Section 48010 - Notice that owner of landfill of election to participate in trust fund(a)(1) An owner of a landfill for which evidence of financial ability is maintained pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 43600) of Chapter 2 of Part 4, whose landfill is operating on January 1, 2012, and that elects to participate in the State Solid Waste Postclosure and Corrective Action Trust Fund pursuant to this article, shall submit written notice to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery on or before January 1, 2012.(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), an owner of multiple landfills that elects to participate in the State Solid Waste Postclosure and Corrective Action Trust Fund is required to submit written notice that includes all of the owner's operating landfills and all other landfills in which that owner has in common ownership.(3) A landfill with multiple owners may participate only if all owners of that landfill elect to participate. Participation of a landfill with multiple owners shall not obligate a partial owner of that landfill to include any other landfill at which that owner has full or partial ownership.(4) The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery shall provide to the state board the name and address, and any other information necessary to administer and collect the fee imposed pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 48000, of every owner of a landfill electing to participate in the State Solid Waste Postclosure and Corrective Action Trust Fund on or before February 29, 2012.(b) If an operator that is operating a landfill on January 1, 2012, submits a written notification to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery that it elects to participate after the trust fund fee goes into effect, the operator shall pay all trust fund fees applicable from July 1, 2012, and a 5-percent penalty before being allowed to participate.(c) For new landfills that receive a solid waste facility permit after January 1, 2012, the owner's election to participate in the State Solid Waste Postclosure and Corrective Action Trust Fund shall be submitted in writing to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery before the department concurs in the issuance of the permit pursuant to Section 44009.(d) All elections to participate made by landfill owners pursuant to this section are final, binding, and irrevocable for those owners and their successors and assignees.Ca. Pub. Res. Code § 48010
Amended by Stats 2010 ch 417 (AB 1004),s 2, eff. 1/1/2011.Amended by Stats 2010 ch 328 (SB 1330),s 197, eff. 1/1/2011.Added by Stats 2009 ch 318 (AB 274),s 4, eff. 1/1/2010.