2016 Mississippi Code
Title 17 - Local Government; Provisions Common to Counties and Municipalities
Chapter 17 - Solid Wastes Disposal
Disclosure Requirements of Applicants for Commercial Hazardous or Nonhazardous Solid Waste Facility Permits (§§ 17-17-501 - 17-17-507)
§ 17-17-503. Filing of disclosure statements by applicants for issuance, reissuance or transfer of permits pertaining to waste management facilities; contents; updating of statements

(1) Every applicant for issuance, reissuance or transfer of a permit for the treatment, processing, storage or disposal of solid waste at a commercial nonhazardous solid waste management facility or hazardous waste at a commercial hazardous waste management facility shall file with the permit board at the time the application is filed a disclosure statement. The disclosure statement shall be sworn to or affirmed and subscribed and dated by the applicant. The disclosure statement shall be filed on forms supplied by the department and shall contain the following information:

(a) (i) If the applicant is an individual, the full name, business address, date of birth and Social Security number of the applicant; or

(ii) If the applicant is a business concern, the full name, business address, date of establishment, and federal employer identification number of the business concern, and the full names, business addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of any officers, directors, partners or key employees thereof and all persons or business concerns holding equity in that business concern, or if the business concern is a publicly traded corporation, an individual holding more than five percent (5%), individuals related within third degree holding a cumulative of five percent (5%) or more or business concerns holding more than five percent (5%) of the equity in that business concern, except where the equity is held by an investment company which is publicly traded or a chartered lending institution, in which case the applicant need only supply the name and business address of the investment company or lending institution;

(b) The full names, business addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of all officers, directors or partners of any business concern disclosed in the statement and the name and addresses of all persons holding any equity in any business concern so disclosed, if the business concern is a publicly traded corporation, an individual holding more than five percent (5%), individuals related within third degree holding a cumulative of five percent (5%) or more or business concerns holding more than five percent (5%) of the equity in that business concern, except where the equity is held by an investment company which is publicly traded or a chartered lending institution, in which case the applicant need only supply the name and business address of the investment company which is publicly traded or lending institution;

(c) A listing of all persons or business concerns holding debt liability in a non-publicly traded applicant business concern. If the applicant business concern is publicly traded, a listing of all individuals or business concerns holding more than five percent (5%), or individuals related within the third degree holding a cumulative of five percent (5%) or more debt liability in the applicant business concern. In accordance with the debt liability disclosure requirements for applicants, any business concern disclosed pursuant to paragraph (b) shall provide a listing of debt liability holders. The listing of debt liability holders shall include for each person or business concern the full name, business address, federal employer identification number, amount of debt liability held in U.S. dollars and the percentage of the total debt liability held. For the purposes of this section, individuals and business concerns disclosed pursuant to this paragraph are not subject to further disclosure requirements and shall not be considered a "disclosed business concern" unless expressly requested by the permit board.

(d) The full name and business address of any company which collects, transports, treats, processes, stores or disposes of solid or hazardous waste in which the applicant holds an equity interest of five percent (5%) or more;

(e) A description of the business experience and credentials, including any past or present permits or licenses for the treatment, processing, storage or disposal of solid or hazardous waste possessed by the applicant, or if the applicant is a business concern, by the key employees, officers, directors or partners thereof;

(f) A listing and explanation of any notices of violation, prosecutions, administrative orders (whether by consent or otherwise) or license or permit suspensions or revocations, or enforcement actions of any sort by any state or federal authority within the five-year period immediately preceding the filing of the application, which are pending or have concluded in a finding of violation or entry of a consent agreement regarding any allegation of civil or criminal violation of any law, regulation or requirement related to the treatment, processing, storage or disposal of solid or hazardous waste by any person required to be disclosed in the statement and an itemized list by any person required to be disclosed in the statement of all final convictions of and pleas of guilty or nolo contendere to any crime punishable as a felony in any jurisdiction within the five-year period immediately preceding the filing of the application for the issuance, reissuance or transfer of a permit;

(g) A listing of any agencies outside of Mississippi which had regulatory responsibility over the applicant in connection with its treatment, processing, storage or disposal of solid or hazardous waste; and

(h) Any other information the permit board may require related to the disclosure statement as described above or the evaluation of such statement as described in Section 17-17-505.

(2) The disclosure statement shall be updated as required by the permit board, but not more frequently than annually.

(3) The provisions of subsections (6) and (7) of Section 17-17-27 shall be applicable to information submitted by the applicant to the permit board under this section.

(4) (a) The provisions of this subsection shall apply only to applicants for permits involving the storage, treatment, processing or disposal of nonhazardous solid waste only.

(b) The Commission on Environmental Quality may waive the filing of disclosure information required by this section if the information regards the holder of less than five percent (5%) of the equity of the applicant or the holder of less than five percent (5%) of the equity in any business concern which holds equity in the applicant.

(c) In order to apply for the waiver, the applicant shall file a sworn petition requesting such waiver and allege either (i) that the information cannot be ascertained after reasonable and diligent search and inquiry, setting forth in the petition the facts and circumstances alleged to constitute the reasonable and diligent search and inquiry to obtain the information or (ii) the information required is not relevant or material, setting forth in the petition the facts and circumstances in support of the irrelevancy or immateriality of the information.

(d) The commission may waive the filing of such information if the commission finds and declares such information either (i) to be unobtainable after reasonable and diligent search and inquiry or (ii) to be irrelevant or immaterial to the review of the application and (iii) unnecessary to the discharge of its responsibilities with regard to such permit as set forth by law.

(e) Any applicant, other person or interested party aggrieved by an order of the commission waiving the filing of such information may appeal the decision of the commission in the manner provided in Section 49-17-41, Mississippi Code of 1972.