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PAGE 8-PLAINDEALER-TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22. 1983. Waste study advisory work proceeding at a "slow but steady" pace tar Ken Wyaocky iw--Free Press News Service Progress has been slow but #ea<fr for the McHenry County Board's waste study advisory committee, which had its second meeting Monday evening, ac­ cording to Ann Hughes, a member of the committee. Mrs. Hughes, who is also chairman of the county's health and agriculture committee, said the board has spent the first that two meetin familiarize itself with the involved and identifying s trying to issues con­ cerns that should be addressed. "We're trying to get our act together," Mrs. Hughes said Wednesday. "It's going to take some time to get things moving." . The committee was formed in mid-August by the county board. It is composed of IS members, five from eaeh of the county districts. The committee's members were, appointed in mid-October. Members of various interest groups, ranging from retailers and waste haulers to members of the McHenry County Defenders and the McHenry County Im­ provement Association, make up the committee. The committee has a $30,000 budget to use to help it complete the Phase III solid waste study. - The money comes out of the general fund's county board account, Mrs. Hughes said. Mrs. Hughes said the com­ mittee would recommend to the county board Tuesday that the same firm that was to be used as the county's consultant in the landfill public hearing process be used for the committee's Phase m work. The consulting firm that was to work with the board is the Milwaukee-based Graef, Anhalt, Schroemer and Associates Inc. The committee members have been reviewing the results of the Phase land n studies, and have begun constructing a list of the types of waste that need to be dealt with in the county. Con­ cerns about how those wastes will be handled-such things as environmental impacts, economic fgctors and nuisance potential-are also being drawn up and discussed, Mrs. Hughes said. All the committee members have been in attendance at both meetings, which Hughes found encouraging. The committee will also be hearing from a similar committee formed in Lake County to see how its work was done. Waste Management, Inc. withdrew its petition for a andfill in southeast. Township in favor of letting the committee first present its findings and recommendations to the county (has said thftt so • impacted on the committee's work. board. But Hughes said far, that has not imp Several officials have been concerned that because Waste Management had said it would tailor its reapplication to fit the committee's recommendations that the group's work might becom? more politicised. The committee has not elected a chairman yet, although Mrs. Hughes has Men chairing the makings m far. 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