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8B DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE. ROCHESTER, N.Y.. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1987 Local group to join protest "If all this was going on, we should have been informed, because the task force has been spinning its wheels," he said.

"Mr. Hansford has been running around the country talking to private vendors, while (County Executive Lucien Morin was cutting a deal under his nose." But the work of a consultant the task force hired to study options for recycling still will be valuable, Hansford said, as will studies on the quantity and composition of garbage in the county. The plan, announced by Morin at a press conference yesterday, would allow Raytheon to renovate and reopen the Resource Recovery Facility on Emerson Street The company also would subcontract with Combustion Engineering Inc. to build an incinerator on an adjacent city lot Both plants would be operated privately, but the county would pay a price per ton to dump the garbage. Rochester Mayor Thomas P.

Ryan Jr. met with Morin Wednesday to discuss a city-county dispute over garbage disposal costs and said yesterday he was not pleased that Morin failed to mention the incinerator proposal during that meeting. "I certainly would be happier to have heard about it" Ryan said. He would not comment further on the proposed incinerator plan, saving he did have enough information. But Democratic city Councilman John G.

Erb, chairman of the Public Works Committee, said he is concerned about the environmental effect the incinerator could have on neighborhoods down wind of the proposed plant "Let me assure you, the city will want to investigate the environmental soundness of this on our west side. I'm extremely sensitive to environmental issues," he said. On the county level, the project cannot be evaluated until the fees for dumping garbage at the plant are specified, because they are the cost taxpayers will bear, Murray said. Morin estimated yesterday the fees would be $50 to $60 per ton but emphasized that was not firm. "The bottom line is that we don't know what it will cost yet" Murray said.

But Frederick J. Holbrook, majority leader in the legislature, said "they have given an approximate idea which doesn't sound alarming at all." "I've seen what some of the costs are" in other municipalities, said Holbrook, R-Spencerport and a member of the Solid Waste Task Force. He said he is pleased with the announced plan because "it gives us some real direction." Refuse proposal draws criticism FROM PAGE 1B covery Facility for the county. The facility, which the company would reopen under the new plan, was closed in July 1984 because of persistent economic, mechanical and legal problems. "We ought to have them (Raytheon) in court rather than holding press conferences with them," Murray said.

"They took us to the cleaner's five years ago and walked away from (the recycling plant)." Hansford, chairman of the county Solid Waste Task Force, said he is pleased the administration is negotiating with a private company. "It really crystallizes some things I've had in mind," he said. The task force has been working to evaluate the technologies available for garbage disposal for three years and was charged with making a recommendation to the county. Hansford said he did not know about the negotiations with Raytheon until they were announced yesterday. Murray said the secret negotiations undercut the work of the three-year-old task force.

Waste plan answers FROM PAGE 1B Two weeks before the election, Morin now says he has a solution. Implementation of the plan still is far from assured. Morin must negotiate the legal details of the agreement with Raytheon Service which built the now-idled Resource Recovery Facility. And he must secure approval from the County Legislature, Rochester and the state. All that, however, will be determined after the election.

"It reminds me a little of Richard Nix- marking 1982 By Carol Ritter Democrat nd Chronicle It was 25 years ago and she was only a little girl, but Pam Flanigan has vivid memories of the Cuban missile crisis. "I remember asking my parents for a bomb shelter for my birthday because I was so scared. I was 8 years old," Geneva resident Flanigan said. "Now, 25 years after the missile crisis, we're back to the brink of nuclear war, and I have to think about my daughter, who is 6. 1 don't want her to ever ask for a bomb shelter for her birthday." Flanigan is one of about 50 members of the Finger Lakes Peace Alliance who will climb aboard a chartered bus in Rochester at 1 a.m.

tomorrow and go to King of Prussia, for a demonstration at the General Electric Space Center there. The center, reputed to be a nucleus of "Star Wars" anti-missile research, is one of seven locations in the United States where demonstrators will gather tomorrow to mark the 25th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis. Other demonstrations to mark tomorrow as International Disarmiment Day Two stop-smoking Two smoking cessation programs are being sponsored by the American Lung Association's Finger Lakes Region, Eastman Kodak, Blue Choice and Rochester Health Network. The First Step program will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct.

26 at Building 28 in Kodak Park, at Lake Avenue and Ridge Road. The Self-help Plus program will be held from to 9:30 a.m. and from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. November 2 at the missile crisis will take place in Japan and Europe, she said. The group going to Pennsylvania from Rochester will participate in a rally at the Montgomery County Courthouse, followed by a walk to the GE plant and civil disobedience there, according to Flanigan.

Flanigan said she was living in the country outside of Geneva and attending the one-room Glass Factory Bay School south of that city when the missile crisis happened in the fall of 1962. "The school was right across Seneca Lake from the Seneca Army Depot (in Romulus, Seneca County), and every day planes would go over and break the sound barrier," she said. "That was frightening enough to a child, but on top of that we had the emergency drills, when they sent us all home on buses and timed us to see how long it took. "Somebody had figured out some sort of margin of safety that we were supposed to have, so we could get home and take cover after hearing an attack warning. But I lived so far from the school that I never made it home in time.

I was just terrified, thinking that I wouldn't get home in time to die with my family." programs offered same location. First Step is an educationalmotivational program which will inform participants about the hazards of smoking and the benefits of stopping. Self-Help Plus is a "middle-of-the road" approach between the Lung Association's comprehensive smoking cessation clinic and its Freedom from Smoking Self-help manuals. The self-help approach will include group support. a campaign question in executive race on's secret plan to end the Vietnam War," said Kevin B.

Murray, the legislature's Democratic leader. "He's focusing debate on one of his biggest failures right before the election." Frey, too, was quick to seize on the political ramifications. "I must express my shock, disbelief and disappointment that my opponent would resort to such a blatantly political, self-serving gimmick to bolster his sagging reelection drive," Frey said. Frey questioned whether the company that built the failed Resource Recovery Facility should be given responsibility for managing the county's latest solid waste venture without consulting other potential bidders. And he said he was particularly concerned the county appeared to be abandoning its right to sue Raytheon over the failure of the $85 million plant Morin yesterday acknowledged the plan still was in the "early stages," but he denied he was attempting to bolster his campaign.

iiree sMiaiini1 el of USAiirl low faires to tike mm ClfflOHOLOGY The following Is a chronology of Monroe County's Resource Recovery Facility: February 1971: Rochester Engineering Society is asked to study solid waste problems. October 1971: Emerson Street dump on Rochester's west side is closed. February 1972: Rochester Engineering Society recommends construction of a centralized recycling plant using newly developed techniques to extract paper from refuse, thus reducing county's dependence on landfills. December 1973: County Legislature votes unanimously to issue $15.5 million in bonds to buy land on Emerson Street and pay for any resource recovery plant built there. October 1974: Legislature votes to begin negotiating with Raytheon Service Co.

for design of a plant. Raytheon says it can complete work by the end of 1977. January 1975: Legislature votes to award contract for plant design to Raytheon. Estimated construction cost: $19.2 million. Raytheon says plant will turn a profit.

September 1976: Legislature votes 25-3 to proceed with construction of the plant, which Raytheon now says will not turn a profit. Estimated construction cost: $53 million. December 1976: Ground breaking for Resource Recovery Facility. September 1979: Plant is completed. November 1979: Consultant recommends improvements to prevent explosions in shredding equipment.

September 1981: Experimental burning of refuse-derived fuel begins at Rochester Gas and Electric Russell Station in Greece. February 1982: County announces it is abandoning the plant's aluminum recovery line. November 1982: County Manager Lucien A. Morin says, "The plant is really able to do what it was designed for." March 1983: County breaks $15 million contract with John B. Pike Son saying the company has refused to make needed repairs to the plant's equipment.

July 1983: With the county unable to find buyers for the plant's refuse-derived fuel, the Rochester Engineering Society suggests the county consider building a $30 million power-generating incinerator to supplement the Resource Recovery Facility. March 1984: Legislative subcommittee recommends turning over all refuse disposal operations to a private firm, giving it the option to operate or close the beleaguered trash plant. July 1984: Morin announces he is closing the plant after learning of Raytheon's refusal to build a steam-generating facility to augment operations at the Resource Recovery Facility. August 1984: Legislators form Task Force on Solid Waste to begin addressing future refuse disposal plans. July 1986: Task force asks legislature for $800,000 to pursue plans for a privately financed waste-to-energy incinerator, touching off nearly a year of political skirmishing.

April 1987: Legislature authorizes $580,000 to develop a countywide solid-waste management plan. October 1987: Morin announces he has reached agreement In principle with Raytheon to reopen Resource Recovery Facility and build a waste-burning plant. Plan effectively short-circuits process on which the legislature had embarked. Florida California Ft. Myers $99 Los Angeles $139 Ft.

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