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GOAL STATEMENT: To implement an effective and responsive organizational structure for the management of solid waste processing and disposal throughout Orange County, and a cost- effective array of services and facilities to achieve per capita solid waste reduction goals of 45 % by 2001 and 61% by 2006, with emphasis on reduction, reuse, and recycling tools. Goal Initiated/Proposed By: Board of County Commissioners Most Recent Version Adopted by B ®CC: May -1998 For the past several years, the County Commissioners have been involved in ongoing discussions with the municipal governing boards about which jurisdiction should take the lead in managing solid waste throughout Orange County. Through the Landfill Owners' Group (LOG) and its' member governing boards, there has also been extensive discussion about what facilities and services should be provided to facilitate achievement of established solid waste reduction goals. These goals, adopted in 1995 by the County and Towns (and reaffirmed on a number of occasions since), call for reductions ih per capita waste landfilled against abase year of 1992 -93 of 45 percent by 2001, and 61 percent by 2006. The County Commissioners recently refined a proposal they presented to the Towns in Summer 1998, citing the conditions under which the County would be willing to assume overall solid waste management authority. There appears to be growing general consensus that the County should assume this responsibility. An interlocal agreement must be consummated between the County and Towns to effect this arrangement, and to guarantee that there are committed partners to make a solid waste management enterprise economically viable. With regard to facilities, the most pressing need at this time is to identify and develop additional construction and demolition (C &D) disposal space, as the LOG's current C &D landfill space will be exhausted by early 2000. Subsequent important facility siting and development decisions that will be required involve consideration of a materials recovery facility and transfer station. Another important decision will involve a long -range financing plan for the construction and operation of these facilities and the provision of related solid waste services. Timetables related to major facility siting, sizing, development, and operation (along with associated programs and services) will be determined after the organizational structure and governance issues have been fully resolved.