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Senate advances anti-flow-control bill limiting municipal direction of solid-waste disposal
Summary
First substitute Senate Bill 46, sponsored by Senator Eastman, bars public entities from requiring solid waste be routed to a specified facility except where no other facility exists locally; the Senate voted to advance the bill to third reading after debate about local impacts and a limited grandfathering arrangement.
Senator Eastman on the floor described first substitute Senate Bill 46 as an "anti-flow-control" measure that would "prohibit a public entity from requiring solid waste to be stored, recovered or disposed of in a specific waste facility except under certain circumstances." He summarized the principle as "whoever has the waste controls the waste."
The sponsor and several supporters said the bill is…
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