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2D <br />improve the quality of service, and/ar meet local ~ wast.~ <br />reduction goals; <br />34~ Construction ~.nd Dem~li~ion Landfill ~ Chan ~ in <br />~r~tians ~- Support legz~lat~.ve assistance to change <br />the State rules/statutes regarding the origin of <br />materials and not the material use in connection with: C <br />& D landfill disposal. orange County continues to <br />challenge the change in State 'rules/statutes. The <br />effect is that considerable C & D materials are now <br />required to be placed in the County Municipal Solid <br />waste ~MSw~ landfill using valuable space, raising <br />costs, and creating operational difficulties for field <br />supervisors. Far many years the State did not apply a <br />~. <br />rigid interpretation and related enforcement. Orange <br />County, while fully .compliant, maintains this rule is <br />expensive, unnecessary, and detrimental to waste <br />reduction goals. The cost of lasing ~ m.onths of <br />capacity in the MSw landfill due to the shift of CAD <br />materials is estimated at $240,000 per month or a total <br />of $720,004. Moreover the increased cost to the Solid <br />waste Sanitation Division for delivering C & D life <br />