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The cost of the project and its scope, as well as when the companies could open it, are also up in the air.
“Until we give them clear direction we can’t hold them to an exact date,” Roy Coley, county chief utilities and regulatory services officer, told commissioners last week.
Commissioner Raquel Regalado backed a far broader operation: “we should consider sludge and also sargassum as two of the possible waste streams, just to get the price on them, because if we’re going to build something, we should build something for all of the solid waste that is created by our system, not just the waste that we pick up in a trash can.”
Commissioner Oliver Gilbert III said he in turn just expects a base number for what was handled by the waste-to-energy plant that burned. “We know clearly what we need. The other stuff is what we want,” he said. “We need something like what we had, just better, newer, less onerous.”
It’s like a main course with lots of side dishes, Mr. Gilbert said: “Let me know how much the steak costs.”
FCC Environmental Services and Florida Power & Light Co. separately offered to build a waste center for the county. The commission on Dec. 16 told them to try to work out a consortium.
“Discussions are well under way and are looking very positive,” commission Chairman Anthony Rodriguez said. He, individual commissioners, the mayor and administrators have met with both, and FCC provided an undisclosed plant location.
If talks of a joint operation fail, the county is to work with each independently to choose a waste facility developer. If they work together, a full proposal is due to commissioners in April.
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