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9 • Fees could be based on either an hourly rate,per acre or job rate and could be based on any number of variables such as quantity of material to be ground, location of farm and difficulty to get to, whether large stumps are to be included in material, estimated level of annual demand for this service, etc. • If a subsidy is to be offered only to agriculture community, a clear definition or method of identifying legitimate farming operations must be developed and a non-Solid Waste Management Fund source of funding be identified. • Expenses would include mobilization costs (transporting equipment to and from the site) and costs associated directly with the grinding operation. • If the ground mulch were not wanted/needed on site, there would be additional costs to haul away the mulch, depending on the haul distance, tipping fees and the off-site landfill/recycling facility. Note: It would be difficult to predict a fee schedule for this particular option at this point without some additional guidance from the Board and additional analysis by staff. Board input on the whether this service would be available to only the agriculture community or also would be available to the non-agriculture community is important. Should the Board be further interested in this alternative and once reliable cost estimates are developed, staff will provide them to the Board. Whether this option is combined with other of the S options listed is preferred may also impact ultimate costs/fees. Staff believes its costs would approximate private sector costs. 4. County could acquire hauling equipment to load and haul landclearing materials to a local governmentally owned/operated landclearing and inert debris recycling facility. Description: This option would entail a significantly reduced level of mobilization relative to #3. This option would provide for the Solid Waste Management Department to load and haul the landclearing materials from the farm to a central site (presumably owned and operated by the County), where the grinding operation could take place as staff/equipment time permits. A variation of this option would be to leave the hauling to the private sector(as in #2) and simply provide a local recycling (site) alternative to out-of-county disposal or other less desirable options. Key Issues: • Acquisition of a landclearing and inert debris recycling site within Orange County is consistent with the C&D Recycling Task Force's recommendations and recent Solid Waste Management Department staff recommendations. In staffs opinion, identifying a location to initiate landclearing and inert debris recycling operations is needed regardless of alternative selected by the Board to assist agriculture community in finding alternatives to open burning. Economic Development Districts are possible locations consistent with the light-industrial nature of these type operations. The EDDs are also convenient to the majority of farms in Orange County, which would reduce hauling costs. • Would resolve various on-site transportation/weight limit complications while still providing assistance to the agriculture community. • Consistent with Board's interest in promoting and assisting the local agriculture community. • May still present some degree of liability related to operations conducted on private property if and when a location could be rezoned properly. 7