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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />A. "Acceptable Waste" is defined as garbage, refuse, and other solid waste from <br />residential, commercial, industrial and community activities, which is generated in <br />Sherburne County, but does not include Unacceptable Waste. <br /> <br />B. "Authorized Representative" is defined as the person chosen by each party to <br />coordinate activities and to receive notices under this Contract. <br /> <br />C. "Back-up Facility" is defined as a waste facility to which the County has directed the <br />Hauler in the event that Acceptable Waste must be diverted from the Elk River <br />Resource Recovery Facility due to lack of capacity or other problems at the Facility. <br /> <br />D. "Eastern Sherburne County" is defined by the Designation Ordinance for Sherburne <br />County. <br /> <br />E. "Facility" is defined as the Elk River Resource Recovery Facility constructed and <br />operated by NSP in Elk River, Minnesota, and such other facilities as may be <br />designated by the County. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />F. "Hazardous Waste" is waste defined as hazardous waste by State or Federal law, <br />rules and regulations from time to time, including but not limited to 42 U.S.c. 3 <br />6903(5), and regulations interpreting such act, or in Minnesota Statutes 3 116.06, <br />subd. 13, and regulations interpreting such statute, but not including waste excluded <br />from regulation by Minnesota Rules 7045.0120A, as any of the foregoing may be <br />amended from time to time. <br /> <br />G. "Holidays" are defined as New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, <br />Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. <br /> <br />H. "Recyclable Materials" are defined as materials that are separated from solid waste <br />for the purpose of recycling, including paper, glass, plastics, metals, automobile oil, <br />and batteries. Refuse-derived fuel or other material that is destroyed by incineration <br />is not a recyclable material. <br /> <br />I. "Tipping Fees" are defined as the fees charged to the Hauler pursuant to this <br />Contract to deliver waste to the Facility or a Back-up Facility. <br /> <br />J. "Unacceptable Waste" is defined as waste delivered in quantities which, as <br />determined by the County, may pose a threat to health or safety, or to the <br />environment, or may cause damage to, or materially adversely affect, the operation <br />of the Facility, including but not limited to: incinerator ash; foundry sand; <br />explosives; hospital, pathological and biological waste; Hazardous Waste, <br />chemicals and radioactive materials; oil sludges; asbestos in identifiable quantities; <br />cesspool or other human waste; sewage and other highly diluted, water-carried <br />materials or substances and those in gaseous forms; human or animal remains; street <br />. sweepings; ash; mining waste; sludges; demolition debris; hazardous refuse of any <br /> <br />2 <br />