California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 7 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery › Chapter 9 - Planning Guidelines and Procedures for Preparing and Revising Countywide Integrated Waste Management Plans › Article 6.1 - Solid Waste Generation Studies › Section 18722 - Solid Waste Generation Studies-General Requirements

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Relation to Waste Characterization
				  Component. For the purposes of this Chapter, a solid waste generation study
				  constitutes the waste characterization component of the SRR Element required by
				  sections
				  41003,
				  41030,
				  41303
				  and
				  41330
				  of the Public Resources Code.
Each jurisdiction shall prepare an initial solid waste
					 generation study and all subsequent solid waste generation studies in
					 accordance with the requirements of this Article. Additional specific
					 requirements and guidelines for the initial solid waste generation study are
					 defined in Section
					 18724 of this
					 Article.
(b) Regional and
				  Joint Solid Waste Generation Studies.
Solid waste generation studies may be conducted by an
					 individual jurisdiction for solid waste generated within that jurisdiction, or
					 jointly by two or more jurisdictions for the solid waste generated within the
					 participating jurisdictions.
(c) Solid Waste Generation Data Projections.
				  All solid waste generation studies shall include a 15-year projection of the
				  solid waste to be generated within the jurisdiction, and diverted and disposed
				  by the jurisdiction. The projected time period shall commence from the date of
				  the local adoption of a SRR Element. The projection is to include the amounts,
				  waste categories and waste types generated, diverted from disposal, and
				  disposed, for each year of the 15-year period, under (1) the solid waste
				  management system conditions and diversion activities existing at the time that
				  the Solid Waste Generation study is prepared, and under (2) the solid waste
				  management system conditions expected to be realized after a jurisdiction's
				  implementation of its SRR Element and its attainment of the statutory diversion
				  mandates.
(1) Acceptable information sources
				  which may be used by the jurisdiction to determine and project changes in
				  population, or in governmental, residential, industrial, and commercial
				  operations, shall be the following:
(A)
				  documented population data available from the California Department of
				  Finance;
(B) documented employment
				  data available from the California State Employment Development
				  Department;
(C) documented
				  industrial and commercial operations data available from the California
				  Department of Commerce or from the California State Employment Development
				  Department;
(D) documented data
				  available in a local jurisdiction's adopted current General Plan;
(E) documented data available from published
				  reports of local associations of governments and chambers of
				  commerce;
(F) documented data
				  available from the U.S. Census Bureau;
(G) documented jurisdiction-specific
				  demographic, economic, and solid waste data developed and published by a
				  jurisdiction in the course of the preparation of its solid waste generation
				  study.