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Ramsey County Processing Strategies 1. Until termination of the Processing Agreement for the Resource Recovery Facility in Newport at the end of 2012, Ramsey and Washington counties will coordinate resource recovery activities through the Ramsey /Washington County Resource Recovery Project. 2. Ramsey and Washington counties will continue to work cooperatively on specific waste management issues through a joint powers agreement after 2012 to enhance the efficiency of waste management services and assist in achieving regional goals in processing. 3. Until termination of the Processing Agreement for the Resource Recovery Facility in Newport and during merchant operations, Ramsey County will inform and work with municipalities and refuse haulers regarding methods to reduce delivery of unacceptable or non - processible materials to the Facility. 4. Ramsey County will work cooperatively with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency as the State enforces provisions found in Minn. Stat. §473.848, requiring waste to be processed before land disposal. Ramsey County adopts the MPCA criterion for determining when MSW is unprocessible. That criterion is found in Appendix D of the Policy Plan, and reads, in part: "TCMA mixed MSW is unprocessible when all reasonably available capacity within the TCMA processing system is fully utilized at 100% of its operating capacity." 5. Ramsey County will continue to identify and evaluate waste processing issues, such as monitoring merchant operations and exploring new processing opportunities. 6. Ramsey County will work with public entities (as defined by Minn. Stat. §115A.471) and the MPCA to ensure MSW is delivered to a processing facility, including evaluating the amount of MSW generated by public entities, and the volume delivered for processing. Ramsey County Solid Waste Master Plan 2011 -2030 Page 123 Approved by the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners on 3120112