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WY Stat § 35-11-529 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-529 - Municipal Solid Waste Facilities Cease and Transfer Accounts Created; Authorized Expenditures From the Accounts.

35-11-529. Municipal solid waste facilities cease and transfer accounts created; authorized expenditures from the accounts.| (a) There is created the municipal solid waste cease and transfer grant account. Monies from the account shall be awarded for grants to fund approved activities pursuant to W.S. 35-11-528. Interest earned by this account shall be deposited in the budget reserve account. Notwithstanding W.S. 9-2-1008, 9-2-1012(e) and 9-4-207(a), funds deposited in this account shall not revert without further action of the legislature.  (b) There is created the municipal solid waste cease and transfer loan account. Monies from the account shall be awarded for loans to fund approved activities pursuant to W.S. 35-11-528. Interest earned by this account shall be deposited in the budget reserve account. Notwithstanding W.S. 9-2-1008, 9-2-1012(e) and 9-4-207(a), funds deposited in this account shall not revert without further action of the legislature.
WY Stat § 35-11-530 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-530 - Rules and Regulations.

35-11-530. Rules and regulations.| (a) The state loan and investment board in consultation with the department of environmental quality shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to administer the municipal solid waste facility cease and transfer program. Those rules shall include:  (i) Criteria for eligibility under the program based on W.S. 35-11-528(d);  (ii) Specific cease and transfer activities which are eligible for funding under the program;  (iii) Application form and procedure under the program;  (iv) Criteria for grant and loan prioritization based on:  (A) Funding availability;  (B) Cost efficiencies achieved by allocation of resources;  (C) Opportunities for increased cost sharing between cease and transfer actions at multiple leaking municipal solid waste facilities;  (D) Timeliness of cease and transfer actions in reducing risk to public health, safety and welfare or the environment;  (E) Remaining life of the existing municipal solid waste facility;  (F) Whether the proposed actions are a cost-effective alternative in accordance with the integrated solid waste management plan approved for the municipal solid waste facility;  (G) Whether the proposed action is reasonable and appropriate for the current and projected volumes of all solid waste for the area served by the facility;  (H) Whether the proposal contains recycling and other forms of waste diversion as a component of the proposed facilities and management practices; and  (J) The likelihood that the cease and transfer actions will reduce or eliminate the threat posed to public health, safety and welfare or the environment by continuing releases.
WY Stat § 35-11-531 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-531 - General Permit for Cease and Closure for Small Landfills; Rulemaking Authority.

35-11-531. General permit for cease and closure for small landfills; rulemaking authority.| (a) The department shall develop a general permit in accordance with W.S. 35-11-801(d) for closing municipal solid waste landfills with a total surface area of less than thirty (30) acres, and shall provide assistance to municipalities in the general permitting process. The general permit shall comply with federal requirements for municipal solid waste landfill closure and post-closure.  (b) The department shall provide assistance for permitting municipal solid waste transfer facility activities at closing municipal solid waste landfills with a total surface area of less than thirty (30) acres.  (c) The department shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to achieve the purposes of this section.  (d) Repealed by Laws 2019, ch. 186, § 2.
WY Stat § 35-11-532 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-532 - Municipal Solid Waste Facility Operator Financial Responsibility; Penalties.

35-11-532. Municipal solid waste facility operator financial responsibility; penalties.| (a) Municipal solid waste facility operators shall ensure continued revenue or funding streams sufficient to provide for all foreseeable costs of the facility, including but not limited to the full costs of:  (i) Operations;  (ii) Monitoring;  (iii) Recycling, composting and other diversion activities;  (iv) Closure; and  (v) Post-closure activities.  (b) On or before January 1, 2014 and at least once every four (4) years thereafter, municipal solid waste facility operators shall submit to the department written documentation demonstrating compliance with subsection (a) of this section.  (c) Municipal solid waste facility operators shall employ accounting principles pursuant to the Uniform Municipal Fiscal Procedures Act, W.S. 16-4-101 through 16-4-125, which recognize liabilities associated with:  (i) Closure and post-closure costs; and  (ii) The long-term cost of waste disposal compared to recycling, composting or other diversion activities.  (d) Compliance with this section shall be a prerequisite for eligibility for any state grant and loan program available to a municipal solid waste facility and state funding for solid waste landfill monitoring and remediation.
WY Stat § 35-11-533 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-533 - Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Remediation Program Created; Purpose.

35-11-533. Municipal solid waste landfill remediation program created; purpose.| (a) There is created the municipal solid waste landfill remediation program. The program shall be administered by the solid and hazardous waste division of the department of environmental quality with the input of the waste and water advisory board as provided in W.S. 35-11-533 through 35-11-537.  (b) The legislature recognizes the threat to the public health, safety, welfare and the environment caused by pollution to soil and water from leaking municipal solid waste landfills. The purpose of this program is to take state primacy of the municipal solid waste landfill remediation program and to provide funding to take remediation actions at eligible leaking municipal solid waste landfills.
WY Stat § 35-11-535 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-535 - Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Remediation Account; Authorized Expenditures From the Account.

35-11-535. Municipal solid waste landfill remediation account; authorized expenditures from the account.| (a) There is created the municipal solid waste landfill remediation account. The department shall use monies from the municipal solid waste landfill remediation account as appropriated by the legislature for the administration of the program. Interest earned by this account shall be deposited in the general fund. Notwithstanding W.S. 9-2-1008, 9-2-1012(e) and 9-4-207(a), funds deposited in this account shall not revert without further action of the legislature.  (b) For a leaking municipal solid waste landfill to be eligible for use of monies in the account, the owner or operator of the site shall comply with all requirements of the program and regulations of the council adopted pursuant to W.S. 35-11-536.  (c) In addition to expenditures from the account authorized by W.S. 35-11-534(a), the department shall issue a credit in an amount not to exceed the local operator's twenty-five percent (25%) share required by W.S. 35-11-534(c)(v) of the total cost of eligible remediation and monitoring activities provided in W.S. 35-11-534(a), for past remediation and monitoring expenses incurred by the local operator as specified in this subsection. The department shall issue credits under this subsection for costs incurred by a local operator for remediation and monitoring activities from the account if:  (i) A work plan for the remediation and monitoring activities was submitted to and approved by the department;  (ii) The remediation and monitoring activities were initiated after July 1, 2006;  (iii) The local operator of a municipal solid waste landfill provides the department with an accurate accounting of the costs of remediation and monitoring activities conducted at the municipal solid waste landfill after July 1, 2006 and the department determines that those remediation and monitoring activities would be eligible for funding if they had been performed under the program;  (iv) The local operator conducts additional remediation and monitoring activities at the leaking municipal solid waste landfill which are eligible for funding under W.S. 35-11-534(a) on or after July 1, 2013; and  (v) A credit issued under this subsection shall not exceed an amount equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of the cost incurred by the local operator for eligible remediation and monitoring activities after July 1, 2006.  (d) Repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 47, § 2.
WY Stat § 35-11-536 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-536 - Rules and Regulations.

35-11-536. Rules and regulations.| (a) The council shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to administer the program after recommendation from the director of the department, the administrator of the solid and hazardous waste division and the water and waste advisory board. The rules shall include but shall not be limited to rules and regulations which:  (i) Provide for landfill monitoring and remediation system design, construction, installation and monitoring standards which shall be no less stringent than federal requirements;  (ii) Specify the requirements for delegating installation or modification inspection authority including but not limited to requirements for contractors and local operators;  (iii) Establish a procedure or procedures for reporting any release from a municipal solid waste landfill;  (iv) Include provisions under which priorities for remediation actions shall be established in addition to the priority list created pursuant to W.S. 35-11-524. Those priorities shall be established considering, but not limited to, the following factors:  (A) Funding availability;  (B) Cost efficiencies achieved by allocation of resources;  (C) Opportunities for increased cost sharing between monitoring and remediation actions at multiple leaking municipal solid waste landfills;  (D) Timeliness of remediation in reducing risk to public health, safety and welfare or the environment;  (E) The likelihood that the remedy will reduce or eliminate the threat posed to public health, safety and welfare or the environment by continuing releases; and  (F) Whether the facility has completed closure and transfer actions at the leaking municipal solid waste facility. Priority shall be given to solid waste facilities which have completed closure and transfer actions.  (v) Require records for compliance with repairs and upgrades to be maintained for the operational life of the landfill remediation and monitoring system;  (vi) Create requirements for participation in the program and for the return of the facility to local control pursuant to W.S. 35-11-534(a); and  (vii) Specify standards for restoration of the environment.
WY Stat § 35-11-537 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 5 - Solid Waste Management|Section 35-11-537 - Restoration Standard.

35-11-537. Restoration standard.| Any owner or operator, the department or other person taking a corrective action shall restore the environment to a condition and quality consistent with standards established in rules and regulations.
WY Stat § 35-11-802 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 8 - Permits|Section 35-11-802 - Refusal to Grant Permits; Applicant's Rights.

35-11-802. Refusal to grant permits; applicant's rights.| If the director refuses to grant any permit under this act, the applicant may petition for a hearing before the council to contest the decision. The council shall give a public notice of such hearing. At such hearing, the director and appropriate administrator shall appear as respondent and the rules of practice and procedure adopted by the council pursuant to this act and the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act shall apply. The burden of proof shall be upon the petitioner. The council must take final action on any such hearing within thirty (30) days from date of hearing.
WY Stat § 35-11-803 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 8 - Permits|Section 35-11-803 - Single Permit for Activities Covered by More Than One Article.

35-11-803. Single permit for activities covered by more than one article.| (a) The director may grant a single permit for a facility or activity regulated under more than one (1) article of this act provided that there is compliance with all rules, standards and public participation requirements provided by the individual articles of this act.  (b) The council may adopt unified rules which encompass activities covered by more than one (1) article of this act.
WY Stat § 35-11-903 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 9 - Penalties|Section 35-11-903 - Violations of Provisions of Act Causing Damage to Wildlife; Recoveries; Causes of Action.

35-11-903. Violations of provisions of act causing damage to wildlife; recoveries; causes of action.| (a) Any person who violates this act, or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, and thereby causes the death of fish, aquatic life or game or bird life is, in addition to other penalties provided by this act, liable to pay to the state, an additional sum for the reasonable value of the fish, aquatic life, game or bird life destroyed. Any monies so recovered shall be placed in the game and fish fund.  (b) Except as provided in W.S. 35-11-902(o), nothing in this act shall be construed to abridge, limit, impair, create, enlarge or otherwise affect substantively or procedurally the right of any person to damages or other relief on account of injury to persons or property and to maintain any action or other appropriate proceeding therefor.  (c) All actions pursuant to this article, except actions under W.S. 35-11-902(o), shall be brought in the county in which the violation occurred or in Laramie county by the attorney general in the name of the people of Wyoming. All actions pursuant to this article for the enforcement of any program to administer the provisions of W.S. 35-11-301(a)(iii) and (v) pursuant to the authority delegated under W.S. 35-11-304 may also be brought by the county attorney in the county in which the violation occurred.
WY Stat § 35-11-904 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 9 - Penalties|Section 35-11-904 - Civil or Criminal Remedy.

35-11-904. Civil or criminal remedy.| (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, any person having an interest which is or may be adversely affected, may commence a civil action on his own behalf to compel compliance with this act only to the extent that such action could have been brought in federal district court under Section 520 of P.L. 95-87, as that law is worded on August 3, 1977:  (i) Against any governmental entity, for alleged violations of any provisions of this act or of any rule, regulation, order or permit issued pursuant thereto, or against any other person for alleged violations of any rule, regulation, order or permit issued pursuant to this act; or  (ii) Against the state of Wyoming, department of environmental quality, for alleged failure of the department to perform any act or duty under this act which is not discretionary with the department.  (b) Actions against the state of Wyoming, department of environmental quality, pursuant to this section shall be filed in the district court for Laramie county. Actions against any governmental entity, or any other person pursuant to this section shall be filed in the district court for the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred.  (c) No action pursuant to this section may be commenced:  (i) Prior to sixty (60) days after the plaintiff has given notice in writing of the violation and of his intent to commence the civil action to the department and the alleged violator, except that such action may be brought immediately after such notification if the violation complained of constitutes an imminent threat to the health or safety of the plaintiff or would immediately affect a legal interest of the plaintiff; or  (ii) If the department, through the attorney general, has commenced a civil action to require compliance with the provisions of this act, or any rule, regulation, order or permit issued pursuant to this act, but in any such action any person may intervene as a matter of right.  (d) The state of Wyoming, department of environmental quality, may intervene as a matter of right in any action filed pursuant to this section.  (e) The court, in issuing any final order in any action brought pursuant to this section, may award costs of litigation, (including attorney and expert witness fees), to any party whenever the court determines such award is appropriate.  (f) The availability of judicial review established pursuant to W.S. 16-3-114 shall not be construed to limit the operation of rights established in this section.  (g) Nothing in this act shall in any way limit any existing civil or criminal remedy for any wrongful action arising out of a violation of any provision of this act or any rule, regulation, standard, permit, license, or variance or order adopted hereunder.
WY Stat § 35-11-1001 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 10 - Judicial Reviews|Section 35-11-1001 - Judicial Review; Temporary Relief; Conditions.

35-11-1001. Judicial review; temporary relief; conditions.| (a) Any aggrieved party under this act, any person who filed a complaint on which a hearing was denied, and any person who has been denied a variance or permit under this act, may obtain judicial review by filing a petition for review within thirty (30) days after entry of the order or other final action complained of pursuant to the provisions of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.  (b) Any person having a legal interest in the mineral rights or any person or corporation having a producing mine or having made substantial capital expenditures and commitments to mine mineral rights with respect to which the state has prohibited mining operations because the mining operations or proposed mining operations would irreparably harm, destroy or materially impair an area that has been designated to be of a unique and irreplaceable historical, archeological, scenic or natural value, may petition the district court for the district in which the mineral rights are located to determine whether the prohibition so restricts the use of the property as to constitute an unconstitutional taking without compensation. Upon a determination that a taking has occurred the value of the investment in the property or interests condemned shall be ascertained and damages shall be assessed as in other condemnation proceedings.  (c) In a proceeding to review any order or decision of the department providing for regulation of surface coal mining and reclamation operations in accordance with P.L. 95-87, the court may under conditions it prescribes grant temporary relief pending final determination of the review proceedings if:  (i) All parties to the proceedings were notified and given opportunity for hearing on the request for temporary relief;  (ii) The party requesting relief shows there is a substantial likelihood he will prevail on the final determination of the proceeding; and  (iii) The relief will not adversely affect the public health and safety or cause significant environmental harm to land, air or water resources.
WY Stat § 35-11-1002 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 10 - Judicial Reviews|Section 35-11-1002 - Publication of Rules and Regulations.

35-11-1002. Publication of rules and regulations.| Any rule, regulation or standard promulgated under this act shall be published and distributed to members of the legislature and any other interested party.
WY Stat § 35-11-1101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 11 - Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 35-11-1101 - Records Available to the Public; Restrictions.

35-11-1101. Records available to the public; restrictions.| (a) Any records, reports or information obtained under this act or the rules, regulations and standards promulgated hereunder are available to the public. Upon a showing satisfactory to the director by any person that his records, reports or information or particular parts thereof, other than emission and pollution data, to which the director and administrators have access under this act if made public would divulge trade secrets, the director and administrators shall consider the records, reports or information or particular portions thereof confidential in the administration of this act.  (b) Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent disclosure of any records, reports or information to federal, state or local agencies necessary for the purposes of administration of any federal, state or local air, water or land control measures or regulations or when relevant to any proceedings under this act.  (c) In any suit under this section or the Public Records Act, W.S. 16-4-201 et seq., to compel the release of information under this act, the court may assess against the state reasonable attorney fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred in any case in which the complainant has substantially prevailed and in which the court determines the award is appropriate.
WY Stat § 35-11-1102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 11 - Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 35-11-1102 - Hearing Unnecessary Prior to Issuance of Emergency Order.

35-11-1102. Hearing unnecessary prior to issuance of emergency order.| Nothing in this act shall be construed to require a hearing prior to the issuance of an emergency order.
WY Stat § 35-11-1103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 35 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 11 - Environmental Quality|Article 11 - Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 35-11-1103 - Property Exempt From Ad Valorem Taxation.

35-11-1103. Property exempt from ad valorem taxation.| The following property is exempt from ad valorem taxation pursuant to the provisions of this act and includes facilities, installations, machinery or equipment attached or unattached to real property and designed, installed and utilized primarily for the elimination, control or prevention of air, water or land pollution, or in the event such facility, installation, equipment or machinery shall also serve other beneficial purposes and use, such portion of the assessed valuation thereof as may be reasonably calculated to be necessary for and devoted to elimination, control or prevention of air, water and land pollution. The department of revenue shall determine the exempt portion on all property assessed pursuant to W.S. 39-13-102(m). The county assessor shall determine the exempt portion on all property assessed pursuant to W.S. 39-13-103(b). The determination shall not include as exempt any portion of any facilities which have value as the specific source of marketable byproducts.