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V. - Issues Related to Tax - exempt Properties. If the Alternative Finance Committee were to recommend implementation of the Availability Fee, the fee would also include an assessment against tax- exempt, developed properties within Orange County. Because these properties are exempt from property taxes, the Orange County Assessor does not have the requisite information on these properties for the needs of this study. It would be necessary to conduct a field survey of tax- exempt properties to determine which of those sites are developed and into what tier of the commercial properties' price structure each should be placed. The inclusion of developed, tax- exempt properties would serve to lower the availability fee levied against commercial and residential properties, but the amount of the lower assessment cannot be established without first determining which of the tax- exempt properties would be subject to an Availability Fee assessment. A review of the owners of record of these tax- exempt properties reveals that of the total 1,630 tax- exempt properties, 1,118 (or 68.6 %) are held by various local, state or national governmental agencies, the University of North Carolina or Duke University. VI. - Solid Waste Management Plan. The implementation of the Solid Waste Management Plan is intended to reduce the amount of waste to be landfilled. This reduction would reduce the waste disposal costs to the various communities, and might also reduce the waste collection costs as well. Waste disposal cost savings can be more readily estimated. based on per household generation rates and the tonnage records from the last few years. Table 6 displays: • C &D and MSW waste tonnage estimates under the proposed SWMP compared with a recycling program which remains static (based on the FY 1998 program) throughout the forecast period; • the level of waste reduction which each jurisdiction might anticipate through implementation of the SWMP; and • estimated cost savings in tipping fees to each jurisdiction. Estimates of the potential for savings in waste collection are far more arguable, because there is no ready way to estimate savings from the several possible modifications in waste collection methods: re- routing of collections, reduced collection crew size, reduced collection frequency, etc. There is anecdotal evidence from several solid waste collection programs that there might be ample opportunity for cost - savings, such as commercial waste dumpsters which are collected twice each week but are nearly half- empty. However, no attempt has been made to estimate potential collection cost savings through the implementation of the SWMP.