(A) A permit applicant shall prepare and file a hazardous waste permit application with the County Commissioners for any hazardous waste and/or low- level radioactive waste facility as described in § 51.15. The permit application shall include all related documents submitted to the federal government and the state. Where divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section and § 51.18 are included in documents submitted to the federal and state governments, these need not be duplicated for the county permit; however, additional information as to how these items directly impact the county as well as cross-references to state and federal documents shall be included.
(B) The application shall contain the following information:
(1) A description of the applicant, full information on its financial capability and a detailed history of all its past activities in the field of hazardous and/or low-level radioactive waste management, including a synopsis of every other facility it has operated;
(2) Evidence of liability insurance, including environmental impact liability insurance, and a history of any claims against the company at any site, including the parent company or any subsidiaries of the parent company;
(3) Justification for, and anticipated benefits from, the project;
(4) A description of the scope of the proposed project, including a schedule of how much and what kinds of hazardous and/or low-level radioactive material the facility will accept, where the material will come from, what pretreatment will be required of wastes unacceptable to the facility without such pretreatment, and how long the facility is expected to operate;
(5) The estimated project costs, including information on the construction cost for the facility, the yearly site operation expenses, and an estimate of the costs for the lifetime of the project;
(6) The proposed method of financing the project, including development, operation, and closure stages;
(7) The proposed number of employees and types of positions, including information the training and experience required for each position, salaries to be paid, and safety precautions to be undertaken;
(8) The anticipated date to begin construction;
(9) The anticipated date to begin operation;
(10) A detailed estimate of the types and amounts of municipal and county services local government will need to provide each year for the facility;
(11) A description of emergency procedures and safety and security precautions that will be in place at the facility; this information should include details on emergency assistance that will be required from the surrounding community;
(12) A description of the environmental protection measures to be taken by the applicant to prevent contamination on and around the facility site and a description of planned monitoring systems, with an estimated annual budget for each of these items;
(13) A description of environmental protection measures to be used during transportation of materials to and from the facility, with an estimated annual budget for these arrangements and an estimate of the volume of material to be transported during each year of the facility’s operation;
(14) A description of the site closure plan for the facility, the anticipated date of closure, and an estimate of the site closure costs; and
(15) A description of anticipated need for post-closure care.
(C) A map or maps attached to the application shall include but are not limited to the following information:
(1) Ownership.
(a) Name, address, and telephone number of the legal owner and/or agent of the property;
(b) Name, address, and telephone number of professional person(s) responsible for design and for surveys;
(c) Description of any existing legal rights-of-way or easements affecting the property; and
(d) Reference to existing restrictive covenants on the property, if any.
(2) Description. Location of property by tax map and parcel number, and the warranty deed book number and page reference or other evidence of title of the current owner;
(3) Features. Each map shall have the following information:
(a) The map shall be drawn to a scale of not less than 200 feet to an inch;
(b) Location sketch map showing relationship of the project site to the surrounding area;
(c) Graphic scale, date, approximate north arrow, legend;
(d) The location of property with respect to surrounding property and streets, the names of all adjacent developments. The name and address of adjacent property owners according to the county tax records;
(e) Zoning, classification of proposed project, and adjacent property;
(f) The location of all boundary lines of the property;
(g) The total acreage of land in the project in this county and any other county, if applicable;
(h) The location of existing and/or platted streets, easements, buildings (including mobile homes), railroads, parks, cemeteries, bridges, sewers, water mains, culverts, water wells, and gas and electric lines;
(i) The location of water bodies, water courses (including sinkholes, dry stream beds, and pond overflow streams), groundwater aquifers, springs, and other pertinent features;
(j) The location and width of all existing and proposed street rights-of-way and easements, and other public ways;
(k) The location, dimensions, and acreage of all property proposed to be set aside for various uses on the applicant’s property;
(l) The location of all test wells and/or borings;
(m) The location of the 100-year floodplain, flood record, standard project flood, and inundation due to a dam break; and
(n) The location of faults, dikes, sills, and other pertinent geologic structures.
(4) Topographic map. A topographic map with contours at vertical intervals of not more than five feet, at the same scale as the project site map. The date and method of preparing the topographic survey shall be stated; and
(5) Transportation route map. A map showing proposed transportation route(s) to and from the facility site, including location of towns and emergency and safety facilities, and an estimate of the volume of material to travel on each route.
(D) The application shall address the following factors as they apply to the specific type of facility. Because each facility is unique, the County Commissioners may request, as it deems necessary, additional information, similar to that addressed below to complete the application:
(1) Contaminant flow to the water table, including leachate monitoring, collecting and withdrawal systems; clay and synthetic liners (extra thickness, multiple liners); spill prevention and containment measures;
(2) Contaminant movement with groundwater, including groundwater monitoring systems at the site and in potentially affected area; subsurface “slurry wall” barrier controls on other groundwater withdrawals in area;
(3) Predictability of contaminant movement, based on preconstruction borings and groundwater modeling;
(4) Potential effect on surface waters; planned collection systems for surface water runoff; planned exclusion systems for surface water run-on;
(5) Potential effect on aquifers, planned provisions for alternate water supply systems and facilities for immediate pumping and treatment of contaminated water;
(6) Potential effect on public water supplies; planned runoff collection and treatment and provisions for alternate supply systems;
(7) Possibility of site flooding; planned special facility design, special control dikes, and buffer zone setback in area of standard project flood area;
(8) Potential human exposure to treated wastewater, including planned safety procedures, clothing, instruction, and practice for employees, planned over-sized or redundant treatment capacity, effluent monitoring and automatic shutdown systems;
(9) Nature and predictability of pollution movement, including planned stack height for incinerators with continuous stack and plume monitoring and recording until emission levels are predictable; planned segregation of incompatible wastes;
(10) Potential human exposure to air pollution, including planned pollution control equipment, special combustion monitoring and automatic shutdown systems and special air monitoring arrangements;
(11) Safety of transportation route, including evacuation and re-routing plans, planned training and certification of truck drivers and other waste-handling personnel and truck safety features;
(12) Potential for noise impact, including limitations on hours for delivery and muffler installation;
(13) Potential for impact on environmentally significant lands, planned bonding, insurance, financial responsibility, and monitoring;
(14) Proximity to residential areas or sensitive sites, including planned purchase of buffer zones on adjacent lands, reduction in facility size and distance limitation between similar facilities;
(15) Compatibility with existing land uses, including orientation and layout of site plans; planned buffer zone setback from use area to facility owner’s exterior property line, referred to as “minimum interior buffer setback,” planned aesthetic design of facility and landscaping;
(16) Compatibility with land use plans;
(17) Impact on existing or future economic activity, including predicted tax base expansion and privilege license tax;
(18) Potential for earthquake activity, including special facility design and evacuation plans to deal with such occurrences; and
(19) Post-use problems, including bonding, liability, financial responsibility, and monitoring community and environmental health.
(E) Hazardous and/or low-level radioactive waste generators filing permit applications to store and/or treat wastes on-site at the point of generation shall submit to the County Commissioners an application that also includes the following:
(1) A summary of all spills at the site and the resultant cleanup operation;
(2) A detailed description of the company’s in-house monitoring and safety programs; and
(3) Any additional information the County Commissioners may deem relevant to assessing the facility’s impact on the health and welfare of the county’s citizens.
(1996 Code, § 51.21) (Ord. passed 10-5-1987)