Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2159.1

  • Facility: means a pollution source or any public or private property or facility where an activity is conducted which is required to be regulated under this Subtitle and which does or has the potential to do any of the following:

                (a) Emit air contaminants into the atmosphere. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004

  • Person: means any individual, municipality, public or private corporation, partnership, firm, the United States Government, and any agent or subdivision thereof or any other juridical person, which shall include, but not be limited to, trusts, joint stock companies, associations, the state of Louisiana, political subdivisions of the state of Louisiana, commissions, and interstate bodies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
  • Solid waste: means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include or mean solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges which are point sources subject to permits under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2153

A.  In parishes with populations of at least seventy thousand persons and less than seventy-five thousand persons according to the latest decennial figures, no person shall construct, establish, or expand a residential or commercial solid waste facility used for disposing, processing, or transporting solid waste, nor construct, establish, or expand a construction and demolition debris solid waste facility adjacent to such residential or commercial solid waste facility, within five thousand feet of an airport serving piston-powered aircraft or within ten thousand feet of an airport serving turbine-powered aircraft.  The distance shall be measured from the point of the property line of the solid waste facility closest to the runway, taxiway, apron, or aircraft parking area of the airport, whichever is closest to the facility’s property line.

B.  This Section shall not apply to an enclosed processing or non-processing transfer station.

Acts 2008, No. 546, §1, eff. July 1, 2008.