S.B. 388 - Waste Disposal Facilities

• Prohibits construction, modification, or expansion of municipal solid waste landfills, construction and demolition landfill units, or components thereof on land near or above a significant aquifer, as determined by the Department of Health in consultation with the Commission on Water Resource Management.

• Extends the prohibition to hazardous waste facilities on land near or above significant aquifers, with "hazardous waste" defined per section 342J-2.

• Maintains existing requirement that waste or disposal facilities must establish a one-half mile buffer zone around residential, school, or hospital property lines; exempts continued operation of properly permitted existing facilities that do not require physical expansion.

• Excludes individual, state-certified, non-industrial redemption centers from the definition of "waste or disposal facility."

• Takes effect June 30, 3000.