Revise Regulations for Solid Waste Disposal, Transfer, and Treatment Facilities (language only)

Item 365 #1c

Language

Page 447, after line 11, insert:

“C. The Department shall revise the Virginia Waste Management Board's Financial Assurance Regulations for Solid Wate Disposal, Transfer and Treatment Facilities, 9VAC20-70. The regulations shall ensure that financial assurance is sufficient for design, construction, and operation of: i) a landfill cap, ii) leachate management, iii) gas collection and management and iv) other activities necessary to maintain the landfill in a manner that protects human health and the environment. The regulations shall also ensure that financial assurance is sufficient to address the possibility of an elevated temperature landfill. The regulations shall allow the Department to review any facility's financial assurance to ensure compliance and shall include enforcement provisions sufficient to enable the Department to achieve compliance. The regulatory actions necessary to effectuate the requirements of this item are hereby exempted from the provisions of the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq. of the Code of Virginia). The Department shall complete such regulatory actions without further action by the Virginia Waste Management Board.”