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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 2, 2009 Action Agenda Item No. ~ - U SUBJECT: Renewal of Contract for Household Hazardous Waste ~n~~arti~n ~aniirae DEPARTMENT: Purchasing/Solid Waste ATTACHMENT(S): Proposed Household Hazardous Waste Contract Addendum Household Hazardous Waste Contract Effective June 4, 2002 Household Hazardous Waste Contract Addendum Effective July 1, 2005 Household Hazardous Waste Contract Addendum effective July 1, 2007 PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Jones - 245-2652 Gayle Wilson - 968-2885 PURPOSE: To renew the contract with ECOFLO Inc. for Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator (CESQG) Waste Collection and Disposal Services. BACKGROUND: The HHW collection program was established in 1994 as a cooperative program between local governments to collect hazardous waste from residents of Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake counties. In the spring of 2002, the various local governments decided that each local government would contract individually with the service provider of their choosing for HHW services. In June 2002 the BOCC approved a contract with ECOFLO, Inc. for the provision of HHW and CESQG services. This contract authorized athree-year initial term, with atwo-year extension. That June ECOFLO began operating Orange County's HHW Program based at the permitted facility at the Orange County Landfill. In the spring of 2003 the HHW program transitioned from holding collection events on the first Saturday of the month to operating afull-time year round collection program accepting household hazardous waste four days per week. The June 2002 agreement also allowed for small businesses, non-profits, and other public agencies within Orange County generating less than 100 Kg of hazardous waste per month (Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators, CESQGs) to have access to Orange County's Program for fee-based disposal of commercial hazardous waste. In August 2005 the BOCC approved an addendum to the original contract allowing for the expansion of program hours from four days per week to six days per week, and also allowing for an additional two year term.