Eau Claire County v. Department of Natural Resources

Section 144.443(2) (a), Stats., requires sanitary landfill operators to maintain proof, satisfactory to the Department of Natural Resources, that their landfills will be properly closed and cared for after they are closed. The DNR sets the closing and care requirements and estimates the closing and care costs. The landfill operator must provide a bond covering these costs or in some other manner guarantee that the costs will be covered. Because the DNR acted reasonably and within its authority in estimating the costs in this case, and because its decision is not an unexplained deviation from…