Waste Stream Management, Inc. v. St. Lawrence County

OPINION OF THE COURT

Mercure, J.

In 1983, at the request of defendant St. Lawrence County (hereinafter the County), the State Legislature created defendant St. Lawrence County Solid Waste Disposal Authority (hereinafter the Authority), which was charged with the task of developing and implementing a solution to the problem of solid waste disposal in St. Lawrence County (L 1983, ch 502, adding Public Authorities Law, tit 13-E). In July 1988, the Authority proposed to construct a solid waste resource recovery facility with a 250-ton per day design capacity, an ash residue and bypass landfill, and…