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Objective 11: Through 2025, there will be no new sites in Indian River County where domestic or industrial waste is improperly managed or illegally disposed. The County shall continue to implement programs and legislation that monitor and ensure proper waste disposal activities. Policy 11.2: To maintain compliance with Title III (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act) of the federal Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), the cCounty Emergency Services Department will maintain an update-to-date comprehensive inventory of the location, storage, manufacture, handling and/or transport of all hazardous materials in Indian River County. Regulated industries/facilities are required to submit annual reports to the State of Florida Emergency Response Commission and the local municipal fire department for hazardous and/or extremely hazardous substances stored, used or manufactured on site. Policy 11.4: Existing known hHazardous waste contaminated sites, identified on FDEP’s Contamination Locator Map, as well as newly identified sites determined through assessments but not yet mapped by FDEP, shall be monitored and remediated, when feasible. Objective 12: By 2020, 80% of To the greatest extent possible, the cCounty's conservation lands shall be restored to viable ecological condition and improved for compatible passive recreational public access. Policy 12.2: By 2010, the county shall adopt an interagency management agreement on implementation of the Sebastian Area-wide Florida Scrub-jay Habitat Conservation Plan. Policy 12.3: By 2010, tThe cCounty shall enter into and maintain a written inter local interlocal agreement with the City of Vero Beach regarding management of the Orange Islands Conservation Area. Policy 12.4: For land tracts acquired through the Environmental Lands Program, the cCounty shall require a site-specific management plan to be adopted within one year of acquisition. Such management plans shall be subject to the review and recommendations of the County Conservation Lands Advisory Committee (CLAC). The County will, where feasible, construct public access improvements within two years of management plan adoption. Policy 12.5: The cCounty shall coordinate with federal, state, and local agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations, in acquiring and managing natural areas and open space. solicit grants from regional, state and federal agencies to supplement management funds for acquired lands. Funding will be used for the following purposes: 1. restoration and enhancement of impacted wetland and upland areas; PAGE 110