§ 35-11-521 — Grants for municipal solid waste landfill monitoring

(a) Subject to the availability of funds, the director
shall provide grants toward the costs of performing activities
specified in subsection (b) of this section to local
governmental entities who own or are responsible for any
municipal solid waste landfill, for any project where a work
plan has been submitted to the department for work performed or
initiated after July 1, 2005.
(b) Grant funding under this section may be provided at
existing or closed municipal solid waste landfills for the
following activities:
(i) Conducting surface or subsurface geophysical
studies to determine proper monitor system placement and to
provide an indication of the presence or absence of groundwater
beneath and adjacent to the landfill;
(ii) Preparing plans for installation of systems to
monitor or detect releases of subsurface pollutants from
landfills;
(iii) Installing new monitor systems or upgrading
existing monitor systems to meet standards for the systems
established by the department under this article; and
(iv) Collecting and analyzing samples from monitor
systems installed under paragraph (iii) of this subsection, for
a period of time sufficient to determine if there have been
releases of subsurface pollutants from the landfill for any
landfill which ceased receipt of solid wastes before September
13, 1989.
(c) Grants for eligible costs under subsection (b) of this
section may be awarded:
(i) For up to fifty percent (50%) of the eligible
costs; or
(ii) For up to seventy-five percent (75%) of eligible
costs for applicants meeting the following criteria:
(A) Municipalities with a population of less
than one thousand three hundred (1,300) or which are located
within a county where the three (3) year average of the total
local government share of state sales and use tax per capita is
less than seventy percent (70%) of the statewide per capita
average; or
(B) Counties, solid waste disposal districts,
joint powers boards, and special purpose districts located
within a county with a total assessed valuation of less than two
and one-half percent (2.5%) of the state's total assessed
valuation.