/ I . '9 »"¢,.‘l:'.’i4{ r ,' , i /I "‘”l'fl" ‘ 1 estates PO. BOX March 28, Douglas MB 04217 Btmtt. 205.890.1954 FAX: 207.824.3355 WWW.DJGRlNDiNG.COM 2016 W. Jones, Inc. Box 158 P.O. Bethel, Attn: re: 158. ME 04217 Committee Chairs Senator David Woodsome, Representative Mark Dion and Committee LD 1676 Dear Committee Chairs, Senator David Woodsome, Representative Mark Dionne, and Committee, My name We is Tony Charette. am I here representing Douglas are a mid-sized contractor based in Bethel, ME W. Jones, lnc. in support of LD 1676. and are incorporated with the State of Maine. We of which are year round. Roughly half of our business revolves employ nearly 50 employees, most equates to around bio-mass manufacturing, trucking, and marketing. Revenues from such said business roughly four million dollars annually. Our company is somewhat unique segment revolves around bio-mass. We in the state of Maine, where almost do not harvest timber. We commercially managed land companies, such as Wagner and American Forest and publically owned land, converting residues source. Along with forest derived products, we left all of our business private land owners, work with Management Company, behind from timber harvesting into another revenue also process residual waste into reusable bio-mass. Examples include: 0 Municipal sites such as local transfer stations 0 Railroad ties v Tire derived fuel 0 Pallets v Bridge mats 0 Recycling facilities 0 Building demolition Most of these Landfill space. In most materials, cases, our if not for a healthy bio-mass market, would be placed company saves communities of their construction debris by converting charge the towns $30-40 per ton for it well over to bio-mass versus sending demo wood 50% it to a in precious of the cost of the disposal landfill. For example, stumpage we also for their brush add a source of revenue for and yard waste. will converted into bio-mass, where the landfill rate can be anywhere from $60-90 per ton plus an additional and almost equal price per ton for trucking. to these savings, I ln addition these communities by paying up to $5 per ton I . ,9 / is/‘ I "”l'fi'*' PO. BOX 158, BETHEL, ME 04217 207.890.1954 FAX: 207.824.3363 Without much time to prepare small sales We and excise tax and is money back over $100,000. We WWW.DlGRll\IDIi\IG.COM have gathered some rough numbers on our all of which company is taxed. have purchased about 4 million dollars’ into conclusion bio-mass state local is we pump a lot of economies. good business for our company, community, environment and the employ roughly 20 year round employees with our bio-mass business with good paying jobs to people who own homes, raise families, and pay taxes keep somewhere around 35,000 tons of debris out of our while saving tax payers money. With Thank you, Tony Charette General Manager Douglas W. Jones, roughly 1 million the past three and a half years. The routine maintenance and repairs on this our state and We is Our annual worth of equipment, well north of $500,000 annually. Along with permits and registration state of Maine. all I use about 350,000 gallons of fuel per year, is trailers in equipment in this presentation, piece of this pie. Our payroll on our bio-mass related part of our little dollars annually. trucks £_‘_'7,_1 Inc. all this said, I landfills in our community. We annually and help keep our communities clean, ask for your support on LD 1676.