File #: 2004-0125    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/15/2004 In control: Natural Resources and Utilities Committee
On agenda: Final action: 7/26/2004
Enactment date: 8/2/2004 Enactment #: 14971
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the timing for planning for waste export and annually reporting the solid waste division's progress toward objectives identified in the comprehensive solid waste management plan; amending Ordinance 7737, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C.10.24.020 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 10.25.
Sponsors: Bob Ferguson, Carolyn Edmonds, Kathy Lambert, Julia Patterson, David W. Irons
Indexes: Budget, Natural Resources, Department of, Solid Waste
Code sections: 10.24.020 -
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 14971.pdf, 2. 2004-0125 - Attachment 1 staff revised legislation (RPC 7-7-04).doc, 3. 2004-0125 RPC REVISED staff report, 4. 2004-0125 staff report (4-7-04), 5. 2004-0125 staff report SW Export discussion (RPC 5-5-04).doc, 6. 2004-0125 SW Export briefing RPC (7-7-04).doc, 7. 2004-0125 SW Export discussion (6-2-04).doc, 8. 2004-0125 SW Export Discussion-Action staff report (RPC 7-13-04).doc, 9. 2004-0125 Transmittal Letter.doc, 10. 2004-0125.2 Staff Report NRU Solid Waste Export 7-15-04.doc, 11. A. Framework for Developing the Waste Export Implementation and Coordination Plan-February 2004, 12. SWD presentation re 2004-0125 (4-7-04).ppt
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Clerk 07/21/2004
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the timing for planning for waste export and annually reporting the solid waste division's progress toward objectives identified in the comprehensive solid waste management plan; amending Ordinance 7737, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C.10.24.020 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 10.25.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. In Ordinance 14236 and the 2001 Final Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan, the council made the policy determination to export the county's solid waste to one or more landfills after the county's Cedar Hills regional landfill reaches capacity and must close. The council rejected alternatives to waste export, including development of a new landfill in King County or incinerating the county's waste.
B. In Ordinance 14236, the council directed the county executive to begin to implement the policy to export the county's waste by developing a waste export coordination and implementation plan ("the waste export system plan").
C. The 2001 Final Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan also included policies on transfer stations and the future transfer station system. The majority of the current transfer stations were planned for and developed in the 1960s. The most-recent review of the transfer station system was conducted for the 2001 Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan update. The future transfer station system must be planned and developed as an integral part of the waste export system plan.
D. Waste export may require the county to secure intermodal capacity to transfer sealed containers of solid waste from trucks to rail cars.
E. The 2001 Final Solid Waste Comprehensive Management Plan Policy DSW-8 directs the county executive to undertake a siting study process for any necessary intermodal facilities that involves all affected jurisdictions and interested parties in the siting study and in the develop...

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