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III. Environmental Setting, Impacts,and Mitigations g P g L. Public Health and Safety Title 14,Sections 17626-17629,also contains general disposal site siting and design requirements. The LEA enforces these standards with concurrence from the CIWMB,and a new landfill must comply with these standards to receive its solid waste facilities permit. Operation Operations and control requirements for solid waste sites are found in Title 14,Sections 17666- 17751. The LEA enforces these requirements,along with any specific requirements contained in the solid waste facilities permit. The regulations require that landfill operators make provisions for employee sanitary facilities,water supply, communications,lighting,employee health and safety,training and supervision,cover,and standby equipment. The operator is also required to have controls for nuisances,fire,leachate,dust,drainage and erosion,litter, noise,odor, and traffic congestion. The Report of Disposal Site Information must be amended to keep the information contained in the report current. To prevent propagation or attraction of flies,rodents or other vectors and to prevent the creation of nuisances,Title 14, Section 17682 requires all landfills that receive over 50 ton of waste per day to cover the waste daily with 6 inches of cover material. The Austin Road Landfill has experienced difficulty meeting the daily cover requirement during periods of wet weather because the soils are difficult to excavate and has applied to the CIWMB to be permitted to used alternative daily cover(Wickes, 1993). The RWQCB may also impose requirements on the operation and monitoring at a landfill through the WDRs. The WDRs can specify what wastes a landfill is permitted to receive. Water quality protection provisions are found in CCR,Title 23, Article 5. These provisions are intended to detect leaks at landfills and to provide for corrective action programs in the event that containment features fail to prevent release of leachate from the landfill. The Report of Waste Discharge must be updated to renew the WDRs. Closure and Post Closure To obtain a Solid Waste Facilities Permit,the owner or operator of a new landfill must prepare a preliminary Closure and Post Closure Maintenance Plan. The purpose of landfill closure and the 30-year post-closure maintenance period is to ensure the long-term protection of air,water, and land from pollution due to the disposal of solid waste. The preliminary plan allows the operator and the CIWMB to estimate costs. III.L.5