Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of
Sub-Agency 0009 - Solid Waste Management
Chapter 7 - FINANCIAL ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
Section 7-1 - In General

Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 7-1

Current through September 21, 2024

(a) Chapter is promulgated pursuant to the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act (Act), specifically Wyoming Statute (W.S.) §§ 35-11-504 and -515.

(b) This Chapter governs all solid waste management facilities that are required to demonstrate financial assurance under W.S. § 35-11-504. Exempt solid waste management facilities include those solid waste management facilities listed in W.S. § 35-11-504(c) and:

(i) Solid waste management facilities other than those regulated under Chapter 2 of these rules that are owned or operated by a municipality;

(ii) Sanitary landfills regulated under Chapter 2 that ceased receipt of wastes before October 9, 1991;

(iii) Municipal solid waste landfills regulated under Chapter 2 of these rules that received waste after October 9, 1991, but ceased receipt of waste before October 9, 1993, and installed an approved final cover system before October 9, 1994;

(iv) Municipal solid waste landfills regulated under Chapter 2 of these rules that received waste after October 9, 1991, but ceased receipt of wastes before October 9, 1997, and installed an approved final cover system before October 9, 1998; and

(v) Mobile transfer, treatment and storage facilities regulated under Chapter 6 of these rules.

(c) Leaking municipal solid waste landfills regulated under Chapter 17 of these rules that conduct remediation in accordance with W.S. § 35-11-533 through -537 are exempt from corrective action financial assurance requirements in Section 3 of this Chapter.

(d) Municipally-owned or operated solid waste landfills regulated under Chapter 2 of these rules shall demonstrate financial assurances for closure, post-closure, and corrective action by following either the requirements of Sections 2 through 14 of this Chapter or the requirements of Section 15 of this Chapter.

(e) Definitions: The definitions in W.S. § 35-11-103(a) and (d) and Chapter 1 of these rules apply to this Chapter.

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