A key Senate subcommittee balked at establishing a statewide moratorium on new permits for landfills designed to handle construction debris.
The Medical Affairs Committee did, however, approve a resolution banning new landfill construction of facilities that are dedicated to handling debris from new construction, demolition, and land-clearing work in Anderson County.
The measure, sponsored by Sen. Kevin Bryant, R-Anderson, is designed to reverse a judge’s ruling that cleared the way for a new permit in Anderson County, that DHEC had denied. In other action, the subcommittee also approved a resolution creating a healthy lifestyles study committee, designed to explore ways by Jan. 1, 2009, to improve the health of South Carolinians.
However, a local attorney told the committee that Bryant’s effort to ban the new landfill legislatively is unconstitutional because it is special legislation being substituted for a general purpose.
Local legislation also has often been the subject of Gov. Mark Sanford’s veto pen.
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