North Dakota

Solid Waste Program (SWP)

Agency North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality

The Solid Waste Program (SWP) of the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), in its Division of Waste Management, works with owners and operators of land disposal facilities to ensure that all regulated solid waste activities in North Dakota are conducted in compliance with North Dakota's Solid Waste Management Rules. DEQ says the program requires that all land disposal activities are protective of public health and preserve water resources while promoting resource recovery, and that it conducts operator training and certification for landfill staff.

In a Phase I ESA

DEQ's solid waste facility records are the North Dakota form of the state landfill and solid waste disposal site records that ASTM E1527-21 lists as a standard source. The general reading of a landfill listing is on the landfills and solid waste page. Three North Dakota details shape the search.

There are many kinds of facility. The rules have separate chapters for inert waste landfills, municipal waste landfills, small volume industrial waste and special waste landfills, large volume industrial waste and municipal solid waste ash landfills, coal combustion residuals, surface impoundments, land treatment, landfill disposal of technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material, and regulated infectious waste. Search every kind, not only municipal landfills.
The publications page names facility types. The Division's publications page names, without links, items titled Municipal Solid Waste Facilities, Inert Waste Facilities, Industrial Waste Facilities, Special Waste Facilities, Oilfield Special Waste Facilities, Permit by Rule Landfills, Transfer Stations and All Energy Conversion Facilities, and a list of all solid waste facilities that it describes as searchable and orderable. It also lists Guideline 10, Closure Of Old Landfills and Open Dumps, and Guideline 6, Corrective Action of Solid Waste Management Facilities.
Petroleum contaminated soil can be land treated. The publications page lists Guideline 7, Land Treatment of Petroleum Contaminated Soil: Single Application Sites, a land treatment general permit and a land treatment site application.

The program's law is chapter 23.1-08 of the North Dakota Century Code, and its rules are Article 33.1-20 of the North Dakota Administrative Code, Solid Waste Management and Land Protection Rules.

Records in CERIS-ND

Under a heading that reads "Solid Waste Info - COMING JUNE 2026", DEQ's Electronic Reporting page lists, among the benefits of its Combined Environmental Regulatory Information System (CERIS-ND) for the regulated community, access to view the Solid Waste Program's records of all facilities. It says records from 2017 onward should currently be in CERIS-ND and that DEQ is still working to digitize older paper records. The pages read do not say whether the public view of CERIS-ND shows solid waste records; DEQ's Open Records page labels that view for air quality or NPDES records.

Where to look a site up

All Solid Waste Facilities and All Waste Transporters are linked from DEQ's Open Records page.
The Division's publications page names facility lists by type but links none of them; the list DEQ links is All Solid Waste Facilities, above.
DEQ's Electronic Reporting page, under its heading Solid Waste Info - COMING JUNE 2026, gives solidwaste@nd.gov, or 701-328-5166 to ask for someone in the Solid Waste Program; 701-328-5166 is also the Division of Waste Management's number.

Getting the file

DEQ takes open records requests at DEQOpenRecords@nd.gov, on its General Request Form for general records. What to put in a request is on the Open Records Requests page.

Sources

North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality pages, read October 13, 2026:

Waste Management - North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, no modified date shown.
Solid Waste - Waste Management - North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, no modified date shown.
Waste Management - North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, no modified date shown.
Rules, Regulations, and Policies - North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, last updated 05/30/2019 as its footer prints it.
Electronic Reporting - North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, no modified date shown.
Open Records Requests - North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, no modified date shown.