Senate File 230 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY SEYMOUR Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays Approved A BILL FOR 1 An Act relating to rules applicable to sanitary disposal 2 projects. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2056XS 83 5 tm/nh/8 PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 455B.304, subsection 8, Code 2009, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 8. a. The commission shall adopt rules which establish 1 4 closure, postclosure, leachate control and treatment, and 1 5 financial assurance standards and requirements and which 1 6 establish minimum levels of financial responsibility for 1 7 sanitary disposal projects. The commission shall not adopt 1 8 rules pursuant to this subsection that are more restrictive 1 9 than corresponding federal regulations. 1 10 b. The commission shall adopt rules allowing a sanitary 1 11 disposal project that ceased receiving solid waste on or 1 12 before October 1, 2007, to remain closed and conduct 1 13 postclosure activities pursuant to rules adopted by the 1 14 commission and in effect and applicable at the time the 1 15 sanitary disposal project closed. 1 16 c. The commission shall adopt rules allowing a cell or 1 17 phase of a sanitary disposal project designed and permitted in 1 18 accordance with rules adopted by the commission and in effect 1 19 and applicable at the time of permitting to be exempt from any 1 20 redesign or reconstruction of such cell or phase which would 1 21 be required due to an amendment of the rules unless the 1 22 commission determines that the cell or phase of the sanitary 1 23 disposal project is causing confirmed and ongoing 1 24 contamination which exceeds a statewide standard for 1 25 groundwater as provided in 576 IAC 137.5. 1 26 EXPLANATION 1 27 This bill relates to rules applicable to sanitary disposal 1 28 projects. 1 29 The bill provides that the environmental protection 1 30 commission shall not adopt rules that are more restrictive 1 31 than corresponding federal regulations. 1 32 The bill provides that the commission shall adopt rules 1 33 allowing a sanitary disposal project that ceased receiving 1 34 solid waste on or before October 1, 2007, to remain closed and 1 35 conduct postclosure activities pursuant to rules adopted by 2 1 the commission and in effect and applicable at the time the 2 2 sanitary disposal project closed. 2 3 The bill provides that the commission shall adopt rules 2 4 allowing a cell or phase of a sanitary disposal project 2 5 designed and permitted in accordance with rules adopted by the 2 6 commission and in effect and applicable at the time of 2 7 permitting to be exempt from any redesign or reconstruction of 2 8 such cell or phase which would be required due to an amendment 2 9 of the rules unless the sanitary disposal project is causing 2 10 confirmed and ongoing contamination. 2 11 LSB 2056XS 83 2 12 tm/nh/8.1