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AGENDA #4 Memorandum To: Landfill Owners Group From: Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste Management Duector Subject: Regulating Construction and Demolition Wastes for Reduction Date: October 8, 1998 The attached resolution recommends that the- Owners Group request the local governments to consider the concept of regulating construction and demolition wastes to reduce generation of this waste within Orange County and its municipalities. Regulation would take place through a combination of solid waste plan requirements imposed on developers and builders and direct regulation of construction waste generators and haulers. ' Background The construction-and demolition waste area of the landfill will be full in less than eighteen months. The Owners. Group has not yet selected a new site for managing construction and demolition waste nor determined the methods for managing thes~- materials. If we wish to achieve our adopted solid waste reduction goals and extend life of the existing landfill, as well as of any future facilities, further consideration of ways to reduce landfilling of construction and demolition waste is necessary. Over the past two years, the Owners Group has considered a variety of approaches to reducing the amount of construction and demolition waste landfilled in Orange County including regulations, economic incentives, and establishment. of centralized construction and demolition waste recycling and recovery activities. In February 1997, the Owners Group resolved to take no further action on construction and demolition waste itself, but passed a resolution (attachment 1) that each of the jurisdictions consider both a solid waste planning requirement and a construction and demolition materials separation ordinance. The local governments have taken no action on that resolution. The Solid Waste Management Department staff held discussions with the various Building Inspection and Planning Departments' staff throughout the County regarding methods for implementation of such an ordinance, but there was no further action at the time. Solid Waste Management staff proposed funding; the enforcement of a materials separation ordinance with building inspection fees. The Town of Chapel Hill attorney determined that the original concept of using building inspection fees to finance enforcement personnel was not closely enough connected to the purpose of building inspections to be legal.