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5 <br />Attachment 1 <br />A RESOLUTION REQUESTING AUTHORIZATION TO SUBMIT TO THE STATE <br />AN INTERIM THREE YEAR UPDATE TO THE TEN YEAR STATE SOLID WASTE <br />MANAGEMENT PLAN <br />WHEREAS, every three years each County must submit an update to its original ten year <br />approved solid waste management plan, and <br />WHEREAS Orange County has not submitted its current three year update due June 30, <br />2006 because local officials desire to conduct a comprehensive reexamination of <br />community waste management priorities, and <br />WHEREAS the County has initiated a deliberate, transparent and thorough planning <br />process involving ail four local governments as well as UNC, thus causing a longer <br />planning period, and <br />WHEREAS development of the scheduled, comprehensive three-year update will not be <br />complete for at least eight more months and <br />WHEREAS an interim plan would bring Orange County into compliance, enabling State <br />reimbursements and grant eligibility and avoiding delays or suspensions of environmental <br />permitting reviews and approvals, and <br />WHEREAS an interim plan would provide an opportunity for our elected officials and <br />public to become aware of local waste management accomplishments since the last plan <br />was adopted and to become aware of the local comprehensive planning process underway <br />THEREFORE NOW BE IT RESOLVED the Solid Waste Advisory Board requests that <br />the Board of Orange County Commissioners authorize staff to prepare an interim report, <br />which, while primarily descriptive in nature, also lays out the elements and sequence of <br />the planning process that will result in the more complete plan update in 2008. <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this interim plan would be presented for public input <br />as required by State Statute. <br />This is the 4~' of October 2007. <br />~ ~~~~ <br />