1468 - Resolution - Solid Waste PlanRESOLUTION NO. 1468 1/
WHEREAS, The Solid Waste Management -
Recovery and Recycling Act, (Chapter 70.95 RCW) governs
the handling of solid waste in Washington State and it
assigns local government primary responsibility to
prepare a solid waste plan by June 7, 1989.
WHEREAS, The 1985 amendments to the State
Hazardous Waste Management Act (Chapter 70.105 RCW)
require each local government, or combination of
contiguous local governments to prepare a local hazardous
waste plan and submit letters of intent by October 31,
1987 to complete local plans by June 30, 1990.
WHEREAS, local governments may choose to
either (1) include a hazardous waste element in their
solid waste plans,.or (2) develop hazardous waste plans
separately from their solid waste plans recognizing that
if a county or city chooses not to combine the two plans,
both plans should discuss the connection between the
plans.
WHEREAS, all local governments must prepare
20-year solid waste management plans with the conditions
that unless a city or town has its own disposal site, it
must cooperate with a county in the development of a
county or regional plan. This is explained in the Solid
Waste Management -Recovery and Recycling Act.
"Each city shall"
1. Prepare and deliver to the county auditor
of the county, in which it is located,
its plans for its own solid waste
management for integration into the
comprehensive county plan; or
2. Enter into an agreement with the county
pursuant to which the city shall
participate in preparing a joint
city -county plan for solid waste
management; or
3. Authorize the county to prepare a plan
for the city's solid waste management for
inclusion in the comprehensive county
plan."
As stated in RCW 70.95.130, "Any city preparing an
independent plan shall provide for disposal sites wholly
within its jurisdiction.
Disposal site means the location where any final
treatment, utilization, processing, or deposition of
solid waste occurs. (RCW 70.95.030)
WHEREAS, The Board of Kit -sap County
Commissioners has established a local regional solid
waste advisory committee which includes membership from
the (a) Incorporated cities, (b) Indian Tribes, (c) Solid
Waste Industry, (d) Industrial Section and the
Commissioners Districts.
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WHEREAS, Kitsap County receives a user fee
from the operator of the Olympic View and Hansville
landfills for each cubic yard placed in the sites and the
fee is used for county wide solid waste needs. User'fee
is'planned to cover costs of preparing the Solid Waste
Management Plan. Grant funds are available for Hazardous
Waste Planning and Zoning work on a priority system
administered by the Department of Ecology. Local
government may provide the 25 percent local share with
cash and/or direct contributed services.
WHEREAS, it is necessary for grant
application purposes to designate the responsible
government, size of planning area and obtain resolutions
of concurrence with the planning process for all cities,
towns and/or counties.
WHEREAS, grants are awarded on a first
come -first serve basis.
NOW, THEREFORE, The City Council of the City
of Port Orchard does resolve as follows:
1. The County should act as lead agency for
a regional plan using monies collected
through the County wide user fee to pay
for the Solid Waste plan. The County
should apply for a 75% grant from the
D.O.E. for the Hazardous Waste Section of
the plan. Local staff time should be
used for the 25% grant match.
2. The County is authorized to prepare a
plan for the City of Port Orchard for
inclusion in the Comprehensive County
plan. The Hazardous Waste Plan is to be
a section of the plan.
PASSED by the City Council of the City -of
Port Orchard, APPROVED by the Mayor and attested by the
Clerk in authentication of such passage this 26th day of
October, 1987.
LESLILf J. WEATHERILL, MAYOR
ATTEST:
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Patricia Hower, City Clerk
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