68-211-849 - Recommendations regarding solid waste disposal planning.
68-211-849. Recommendations regarding solid waste disposal planning.
(a) The municipal solid waste advisory committee is directed to develop by December 31, 2009, recommendations using input from Tennessee State University and other stakeholders with regard to as many of the following as are possible:
(1) Finding a higher value use for materials in the waste stream than landfilling; and
(2) Reducing or eliminating from the landfills food waste, yard waste, radioactive waste, household hazardous waste, chemicals, or other materials that decompose into a liquid or gas or that may increase the environmental hazards potentially created by the landfill or leachate.
(b) Using funds available in the solid waste management fund, the department may make a grant to Tennessee State University for this work.
(c) The recommendations shall:
(1) Determine how Class IV construction and demolition waste can be ground, mulched, crushed, or disposed of on the construction site;
(2) Determine the nature, amount, and source of hazardous waste in the solid waste stream and the construction and demolition waste stream;
(3) Illustrate how to use the materials in the waste stream for business, as compost, or in other ways;
(4) Identify states that have clear and concise regulations implementing such practices;
(5) Determine the components of the municipal waste stream and the construction and demolition waste stream in Tennessee, including sources of hazardous waste and materials that can be composted, reused, recycled or otherwise diverted from the landfills; and
(6) Determine methods by which waste can be diverted from landfills using transfer stations, drop-off points, composting facilities or other means.
(d) The recommendations of the advisory committee shall be made available to the public, municipalities, counties, and businesses in the state so that they may be implemented and shall also be considered by the solid waste disposal control board for incorporation into rules.
(e) There is a moratorium imposed on waste from the bulk survey for release program being disposed in landfills in any county having a population of not less than one hundred eighty-two thousand (182,000) nor more than one hundred eighty-two thousand one hundred (182,100), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, pending the results of the municipal solid waste advisory committee's recommendations, which shall be submitted no later than sixty (60) days after July 5, 2007.
[Acts 2007, ch. 584, §§ 1, 2.]