KRC Voices Concerns On HB 478, Which Allows Doubling Size Of CDD Landfills Lacking Key Protections
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In written comments on House Bill 478, KRC Staff Attorney Audrey Ernstberger shared KRC concerns with allowing the doubling of size of construction/demolition landfills lacking liners and groundwater monitoring. Less than one acre construction and demolition debris landfills are not required to have liners and leachate collection to prevent groundwater contamination, nor monitoring to detect contamination in order that corrective action can be ordered. Click here to read the letter. The bill passed the House Natural Resources and Energy Committee on February 29, 2024 and moves to the House floor for further action.
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on 02/29/2024 7:38 PM
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