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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 16, 2005 Action Ages a I Item No. SUBJECT: Agreement Renewal for Household Hazardous Waste Collection Services DEPARTMENT: Purchasing/Solid Waste PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Janes, 245-26.52 Agreement Addendum Household Hazardous Waste 2002 Agreement (under separate cover) Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To continue the agreement with ECOFLO Inc. for Household Hazardous Waste and Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator Collection Services, BACKGROUND: The Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection program was established in 1994 as a cooperative program between local governments to collect hazardous waste from residents of Chatham, Durham, Orange, and Wake counties, In the spring of 2002, the various local governments decided that each local government would contract individually with the service provider of their choosing for HHW services, In .June of 2002, the BOCC approved an agreement with ECOFLO, Inc far the provision of HHW services, That agreement authorized athree-year initial term, with atwo-year extension. ECOFLO began operating Orange County's Household Hazardous Waste Program based at the County's permitted facility at the Orange County Landfill, In the spring of 2003, the HHW program transitioned from holding collection events on the first Saturday of the month to operating afull-time year round collection program accepting household hazardous waste four days per week. The agreement also allows small businesses generating less than 100 kilograms of Hazardous Waste per month to use the County's vendor for fee-based hazardous waste disposal services. This addendum engages ECOFLO for the two-year extension as outlined in the original agreement through June 2007, It further allows the County to expand the program hours from four days per week to six days per week, Monday through Saturday. FINANCIAL IMPACT: The total projected cost of this agreement for FY 2005-2006 is $224,000, This amount is included in the approved Solid Waste Management Departmental Budget.