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