v>EPA www.epa.gov Reuse and the Benefit to Community Southside Sanitary Landfill Technical Appendix Positive Impacts: Employment Information for On-site Jobs Each on-site business was researched in the Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), database where number of employees, and sales volume information was gathered. D &B is a company that provides information on businesses and corporations. It maintains a database of over 179 million companies globally and over 53 million professional contact names using a variety of sources including public records, trade references, tele-communication providers, newspapers and publications, and telephone interviews among other various sources www.dnb.com). The Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number, is a unique nine-digit identification number assigned by Dun & Bradstreet to each business and its location within the D&B database for the purpose of identifying each business. Southside Sanitary Landfill -25 employees DUNS Number: 067130864 Sales Volume (US$): $0 Crossroads Greenhouse - 8 employees DUNS Number: 606452373 Sales Volume (US$): $553,000 Buffer Park Golf Course - 20 employees DUNS Numbers: 031342269 Sales Volume (US$): $510,000 Positive Impacts: Wage and Income Information for On-site Jobs Wage and income information was gathered using the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data. The BLS is a governmental statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, and other Federal agencies in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The data provided by the BLS has high standards of accuracy and consistently high statistical quality, and impartiality in both subject matter and presentation. The types of jobs at each business located on-site of SSL were identified, using standardized occupational codes, then researched in the BLS Indianapolis, Indiana data tables in order to get the average wage for those types of positions. The average wage (mean annual) was then multiplied by the number of employees located at that particular business. Southside Sanitary Landfill -25 employees X $34,490 =$862,250 Crossroads Greenhouse - 8 employees X $24,580 = $196,640 Buffer Park Golf Course - 20 employees X $18,310 = $366,200 1 ------- Table 1: Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2009 State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates Indiana www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes in.htm#00-0000 Occupation Code Occupation Title (click on the occupation title to view an occupational profile) Median Hourly Mean Hourly Mean Annual 37-3019 Maintenance Workers, All Other $15.01 $16.58 $34,490 39-3091 Amusement and Recreation Attendants $8.21 $8.80 $18,310 45-2092 Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse $10.46 $11.82 $24,580 Levalized Energy Costs When discussing the cost of energy, levalized costs were used, which include production tax credits, investment tax credits, and accelerated asset depreciation as applicable.1 The investment banking company, Lazard Ltd., which collects information on the true costs of energy production, provides in its June 2008 report, a comparison of traditional and alternative energy and the generation costs of each. Lazard uses levalized costs which is a more accurate depiction of the true costs of energy.2 Conventional Energy: Type Cost Range (Levalized costs $/MWh)3 Gas peaking $221-334 Nuclear $98-126 Coal $74 -135 Gas combined cycle $73-100 Alternative Energy: Type Cost Range (Levalized costs $/MWh)4 Solar PV (Photovoltaics) $96-124 Biomass direct $50-94 Landfill gas $50-81 Wind $44-91 Geothermal $42 - 69 1 Assumptions include: busbar costs (cost of producing a kilowatt of electricity up to the point of the power plant) in 2008 dollars, 60 percent debt at 7 percent interest rate, 40 percent equity at 12 percent cost, 20-year economic life, 40 percent tax rate, 5-20 year tax life, coal at $2.50 per million Btu, and natural gas at $8.00 per million Btu (British thermal unit). 2 www.narucmeetings.org/Presentations/2008%20EMP%20Levelized%20Cost%20of%20Energy%20- %20Master%20June%202008%20(2).pdf 3lbid. 4 Ibid. 2 ------- |