18-1-7 Action of the Board of County Commissioners
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(1) The Board of County Commissioners shall take into consideration the recommendations of the planning commission and the environmental impact board in making a decision to amend a conditional use permit.
(2) Each applicant for a facility shall demonstrate its financial capability to construct, operate, and properly close the facility to the satisfaction of the County, together with a demonstration of the need for such a facility to be located within Tooele County. Financial statements shall be submitted for the business, together with a list of its financial supporters. Statements showing the cost estimates for construction, first year of operation, and closing costs shall be submitted with financial statements. Need shall be demonstrated by evidence that the proposed facility has a proven market including information on the source, quantity, hazard potential of waste stream, and a review of other existing and proposed commercial facilities regionally and nationally that would also provide a
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means of disposal materials, and why Tooele County should host those wastes as opposed to other locales.
(3) No facility shall be permitted until such time as a properly executed and binding impact mitigation agreement and bond is accepted by the Board of County Commissioners. Prior to the execution of such an agreement, the applicant shall identify, with the concurrence of Tooele County, the impacts that the proposed facility will have upon Tooele County, and will submit a plan to mitigate such impacts. All amendments to the use permits authorized under this section or other sections dealing with the MG-H zone shall also be reviewed and approved by the Board of County Commission.
(4) All hazardous waste facilities shall comply with the Utah State Solid and Hazardous Waste Act and other applicable state and federal regulations pertaining to the siting of such facilities Failure to do so will be just cause for the revocation of the conditional use permit.
(Ord.2005-30, 11/22/05)
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