Florida Statutes 403.7222 – Prohibition of hazardous waste landfills
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Terms Used In Florida Statutes 403.7222
- Department: means the Department of Environmental Protection or any successor agency performing a like function. See Florida Statutes 403.703
- Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or upon any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter other lands or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters, or otherwise enter the environment. See Florida Statutes 403.703
- Generation: means the act or process of producing solid or hazardous waste. See Florida Statutes 403.703
- Hazardous waste: means solid waste, or a combination of solid wastes, which, because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or infectious characteristics, may cause, or significantly contribute to, an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly transported, disposed of, stored, treated, or otherwise managed. See Florida Statutes 403.703
- Hazardous waste management: means the systematic control of the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, processing, treatment, recovery, recycling, and disposal of hazardous waste. See Florida Statutes 403.703
- Landfill: means any solid waste land disposal area for which a permit, other than a general permit, is required by…. See Florida Statutes 403.703
- Treatment: when used in connection with hazardous waste, means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, which is designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous waste so as to neutralize it or render it nonhazardous, safe for transport, amenable to recovery, amenable to storage or disposal, or reduced in volume or concentration. See Florida Statutes 403.703
(1) As used in this section, the term “hazardous waste landfill” means a disposal facility or part of a facility at which hazardous waste that has not undergone treatment is placed in or on land, including an injection well, which is not a land treatment facility. However, hazardous waste may not be disposed of through an injection well or other subsurface method of disposal, which is defined as a Class IV well in 40 C.F.R. 144.6(d), except those Class I wells permitted for hazardous waste disposal as of January 1, 1992. The department shall annually review the operations of any such Class I well permitted as of January 1, 1992, and prepare a report analyzing any impact on groundwater systems. This section may not be construed to refer to the products of membrane technology, including reverse osmosis, for the production of potable water where disposal is through a Class I well as defined in 40 C.F.R. 144.6(a), or to refer to remedial or corrective action activities conducted in accordance with 40 C.F.R. 144.13.
(2) The Legislature declares that, due to the permeability of the soil and high water table in Florida, future hazardous waste landfills are prohibited. Therefore, the department may not issue a permit pursuant to s. 403.722 for a newly constructed hazardous waste landfill. However, if by executive order the Governor declares a hazardous waste management emergency, the department may issue a permit for a temporary hazardous waste landfill. Any such landfill shall be used only until such time as an appropriate alternative method of disposal can be derived and implemented. Such a permit may not be issued for a period exceeding 6 months without a further declaration of the Governor. A Class IV injection well, as defined in 40 C.F.R. 144.6(d), may not be permitted for construction or operation under this section.
(3) This section does not prohibit the department from banning the disposal of hazardous waste in other types of waste management units in a manner consistent with federal requirements, except as provided under s. 403.804(2).
(4) This section does not apply to a disposal facility or part of a facility that accepts fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, or flue-gas emission control materials from the operation of a fossil fuel-fired electric or steam generation facility, from a clean coal or other innovative technology process at a fossil fuel-fired electric or steam generation facility, or from any combination thereof.