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Orange County <br />March 23, 2016 <br />Page 5 of 11 <br />Entsorga sought and received a comfort letter from the Federal EPA stating that based upon the <br />information submitted by Entsorga, the SRF produced by the Berkeley County facility should be <br />considered a non -waste fuel under the EPS's Non - Hazardous Secondary Materials (NHSM) rule' <br />Figure 1: Ensorga Processing Diagram <br />The Entsorga process is presented as fully automated and controlled by a central computer system housed <br />in a control room. Construction of the facility has been estimated to take about 18 months at a reported <br />cost of $19 million. The facility is to be constructed on a site rented from the Berkeley County Solid Waste <br />Authority. Entsorga proposes to charge a tipping fee of $65 per ton which includes $5.25 per ton for state <br />and local assessments 10 Active site construction is expected to commence in the spring of 2016 with <br />commercial operations beginning in the summer of 2017. <br />Apple Valley Waste has committed to provide 54,000 tons of waste per year to the facility <br />The primary SRF consumer will be Essroc also located in Martinsburg, WV. The Essroc facility is a part of <br />an Italian materials conglomerate, Itlacementi Group. On November 5, 2014, Essroc filed an application <br />to modify its facility Title V air emissions permit to include the combustion of up to 35,581 tons of <br />alternative fuel called "refuse based fuel (RBF)" per year. The application specified that the RBF would be <br />delivered via walking floor trailers and offloaded into one of two alternative fuel hoppers. Fugitive dust at <br />the offload hoppers would be controlled by baghouses. Screw conveyors would reclaim the RBF from the <br />receiving hoppers and feed it into a pneumatic fuel feeding system, where it would be blown into the <br />cement kiln. The exhaust from the receiving hopper baghouses would be directed to the cement kiln's <br />9 US EPA letter to Entsorga WV LLC dated December 9, 2013. <br />https: / /Vosem ite.er)a.gov /osw/ rcra. nsf/ oc994248c239947e85256dO9007ll75f /E676980825 D88D5385257C71005 <br />B2C64 /Sfile /14838.pdf <br />10 Procedural Order, Case No 12- 0803 - SWF -CN Case No 12- 0803 - SWF -CN, Public Service Commission of West <br />Virginia, January 15, 2013. http: / /www.psc.state.wv.us/ scripts /orders /ViewDocument.cfm? <br />CaseActivitvl D= 360476 &Source= Docket <br />SOL <br />5 <br />GBB/C15099 <br />-02 <br />(( <br />SAWI40xxxx. <br />oxsu rexn <br />