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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 159
BY SENATOR BROOME AND REPRESENTATI VE BARROW
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To urge and request the Department of Environmental Quality to give extra consideration
to the views of the local officials and the surrounding community when deciding to
issue certain landfill permits.
WHEREAS, the Department of Environmental Quality is constitutionally and
statutorily charged with the protection of the environment of Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, local governments are chiefly responsible for parish land use
determinations and zoning ordinances in order to effectively maximize its resources and
navigate its future development both in economic terms and management of the quality of
life of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, currently under the Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 33, Part VII,
the Department of Environmental Quality, within its industrial waste disposal permitting
process, is unable to consider changes in local land use restrictions and zoning ordinances
by local governments and their economic development requirements after an application has
been submitted to the department; and
WHEREAS, it is important that the Department of Environmental Quality has the
authority to consider permittee compliance with local zoning and land use restrictions prior
to issuance of an order to commence operations of a waste disposal facility.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the Department of Environmental Quality to give extra consideration to the
views of the local officials and the surrounding community when deciding to issue certain
landfill permits.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Environmental Quality shall
immediately take all necessary steps to initiate through its rule-making authority all
measures to incorporate such local requirements into its industrial waste regulations under
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that prior to the department issuing an order to
commence operations, any industrial waste disposal facility permittee, except for any
transfer station, shall provide the department with a written resolution or authorization from
the appropriate municipal or parish governing authority where the facility will be located,
dated within one hundred eighty days prior to such order and stating that the facility is in
compliance with all existing local zoning and land use restrictions.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the department shall immediately take all
necessary steps to implement such requirements into all industrial waste disposal permits
which have not yet received an order to commence from the department.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES