{"id":38022,"date":"2025-03-13T11:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38022"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:55:54","slug":"solid-waste-disposal-fee-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38022","title":{"rendered":"Solid waste disposal fee increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fee increase on landfill operators will help cover Nebraska\u2019s superfund site cleanup costs under a bill passed by lawmakers March 13.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32946\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32946\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Barry DeKay, District 40. November 14, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1668447283&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;140&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenDeKay_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Barry DeKay&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Barry DeKay&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32946\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Barry DeKay\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenDeKay_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Barry DeKay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB247, introduced by Niobrara Sen. Barry DeKay, increases the fee from $1.25 to $2.34 per ton of solid waste, six cubic yards of uncompacted solid waste or three cubic yards of compacted solid waste.<\/p>\n<p>The bill directs 65% of the fees to the Integrated Solid Waste Management Cash Fund, with the remainder going to the Waste Reduction and Recycling Incentive Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, the solid waste fund \u2014 which is used to cover the costs of responding to spills or other environmental emergencies \u2014 also may be used to provide cost share, operation and maintenance for remediation of federal superfund sites.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the fee increase, LB247 repeals a provision allowing the Legislature to direct transfers from the Petroleum Release Remedial Action Cash Fund to the Superfund Cost Share Cash Fund.<\/p>\n<p>LB247 passed on a vote of 44-2 and takes effect immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fee increase on landfill operators will help cover Nebraska\u2019s superfund site cleanup costs under a bill passed by lawmakers March 13. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-38022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-resources","tag-sen-barry-dekay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/UpdateBlogPhoto-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38024,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38022\/revisions\/38024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}