9053-19 - Adopt County Solid Waste Mangement Plan

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Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management Plan Update (December 2018) Chapter 4: Waste Management 5. Other Waste Management Facilities The District is not aware of any new waste management methods being proposed that may bring waste to energy or waste conversion technologies to Cuyahoga County during the planning period. The District is not proposing any such facility at this time but is open to reviewing the applicability of alternative technologies to recover more materials and reduce landfilling. D Siting Strategy The solid waste management plan must demonstrate that the District will have access to enough capacity at landfill facilities to accept all of the waste it will need to dispose during the planning period. If existing facilities cannot provide that capacity, then the District and its solid waste policy committee must develop a plan for obtaining additional disposal capacity. In the event that would require constructing a solid waste landfill facility to secure disposal capacity, Ohio law would require the policy committee to develop a siting strategy for identifying a suitable location per Ohio Revised Code Section 3734.53(A)(8). Since the District has concluded that ample landfill disposal capacity exists, it has not developed a siting strategy for the construction of a new landfill within Cuyahoga County. Furthermore, the area of undeveloped land needed to develop a new landfill does not exist within Cuyahoga County any longer. While no new landfills are expected to be constructed within Cuyahoga County, there is the potential for other solid waste facilities such as a waste to energy facility to be proposed or existing solid waste facilities to be modified. In these instances, there is the potential need for a siting strategy for projects that would negatively impact a community or the District. The Board of Directors of the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management District is authorized by Revised Code section 343.01(G)(2) to adopt a rule requiring the submission of general plans and specifications to the Board for a determination by the Board that any proposed new solid waste facility or major existing facility modification complies with the District Plan. This Plan Update authorizes the Board to adopt the rule authorized Revised Code section 343.01(G)(2). In the event that the Board adopts a rule to implement the Siting Strategy, that strategy is presented in full in Appendix S. E Designation The Board of Directors of the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management District is authorized to establish facility designations in accordance with Section 343.014 of the Ohio Revised Code after its solid waste plan has been approved by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. This authority is referred to as flow control and is typically used to direct waste to public facilities in order to retire debt. Since the District supports an open market for the collection, transport and disposal of solid waste and currently has no facilities with public debt, it does not currently designate facilities that are authorized to receive Cuyahoga County waste. 4 -10 041