| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to landfills; amending s. 403.708, F.S.; |
| 3 | authorizing specified landfills to accept yard trash for |
| 4 | disposal; providing an effective date. |
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| 6 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 8 | Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (12) of section |
| 9 | 403.708, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 10 | 403.708 Prohibition; penalty.- |
| 11 | (12) A person who knows or should know of the nature of |
| 12 | the following types of solid waste may not dispose of such solid |
| 13 | waste in landfills: |
| 14 | (c) Yard trash in lined landfills classified by department |
| 15 | rule as Class I landfills. However, Class I landfills that are |
| 16 | designed to utilize an active gas collection system to collect |
| 17 | landfill gas generated at the Class I disposal facility and that |
| 18 | provide or arrange for reuse of the landfill gas collected may |
| 19 | accept yard trash for disposal. Yard trash that is source |
| 20 | separated from solid waste may be accepted at a solid waste |
| 21 | disposal area where separate yard trash composting facilities |
| 22 | are provided and maintained. The department recognizes that |
| 23 | incidental amounts of yard trash may be disposed of in Class I |
| 24 | landfills. In any enforcement action taken pursuant to this |
| 25 | paragraph, the department shall consider the difficulty of |
| 26 | removing incidental amounts of yard trash from a mixed solid |
| 27 | waste stream. |
| 28 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010. |