NRS244A.571. Areawide waste management plan: Development; required elements.

      1.  The officers of the county shall develop an areawide waste management plan pursuant to NRS 244A.459, subject to the approval of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The county officers may revise this plan as often as they deem it necessary. A plan must include but need not be limited to the following:

      (a) The identification of treatment works necessary to meet the anticipated municipal and industrial needs of the area for the treatment of waste over a 20-year period, with an analysis of alternative systems, including:

             (1) Any requirements for the acquisition of land;

             (2) The necessary systems for collection of wastewater and management of urban storm water runoff; and

             (3) A program to provide the necessary financial arrangements for the development of the treatment works;

      (b) The establishment of priorities for the construction of the treatment works and time schedules for the initiation and completion of all treatment works;

      (c) The establishment of a regulatory program to:

             (1) Carry out the waste treatment management requirements of section 201(c) of P.L. 92-500 (33 U.S.C. § 1281(c));

             (2) Regulate the location, modification and construction of any facilities within the area which may result in any discharge in the area; and

             (3) Ensure that any industrial or commercial wastes discharged into any treatment works in the area meet applicable pretreatment requirements;

      (d) The identification of those agencies necessary to construct, operate and maintain all facilities required by the plan and otherwise to carry out the plan;

      (e) The identification of the measures necessary to carry out the plan (including financing), the period necessary to carry out the plan, the costs of carrying out the plan within that period, and the economic, social and environmental effect of carrying out the plan within that period;

      (f) A process to:

             (1) Identify, if appropriate, agriculturally and silviculturally related nonpoint sources of pollution, including runoff from areas used for the disposal of manure and from land used for the production of livestock and crops; and

             (2) Set forth procedures and methods, including requirements for land use, to control to the extent feasible those sources;

      (g) A process to:

             (1) Identify, if appropriate, mine-related sources of pollution including new, current and abandoned surface and underground mine runoff; and

             (2) Set forth procedures and methods, including requirements for land use, to control to the extent feasible those sources;

      (h) A process to:

             (1) Identify sources of pollution related to construction; and

             (2) Set forth procedures and methods, including requirements for land use, to control to the extent feasible those sources;

      (i) A process to:

             (1) Identify, if appropriate, salt water intrusion into rivers, lakes and estuaries resulting from reduction of fresh water flow from any cause, including irrigation, obstruction, groundwater extraction and diversion; and

             (2) Set forth procedures and methods to control such an intrusion to the extent feasible where the procedures and methods are otherwise a part of the waste treatment management plan;

      (j) A process to control the disposition of all residual waste generated in the area which could affect water quality; and

      (k) A process to control the disposal of pollutants on land or in subsurface excavations within the area to protect the quality of ground and surface water.

      2.  In developing the elements of the areawide waste management plan, the county shall provide the most efficient areawide management system for the area.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1334; A 1987, 373)