Local Government Immigrant Integration Initiative
Cal. PRC § 50001
California Statutes
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a) Except as provided by subdivision (b), after a countywide or regional agency integrated waste management plan has been approved by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery pursuant to Division 30 (commencing with
Section 40000), a person shall not establish or expand a solid waste facility, as defined in
Section 40194, in the county unless the solid waste facility meets one of the following criteria:
(1) The solid waste facility is a disposal facility, a transformation facility, or an EMSW conversion facility, the location of which is identified in the countywide siting element or amendment to that element, which has been approved pursuant to
Section 41721.
(2) The solid waste facility is a facility that is designed to recover for reuse or recycling at least percent of the total volume of material received by the facility, and that is identified in the nondisposal facility element that has been approved pursuant to
Section or is included in an update to that element. (
b) Solid waste facilities other than those specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (
a) shall not be required to comply with the requirements of this section. (
c) The person or agency proposing to establish a solid waste facility shall prepare and submit a site identification and description of the proposed facility to the task force established pursuant to
Section 40950. Within days after the site identification and description is submitted to the task force, the task force shall meet and comment on the proposed solid waste facility in writing. These comments shall include, but are not limited to, the relationship between the proposed solid waste facility and the implementation
schedule requirements of
Section and the regional impact of the facility. The task force shall transmit these comments to the person or public agency proposing establishment of the solid waste facility, to the county, and to all cities within the county. The comments shall become part of the official record of the proposed solid waste facility. (
d) The review and comment by the local task force shall not be required for an update to a nondisposal facility element.