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As of this agenda item, the State Clearinghouse has ~nat issued its report to Planning but it is expected shortly. Planning anticipates it would take about 3-5 days fram receipt to review the Report and make an initial determination. Even if Planning were to issue a Ft]NSI, the ~UCC as the project "applicant" could still submit to a~n ElS voluntarily. A formal EIS is a more expensive operation that would entail developing a final proposed site plan and would take an estimated ?5-9D days to complete, See Attachment A: Aver inc. Environmental Assessment) Site D56 DvVASA ~ Site l59 The DUVASA Board of Directors in a letter dated Dctober ~4, 2DO8 informed the County that it would not allow entry to their 43 acre parcel for purposes of conducting various assessments, surveys, etc. Therefore, no such evaluations, assessments or surveys have been conducted. In a lVlarch ~2, 2409 letter to the County lUlanager DwASA further indicated, in the absence of an identified property to swap, it has no interest in consideration of a land-swap option as an alternative for further County pursuit of this candidate transfer station site. SWAB and Community Exploration of Possible Alternative Approaches, Partnerships and Methodologies for Solid Waste Disposal Alternative vUaste Transfer Approaches Diver, inc. has presented a detailed analysis regarding the financial hand other} implications of Bela ing or not developing a local transfer station. Duch discussion occurred with regard to this y topic in SWAB ~ meetings that included various citizens groups, residents and other interested persons. Diver, Int.'s analysis was amended as a result of some of the input submitted in this forum. Staff also recommended revisions to the analysis partially in response to the worsening budgetary environment. first, Diver, inc. was directed to reduce the property to be acquired to 25 acres although acquiring the entire ~ 43 acres should still be considered. Second, Diver, inc. was directed ta~ reduce the size requirements of the transfer station itself to the minimum needed to function properly but still retain the state of the art enclosed design. The~analysis reveals it will be mare expensive far the hauling of waste from Drange County to existing regional transfer stations than to the Hwy. 54 candidate site. The analysis found the County's Inter-local Dvvern~nent partners with the .exception of Hillsborough} will incur significant additional costs to haul to an out-of-county transfer facility. A recent staff inquiry with the City of Durham staff indicted Drange County could not realize a preferential tipping fee at the City of Durham transfer station. Another recent inquiry with wake County staff indicated a passible discussion among the South 111lake Landfill Partners to consider the nation of the wake County landfill hosting one or more neighboring jurisdictions waste. As a result of this reasonably positive, though non-committal, response fram wake County the County has asked Diver, inc. to include within the hauling