CITY WILL PAY $1.1 MILLION TO FIND DUMP ALTERNATIVES.Byline: Dan Laidman Staff Writer As part of an ongoing effort to reduce Los Angeles' dependency on landfills, the City Council voted Friday to spend $1.1 million to study alternate ways to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose trash. The effort is being spearheaded by Northwest San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Councilman Greig Smith Greig Smith is a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 12th District, which includes Granada Hills, Northridge and other parts of the Western San Fernando Valley. Smith is also a reserve officer for the Los Angeles Police Department. , who has tried to steer steer castrated male cattle beast over a year of age. See also bullock, buller steer. steer bulling see bulling. steer Medtalk verb the city away from using Sunshine Canyon Landfill in Granada Hills, while advocating a long-range plan to convert trash to energy. ``We need to get out of things like Sunshine and any landfill in general,'' he said. While officials spend the next few months debating whether to renew a city contract for Sunshine Canyon Landfill and consider other immediate solutions to the urban landfill dilemma, the new study is designed to look at longer-term measures. Consultant URS URS Yours URS Ultimate Roulette System URS Uniform Reporting System URS User Requirement(s) Specification URS Undergraduate Research Symposium URS Unified Registration Statement URS Undergraduate Research Scholars Corp. presented the city with a study in September that weighed 16 alternative technologies for processing trash that Angelenos place in their black bins. Such refuse is currently taken to landfills. The report looked at an array of biological, chemical and physical methods for disposing of waste. It concluded that thermal-heating methods are best suited for processing black-bin refuse, and it laid out a timeline to have a facility online by 2010. The second-phase contract with URS approved Friday will narrow the list of technologies, Smith said, while also considering potential conversion sites, costs and permitting issues. The study will also look at what kind of public education and outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. campaign would be necessary. The earlier study acknowledged that new technology such as waste-to-energy conversion would generate ``many question from the public with regard to environmental impacts and public health issues.'' The $1.1 million authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: by the council for the new study had already been set aside in the current year's budget for such a purpose. Dan Laidman, (213) 978-0390 dan.laidman(at)dailynews.com |
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