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“There is no magic bullet,” he added. “There is no magic way of deciding to spot a landfill. What you do is make sure the county, the supervisors, the state, go through the proper procedures. It seems they intend to, we just participate to make sure that they follow through.”
If we become involved, he continued, “we work closely with the board. What we offer the community is to follow the procedure closely... If we find a reason the landfill should not go in we try to prevent it.”
“It’s not our job,” he pointed out, “to provide an alternate site. The primary responsibility as a community is to protect the environment and to find out if this is a good site. It’s not good enough to say This is the last one’.”
He would be adversarial, Mr. Miller said, in the sense that he would be looking at the technical data with a critical eye. Also, he said that he would be opposed to using the site for temporary storage until the landfill was operating. “We would be looking at the work they do to make sure it is properly done, from a procedural and technical standpoint.
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