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"Hillsborough "means the Town of Hillsborough, North Carolina. "Material Financial Change" means a change, or series of related changes, made by the County to the Solid Waste Management Plan and Policies that, in the determination of any Town (provided that the Advisory Commission must verify such determination if so requested by the County), would have the effect of increasing by more than 15% the direct monetary cost to such Town of all its solid waste management activities (such as solid waste collection), when comparing (a) the expected cost of such activities for the first full Fiscal Year following the effective date of the change or changes in question to (b) the total cost for the Fiscal Year most recently completed prior to the effective date. "Mixed Solid Waste Tipping Fee" means the fee of that name assessed for disposing mixed solid waste at the existing landfill, any successor to that fee, or any other fee assessed for the use of System Management Facilities related to the disposition of Solid Waste (such as a fee imposed for the use of a transfer station or materials recovery facility). "Other Recyclables" means materials which would otherwise constitute Solid Waste, but which are to be delivered to some other entity and processed for recycling. For any material to constitute Other Recyclables, however, the entity to which the material is to be delivered must represent that such materials are intended to be processed for use in new products. Material will not constitute Other Recyclables, for example, if the entity to which it is to be delivered intends to re- deliver the material to some other disposal facility (such as a landfill or incinerator), whether or not such material is intended to be subject to further. processing before disposal. "Parties" means, collectively, the County and the Towns, and "Party" means any one of them individually. "Solid Waste" means all materials accepted by the County for disposal at System Management Facilities, as the same may be established and amended from time to time under the Solid Waste Management Plan and Policies (subject to the provisions of Part 2 which authorize the County to refuse to accept for disposal any material or substance which the County reasonably determines is barred from such disposal by any applicable law or regulation or the restrictions of any permit), other than County Recyclables. "Solid Waste Management Plan and Policies" means, the combination of (a) the Solid Waste Management Plan, which is the report submitted pursuant to law to State authorities describing the long -term plan for solid waste management, which the County, as designated lead agency, files on behalf of the County and the Towns, and (b) the Solid Waste Management Policies, which are, collectively, all policies related to the System and coordinated solid waste management for the County, the towns and the persons and organizations in their jurisdictions, as the same may exist from time to time (including all such policies in effect as of the date of this Agreement). "State" means the State of North Carolina. "System" means all assets, including both real and personal property, used from time to Draft of June 1, 1999 13