Pub. Resources Code, § 50001 · Division 31. WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES
Pub. Resources Code, § 50001
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) Except as provided by subdivision (b), after a countywide or regional agency integrated waste management plan has been approved by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery pursuant to Division 30 (commencing with Section 40000), a person shall not establish or expand a solid waste facility, as defined in Section 40194, in the county unless the solid waste facility meets one of the following criteria:
(1) The solid waste facility is a disposal facility, a transformation facility, or an EMSW conversion facility, the location of which is identified in the countywide siting element or amendment to that element, which has been approved pursuant to Section 41721.
(2) The solid waste facility is a facility that is designed to recover for reuse or recycling at least 5 percent of the total volume of material received by the facility, and that is identified in the nondisposal facility element that has been approved pursuant to Section 41800 or is included in an update to that element.
(b) Solid waste facilities other than those specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) shall not be required to comply with the requirements of this section.
(c) The person or agency proposing to establish a solid waste facility shall prepare and submit a site identification and description of the proposed facility to the task force established pursuant to Section 40950. Within 90 days after the site identification and description is submitted to the task force, the task force shall meet and comment on the proposed solid waste facility in writing. These comments shall include, but are not limited to, the relationship between the proposed solid waste facility and the implementation schedule requirements of Section 41780 and the regional impact of the facility. The task force shall transmit these comments to the person or public agency proposing establishment of the solid waste facility, to the county, and to all cities within the county. The comments shall become part of the official record of the proposed solid waste facility.
(d) The review and comment by the local task force shall not be required for an update to a nondisposal facility element.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 411, Sec. 12. (AB 1126) Effective January 1, 2014.
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- Pub. Resources Code, div. 30WASTE MANAGEMENTPrinted as Division 30 (commencing with Section 40000)
- Pub. Resources Code, § 40194Printed as Section 40194
- Pub. Resources Code, § 40950Printed as Section 40950
- Pub. Resources Code, § 41721Printed as Section 41721
- Pub. Resources Code, § 41780Printed as Section 41780
- Pub. Resources Code, § 41800Printed as Section 41800
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