`SEC. 3024. SITING OF NEW OR EXPANDED HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITIES.

`(a) DEFINITIONS- For purposes of this section:

`(1) APPLICATION- The term `application' means an application filed with a State or local permitting authority for approval to site a new or expanded hazardous waste facility.

`(2) DENSELY POPULATED AREA- The term `densely populated area' means an incorporated place or census designated place `(defined by the Census Bureau) with a population density of at least 1,500 people per square mile as determined by the decennial census.

`(3) ENVIRONMENTAL REDLINING- The term `environmental redlining' means the selection of sites for new or expanded hazardous waste facilities based predominantly on the income of the majority of residents of real property surrounding the new or expanded hazardous waste facility site.

`(4) HOST COMMUNITY- The term `host community' means the incorporated place or census designated place of a State in which a new or expanded hazardous waste facility is proposed to be located.

`(5) NEW OR EXPANDED HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY- The term `new or expanded hazardous waste facility' means a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility--

`(A) the construction of which commences after the enactment of this section, or

`(B) the expansion of the physical capacity of which commences after January 1, 2000.

For the purposes of this paragraph, the term `commence', when used with respect to a facility, refers to the issuance of all applicable permits for such facility under other provisions of Federal, State, and local law.

`(6) OFFICIAL- The term `official' means the elected executive official(s) of the host community if it is incorporated, or the county executive official or officials if it is a census designated place.

`(7) PERSON- The term `person' means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, or any other lawful business entity that plans to operate a new or expanded hazardous waste facility.

`(8) PRIME FARM LAND- The term `prime farm land' means real property on which crop yields exceed the State's annual average (as determined by the United States Department of Agriculture) of units per acre by at least 15 percent for 5 consecutive or nonconsecutive years of the past 10 years.

`(9) PERMITTING AUTHORITY- The term `permitting authority' means the State or local authority having jurisdiction under State or local law over the siting and permitting of new or expanded hazardous waste facilities.

`(10) PUBLIC PLACE- The term `public place' means any structure the general public may access at least 40 hours per week.

`(11) UNITS- The term `units' means the pertinent crop measure used by the United States Department of Agriculture for reporting services for historical data.

`(b) SITING CRITERIA- In addition to the standards applicable under section 3004, and under State and local law, each State or local permitting authority shall develop, not longer than 1 year after enactment of this Act, hazardous waste facility siting criteria, which, at a minimum, are consistent with each of the following:

`(1) DEMOGRAPHIC CRITERIA- New or expanded hazardous waste facilities shall not be located within a 10-mile radius of densely populated areas or within 2,600 feet of any school, church, day care center, or other building or site at which persons under the age of 18 are frequently present.

`(2) TOPOGRAPHIC-ATMOSPHERIC-GEOLOGIC CRITERIA- New or expanded hazardous waste facilities shall not be located on or within any of the following areas: