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The Landfill Facility Compliance Study is a two-phase study
on municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills that produced eight
deliverables, which are described below.
Timing for Deliverables
All deliverables were developed throughout the contract
period, which began June 26, 2000. Phase
I deliverables were completed in November 2003; Phase II deliverables
were completed in June 2004.
Process for Viewing Deliverables
All deliverables may be viewed from the table
below.
Each deliverable that consisted of a report was brought before
the Board for review and comment at a regular, monthly Board meeting.
Eight Deliverables
Phase I: Comprehensive inventory and assessment of 224 MSW
landfills in California for the period from January 1998 through
December 2001 that have accepted waste since October 9,
1993. Deliverables are as follows:
- A checklist of pertinent environmental regulatory requirements
(federal, State, and local), listing each requirement, who enforces it,
and the environmental media affected.
- The data collected from the cross-media inventory of
224 MSW landfills, including
each landfill’s physical aspects, its setting, unique attributes,
environmental protection systems in place, and compliance with
environmental requirements.
- A Phase I report that summarizes the
results of screening analyses performed by the contractor on the
cross-media inventory of 224 MSW landfills to better understand
environmental performance for 1998 through 2001 and presents a list of 40 of those landfills recommended for
inclusion in Phase II. It also includes a
separate section providing a brief overview of solid waste landfills that
do not receive MSW and advising readers that the study will not address
these landfills.
Phase II: Regulatory assessment of 53 MSW landfills (40 landfills selected from Phase I and
13 landfills that closed
prior to 1993) to evaluate the effectiveness of current regulatory
requirements in controlling environmental impacts over time and to recommend
ways to improve the multimedia regulation of MSW landfills. Deliverables are as follows:
- Information collected from a more in-depth look at 53 MSW landfills
(including
engineering design, construction history, operational history,
construction and operating costs for each environmental protection
system in place, monitoring records, LEA inspection records, and
compliance history) to better understand why a landfill is not in
compliance and if it is related to current regulation.
- A Phase II report that summarizes the results of the more
in-depth look at MSW landfills and the role current regulations play
with regard to compliance to better understand regulatory effectiveness.
- A Task 6 report on review of MSW regulations from selected
states and countries (Adobe PDF, 174 KB), and identification of those
that could possibly improve California’s multimedia
regulations, if adopted.
- A Task 7 report on emerging technologies for MSW landfill
design and operation and the findings that, if these technologies were
applied in California, could possibly improve the operation of
California’s MSW landfills.
- The final Task 8 report that presents comprehensive findings on the
regulation and compliance of MSW landfills in California; and recommends
improvements to California’s multimedia regulation of MSW landfills that
could result in greater environmental performance. In addition, the final
report includes the identification of indicators that could be used
to track ongoing environmental protection
for possible inclusion in a single statewide database system.
Direct
written comments by mail, e-mail, or fax to:
Bobbie Garcia
Integrated Waste Management Board
Permitting and Enforcement Division (MS-16)
1001 I Street
P.O. Box 4025 (mailing address)
Sacramento, CA
95812-4025
bgarcia@ciwmb.ca.gov
Fax: (916) 319-7535
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