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ORDINANCE NO. 2000- 11 INTRODUCED BY: Mayor Rinker and Council as a Whole AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE APPROVING THE FINAL DRAFT SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN UPDATE 2001-2015 OF THE CUYAHOGA SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT WHEREAS, the Ohio Solid Waste Disposal Act, effective June 24, 1988, mandates that all counties establish a Solid Waste District and a Solid Waste Management Policy Committee to prepare, adopt and submit to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency a Solid Waste Management Plan (Section 3734.52-56, Ohio Revised Code); and WHEREAS, through its Resolution No. 883536, adopted August 29, 1988, the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners formed a single country Solid Waste Planning District, in accordance with Section 3734.52 of the Ohio Revised Code; and WHEREAS, the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, on March 30, 1989, designated the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission to serve as the Solid Waste Management Polity Planning Committee forthe Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District pursuant to Section 3734.54(D) of the Ohio Revised Code; and WHEREAS, the Cuyahoga County Board of Commissioners has, pursuant to Resolution No. 934112, adopted September 28, 1993, appointed two additional Policy Committee members in accordance with Section 3734.54(D) of the Ohio Revised Code; and WHEREAS, on April 15, 1994, the Cuyahoga County Policy Committee submitted the Initial Draft Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Management Plan to the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for final review; and on July 8, 1994, the Director issued an order approving the plan upon determination that it was duly ratified by local governments comprising the District, pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Section 3734.55(B), and that the ratified Initial Draft Plan is in compliance with Sections 3734.53(A), (B), (D) and (E)(1); and WHEREAS, solid waste management districts having a planning period of less than fifteen years shall submit triennially to the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency an amended plan and certification for the subsequent planning period upon which the initial plan was based, pursuant to Section 3734.56 of the Ohio Revised Code; and WHEREAS, initial and subsequent plan amendments prepared by solid waste management districts are required to be prepared in a format prescribed by the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to Section 3734.53 of the Ohio Revised Code; and