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A' <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October 1, 2001 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 3 <br /> SUBJECT: Regulated Recyclable Materials Ordinance <br /> DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br /> County Attorney <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): <br /> 9/5/01 Staff Memo re: Regulated INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Recyclable Materials Ordinance Gayle Wilson 968-2885 <br /> Implementation Plan — Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br /> Summary of C&D Recycling Task Force TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Recommendations Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Proposed Ordinance– Draft#15 Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To review and discuss a revised draft of the Regulated Recyclable Materials <br /> Ordinance and to consider setting a Public Hearing date to receive formal public comment on <br /> the proposed ordinance. <br /> BACKGROUND: One of the key recommendations in the August 2000 report from the <br /> Construction and Demolition Waste Recycling Task Force is adoption of an ordinance <br /> regulating recyclable construction & demolition (C&D) materials. Implementation of such an <br /> ordinance requires staffing, facilities development, and coordination with other departments and <br /> governments within Orange County, as well as the regulated community'of developers and <br /> waste haulers. <br /> The proposed ordinance has potential to regulate both recyclable C&D materials and other <br /> materials with a goal of keeping those materials from being landfilled and requiring that they be <br /> separated for recycling instead. The proposed ordinance regulates on-site separation, requires <br /> submission of materials management plans for large construction projects, and licensing of <br /> waste haulers to haul the separated regulated materials. Passage of the ordinance would <br /> significantly alter the ways in which construction and demolition waste is managed in Orange <br /> County and has the potential to reduce the amount of material landfilled if properly implemented <br /> and administered. <br /> The Board discussed previous versions of the draft ordinance at meetings in November 2000 <br /> and January 2001, and raised a number of questions, including concerns that any ordinance the <br /> Board might adopt should not have unintended adverse consequences on agricultural and <br /> forestry operations. Since that time, the staff and the Attorney have worked with various <br />