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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 29, 2001 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Disposition of Construction & Demolition Waste Management <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />3 Alternative Draft Resolutions <br />Regarding a C&D Disposal Decision <br />Resolution A - No in-County C&D <br />Landfill (Page 4) INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Resolution B - To Initiate New C&D ' Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br />Landfill Site Search Process (Page 5) <br />Resolution C - Selection of Existing TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Candidate Site on Eubanks Road Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />(Page 6) Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />9/27/00 Attorney Memo (Page 7) Durham 688-7331 <br />9/00 Draft of Solid Waste Ordinance Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />(Page 8) <br />1/25/01 Solid Waste Dir. Memo (P g. 17 <br />PURPOSE: To discuss matters leading to a final determination regarding whether Orange <br />County will continue.to provide an in-county construction and demolition (C&D) waste disposal <br />facility; and to provide direction to staff and the Attorney regarding modifications to the current <br />draft ordinance regulating construction, demolition and other recyclable wastes. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />In-County Construction & Demolition,., Landfill, Decision <br />Over the past four years, discussions have taken place among various elected boards, the <br />Landfill Owners' Group (LOG), the LOG's C&D Landfill Site Search Committee, and the BOCC's <br />C&D Recycling Task Force regarding C&D waste management, and specifically a replacement <br />C&D disposal facility. Public hearings have been held, more than 40 different potential sites <br />have been examined, staff reports and recommendations have been made, and potential <br />property acquisitions have been contemplated. <br />In light of the vertical expansion approved last summer by the State, the existing C&D landfill is <br />expected to reach capacity by early summer 2002. No decision has been made regarding a <br />replacement disposal facility. Staff understands that the Eubanks Road site is the only specific <br />site still officially under consideration. Staff expects that site would receive a certificate of Site <br />Suitability from the State. If the Eubanks Road site is to be selected, staff believes that a <br />decision should be made no later than the summer of 2001. in order to have the site designed, <br />permitted and constructed to receive waste in the summer of 2002. That site would permit a