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., 2 3. Acquire approximately five acres of land and build a transfer station to move construction and demolition wastes to another permitted landfill or ocher facility outside Orange County. 4. Acquire approximately twenty-five acres of land, build a simple, primarily manual, sorting facility to remove limited amounts of recyclable or reusable construction wastes and landfill the rcmainder. 5. Acquire approximately twenty-five acres of land, build a more sophisticated combined manual and semi-automated sorting facility to remove recyclables and reusable construction materials and landfill the remainder. We believe a combination of regulation, economic incentives and some type of processing facility at the landfill could result in a significant reduction of construction and demolition waste, without abandoning our responsibility to provide environmentally sound, affordable disposal capacity for our County. If the Owners Group's goal of a minimum 25% construction and demolidon waste reduction is adopted by the member governments, then the Owners Group should consider .a processing facility to reduce the amount landfilled. Other options including the "no-build" option,. alandfill-only option, or a transfer statioato remove construction and demolition wastes would not provide significant opportunities for waste-reduction as part of t any overall construction waste management program. Limited pre-sorting of clean wood wastes and selecud metal products could be integrated into those operations without a construction and demolition waste processing facility, although ~ some additional staff may be needed. Specific recommendations on construction and demolition waste items previously discussed at the May 17 and June 20 Landfill Owners Group meetings are listed below (Copies of memoranda from the May and June meetings are available on request.) Regulation of waste generated at the construction site through adoption of solid waste planning measures by all Iocai governments in Oranges County with enforcement of such measures by a solid waste plan administrator/site-inspector to be shared among the four governments, Incentive fees at the landfill to encourage delivery of source-separated material to the landfill, including management of those materials at the landfill. To correspond to existing markets we recommend adoption of incentive fees for all unpainted, untreated wood~and all types of metal except those not collected for recycling such as fuel tanks and wound wire cables. As our capabilities to handle more materials increase and, if markets for additional materials become available, we would recommend consideration of incentive fees for additional items as well, Authorization to develop. a detailed engineering-level cost estimate of a processing