§ 50-52. County approval required; exceptions.

No site approval for the development or construction of a new pollution control facility or expansion of an existing pollution control facility in the county may be granted by the county board unless an application is filed for approval of such a site and is submitted for consideration to the county board. An application for site approval need not be submitted if:

(1)

The proposal is completely within the boundaries of a municipality.

(2)

The proposal will be a storage site for certain PCB-containing materials regulated by federal regulations 40 CFR 761.42.

(3)

The proposal is a site or facility used by any person conducting a waste storage, waste treatment, waste disposal, waste transfer or waste incineration operation, or a combination thereof, for wastes generated by such person's own activities, when such wastes are stored, treated, disposed of, transferred or incinerated within the site or facility owned, controlled or operated by such person, or when such wastes are transported within or between sites or facilities owned, controlled or operated by such person.

(4)

The proposal is a site or facility at which the state is performing removal or remedial action pursuant to section 22.2 of the act (415 ILCS 5/22-2).

(5)

The proposal is a transfer station used exclusively for landscape waste, where landscape waste is held no longer than 24 hours from the time it was received.

(Code 1979, § 17-27; Ord. 2007-12, 9-19-07)