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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
None.
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.
Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures
We maintain a set of disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information we are required to
disclose in reports that we file or submit with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the
time periods specified by the SEC. An evaluation was carried out under the supervision and with the participation of
the Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”),
of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report.
Based on that evaluation, the CEO and CFO have concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures
are effective to ensure that we are able to collect, process and disclose the information we are required to disclose in
the reports we file with the SEC within required time periods.
Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
Management’s report on our internal control over financial reporting can be found in Item 8 of this report. The
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s attestation report on management’s assessment of the effec-
tiveness of our internal control over financial reporting can also be found in Item 8, Financial Statements and
Supplementary Data, of this report.
Item 9B. Other Information.
None.
PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.
The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the Company’s definitive Proxy
Statement for its 2008 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, to be held May 9, 2008.
We have adopted a code of ethics that applies to our CEO, CFO and Chief Accounting Officer, as well as other
officers, directors and employees of the Company. The code of ethics, entitled “Code of Conduct,” is posted on our
website at http://www.wm.com under the caption “Ethics and Diversity.”
Item 11. Executive Compensation.
The information required by this Item is included in the 2008 Proxy Statement and is incorporated herein by
reference.
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