Download This Version in Microsoft Word format
Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter
INTRODUCED
February 9, 2016
H. 4857
S. Printed 2/9/16--H.
Read the first time February 9, 2016.
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 58-27-255 SO AS TO REQUIRE COAL COMBUSTION RESIDUALS RESULTING FROM THE PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY TO BE PLACED IN A CLASS 3 LANDFILL AND TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 27, Title 58 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 58-27-255. Coal combustion residuals that result from an electrical utility, an electric cooperative, a governmental entity, a corporation, or an individual producing electricity for sale or distribution by burning coal must be placed in a Class 3 solid waste management landfill, unless the coal combustion residuals are:
(1) located contiguous with the electric generating unit;
(2) intended to be beneficially reused;
(3) placed into beneficial reuse; or
(4) placed in an appropriate landfill owned or operated by the entity that produced the electricity that resulted in the coal combustion residuals."
SECTION 2. The provisions of Section 1 are repealed five years from the act's effective date unless reenacted or otherwise extended by the General Assembly.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor
and applies to the disposal of coal combustion residuals placed in a landfill on or after that date.
This web page was last updated on February 9, 2016 at 6:30 PM