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Step 1: Develop local checklists
- emergency organization alert list,
- available resources: staffing and equipment,
- mutual aid agreements,
- maps, charts, transportation corridors,
- list of TV, radio, wire services,
- non-profit organizations,
- facilities,
- markets and end-uses,
- haulers, brokers, processors,
- Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) businesses,
- waste exchanges,
- temporary storage sites,
- contracts and franchise agreements, and
- ordinances.
Step 2: Conduct a disaster event analysis and waste characterization
analysis
- Identify potential disasters.
- Analyze nature of risks posed with each disaster.
- Project amount of wastes generated.
- Estimate construction and demolition (C&D) disposal tonnage.
- Estimate waste components & quantities.
- Develop list of materials that could be included in diversion programs.
Step 3: Identify temporary storage sites
- Determine need for temporary storage or processing sites.
- Develop criteria for siting temporary storage or pre-staging areas.
- Make a list of all possible sites: public and private
- Identify agencies involved in permitting temporary storage sites and processing
activities or on-site processing activities.
- Consider pre-approving sites and receiving permit in advance, to be activated upon
declaration of disaster/emergency.
- Enact ordinance regarding temporary storage sites (waiver)
- relax storage requirements
- exempt certain discretionary actions from CEQA
- re-zone sites if needed through City Council
- Identify permit and environmental compliance requirements and time needed to process.
- Decide the type and level of environmental assessment and monitoring needed to be
performed at site.
- Set up guidelines for use of the temporary site (materials that will be accepted,
condition of materials, hours, etc.)
- Develop hazardous waste screening program
- Negotiate in advance the use or lease of public or private land.
- Develop Site Operation Plan.
- Develop Site Restoration Plan.
Step 4: Identify end-uses and markets
- Determine salvageable and/or recyclable materials.
- Determine end-uses and market specifications for disaster debris.
- Develop directory of businesses/processors, materials and volumes they can handle.
- Identify processing requirements for selected end uses.
- Identify potential markets.
- List the existing markets your jurisdiction is currently using, the materials they
accept, and their end-uses.
- If located in or near a Recycling Market Development Zone:
- list the businesses within the Zone, and
- the secondary materials they accept and process,
- the end-products.
- List local, state, and national waste exchanges available.
- Identify potential projects within your city/county programs for materials collected
(e.g., parks, public works).
- Identify markets needed after evaluating existing, available markets for materials and
quantities projected.
- Identify market barriers.
Step 5: Identify Facilities and Processing Operations
- Prepare list of existing facilities:
- source separated,
- mixed recycling, and
- disposal.
- Prepare list of facilities in neighboring jurisdictions that could be used.
- Review list of disaster debris likely to be generated and collected (from Step 2).
- Complete facility assessment form for each facility.
- materials handled
- processing capacity
- processing barriers
- remaining disposal capacity of facility
- description of on-site recycling facilities
- expected waste types and origin of waste
- expected storage capacity for disaster debris
- disaster debris disposal/diversion reporting formats
- Review list of potential end-uses and markets for collected materials (from Step 5).
- Based on the above, develop a list of facilities needed.
- Negotiate with franchise haulers, facility operators/owners, processors, and neighboring
jurisdictions to use facility to collect, process, and/or divert disaster debris.
- Identify air and/or water quality permits that must be obtained.
- Identify transportation corridors and alternate routes and develop contingency plan.
Step 6: Identify processing techniques and barriers
- Develop a processing strategy based on composition of C&D materials and their
end-uses.
- Select a processing strategy.
- Review processing techniques for wood and concrete for projected end-uses.
- Identify processing barriers and develop programs accordingly.
Step 7: Identify processing equipment needs
- Compile a list of processing equipment needed to support selected diversion programs.
- Survey the following to identify the equipment available in the event of a disaster:
- agency/department,
- franchise hauler,
- private sector, and
- neighboring jurisdictions.
- List equipment needed in addition to what will be available.
Step 8: Review funding options
- Anticipate FEMA reimburses program costs, not advances them.
- identify local General Fund or private funds that can be used to start program until
FEMA reimbursement is received;
- evaluate possibility of acquiring a loan; and
- explore use of private funds.
- Prepare documentation re local policy for diversion/recycling.
Step 9: Determine contract needs
- Review existing contracts and franchise agreements.
- Determine contract needs.
- Select contract type best suited to local situation
- Develop model contracts.
- Include diversion/recycling language in contract.
- Set up tracking system (load verification requirements).
- Develop list of qualified contractors in the area who have equipment to handle the work.
- Develop list of contractors who can respond in emergency.
- Pre-qualify contractors.
Step 10: Review Mutual Aid Agreements
- Review existing mutual aid agreements.
- Explore possibility of entering into discipline-specific mutual aid agreements, such as:
- public works,
- Emergency Managers Mutual Aid, or
- public information.
- Develop a list of mutual aid agreements the jurisdiction is a signatory to and the
resources available through each.
Step 11: Identify labor needs
- Estimate staffing requirements for diversion programs as part of staffing needed for
overall recovery programs.
- List all possible sources for obtaining additional staffing
- city/county staff from other agencies,
- human services agencies and non-profit organizations, or
- volunteers.
- Enter into mutual aid agreements before disaster for staffing assistance.
Step 12: Review local ordinances
- Identify all local ordinances affecting a jurisdiction's ability and authority to
establish a diversion program or to enter into contracts to manage the disaster debris.
- Determine who in the jurisdiction has been delegated the authority to act on behalf of
the governing body in the event of an emergency/disaster.
- Outline jurisdiction's local authority with respect to debris management.
- Identify or establish local ordinances relating to temporary storage sites:
- relax storage requirements, or
- exempt certain discretionary actions from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
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