Common use of Work Agreements Clause in Contracts

Work Agreements. A. The Work Agreements below are intended to achieve the Goals and Objectives in Section IV, relative to completing the Demonstration Project and implementation of the nationally-coordinated system. This section outlines PPSI participant tasks, timelines, and deliverables, and also designates roles and responsibilities among PPSI participants. B. The undersigned PPSI participants agree to work collaboratively over the next three years to do the following: 1. Continue the PPSI dialogue by attending regular meetings of the full dialogue group and Steering Committee, and through workgroup conference calls comprising a subset of PPSI participants. The composition of the Steering Committee appears in Appendix A. 2. Design, implement, and evaluate the Minnesota Demonstration Project (as described in Appendix B) and use this experience to develop a fully-funded, functional, environmentally sound, and cost-effective nationally-coordinated leftover paint management system. As determined by PPSI participants following the evaluation of the Minnesota Demonstration Project, the performance goals and financing system established for the Minnesota Demonstration Project are to inform the development of the post-consumer paint management program in other states during the national roll-out. 3. Continue to pursue a voluntary multi-stakeholder approach for the Minnesota Demonstration Project but consider mechanisms to ensure potential anti-trust implications are addressed, a level playing field is achieved, costs are reimbursed, and free-ridership issues are dealt with, particularly as we move forward with a nationally-coordinated system. These mechanisms include, but are not limited to, legislation, regulation, and/or model rulemaking. 4. Support and implement strategies that effectively change consumer behavior to reduce leftover paint generation, including, but not limited to, comprehensive and detailed education and outreach efforts to reduce over-purchases of paint and promote the reduce/reuse/recycle/resource recovery hierarchy for paint management. 5. Pursue completion of the lifecycle assessment/cost benefit analysis (LCA/CBA), including developing the remaining required inputs for the pure and modified methods that offer an assessment of one or more versions of a national infrastructure for leftover paint management; resolving remaining issues identified in review of the first draft LCA and the CBA data/assumptions/methods report; and reviewing and commenting on revised drafts of LCA and CBA reports.7 6. Collect baseline data on aerosol paints (e.g., how collected/recycled, costs, baseline volumes, manufacturers, etc.) and develop a White Paper for PPSI review. C. Based on lessons learned, PPSI participants agree to resolve the following items by January 1, 2010, as an addendum to the MOU: 1. Roles of PPSI dialogue participants after this MOU ends on November 1, 2010. 2. Revisit governance structure of the Paint Stewardship Organization. 7 It should be noted that PPSI dialogue participants might find that the development of the final LCA/CBA report would benefit from data developed in the Minnesota Demonstration Project. As such, it is recognized that the final report may not be completed until the Demonstration Project is evaluated. 3. Performance goals for the nationally-coordinated, leftover paint management system (e.g., reduction, reuse, collection, and recycling). 4. Timeline for implementation of the nationally-coordinated leftover paint management system in all other states, as discussed in Section IV D.