Md. Code Regs. 14.14.05.02

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 24, December 2, 2024

Section 14.14.05.02 - Implementation

A. Waste Reduction and Recovery. The Board encourages applicants to propose measures in their applications which can be reasonably expected to reduce or eliminate waste quantities or to recover wastes.

B. Conditions. The Board may impose conditions on any certificate of public necessity which expedite, enhance, or enforce the more preferable alternatives and minimize reliance on the less preferable alternatives. These conditions shall be imposed in cooperation with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene whenever possible.

C. Landfill.

(1) The Board will consider applications for secure hazardous waste landfills designed to have a total capacity of at least 5 years of Maryland's annual landfill need (200,000 tons) determined to exist by Regulation .01D, and an annual burial capacity of at least 50 percent of the annual landfill need.

(2) At the present time, the Board will approve not more than two applications for landfills for general commercial use.

D. Exchange, Recovery, and Transfer Facilities. The Board will consider applications for facilities that will promote waste recovery and the more efficient use of other recovery or treatment facilities.

E. Specialty Units. The Board will consider applications for aqueous treatment or incineration units intended to meet particular needs or to serve specific groups of Maryland generators identified in the application.

F. Aqueous Treatment Facility. The Board will consider an application for one broad-capability aqueous treatment facility.

G. Incinerator Facility. The Board will consider an application for one major incinerator facility.

H. Captive Facilities. The need and priority of a "captive" (generator-owned) facility, either on-site or off-site, will be judged according to its importance to the generator and the extent to which the facility affects or serves the overall needs of the State.

Md. Code Regs. 14.14.05.02