Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2162 – Solid waste capacity
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2162
- Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include or mean solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2153
A.(1) Not later than January 1, 2007, and at least every two years thereafter, the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality shall evaluate the volume and types of solid waste managed in Louisiana, which shall include solid waste that is reduced, generated, transported, recycled, processed, incinerated, treated, stored, or disposed.
(2) In performing such evaluations, the secretary shall determine the permitted capacity that is available to safely manage the solid waste. After each such determination, the secretary shall submit a report to the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment and the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality and shall make such determination available to the public through public notification and the department mail list.
B.(1) The secretary shall ensure that sufficient available permitted capacity exists to safely and efficiently manage solid waste resulting from a declared emergency originating from an in-state emergencies.
(2) Permitted capacity shall be considered along with other relevant factors in the permitting of solid waste.
Acts 2006, No. 829, §1; Acts 2008, No. 580, §2.