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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board April 2, 2009 Approved May 7, 2009 Attendance : Jan Sassaman, Linda Bowerman, Al Vickers, Remus Smith, Michelle Grunwald, Doug Guild, Steve Yuhasz and BJ Tipton Staff: Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, Paul Spire, Hary Howard, Nicole Ard, and Wanda McCain Guests : Bob Sallach and Ernie Parker - Olver Inc . 1 . Opening & Welcome Sassaman states that for the public if you wish to speak please sign up . We have some business to deal with other than the alternative waste technologies and transfer station hauling . I would like to wrap those items up by 8030 ith what they need to deal with . to give SWAB time to deal w 2 . Adoption of Minutes from March 5 SWAB meeting Smith moves to accept. Grunwald 2nd . Passes unanimously 3 . Board Member Comments None 4 . Alternative Waste Management Technologies Ernie Parker states that we were asked to evaluate the long term waste management alternatives that were available . As a reminder, there was a report done by GBB in August 2008 which looked at many of these issues and we began by using the GBB report as a baseline . The general findings of the GBB report concluded that WtE technologies were the only technologies available for consideration here . The other technologies were judged too risky, unproven, uncertain, unreliable, or having potential for environmental non- compliance . Looking at the waste volume for Orange County, around 200 tons / day, if a WtE facility was constructed to handle that volume the GBB report estimated that the cost would be a little over $100 / ton, which was not competitive with the landfill tipping fee, private vendors or likely the new transfer station . After we looked at the baseline we made a number of contacts with owners and operators that have real -world experience with WtE . Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority currently operates three WtE facilities and is the group that is to build a new WtE plant in 10 - 15 years . The Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority consists of six counties in Maryland as well as the city of Baltimore . They have operated WtE facilities for about 25 years . ided to build a new WtE facility . When they began the process They have recently dec they looked, as we are, for all the various alternatives out there and came to the conclusion for their facility that Mass Burn was the only proven economically feasible technology . They are building two facilities . One is a replacement facility and the other is a new site . The site procurement for the replacement facility began in 2006 . I 1