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