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Draft refined technical analyses and a high level of public input opportunity that will be helpful in future decision-making. Changes in the Solid Waste Mana�ement Plan for MSW Reduction Development of the Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan Recycling and Waste Reduction element The focus of developing the recycling and waste reduction element of the County's integrated solid waste management plan has shifted significantly from 2005 when the Solid Waste Plan Work Group began.At that time,the primary question was whether or not Orange County should build its own materials recovery facility(MRF) as the basis for planning future solid waste reduction strategies. Once it was determined that the County is not planning to enter the MRF business and that processing and marketing of recyclables we collect was better left to the private sector,then the focus of the planning effort shifted to a broader,but more incremental approach to the County's achievement of its sixty-one percent waste reduction goal. The work continues to be led by the Solid Waste Plan Work Group, although this group may soon sunset with future evaluations conducted by the SWAB. Because the prior report was two years late,the planning period covered included 2005-06 and 2006-07, so the accomplishments of that period are not reiterated in this report. Simultaneously,the County was also engaged in a multi-year transfer station siting process that had identified several possible sites.By the end of 2007-08 the Board of County Commissioners narrowed its site search to a set of three adjacent sites along Highway 54 West.Late in the process,after one site along Highway 54 had been selected for detailed site analysis,the County added two publicly owned sites near the existing landfill to its consideration. Ultimately in December 2009,the BOCC decided not to construct a transfer station in Orange County in the next three to five years following landfill closure,but to instead direct haul waste out of County and consider other options and other technologies.A motion adopted to that effect is included as Appendix A to this report. Summary of Technical Reports presented since mid-2008 Beginning in mid-2008 and through 2009, solid waste plan development focus continued to be relatively broad, covering topics ranging from development of a solid waste system-wide financial projection and plan for the entire enterprise fund,to a set of options for commercial recycling collections and an iterative series of options for managing both waste and recycling in the unincorporated areas of the County. Detailed reports and presenta.tions were provided and they are available from the Sold Waste Department. Those reports provide significant detailed technical bases for completing the solid waste planning process. Those reports (all by RRS except where noted) included: 1. Orange County Commercial Recycling and Solid Waste Strategy Options Summary(with accompanying power point on"Commercial Recycling Expansion) 2. Franchised Commercial Waste Collection in the Incorporated Areas,by Olver Inc. 3. Alternative Waste Management Technologies Assessment GBB. 4. Implementation of Franchised Waste Collection in Rural Orange County,by Olver Inc 16