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Introduction
The California Integrated Waste Management Board's (Board) Disposal Reporting
System (DRS) assigns accountability for disposed solid waste to the jurisdiction from which it came,
when estimating a jurisdiction diversion rate.
Counties receive disposal information from each permitted disposal facility within their
boundaries. Counties then send quarterly disposal reports to the Board and each jurisdiction
that disposed waste in that county.
- "Disposal" means all solid waste from all sources within
California jurisdiction boundaries, transported by all types of haulers (including self-haul)
to Board-permitted disposal or transformation facilities.
- "Disposal" also means: (1) all out-of-state solid waste from all
sources, imported to Board-permitted disposal or transformation facilities,
and (2) all solid waste originating from all sources within California
jurisdiction boundaries and exported out of state.
- "Disposal Reporting System" means the Board's
methods and procedures for tracking disposed and transformed waste and the
database that contains information about the
tons of waste disposed or transformed at all Board-permitted disposal or
transformation facilities in the state.
Using Disposal Reporting to Estimate Diversion
- Solid waste sent to out-of-state landfills or to Indian country is disposal.
- Disposal does not include approved
alternative daily cover
(ADC), alternative
intermediate cover (AIC), or other beneficial reuse.
- Each jurisdiction should receive quarterly disposal reports from each
California county in which its
waste is disposed. A jurisdiction must use the Board's summary of tonnages from these county disposal reports
to estimate its diversion rate.
- Each county must report disposal every quarter, every year.
- If reported amounts appear inaccurate, a jurisdiction should first discern if there
were extraordinary events during the report period that could result in unusual amounts of
waste disposal. If none are apparent, then the jurisdiction should work with the reporting
county, haulers, and landfills to investigate.
- If, after working with the county, a jurisdiction still believes the reported disposal
tonnage is inaccurate, it may present supporting information in its annual report to the Board.
- If existing or minimum reporting procedures do not meet jurisdiction needs, the
jurisdiction should work with its haulers, facility operators and the county to improve
DRS
reporting.
- Counties must ensure each solid waste facility within its boundaries meets
its minimum
disposal reporting requirements. Under its own authority, a county may require facilities to perform more extensive
reporting to improve accuracy.
- With documentation, jurisdictions may request a deduction from disposal
for: regional diversion facility residue, disaster waste tonnage,
regional medical waste treatment facility residue, waste exported out of
state that was subsequently diverted, and some special wastes.
- Reporting-year disposal is divided by the base-year
generation, adjusted for population and economic growth by the Board-Approved Adjustment Method,
to yield a diversion rate estimate.
Legislation, Statutes, and Regulations
Legislation:
Chapter 1292, Statutes of 1992 (Sher, AB 2494), amended by
Chapter 1227, Statutes of 1994 (Sher, AB 688).
Statute: Public Resources Code (PRC) Section
PRC 40192, Definition of disposal
PRC
41821.5, Disposal Facility Tracking Requirements
Regulations:
Title 14, California Code of Regulations (14 CCR),
Chapter 9, Article 9.2, Disposal
Reporting Requirements.
Title 27, California Code of Regulations (27 CCR), Division 2, Chapter 3,
Article 2, CIWMB-Daily
and Intermediate Cover.
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