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Inver Grove Heights, MNvesota), Seven Mile Creek Caudell 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 Cake Mills, Iowa Walter's has a contract to deliver waste from its transfer station to the Seven Mile Creek Caudeell. When Ramsey and Washington Counties set up He agreement with NRG to build and operate the Resource Recovery Facility (SEE), the Counties could mandate that garbage haulers take all the waste they collet[ to the RRF. In the 1994 case Cabone vs. Qarkstown He U.S. Supreme Court ruled that trash hauling is interstate commerce This meant that the Counties could no longer mandate residents It 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. Ruing the 2001 session Mimnesota lawmakers gave the counties money to offset He higher tipping fees at waste to energy facilities. B ecause of a budget shortfall, no such propo sal 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 It it collected in the Counties to the RRF. As a exult, during He last ten days of2001, BF[ Waste Management and Superior all agreed to one year contracts to haul all their garbage to He RRF. This came at He same time the Counties were investigating mandating organized collet tionin 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 He low tipping fees expire at He 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 Countyrequires haulers to hold a Countylicense The County requires insurance various safety standards and that a portion ofthe waste collected is sent to the Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) in Newport, NEnnesom According to Roseville City Attorney Iok lamnik, Roseville could not require as part ofits 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 - mentalregulations. 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 40