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, C&D Disposal and Materials Mana�ement Orange County has sited and operates an unlined C&D landfill at the current location on Eubanks Road. That landfill is now predicted to last 18 years or more with the marked decrease in C&D tonnage from an average of about 31,000 tons a year prior to implementation of the RRMO in 2002 to 10,483 tons last yeax and a projected 7,700 this year. Obviously part of the steep decline is due to recession, but part is also due to waste shifting to less costly, less environmentally rigorous disposal facilities with fewer regulations. The County plans to also continue managing recyclables,hazardous wastes,tires,clean wood, scrap metal and yard waste from all across the County at its current facility for the foreseeable future. Along with that on-site effort,the County is committed to continuing to work with the building community on solid waste plans and enforcement of its Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance focused primarily on reducing construction and demolition waste and encouraging recycling and reuse of what is produced. There is an ongoing multi jurisdictional commitment to continue to reduce the amount of waste disposed by 61%per person in an effort to conserve resources,reduce the amount of waste to be transferred,protect the environment and save the remaining landfill space until a suitable alternative can be developed. The biggest challenge will be to finance those operations that are not self-financing,but have depended upon MSW disposal revenues to make up any potential operational deficits. Inter�overnmental Cooperation The Interlocal Agreement signed in 2000 by the Towns of Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough and Orange County continues to function and provide a strong fiscal and governance foundation for the current solid waste operation. The four signatories to the agreement, as well as LTNC, although it is not a signer,have all pledged the waste under their control to an Orange County-run facility. This pledge has stabilized the amount of waste coming to the landfill. The Interlocal Agreement and state statute also stipulate that Counties are responsible for providing disposal facilities. The County and the Towns are now in discussion over the viability of the Interlocal Agreement now that Orange County has elected not to provide a local disposal facility. The Town of Hillsborough has continued its contractual obligation for its franchised non- residential hauler, Waste Industries,to deliver waste from Hillsborough to the County landfill as part of the renewed agreement with Waste Industries. The Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro deliver waste they collect to the landfill, but other private haulers operating in those jurisdictions are currently under no such obligation. Some of the waste they collect,primarily from the non- residential sector is delivered to Orange County, while an increasing fraction goes to other area transfer stations or landfills. In September 2008, IJNC,by mutual consent with Orange County, began sending its waste out of County to a private transfer station operated by its contract hauler in order to conserve landfill space. While iTNC is not a signatory to the Interlocal Agreement nor as of September 2008, does it any longer deliver waste to the landfill, it continues to be a participant in solid waste activity through its presence on the Solid Waste Advisory Board(SWAB),the joint landfill gas project, as a recipient of County-provided collection services that divert over 900 tons of food waste and lab animal bedding from landfilling and informal ongoing cooperation between the educational and 39