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proven technology as a minimum requirement for making capital available to the Authority. In October 2006, the Authority solicited Proposals from qualified, experienced firms in the refuse management and power facility construction and operation fields to provide for the construction, testing, operation and maintenance of a new refuse power plant (RPP) capacity for the counties. The Authority had pre - qualified eight technologies for this solicitation. The facilities were to be owned by the Authority and leased to the successful Proposer (Company) on a long -term basis (at least 20 years from the commercial operations date). The site was to be provided by the Authority. The Authority would provide most of the refuse (fuel) under a put -or -pay contract and would apply residues for beneficial use as daily cover at the counties' landfills. The Company would have the rights to all or a portion of the energy revenues (as specified by it in its proposal) and all of the excess waste disposal capacity that could be used to dispose of non - residential waste from any other Authority jurisdiction. In response to the directives, proposals were requested for the following three facility options: • A 900 TPD resource recovery facility to be located in Frederick County to process residential and commercial waste generated in Frederick County; and • A 600 TPD resource recovery facility to be located in Carroll County to process residential and commercial waste generated in Carroll County; or A 1,500 TPD resource recovery facility to be located in Carroll County to process residential and commercial waste generated in both Frederick and Carroll Counties. After receipt of proposals from three vendors, the Authority, in conjunction with the participating jurisdictions, completed an initial review of the proposals and short- listed Covanta Energy and Wheelabrator Technologies. As part of the initial review, the Authority met with Covanta and Wheelabrator to clarify their proposals and to ensure that the initial financial modeling results correctly represented their proposals and met the needs of the local jurisdictions. As of the time of this report, the Authority is currently seeking approvals from the jurisdictions to begin formal negotiations with the vendors to arrive at a final contract to be voted on by the jurisdictions' Commissioners. If approved by the jurisdictions, the permitting and construction of the facilities could take up to five years. 4.2.2 Harford County, MD In May 2006, the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal Authority (Authority) began a search for firms with Qualified Technologies to provide an expansion of the WTE facility for Harford County, similar to the process conducted for Frederick and Carroll counties (see 5.2.1 above). In December 2006, The Authority issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) located in Harford County, Maryland. This was the second step in the two -step competitive procurement being conducted by the GBB/C08027 -01 18 August 15, 2008