1. Keith Bentley Land Protection Branch Chief 1 Georgia EPD Update Land Protection Branch Air and Waste Management Association Annual Meeting April 2013

2. Georgia Statistics 29,000 Underground storage tanks 7,100+ Scrap tire generators 4,000+ Hazardous waste generators 78 RCRA TSD facilities 2,000+ Asbestos projects/year 2,000+ Landfills – 2,000+ inert waste – 380 closed landfills – 189 solid waste facilities 824 Active surface mining permits 558 Sites on Hazardous Site Inventory 440 Brownfields applications processed (258 LOLs issued) 300+ Active hazardous site remediation projects 1,400+ Active UST cleanups 290 Identified scrap tire piles 63 VRP applications received, 52 approved, 3 remediated and delisted from HSI 11 NPL sites 2

3. Organization 3 Keith Bentley, Branch Chief Melanie Henry, Program Manager, Solid Waste MSW Landfills Industrial Landfills Surface Mining Waste Reduction & Scrap Tires Lon Revall, Program Manager, UST Inspections & Enforcement Private Party Cleanups EPD Managed Cleanups Jim Brown, Program Manager, HW Corrective Action RCRA Remediation NPL Sites Risk Assessment Jan Simmons, Program Manager, HW Management RCRA Permitted Facilities HW Generators DOD Facilities Lead & Asbestos Derrick Williams, Program Manager, Response & Remediation HSRA Remediation VRP Brownfields Jeff Cown, Assistant Branch Chief Deborah Moore, Administrative Assistant

4. Budget Trends and Impacts LPB is funded from ~20 sources (federal and state) Since 2008 staff has been reduced by ~20% Funding has been reduced by 35% Most reductions have been from state-based funding Seeing reductions in federal funding as well Spending on orphan site cleanups (scrap tires, HSI sites, landfills) has been minimal recently Continue with inspections and enforcement to prevent problems from getting worse 4

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6. Initiatives General theme: How to get job done with declining resources? Expedited permitting for borrow pits – So far so good IT projects – Online permit tracking – Unified Facility Registration System – Online fee payments VRP/HSRA work process improvements 6

7. Legislation: Hazardous Waste Trust Fund Hazardous Waste Trust Fund reauthorized through July 2018 Funded through fees (landfill tipping, hazardous waste generators, hazardous waste disposal) Funds staff to run HSRA and VRP programs Funds orphaned site cleanups Funds emergency response 7

8. Legislation: Scrap Tires Legislation targets dumping of scrap tires Regulates used tire carriers to close loophole Requires decal for all used/scrap tire carriers Allows enforcement by police and local code enforcement officers New rulemaking required; probably this fall 8

9. Legislation: Inert Waste Landfills Inert waste landfills were subject to permit by rule Reached unmanageable numbers and non- compliance rates were high New rules final January 2013 – Requires permit, methane control and financial assurance Legislature passed law exempting facilities that can certify compliance with PBR requirements New rulemaking will be required 9

10. Regulation: Composting Composting industry evolved and existing rules were inadequate to address variety of applications Food residuals of 800,000 tons per year could be diverted from MSWs Composting capacity < 10% of that needed Engaged stakeholder group to determine what was needed Draft regulations developed with tiered requirements based on feedstock and technology Proposed rule out for comment in May? 10

11. Georgia Underground Storage Tank (GUST) Fees – Fund cleanups for leaking USTs Voluntary program – Participants are smaller operators Market forces reducing fees collected Ability to fund cleanups threatened Rule raising fees proposed in February (short-term fix) Strategy for long-term stability TBD 11 Regulation: GUST Fees

12. 12 Solid Waste Handling Permits

13. 13 Hazardous Site Inventory

14. 14 Brownfields

15. 15 Questions? Keith Bentley, EPD Land Protection Branch Chief