California Air Resources Board

This bill requires that, if a solid waste landfill experiences a subsurface elevated temperature event (subsurface temperature exceeds 131°F), the landfill operators must notify and provide, when asked, subsurface gas and waste temperature data to CARB and other relevant agencies. This bill also allows the Secretary for Environmental Protection to create a multiagency coordination group to investigate and recommend ways to resolve a landfill’s subsurface elevated temperature event. If asked by this group, the owner or operator of the landfill experiencing the event must submit and carry out an air monitoring and sampling plan within a specified time limit. Owners or operators of a landfill must also reimburse the coordination group monthly for its reasonable and necessary operating costs. Owners and operators would also pay up to one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) per day if they fail to comply with requests by the group.

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