# Title 33.1 — Department of Environmental Quality

## Article 33.1-20 — Solid Waste Management and Land Protection

## Chapter 33.1-20-17 — Solid Waste Management Planning

### § 33.1-20-17-01. Solid waste management plans.

The department may require any person or political subdivision within the state to submit for review
and approval a solid waste management plan to show that solid wastes will be disposed of in
accordance with the provisions of North Dakota Century Code chapter 23.1-08 and this article.
1. The comprehensive solid waste management plan required by North Dakota Century Code
chapter 23.1-08 must be developed and implemented for the following purposes:
a. Reduce the amount of solid waste generated.
b. Reuse materials.
c. Composting leaves and grass clippings.
d. Recycle everything possible.
e. Recover energy from waste.
f. Landfill the remaining wastes.
g. Coordinate solid waste management among political subdivisions.
2. At a minimum, each solid waste management plan should contain the following plan elements:
a. Solid waste management goals and objectives for ten-year plan.
b. Solid waste inventory (including special wastes, regulated infectious wastes and tires
excluding regulated hazardous wastes), types, and quantities for each community and
county; and a district summary.
c. Solid waste amounts and types transported to another district or state; and the amounts,
types, and sources of waste received from another district or state.
d. Descriptions of existing solid waste collectors, service areas, routes, transfer stations,
and types of service for all communities and counties served.
e. Descriptions of existing resource recovery, waste processing, and disposal methods and
facilities, existing waste minimization practices, and local markets for recoverable waste
materials; assessments of the capacities of these methods, practices, and markets; and
identification of potential and new resource recovery efforts and markets.
f. Identification of current solid waste management problems, evaluate solutions, and
identify a course of action to solve those problems.
g. Methods, procedures, or programs adequate to reduce the volume of solid waste
deposited in landfills.
h. Future solid waste management issues which may require adjustments to adopted solid
waste management plans.
i. Implementation plan and schedule and a funding mechanism for the activities and
strategies in the plan.

j. Existing local ordinances and rules and a strategy for the political subdivision's
compliance with the plan.
k. Ensure and document public involvement and acceptance of the plan.
l. Resolution of adoption of the plan by the political subdivision.
m. Provision to review, amend, update, and submit solid waste management plans to the
department every five years.
History: Effective January 1, 2019; amended effective July 1, 2020.
General Authority: NDCC 23.1-08-03; S.L. 2017, ch. 199, § 1
Law Implemented: NDCC 23.1-08-03; S.L. 2017, ch. 199, § 23
