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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News staff writer
The Environmental Protection Agency should have its new regulations governing solid waste disposal ready for Congressional action in the spring of 1988, and while Virginia's regulations won’t have to be “exact-ly identical” to the federal standards, they will have to be “equivalent,” said Cynthia V. Bailey, executive director of the Department of Waste Management, speaking at the local government officials conference held this month in Charlottesville.
Her dollar figures on meeting those new standards met with mutters and groans from the audience of council members, supervisors, county administrators and planning staffs.
Under current regulations, the average cost of developing a 19-acre sanitary landfill is $208,800. EPA’s new draft regulations - which the Virginia standards will have to equal - would raise that average to $858,680 exclusive of liner and $1.5 million with a liner. And she noted later that “liners probably will be required in all new trenches by the federal guidelines.”
Ms. Bailey also gave figures for the average cost of developing a 10-acre disposal site for hazardous waste: $3.7 million. “Before you think Pm going too far, you should know today’s minimum standards for solid waste disposal were the standards for hazardous waste disposal just five years ago,” she told the assembled officials.
That illustrates a major problem in the field, Ms. Bailey said. “With the constantly changing nature of the waste management business, it’s so difficult to give answers ... If I give you an answer this afternoon, I run the risk of being outdated by the cocktail hour!”
With that disclaimer, she reported that her Depart(See
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