Methodology for energy solid waste impact assessment

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This report describes a methodology for the environmental assessment of solid waste related to the coal fuel cycle. The methodology requires as its key input a county level siting and energy use file. Given also a database of coal characteristics, and the process characteristics of the coal utilizing technology, the model generates a detailed picture of residuals, including criteria pollutants, trace metals, radionuclides, and all species cited in the Federal Drinking Water Standards, for both air and solid waste residuals streams. The solid waste streams are then subjected to an assumed set of stabilization and fixation process, followed by a first order quantitative assessment of the impacts of waste disposal, as a function of location, including estimates of leachate quantity and quality, land area requirements, and treatment and disposal costs. The software provides for a display of results at user specified levels of aggregation (county, state, federal region, and/or national). Th

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