On February 14, 2025, the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved emergency regulations that define Land Application Activities and place these activities within CalRecycle’s Compostable Material Handling Facilities and Operations Regulatory Tiers and subject these activities to the appropriate operator filing requirements, state minimum standards, record keeping, and Enforcement Agency (EA) inspection requirements. The regulations ensure that these activities which are land applying compostable material or digestate are appropriately regulated by the EA to ensure protection of public health and safety and the environment.

Additionally, these regulations amend the sampling and record keeping requirement for solid waste facilities, operations, and activities to ensure that any facility and operation sending material to a location to be land applied are sampling to ensure the material is suitable for land application, consistent with section 17852(a)(24.5), and the sampling test results, weights, and end destination for each load sent offsite are included in the operator records. These regulations allow EAs to review this new recordkeeping data to track the flow of material, investigate, and enforce land application activities to prevent unlawful disposal of material.

The effective date of these regulations is February 14, 2025. They will expire on August 14, 2025.

Please visit Illegal Disposal Emergency Regulations - CalRecycle Home Page for more information about this rulemaking.