text: **REPUBLIC SERVICES, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES**
  
  **NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS**
  **(All tables in millions, except per share data) Ì (Continued)**
  
  The expected future payments for Ñnal capping, closure and post-closure as of December 31, 2004 are as 
  follows: 
  
  **Years Ending**
  **December 31,**
  
  $ 14.6 
  58.1 
  49.5 
  20.1 
  31.9 
  457.7 
  
  $631.9 
  
  The estimated remaining Ñnal capping, closure and post-closure expenditures presented above are 
  undiscounted and include both payments for liabilities incurred and recorded as of December 31, 2004 and 
  estimated future liabilities expected to be incurred as the remaining landÑll disposal capacities are consumed. 
  
  **Remediation**
  
  The Company accrues for remediation costs when they become probable and reasonably estimatable. 
  Substantially all of the Company's recorded remediation costs are for incremental landÑll post-closure care 
  required under approved remediation action plans for acquired landÑlls. Remediation costs are estimated by 
  engineers. These estimates do not take into account discounts for the present value of total estimated costs. 
  Management believes that the amounts accrued for remediation costs are adequate. However, a signiÑcant 
  increase in the estimated costs for remediation could have a material adverse eÅect on the Company's 
  Ñnancial position, results of operations or cash Öows. 
  
  The expected future payments for remediation costs as of December 31, 2004 are as follows: 
  
  **Years Ending**
  **December 31,**