Are other methods available to exempt uses of solid waste from permitting?
Current solid waste regulations lists certain wastes and uses of waste not subject to the regulations and addresses management practices not subject to permitting for other types of wastes. Also, the Washington State Legislature directed Ecology to develop rules describing when jurisdictional health departments can propose to defer solid waste permitting to other environmental permits which offer an equal or greater level of environmental protection than that achieved by a solid waste permit. Ecology also has the authority to exempt, by rule, uses of certain solid wastes it determines present no threat to human health or the environment. During the process to revise state solid waste regulations Ecology focussed on development of the application process required for BUDs. A section has been reserved in WAC 173-350-200 for future development of a list of BUDs authorized in statute.
