§22-15-15. Orders, Inspections and Enforcement; Civil and Criminal Penalties
(a) If the secretary, upon inspection or investigation by duly authorized representatives or through other means observes, discovers or learns of a violation of this article, its rules, article eleven of this chapter or its rules, or any permit or order issued under this article, he or she shall: (1) Issue an order stating with […]
§22-15-16. Appeal Procedures
Any person having an interest which is or may be adversely affected, or who is aggrieved by an order of the director, or by the issuance or denial of a permit or by the permit's terms or conditions, may appeal to the environmental quality board as provided in article one, chapter twenty-two-b of this code.
§22-15-3. Special Provision for Wood Waste
(a) The purpose of this section is to allow for the combustion of wood waste without a solid waste facility permit and to allow facilities to use wood waste as an alternative fuel. (b) "Wood waste" means wood residues from logging operations, sawmills, wood product manufacturing, furniture making operations, recycling of wood products and other […]
§22-15-4. Authority of Commissioner of Bureau of Public Health
Although the director is primarily responsible for the permitting and regulating of solid wastes, the commissioner of the bureau of public health may enforce the public health laws over solid waste management which presents an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health.
§22-15-5. Powers and Duties; Rules and Rulemaking
In addition to all other powers, duties, responsibilities and authority granted and assigned to the director in this code and elsewhere described by law, the director is empowered as follows: (a) The director shall promulgate rules in compliance with the West Virginia administrative procedures act to carry out the provisions of this article including modifying […]
§22-15-6. Fee for Filing a Certificate of Site Approval
The fee for the certificate of site approval is $25 payable upon the filing of the application therefor with the county, county solid waste authority or regional solid waste authority, as the case may be.
§22-15-7. Special Provision for Residential Solid Waste Disposal
All commercial and public landfills shall establish and publish a yearly schedule providing for one day per month on which a person not in the business of hauling or disposing of solid waste may dispose of, in a landfill, an amount of residential solid waste, up to one pick-up truckload or its equivalent, free of […]
§22-15-8. Limit on the Size of Solid Waste Facilities; Rulemaking
(a) On and after October 1, 1991, it is unlawful to operate any commercial solid waste facility that handles between ten thousand and thirty thousand tons of solid waste per month, except as provided in section nine of this article and sections twenty-six, twenty-seven and twenty-eight, articles four and four-a, chapter twenty-two-c of this code. […]
§22-15-9. Exemption for Solid Waste Facility Handling in Excess of Thirty Thousand Tons per Month
(a) Notwithstanding any provision in this article, article four, chapter twenty-two-c, article two, chapter twenty-four of this code, any other section of this code, or any prior enactment of the code to the contrary, and notwithstanding any defects in or challenges to any actions which were or are required to be performed in satisfaction of […]
§22-15-10. Prohibitions; Permits Required
(a) Open dumps are prohibited and it is unlawful for any person to create, contribute to, or operate an open dump or for any landowner to allow an open dump to exist on the landowner’s property unless that open dump is under a compliance schedule approved by the director. The compliance schedule shall contain an […]