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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 26, 2004 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ` - k_ <br />SUBJECT: Scheduling a Public Hearing on Orange County's 3-Year Solid Waste Plan <br />Update <br />DEPARTMENT: Solid Waste Management PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />12/17/03 State Plan Components Memo <br />Draft Solid Waste Management Plan 3- <br />Year Update (Under Separate <br />Cover) <br />Draft Memorandum to Towns <br />Draft Resolution <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Gayle Wilson, 968-2885 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To schedule a Public Hearing to receive public comments on the 3-Year Update of <br />Orange County's Solid Waste Management Plan. <br />BACKGROUND: In 1997, the County and the three Towns adopted a solid waste management <br />plan which included a long-term waste reduction goal of 61% per capita and a comprehensive <br />plan for achieving that goal. Plan development was based on a previous multiyear process that <br />involved a consultant assisting the governments and citizens' committee to develop three waste <br />reduction scenarios from which the governments developed the plan framework in 1996. The <br />resulting plan was further refined and submitted to the NC Department of Environment and <br />Natural Resources in 1997 as required by State statute. In addition to meeting the statutory <br />requirement, the planning document also served as the County's guideline for future solid waste <br />reduction planning and as a basis for projecting financial needs to meet those goals. <br />In 2000, the plan was updated and the same goals and plan framework were reaffirmed.. By the <br />time the plan update was submitted, governance of solid waste had shifted from a stricture <br />wherein the Landfill Owners Group provided policy guidance and the Town of Chapel Hill <br />managed daily operations to one in which Orange County was the lead agency with policy <br />advice from the Solid Waste Advisory Board. All four governments in the County are still <br />integrally involved in solid waste management and all formally supported the 2000 solid waste <br />plan update. Orange County is now the lead agency relative to plan development and <br />submission; however, the Towns also maintain a formal role in the plan approval process. A <br />December 2003 memorandum to the BOCC describing the components of the plan is attached. <br />The subsequent three-year update to the plan was due June 30, 2001