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RESOLUTION NO. 4564
A RESOLUTION ENDORSING LANE COUNTY'S W ASTESHED GOAL
OF 45 PERCENT RECOVERY FOR THE YEAR 2000.
The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that:
A. In order to ensure compliance with the 1991 Oregon Recycling Act, in April, 1992 the City
Council amended provisions of the Eugene Code, 1971 concerning recycling collection, and the City
Manager implemented progressive rates that encouraged recycling. The 1991 Act set 1995 recovery
rate goals for county wastesheds, including a 30 percent rate for Lane County, with a statewide goal for
the year 2000 of 50 percent.
B. Lane County was established as a waste shed by the 1991 Act, and the 1995 recovery goal
of30 percent was accomplished through public and private efforts to increase recycling opportunities,
with the most recent recovery rate calculated from 1996 data being 39 percent. As Lane County's
largest city, the waste prevention efforts of the City of Eugene were integral to meeting the recovery
goal.
C. The Omnibus Recycling Bill adopted by House Bill 3456 of the 1997 Oregon Legislature
modified and expanded the list of recycling program measures among which local governments choose
to meet recovery goals. The Bill also requires waste sheds to adopt new recovery goals by July 1, 1998.
Lane County has adopted a year 2000 goal of 45 percent and has requested endorsement of this goal by
the City of Eugene and other cities with populations greater than 4,000.
D. The 1997 Bill also provides waste sheds the opportunity to earn credit toward their recovery
rate for implementing education programs in the areas of waste reduction, composting, and reuse.
Elements of such programs are already substantially in place due to efforts of the City's Solid Waste
and Recycling Program, the County's Waste Management Division, and some private and nonprofit
companies based in this region.
Now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE, a
Municipal Corporation of the State of Oregon, as follows:
Section 1. Based on the above findings, which are adopted herein, the City Council hereby
endorses the Lane County goal of a 45 percent waste recovery by the year 2000.
Section 2. The City Recorder is requested to forward a copy of this Resolution to the Lane
County Board of Commissioners.
The foregoing Resolution adopted the 22nd day of June, 1998.
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Deputy City Recorder