(a) A screening study must provide a survey and assessment of the various factors affecting the suitability of resource recovery or other solid waste management systems with the scope and detail needed to make an initial determination of whether those systems are potentially successful alternatives to existing systems.
(b) The survey and assessment must include:
(1) the amount and characteristics of available waste;
(2) the suitability and economics of existing solid waste management systems;
(3) institutional factors affecting potential alternatives;
(4) technologies available;
(5) identification of potential material and energy markets;
(6) economics of alternative systems; and
(7) interest of the local citizenry in available alternatives.