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What year did the first commercial landfill gas energy recovery facility begin operating?

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Secondary sources describe a 1975 Palos Verdes, California landfill gas project as the first commercial facility of its kind; the primary EPA case study on the project (published 2002) confirms it documents the first attempt at sanitary landfill gas capture but this wave could not extract a quotable exact start year from the primary documents, both encoded PDFs. 1
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A clean-text primary source, such as a plain HTML history page or an OCR-clean copy of the EPA case study or the 1992 National Waste Processing Conference paper on the Palos Verdes project, confirming the exact start year, would resolve this. 1
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Secondary sources describe a 1975 Palos Verdes, California landfill gas project as the first commercial facility of its kind; the primary EPA case study on the project (published 2002) confirms it documents the first attempt at sanitary landfill gas capture but this wave could not extract a quotable exact start year from the primary documents, both encoded PDFs.

What would resolve this A clean-text primary source, such as a plain HTML history page or an OCR-clean copy of the EPA case study or the 1992 National Waste Processing Conference paper on the Palos Verdes project, confirming the exact start year, would resolve this.
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