HomeMy WebLinkAbout2556RESOLUTION NO. 2556
A RESOLUTION designating Kitsap County as the
Lead Agency for development of a Comprehensive
Solid Waste Management Plan
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.95.020 RCW assigns primary responsibility for solid waste
planning to local government; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.105.007(3) RCW assigns responsibility for moderate risk waste
planning to local government; and
WHEREAS, for solid waste and moderate risk waste planning purposes, Kitsap County
attributes to the federally-recognized tribes the same status as a city, as referred to in Chapter
70.95 RCW and Chapter 70.105 RCW; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.95.090 RCW requires the comprehensive solid waste
management plan to include the estimated long-range needs for solid waste handling facilities
projected twenty years into the future; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.95.110 RCW requires all solid waste management plans to be
reviewed and revised periodically as may be required by the Department of Ecology; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.95.130 RCW requires a city preparing an independent solid waste
management plan to provide for disposal sites wholly within its jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.95.080 RCW requires each City to (1) prepare an independent
solid waste management plan for integration into the county plan; or (2) enter into an agreement
with the County to participate in the preparation of a joint City-County plan; or (3) authorization
of the County to prepare a plan for the City's solid waste management for inclusion in the
County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.105.220 RCW requires each local government to prepare a local
hazardous waste management plan which may be amended as the need arises; and
WHEREAS, local governments may choose to either include a moderate risk waste
element in their solid waste plans, or develop moderate risk waste plans separately from their
solid waste plans, recognizing that if a local government chooses not to combine the two plans,
both plans should be coordinated; and
WHEREAS, the 1990 Kitsap County Final Moderate Risk Waste Management Plan is
separate from the Kitsap County Solid Waste Plan and, in the interest of management and
administrative efficiency Kitsap County is desirous of including this plan as an element of the
solid waste management plan; and
WHEREAS, Chapter 70.95.010 RCW, as amended by SHB1671, state that solutions to
the state's solid waste management problems require regional solutions by local governments
as well as intergovernmental cooperation; and
WHEREAS, Kitsap County has established a Solid Waste Advisory Committee in
accordance with Chapter 70.95.165 RCW to assist in the development and review of programs
and policies concerning solid waste handling and disposal; and
WHEREAS, the Solid Waste Advisory Committee consists of representatives of the
incorporated cities, Indian tribes, federal facilities, County Commissioners' districts, and solid
waste industry of Kitsap County; and
WHEREAS, the City of Bremerton participated in the preparation of the 1990
Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan, the 1992 Amendment, and the 1990 Moderate
Risk Waste Management Plan through its representative on the Solid Waste Advisory Committee;
and
WHEREAS, it is necessary for grant application purposes to designate the lead solid
waste planning agency, establish the size of the planning area, and for local governments
participating in the solid waste management planning process to obtain resolutions for the
planning process;
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved:
1. Kitsap County, shall act as lead agency for review of the 1990 Kitsap County
Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (1990 CSWMP) and the 1992 Amendment to the
1990 Kitsap County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (1992 CSWMP Amendment),
and for preparation of a Revised Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (Revised
CSWMP).
2. Kitsap County is authorized to review solid waste planning for the City of
Bremerton for inclusion in the Revised CSWMP.
3. Kitsap County is authorized to review the moderate risk waste planning for the City
of Bremerton contained in the 1990 Kitsap County Final Moderate Risk Waste Management Plan,
and to prepare a Revised Moderate Risk Waste Management Plan for the City of Bremerton to
be incorporated into the Revised CSWMP.
4. It is understood that the work associated with resolution items #2 and #3 will be
coordinated through the Solid Waste Advisory Committee, and that the Department of Ecology
will consider approval of the Revised CSWMP only after all local jurisdictions participating in the
Revised CSWMP planning process have adopted the Revised CSWMP by resolution.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton this 28th day of August, 1996.
JOHN LAW
Council President