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of 40 db ~ The yard waste from Indian River County will be transported by thick to file BPT Processing Facility, located about 45 miles away. Tandem axle tractors will employ eitherwalking•floor or standard floor open top trailers, with capacities of 100 to 130 cubic yards. BPT will explore the use of a trucking subcontractor to perform this service. Any subcontractor used will meet all of Indican River's criteria for insurance coverage and Indemnification. BPT Is prepared to purchase the required trucking equipment, including road tractors and trailers, in the event a suitable trucking contractor cannot be found. BPT will coordinate all activities Involved with transportation, and will conduct transporting activities In a manner to minimize inconvenience to lite landfill's operation. The trucks will be loaded during normal landfill operating hours, and will be loaded during other times only with specific authorization from the landfill. The scale at the landfill will be used to verify incoming and outgoing weights, and the net amount in tons removed as measured by the county scale will be used for billing purposes. Due to the nature of this project and the close proximity to the Processing Center, efforts will be made to dedicate a number of trucks full -lima to the transporting of Indian River's yard waste, and after this is done BPT recommends that the empty weights of the vehicles be established and verified by BPT and the County. This will reduce necessary traffic at the scale by 50%. BPT's Unique Technology- The Processing Center BPT has invested over five years and over $8 million to develop and perfect a method of using low-grade biomass materials. The result is the near -completion of the first UPT Processing Center in the country, in Okeechobee County approximately 45 miles from the landfill. This entire facility, housed on a 6 -acre tract Is the cornerstone of the yard waste recycling plan being proposed to Indian River County.. This facility is designed to accept a wide range of biomass materials, including yard waste, barn waste from confined animal operations, farm crop residue and even plants grown for water remediation purposes. The materials are delivered to the site and will be consumed within 72 hours of delivery — the process prefers fresh biomass to aged or decayed biomass. Basically, the process involves receipt of the material, extensive cleaning using proprietary separation technology, breaking down the biomass Into its base components and compounds, and using these compounds to produce a wide range of products. The material from Indian River County will arrive in the transport trucks and be unloaded at a receiving floor and storage building. When the plant is fully operational a truck tipping unloader will be Installed, which will eliminate the need for live-floortrailers . After loading at the Indian River Landfill, the yard waste will not come into contact with the soil. The material will again be inspected for non -wood Items such as concrete, metal, or plastic. Any such material will be removed from the Incoming stream and placed In containers for removal and disposal. In the years of experience that BPT personnel have in operating yard waste recycling sites, rarely does any county experience greater than 2110ths of 1% non -wood reject material by weight. In addition tho management of BPT Is very familiar with the method of handling and separation being performed by Indian River County, and it is assumed that this practice is continued during our performance of the services. BPT will transport the material to Indian River and place it at a location within the landfill site as directed by the County, this was specified in the bid. After inspection the material will be rough ground using impact or rotary slicing technology, and then placed in a retrieval systern. From there it will automatically be fed into a BPT "PP100" cleaning system. This device separates the entrained sand from the material, as well as small particles of non -wood such as small stones or glass. All processing capabilities are designed to exceed 1,000 tons per day. From there the material passes through a series of size reducers, reactors, treating vessels and fractionating systems where it Is reduced to its primary components, cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. The colluloses are used to create animal feed protein using microbial techniques developed arad tested by BPT. The lignin Is separated and refined into a pellet that contains almost nothinn but lignin. This material is very high in energy content and can be used as a clean substitute for coal in any coal-fired utility boiler (our tignin contains virtually no ash and no sulfur). In addition, the lignin also has other irattachOOO703 Page 2 of 3