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Step 1: determine need for facilities
- Review preliminary damage survey results.
- Estimate types and quantities of debris to be handled.
- Determine if existing facilities have capacity for expected volumes and
types of debris.
- Consider options to increase capacity:
- expand existing facilities;
- haul to intermediate sites and reduce through recycling;
- establish new recycling, processing facilities; and
- site temporary storage area.
Step 2: develop criteria to evaluate potential sites
- length of storage time;
- real estate costs;
- truck size;
- location;
- site operations;
- sufficient capacity;
- collection;
- security and signage;
- ease of accessibility;
- traffic conditions;
- roadway condition;
- length of haul; and
- equipment needed.
Step 3: identify temporary storage sites
- Prepare list of potential sites using criteria developed in step 2
- Consider range of sites:
- recycling facility;
- landfill;
- transfer station;
- vacant lot;
- corporation yard;
- parks;
- parking lot;
- right-of-way;
- city/county-owned land; and
- private property.
Step 4: review emergency waiver of standards regulations
- Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) can issue "emergency waiver of standards"
to solid waste facilities operator upon request for:
- temporary relief from specific state minimum solid waste standards or
terms or conditions of solid waste facilities permit;
- establish a locally-approved temporary transfer or processing site.
- Solid waste facility operator submits written request to LEA.
- LEA may grant a waiver upon m aking findings:
- operator holds a valid solid waste facilities permit;
- waiver will not pose a threat to public health and safety of the
environment; and
- operator identifies and implements, to the extent feasible, diversion
programs to maximize diversion through reuse, recycling, or composting of
disaster-related waste.
- LEA grants waiver for 120 days.
Step 5: identify permits or variances
- Identify agencies responsible for issuing permit/variance.
- Determine time needed to process permit application.
- Use local authority to designated temporary storage areas.
- Consider developing pre-approved waiver to site temporary storage areas.
Step 6: perform environmental review of site
- Conduct baseline assessment,using baseline data checklist below:
- take ground or aerial video/photographs;
- note important features, such as structure; fences, culverts, and
landscaping;
- take random soil samples;
- take water samples from existing wells; and
- check the site for volatile organic compounds.
- establish groundwater monitoring wells;
- take groundwater samples; and
- take spot soil samples at household hazardous waste, ash, and fuel
storage areas.
- update videos/photographs;
- update maps/sketches of site layout; and
- update quality assurance reports, fuel spills, etc.
- Develop environmental monitoring plan.
- If using private property, have landowner sign liability waiver.
- Make note of any nearby surface water which might receive runoff from
the site.
Step 7: prepare a site development and operation plan
- Write Site Development Plan for daily and long-term operations.
- Inspect incoming loads.
- Develop contingency plan and procedures for hazardous wastes, if found.
- Segregate materials in consolidated stockpiles.
- Keep non-disaster waste separate from disaster waste.
- Identify processing techniques and equipment to be used based upon
materials to be collected.
Step 8: prepare inspection and site management guidelines
- Designate a disaster debris manager.
- Establish inspection stands at site, depending on basis for payment .
- Develop tracking system for weight tickets, if used as verification for
payment.
Step 9: prepare a site restoration plan
- Identify the processing and removal of materials from the site.
- Develop environmental monitoring plan to include baseline monitoring and
testing for contamination.
- Restore site to its original condition.
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