§ 44-96-340 — Solid waste incinerators.

(A) No solid waste incinerator with a daily capacity in excess of six hundred tons may be permitted within the State, nor may any solid waste incinerator with a daily capacity in excess of one hundred tons be permitted to be sited within three miles of another such facility. (B) Not later than eighteen months after this article is effective, the department shall promulgate, in addition to regulations generally applicable to all solid waste management facilities, regulations governing the siting, design, construction, operation, closure, and postclosure activities of all solid waste incinerators, other than facilities specifically regulated under other provisions of this article or other applicable provisions of state law. The department may, by regulation, exempt certain facilities from all or part of the requirements of this section. (C) The regulations governing solid waste incinerators shall, at a minimum, contain the following requirements: (1) the submission by the permit applicant of the following documents: (a) an engineering report which must, at a minimum, contain a description of the facility, the process and equipment to be used, the proposed service area, the types and quantities of wastes to be treated, and storage of waste; (b) engineering plans and specifications which must, at a minimum, describe the process equipment specifications, instrumentation and control diagrams, and performance specifications for all major equipment and control centers; (c) a personnel training program; (d) an ash management plan including, at a minimum, an identification of the facility approved by the department that will receive the residue and a certification that the facility shall have adequate capacity to handle such residue; (e) an air quality monitoring plan; (f) a description of the manner in which waste waters, if any, from the facility will be managed; (g) a quality assurance and quality control report; (h) a contingency plan describing a technically and financially feasible course of action to be taken in response to contingencies which may occur during construction and operation of the facility; (i) an operation plan describing how the facility will meet all applicable regulatory requirements; (j) a draft operation and maintenance manual; and (k) a closure plan; (2) locational criteria; provided, however, that the department shall grant exemptions from such criteria upon a demonstration by the permit applicant of circumstances which warrant an exemption; (3) facility design and operational requirements including, but not limited to, access controls, recordkeeping and reporting requirements, receipt and handling of solid waste, process changes, emergency preparedness, and guidelines for identifying items or materials that should be removed prior to incineration; (4) air and water quality monitoring requirements; (5) closure and postclosure requirements; (6) financial responsibility requirements; (7) personnel training requirements; (8) ash residue requirements including, but not limited to, testing requirements and procedures, the contents of an ash management plan, handling, storage, reuse or recycling, transportation, and disposal of the ash; and (9) corrective action requirements.

Legislative History

HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 63, SECTION 1.