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TN Code § 68-211-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 1 - Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act|§ 68-211-119. Baled Waste — Disposal in Landfills With Permits — Exceptions

  Baled waste may only be disposed of in a landfill that has received a permit pursuant to § 68-212-108, unless:  The waste was baled at a location subject to inspection by the commissioner in accordance with a permit issued pursuant to regulations adopted by the board, specifying terms and conditions required for the issuance of all such permits, and the operator of the baling facility certifies on a form supplied by the commissioner that:  The waste was visually inspected before baling;   All waste which could not visually be determined to be of a type that may lawfully be accepted at the disposal or processing facility to which the waste will be transported was either:   Sampled in accordance with a plan approved by the commissioner and determined to be lawfully acceptable under the destined facility's permit, this part and rules promulgated pursuant to this part; or   Returned to the transporter as unacceptable;     The baling facility, by processing such waste, did not violate this part; and   The waste was properly manifested; or     Such bales are verified to contain only waste of the type that the receiving landfill is permitted to receive. If the waste is not baled in accordance with a permit issued pursuant to this part, such verification shall be made by the permittee of the receiving landfill on a form supplied by the commissioner and shall contain at least the following certifications:  The department was orally notified by the permittee of the receiving landfill of the intended disposal of baled waste at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to the landfill's receipt of such waste, so that the commissioner has an opportunity to inspect or supervise inspection of the waste by the permittee so as to comply with subdivisions (a)(2)(B) and (C);   Each bale was physically opened, visually inspected and rebaled;   All waste which could not visually be determined to be of a type which the facility is permitted to receive was either:   Sampled in accordance with a plan approved by the commissioner and determined to be acceptable under the facility's permit and rules promulgated pursuant to this part; or   Returned to the transporter as unacceptable;     The landfill, by accepting such waste, did not violate this part; and   The waste was properly manifested.       The certifications required by subdivision (a)(1) shall be submitted to the department within thirty (30) days after the waste is baled. The certifications required by subdivision (a)(2) shall be submitted to the department within thirty (30) days after the disposal of the baled waste.
TN Code § 68-211-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 1 - Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act|§ 68-211-120. Manifest

  Persons who transport, treat, store and/or dispose of baled waste, except for those who bale waste at the site of disposal, shall utilize a manifest for such waste that contains all the following information:  Names and addresses of the transporter;   Name and address of the facility at which the waste was baled;   A description of the waste;   The name and address of the destination of the waste; and   Such other information specified in regulations promulgated by the board.     The manifest required by this section shall at all times accompany baled waste while it is in transit and shall be maintained at any facility that treats or disposes of such waste for a period of at least thirty (30) years.
TN Code § 68-211-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 1 - Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act|§ 68-211-121. Landfills and Processing Facilities — Inspection of Waste

 To ensure that landfills and processing facilities receive only lawfully acceptable waste, the operator of each facility shall inspect waste received at the facility in accordance with a plan approved by the commissioner. Such plan shall provide for a level of inspection that is equivalent to that which is required for baled waste in § 68-211-119.
TN Code § 68-211-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 1 - Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act|§ 68-211-122. Approval for Establishment of Landfill Through Eminent Domain

 Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality may exercise the power of eminent domain to establish a landfill for solid waste disposal outside its corporate boundaries only if the governing body of the area in which the landfill is to be located approves such action by a majority vote at two (2) consecutive, regularly scheduled meetings.
TN Code § 68-211-123 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 1 - Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act|§ 68-211-123. No Permits by Rule for Certain Sites for Sewage Sludge Composting

 The department of environment and conservation shall not issue a permit by rule for sewage sludge composting for a site that is greater than one (1) acre in size.
TN Code § 68-211-124 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 1 - Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act|§ 68-211-124. Use of Treated Ash Aggregate as a Building Material

  The department may issue permits authorizing the use of treated ash aggregate as a building material in construction or site preparation applications in commercial and industrial settings.   “Treated ash aggregate” as used in this section means bottom ash or fly ash resulting from incineration of municipal solid waste as defined in § 68-211-802 that has been treated to assure that it is not a hazardous waste as defined in § 68-212-104, and rules thereunder.
TN Code § 68-211-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 2 - Mercury Product Disposal Control Act|§ 68-211-201. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Mercury Product Disposal Control Act.”
TN Code § 68-211-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 2 - Mercury Product Disposal Control Act|§ 68-211-202. Purpose

 The general assembly finds and declares that:   Mercury is a persistent and toxic pollutant that bioaccumulates in the environment;   According to recent studies, mercury deposition is a significant problem in the southeast; and   The removal of mercury-containing products from solid wastes that are collected and disposed of in landfills or through incineration is a means of reducing the deposition of mercury into the environment and mercury's threat to public health and the environment.
TN Code § 68-211-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 2 - Mercury Product Disposal Control Act|§ 68-211-204. Duties of Covered Generator

  On or after January 1, 2011:  No covered generator shall dispose of a mercury-added consumer product as non-hazardous solid waste under Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-1-7; and   A covered generator shall ensure that its discarded mercury-added consumer products are:  Shipped for recycling, treatment, or disposal to either a universal waste destination facility or a hazardous waste management facility that has been permitted to manage such materials by the federal environmental protection agency (EPA) pursuant to the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., by a state program that has been authorized by the EPA to implement the pertinent portions of RCRA in the state, or by a foreign government; and   Managed prior to receipt at such universal waste destination facility or hazardous waste management facility in accordance with, as applicable, either:   The hazardous waste management requirements of Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0400-12-01-.03  — 0400-12-01-.07; or   The universal waste management requirements of Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0400-12-01-.11.         Any person who separates and collects from a municipal solid waste stream either mercury-added consumer products from generators that are not covered generators, or mercury-containing excluded products shall be subject to the same requirements as covered generators as provided in subsection (a).
TN Code § 68-211-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 2 - Mercury Product Disposal Control Act|§ 68-211-205. Development and Publication of Educational Materials

 The department may develop and publish educational materials on the requirements of this part relative to discarded mercury-added consumer products and the effects of improper mercury disposal. For purposes of this section, publication shall include, but is not limited to, prominently posting the content of such materials on the department's web site.
TN Code § 68-211-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 2 - Mercury Product Disposal Control Act|§ 68-211-206. Inspections of Structures — Printing of Forms

  When making an inspection of any structure pursuant to § 62-3-128, § 62-4-127, this title or title 69, the inspector shall make the following inquiry to the owner of the structure, or, if the owner is not present at the time of an inspection, any other person with the authority to exercise control over the structure who is present at such structure at the time of the inspection:  Are you aware that, if any of the following criteria apply to your business and your business utilizes mercury-added consumer products, such as fluorescent light bulbs, the Mercury Product Control Act applies to your business:   Employs ten (10) or more employees;   Owns or maintains a building of at least three thousand square feet (3,000 sq. ft.), excluding private residences;   Owns or maintains one (1) or more electrical distribution systems;   Engages in the demolition of buildings, excluding private residences; or   Owns or operates a tanning bed salon?  The Mercury Product Control Act requires proper recycling of mercury-added consumer products rather than disposing of such products in the solid waste stream. Do you have a plan for recycling mercury-added consumer products?      Any governmental entity or contractor that is required to update a form, whether in paper or electronic format, or both, in order to add the question required by subsection (a), shall only do so upon the occasion of the next regularly scheduled printing of such form or software update of a web site, which immediately follows April 30, 2010.
TN Code § 68-211-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 2 - Mercury Product Disposal Control Act|§ 68-211-207. Establishment and Maintenance of Link on the Department of Revenue's Web Site

 The department of revenue shall establish and maintain a link on the department of revenue's web site to information concerning the Mercury Product Disposal Control Act. The link shall appear on a prominent page on the department of revenue's web site in a location that the department of revenue determines is likely to direct taxpayers to such information. The department shall provide information to the department of revenue that is necessary to establish and maintain the link, including any necessary updates.
TN Code § 68-211-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 3 - Tire Environmental Act|§ 68-211-301. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tire Environmental Act”.
TN Code § 68-211-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 3 - Tire Environmental Act|§ 68-211-302. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Fee” means the tire environmental fee created by this part;   “Fund” means the tire environmental fund created by this part;   “Motor vehicle” means any vehicle that is self-propelled and designed to be used on public highways; and   “Tire” means a continuous solid or pneumatic rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle.
TN Code § 68-211-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 3 - Tire Environmental Act|§ 68-211-303. Tire Environmental Fee

  There is imposed on each purchase of a new motor vehicle to be titled and registered in this state a tire environmental fee as follows:  Five dollars ($5.00) for a motor vehicle with four (4) or fewer wheels;   Ten dollars ($10.00) for a motor vehicle with more than four (4) but fewer than eleven (11) wheels; and   Fifteen dollars ($15.00) for a motor vehicle with eleven (11) or more wheels.     The fee imposed by this section shall be collected by the seller from the purchaser at the time of purchase.   Fees collected shall be remitted to the department of revenue in a manner prescribed by the commissioner. All fees collected, less an amount to cover the actual expenses of administration by the department, shall be credited to the tire environmental fund.   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, fees imposed by this section shall be exempt from sales and use tax and business tax liability regardless of whether the fee is included in the purchase price of a new motor vehicle or is paid separately at the time of purchase.
TN Code § 68-211-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 3 - Tire Environmental Act|§ 68-211-304. Tire Environmental Fund

  There is created a special account in the state treasury to be known as the tire environmental fund.   Moneys shall be deposited in the fund as provided in § 68-211-303(c).   Moneys in the fund shall be used exclusively by the department of environment and conservation in accordance with § 68-211-305.   Moneys in the fund may be invested by the state treasurer in accordance with § 9-4-602.   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, interest accruing on investments and deposits of the fund shall be credited to such fund, shall not revert to the general fund, and shall be carried forward into the subsequent fiscal year.   Any balance in the fund remaining unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund but shall be carried forward into the subsequent fiscal year.
TN Code § 68-211-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 3 - Tire Environmental Act|§ 68-211-305. Tire Environmental Program — Program Expenditures

  The department of environment and conservation shall administer a tire environmental program with moneys available from the fund as appropriated by the general assembly.   The program expenditures may include:  Grants to develop and implement programs to provide direct incentives to local governments, for-profit entities, and nonprofit entities to enhance collection, transportation, and processing related to further encourage Tennessee end-markets for waste tires;   Grants, subsidies, or loans to encourage research, technologies, or processes for waste tire management, the use of tires as alternative fuels, or the use of tires in innovative infrastructure developments;   Creation of a database and operation of an interactive information clearinghouse;   Expenses of administering the tire environmental program; and   Market development services.     Program expenditures shall be reported to the office of legislative budget analysis and the chair of the transportation and safety committee of the senate, chair of the transportation committee of the house of representatives, and the chairs of the finance, ways and means committees of the senate and house of representatives on an annual basis.
TN Code § 68-211-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 4 - Gasification and Pyrolysis|§ 68-211-401. Part Definitions

  For the purposes of this part, unless the context otherwise requires:  “Gasification” means a process through which recoverable feedstocks are heated and converted into a fuel-gas mixture in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere and the mixture is converted into valuable raw, intermediate, and final products, including, but not limited to, monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstocks, home heating oil, and other fuels including ethanol and transportation fuel;   “Gasification facility” means a manufacturing facility that is engaged solely in the storage and gasification of recoverable feedstocks for resale or reuse and that complies with statutes and rules applicable to recovered materials processing facilities;   “Post-use polymer” means a plastic polymer that:  Is derived from any community, domestic, institutional, industrial, commercial, or other source of operations or activities and may contain incidental contaminants or impurities such as paper labels or metal rings but is not mixed with solid waste, medical waste, hazardous waste, e-waste, tires, or construction demolition debris; and   Has been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for gasification by a gasification facility or pyrolysis by a pyrolysis facility;     “Pyrolysis” means a process through which post-use polymers are heated in the absence of oxygen until melted and thermally decomposed, and then cooled, condensed, and converted into valuable raw, intermediate, and final products, including, but not limited to, monomers, chemicals, waxes, lubricants, chemical feedstocks, crude oil, diesel, gasoline, diesel and gasoline blendstocks, home heating oil, and other fuels including ethanol and transportation fuel;   “Pyrolysis facility” means a manufacturing facility that is engaged solely in the storage and pyrolysis of post-use polymers for resale or reuse and that complies with statutes and rules applicable to recovered materials processing facilities; and   “Recoverable feedstock” means:  Post-use polymers; and   A fuel or feedstock for which the environmental protection agency has made a non-waste determination pursuant to 40 CFR 241.3(c) when it is used in gasification by a gasification facility and is not discarded or used in a manner constituting disposal.       Unless the context requires otherwise or this section defines a term differently, the definitions set forth in §§ 68-211-103 and 68-211-802 and in any rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter, apply to terms used in this part.
TN Code § 68-211-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 4 - Gasification and Pyrolysis|§ 68-211-402. Gasification Facilities or Pyrolysis Facilities Not Solid Waste Processing Facilities or Incinerators

  The following facilities are not solid waste processing facilities or incinerators:  Gasification facilities; and   Pyrolysis facilities.     The following materials are not solid waste:  Post-use polymers; and   Recoverable feedstocks.     This part does not affect the application of any other chapter in this title or in title 69 to gasification facilities or pyrolysis facilities.
TN Code § 68-211-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 5 - Municipal Resource and Energy Recovery Facilities|§ 68-211-501. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Construction” means the erection, building, acquisition, alteration, reconstruction, improvement, or extension of energy recovery and/or energy recovery facilities, the engineering, architectural designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other action necessary in the construction of such facilities, and the inspection and supervision of the construction of such facilities;   “Energy recovery facility” means a facility for the recovery of energy or energy producing materials from the controlled processing of solid waste and the production of energy from such solid waste and other materials, including coal, for a heating and cooling system and/or for the production of electricity and process steam;   “Municipal corporation” or “municipality” means any county, incorporated town or city, metropolitan government, or special district of this state, empowered to provide solid waste disposal services, or any not-for-profit corporation authorized by the laws of Tennessee to act for the benefit or on behalf of any one (1) or more of such local governments; provided, that the jurisdiction, control and management of any facility as authorized herein may be delegated by the municipality to any of its appropriate agencies or divisions;   “Resource recovery facility” means a facility for the systematic separation and recovery of recyclable materials from solid waste and a processing of solid waste, sewage sludge, and other solids for fuel mixtures or fuel supplements; and   “Solid waste” means garbage, refuse, including, without limitations, recyclable materials when they become discarded, and other discarded solid waste materials, including waste materials of a solid nature resulting from industrial, commercial, and agricultural operations, and from community activities.
TN Code § 68-211-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 5 - Municipal Resource and Energy Recovery Facilities|§ 68-211-502. Powers of Municipality

 A municipality has the power to construct, purchase, improve, operate and maintain within its corporate limits, or within the limits of the county wherein it is located, an energy recovery facility or facilities and/or resource recovery facility or facilities for the production of energy from the energy recovery facility for heating or cooling, and/or the production of electricity or process steam and/or the production of fuel mixtures or fuel supplements and recovery of recyclable materials from solid waste and the sale of the fuel supplements, and recyclable materials. The construction of the facility shall include all necessary land, rights-of-way, easements, buildings and all other appurtenances usual to such plants, as well as the building of all necessary means of transportation, including pipelines for energy or fuel supplements, including obtaining all necessary rights of way or easements necessary thereto.
TN Code § 68-211-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 211 - Solid Waste Disposal|Part 5 - Municipal Resource and Energy Recovery Facilities|§ 68-211-503. Rates Charged by Municipality — Right to Enter Into Agreements

 The municipality, for the production of any energy, shall charge the usual rates for such heating or cooling and may combine it with any other energy source produced. The municipality shall also have the right to enter into any agreements necessary for the sale of recyclable materials and sale of fuel mixtures and supplements including the right to pledge the revenue from the sale of such energy to pay bonds or loans issued under any bond legislation or any other state legislation permitting energy recovery facilities and resource recovery facilities.