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Sen. John Warner has praised a bill passed late Thursday by the U.S. Senate to allow governors a stronger hand in regulating the flow' of imported trash into states, including Virginia.
Virginia is one of four states nationwide that received more than 1 million tons of out-of-state municipal waste last year, angering some communities where landfills are located. The other states are Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Cities in New York and New Jersey are the nation’s leading exporters of trash, much of which finds its way to Virginia landfills.
Under the bill, approved by the Senate 89-2, governors would be allowed to cap the flow' of imported trash at 1991 or 1992 levels, whichever is less. Hut local government approval also w ndd be required, and existing landfill contracts could not lie broken before 1990.
In Virginia and the other three top importing states, however, governors could act to limit trash imports without local consent at landfills where there are no local agreements for dumping.
The bill provides further limits effective in 1998. A year later, in 195*9, governors would be empowered to override contracts between private landfills and private trash haulers in certain cases, depending on the volume of imported waste.
Warner strongly supported the bill, the Interstate Transportation of
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