SLS 20RS-417 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 210
BY SENATOR BARROW
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL. Requires certain landfills to close when they exceed
capacity. (8/1/20)
1 AN ACT
2 To enact R.S. 30:2162(B)(3), relative to solid waste; to provide for the issuance of permits,
3 registrations, variances, and licenses to operate certain landfills; and to provide for
4 related matters.
5 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 30:2162(B)(3) is hereby enacted to read as follows:
7 ยง2162. Solid waste capacity
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9 B.
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11 (3) The secretary shall not issue or renew any permits, registrations,
12 variances, and licenses to operate any landfill that has reached capacity in a
13 parish having a population of four hundred thirty-nine thousand persons or
14 greater according to the most recent federal decennial census.
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SLS 20RS-417 ORIGINAL
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Tyler S. McCloud.
DIGEST
SB 210 Original 2020 Regular Session Barrow
Present law requires the secretary of the Dept. of Environmental Quality, at least every two
years, to evaluate the volume and types of solid waste managed in Louisiana that includes
solid waste that is reduced, generated, transported, recycled, processed, incinerated, treated,
stored, or disposed.
Present law requires the secretary to determine the permitted capacity based on the
evaluation that is available to safely manage the solid waste and report to the oversight
committees and the public.
Present law requires the secretary to consider permitted capacity, along with other relevant
factors, in the permitting of solid waste.
Proposed law prohibits the secretary from issuing or renewing any permit, registration,
variance, and license to operate any landfill that has reached capacity in a parish having a
population of 439,000 or greater according to the most recent federal decennial census.
Effective August 1, 2020.
(Adds R.S. 30:2162(B)(3))
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Coding: Words which are struck through are deletions from existing law;
words in boldface type and underscored are additions.