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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 7, 2011 Action Agenda Item No. cJ - ~ SUBJECT: Renewal of Agreement for Household Hazardous Waste Collection Services DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste /Financial PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No Services ATTACHMENT(S): Proposed Household Hazardous Waste Agreement Addendum Household Hazardous Waste Agreement effective June 4, 2002 INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Talbert, Financial Services, 245-2153 Gayle Wilson, Solid Waste, 968-2885 PURPOSE: To renew the agreement with ECOFLO Inc. for Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator (CESQG) Waste Collection and Disposal Services. BACKGROUND: The HHW collection program was established in 1994 as a cooperative program between local governments to collect hazardous waste from residents of Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake counties. In the spring of 2002, the various local governments decided that each local government would contract individually with the service provider of their choosing for HHW services. In June of 2002, the BOCC approved an agreement with ECOFLO, Inc. for the provision of HHW and CESQG services. This agreement authorized athree-year initial term, with atwo- year extension. That June ECOFLO began operating Orange County's HHW Program based at the permitted facility at the Orange County Landfill. In the spring of 2003, the HHW program transitioned from holding collection events on the first Saturday of the month to operating afull- time year round collection program accepting household hazardous waste four days per week. The June 2002 agreement also allowed for small businesses, non-profits, and other public agencies within Orange County generating less than 100 Kg of Hazardous Waste per month (Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators, CESQGs) to have access to Orange County's Program for fee-based disposal of commercial hazardous waste. In August of 2005 the BOCC approved an addendum to the original agreement allowing for the expansion of program hours from four days per week to six days per week, and also allowing for an additional two-year term.