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1999 SESSION

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HB 1773 Solid waste transportation and management.

Introduced by: Robert G. Marshall | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Solid waste transportation and management. Requires descriptions of routes taken by those transporting municipal solid waste by truck before solid waste management facilities may accept the waste. Providing false information and avoiding weigh stations are made violations of the solid waste management law. Caps are placed on the volume of waste that a landfill may receive. The Landfill Clean-up and Closure Fund is created from a per-ton fee on municipal solid waste over 200 tons per day disposed of at a landfills. The per-ton fee increases with increasing volumes. The Fund is to be used for the clean-up and closure of landfills that do not have adequate liners or leachate collection systems or which have been abandoned in violation of the Commonwealth’s waste management laws.


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