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1999 SESSION

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SB 1226 Management of solid waste.

Introduced by: Henry L. Marsh III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Management of solid waste. Caps the amount of municipal solid waste that may be disposed of in a landfill at 2,000 tons per day or the documented average actual amount disposed of in 1998, whichever is greater. The Virginia Waste Management Board may allow additional disposal at a facility after considering certain factors and after a public hearing has been held. The provisions do not allow for any increased disposal activity above levels that may be set by any other state or local permits, regulations, ordinances, agreements, contracts or other instruments related to particular facilities or localities.

Provides for the prohibition, to the fullest extent, consistent with limitations posed by the Constitution of the United States and as is necessary to protect health, safety and welfare and the environment, the commercial transport of certain types of solid wastes, by ship, barge or other vessel, on the Rappahannock, James and York Rivers.


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