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1/21/1994 - Meeting Minutes • Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Management Council AGENDA Friday, January 21, 1994 11: 00 A.M. Salt Lake County Government Center, Room #N3005 2001 South State Street Salt Lake City, Utah BUSINESS ITEMS : 1 . Approval of Minutes (November 19, 1993) 2 . Election of Officers 3 . Adoption of Goals for 1994 4 . Report from SWAB Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities provided upon request; for information contact Cara Bryant in Personnel - 468-2120 . Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Management Council AGENDA Friday, January 21, 1994 11: 00 A.M. Salt Lake County Government Center, Room #N3005 2001 South State Street Salt Lake City, Utah BUSINESS ITEMS : 1. Approval of Minutes (November 19, 1993) 2 . Election of Officers 3 . Adoption of Goals for 1994 4 . Report from SWAB Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities provided upon request; for information contact Cara Bryant in Personnel - 468-2120 . Minutes of the Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Management Council held Friday, January 21, 1994 at 11:00 A.M. in Room #N300 5, Salt Lake County Government Center, 2001 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Those present: Brad Stewart Salt Lake City Russell Willardson COG, West Valley City Brian Bennion SLC/Co. Health Dept. Lonnie Johnson Salt Lake County Ed Bufener South Salt Lake Daniel L. Bauer Salt Lake Valley Landfill Ralph Bohn DEQ Catherine Hofman SLC/Public Services Kerri C. Nakamura Salt Lake City Council Cindy Morgan ET Technologies Romney M. Stewart Salt Lake Valley Landfill Pam Derbidge Secretary 1 . Approval of Minutes (November 21, 1993) Lonnie Johnson made a motion to approve the minutes of the meeting held November 19, 1993; Russell Willardson seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously. 2 . Election of Officers Lonnie Johnson made a motion that the Landfill Council officers continue to serve in their current respective positions during 1994, i.e. : Brad Stewart, Salt Lake City Chairman Lonnie Johnson, Salt Lake County 1st Vice Chairman Kent Miner, SLC/Co. Health Dept. 2nd Vice Chairman The motion was seconded by Russell Willardson; the motion passed unanimously. 3 . 1994 Goals (copy attached) Lonnie Johnson made a motion to approve the Solid Waste Management Goals prepared by Romney Stewart with the modification to remove the words "quality control" from item 4, Institutional and Administrative Goals; the motion was seconded by Russell Willardson. The motion passed unanimously. 4 . Report from SWAB Romney Stewart attended the SWAB meeting and reported that Bill Finney, Salt Lake County, had been elected Chairman. During the meeting, the members of SWAB reviewed the 1993 accomplishments and 1994 goals of the Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Management Council. Ted Diamant, Salt Lake City/County Health Department, distributed information on current legislative proposals that have impact on aspects of solid waste management. (Copy attached. ) There are also some proposed changed to the tire recycling bill. Some funding for collection in outlying areas is proposed. It was noted that the Ashgrove Plant 20 miles northeast of Delta was off line for a time during the summer through the end of 1993 . The plant now is burning 180 tons per day. The Devil's Slide plant has not had sufficient tire volume to burn. Ralph Bohn reported that a bill is being prepared for the Legislature which may affect the approval criteria for the Salt Lake Valley Landfill. Under the proposed legislation, hazardous waste criteria would be applied to MSW landfills and the Landfill would not be permitable. Brad Stewart reported that Salt Lake City is considering using its portion of the Landfill fee increase to provide curb side recycling for all Salt Lake City residents at no cost or low cost. Bill Finney reported in the SWAB meeting that Salt Lake County would likely use its portion for blue bag recycling and/or a transfer station. The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for February 18th, 1994 . Russell Willardson made a motion to adjourn; meeting adjourned at 11 :30 A.M. 2 144 Salt Lake Valley Solid Waste Management Council 1993 Accomplishments • Salt Lake County Solid Waste Management Plan • New Office/Employee Building • Completed First Subtitle D Module • Closure & Relocation from Wildlife Resource Modules • Wildlife Resource Pond Excavations • Operations in Compliance with New State and Federal Regulations • Committment for Large Scale In-house Mulching/Composting Operation • ET Contract Renewal with Improvements in Operating Plan, Facilities and Revenues • Unprecedented Amount of Metals Recycling • Sucessful RIO (Recycling Information Office) Glad Bag a ThonTM Cleanup and Recycling Event • Fee increase to fully fund reserves and support recycling programs. \\1.\\Cti 1/21/94 SALT LAKE VALLEY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT COUNCIL MAJOR GOALS AND PROGRAMS FOR 1994 Institutional and Administrative: - Oversee implementation of Salt Lake County Solid Waste Management Plan. Arrange for Council of Governments update in spring. - Format and automate management reporting, public information database systems, and Subtitle D recordkeeping in order to maximize the utilization of revenue, cost, disposal, diversion, and resource data; develop a more professional, businesslike approach to operations management. - Capitalize on audits being performed by the Salt Lake City Council and the Salt Lake County Auditor's Office by encouraging specific focus on needs and issues identified by landfill management. - Enhance the professionalism of quality control, regulation compliance, and inspection programs; expand training and credentials of staff. - Change name of landfill to reflect the variety and diversity of operations performed at the facility. - More fully integrate and coordinate activities between the landfill and Recycling Information Office. Facilities and Operations: - Implement measures to optimize the diversion and recovery of materials coming into the landfill by arranging for productive inhouse and commercial use of separated or processed waste materials. Complete implementation of large scale wood and yard waste processing project and secure long term markets for products. - Work for a timely completion and utilization of public facilities, e.g. Wildlife overlook, solid waste education center, and Sports Flyers model airport on completed parcel. - Seriously examine opportunities and feasibility of reclaiming construction and demolition materials and expanding disposal services. - Carefully monitor and ensure soils regeneration project for compliance with new contract requirements. Recycling Information Office: - Expand the volunteer program to include more outreach activities and to increase the number of participating volunteers. - Research, develop, and encourage the implementation of school education programs about waste reduction, recycling and related issues. - Review and analyze legislation from other communities concerning recycling, waste reduction, and markets for recycled commodities. Recommend legislation applicable to the Salt Lake Valley area to the Council. - Expand Bag-A-Thon event to include wider participation from more communities. Financial: - Conduct a complete review of fees and incentives for various waste material types and establish fee levels consistent with solid waste plan objectives. - Carefully monitor impact of fee changes on volumes of different waste material types, recycling activities, and revenue cash flow. - Implement a mechanism for periodic calculation and disbursement of recycling money to Salt Lake County and Salt Lake City. /21.7/Y PROPOSED MONITORING PROGRAM FOR INDUSTRIAL SOLID WASTE AND CONDITIONALLY EXEMPT SMALL QUANTITY HAZARDOUS WASTE GENERATORS At the December Board of Health meeting, staff introduced the Board to the industrial waste generator and conditionally exempt small quantity hazardous waste generator monitoring program. The intent of the program is to address the illicit disposal solid and hazardous waste disposal problem now facing Salt Lake County. Over the past years regulations relating to the way industry must manage their waste has changed. Many waste types once allowed to be disposed of with a businesses municipal solid waste must now be treated as a hazardous or special waste and either be recycled or treated prior to final disposal . As solid and hazardous waste regulations continue to become more stringent, illicit waste disposal will continue to be a problem. The program proposed at the last Board meeting will address the waste mismanagement problem from a regulatory and criminal investigative angle. The regulatory part of the program will be administered by the Health Department. Industry will be required to keep records of the way they dispose of their waste. The Health Department will conduct annual inspections of select businesses to assure such management is occurring. The criminal investigative part of the program will be administered by the County Attorney's Office. The County Attorney's Office will investigate future illicit disposal practices as criminal acts and prosecute such actions criminally. Such criminal investigative involvement will act as an industry deterrent as it relates to illicit waste management practices. The businesses the program would target would be those currently identified as mismanaging their solid and/or hazardous waste. The selection process of the business types which would be monitored would directly be dependent on the funding source made available to administer the program. Eight such types of businesses were identified at the last Board meeting. They include: construction/demolition waste contractors; excavation contractors; mobile carwash and steam cleaning contractors; concrete delivery contractors; carwashes; automobile junkyard; scrap metal processors; and, drycleaning establishments. As originally proposed, funding through a business license fee of $50. 00 per year would allow the Department to select, for monitoring, those businesses currently known, as an industry type, to widely be mismanaging their waste. An optional funding source recommended, during the last Board meeting, was to fund the program through a landfill tipping fee of 25 cents per ton of waste received by the landfill. This optional funding source would allow the most program flexibility as it relates to the number of business types which could be monitored. This option would also directly address the industry concern that the Department require waste management uniformity practices amongst their competitors. Under this option the Department would not be tied to a business licenses fee and would have the flexibility to monitor a number of other business types to assure proper waste management practices. Businesses which could be monitored under this funding option could include: medical institutions; laboratories; automotive service facilities; and a wide range of other generators, both public and private. Under the business license fee funding approach, the Department would generate $50,000.00 annually if the above eight business types were assessed an annual $50.00 business license inspection fee. If the program were funded from a landfill tipping fee, 160,000.00 would be generated from just a 25 cent tipping fee imposed on all trash entering the Salt Lake Valley landfill. f DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY LEGISLATIVE ISSUES 1994 SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE POLITICAL AFFILIATION AND QUORUM FOR THE SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE BOARD--The statute was amended last session to increase the board by two members. Those portions of the statute which provide for a balance of political affiliations on the board,and which establish the number of members needed for a quorum were overlooked in last minute changes. These will be corrected through the revisor statute to be consistent with the number of board members now specified in the statute. (PRIORITY B) SOLID WASTE AUTHORIZATION--In order to assure that federal primacy can be assumed in the solid waste program there are some minor changes to the solid and hazardous waste statute that must be made. These changes will allow the Solid and Hazardous Waste Board to meet the requirements of federal law with respect to the solid waste program. (PRIORITY B) USED OIL--Some changes are needed in the Used Oil Management bill(SB 12)that was passed in the 1993 session to provide for consistency in administration of this program with the other programs administered by the Solid and Hazardous Waste Board. (PRIORITY B) RADIATION CONTROL LEGISLATIVE AUDIT OF THE RADIATION CONTROL PROGRAM--A legislative audit of the radiological waste management issues in the radiation control program was conducted by the Legislative Auditor General in 1992. The results of that audit recommended three areas in which legislative action is necessary to correct identified deficiencies. The following areas are those needing action: 1) provide authority to the Radiation Control Board to regulate radiological waste disposal facilities similar to that of the Solid and Hazardous Waste Board for control of hazardous waste, 2)a legislative policy decision regarding the type and level of radioactive waste disposal facilities to be allowed within the state of Utah,and 3)establishment of a requirement for funding of site surety and liability accounts for radiological waste disposal sites through waste disposal fees. (PRIORITY B) 1 OTHER C� ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ACT--The EPA exempted the compliance actions taken by the Divisions within the Department from the requirement for a hearing before the action was taken to assure consistency with federal programs and to provide for an ability to take timely compliance actions. Two programs were inadvertently left out of the exemption; one was the underground storage tank program and the other was the radiation programs. This oversight is creating difficulty in administering these programs. (PRIORITY B) ISSUES OF INTEREST NOT ADDRESSED BY BILL INTRODUCED BY THE DEPARTMENT SALES TAX FOR POLLUTION CONTROL FACILITIES FEES FOR PCB AND OTHER WASTE DISPOSAL SOLID WASTE FACILITY SITING REQUIREMENTS 3