a material that previously qualified as Other <br />Recyclables begins to be processed by the County for recycling and <br />therefore becomes County Recyclables, then any Party theretofore <br />processing such material as Other Recyclables shall begin to process <br />such material as County Recyclables upon the expiration of any <br />contract for disposal of the material as Other Recyclables that may be <br />in effect at the time of the material's change in status. <br />3. Solid waste collection and transportation decisions will remain <br />each Party's prerogative. <br />The Parties in all events retain the right to determine their own <br />systems and procedures for the collection of Solid Waste and related <br />matters, provided that such systems and procedures shall be reasonably <br />designed to be consistent and compatible with the appropriate Solid <br />Waste Management Plan and Policies. <br />4. The County will operate the System as an enterprise operate the <br />System as an enterprise operation, and will have discretion to <br />set rates, fees and charges. <br />The Parties agree that the long-term success of the arrangement <br />for solid waste management provided for in this Agreement requires <br />that the Parties remain committed partners. The Parties agree that <br />their goal of reducing solid waste must be achieved in a manner that <br />guards the economic viability of the System's current and future <br />operations. At the same time, the Parties acknowledge that the County <br />is not expected to use its general funds to underwrite overall solid <br />waste management activities. Therefore, the County, the Towns and the <br />persons and organizations within their jurisdictions all must bear <br />appropriate proportional shares of the costs of providing for current <br />and future operations of the solid waste management enterprise. The <br />Parties agree that the County, as part of its responsibility for solid <br />waste management, must retain broad flexibility to implement and <br />adjust rates, fees and other charges, as provided below, in order to <br />a <br />