§ 8-6-707 - Creation of new regional districts. - Arkansas Statutes

8-6-707. Creation of new regional districts.

(a) (1) (A) After notification of the appropriate regional board or boards, the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission may designate a county or counties within each district or counties within two (2) or more districts as a new regional solid waste management district pursuant to the limitations of this section.

(B) New regional solid waste management districts shall be designated for purposes which address local exigencies, needs, and other requirements of this subchapter.

(C) A regional solid waste management district shall only be composed of whole county jurisdictions, and each district shall contain more than one (1) county unless that county has a population of at least fifty thousand (50,000) according to the latest decennial census.

(2) Commission approval of regional solid waste management district boundaries shall be sought and obtained pursuant to administrative procedures promulgated by the commission.

(b) (1) Counties and municipalities included in a new or revised district shall cease to be members of any other district.

(2) The term of a regional board member representing a county or municipality shall immediately expire upon the inclusion of the county or municipality within a new regional solid waste management district.

(c) After notification of the appropriate regional boards, the commission, upon the request of a county or district, may transfer a county into an existing district.