75-10-913. Annual long-range plan submitted -- contents -- available to public. (1) A person may not file an application for a certificate of site acceptability required by 75-10-916 unless the megalandfill has been adequately identified in a long-range plan at least 2 years prior to acceptance of an application by the department.
     (2) The annual long-range plan must be submitted by July 1 of each year and must include the following:
     (a) the general location, size, and type of all facilities to be owned and operated by the person for which construction is projected during the ensuing 2 years, as well as those facilities to be closed during the planning period;
     (b) a description of the efforts to involve environmental protection and land use planning agencies in the planning process, as well as other efforts to identify and minimize environmental problems at the earliest possible stage in the planning process;
     (c) projections of the demand for the service rendered by the person and an explanation of the basis for those projections and a description of the manner and extent to which the proposed facilities will meet the projected demand; and
     (d) additional information that the department by rule, on its own initiative, or upon the advice of interested state agencies requests in order to carry out the purposes of 75-10-901 through 75-10-945.
     (3) The plan must be furnished to the governing body of each county in which any facility included in the plan under subsection (2)(a) is proposed to be located and must be made available to the public by the department. The applicant shall give public notice throughout the state by publishing at least once a week for 2 consecutive weeks a summary of the proposed plan in newspapers of general circulation. The plan must also be filed with the environmental quality council, the department of transportation, the department of fish, wildlife, and parks, the department of commerce, and the department of natural resources and conservation. Interested persons may obtain a copy of the plan by written request and payment to the department of the costs of copying the plan.

     History: En. Sec. 9, Ch. 468, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 512, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 206, Ch. 418, L. 1995.