Bill Text: GA SB253 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Waste Management; permits for municipal solid waste landfill sites; significant ground-water recharge area; provisions

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-10 - Senate Read and Referred [SB253 Detail]

Download: Georgia-2011-SB253-Introduced.html
11 LC 25 5880
Senate Bill 253
By: Senator Brown of the 26th

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT


To amend Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to solid waste management, so as to change certain provisions relating to permits for municipal solid waste landfill sites within two miles of a significant ground-water recharge area; to provide an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

SECTION 1.
Part 1 of Article 2 of Chapter 8 of Title 12 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions relative to solid waste management, is amended by revising Code Section 12-8-25.2, relating to permits for municipal solid waste landfill sites within two miles of a significant ground-water recharge area, as follows:
"12-8-25.2.
No permit shall be issued for a municipal solid waste landfill if any part of the site is within two miles of an area that has been designated by the director as a significant ground-water recharge area unless such:
(1) Such municipal solid waste landfill will have a liner and leachate collection system and meets any other requirements as may be established by rules and regulations of the board or pursuant to other geological considerations as may be determined appropriate by the director; and
(2)(A) The completed application for such permit was submitted prior to the effective date of this paragraph; or
(B) The completed application for such permit is submitted on or after July 1, 2016."

SECTION 2.
This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.
SECTION 3.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.
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