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Solid Waste Facilities
The following types of facilities are subject to Solid Waste Facility Plan approval or Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) requirements.
Solid Waste Facility Planning and Permitting Requirements - A solid waste facility may be subject to one or more of these requirements:
- Solid Waste Facility Plan Approval
Required for municipal solid waste landfills, non-municipal solid waste landfills, municipal solid waste landfill surface impoundments, and biohazardous medical waste facilities (storage, transfer, treatment and disposal).
- Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (MSWLF)
- Non-Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Subject to Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) requirements. Must submit a notice to ADEQ. The Solid Waste Plan Review Unit receives and reviews the APP application for these types of facilities.
- Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Surface Impoundments
Municipal solid waste surface impoundments such as leachate collection ponds are subject to Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) requirements. Must submit a notice to ADEQ. The Solid Waste Plan Review Unit receives and reviews the APP application for these types of facilities.
- Biohazardous Medical Waste Facilities
- Amending a Solid Waste Facility Plan
Required for municipal and non-municipal solid waste landfills and municipal solid waste landfill surface impoundments.
- Solid waste facility owners/operators are required to notify ADEQ of any change to the facility. ADEQ will determine the category of the change. As required by statute, certain changes will require plan review, fees and public notice. ADEQ must approve a type III or type IV change to the design or operation of an approved solid waste facility before work may begin.
- Amending a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill
Municipal solid waste facility owners/operators are required to notify ADEQ of any change to the facility.
- Amending a Non-Municipal Solid Waste Landfill
Non-Municipal solid waste facility owners/operators are required to notify ADEQ of any change to the facility.
- Amending a Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Surface Impoundment
Municipal solid waste surface impoundments such as leachate collection ponds are subject to Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) requirements. The Solid Waste Plan Review Unit receives and reviews the APP application for these types of facilities. Municipal solid waste facility owners/operators are required to notify ADEQ of any change to the facility.
- APP Individual Permit Amendment Form (Revised 09/30/2011) (Word) (PDF)
- Notices (A.R.S. § 49-762.07)
All solid waste facilities are required to file a notice with ADEQ's Solid Waste Plan Review Unit no later than 30 days prior to operation for new facilities. A notice must provide:
- Facility name and mailing address;
- Legal description by township, range and section, and county assessor's book, map and parcel number;
- Description of waste storage and treatment equipment and methods of waste management, including types and volumes of waste handled and time the waste remains on site;
- Description of waste management practices used at the facility including measures taken to protect the environment and to protect the public health;
- A diagram of the property showing the location of the solid waste facility or facilities.
- Solid Waste Facility Plan Review Fees
With each application submitted for approval pursuant to Arizona Revised Statutes § 49-762.03, the applicant must remit an initial fee. ADEQ does not review a Solid Waste Facility Plan until the appropriate fee is received from the applicant.
- Financial Assurance
Municipal solid waste landfills are required to demonstrate financial assurance on an annual basis.
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