The trust is scrambling to secure final permits, prepare designs, hire construction managers and figure out how to raise the rest of the money.

Construction has been stalled while the project awaits its final permits from the local government.

The developers will pay $8 million for the 150,000-square-foot building when final permits are approved.

The State Department of Environmental Protection denied final permits for the plant, which has been in the planning for four years.

The developers will pay the remaining $12 million once final permits are secured, which Mr. Ceruzzi said he expected to have next month.

The center is merely awaiting a final permit from the State Division for Youth, which it expects to receive in a few days.

The state, satisfied with the incinerator and its technology, stands ready to issue a final permit.

The final permit expired last year.

But three years ago, new Federal regulations required requests for a final permit.

The judge, instead, accepted Nypirg's proposal for a two-year timetable for issuing final permits.