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• The City of Durham transfer station appears to be a viable option with details and actual costs subject to final negotiations. • The County owned 10 acre Paydarfar site is a viable option within the County's control but comes with objections similar to those posed by the previously considered Eubanks Road. • The remaining projected capacity at the current landfill could be exhausted, under best management practices, by Summer 2012. • The need for a solid waste solution within the County remains a reality, notwithstanding meticulous review and public debate over alternatives; i.e., waste to energy technologies utilization of private vendors, and other options available. • The solid waste transfer site selection process, re- opened in December 2007 with the engagement of Olver, Inc., has involved intensive technical research and been infused with substantial community participation over a period approaching 2 years. • Orange County government through the Solid Waste Management Enterprise Fund has expended in excess of $490,584 for all work, meetings, reports, specialty subcontractors, and certain fees related to the SWTS site search (January 2008 to Present). • The BOCC has previously agreed to the creation of a Community Advisory Group to be engaged with Solid Waste management and the chosen engineering group to provide a conduit for information, communications and dialogue regarding the development and implementation of a state -of -the -art facility in the spirit of mitigating to the greatest extent practical any adverse impacts. • The accompanying Attachments are provided to further illustrate current findings and subsequent steps in the decision making process. Attachment 6, Staff Response to Questions Concerning the Adopted Exclusionary Criteria, addresses why, for example, the Paydarfar site proposal did not emerge earlier in the analysis by Olver, Inc. 1) Preliminary Concept Plan for a SWTS on Hwy 54 2) Preliminary Concept Plan for a SWTS on Paydarfar property 3) Paydarfar Property — Environmental Assessment (EA) 4) Paydarfar Property — Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) Report 5) Decision Making Flow Chart and Narrative 6) Staff Response to Questions Concerning the Adopted Exclusionary Criteria Summary The County has spent two years and several hundred thousand dollars pursuing a resolution as to how to handle solid waste disposal once the county landfill closes. Ultimately any site selected within the County for a Solid Waste Transfer Station has negative consequences and connotations, real or imagined. It is estimated approximately 30 months will be needed from the time of the site decision to allow for facility design, permitting, bidding and award of a contract, and construction. The current estimate for landfill capacity is Summer 2012; Further