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prohibition on mixing C &D wastes at the building site (see Section B). Those on -site bans would be more difficult to enforce than landfill bans and would certainly require additional staff to be successful. Differential fees are practically applicable only at the gate of a C &D debris management facility. We believe that use of differential feesibans such as now applied to yard waste and corrugated cardboard could be practically applied to clean wood and metal wastes within certain limits to encourage greater diversion. A ban on drywall could also be considered. All would probably have to have a certain tolerance level to be practically acceptable by builders. It is impractical to institute too wide a range of materials bans as enforcement and determination of contaminant levels would become an issue with each hauler on each load. Use of the differential fees and bans to ensure source - separation must also include additional processing as noted in section C.2 above and additional staff, equipment and facilities would be required to manage the larger amount of materials that are separated and must be processed. E. Available Grants: Periodically both State and Federal grants are available for C &D management. This an area now receiving much more attention as recycling of the municipal solid waste stream begins to mature. In general we plan to pursue such grants as available. We have recently applied for a grant from the State of North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance (DPPEA) for $17,000 to encourage separation and diversion of wood wastes for grinding and marketing. The grant would cover the cost of grinding approximately 1,000 tons of wood waste. Staff effort would be involved in separating, inspecting and loading materials. The hauler would charge no additional fee to take the wood chips to market. We will also experiment with coloring some of the chips for sale as a colored mulch product. If we receive the grant, and the project is successful and we proceed with additional wood waste diversion, then we would incur ongoing handling, grinding and loading costs for each ton of wood diverted. Those costs including grinding, handling and marketing, would likely exceed the current $12 per ton fee charged for source - separated clean wood wastes. F. Successful Facilities Elsewhere: In section C above we have provided basic information about three successful recycling processing facilities we are aware of. We have also attempted to get more information about another Phoenix Recycling facility in Havelock, NC, no longer directly associated with the one in Charlotte. They have not returned our phone calls. 32