TITLE 23

Health and Safety

CHAPTER 23-19

Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation

SECTION 23-19-11



   § 23-19-11  Planning requirements. –

Planning responsibilities of the corporation shall include, but not be limited

to:



   (1) The preparation of a statewide resource recovery system

development plan which will indicate the location, type, and size of solid

waste management facilities, including without limitation, transfer stations,

waste processing facilities, and ultimate disposal facilities which may be

required to serve the future needs of the state and its municipalities through

the development of an integrated statewide resource recovery system for the

effective management of solid waste;



   (2) The plan shall be in conformity with the applicable

provisions of the state guide plan;



   (3) The plan will be subject to amendment;



   (4) In developing the plan, the corporation will assure that:



   (i) The orderly extension of future solid waste facilities

and management systems are provided for in a manner consistent with the needs

and plans of the whole area, and in a manner consistent with the state

departments of health and environmental management rules and regulations for

locating and operating solid waste facilities;



   (ii) All aspects of planning, zoning, population estimates,

engineering, and economics are taken into consideration to delineate with all

practical precision those portions of the area which may reasonably be expected

to be served by a given time frame, as determined by the corporation;



   (iii) Appropriate time schedules are set for the phasing in

of the required component parts of the system.



   (iv) Future solid waste disposal facilities shall be regional

in size and emphasize the geographic and political nature of the surrounding

area.



   (5) In the interim prior to the completion of the statewide

plan, the corporation is authorized to develop component facilities as may be

required to carry out the purposes of this chapter; provided, however, upon

completion of the plan, all projects of the corporation undertaken thereafter

shall be in conformity with the plan; and



   (6) The corporation shall cooperate with the department of

environmental management and other state and local agencies in the development

of a comprehensive statewide solid waste management plan, of which the

corporation's statewide resource recovery system development plan shall be a

component part. Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted as limiting the

authority of the department of environmental management to prepare a statewide,

comprehensive, solid waste management plan, including, but not limited to, any

plan required by any federal law, rules, or regulations to meet federal

requirements that may be conditions precedent to receiving federal assistance.



   (7) The plan shall not include incineration of solid waste.



   (8) The plan shall limit the use of landfills to providing

temporary backup or bypass disposal capacity and residue disposals from waste

processing facilities. The plan shall also seek to minimize landfilling of any

type of waste and phase out the use of landfills for waste disposal.



   (9) The plan shall include composting of yard waste and other

appropriate organic wastes.



   (10) The plan shall consider the financial feasibility of

modifying, curtailing, or supplanting the provisions of chapter 19.1 of this

title in light of the requirements for waste processing facilities.



   (11) The plan shall primarily rely on a system of waste

processing facilities.



   (12) The plan shall provide that the corporation actively

pursue research and develop new uses for materials recovered from solid waste

to maximize revenue from recycled materials.



History of Section.

(P.L. 1974, ch. 176, § 1; P.L. 1978, ch. 305, § 10; G.L. 1956, §

23-46.1-11; P.L. 1979, ch. 39, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 23-19-11; P.L. 1989,

ch. 508, § 5; P.L. 1992, ch. 133, art. 111, § 1.)