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Resolve, To Ensure Landfill Capacity and Promote Recycling
Sec. 1 Moratorium on licenses to expand solid waste disposal facilities. Resolved: That the Department of Environmental Protection may not issue a license to expand a solid waste disposal facility that is a landfill until after April 30, 2014. This section applies to any application to expand a solid waste disposal facility that is a landfill filed after the effective date of this section. As used in this section, "expand" has the same meaning as in the Solid Waste Management Rules, Chapter 400, section 1, paragraph WW, adopted by the Department of Environmental Protection and in effect on the effective date of this section. This section does not apply to generator-owned landfills.