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     ARTICLE 6

RELATING TO RESOURCE RECOVERY CORPORATION

     SECTION 1. Section 23-19-13.5 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-19 entitled "Rhode

Island Resource Recovery Corporation" is hereby amended to read as follows:

     23-19-13.5. Interim rates. -- The municipal tipping fee charged by the resource recovery

corporation shall be as follows:

     (1) Thirty-two dollars ($32.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014 2015, for any

municipality that recycles between zero percent (0%) and twenty-four and ninety-nine hundredths

percent (24.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation's material recycling facility ("MRF") in

Johnston.

     (2) Thirty-one dollars ($31.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014 2015, for any

municipality that recycles between twenty-five percent (25%) and twenty-nine and ninety-nine

hundredths percent (29.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation's ("MRF") in Johnston.

     (3) Thirty dollars ($30.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014 2015, for any

municipality that recycles between thirty percent (30%) and thirty-four and ninety-nine

hundredths percent (34.99%) of its solid waste at the Corporation's ("MRF") in Johnston.

     (4) Twenty-nine dollars ($29.00) per ton from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014 2015, for

any municipality that recycles thirty-five percent (35%) or more of its solid waste at the

Corporation's ("MRF") in Johnston.

     (5) The Corporation shall issue a rebate not later than September 1 of each year to those

municipalities qualifying for a year-end tipping fee adjustment according to the municipality's

actual recorded tonnage delivered to the MRF in Johnston, and in accordance with the provisions

of the municipality's current-year signed solid waste and recycling services agreement with the

corporation.

     (6) The corporation shall provide a rate plan with its proposed budget to be submitted to

the state on or before October 1, 2014 in accordance with § 23-19-37 of the Rhode Island general

laws.

     SECTION 2. This article shall take effect as of July 1, 2014.