SB 5606-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

     Provides that, in addition to meeting the minimum functional standards adopted by the department, a landfill facility whose area at its design capacity will exceed one hundred acres and whose vertical height at design capacity will average one hundred feet or more above existing site elevations may not be located over a sole source aquifer designated under the federal safe drinking water act, if such designation was effective before January 1, 1997.  This provision applies only to landfills for which construction has not been commenced before the effective date of this section.