Solid waste: green material: land application.

The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste. The act requires a disposal facility operator to submit information to the department on the disposal tonnages that are disposed of at the disposal facility. This bill would require that information to be submitted to the department quarterly and would additionally require a disposal facility operator to submit information on the disposal tonnages that are applied to the land as green material. Existing regulations implement a 5-tier regulatory structure for solid waste facilities and solid waste handling operations and authorize certain facilities and operations to use the enforcement agency notification tier. This bill would require, for purposes of permitting and enforcement under the act, an owner of land who is engaged in the land application of over 200 tons of green material per parcel per year to use the enforcement agency notification tier pursuant to those regulations. The bill would require those owners of land to comply with the requirements of the enforcement agency notification. The bill would provide that "green material" includes municipally derived green material and does not include material from agricultural or forest sources. The bill would also make legislative findings and declarations relating to the significant impacts of the land application of green material.