Section 34A-6-1.5 - Adoption of statewide comprehensive plan--Approval--Contents.
34A-6-1.5. Adoption of statewide comprehensive plan--Approval--Contents. The board shall adopt a statewide comprehensive solid waste management plan. The plan shall be prepared in cooperation with all municipalities and counties in the state and shall be approved pursuant to the rule-making procedure of chapter 1-26. The plan shall cover a fifteen-year time period and shall serve as the basis for the board's decisions on the need for additional facilities to be issued permits under § 34A-6-1.13. The plan shall include an analysis of the volume and composition of solid waste from all sources, projection of changes in volume and composition, an inventory of all existing and planned solid waste facilities and their permit status, an evaluation of the capacity of existing facilities, an assessment of special site or other facility characteristics which may affect the suitability of facilities for continued or future operation, an evaluation of the adequacy of existing capacity to handle the anticipated future volume and composition of waste, an evaluation of the feasibility and desirability of achieving waste stream volume or contaminant reductions through source reductions, recycling, waste type segregation, compaction, incineration, or other technology, an assessment of the need for new facilities on the basis of these analyses, and a facility plan for meeting these needs which shall consider among other things location, site suitability, appropriateness of facility type and the utility and desirability of shared or regional facilities. The plan shall be updated from time to time as circumstances shall warrant. A comprehensive updating of the plan shall be undertaken no later than the tenth anniversary of the date on which the plan was approved by the board.
The board shall consider in its comprehensive solid waste management plan 40 CFR parts 257 and 258 of the environmental protection agency solid waste disposal facility disposal criteria as proposed August 30, 1988, and as subsequently amended. Pending completion of the comprehensive solid waste management plan, the board shall continue to act on pending applications, new permit applications and renewal applications.
Source: SL 1989, ch 306, § 6.