HB2891 Summary

• Amends Section 21 of the Environmental Protection Act regarding prohibited waste management activities, focusing on landscape waste composting operations and related waste handling requirements.

• Allows landscape waste composting facilities on farms to operate without an Agency permit if they meet specific criteria, including limiting facility size to 2% of property acreage and maintaining compost on-site for no longer than 18 months before application.

• Permits incidental sales of finished compost in addition to on-site agricultural use, and restricts facility operators from being waste haulers or non-agricultural compost generators.

• Requires landscape composting facilities near residential areas (10+ occupied non-farm residences within 1/2 mile) to maintain composting material at least 200 feet from potable water wells, outside 10-year floodplains, and 1/4 mile from nearest residences (or lesser distance if approved by municipal ordinance).

• Clarifies documentation requirements for construction and demolition debris transportation and establishes registration and reporting requirements for composting facilities operating under the permit exemptions.