Current through Supplement No. 394, October, 2024
The department may require any person or political
subdivision within the state to submit for review and approval a solid waste
management plan to show that solid wastes will be disposed of in accordance
with the provisions of North Dakota Century Code chapter 23.1-08 and this
article.
1. The comprehensive solid
waste management plan required by North Dakota Century Code chapter 23.1-08
must be developed and implemented for the following purposes:
a. Reduce the amount of solid waste
generated.
b. Reuse
materials.
c. Composting leaves and
grass clippings.
d. Recycle
everything possible.
e. Recover
energy from waste.
f. Landfill the
remaining wastes.
g. Coordinate
solid waste management among political subdivisions.
2. At a minimum, each solid waste management
plan should contain the following plan elements:
a. Solid waste management goals and
objectives for ten-year plan.
b.
Solid waste inventory (including special wastes, regulated infectious wastes
and tires excluding regulated hazardous wastes), types, and quantities for each
community and county; and a district summary.
c. Solid waste amounts and types transported
to another district or state; and the amounts, types, and sources of waste
received from another district or state.
d. Descriptions of existing solid waste
collectors, service areas, routes, transfer stations, and types of service for
all communities and counties served.
e. Descriptions of existing resource
recovery, waste processing, and disposal methods and facilities, existing waste
minimization practices, and local markets for recoverable waste materials;
assessments of the capacities of these methods, practices, and markets; and
identification of potential and new resource recovery efforts and
markets.
f. Identification of
current solid waste management problems, evaluate solutions, and identify a
course of action to solve those problems.
g. Methods, procedures, or programs adequate
to reduce the volume of solid waste deposited in landfills.
h. Future solid waste management issues which
may require adjustments to adopted solid waste management plans.
i. Implementation plan and schedule and a
funding mechanism for the activities and strategies in the plan.
j. Existing local ordinances and rules and a
strategy for the political subdivision's compliance with the plan.
k. Ensure and document public involvement and
acceptance of the plan.
l.
Resolution of adoption of the plan by the political subdivision.
m. Provision to review, amend, update, and
submit solid waste management plans to the department every five
years.
