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KITTITAS COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />ORDINANCE 1999 <br />SOLID WASTE REGULATIONS <br />KCHD ORDINANCE 1999 1 SOLID WASTE REGULATIONS <br />SECTION I. AUTHORITY AND PURPOSE <br />These solid waste rules and regulations are promulgated under the authority of Chapters 70.05 and 70.95 revised <br />Code of Washington to protect the public peace, health, safety and welfare of the citizens and environment of <br />Kittitas County. All regulations pertinent to solid waste are listed and hereby adopted as noted in Appendix A. <br />These rules and regulations govern the handling, storage, collection, transportation, treatment, utilization, <br />processing and final disposal of all solid waste within Kittitas County, including the issuance of permits and <br />enforcement. Kittitas County has developed a Solid Waste Management Plan, Moderate Risk Waste Plan, and <br />Used Oil Amendment that provides framework to address solid waste issues. All provisions shall be liberally <br />construed for the accomplishment of these purposes. <br />It is expressly the purpose of these rules, regulations, and plans to provide for and promote the health of the <br />general public, and not to create or otherwise establish or designate any particular class or group of persons who <br />will or should be especially protected or benefited by the terms of these rules and regulations. <br />It is the specific intent of these rules, regulations, and plans to place the obligation of complying with its <br />requirements upon waste generators, haulers, and/or operators of disposal sites, and no provision of, nor term <br />used in these rules and regulations is intended to impose any duty whatsoever upon the Health Department nor <br />any of its officers or employees, for whom the implementation or enforcement of these rules and regulations <br />shall be discretionary and not mandatory. <br />Nothing contained in these rules, regulations and plans is intended to be, nor shall be construed to create or form <br />the basis for any liability on the part of the Health Department or its officers, employees or agents, for any <br />injury or damage resulting from the failure of any person subject to these rules and regulations to comply with <br />these rules and regulations, or by reason or in consequence of any act or omission in connection with the <br />implementation or enforcement of these rules and regulations on the part of the Health Department. <br />SECTION II. APPLICABILITY <br />These regulations apply to solid waste and hazardous substances as those terms are defined in Section III of <br />these regulations. These regulations shall not apply to the following solid wastes: <br />A. Overburden from mining operations intended for return to the mine; <br />B. Liquid wastes whose discharge or potential discharge is regulated under federal, state or local water <br />pollution permits; <br />C. Woodwaste used for ornamental, animal bedding, mulch and plant bedding or road building purposes; <br />D. Agricultural wastes, limited to manures and crop residues, returned to the soils at rates which do not exceed <br />agronomic rates; <br />E. Clean soils and clean dredge spoils as defined in Section III of these regulations or as otherwise regulated <br />by Section 404 of the Federal Clean Water Act (PL 95-217); <br />F. Septage taken to a sewage treatment plant permitted under Chapter 90.48 RCW; <br />G. Radioactive wastes, defined by Chapters 246-220 and 246-232 WAC; and