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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 <br />County Attorney <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />9/5/01 Staff Memo re: Regulated <br />Recyclable Materials Ordinance <br />Implementation Plan <br />Summary of C&D Recycling Task Force <br />Recommendations <br />Proposed Ordinance -Draft #15 <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson 968-2885 <br />Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 9684501 <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 the <br />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 regulating <br />recyclable construction & demolition (C&D) materials. Implementation of such an ordinance <br />requires staffing, facilities development, and coordination with other departments and governments <br />within Orange County, as well as the regulated community of developers and 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 waste <br />haulers to haul the separated regulated materials. Passage of the ordinance would significantly <br />alter the ways in which construction and demolition waste is managed in Orange County and has <br />the potential to reduce the amount of material landfilled if properly implemented and administered. <br />The Board discussed previous versions of the draft ordinance at meetings in November 2000 and <br />January 2001, and raised a number of questions, including concerns that any ordinance the Board <br />might adopt should not have unintended adverse consequences on agricultural and forestry <br />operations. Since that time, the staff and the Attorney have worked with various stakeholders and <br />