01-03-1985 Council Packet Special Meeting

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this date. Centralized processing facilities (transfer station/processing facilities, waste combustion and co -composting) can manage about 80 percent of the region's solid waste by 1990. The development program also describes the efforts that are necessary to implement region -wide market development and solid waste communications programs. The land disposal development program states that three new landfill facilities will need to be opened in the region. The program requires Anoka County to open a facility in 1987, Hennepin County in 1991 and Washington County in 1995. The program states that these facilities would dispose of only pro- cessed residuals or special wastes. The program sets a ceiling on the amount of new capacity that can be implemented at 7,245 acre-feet. A unique feature of the land disposal development program is that it is based on implementing feasible and prudent waste reduction and resource recovery alternatives. The Council is requ'red by the Waste Management Act to approve certificates of need for new land disposal capacity. Certificates of need can be approved only if there are no feasible and prudent alternatives to the disposal facility. The development program for waste reduction and resource recovery sets the levels of feasible and prudent alternatives. This require- ment of certificate of need was an added protection in the Act to ensure that land disposal would be used only as a last resort. Finally, the costs and methods of financing the development programs are described. It is estimated that by 1990 costs to household generators of solid waste would increase by $30 to $50 annually. This represents about a 30 to 50 percent increase in charges to household over current costs. The total costs of implementing the development programs is about S345 million.