California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 7 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery › Chapter 12 - Short-Lived Climate Pollutants › Article 2 - Landfill Disposal and Reductions in Landfill Disposal › Section 18983.2 - Determination of Technologies that Constitute a Reduction in Landfill Disposal

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For operations, facilities or activities
				  not expressly identified in Section
				  18983.1, as reducing landfill
				  disposal, the following process shall be used to determine if processes or
				  technologies shall be deemed to constitute a reduction of landfill disposal:
(1) The applicant shall submit the following
				  information to the Department:
(A) Name and
				  contact information for the person responsible for the information in the
				  report.
(B) Detailed explanation of
				  each of the processes or technologies proposed by the applicant for use to
				  reduce landfill disposal.
(C) For
				  each process or technology noted in Section
				  18983.2(a)(1)(B),
				  the mass in short tons of organic waste, differentiated by type (i.e., food,
				  leaves and grass, woody material (not including lumber or agricultural crop
				  residues), lumber, agricultural crop residues, manure, sewage sludge (not
				  including digestate), digestate, organic textiles and carpet, paper products,
				  and remainder/composite organic), that will be processed each year.
(D) For any material produced from the
				  proposed process or technology, a description of each end use or landfill
				  disposal location to which the material will be sent. For each end use or
				  landfill disposal location, the applicant must submit the expected mass in
				  short tons and characteristics of the material.
(E) For each of the processes or technologies
				  described pursuant to Section
				  18983.2(a)(1)(B),
				  each calculation, assumption, and emission factor used by the applicant to
				  calculate the greenhouse gas emissions as well as the expected permanent
				  greenhouse gas emissions reduction of the proposed operation, including the
				  estimated greenhouse gas emissions and permanent greenhouse gas emissions
				  reductions of any end uses or landfill disposal of material described in
				  Section 18983.2(a)(1)(D).
				  All calculations must be clearly laid out such that the Department is able to
				  follow and understand the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions reduction
				  potential.
(F) For each greenhouse
				  gas emission factor or greenhouse gas emission reduction factor used pursuant
				  to Section
				  18983.2(a)(1)(E),
				  documentation demonstrating that the emission factor or emission reduction
				  factor has been peer reviewed or subjected to other scientifically rigorous
				  review methods.
(G) A detailed
				  explanation of how the proposed technology or process will result in a
				  permanent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
(H) A written attestation that the
				  information supplied is true, accurate, and complete.
(I) The director of the Department may
				  request additional information from the applicant if required to validate the
				  information submitted pursuant to this section.