West Virginia Code 22C-4-26 – Approval of new Class A facilities by solid waste authorities
Except as provided below with respect to Class B facilities, from and after March 10, 1990, in order to obtain approval to operate a new Class A facility, an applicant shall:
Terms Used In West Virginia Code 22C-4-26
- Class A facility: means a commercial solid waste facility which handles an aggregate of between ten and thirty thousand tons of solid waste per month. See West Virginia Code 22C-4-2
- Solid waste: means any garbage, paper, litter, refuse, cans, bottles, waste processed for the express purpose of incineration, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility, other discarded material, including offensive or unsightly matter, solid, liquid, semisolid or contained liquid or gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining or community activities but does not include solid or dissolved material in sewage, or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources and have permits under article eleven, chapter . See West Virginia Code 22C-4-2
(1) File an application for a certificate of need with, and obtain approval from, the Public Service Commission in the manner specified in section one-c, article two, chapter twenty-four of this code and in section thirteen, article fifteen, chapter twenty-two of this code;
(2) File an application for a certificate of site approval with, and obtain approval from, the county or regional solid waste authority for the county or counties in which the facility is proposed. Such application shall be submitted on forms prescribed by the solid waste management board. The county or regional solid waste authority shall act on such application and either grant or deny it within thirty days after the application is determined by the county or regional solid waste authority to be filed in a completed manner.