289.12 Landfill official liability.
SUBCHAPTER III
FACILITIES; SITING
289.21 Initial site report.
289.23 Feasibility report required; distribution; public notice.
289.24 Feasibility report contents; completeness; distribution.
289.25 Environmental review.
289.26 Informational hearing.
289.27 Contested case hearing.
289.28 Determination of need.
289.29 Determination of feasibility.
289.30 Plan of operation.
289.31 Operating license.
289.32 Distribution of documents.
289.33 Solid and hazardous waste facilities; negotiation and arbitration.
289.34 Noncompliance with plans or orders.
289.35 Shoreland and floodplain zoning.
289.36 Acquisition of property by condemnation.
SUBCHAPTER IV
LONG-TERM CARE; FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; OPERATION; WAIVERS; EXEMPTIONS; CLOSURE
289.41 Financial responsibility.
289.42 Operation of facilities.
289.43 Waivers; exemptions.
289.44 Exemption for certain alcohol fuel production systems.
289.445 Exemption for certain fruit and vegetable washing facilities.
289.45 Solid waste storage.
289.46 Transference of responsibility.
SUBCHAPTER V
FACILITIES; REGULATION OF SPECIFIC
FACILITY OR WASTE TYPES
289.51 Solid waste open burning standards.
289.53 Commercial PCB waste storage and treatment facilities.
289.57 Disposal and treatment records.
289.59 Disposal and burning of low-level radioactive waste.
SUBCHAPTER VI
FEES; FUNDS
289.61 License and review fees.
289.63 Groundwater, solid waste capacity and well compensation fees.
289.64 Solid waste facility siting board fee.
289.65 Incinerators; solid waste capacity fee.
289.66 Solid waste capacity fees; department determinations.
289.67 Environmental repair fee and surcharge.
289.68 Payments from the waste management fund and related payments.
SUBCHAPTER VII
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
289.83 Dump closure cost-sharing grants.
SUBCHAPTER VIII
ENFORCEMENT; PENALTIES
289.92 Review of alleged violations.
289.95 Enforcement procedures for older facilities.
289.97 Violations: enforcement.
Ch. 289 Note
NOTE: 1995 Wis. Act 227 renumbered the provisions of chs. 144, 147, 159 and 162, Stats. 1993-94, to be chs. 280-299, Stats. 1995-96. For a table tracing former section numbers see the Addenda & Errata at the end of Volume 5.
DEFINITIONS
289.01
289.01
Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
289.01(1)(a)
(a) A town, city, village or county in which all or a portion of a solid waste disposal facility or a hazardous waste facility is or is proposed to be located; and
289.01(1)(b)
(b) A town, city, village or county whose boundary is within 1,500 feet of that portion of the facility designated by the applicant for the disposal of solid waste or the treatment, storage or disposal of hazardous waste in the feasibility report under
s. 289.23, excluding buffers and similar areas.
289.01(2)
(2) "Air pollution" means the presence in the atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in such quantities and of such duration as is or tends to be injurious to human health or welfare, animal or plant life, or property, or would unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.
289.01(3)
(3) "Approved facility" means a solid or hazardous waste disposal facility with an approved plan of operation under
s. 289.30 or a solid waste disposal facility initially licensed within 3 years prior to May 21, 1978, whose owner successfully applies, within 2 years after May 21, 1978, for a determination by the department that the facility's design and plan of operation comply substantially with the requirements necessary for plan approval under
s. 289.30.
289.01(4)
(4) "Approved mining facility" means an approved facility which is part of a mining site, as defined under
s. 293.01 (12), used for the disposal of waste resulting from mining, as defined under
s. 293.01 (9), or prospecting, as defined under
s. 293.01 (18).
289.01(5)
(5) "Closing" means the time at which a solid or hazardous waste facility ceases to accept wastes, and includes those actions taken by the owner or operator to prepare the facility for long-term care and to make it suitable for other uses.
289.01(7)
(7) "Department" means the department of natural resources.
289.01(8)
(8) "Environmental pollution" means the contaminating or rendering unclean or impure the air, land or waters of the state, or making the same injurious to public health, harmful for commercial or recreational use, or deleterious to fish, bird, animal or plant life.
289.01(9)
(9) "Garbage" means discarded materials resulting from the handling, processing, storage and consumption of food.
289.01(10)
(10) "Hazardous constituent" means any constituent designated by the department under
s. 291.05 (4).
289.01(11)
(11) "Hazardous substance" means any substance or combination of substances including any waste of a solid, semisolid, liquid or gaseous form which may cause or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness or which may pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics. This term includes, but is not limited to, substances which are toxic, corrosive, flammable, irritants, strong sensitizers or explosives as determined by the department.
289.01(12)
(12) "Hazardous waste" means any solid waste identified by the department as hazardous under
s. 291.05 (2).
289.01(13)
(13) "Hazardous waste disposal" has the meaning specified for disposal under
s. 291.01 (3).
289.01(16)
(16) "Hazardous waste treatment" has the meaning specified for treatment under
s. 291.01 (21).
289.01(17)
(17) "High-volume industrial waste" means fly ash, bottom ash, paper mill sludge or foundry process waste.
289.01(18)
(18) "Informational hearing" means a hearing conducted under
s. 227.18.
289.01(20)
(20) "Landfill" means a solid waste facility for solid waste disposal.
289.01(21)
(21) "Long-term care" means the routine care, maintenance and monitoring of a solid or hazardous waste facility following closing of the facility.
289.01(22)
(22) "Municipal waste landfill" means a solid waste disposal facility that is not one of the following:
289.01(22)(a)
(a) A solid waste disposal facility designed exclusively for the disposal of waste generated by a pulp mill, paper mill, foundry, prospecting or mining operation, electric or process steam generating facility or demolition activity.