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

1. (1) 8 CAR § 310-103(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 Acts 1989, No. 870, § 8;
4. (4) The location of the applicant’s proposed solid waste landfill based on the jurisdiction’s needs and its highway and road system;
5. (5) The need for the solid waste landfill 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 landfill 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 landfills, 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.