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"City Organic Tonnage Limit"the maximum amount of Controllable Organic Waste that County is committed to accept under the Organic Service Covenant as provided in Attachment 3. "Commencement Date"means the date on which the obligations of the parties hereto commence. "Contract Date"means the first date on which this OSA has been executed by both parties hereto. "Controllable Organic Waste" means all City Acceptable Organic Waste with respect to which the City has the legal or contractual ability to determine the processing location and procurement requirements as they relate to the City's Organics Legislation compliance requirements. "Consumer Price Index" or "CPI" means the Consumer Price Index published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Al Urban Consumers: Water and Sewer and Trash Collection Services in U.S. City Average (CUSROOOOEHG). In the event the forgoing index is no longer published during the term of this Agreement, such other index identified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as a replacement or otherwise generally accepted as a replacement shall be used for purposes of this Agreement;and,in the absence thereof,the County Board of Supervisors shall select an index that it determines most closely reflects the forgoing and best implements the intent of this Agreement. "Initial Term"has the meaning specified in Section 5.1(A)hereof. "Manure/Stable Bedding Program" means the programs used by the County to mix source separated uncontaminated horse manure and stable bedding into its Organic Infrastructure to create organic product. Current permit requirements set a maximum percentage of 20% manure/stable bedding ("Material") by weight of total incoming feedstock. County agreement to accept Material is subject to payment of the Organic Contract Rate,available capacity, and compliance with the terms found in Attachment 2. "Organic Contract Rate"has the meaning specified in Section 4.2 hereof. "Organic Diversion Credit" means credit provided to a local jurisdiction or entity for implementing the diversion of Organic Waste from landfilling through specific activities recognized by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery(CalRecycle) including composting, anaerobic digestion,or other methods to meet the State's waste diversion goals and statutes such as Assembly Bill 939, Assembly Bill 341,Assembly Bill 1594, Assembly Bill 1826,and SB 1383 through waste prevention,reuse,and recycling. "Organic Infrastructure"means the County's organics processing facilities and programs used to recycle and promote the processing and diversion of Organic Waste into compost or other material that qualifies as diversion under Applicable Law as described in more detail in Attachment 1. "Organics Legislation" means organics recycling legislation including Assembly Bill 1594, Assembly Bill 1826, SB 1383 and any future legislation pertaining to the management and diversion of Organic Waste. "Organic ROWP Procurement Credit" means credit provided to a jurisdiction to meet their Recovered Organic Waste Procurement Target under SB 1383 by procuring Recovered Organic Waste Products as permitted by CalRecycle. "Organics Agreement" means this Organic Services Agreement("OSA")between the County and the City as the same may be amended or modified from time to time in accordance herewith. "Organic Take-Back Goal" means the programs that City and County will work toward to create City programs that have the goal of City taking back its Proportional Share of finished compost or other Recovered Organic Waste Product for local application. "Organic Waste"means solid wastes containing material originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products including, but not limited to, food,green material, landscape and pruning waste, organic textiles and carpets,lumber,wood,paper products,printing and writing paper.manure,biosolids,digestate,and sludges as defined in Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, Section 1898'2(a)(46).