Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 52, December 26, 2024
(a) Each SWM
committee shall establish an SWM plan that meets the requirements of
K.S.A.
65-3405, and amendments thereto, and provides
the following:
(1) Access for each person in
the county or region to service providing for the disposal of all nonhazardous
residential, commercial, and industrial solid waste; and
(2) a process for the orderly and systematic
elimination of nuisances and pollution sources associated with the following
solid waste management activities:
(b) Each SWM committee shall
include in the SWM plan information, if available, from federal, state, and
local sources pertaining to the following topics:
(1) Present and projected population and
densities;
(2) present and
anticipated industries;
(4) solid waste
collection, transportation, processing, and disposal facilities;
(5) present and anticipated land, air, and
water usage;
(6) present and
projected transportation patterns;
(7) present and projected sources of solid
wastes;
(8) assessed property
values and the ability to fund the SWM system;
(9) types of soil, geology, and hydrology;
(10) air pollution, sewage, water
resources, and public water supply; and
(11) local and regional land-use and
development plans.
(c)
Each SWM committee shall include in the SWM plan all information required by
K.S.A.
65-3405, and amendments thereto, and the
following information:
(1) A description of
all sources of solid waste within the county or region or coming into the
county or region;
(2) an estimate
of solid waste storage, collection, transportation, processing, and disposal
requirements for the area covered by the SWM plan for the next 10 years;
(3) a description of the projected
demands and obstacles that could be caused by the existing solid waste storage,
collection, transportation, processing, and disposal system;
(4) a description of the selected SWM system,
including the following:
(A) Collection,
transportation, processing, storage, and disposal methods;
(B) locations for disposal sites or
processing facilities, or both; and
(C) plans for management of the wastes listed
in K.S.A.
65-3405, and amendments thereto, and the
following wastes:
(iii) agricultural wastes;
(iv) abandoned automobiles; and
(v) other wastes that could require special
handling, transportation, processing, or disposal;
(5) a description of options for
development and implementation of recycling, composting, source reduction, and
volume-based pricing in relationship to the selected SWM system;
(6) a 10-year timetable for the completion of
all necessary steps required to implement the selected SWM system;
(7) a description of local provisions for
regulation of storage, collection, transportation, disposal, and other SWM
activities;
(8) a description of
the responsibilities and actions required by each individual unit of government
involved; and
(9) a method for
financing each element of the selected SWM system based on cost estimates.
Revenue financing, general obligation financing, and other financing methods
may be analyzed individually or in combination.
(d) Each county that withdraws from a
regional SWM plan shall prepare and submit to the department a new SWM plan
meeting the requirements of
K.S.A.
65-3405, and amendments thereto, and this
regulation.
(1) The county shall submit the
new SWM plan to the department on or before the date of the next annual review
or the date by which the five-year update of the regional plan is required to
be submitted to the department, which ever is first.
(2) The county shall be subject to the
conditions of the regional SWM plan until the new SWM plan for the county is
approved by the secretary.
(e) A copy of the SWM plan shall be
maintained in each county participating in the plan in a place accessible to
the public.
