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- 63 - VII. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULES The 1980 State Waste Management Act requires that the Council land dis- posal abatement report include schedules for developing abatement pro- grams. Table 8 shows recommended regional development schedules for programs to be carried out by local government and private industry, as discussed in Section VI, "Recommendations." The development schedules are intended to show the approximate timing and sequence of events that could occur, given full governmental and private industry participation in rec- ommended land disposal abatement activities. The development schedules are merely guides for action, and will have to be refined as special pro- ject proposals are developed. Development schedules specific to each county will have to be developed as part of the counties' abatement pro- posals due in 1982 and the Council's regional land disposal abatement plan due in 1983. Table 8 shows that waste reduction and source separation programs could generally be implemented much sooner than the higher-technology options. In most instances, waste reduction and source separation do not require the extensive amount of project planning, design, siting and financing that is normally associated with the high-technology resource recovery projects. Waste reduction and source separation programs could greatly contribute to the abatement of future landfill needs by serving the Region's solid waste management system as both short-term interim measures and long-term ongoing programs. The development schedules show the target year (T) when waste reduction and source separation programs should be in full operation within the next five to six years. At that point, these programs could continue to serve the Region's solid waste management needs on an ongoing basis as the more expensive, high-technology options become operational. Also shown are the projected dates for evaluation reports (X) for specific aspects of each strategy. Many of the strategies will require a "go or no-go" decision at these points. The development schedules show the maximum effectivness of high-technology resource recovery to be achieved in the next five to 10 years. The smaller, less expensive modular combusiont units could be developed and in full operation by 1986. The large, capital-intensive solid waste energy facilities could be developed and serving the Region's waste management needs as early as 1987. These systems, coupled with the low-technology reduction and separation options, would, it seems, effectively'replace the Region's solid waste landfill needs by as much as 68 to 90 percent. The development schedules show a number of abatement activities as ongoing, with no specific target dates or maximum effectiveness period. In particular, recommendations for increased public education and infor- mation activities can be developed over the next couple of years and then continued as ongoing programs. Other abatement activities and programs could be developed quickly and continued on an ongoing basis.