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<br />“Processed Green Material” (“PGM”) as defined in Title 27, California Code of Regulations §20690(b)(3)
<br />means any plant material that is either separated at the point of generation, or separated at a centralized facility that
<br />employs methods to minimize contamination. Green material includes, but is not limited to, yard trimmings, untreated
<br />wood wastes, paper products, and natural fiber products. Green material does not include treated wood waste, mixed
<br />demolition or mixed construction debris, manure, or plant waste from the food processing industry, alone or blended
<br />with soil. Processed green material may include varying proportions of wood waste from urban and other sources and
<br />shall be ground, shredded, screened, source separated for grain size, or otherwise processed. This PGM standard is
<br />the standard that Controllable Organic Waste must meet in order to be accepted at County’s Organic Infrastructure
<br />under the OSA.
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<br />“Proportional Share” means 60% of the weight of Controllable Organic Waste City delivered by City to
<br />County’s Organics Infrastructure.
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<br />“Recovered Organic Waste Product” or “ROWP” means compost, mulch, renewable energy (transportation
<br />fuel, electricity, and gas for heating) from anaerobic digestion, and electricity from biomass conversion.
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<br />“Recycled City Organic Waste” means any otherwise Controllable Organic Waste which is separated from
<br />Acceptable Organic Waste by the generator thereof and composted by generator at home, community gardens or other
<br />processing and which is not placed in Franchise Hauler bin for collection.
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<br />“Renewal Term” has the meaning specified in Subsection 5.1(C) hereof.
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<br />“Residential Organic Waste” means Acceptable Organic Waste normally disposed of by or collected from
<br />residential (single family and multi-family) residences.
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<br />"Residual Waste” means any contaminants, inert materials, overs, or Acceptable Organic Waste that could
<br />not be processed at the Department’s Organic Infrastructure that required to be dispose within the Disposal System.
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<br />“Waste Disposal Agreement” (“WDA”) means the currently operative agreement between the Parties for the
<br />disposal of municipal solid waste that is currently set to expire on June 30, 2026. With the exception of specific or
<br />conflicting provisions provided in this Organics Agreement, the Parties agree that the terms found in the WDA
<br />shall be applied to the interpretation of this OSA. For the purpose of interpretation of this OSA, the Parties also
<br />intend that the WDA be read to include terms such as Controllable Organic Waste, where appropriate.
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<br />“Waste Infrastructure System” or “Disposal System” means active Class III sanitary landfills (“County
<br />Landfills”), closed landfills managed by the County, resource recovery operations, Organics Infrastructure, recycling
<br />and organics programs, infrastructure and operations, and regional household hazardous waste collection centers and
<br />other waste management related systems as may be deemed necessary by the County.
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<br />“Waste Infrastructure System Enterprise Agreement” or “WISE Agreement” means each of the agreement
<br />between the parties that is expected to replace the current WDA that is set to expire on June 30, 2026.
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<br />SECTION 1.2 INTERPRETATION. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
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<br />References Hereto. The terms “hereby”, “hereof”, “herein”, “hereunder”, “herewith”, and any similar terms
<br />refer to this Agreement, and the term “hereafter” means after, and the term “heretofore” means before, the Contract
<br />Date.
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<br />Gender and Plurality. Words of the masculine gender mean and include correlative words of the feminine and
<br />neuter genders and words importing the singular number mean and include the plural number and vice versa.
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<br />Persons. Words importing persons include firms, companies, associations, general partnerships, limited
<br />partnerships, trusts, business trusts, corporations and other legal entities, including public bodies, as well as individuals.
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<br />Headings. The table of contents and any headings preceding the text of the Articles, Sections and subsections
<br />of this Agreement shall be solely for convenience of reference and shall not constitute a part of this Agreement, nor
<br />shall they affect its meaning, construction or effect.
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