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one-year timeline due to the extensive amount of permitting work already completed at that location. Two other alternatives the Board may consider are to open another site search to identify a future C&D disposal site at an Orange County location other than Eubanks Road, or to decide not to pursue additional C&D disposal capacity in Orange County once the current C&D landfill is exhausted. Staff has prepared three alternative draft resolutions, one of which (or a modified version thereof) that the Board may wish to consider adopting either at this meeting, or perhaps at the February 7 regular meeting of the BOCC. An adopted resolution would provide necessary direction to staff regarding any future C&D disposal facility. It should be noted that in August 2000, the Construction & Demolition Recycling Task Force presented a report to the BOCC regarding recommendations for reducing and recycling C&D wastes. Some of their recommendations could involve the need for space to physically conduct recycling and/or marketing operations. Depending on the Board's decisions to pursue some or all of these recommendations, we believe that about 3-10 acres could be necessary for non- disposal C&D management. Several of the potential C&D recycling/waste reduction recommendations could be implemented even if the BOCC elects to discontinue disposal operations in Orange County. Ideally, if the Solid Waste Department is directed to continue C&D disposal operations beyond July 2002, recycling operations would most efficiently be conducted at or near that disposal facility. Construction and Demolition Waste Regulation for Recycling One of the key: C&D Task Force recommendations was passage of an ordinance regulating recyclable C&D Materials. That ordinance requires staffing, facilities development, and coordination with other departments and governments within Orange County, as well as the regulated community of developers and waste haulers. The draft ordinance has potential to regulate both recyclable C&D materials and other materials with a goal of keeping those materials from being landfilled and requiring that they be separated for recycling instead. The proposed ordinance regulates on-site separation, requires submission of materials management plans for large construction projects, and licensing of waste haulers to haul the separated regulated materials. Passage of the ordinance would significantly alter the ways in which construction and demolition waste is managed in Orange County and has the potential to reduce the amount of material landfilled if properly implemented and administered. The Board discussed the draft ordinance at their regular meeting on November 1, 2000, and raised a number of questions, including concerns that any ordinance the Board might adopt should not have unintended adverse consequences on agricultural and forestry operations. The Board asked the staff and Attorney to identify issues that might necessitate changes to the ordinance as currently drafted. Solid Waste Management staff, in consultation with the County Attorney, developed the attached report on the "Burning Prohibition of the Regulated Recyclable Material Ordinance". The Board may wish to discuss the information presented, and then provide specific direction to the Attorney on changes to be made in the draft ordinance and brought back for further BOCC review and.discussion. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The financial impact of a C&D landfill decision, or alternatively no decision at all, may be significant. If a decision is made not to develop a replacement construction and demolition disposal facility, the landfill enterprise fund will need a supplemental