Public Comments and Responses to the IRSWMP (Appendix I) - 2009

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someone still wanted to junk it along the road, someone will quickly come along, remove the vehicle to a recycler and collect the deposit. The one thing I can't stress enough is NOT to refund anything less than 100 %. No disposal fee withheld. But maybe the other way, having everyone remit $12 each year is a more logical way for the County's Solid Waste Division. Response: Thank you for your comments about deposits for containers and vehicles. Assessing deposits for motor vehicles is an interesting concept. You may want to consider submitting your comments to the State of Hawai'i as well. 34. Bays Deaver Lung Rose Holma, Bruce D. Voss, 10/27/09 The Kohala Coast Resort Association ( "KCRA "), through its counsel, respectfully submits the following comments to the draft County of Hawaii Integrated Resources and Solid Waste Management Plan Update, "The Path to Zero Waste" (the "Plan Update "), issued August 2009: KCRA is a private, non - profit organization, founded in 1984, for the purpose of maintaining a standard of quality development for the Kohala Coast. He Kohala Coast resorts offer more than 4,300 hotel and condominium units, comprise more than 40 percent of the hotel rooms and condos available on the Island of Hawai'i, and directly employ more than 6,000 people - about 10 percent of the island's non - agricultural workforce. KCRA has been involved with the solid waste issue on the Island of Hawaii since its inception. It opposed the placement of any landfill at Puuanahulu and is on record as being consistently and adamantly opposed to any long haul trucking of trash from East Hawai'i to the West Hawaii Sanitary Landfill at Puuanahulu in West Hawai'i (the "West Hawai'i Landfill "). KCRA appreciates the substantial time and effort spent by the Department and members of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee on the Plan Update. KCRA supports programs to reduce the volume of waste entering the island's landfills, and making improvements to existing infrastructure to accommodate those new waste reduction programs. KCRA also supports investigating the feasibility and cost of expanding the existing South Hilo Sanitary Landfill, with an initial 7 -acre lined landfill cell and then expanding the landfill into the adjacent 75 -acre quarry. As the Plan Update states, such expansion would provide an additional 55 years of capacity at the South Hilo landfill, to handle East Hawai'i s trash. KCRA remains strongly opposed, however, to the Plan Update's apparent "default" option of trucking trash from East Hawaii to the West Hawaii Landfill if the other alternatives are insufficient to accommodate East Hawai'i s waste stream. KCRA believes the Plan Update vastly understates the economic, social, health, safety, permitting and environmental costs of trucking East Hawai'i s trash to the West Hawai'i Landfill. First, the estimated $82 per ton cost of transferring waste from East Hawaii to the West Hawai'i Landfill is premised on some extremely optimistic assumptions regarding equipment costs, labor costs, fuel expenses, and repair and maintenance. Given the scope and intensity of the proposed trucking operation, those transportation - related costs are likely to be far higher than projected in the Plan Update, and will substantially increase over PUBLIC COMMENTS AND RESPONSES APPENDIX IDOC 20