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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 30, 2000 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 1 <br />SUBJECT• Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Task Force Report <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />8/24/00 Staff Memo <br />C&D Recycling Task Force Report <br />(distributed at 8/15/00 BOCC meeting) <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Management <br />Director, 968-2885, <br />awilson(cr~.co.orange. nc.us <br />Blair Pollock, .968-2788, <br />bpollock(p~co.orange.nc.us <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To review and discuss the final report from the Construction and Demolition (C&D) <br />Waste Recycling Task Force. <br />BACKGROUND: In November 1999, the BOCC appointed a citizen task force to develop <br />recommendations for improving management of C&D waste that would observe the following <br />principles: <br />• Promote and encourage the `3Rs' hierarchy -reduce, reuse, recycle -for C&D waste <br />management. <br />• Promote and encourage pre-generation alternatives such as development of C&D waste <br />plans, building permit provisions, surety bonds or up front fees, education, etc. <br />• Promote, encourage and/or require early separation of reusable and/or recyclable materials. <br />The C&D Recycling Task Force met from December 1999 through May 2000. They developed <br />a report and submitted it to the BOCC on August 15, 2000 with detailed recommendations for <br />recycling and reducing C&D waste in Orange County. Staff recommends that the Board <br />discuss the findings and recommendations reflected in the task force report and provide <br />direction that the staff will develop into a detailed implementation plan for subsequent review <br />and approval by the BOCC. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no direct financial impart associated with the review and <br />discussion of the task force report itself, but the financial impact of implementing the <br />"'~'.ommendations could be significant. That would include at least a new position related to <br />nentation of a proposed mandatory C&D separation ordinance for Orange County (see <br />