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FRANCHISE HAULER ACKNOWLEDGMENT THIS FRANCHISE HAULER ACKNOWLEDGMENT, dated as of May 4, 2009 (the "Acknowledgment'), by and between the City of Santa Ana (the "City") and USA Waste of California Inc. (the "Franchise Hauler"). WITNESSETH [WHEREAS, the City and the Franchise Hauler have heretofore entered into an agreement entitled Third Amended and Restated Agreement for Collection and Handling of Solid Wastes Generated, Produced and/or Accumulated in the City of Santa Ana, dated as of April 3, 2005 (the "Franchise"); and [WHEREAS, the City has issued to the Franchise Hauler a permit, license, approval or other authorization the "Authorization") which allows the Franchise Hauler to provide solid waste collection services within the City; and] [WHEREAS, the Franchise authorizes the collection and disposal of certain municipal solid waste as described therein ("Franchise Waste") generated within the City; and] WHEREAS, Orange County (the "County") owns, manages and operates a sanitary landfill disposal system for municipal solid waste generated within the County; and WHEREAS, the City and the County have heretofore entered into a Waste Disposal Agreement, dated as of May 4, 2009 (the "Disposal Agreement") determining that the execution of such Disposal Agreement will serve the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the City and County, by maintaining public ownership and stewardship over the Orange County Landfill Disposal System (the "Disposal System"); and WHEREAS, under the Disposal Agreement, the County has agreed to provide long-term disposal of all municipal solid waste generated within the City and the City has agreed to exercise all legal, and contractual power which it possesses from time to time to deliver or cause the delivery of such waste to the Disposal System; and WHEREAS, the provisions of the Waste Disposal Agreement which guarantee capacity for the long term disposal of waste at specified rates generated in the City provide significant benefits to the Franchise Hauler; WHEREAS, notwithstanding any Franchise provisions to the contrary, the Franchise Hauler explicitly acknowledges the aforementioned benefits to the City, the County and the Franchise Hauler in providing for the disposal of all Franchise Waste to the Disposal System; and WHEREAS, the City and the Franchise Hauler desire to enter into this Acknowledgment to assure that the City and the Franchise Hauler will be entitled to the benefits of the Waste Disposal Agreement and to assure conformity with the waste delivery obligations which have been agreed to by the City under the Disposal Agreement through the delivery of waste by the Franchise Hauler to the Disposal System; and WHEREAS, the Franchise Hauler's agreement to deliver Franchise Waste to the Disposal System under this Acknowledgment is given in consideration of the Franchise Hauler's right to receive the Contract Rate for such disposal as provided in the Disposal Agreement. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as follows: L Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein are used as defined in the Disposal Agreement. Execution Copy August 17, 2021 6 - 43 City of Santa Ana