Report Title:

Solid Waste; Disposal

Description:

Allows DOH to issue permits for new facilities conducting solid waste disposal activities without regard to existing resource recovery facilities.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

2405

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO solid waste disposal.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 340A-3, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) For a county that has a resource recovery facility in use or when the design for such a facility has begun, the director shall not [grant] deny a permit for other solid waste disposal activities including landfills[, for a term extending beyond the planned operational date for the resource recovery facility unless the other disposal activity is to be used for one or more of the following:

(1) Disposal of ash or residue from a resource recovery facility;

(2) Disposal of solid waste which, because of its chemical or physical characteristics, is not suitable for processing at a resource recovery facility;

(3) Provide an emergency backup or overflow capacity for a resource recovery facility;

(4) Provide for solid waste disposal for those areas not served by a resource recovery facility as designated by the county agency responsible for the collection and disposal of solid waste.] based on the existence or planned existence of the resource recovery facility."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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