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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 5, 2011 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: UNC - Chapel Hill Landfill Gas Project Pipeline Easement Agreement <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management/ PUBLIC HEARING: (Y /N) No <br />Planning /County Attorney <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Project Vicinity Map <br />Easement Agreement <br />Line Location Plats and Easement <br />Descriptions <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Director, <br />(919) 968 -2885 <br />John Roberts, County Attorney, <br />(919) 245 -2318 <br />Kevin Lindley, Planning, <br />(919) 245 -2583 <br />Pam Jones, Asset Management, <br />(919) 245 -2652 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approving easements as requested by the University of North <br />Carolina -- Chapel Hill (UNC) for a gas line to be installed between the orange County Landfill <br />and the engine generator to be constructed at the southeast corner of the parking lot of UNC's <br />Printing Services Building located at the northwest corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard <br />and Homestead Road intersection in Chapel Hill. <br />BACKGROUND: In 2009 the Board of County Commissioners and the University of North <br />Carolina- Chapel Hill entered into an agreement for the development of a landfill gas recovery <br />project at the Orange County Landfill. This project included installation of a gas recovery <br />system (series of pipes) on both the active and closed municipal waste landfills, a flare station <br />to which the recovery system network would be directed, and a transmission line from the flare <br />station to a engine generator located near the UNC Printing Services building. The generator <br />will generate electricity for use by the University with the intention of reducing both the amount <br />of electricity purchased from the local power provider and the amount of greenhouse gas <br />emissions. A vicinity map reflecting the location of lines and easements is attached. <br />From Flare station at landfill to UNC -CH prope rt at corner of Homestead Road and <br />Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. <br />UNC has requested a temporary 20 foot wide temporary construction easement beginning at <br />the flare station on the southern portion of the Eubanks Road landfill property and terminating at <br />the engine generator at the corner of Homestead Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. A <br />