Instructions: Permit Application for Composting Facilities and Anaerobic Digesters

• A description of the conversion technology facility operation including feedstock types, volumes and sources, feedstock receiving and storage practices, methods of feedstock screening and preparation to eliminate incompatible contamination materials, staff training, facility processing methods, uses of finished products and disposition of waste materials

• A description of all existing or planned structures and features for managing leachate and stormwater, including but not limited to information about any detention or infiltration basins, and any infiltration structures such as filter strips and bioswales

• A description of odor control measures, if necessary, including site design features and operational practices

• A description of the methods the facility will use to achieve vector control

• Any seasonal variations in the facility’s operation

• Contact information including the facility operator, facility owner and property owner

• Operational and compliance history of the facility, if any​
  

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• Location and site schematic, including areas for management of leachate and stormwater, of the existing or proposed facility by latitude and longitude, identified on a map

• Location of the facility on a tax lot map

• Location of and distance to surface water in the drainage area of the facility, and all drainage channels, ditches and any other water conveyances leading from the facility to surface water, identified on a map

• Locations of all commercial and residential structures within a one-mile radius of the composting facility, identified on a map or photograph (aerial photograph)

• A description of any leachate and stormwater produced at the facility, including information about the chemical composition of leachate

• Facility plans identifying biogas/syngas collection and storage facilities

Note: The following information is necessary only if soil will be used to infiltrate water from the facility. DEQ will collect the following information if you have difficulty obtaining it.

• Distance to the uppermost groundwater aquifer and other known aquifers at the location of the composting facility and in any areas proposed for infiltration of leachate or stormwater from the facility

• Soil type or types, and permeability if known or available, at the location of the facility and in any areas proposed for infiltration of leachate or stormwater

• Location and well logs of all wells on the property where the facility is located; location and well logs of any wells within ¼ mile of the facility; and, if known, location of any proposed wells within ¼ mile of the facility​
  

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