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IN SB0479
Bill
Status
1/14/2015
Primary Sponsor
Elizabeth Brown
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AI Summary
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Environmental rules board must adopt rules establishing objective criteria to evaluate solid waste management districts and set quantitative standards to rate districts as "acceptable" or "unacceptable"
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Board may categorize districts separately and adjust standards based on factors including population, population density, disposal costs, and distance to recycled material markets
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Board must conduct at least annual evaluations and provide districts with numerical scores for each criterion and an overall assessment within 30 days of evaluation
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Single-county districts receiving one "unacceptable" assessment may be dissolved by county council upon district board proposal; districts with two consecutive "unacceptable" assessments may be dissolved by county council mandate
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Joint districts receiving one "unacceptable" assessment allow member counties to withdraw and either form new districts, join existing districts, or opt out of district designation entirely
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Effective July 1, 2015
Legislative Description
Evaluation of solid waste management districts. Requires the environmental rules board (board) to adopt rules establishing objective criteria for the evaluation of solid waste management districts and to set quantitative standards by which the numerical score of a district for each criterion may be determined to be "acceptable" or "unacceptable". Allows the board, by placing districts into separate categories for purposes of evaluation, to adjust for factors favoring or inhibiting success in promoting recycling, such as the population and population density of a district, the relative cost of disposing of solid waste in a district, and the distance from a
Last Action
Senator Niemeyer added as second author
1/22/2015