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6/5/2012 3:34 PM (GMT) Frog: ORANGE COUNTY PURCHASING 919-644-3324 To: 19198448339 Page 8 of 23 <br /> Attachment 2 <br /> • <br /> Landfill Neighborhood Cleanup Process and Timeline <br /> March,2012 <br /> The following represents the conditions, criteria, timeline and other parameters <br /> that will guide Orange County's proposed cleanup of illegal dumping and other <br /> litter and debris located on private property within % mile of the landfill. This <br /> protocol includes BOCC suggestions made at the March 13, 2012 meeting. <br /> At the time this neighborhood cleanup program was conceived it was not known <br /> that unregulated, non-permitted for profit waste dumps existed in a <br /> neighborhood nearby the landfill. This program is not intended to mitigate <br /> potentially large areas where substantial quantities of unknown debris/trash have <br /> been buried or otherwise landfilled. Therefore staff suggests some limitations or <br /> constraints must be applied to this program in order to avoid regulatory, <br /> environmental and financial liability. <br /> The process is outlined below: <br /> • Eligible property is that which lies within three-fourths of one mile of the <br /> landfill boundary. <br /> • There will be no cost to the property owner; expenses related to the <br /> cleanup will be funded by the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund. All material <br /> collected would be delivered to the Orange County landfill where tipping <br /> fees would be waived. <br /> • Owners would have 90 days from the date the initial notification letters are <br /> mailed in order to request this cleanup service. <br /> • County will send a certified letter to all property owners within the % mile <br /> radius informing them that if their property contains trash and debris that <br /> is the result of littering or unregulated/unauthorized dumping Orange <br /> County has implemented a one-time cleanup program for which they may <br /> be eligible. It will be suggested that a property owner whose property <br /> contains such trash and debris may wish to request that their property be <br /> considered for these cleanup activities. Only the property owner may <br /> 1 <br />