text: **REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES**
  
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              [html]<thead><tr><td>( All tables in millions, except per share data ) — ( Continued )</td><td>Description</td><td>Historical Practice</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Current Practice ( Effective January 1.2003 )</td><td>Post - Closure</td><td>Includes routine monitoring and maintenance of a landfill after it has been certified as closed by the applicable state regulatory agency.</td></tr><tr><td>No change, except it includes methane gas collection systems in all cases where the need for such systems are considered probable.</td><td>DISCOUNT RATE :</td><td>Not applicable.</td></tr><tr><td>Credit - adjusted, risk - free rate of 6.5 % and 6.75 % for the years ending December 31.2004 and 2003, respectively.</td><td>INFLATION :</td><td>Not applicable.</td></tr><tr><td>Inflation rate of 2.5 %.</td><td>COST ESTIMATES :</td><td>Cost estimates generally assume work will be performed by third parties.</td></tr><tr><td>No change, except that the cost of any activities performed internally is increased to represent an estimate of the antioxide a similar pichy wising. This thind party profit is taken in to income in the performally.</td><td>METHANE GAS COLLECTION SYSTEMS :</td><td>Capitalized when constructed and charged to expense through depreciation over the shorter of their useful life or the life of the landfill.</td></tr><tr><td>During the active life of a landfill, and and anythesis, and structures, when the need for such systems is considered prohibite ; charged to experience in experience infrequences as anythesis of consumption method. Systems associatedi</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>RECOGNITION OF LIABILITY :</td><td>Final Capping</td><td>Accrued over the life of the landfill. Costs are charged to cost of operations and accrued liabilities as airspace is consumed using the units - of - consumption method. Costs are not discounted.</td></tr><tr><td>All find capping costs are recorded as accorded as according to the obligation is incurred. The study with study with study with study with study with study with study with study with study with an accruent and antibiotics. There accordino</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>STATEMENT OF INCOME :</td><td>Cost of Operations</td><td>Expense charged to cost of operations equal to amount of liability accrued.</td></tr></tbody>
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