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Proposal Obstacles Remaining <br /> What remains to be accomplished before this program can be <br /> implemented? There are essentially three issues which need to be dealt <br /> with, the first being to put a finance package in place, the second being to <br /> achieve an agreement with Dane County communities to receive a <br /> minimum of 10,000 tons of yard wastes, and the third being to complete <br /> toxicology tests on grass clippings. These tests, which are currently <br /> underway, are presumed to be a formality, but nonetheless will be <br /> conducted in the same scientific fashion as has been the case with leaves. <br /> With respect to financing, a recent State program making funds available <br /> to organizations such as ours has been recently approved in the State <br /> budget and would work in the following way. Essentially, the DOD would <br /> administer funds to either individual counties or communities with <br /> populations under 50,000 population, and those entities would in turn be <br /> able to loan those funds out, reissuing them to other qualified entities <br /> when the loans (grants) were repaid. Inasmuch as there is potential for <br /> significant savings in several sectors of our economy and Fiber Farms <br /> itself will be creating employment, paying taxes, and repaying the debt, <br /> this kind of investment on the part of the State and County seems amply <br /> justified. *(A business plan under separate cover will be made available <br /> as necessary or appropriate) <br /> The second question could be handled with letters of intent and desire on <br /> the part of Dane County and its municipalities and The State of Wisconsin <br /> to proceed with this technology. It makes economic sense. It makes • <br /> environmental sense, and Fiber Farms would like the Dane County area to <br /> be one of the first communities in the country to demonstrate the obvious <br /> good sense this new, but tested technology provides. <br />