Section 7.472. Waste volume limitations

(a) The Department of Environmental Resources (Department) will immediately establish maximum and average waste volume limits for each operating municipal waste landfill, based on the actual daily volume disposed at the landfill and reported to the Department for days the facility was in operation during the period of October 26, 1988—June 30, 1989. The actual average daily volume will be determined by the Department.

(b) Upon petition by the operator, the Department may also allow additional waste volume amounts necessary for signed and binding contracts entered into by existing permitted facilities prior to October 17, 1989. To qualify under this subsection, the contracts also shall by their express terms call for performance during the period of time during which this moratorium shall operate.

(c) Additional increases in waste volume limitations may be allowed by the Department, so long as the additional proposed waste streams are consistent with § 7.471 (relating to interim moratorium).

(d) Other increases in waste volume limitations may be allowed by the Department under emergency circumstances if the Department deems it necessary to protect the public health and safety of the citizens of this Commonwealth.

(e) The Department will order that permits that allow the disposal of sewage sludge at a municipal waste landfill be immediately modified to limit disposal to the average volume currently being accepted, unless additional volume amounts are necessary for compliance with an order issued by the Department. Upon petition by the operator, the Department may also allow additional waste volume amounts necessary for signed and binding contracts entered into by existing permitted facilities prior to October 17, 1989. To qualify under this subsection, the contracts also shall by their express terms call for performance during the period of time during which this moratorium shall operate.