Resolution No. 2000-2

Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority ("LCSWMA") is a public agency which is responsible on behalf of Lancaster County for providing an effective, efficient, reliable and environmentally safe system for the storage, collection, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid waste generated within Lancaster County. The existing Frey Farm Landfill is one of the principal components of LCSWMA's system. The available capacity of the existing Frey Farm Landfill is projected to be exhausted by the year 2023, but there are circumstances which could result in the existing capacity being exhausted as early as 2008. Under existing agreements, LCSWMA's obligations to provide an integrated solid waste disposal system for the County of Lancaster continue until at least 2030. Therefore, in August 1999, LCSWMA began the process of planning for facilities which will be needed following exhaustion of the Frey Farm Landfill. In connection with LCSWMA's planning process, LCSWMA asked ARM Group, Inc. (ARM) to consider alternatives such as the feasibility of expansion of the existing landfill and alternative locations for a new landfill. ARM has advised LCSWMA that expansion of the existing landfill is an alternative that should be considered. LCSWMA's Board of Directors believes that its responsibility for long-term planning includes LCSWMA's acquiring rights and options to purchase properties which in the future may be needed by LCSWMA.

RESOLVED, therefore, that the Executive Director, together with the solicitor, are authorized and directed to enter into negotiations to acquire on behalf of LCSWMA agreements which will grant LCSWMA the option to purchase properties which in the future may be needed by LCSWMA. Any agreements negotiated by the Executive Director shall be subject to, and effective upon, approval by LCSWMA's Board of Directors.

Approved June 16, 2000.

LANCASTER COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

By:
William K. Ebel, Jr.
(Acting) Chairman