# Revisions to Criteria for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
> **Rule** · Direct final rule. · Published 1997-07-29 · Effective 1997-10-27 · 62 FR 40708
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-19942
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 40708
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 258
- **Publication date:** 1997-07-29
- **Effective date:** 1997-10-27
- **EPA docket:** F-97-FLXF-FFFFF
## Abstract

The Land Disposal Program Flexibility Act of 1996 (LDPFA) directed the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to provide additional flexibility to Approved States for any landfill that receives 20 tons or less of municipal solid waste per day. The additional flexibility applies to alternative frequencies of daily cover, frequencies of methane monitoring, infiltration layers for final cover, and means for demonstrating financial assurance. The additional flexibility will allow the owners and operators of small municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLFs) the opportunity to reduce their costs of MSWLF operation while still protecting human health and the environment. This direct final rule recognizes, as did Congress in enacting the LDPFA, that these decisions are best made at the State and local level and, therefore, offers this flexibility to approved States. In the proposed rules Section of today's Federal Register, EPA is concurrently proposing and soliciting comment on this rule. If adverse comments are received, EPA will withdraw this direct final rule and address the comments in a subsequent final rule. EPA will not provide additional opportunity for comment.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/07/29/97-19942/revisions-to-criteria-for-municipal-solid-waste-landfills)
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