218 Adopt Moderate Risk Waste PlanCITY OF YELM
RESOLUTION N0. 218
A RESOLUTION of the Yelm City Council to adopt the Moderate Risk
Waste Plan for Thurston County for the sound management of
moderate risk wastes generated by households and by businesses in
small quantities and repealing Resolution No. 217.
WHEREAS, the Moderate Risk Waste Plan for Thurston County
provides for management of moderate risk wastes which are
generated by households and by businesses in small quantities;
and
WHEREAS. RCW 70.105.220(1) requires that eact, jurisdiction,
or combination of contiguous local jurisdictions, prepare a local
moderate risk waste management plan; and
WHEREAS, an estimated 920 to 1,919 tans of moderate risk
waste are ger,er•ated annually by households ar,d s•rnell quantity
generators ir, Thurston County; and
WHEREAS, moderate risk wastes from households ar,d small
quantity generators commonly enter the solid waste ar,d wastewater
Etrearr~s ar,d have beer, demonstrated to degrade the health of the
environrner,t, and the Yelrn Council recognizes that the health of
the environment impacts the public health; and
WHEREAS, moderate risk wastes from households are not
addressed by state or local regulation, and moderate risk wastes
generated by small quantity generators are stryte regulated only
under cer•tair, circumstances; ar,d
WHEREAS, the Yelrn City Council advocates er,vironmer,tally
sound waste management; and
WHEF-EAS, the Moderate Risk Waste Plan for Thurston county
establisT,es guidelines for reducing the generation of household
and small quantity generator moderate risk wastes ar,d for the
safe ar,d re::possible management and disposal of these wastes; NOW
THEREFOFtE
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE YELM CITY COUNCIL, that the Moderate
Risk Waste Plan for Thurston County is hereby approved.
This resolution shall be effective or, and after the 21st day
of February 1991.
Robert A. Sanders, Mayor
ATTEST:
She ly A Badger, City Clerk
PASSED ar,d APPRGVEU : February 13, 1991
PUBLISHED: Nis•qually Valley News, February 21, 191