§ 23-19.7-2. Legislative findings, policy, and intent.
The general assembly recognizes and declares that the people of the state desire to promote high standards of human health and a clean and wholesome environment; that industries within the state generate hazardous wastes in the course of their operations and have difficulty in obtaining appropriate hazardous waste management services at reasonable costs; that a shortage of environmentally acceptable and reasonably available hazardous waste management facilities threatens to undermine the high standards of human health, the clean and wholesome environment, and the continued economic growth which the people of the state desire to promote; that the technology and management practices presently exists to manage hazardous wastes without unacceptable risk to public health or the environment; and that it is necessary that a hazardous waste management facility siting process be established which protects the interests of all the state’s citizens.
History of Section.P.L. 1982, ch. 197, § 1.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 23-19.7 - Hazardous Waste Management Facilities
Section 23-19.7-1. - Short title.
Section 23-19.7-2. - Legislative findings, policy, and intent.
Section 23-19.7-3. - Definitions.
Section 23-19.7-5. - Siting and impact agreement required — Exceptions.
Section 23-19.7-6. - Local assessment committees — Constitution, powers, and duties.
Section 23-19.7-7. - Developer to compensate host community for reasonable costs.
Section 23-19.7-8. - Siting agreements.
Section 23-19.7-9. - Impact agreements.
Section 23-19.7-10. - Siting and impact agreements — Arbitration — Appeals.
Section 23-19.7-11. - Provisions of Hazardous Waste Management Act applicable.
Section 23-19.7-12. - Public access to records.
Section 23-19.7-13. - Relation of compensation under siting and impact agreements to state aid.