Base Year/Reporting Year Change Policy

Attachment C: California Integrated Waste Management Board Resolution No. 97-112

Consideration of the Measurement Accuracy Issues Working Groups recommendations for correcting base-year and /or reporting year inaccuracies: Adopted March 26, 1997

Whereas, California jurisdictions were required to establish a base-year waste generation amount in their Source Reduction and Recycling Elements from which to measure achievement of the 25 percent and 50 percent diversion goals; and

Whereas, disposal facility operators are required to conduct quarterly surveys to estimate annual disposal tonnage by each jurisdiction and to report these amounts to counties, who in turn report these amounts to the jurisdictions using the landfills within their county; and

Whereas, jurisdictions are required to submit annual reports to the Board that include calculations using both base-year and reporting-year numbers to demonstrate their progress toward achieving the 25 percent and 50 percent diversion goals; and

Whereas, many jurisdictions have expressed concern that inaccuracies found in their base-year and /or reporting year waste measurements preclude them from accurately demonstrating achievement of the diversion goals; and

Whereas, the California Integrated Waste Management Board's Local Assistance and Planning Committee authorized the formation of a Measurement Accuracy Issues Working Group to address problems with the accuracy of jurisdictions' measurements of their base-year and reporting year waste amounts; and

Whereas, the Working Group met throughout the 1996 and early 1997 to develop solution options for correcting the inaccurate data; and

Whereas, the Working Group has prepared a flexible set of options from which jurisdictions could choose to correct the inaccuracies; and

Whereas, the Working Group recommends that the Board staff develop further tools to further assist jurisdiction in quantifying more accurate generation tonnage; and

Whereas, the Working Group also recommends the Board endorse some regulatory and statutory revisions that would increase the accuracy of the reporting system and/or the effectiveness of the jurisdictions' efforts toward meeting their diversion goals;

Now, Therefore, Be It Also Resolved that the Board approves the Measurement Accuracy Issues Working Group's recommendations for options to correct base-year and/or reporting year inaccuracies; and

Now, Therefore, Be It Also Resolved that the Board will consider additional methods to revise base-year inaccuracies as individual jurisdictions bring them forward to the Board; and

Now, Therefore, Be It Also Resolved that the Board directs staff to continue working with Los Angeles County jurisdictions and other interested parties to resolve any remaining differences on options available to accurately reflect base-year waste measurements; and

Now, Therefore, Be It Also Resolved that the Board approves the Measurement Accuracy Issues Working Group's recommendations for directing staff to develop assistance tools for jurisdictions wishing to quantify more accurate generation tonnage; and

Now, Therefore, Be It Also Resolved that the Board approves the Measurement Accuracy Issues Working Group's recommendations to endorse regulatory and statutory revisions that would increase the accuracy of the disposal reporting system, and /or the effectiveness of jurisdictions' efforts toward meeting their diversion goals.

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