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t.r..a, u..r n..a naa_a.a v. a rc�avJr vn e M e ave e � FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 5200.58 L-111'a M, ov 1/31/90 aA�'Ic N CEJ; _ D `; Ll St SUBJ: WASTE DISPOSAL SITES ON OR NEAR AIRPORTS 1. PURPOSE. This order provides guidance concerning the establishment,elimination or monitoring of IandrMs, open dumps,waste disposal sites or similarly titled facilities on or in the vicinity of airports. 2 DISTRIBU'T'ION. This order is distributed to the.division level in the Offices of Airport Planning and Pro- gramminr, Airport Safety and Standards,Air Traffic Evaluations and Analysis,Aviation Safety Oversight,Air Traf- fic Operations Service, and Flight Standards Service; to the division level in the regional Airports, Air Traffic, and Flight Standards Divisions; to the director level at the Aeronautical Center and the FAA Technical Center, and a limited distribution to all Airport District Offices,Flight Standards Field Offices,and Air Traffic Facilities. 3. CANCELLATION. Order 5200.5,FAA Guidance Concerning Sanitary Landfills On Or Near Airports, dated October 16, 1974,is canceled. 4. BACKGROUND. Landfills, garbage dumps,sewer or fish waste outfalls and other similarly licensed or titled facilities used for operations to process, bury, store or otherwise dispose of waste, trash and refuse will attract iodents and birds. Where the dump is ignited and produces smoke, an additional attractant is created. All of the tabove are undesirable and potential hazards to aviation since they erode the safety of the airport environment The FAA neither approves nor disapproves locations of the facilities above. Such action is the responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency and/or the appropriate state and local agencies. The role of the FAA is to ensure that airport owners and operators meet their contractual obligations to the United States government regarding com- pacuble land uses in the vicinity of the airport While the chance of an unforeseeable,random bud strike in flight will always exist, it is nevertheless possible to define conditions within fairly narrow limits where the risk is in- creased. Those high-risk conditions exist in the approach and departure patterns and landing areas on and in the vicinity of airports. The number of bird strikes reported on aircraft is a matter of continuing concern to the FAA and to airport management Various observations support the conclusion that waste disposal sites are artificial at- tractants to birds. Accordingly, disposal sites located in the vicinity of an airport are potentially incompatible with safe flight operations. Those sites that are not compatible need to be eliminated.Airport owners need guidance in making those decisions and the FAA must be in a position to assisL Some airports are not under the jurisdiction of the community or local governing body having control of land usage in the vicinity of the airport. In these cases, the airport owner should use its resources and exert its best efforts to close or control waste disposal operations within the general vicinity of the airport S. EXPLANATION OF CHANGES. The following list outlines the major changes to Order 52005: a. Recent developments and new techniques of waste disposal warranted updating and clarification of what constitutes a sanitary landfill.This listing of new titles for waste disposal were outlined in paragraph 4. b. Due to a reorganization which placed the Animal Damage Control branch of the U.S.Department of Inte- rior Fish and Wildlife Service under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, an address addition was inecessary. e. A zone of notification was added to the criteria which should provide the appropriate FAA Airports office an opportucity to comment on the proposed disposal site during the selection process. Distribution: A—TdP(AP/AS/TS/OG/T0/FS)-2; A—a(9S/AT/Fl)-2; Initiated By: app TZ-1; A FAS/F'S/FAT-O(LTD)