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Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota); Seven Mile Creek Landfill in Eau Claire, Wisconsin is owned by Superior Services; Waste Management owns Timberline Trail Disposal Facility in Rusk County, Wisconsin and the Central Disposal Systems landfill in Lake Mills, Iowa. Walter's has a contract to deliver waste from its transfer station to the Seven Mile Creek Landfill. When Ramsey and Washington Counties set up the agreement with NRG to build and operate the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF), the Counties could mandate that garbage haulers take all the waste they collect to the RRF. In the 1994 case Cabone vs. Clarkstown the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that trash hauling is interstate commerce. This meant that the Counties' could no longer mandate residents' trash be taking to the RRF. This opened the door for haulers to increase out of state landfilling mentioned previously because it was cheaper for them to do so. Cities with organized collection can require haulers use a resource recovery facility because haulers can voluntarily enter into contracts with cities and counties in which they agree to take garbage where the city or county designates. During the 2001 session Minnesota lawmakers gave the counties money to offset the higher tipping fees at waste to energy facilities. Because of a budget shortfall, no such proposal is included in this year's budget. Ramsey and Washington Counties offered artificially low tipping fees in 2002 of $32 a ton to any hauler that agreed to take all the trash it collected in the Counties to the RRF. As a result, during the last ten days of 2001, BFI, Waste Management and Superior all agreed to one year contracts to haul all their garbage to the RRF. This came at the same time the Counties were investigating mandating organized collec- tion in part to decrease the amount of garbage being taken out of state and to increase the amount of garbage going to the RRF. The large haulers have not said what they will do when the low tipping fees expire at the end of 2002. But they are under no obligation to follow the State's hierarchy for dealing with waste. And competitive pressures can be at odds with the State's, the County's and Roseville's environmental goals. Licensing Ramsey County requires haulers to hold a County license. The County requires insurance, various safety standards and that a portion of the waste collected is sent to the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) in Newport, Minnesota. According to Roseville City Attorney Joel Jamnik, Roseville could not require as part of its garbage hauler licensing that haulers take garbage to the RRF. Instead haulers are free to dispose of Roseville garbage in any manner they wish fit that does not violate state or federal environ- mental regulations. Haulers participating in a focus group with the Committee said they make disposal decision based primarily on cost. Roseville's licensing requirements for residential dwellings include: weekly collection of .�