Bill > HB4413

This bill requires owners or operators of municipal solid waste incinerators, which are facilities that burn everyday trash, to develop and implement a plan for continuously monitoring or sampling specific air emissions, including carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and various heavy metals like mercury and lead, using either a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) or a continuous automated sampling system (CASS) where a CEMS is not technologically feasible. The plan must detail how these emissions will be monitored for twelve consecutive months and how the data will be made available to the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the public. The plan must be submitted to the DEQ within three months of the bill's effective date, and the DEQ can modify it before approval, with implementation required within three months of the DEQ's approval, though the DEQ has discretion to grant extensions. Additionally, the bill limits the amount of hospital, medical, or infectious waste that a municipal solid waste incinerator can burn annually to 18,000 tons, and mandates that the DEQ report on the implementation progress and results of the monitoring to the state legislature by specific dates.

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http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=hb4413&Session=2600