2011 U.S. HOTEL FRANCHISE FEE GUIDE | PAGE 11 As indicated in the preceding table, franchise fees as a percentage of total rooms revenue ranged from 2.0% to 13.2%, in the mid-rate category in 2010. The average franchise fee as a percentage of total rooms revenue was 9.9%, and the median was 10.3%.
Resource recovery is the retrieval of recyclable waste, which was intended for disposal, for a specific next use. It is the processing of recyclables to extract or recover materials and resources, or convert to energy. This process is carried out at a resource recovery facility.
Radioactive Waste. Liquid, solid, or gaseous waste resulting from mining of radioactive ore, production of reactor fuel materials, reactor operation, processing of irradiated reactor fuels, and related operations, and from use of radioactive materials in research, industry, and medicine.