Permitted Solid Waste Facilities

Solid waste facilities in South Dakota are permitted by the Solid Waste Section of the Waste Management Program of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources (DANR). DANR says the section regulates how solid waste is stored, treated and disposed of, covering municipal solid waste landfills, restricted use facilities, construction and demolition waste sites, land application of solid waste, land treatment of petroleum contaminated soil, yard waste composting and municipal solid waste transfer stations. It also issues the permits, inspects facilities, gives technical help and investigates complaints about solid waste disposal. Permitted Solid Waste Facilities is the name DANR gives its map of these facilities.

In a Phase I ESA

DANR's permitted solid waste facilities are the South 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. Four South Dakota details shape how to read it.

• A permit is what puts a facility on the record. DANR says a permit is needed only by someone who owns or operates a solid waste facility. Without a permit, farmers and ranchers can put domestic waste produced on their own property onto their own land, as long as the disposal does not threaten human health or the environment or unduly pollute the air or the state's waters. So a farm disposal area may have no permit; ask about one in the interviews.
• Old dumps may predate the program. DANR says there were few limits on solid waste disposal before the early 1970s, and that the state permit program followed state laws of the 1970s and further federal legislation. A disposal site older than the program may not be on a list of permitted facilities.
• General permits exist for many kinds of site. DANR has general permits for construction and demolition debris sites, petroleum contaminated soil landfarms, restricted use sites, transfer stations, yard waste composting sites, and the storage or land application of solid waste and of dairy processing by-products. DANR says a facility must have its authorization to operate under a general permit before it accepts any waste, and that holding a copy of the general permit does not by itself mean a facility is authorized. The same applications also serve for an individual permit.
• The permit process is public. DANR says it reviews each application, publishes its recommendation in a local newspaper for a 30-day comment period, and that an uncontested recommendation becomes final.

DANR also says a state law, SDCL 34A-6-67, bars yard waste, lead-acid batteries, waste motor oil and white goods from landfills, a ban that began taking effect in 1995. The program's statute is SDCL 34A-6 and its rules are ARSD 74:27.

Where to look a site up

• DANR's Permitted Solid Waste Facilities map, which DANR's Data & Mapping page says can be searched by city, county, category, address and operator. The same page's database list links a second address under the same name, Permitted Solid Waste Facilities. This handbook opened neither.
• DANR's Permitted Municipal Solid Waste Landfills page maps each municipal solid waste landfill the state permits and links a page on each one.
• Sites that treat petroleum contaminated soil are on the Petroleum Contaminated Soil Landfarms page.
• The Solid Waste Section is at (605) 773-3153.

Getting the file

DANR's page footer links Request Public Records, an address on the state's sd.gov portal that this handbook did not open. The pages read do not say where solid waste permit files are kept or what a request must include.

Sources

South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources pages, read October 13, 2026:

• South Dakota Waste Management Program - Solid Waste, no modified date shown.
• South Dakota Waste Management Program - Solid Waste Permits and Application Forms, no modified date shown.
• South Dakota Waste Management Program - Permitted Municipal Solid Waste Landfills, no modified date shown.
• South Dakota Waste Management Program, no modified date shown.
• DANR / Data & Mapping, no modified date shown.