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I • Authority. While the RFP was open to all interested and qualified vendors, only those technologies deemed qualified by the Authority were eligible for consideration. The Authority was directed to obtain proposals for expanding the current WTE capacity in two ways: (1) additional capacity at the current facility to meet Harford County's needs, but not provide significant additional energy to the Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), and (2) build a new RRF to accommodate the waste disposal needs of Harford County, including capacity for some of the waste disposal needs of adjacent "Base Realignment and Closure Act" (BRAC) affected counties (Baltimore and Cecil Counties), and provide a greater amount of the energy needs of APG. APG had agreed to lease an additional 20 acres of land next to the existing RRF for the larger regional facility. The Authority has short - listed both Covanta Energy and Wheelabrator Technologies proposals as responsive and will continue the procurement process with those firms. The Authority is currently seeking approval from Harford County to begin formal negotiations with the vendors to arrive at a final contract to be voted on by the Harford County Council. Best and final offers have been requested from both companies and should be received by the end of September 2008, followed by final selection and negotiations. 4.2.3 City of Sacramento, CA In August 2007, the City of Sacramento, CA issued an RFQ soliciting an experienced and qualified firm to partner with it to process MSW utilizing alternative technologies premised on resource recovery and /or energy creation. To qualify, firms must have had demonstrated experience and capacity to finance, design, build, own and operate a facility that processed MSW in excess of what the City currently disposes of, approximately 2,300 TPD after diversion. Sacramento was interested in a facility that used treatment technologies including, but not limited to, pyrolysis, gasification, advanced thermal recycling (a second generation advancement of mass -burn technologies), biological, chemical, physical and /or a combination thereof. They wanted technologies that were well proven at commercial scale, had high landfill diversion rates, and could generate a wide range of useful by- products that could be marketed for revenue sharing by the City and its development partner. In October 2007, the City received 11 responses to the RFQ, not all of them waste processing technologies. The City performed a technical evaluation of the responses and went to the Council to request an Exclusive Negotiating Rights Agreement (ENRA) with a single company, U.S. Science and Technology. A plasma arc gasification project is being evaluated with due diligence expected to be completed in early September. City officials traveled to Japan to visit a plant that employs a similar technology at a commercial level (Westinghouse Plasma Corporation). A decision on the implementation of the project is expected in the near term. 4.2.4 Broward County, FL The Broward County Solid Waste Disposal District (District) in July 2007 was considering changes to its solid waste management infrastructure in the near term. Because its disposal contracts with two privately -owned WTE facilities will reach the end of their initial service agreement terms in the near future, the District recognized that many options to be considered would require significant development time, and thus began the process to proactively evaluate such options. The District sought, through a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI), to identify firms that could GBB/C08027 -01 19 August 15, 2008