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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 5, 2009 Approved April 2, 2009 is changing but certainly any study in WtE would have to consider the regulatory side of it. We are suggesting please go forward and study WtE . It is going to take a little time . It' s regional not just Orange County and would hope you would consider the following factors - Look at all the waste streams not just municipal household waste . Potential for biosolids, tires, construction debris and other things could be converted to energy and all the wastes streams need to be looked at. Plasma advocates claim that y can convert medical waste to energy . We think today might not be the answer, it is going to take some time to do and the technology is changing , huge investments [are] going into WtE so we would hope that the county would say what is a good time for us to jump in , What has historically happened with WtE is not what is happening today . The size of the facility is important. We talked about highway, rail, power and water and sewer . Also we would hope that the county would think aboutlove the industrial areas [with] minimal impact on residential communities . We eco industrial park model . Experts agree that 1 , 000 tons / day or lager is the right size . We hope you look at the environmental impacts . The WtE industry is claim We that they' re burning as clean as natural gas or very close on most emissions . would expect the county to retain environmental experts to come to our own conclusions about that. We hope that our rail system will be part of the solution . When we look at the the economics, it' s not just costs, and our costs are getting up there . It is looking m $ 60 + / ton for us to handle our waste . When we look at the economics it' s not just dual to build and operate the facility, it has to be the resale of the energy the resi ash, incentives for renewable energy and potential revenue for Orange County . We are not sure that this is a county initiative because looking at a $100 $ million capital investment this is what the big boys like Waste Management or Duke Energy this is what they do for a living and if Orange County might haveant better role of committing to a waste stream and saying this is something we w to participate in rather than something that we build . Finally there are the regulations would have to part of the study . As a final point, we believe the County should discontinue all work on the waste transfer station on the Howell site and in rural county . Instead we think the County should empower this board to aggressively explore WtE and provide funding for expert opinion and research . For our short-term needs, we suggest the County engage local vendors to handle our waste disposal requiring no immediate siting decisions and 10