1. Defined
Landfill means a facility that collects and disposes of waste under State of Maryland requirements for landfills. A landfill includes land clearing debris landfills, rubble landfills, and industrial waste landfills. Incinerator means a facility intended to reduce waste to ash through combustion and may produce energy or heat for re-use. An incinerator includes medical incinerator. Transfer station means a facility that receives solid or liquid wastes from others for transfer to another location under State of Maryland requirements for transfer stations. Landfill, Incinerator, or Transfer Station is included in the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan for Montgomery County.
2. Use Standards
Where a Landfill, Incinerator, or Transfer Station is allowed as a conditional use, it may be permitted by the Hearing Examiner under Section 7.3.1, Conditional Use, and the following standards:
a. The proposed use must meet all applicable requirements and conditions for State of Maryland permits.
b. The applicant must provide a detailed plan showing the proposed truck haul route to the nearest major highway and traffic engineering studies and analyses demonstrating the effects of the proposed conditional use on present and projected levels of service, adequacy of the present and planned road system, road safety conditions, bridge capacity, and other factors related to traffic flow and safety. The detailed plan submitted by the applicant must include:
i. a map of the hauling route indicating the classification of all roads and the width of the respective rights-of-way, as well as the number of lanes as built.
ii. the load limits of all bridges which the hauling route will cross,
iii. the segments of the road which are "closed" by curb and gutters, and "open" to roadside swales or ditches,
iv. the hours and days when the property will accept vehicles, and
v. the steps which the applicant will take to maintain the hauling route free of debris from vehicles accessing or leaving applicant's facility and control the number of vehicles accessing and leaving the site on a daily, weekly, monthly, and extraordinary basis, and
vi. designation of on-site queuing spaces sufficient to accommodate the anticipated hauling vehicles without causing the vehicles to queue into the public right-of-way. The number of queuing spaces must be at least one-half of the number of trucks expected during the peak hours of operation.
c. The applicant must have and adhere to an emergency notification and mitigation plan, acceptable to DPS, for instances when the presence of toxic, hazardous, or special medical wastes is discovered or suspected.
d. To protect the public health, safety and welfare, the applicant must provide on-site and off-site monitoring of air pollution, noise, ground water, and surface waters in a plan acceptable to DPS. The applicant must describe how the transfer station operations will conform to the water quality and quantity requirements of Chapter 19, without any waiver.
e. The site must conform to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 46, "Recommended Safe Practice for Storage of Forest Products". The standards are mandatory and not recommendations.
f. Any transfer of solid waste or sorting of recyclable materials must occur only in a wholly enclosed building.
g. The outdoor storage of solid waste or recyclable materials must be in leakproof, fly-and- rodent proof containers.
h. Impervious surfaces must be provided for all areas where the handling, sorting, storage, or transporting of solid waste or recyclable materials occurs.
i. Any water that comes into contact with solid waste must be discharged to the sanitary sewer system that satisfies an industrial discharge permit.
j. Water runoff must be discharged only into the sanitary sewer system.
k. A solid waste transfer station operation must not be located on any part of a floodplain or wetland, or within 300 feet of a stream.
l. Each site must be accessible directly from a roadway consisting of sufficient lanes to provide separate turning lanes and through lanes for large trucks to assure safe ingress and egress and not impede through traffic.
m. There must be at least a 200 foot buffer between the proposed sorting and storage operations and any lot line.
1. Defined
Recycling Collection and Processing means any structure or land used for the collection and recovery of paper, metals, plastic, glass, lumber, presorted construction or demolition debris, or other marketable scrap where the materials are separated, collected, processed, or marketed in the form of raw materials or products and result in less than 10% non-marketable waste by volume and inventory stored on-site must be turned over at least once every 3 months. Recycling Collection and Processing includes an automobile recycling facility, but does not include a transfer station (See Section 3.6.9.A, Landfill, Incinerator, or Transfer Station).
2. Use Standard
Where Recycling Collection and Processing is allowed as a limited use, recycling of construction and demolition debris is prohibited unless the use was lawfully existing on October 29, 2014. The recycling of automobiles is also prohibited.