Solid waste management-definition amendments.

Plain English Breakdown

The official bill text and summary do not provide detailed information on the timing for rule implementation by the Environmental Quality Council.

Changes to Solid Waste Management Rules

This law updates definitions of solid waste and solid waste management facilities, excluding certain materials processed at advanced recycling facilities from being considered as solid waste.

What This Bill Does

• Updates the definition of 'solid waste' to exclude post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks that are converted or held for conversion at an advanced recycling facility.
• Defines what is meant by 'advanced recycling' and 'advanced recycling facility'.
• Excludes advanced recycling facilities from being considered as solid waste management facilities.
• Requires the Environmental Quality Council, based on recommendations from the Department of Environmental Quality, to create rules necessary to implement these changes.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who manage and recycle solid waste in Wyoming.
• Facilities involved in advanced recycling processes.
• The Environmental Quality Council and the Department of Environmental Quality.

Terms To Know

Advanced Recycling

A manufacturing process for converting post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks into basic hydrocarbon raw materials, feedstocks, chemical products like waxes and lubricants through processes such as pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, catalytic cracking, hydrogenation, solvolysis.

Solid Waste Management Facility

A facility for the transfer, treatment, processing, storage or disposal of solid waste, excluding advanced recycling facilities under new rules.

Limits and Unknowns

• The law only applies to Wyoming and its environmental regulations.
• It's unclear how existing solid waste management practices will adapt to these changes.
• Rules for implementing this act must be created by the Environmental Quality Council, but it is not specified when they will be ready.

Official Summary Text

Bill Summary - 24LSO-0545

Bill No.:

SF0080

Effective:

Multiple Dates

LSO No.:

24LSO-0545

Enrolled Act No.:

SEA No. 0040

Chapter No.:

74

Prime Sponsor:

Barlow

Catch Title:

Solid waste management-definition amendments.

Has Report:

No

Subject:

Solid waste management definition amendments.

Summary/Major Elements:

This act amends the definition of solid waste to provide that solid waste does not include post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks converted at an advanced recycling facility or held at an advanced recycling facility before conversion through an advanced recycling process.

This act amends the definition of solid waste management facility to provide that a solid waste management facility does not include advanced recycling facilities.

This act provides definitions of advanced recycling and advanced recycling facility.

This act requires the environmental quality council, upon recommendation by the department of environmental quality, to promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

The above summary is not an official publication of the Wyoming Legislature and is not an official statement of legislative intent.

While the Legislative Service Office endeavored to provide accurate information in this summary, it should not be relied upon as a comprehensive abstract of the bill.

Current Bill Text

24LSO-0545

ORIGINAL Senate

File No
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SF0080

ENROLLED ACT NO. 40,

SENATE

SIXTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2024 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to environmental quality; amending the definitions of solid waste and solid waste management facility; providing definitions of advanced recycling and advanced recycling facilities; requiring rulemaking; and providing for effective dates.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
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W.S. 35
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103(d)(i)(intro), (B), by creating a new subparagraph (D), (ii)(intro), (F), by creating a new subparagraph (H) and by creating new paragraphs (xii) and (xiii) is amended to read:

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103.

Definitions.

(d)

Specific definitions applying to solid waste management:

(i)

"Solid waste" means garbage, and other discarded solid materials, materials, including solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities, but, unless disposed of at a solid waste management facility, does not include
any of the following
:

(B)

Liquids, solids, sludges or dissolved constituents which are collected or separated in process units for recycling, recovery or reuse including the recovery of energy, within a continuous or batch manufacturing or refining process;
or

(D)

Post
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use polymers and recovered feedstocks converted at an advanced recycling facility or held at an advanced recycling facility before conversion through an advanced recycling process.

(ii)

"Solid waste management facility" means any facility for the transfer, treatment, processing, storage or disposal of solid waste, but does not include
any of the following
:

(F)

Transport vehicles, storage containers and treatment of the waste in containers;
or

(H)

Advanced recycling facilities.

(xii)

"Advanced recycling" means a manufacturing process for the conversion of post
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use polymers and recovered feedstocks into basic hydrocarbon raw materials, feedstocks, chemical and other products like waxes and lubricants through processes that include but are not limited to pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, catalytic cracking, hydrogenation, solvolysis and other similar technologies;

(xiii)

"Advanced recycling facility" means a manufacturing facility that receives, stores and converts post
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use polymers and recovered feedstocks using advanced recycling.

Section 2.

The environmental quality council, upon recommendation by the department of environmental quality, shall promulgate all rules necessary to implement this act.

Section 3.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, this act is effective July 1, 2024.

(b)

Sections 2 and 3 of this act are effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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