General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 21D Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Act
- Massachusetts General Laws - Short title - Chapter 21D, Section 1
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Facility Siting Act”.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 21D, Section 2
Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, when used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: “Abutting community”, a city...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties - Chapter 21D, Section 3
The department of environmental protection shall have the following powers and duties: (1) to prepare and issue annually a statewide environmental impact report, after first...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec. 16 - Chapter 21D, Section 4
Repealed, 1996, 58, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Local assessment committee - Chapter 21D, Section 5
Not more than thirty days after the receipt of a notice of intent to construct, maintain and operate a hazardous waste facility on a site...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Information or records confidential - Chapter 21D, Section 6
Notwithstanding the provisions of any law to the contrary, any information, record, or particular part thereof, obtained by the department pursuant to the provisions of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of intent to construct, maintain and operate facility - Chapter 21D, Section 7
Every developer proposing to construct, maintain and operate a hazardous waste facility shall submit a notice of intent to the council, the department, the department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Briefing sessions - Chapter 21D, Section 8
The department shall conduct briefing sessions for the purposes of insuring the participation of interested persons in the hazardous waste facility siting process pursuant to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Review of proposals; suggestions for sites - Chapter 21D, Section 9
If the developer suggests a site in his notice of intent and indicates therein his unwillingness to accept suggestions for alternative sites, the council shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preliminary project impact report - Chapter 21D, Section 10
The developer shall prepare a preliminary project impact report to be submitted to the secretary and to the council for each site under consideration. Said...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Technical assistance grants - Chapter 21D, Section 11
The local assessment committee of a host community and the chief executive officers of abutting communities may request technical assistance grants from the council. If...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Siting agreements; contents - Chapter 21D, Section 12
No facility shall be constructed, maintained or operated unless a siting agreement shall have been established by the developer and the local assessment committee of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Siting agreements; negotiations - Chapter 21D, Section 13
A siting agreement may be established by the signature of the chief executive officer of a host community who has been directed by a majority...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for compensation; hearing; arbitration panel - Chapter 21D, Section 14
The chief executive officer of any abutting community may, within sixty days of the determination by the secretary and the council that a preliminary project...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Impasse in negotiations; final arbitration procedures - Chapter 21D, Section 15
If sixty days after the secretary and the council determine that the preliminary project impact report is in compliance with applicable law, the department, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licenses and permits; time for granting or denial - Chapter 21D, Section 16
No license or permit granted by a city or town shall be required for a hazardous waste facility which was not required on or before...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition for and exercise of eminent domain authority; leases - Chapter 21D, Section 17
If all permits and licenses required by law have been issued to the developer and a siting agreement has been established pursuant to sections twelve...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter - Chapter 21D, Section 18
This chapter shall not apply to any hazardous waste facility exempt from the licensing requirements of chapter twenty-one C which was lawfully organized and in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Application of chapter to increase of capacity - Chapter 21D, Section 19
Notwithstanding the first paragraph of section eighteen, chapter twenty-one D shall apply to the increase of capacity to store, treat, or dispose of any particular...
Last modified: September 11, 2015