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Final Cost-Benefit and Least-Burdensome Alternative Analyses: Chapter 173-351 WAC, Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (Historical)

 
Publication number Date Published
15-07-033October 2015
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Author(s) Patora, Kasia
Description This report presents the economic analyses performed by the Washington State Department of Ecology (“Ecology”) to estimate the costs and benefits of adopted amendments to the Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills rule (chapter 173-351 WAC; “the rule”). These analyses – the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) and Least-Burdensome Alternative Analysis (LBA) – are based on the best available information at the time of publication.
The adopted rule amendment adds two chemicals to the Appendix III list in WAC 173-351-990. These chemicals are 2,3,7,8 TCDD (2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, CAS 1746-01-6) and Phentermine (alpha,alpha-Dimethylphenethylamine, CAS 122-09-8). No other changes are part of this adoption. When a municipal solid waste landfill finds a statistically significant increase in a contaminant listed in Appendix I of WAC 173-351-990, during routine detection monitoring, the landfill must then perform additional assessment monitoring for the expanded list of potential pollutants in Appendix III.
We conclude, based on reasonable understanding of the quantified and qualitative costs and benefits likely to arise from the adopted rule, that the benefits of the adopted rule amendments are greater than the costs.
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Keywords rule amendments, Municipal Solid Waste Landfill, cost benefit analyses
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