Permissible Pass-Through Charges Clause Samples

Permissible Pass-Through Charges. Any and all governmental fee increases incurred for disposal or processing of Solid Waste at the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill or at the Village Designated Recycling Services and Yard Waste Services Facilities may be passed on by the Collection Contractor. Any and all governmental fee decreases shall be passed on by the Collection Contractor. A governmental fee is a fee applied to the disposal or processing of Solid Waste levied by the United States Federal Government, State of Ohio, Franklin County, or SWACO. Additionally, any increase or decrease in a rate or charge for the disposal of Solid Waste at the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill may be passed on by the Collection Contractor. The Collection Contractor shall give the Village and Resident/Business as much notice as is practicable before adjusting for governmental fee, rate or charge modifications. In the event an adjustment is necessary, the Collection Contractor charge per Resident/Businessial Unit shall be adjusted by an amount to he determined as follows: For Solid Waste Disposal: per ton price difference + 12 For Recyclable Materials Processing: (1/3) (per ton price difference) 4- 12 For Yard Waste Composting: (1/5) (per ton price difference) + 12

Permissible Pass-Through Charges. Any and all Governmental Fee increases actually incurred by Collection Contractor for the disposal of Solid Waste at the Franklin County Sanitary Landfill may be passed on by the Collection Contractor through a corresponding increase in the respective price(s) contained in the Bid Form (Exhibit G). Any and all Governmental Fee decreases shall be passed on by the Collection Contractor through a corresponding decrease in the respective price(s) contained in the Bid Form. The Collection Contractor shall give the School District as much notice as is reasonably practicable before adjusting for any Governmental Fee modifications. In the event the Collection Contractor intends to increase the price(s) pursuant to this section, it shall submit, along with its advance notice to the School District, documentation that supports the proposed increase. Prior to Collection Contractor implementing an increase, the School District must approve such increase, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld. The Collection Contractor identified a specific contamination charge with Bid Forms G-2, G-3, or G-4. Any actual contamination charges to the Collection Contractor by the Recycling Processing Facility may be passed on to the School District. The first occurrence of contamination charges shall result in a written warning to the School District. Thereafter, the contamination charges may be passed on to the School District, as calculated and set forth in Exhibit I, which is incorporated as if fully re-written herein. However, the total contamination charge passed on to the School District shall not exceed $60.00 per ton, per instance for contamination delivered to the MRF.1 If the recycling driver detects a contaminated load before collecting the container, and that load must be treated as a solid 1 For this purpose, one ton of commingled residential waste is calculated as follows (following the Volume-to-Weight Conversion Factors U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery April 2016 EPA’s 1997 report, “Measuring Recycling: A Guide for State and Local Governments”): 1 cubic yard commingled residential recyclables = 260 pounds; 1 ton converted to pounds = 2,000 pounds; therefore (260 pounds/ 2,000 pounds = 0.13 tons for every cubic yard of co- mingled recyclables).