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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No 7X"o <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 28, 1994 <br /> SUBJECT: Regional Household Hazardous Waste Collection Program <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> DEPARTMENT County Manager PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X <br /> -------------------------------- ------------------------------- <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT <br /> Grant Award Letter from Governor Hunt Rod Visser, ext 2300 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> PURPOSE: To consider approving an interlocal agreement for a regional <br /> household hazardous waste collection program involving Orange, Durham, <br /> Chatham, and Wake Counties, the City of Durham, and the Towns of <br /> Carrboro and Chapel Hill, and an agreement with Triangle J Council of <br /> Governments to administer this program. <br /> BACKGROUND: At the June 29, 1993 meeting, the Board of Commissioners <br /> adopted a resolution endorsing the concept of developing a regional <br /> program for establishing permanent household hazardous waste facilities <br /> at each publicly owned landfill in the region. The concept also <br /> included jointly contracting with one service provider for collection <br /> and processing of hazardous wastes at all sites, with the objective of <br /> lowering program costs for each participating government. Potentially <br /> significant savings are envisioned from this regional approach, rather <br /> than continuing a series of periodic one day collection events by <br /> individual governments. Earlier in 1993-94 , representatives of <br /> participating governments participated in a Request for Proposals <br /> review process that resulted in the selection of Laidlaw, Inc. as the <br /> single contractor. <br /> Regional solid waste planners prepared a report in January 1994 <br /> detailing the process for creating a cooperative arrangement to collect <br /> household hazardous wastes throughout the four participating counties <br /> and to educate citizens regarding reduction and safe disposal. The <br /> 1994-95 budget recommended by the Landfill Owners' Group includes <br /> $92,000 for the implementation of the household hazardous waste <br /> program, although the landfill budget programs will not be finalized <br /> before the next scheduled meeting of the LOG on July 7 , 1994 . The <br /> State recently approved a $50,000 grant for this program through the <br /> Office of Waste Reduction, which may be used to offset some program <br /> costs. <br />