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11 <br />other County employees. The County and Chapel Hill will develop a <br />detailed schedule comparing the total pre-tra~.sfer and post-transfer <br />compensation for each System Employee. Chapel Hill will send a copy of <br />the completed schedule to Carrboro. <br />Acquire Svstem assets. The County will acquire alI right, title <br />and interest to all Existing. System Assets.. Title to the Greene Tract, <br />however, shall not be conveyed to the County pursuant to this <br />paragraph; Part 5 is and shall be the only portion of this Agreement <br />affecting the state of the title t-o.the Greene Tract. <br />Assume System liabilities. The County will assume all <br />liabilities, including environmental liabilities, related .to the <br />ownership of the System, including, to the extent permitted by law, <br />all liabilities related to the ownership of Existing Sp-stem Assets <br />which have accrued or which may accrue prior to the Transfer Date. <br />The Parties, however, shall retain their individual liability, <br />if any, under environmental laws and otHerwise, related to their <br />respective use o~ the System •both-before and after the Transfer Date <br />(as, for example, any liability arising £rom their delivering, or <br />causing to be delivered, Solid Waste to System Management Facilities). <br />The Parties acknowledge that the County's assumption of liabilities as <br />described in the preceding paragraph shall not limit, and is not <br />intended to limit, the ability of any governmental authority to <br />impose, or to seek to impose, environmental -or other liability <br />directly on a Party (as, for example, any liability accruing to the <br />current owners of the Existing System Assets as a result of their <br />status as. owners prior to the Transf er Date). The County will not <br />-assume, and by this Agreement does not assume, any indebtedness of <br />Carrboro or Chapel Hill. - <br />Acquire property. The County shall acquire, real and personal <br />property as it deems appropriate for System purposes. There shall be <br />no restrictions on the County's acquisition of additional acreage at <br />the existing landfill. The County states its current. intention not to <br />acquire, and its recommendation that future County Governing Boards <br />not acquire, any of the properties ]o7.own as the Blackwood and Nunn <br />properties for System purposes. <br />Provide for compliance with law. The County will comply, or <br />cause there to be compliance, with all applicable laws, orders, rules, <br />regulations and requirements of any governmental authority relating to <br />the System. The County will also be generally responsible for solid <br />waste reporting, planning, regulatory compliance and similar matters. <br />Nothing in this Agreement, however, shall prevent the County from <br />contesting in good faith the applicability or validity of any such law <br />br other requirement, so long as the County's failure to comply with <br />the same during the period of such contest will not materially impair <br />the System's operation or revenue-producing capability. <br />2 <br />