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4, groundwater and surface water monitoring wells and collection stations and gas venting system (and possibly gas monitoring systems). Recycling The Landfill Owners Group recommends that we continue our existing recycling programs, expand some of those, and add certain other programs. The attached worksheet describes the marginal additions to recycling for next year, showing the proposed programs, their costs, estimated revenue (where applicable), and estimated tons to be captured by each. Total requested recycling budget is $646,000. Fees Adding the recycling programs described on the attached worksheet would require a tip fee of $21 /ton for most classes of wastes to be accepted by the landfill. In addition, we would use $300,000 of undesignated fund balance to meet all of the requirements, both for operating expenses and contributions to reserves. The Landfill Owners Group also recommends continuing the same fees for asbestos ($100 /ton), pickups ($5) and autos ($3) as before, and adding a differential fee for fly ash from the University's power plant ($20 /ton). The latter recommendation is based upon our attempt to work toward a long term commitment from the University for disposal of their wastes. The new power plant will be coming on line sometime next fiscal year, with resultant increases in the amounts of fly and bottom ash to be disposed. Total amounts could exceed 30,000 tons per year in the next ten years (compared to about 8,000 tons this year). The receipt of so much material could represent a significant source of revenue for the fund, while costs to dispose of the material should be significantly less than those for other categories of waste. This is due to the fact that we will not have to use our very expensive lined fill area for the ash; instead we -will be able to place it in borrow areas around the landfill. We also know that at some dollar per ton cost, it becomes cost effective for the University to send the ash back to the coal mines for land reclamation. We believe that that point is near. We are now talking with University officials to further define these points, but believe that some fee differential is appropriate given our lower costs of disposal and our need to maintain this source of revenue. Waste Volume We estimate that we will receive about 95,000 tons this year (as budgeted). We estimates that we will receive about 102,000 tons next year, including about 7,000 more tons of ash from the UNC power plant. 3