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The Carroll County Solid Waste Authority (“Carroll County Authority”) submitted a Petition to the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) to be designated the Carroll County Solid Waste District.

The Petition is being submitted pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. 8-6-707 which provides the Commission the authority to designate a county or counties within each district or counties within two or more districts as a new regional solid waste management district.

Carroll County Authority is currently a part of the Ozark Mountain Regional Solid Waste Management District. Arkansas has had in place since the late 1980s various statutory authorities whose intent is to stimulate recycling, or through various programs encourage regional approaches to solid waste management.

Act 870 of 1989, codified as Ark. Code Ann. 8-6-701, et seq., established the original eight regional solid waste planning districts. The Commission, through the previously referenced statutory authority, has since granted a number of additional regional solid waste management districts. Arkansas currently has 18 regional solid waste management districts. The regional solid waste management districts are intended to facilitate local governments in planning and overseeing municipal solid waste management programs and services. They also administer recycling grants and waste tire management programs.

The Arkansas statutory authorities provide that a new regional solid waste management district may only be approved if it is composed of:

. . . whole county jurisdictions, and each district shall contain more than one (1) county unless the county has a population of at least fifty thousand (50,000) according to the latest decennial census.

The Commission approval of a regional solid waste management district must be undertaken pursuant to rules promulgated by that body. Counties and municipalities included in the new regional solid waste management district shall cease to be members of any other district.

The Carroll County Authority Petition components include:

• Petition letter to “Robert Reynolds”
• ADEQ Guidelines for needs assessment
• CCSWA/CCSWD needs assessment
• 2018 ADEQ Guidelines for solid waste plan
• 2018 CCSWA/CCSWD solid waste plan
• District map
• Used tire program
• Permits and legal documents
• Picture overview of CCSWA/CCSWD

A link to the Petition can be found here.