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ORANGE REGIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS INVENTORY AND REDUCTION PLAN SCOPE OFWORK - PAGE 2 Task 1. Inventory The consultant will develop a greenhouse gas inventory for the base year 2000. This Community Inventory will be an estimate of emissions from all sources within the County as well as an estimate of the proportional amount of emissions from indirect from sources (outside the County) that can be attributed to activities within Orange County. The consultant will develop a separate detailed emissions inventory for publicly - owned facilities of all participating jurisdictions. This Corporate Inventory will be a subset of the overall Community Inventory and will aid in the identification of reduction measures that each jurisdiction could implement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at facilities directly under their control. The Corporate Inventory will provide a separate evaluation of greenhouse gas emissions by major government facility and will include buildings, vehicle fleet, street and traffic lights, water and sewer facilities. The emissions inventory will categorize emissions by the following sectors: • Residential, which includes emissions from the production of energy used within the home, and the residential combustion of fuels. • Transportation sector, which includes emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels for use in mobile sources such as motor vehicles. • Commercial emissions from electricity production, and the combustion of natural gas, propane, heating oil for generators, and building heating and cooling. • Industrial sectors includes emissions from electricity production, on-site energy production, building heating and cooling, and industrial processes • Solid waste sector, which represents greenhouse gas emissions from the degradation of waste in landfills • Other sectors represented any large businesses or institutions, in particular, the University of Norfh Carolina and UNC Hospitals. Greenhouse gas emissions will be estimated by examining energy use information (electricity, natural gas, propane, etc) and driving patterns such as Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT). Where data is not available, the consultant will simulate the data using commonly accepted estimation /modeling methods. Participating jurisdictions will provide the consultant with all available data pertaining to and necessary for the inventory of government facilities. Participating jurisdictions will also make available for the consultant's use, exclusively for this project, licensed computer software provided by ICLEI for analysis of the data.