The compiled FAQ list has the following structure:

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B- Project Characterization

B.I. General description

B.II. Proposed strategy of solid urban waste management

B.III-Advantages

B.IV-Operation/Exploration

B.V-Technology

C-Alternatives to the project

C.I-Site alternatives

C.II-Solid urban waste management strategies' alternatives

C.III-Technology alternatives

D-Project Impact

D.I. Public Health

D.II-Water

D.III-Waste

D.IV- Air Quality

D.V-Hidrogeology

D.VI-Noise

D.VII-Ecology

D.VIII-Socio-Economic

D.IX-Soil

D.X-Landscape

D.XI-Patrimony

D.XII- Land use

D.XIII-Traffic

E-Risk of the Project

F-Minimization

G-Compensation

H-Decisions on the project

H.I-Content and form of the project

H.II-Review and decision process

H.III-Project Monitoring

H.IV-Project Checking

I-Public Participation

I.1-Consultation Process

I.2-NGO's role in the consultation

I.3-Social-psychology

J-General

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The complete list of the questions is included in annex (X). I present here a sample of questions for each category:

Which are the greatest problems in the today's solid urban waste management in ValorSul's intervention area?

What is the composition of the solid urban waste presently produced in ValorSul's intervention area?

What is the average solid urban waste per capita in the area?

Will it be able to meet the recycling goals established by the European Union directives on package and package waste?

Which are the priorities in solid urban waste management?

Which are the tendencies, on a european communitary level, in solid urban waste treatment?

What happens to the garbage after the citizen puts it in the container?

What is the experience in Portugal as to the selective gathering (pre-sorting) of solid urban waste?

What is today's destiny of solid urban waste in ValorSul's intervention area (Amadora, Lisbon, Loures e Vila Franca de Xira)?

What is the experience in Portugal as to the selection and recycling of solid urban waste?

What is the life cycle of today's solid urban waste treatment and final placement systems in this region? What are the consequences of that situation?

B- Project Characterization

B.I. General description

What is the purpose of this project?

When will the incinerator start to work?

What kind of energy will the plant produce?

B.II. Proposed strategy of solid urban waste management

Which were the terms of the contract between the ValorSul and the municipalities for the reception and delivery of solid urban waste? What are their implications?

Which clauses of the contract condition the implementation of selective gathering procedures of new materials or the volume increase of those that already exist?

Is an integrated solution for the treatment of solid urban waste produced in the 7 Lisbon municipalities foreseen?

What is the POGIRSU ? (pfa note: Strategic Regional Operational Plan)

What is the solid urban waste management strategy proposed by ValorSul?

Considering the european communitary policy tendencies for reducing, re-utilizing and recycling (the 3R's), why was the incinerator chosen?

B.III-Advantages

What is the advantage of solid urban waste energetic added value?

Can the supply of steam, produced in the plant, to the near industries bring any benefit to the air quality in the surroundings of the plant?

What is the advantage of the "incinerator" option in relation to the "dump site" option?

What is the advantage of the "incinerator" option in relation to the "composting" option?

B.IV-Operation/Exploration

What is the chimney's height?

How many stations are foreseen for the Measurement Net? Which are their sites? In relation to air quality, which (poluentes) will be monitored? What kind of measurements will be made (continuous/discontinuous/periodic)?

How much will the operation of incinerator cost per year?

Will the energy produced yearly cover the operation costs of the entire system?

Which are the system's operating conditions in its starting phase? Which aspects are foreseen to be surpassed?

How frequently will the (sleeve) filters be cleaned and replaced?

B.V-Technology

Are the systems used for the gas treatment the adequate for this kind of plant? Are these the systems usually used in the solid urban waste incineration in other European countries?

What is the efficacy of the gas treatment system and of the particle removal equipment?

How will the plant be able to adapt to possible restrictions of the emission limit values presently legislated for the solid urban waste incineration?

Can the filters remove the breathable particles (<10 µm)?

Is the chosen incineration technology the more advanced one?

C-Alternatives to the project

Are there alternatives to the project? Which are they?

C.I-Site alternatives

C.II-Solid urban waste management strategies' alternatives

Should one consider that the study now being discussed really corresponds to an impact assessment evaluation of a waste management system?

What is solid urban waste composting?

Which destinies can be given to solid urban waste other than incineration? Which solid urban waste management options are there other than incineration?

Is the incineration compatible with other ways of solid urban waste management?

Is it possible to have simultaneous composting and incineration for the area solid urban waste?

C.III-Technology alternatives

Why are (sleeve) filters going to be used for removal of the combusting gas particles instead of electrostatics precipitators?

D-Project Impact

D.I. Public Health

What are the risks of the project as to public health?

Are the local public health authorities considering any action as to developing proper epidemiological monitoring and watching systems and as to their articulation with environmental monitoring systems?

Is it possible to estimate the extra public health budget due to the incinerator effects?

D.II-Water

D.III-Waste

D.IV- Air Quality

D.V-Hidrogeology

D.VI-Noise

What is the expected noise level in the area where I live? (followed by a number of specific questions, related to specific areas)

D.VII-Ecology

D.VIII-Socio-Economic

D.IX-Soil

D.X-Landscape

D.XI-Patrimony

D.XII- Land use

D.XIII-Traffic

What is the traffic level of waste trucks brought on by the incinerator?

What is the trajectory of the solid waste trucks on their way to the incinerator?

Are new access roads for the incinerator foreseen (in order to avoid further traffic aggravation)?

E-Risk of the Project

Can the plant be considered as a high risk industry?

Which are the expected consequences in case of an earthquake?

Which are the effects, as to chronicle risk, of a failure in the gas treatment equipment during a couple of days?

Is the plant under the legislation of the Technical Authority for Severe Industrial Risks?

F-Minimization

Which organisms will be checking the monitoring?

Which measures are foreseen in order to control the noise produced by the incinerator? And that related to the waste trucks?

Will there be acoustic barriers?

G-Compensation

Will there be compensations for the area where the incinerator will be built?

H-Decisions on the project

H.I-Content and form of the project

Which are the established criteria for deciding the need for a fourth incineration line?

H.II-Review and decision process

What is the Environmental Impact Evaluation (EIE)?

Which legislation creates and regulates the EIE?

Who instructs the EIE process?

What is the composition of the EIA Evaluation Committee?

How does the EIA Evaluation Committee work?

Is the evaluation decision essential for the project licencing?

What is the difference between EIA and EIE?

What is the EIE for?

Which are the components of the EIE?

Who designates the EIA Evaluation Committee?

Is it possible that during the evaluation of the EIA one can suggest alterations to the project or technologies?

H.III-Project Monitoring

Which will be the entity responsible for exploring the air quality measurement net?

In the case of the installation of an air quality measurement net, will it begin operating before the plant? In this phase, before the operation of the plant, which will be the entity responsible for managing this net?

Which will be the entity and/or the laboratory responsible for the analysis of dioxins, (furanos) and heavy metals?

H.IV-Project Checking

Considering that one constructor for the incineration has already been chosen, what is the curriculum of that constructor as to incinerators already working? Are there any working deficiencies known in those incinerators?

Which is or are the organisms responsible for the checking of the plant's air (poluentes) emissions? And for the inspections of the emissions' monitoring and for the working of the measurement stations?

I-Public Participation

What is the use of giving my opinion if the site has been chosen and the type of treatment to be given to the solid urban waste has been chosen? Haven't the project and the construction of the incinerator been adjudicated already?

I.1-Consultation Process

Is there an information program for the local inhabitants to know how the building and financing of the incinerator are progressing?

During the process, to whom can the inhabitants go for answering doubts, receiving suggestions, communicate alterations that they consider awkward in the building and financing of the incinerator?

Which opportunities did the public have to participate in the process of choosing the solid urban waste management model for the municipalities of Amadora, Lisbon, Loures and Vila Franca de Xira?

The Review Committee will follow the development of the project until which phase? Will a follow-up Committee be created?

Which mechanisms guarantee the divulgence of the different opinions on the project or on the EIA?

Will the inhabitants be consulted on the landscape integration of the incinerator?

Is it still realistic to demand of ValorSul an integrated SUW management that contemplates the options of reducing, re-utilizing and recycling with composting and evaluation of the final destiny of waste?

I.2-NGO's role in the consultation

Are the ADA ("Associações de Defesa do Ambiente"; Environmental NGO's) in favor or against the solid urban waste incineration?

What is the position of the different NGO's on the option "Incineration with energy recuperation" as way to solve the problem of solid urban waste in Amadora, Lisbon, Loures and Vila Franca de Xira?

What is going to be the future position of ADAs as to the process relationed with the new SUW management system in Amadora, Lisbon, Loures and Vila Franca de Xira?

When did the ADAs begin to follow the the process relationed with the new SUW management system in Amadora, Lisbon, Loures and Vila Franca de Xira?

Why did some ADAs accept to be part of the POGIRSU's expert consulting board?

I.3-Social-psychology

What can be the people's contribution, from the ADAs point of view, in the future of the process relationed with the new SUW management system in Amadora, Lisbon, Loures and Vila Franca de Xira?

Is the population's concern completely senseless?

J-General

What is the difference between a managed waste dump site and a (open sky) garbage dump site?

What is reduction, re-utilization and recycling of solid urban waste?

What is solid urban waste composting?

What is solid urban waste selection?

What is an Environment Impact Assessment (EIA)?

What is the Environmental Impact Review process?

What is solid urban waste incineration? How does an incineration plant work?

How does a solid urban waste selection / sorting station work?

What is ValorSul?

What is the SUW integrated management?

What is the difference between garbage and solid urban waste?