The Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) has issued a draft federal Part 70 permit to the City of Santa Maria's Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (Landfill) facility. The facility includes a recycling and a hazardous household waste collection program. The Landfill operations consist of a "fill-and-cover method" using onsite soils to provide the required daily cover. The Landfill capacity is estimated to be 346 million cubic feet of waste. Estimated non-methane organic compounds emissions from the facility waste are 85.35 tons/yr.

Copies of the permit applications, the draft permits and support materials, are available for review from July 14, 2008 to August 15, 2008 below, and at the following locations:

Santa Barbara County APCD – Santa Maria Office
301 E Cook St, Suite L
Santa Maria, CA 93454

Santa Barbara County APCD – Santa Barbara Office
260 North San Antonio Road, Suite A
Santa Barbara, CA 93110