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1 ATTACHMENT 2- F 2 MRF Equipment Acceptance Test Procedures 3 4 5 General Testing Requirements 6 The purpose of MRF Equipment Acceptance Test is to verify that the MRF processing 7 system, as designed and manufactured, is capable of operating at the performance 8 levels required under the Agreement. The Contractor shall be responsible to perform the 9 start-up and acceptance test of the MRF processing system to demonstrate compliance 10 with all requirements of the Equipment Acceptance Test. 11 12 During Equipment Acceptance Test, the Contractor shall operate the processing system 13 in accordance with staffing levels specified in Attachment 9, and according to the 14 specified method of operation described in the Contractor's Implementation and 15 Operations Plan in Attachment 4. For the purposes of the Equipment Acceptance Test, 16 the Contractor shall not operate MRF processing system in any manner which is f7 inconsistent with the Contractor's Implementation and Operations Plan, nor shall the 18 Contractor utilize additional personnel above and beyond those specified in the 19 Attachment 9, to achieve the Equipment Acceptance Test. The required sorters must be 20 properly trained, and work efficiently to achieve industry standard number of sort picks 21 per minute. 22 23 Acceptance Test Process 24 The Equipment Acceptance Test will be conducted over three (3) consecutive operating 25 days. The operating day shall be eight (8) hours in duration inclusive of scheduled break 26 periods (e.g. lunch, break, and scheduled clean-up). The start-time, break-time, end- 27 time will be predetermined by the Contractor and approved by the Authority. The 28 processing system run-time during the Equipment Acceptance Test, will be equal to time 29 the system is running and does not include scheduled break-times. Each operating day, 30 the Contractor is allowed thirty (30) minutes of unscheduled downtime. Equipment 31 stoppages that are not equipment related shall not be regarded as system downtime. 32 33 The following data will be recorded during the Equipment~cce tance Test: 34 1. The individual and aggregate weights of alli.~ (product and 35 residual) generated during the Equipment Acceptance Test. 36 2. Start-time, break-time, stop-time, downtime, and total run-time. 37 3. Logs of all maintenance, repairs, and adjustments to processing system 38 performed by the Contractor during each test period. 39 4. General observations about the processing system's performance during the 40 test period. 41 42 Process Materials 43 The Process Materials for the Equipment Acceptance Test shall be commercial and 44 residential materials as collected by the Collection Contractor within the SBWMA service 45 area If the test is conducted prior to SBWMA residential single stream material being 46 available for the test, the Process Materials will be prepared at the Shoreway facility by: 47 (i) importing single stream materials from a Bay Area location that has similar 48 demographics to the SBWMA's area; or (ii) by mixing the collected source separated 49 fiber and container streams collected from inbound curbside route trucks. 50 Facility Agreement, Attachment 2F MRF Equipment Acceptance Test Page 1 of 2