2024 Restated and Amended Solid Waste Handling Franchise Agreements
Summary
SCH Number
2024081007
Public Agency
San Bernardino County
Document Title
2024 Restated and Amended Solid Waste Handling Franchise Agreements
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
8/26/2024
Document Description
The County’s Solid Waste Handling Franchise Agreements (Agreements) were initially adopted by the Board of Supervisors (Board) on May 19, 1998 (Item No. 57) to provide affordable solid waste handling services that protects the health and safety of the community and establishes waste reduction and recycling programs in compliance with the Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989. The majority of the Agreements (including Agreement No. 22-1212) were substantially revised and restated and subsequently approved by the Board on December 13, 2022 (Item No. 91) to include new services and rates to ensure County compliance with the California Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Act of 2016, SB 1383.
The proposed Amendment No. 1 (Amendment) to Agreement No. 22-1212 with Burrtec Waste & Recycling Services, LLC (BWRS) includes the following revisions:
1. Revision to the franchise area legal description and boundary.
2. Relabel Zone “A” to “A-1.”
3. Add parcels from portions of the Class “A” Permit Area 8 into the existing CFA 25 to become the new Zone “A-2.”
4. Revise contract language related to the rate adjustment methodology and add contract language regarding the use of electronic signatures and campaign contribution disclosure.
5. Revise, replace and add Exhibits within the contract.
6. Add two new residential cart rates in the CFA 25A-1 zone to allow residential customers with existing refuse bin service to add on recycling and organic waste cart services in order to be in compliance with SB 1383 requirements.
7. Add a residential Clean Desert site rate in the CFA 25A-1 zone to allow residential customers to subscribe to a service that allows them to take their source-separated trash, recycling, and organic waste to a designated Clean Desert site (currently located at the Yucca Valley Transfer Station) to be in compliance with SB 1383 requirements.
Contact Information
Name
Patrick Egle
Agency Name
San Bernardino County Department of Public Works
Job Title
Senior Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant
Phone
Location
Cities
Unincorporated Area
Counties
San Bernardino
Regions
Countywide, Southern California, Unincorporated
Cross Streets
Countywide
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Class 8, 15308; 15061(b)
Reasons for Exemption
The Proposed Project qualifies under Section 15061(b) of the CEQA guidelines, the “common sense exemption”, where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA. It also qualifies under a Class 8 Categorical Exemption, “Actions by Regulatory Agencies for Protection of the Environment”, under Section 15308 of the CEQA Guidelines, which allows for actions taken by Regulatory Agencies for the protection of the environment.
County Clerk
San Bernardino
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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