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0 <br />SECTION IV. CERTIFYING COMMINGLED RECYCLING FACILITIES. <br />1. Any facility accepting regulated recyclable materials, commingled with other solid waste <br />(hereafter "commingled regulated recyclable materials ") originating from within Orange <br />County, must be certified as an approved Commingled Recycling Facility. Any person <br />wishing to dispose of commingled regulated recyclable materials originating from within <br />Orange County may only do so by delivery to a facility which has been certified as an <br />approved Commingled Recycling Facility. In order to be certified as an approved <br />Commingled Recycling Facility, the facility must make application for certification as an <br />approved Commingled Recycling Facility. All applications must be accompanied by a <br />processing fee. The amount of the fee will be set by the Board annually with the adoption by <br />the Board of the annual budget ordinance of Orange County. The application must include <br />documentation that the applicant has: <br />A a ,^1; a 1.T....tl. C.,rol;...., ( 1 ) Solid Waste Landfill, ( 2) 1,,..sing and D J .1 ', b, ( 3) gelid <br />Amended 3/16/04 Waste •r . nsf r r (4) r,.mpe„t;n,. >;aeil;ty pen,..;t. m <br />B. One ef the Mewing-. <br />(1) the te,.l,.,ieal ability to separate and mafLot all these materials mqu4ed by fiii <br />er-dinanee to be .,led by Qr e r^ ..t� <br />(2) ° <br />»vvvpt. T eA .701 s shall be ,,,.lu e,7 �.e..., the ...,..terra ,,ted .,d f..,,.., the <br />Yw. is <vac uvvaao ornsia- nv— °vnviay. u uvar��. <br />nuscc. , <br />A. one of the following valid state permits issued by the state where the facility is <br />located to which Regulated Recyclable Material is to be delivered (1) Solid Waste <br />Landfill, (2) Processing and Recycling, (3) Solid Waste Transfer, or (4) <br />Composting Facility permit to operate; and <br />B. one of the following: <br />(1) a documented performance of separating and marketing all those materials <br />receipts for all Regulated Recyclable Material marketed; or <br />(2) a documented performance of at least 30% recycling of all material that the <br />Commingled Recycling Facility accepts demonstrated by twelve (12) months of <br />tonnage detailing all material the facility has received and receipts for all <br />material separated and marketed. In making this recycling performance <br />calculation: (1) inert debris (such as, for example, concrete, dirt, rock and <br />asphalt paving) shall be excluded from the material accepted and from the <br />material recycled; and (2) fifty percent (50 %) of fines (mechanically screened <br />material resulting from the operation of a mechanical waste recovery system) <br />shall be considered inert debris and the other fifty percent (50 %) may be <br />counted as material accepted and material recycled. <br />2. Certification. <br />A. A Facility complying with the above requirements shall be certified as an approved <br />Commingled Recycling Facility by the Department. This certification will be valid for <br />one year from the date of approval by the Department and must be renewed annually. <br />B. .If the certification application does not meet the requirements of this ordinance, the <br />notification of denial shall state the reasons that the application was denied. If the <br />Department denies certification pursuant to this Section, the applicant may request a <br />hearing with the Department Director, The Department Director shall keep minutes of the <br />hearing, including all documents that are part of the application and all documents <br />