Tri-County Solid Waste District v. Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This appeal involves the statutes and regulations that govern appeals of landfill permitting decisions. Appellee Waste Management Tontitown Landfill (“Waste Management”) holds a permit for the Class 1 solid waste disposal facility in Washington County. The Tri-County Solid Waste District Board (“the Board”), one of the appellants in this case, is the governing body of the Regional Solid Waste Management District where the landfill is located.

We briefly set out here the procedural background óf Waste Management’s CON application; the various decisions by the several…