The Board of Directors of the Southeast Arkansas Regional Solid Waste Management District will utilize the following criteria in its review of petitions for certificates of need:

1. (1) 8 CAR § 292-104(c) – (e);
2. (2) The information provided by the applicant in the petition;
3. (3) The requirements and considerations of any needs assessments prepared pursuant to Section 8 of Acts 1989, No. 870;
4. (4) The location of the applicant's proposed solid waste facility based on the needs within the jurisdictional boundaries and its highway and road system;
5. (5) The need for the solid waste facility based upon the jurisdiction's excess projected capacity which is currently permitted for operation;
6. (6) That the approval of the certificate of need and resulting increase in solid waste facility capacity for the respective class does not cause the jurisdiction's excess projected capacity for that class to exceed thirty (30) years;
7. (7) In the case of existing or previously permitted solid waste facilities, the quality of operation and compliance by those facilities in the past; and
8. (8) Any solid waste management system plan promulgated and approved pursuant to Acts 1971, No. 237, and to the extent these plans conform to an overall regional planning strategy.