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ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL ADDENDUM AGENDA COMMITTEE ROOM "C" AUGUST 6, 2003 (5) UNFINISHED BUSINESS c) Request For Support of Blue Box Funding AMO Alert 03/40 dated July 31, 2003, entitled Urgent Appeal to Municipalities to Support Blue Box Funding is attached. Todd Pepper, General Manager of the EWSWA has requested that County Council consider taking the action suggested in the above referenced AMO Alert and contact the Minister of the Environment, urging MOE to pass the Blue Box program plan effective September 1, 2003 in order to receive blue box funding this year. On September 23, 2002 the Honourable Chris Stockwell, then Minister of the Environment, requested Waste Diversion Ontario to develop and submit a Blue Box Program Plan trader the Waste Diversion Act, 2002 to him for his approval by February 28, 2003. The Association of Municipalities of Ontario, working with Stewardship Ontario, the Industry Funding Organization incorporated under the Act as the Blue Box IFO, worked over the ensuing months and delivered the Blue Box Program Plan to the Board of Waste Diversion Ontario for their meeFmg of February 19th. The Board of the WDO approved the Plan and submitted the Plan to the Minister for his approval by the date requested. The Blue Box Program Plan, as developed by AMO and Stewardship Ontario, and approved by Waste Diversion Ontario, included an implementation date of May 1, 2003. With a May 1st implementation date the Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority expected to receive funding through the Blue Box Program Plan of approximately $700,000 to apply against the almost $2 Million annual net cost of the Essex-Windsor Recycling Program that must be paid by the taxpayers of the County of Essex and City of Windsor. The delay in the approval of the Blue Box Program Plan results in a loss of revenue to the County of Essex and City of Windsor of $100,000 for each month after the anticipated May 1st approval date.