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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
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NOTICE OF FINAL RULEMAKING
The Director of the Department of Public Works, pursuant to the authority set forth in Section 2(c) of the District of Columbia Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1989, effective July 25, 1989 (D.C. Law 8-16; 36 DCR 4155), as amended by Section 6012 of the Solid Waste Disposal Cost Recovery Act of 2007, effective September 18, 2007 (D.C. Law 17-20; 54 DCR 7052) and Section 2 of the Solid Waste Disposal Fee Amendment Act of 2008, effective March 21, 2009 (D.C. Law 17-322; 56 DCR 7052), and Mayor’s Order 2005-123, dated August 29, 2005, hereby gives notice of this final action to adopt rules to amend Chapter 7 (Solid Waste Control) of Title 21 (Water and Sanitation) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).
The rulemaking establishes the fee-setting formula and actual fee for recyclable food waste disposed of at a District of Columbia trash transfer station. The Department of Public Works is implementing a pilot program to provide food waste transfer services, at one of the District’s trash transfer stations, to encourage commercial solid waste haulers who collect food waste from businesses to compost the food waste. This program will improve city-wide recycling efforts and provide local composting options to businesses in the District of Columbia.
Proposed regulations were published in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on March 8, 2013, in the D.C. Register at 60 DCR 2982. No comments were received and no changes were made to the text of the proposed rulemaking. The agency took final rulemaking action on March 25, 2013. This final rulemaking shall become effective upon publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Chapter 7, SOLID WASTE CONTROL, of Title 21, WATER AND SANITATION, of the DCMR is amended as follows:
Section 719, SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FEE-SETTING FORMULAS, is amended by adding a new Subsection 719.10 to read as follows:
719.10 The following fee-setting formula is established for the disposal of each ton of food waste:
Solid Waste Disposal Fee for Recyclable Food Waste=Processing cost of recyclable food waste + Recycling Surcharge
Section 720, FEES, is amended by adding a new subsection 720.11 to read as follows:
720.11 Beginning on April 1, 2013, the applicable fee for the disposal of recyclable food waste at the waste-handling facilities shall be sixty-two dollars and fifty-two cents ($62.52) for each ton disposed; provided, that a minimum fee of thirty-one dollars and twenty-six cents ($31.26) shall be imposed on each load weighing one thousand pounds (1,000 1bs.) or less.
