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| The Siting Process The Sacramento Regional Solid Waste Authority (SWA) has completed the process of siting a local garden refuse processing facility. It initially conducted more than 20 stakeholder interviews and received feedback and site suggestions. From this list of stakeholders, a Project Advisory Committee (PAC) was formed. The Sacramento GreenCycle Project Team met with the PAC as it developed and reviewed siting criteria and potential sites for the new facility. The Sacramento GreenCycle Project Team and the PAC met regularly to determine the siting criteria, consider viable sites and look at sites with "fatal flaws" based on the developed criteria (i.e. encroaching uses, vernal pools, etc.). The PAC started with a list of 151 potential sites and narrowed that to a short list of 14 potential sites. The process and list of sites were reviewed with key stakeholders and the Community Planning Advisory Councils (CPACs) representing the areas in which the various sites were located. Ultimately, the four top ranked sites were sent by the PAC and the Project Team to the SWA Board of Directors, who approved a recommendation to carry those four sites into the environmental review process.
In conjunction with certification of the Green Cycle Final EIR, in March 2010, the SWA Board selected Scott Road as the preferred project site. This site was identified in the final EIR as the environmentally superior alternative.
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