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• 091 The ,first. of these cells must be ready by 1990-91 when the north side of the landfill is due to close. We must accumulate $1 .5 million to pay for the cell by that time. We have proposed funding this over three years, with increasing contributions each year. To pay cash for the liner will require additional tipping fee increases in 1989-90 and 1990-91. Resource Recovery The consulting firm of HDR Engineering has recommended that we expend $400,000 in FY 88-89 towards the engineering of a resource recovery facility. We are not recommending the inclusion of this engineering fee as part of the 1988-89 solid waste disposal budget. The final report resulting from the current Regional study is due this summer. It will present a number of feasible scenarios which should all be thoroughly considered by the elected officials and the public in each of the jurisdictions involved. This process may take a large part of 1988-89. In the 1989-90 budget year we will have a much better idea of our needs and be better able to consider the appropriate means through which to finance them. Power Plant Ash Ash from the UNC Power Plant is presently disposed of by mixing it with solid waste at the landfill. The state has indicated that they intend to require separate disposal of the ash. In order to do this properly with minimal dispersion of the ash, the landfill would require a new piece of equipment known as an integrated tool carrier (ITC) , which can function as a roller, a spreader or an earth mover. It is versatile enough to serve additional functions but its initial use in FY 88-89 will be as an ash compactor. This ITC will cost $150,000 to be spent in FY 88-89. It is possible to recover the cost of the ITC and other costs associated with separate ash disposal through a premium on the tipping fee which is charged for ash. This is discussed below. Tipping Fees Our analysis of operating and capital requirements for the Orange Regional Landfill Solid Waste Disposal Program demonstrates the need for an average tipping fee of approximately $10.50 per ton in FY 1988-89. (The analysis is attached to this report) . We need to generate enough revenue to meet the budget requirements presented with this memo and we will generate that revenue from tipping fees on 101,250 tons of waste. This amount is 90% of the 112,500 tons that HDR, in their December 1987 memo, projected the landfill would receive in FY 88-89. Our projected tonnage reduction is due to a predicted loss of 35% of the tonnage from private haulers because of the tipping fee increase. We assume that the private haulers, when faced with a relatively high tip fee at the Regional Landfill, will dispose of their waste at cheaper landfill or rubble fill sites. Construction +, 1pnAfilic in