45. SIX-YEAR PLAN IMPLEMENTATION
Implementing the recommendations made within the Douglas County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (DCCSWMP) will take place between July 1st, 2002 and June 30th, 2008. The time required to implement recommendations vary from weeks or months for single capital purchases, to ongoing operational costs that take place over the six-year implementation period.
45.1 INTRODUCTION
This chapter of the DCCSWMP outlines the regulatory framework requiring implementation of the DCCSWMP, discusses the existing conditions and programs within the Regional Planning Area (RPA), establishes a six-year implementation schedule and a six-year implementation budget.
45.2 REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
RCW 70.95.110 requires that all comprehensive solid waste management plans and any comprehensive city solid waste management plans prepared in accordance with RCW 70.95.080 shall be maintained in a current condition and reviewed and revised periodically by counties and cities as may be required by the Department of Ecology (DOE). Each comprehensive solid waste management plan shall be reviewed and revised within five years, and extended so that perpetually the comprehensive solid waste management plan shall look to the future for twenty years. Upon each review such comprehensive solid waste management plan shall be extended to show long-range needs for solid waste handling facilities for twenty years in the future, and a revised construction and capital acquisition program for six years in the future. Each revised comprehensive solid waste management plan shall be submitted to the DOE.
45.3 EXISTING CONDITIONS
45.3.1 Douglas County Solid Waste Program Office
The Douglas County Solid Waste Program Office (DCSWPO) was created in 1993 and is currently implementing the recommendations contained within the adopted Chelan-Douglas Moderate Risk Waste Management Plan (1991), the Douglas County Used Oil Element (1994) and the Douglas County Solid Waste Management Plan (1994). Most recommendations contained within the adopted plans have been implemented by the DCSWPO, however certain recommendations have been cancelled do to lack of support, public apathy or financial restraints. As DOE grant funding has decreased through loss of state funding (i.e. tire account, solid waste management account, etc.) local dollars have been stretched to the limit by state mandated services and traditional essential public services (i.e. law and justice, transportation, etc.). And as the public support for non-essential services has diminished, the participating jurisdictions have been hard pressed just to sustain the DCSWPO at current levels. With these factors in mind the DCCSWMP reflects an implementation schedule and budget that basically sustains that which is currently being implemented.
45.3.2 Chelan-Douglas Health District
The Chelan-Douglas Health District (CDHD) established a Solid Waste Section within its Environmental Division in 1992. They currently receive Solid Waste Enforcement (SWE) funds from the DOE to assist with the enforcement and compliance recommendations contained within the adopted plans.
