Upload
trantu
View
218
Download
1
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
~t
DUAitKtltGfDfUtlllltlltU 1 IUIIAGIIDt Of 1111 nATI Of UCIDl I UtUID IOIDJ L IDIIIICI Jl I Uo lib upadlJ M llnccr bullf tH 1 hpn-t bullf -1-ul 1 -1-t lf tHIUUif I l llI~GfiiOitiiKttiiIILDo l lbullU--r I
JnrrpnCIIJ 1111 covn m PI
m UJCTOI oUID m tow Clf IIDm
lltt1VlEU Tilt uu mnt angm
mDitttLDCDit mmIIITOPCI
PWCW J Of JDG AIJIPAI Cll
CJI or mt u MJmiddot TO nn prp
mnmn 11 IIIIMXtO prtarU9 vtn m ornm1111 or
UUAIID iiOOIJIGOtt
UUbull HtnM 1 -U ~~ 1a tloU taN (A c U UtM )
t JM UU t Cn Onn nMM all m bulldbullu
nltd tbull LampU
J t tUir tUM JM11 UUt t Crt ~Mr Hl f1rtll Unot bullbull
_1t lnftSI _ f n bullliiMyener i t U IIM Uo Jlttn ~bullthu U
bullbullultl bullIIJKt alp U tile fhl tllet UU c-lp vU111 tloe Unot
UllolllttltHt ftrt111liiJbullbullUbullCn tkMr
s _ ~ u bull J uu bull
1 n _ Hc14H II H U Mat tbull illtarhn wttll 6111 ntiP
_ bullb 11 _s~le In uQ u fU1 tiM
f l fte _ 414 tUI bullbullbullplU tM fKI 11 0 I rtf II tllb UHo
11M _ wu tM u ef 1M cn Orr
1 bull _rtMh u tiM_ UrH Uu bull ~lp u fnnrau bull4
~tiM 1U1Ity 1f U11 te c l7 wttll till Crt Odn lly Utnfbulll1bull1 wttll
till u n l bull 1f 1611 - prulampl unlia tncluo f 11111 11 it
f LUI 1114 q_ 11y l cll tn~ 111 a tncluo -u tncll U tU 1117 ef hfticll bull t n1ll 11 uu
10 t1111 1na e-t wa cndal 11 UUI a~lllty II IW bull t t
U Nbull un-c-u _ IH4 UDwtdo bull Mjer b ef
11 l -u _ _ dlampt LUl - U U nr II ~IHI l tl -u
ctdktH u bullbull u11 1 u Uitr l _ -u u
-trilofttatlampllr II UU bull ft-111 MUtt) t1 _nU 1M
~al-bull -trCIIytiiiCnOrltlll
u nt__ lbullttllac~
l l la ~ I f UU1 1 Cu Orilr tM t- 1 11
UNU u bullut laterhn wttll 1M u bullf 1611 _ 11 bull bull l u Htt
llfferU II pl-1 tiMIuo IIITfill Vtrwiampll trull f lllat II LUamp
tlllnlly II ftl tU I MjH -tel If ly
t- t b t _ 11M f- nlUtH tiM 11bull d tiM Dill t H In
c
U nr -cce11fU7 pr-tC u ampampb UITflq 1M atidpu
Vrwtclltrull fr lllal tbulltul
11 U 1 nnlt tilly 1 U ~l~h fer UU U fUl ct
II a It hna bull h4JI AJIUI 11UciP1t
pTOyenUIC fer-) a -IIMllty
If JMIJI UUa Uflldtly clti-4 tH dHlll MU
(Ja-r) llo lt15) lmiddot tlotre middotflgtdu bull htufntyen1 wtth tiM tMntte r UU
u tndbull 11laa 11 tt 11 thbull 11a11tlbull bull (111 Crt Odn Pll I perbullabullbullph
middotuJ
tt tyen1-dr 11 laurfuclllc liebull cntft4
11 la - cf laterlcreMi o hoi UU pnriiiM tlltt UU U M
bullbullntr~ u rut cw J_ u llullliH _ -u iitltnoor tc bull ntncl ef tlllll bullbullbullbull t l cu U lu leet tlllll
_ lbulln uu uutal eMu _ tacbullnM
U 0 _ U cl eM Crt Clfller JM1bull Al-Ua
JftI1IIMI
middotu tw 111111 un _ nMtUbull
fbullniiMnU ~ dM
ua Pt ellen will bull laurntltol bull I er
ampMcdbull-bullwitllcMct_ tIU
erencbpllltte_ r uuMtatttllt
Ull bull Ul bull IU Met 1ffent U -111
_lat nnopUbull n IMcd bull-middot la tM
__lactlftnlaudbullrcbull
-ldllliH fer _ _ tM -tnl
-~~Kiln kUelGH tllelo UDJI11ll
JIIJIId te f lnt elllll Y ntillt tiM
liM Mt ferdo Ia _ 1 _ _ esl1
hW1d lett uu _ uet-amp1 eMU_ f111 lann41 Y aa nelft cf tiM
bull bull tr~r~uu J
n LUI MnY bulltUiu elM cn eh DDI tile Dtnctll 1 _ elM
t- If llntlllalcllflcU tbt 1t llciiIYmiddot rdcll 1u u~
U lc _ altM all tM _ wtdo tiMo MIUtbullu If tM DDI
dol tinctn 0 1dl Saltltat dol iaulftHMI wtdl IampD 0 1 aHa -~~
tMt 11 6 0 raptl U If dol Cn Oritr -- btl pt
U 0 K t-t U ltU IampU _ llooq _ I ~-bull blaM hlill wu _ cu (lUIIC) lor
iclo all tM City 1f nriclol u u lll U k liM u LHl (btu If u
tM UIIIC I Ctrtl LIMfW) tnlo~-7 -u n cdn uHlU 11 Ill 11H
n bull la tlf u n tiM Ctnl La4U11 1 _ M-U
1 lilt llJIIC f1r-ll7 bull ~cu-pqMl 1t IU
DMI 14 IMJ bee~ -u ( -J If tM U bullt If acloo1
141MlllJIIC-tblttUcW )
JD llletlnctnefdoeDDI91t tllf-efU
U n Mn~~ter t~MrlW till en- M middot~middot _
Dat it -1laquo- tlM ----- - middotmiddot ( 1111Sillmiddot hU bull
16 INl _ YHMq hcr tD INl bull middot bull eu )
)t A hbull later --bull 1t tile Wilt-bull 1f tiM T- ef rtlo
hltlltteU _ llreuec lola Mn tbull up tlllat an- t
Jl At 0 t- bull illilt-bull _ _ pt till tlnctH tbull 111 tlllt
llJIIC u 41U Ul-1111bull If tilt nu-c 11bull the Dlncur
)4 At tk- -till 1f tile Ulte J-11 II If tillbull Dill
tfUcltl -rn-tU tile Uraun bull MdR~dlrrIL
t--lT -bullbull (Ill Ut WIIIC - etas J t -11 tl middot t-4
anedo )
]6 1M DlnUH doc DDI pttlill t1 t~ cn OHu
n 11111 t111e _ tlllq _ lor tu ttTM uclou
U fntlon J-bullUW W lltcall7 nHrM tlobull DDI lU
HHtiiiH tl tWhk~t((M~_~~~t~~~~~~~~
middot-o=_-tnw bullf_slM OfMl (1-~ t bulll t~ CMIt Orin)
H Wloampt u u bull ltf wubull -bullu tW eu Orin Wlclo bull
f1u4 ~ 1U 1PIlo Wid 1IoM 1rinM ~ dobull Cn II
_ lampenfn-bull nJubull apMi (n t- Y-bull Wilt-bull) ct bullU
bull bullJtt -nbull bullf bull1 _ eMu~ u Mu ttoa Cnbull OrHr _ sH
UUbullaloWtulr
40 ftol JDI t flncllrW 1 doltcbull
bull u M nat uc u _ c-u Ucu urcll _ -bull
a~ncack utdotiMflnt~tnUClt7bullfWMck
middot Ufnu lor uu ulr tM T- u n tu ~dp tbull M
middot n T- pt U tlf~etn bullbullbullia 11 tM USWIC u
u-1-CiUiio tu - ritlo uu fabull~Ellmiddot
J-17lllfllpampncn4)
amp7 IIMJt_l U T- uuhll7 nclMobulltutM bull H m r
Wldl U T- -~bull uk tloe U1111C u unuUn tu _ tlon tiM
CitdllnrirkbullJbullntattoabullnbulla-bullmiddot
u At slM Pnltlla _ tuln-bull bullf doa -middot th Clt bullf Vfrick
bullbull Jut Ut
ampt fttbullwubullu1Nlbullf tuanunltiaoo
so tt u1 M 1Kil1 Wt n u hc_r u un l11111 -t1bull1
n Wlclo tloe annbull-bull bullbull nlliUll7 tloe bullf th
CitlflllfrickqltHM jHtlll
Jl UatUrlJo tt tH J-ry 11 ltU UNC -tllll It tclll tile tDI
-4 ct uMlM anbullbull-bullmiddot tile HJTbull-utt ~~ tile CllJ nhalM4
SJ bull IK IIMSlat-laf=-_Tf-ttimiddot~~ tile CltJmiddot rM -at Ua1bullfMJ 1 1H -bulllii-flMliWIC _ tc a
HJriWC
S) llcltlJ in atUft Ua f- bull iadnnu tb CiJ
tt bull ta91_t_~ WtllliaU~a ltlllolillntcll~-lta bull
__uUti middot~middotiatiiai~illrUII1 (S utaa UIIIE
-tlq bull bull ))
middot middot _- dltat_
U Datu UUa lout aUatta tile f_ wtcll tllla al4 _ bulltUbullI
al ctooa eDl _ Mntn WlM tiM an-c
u ctooa nbullbullt af _ Wltcubull bullttl-_~u-~~atllh
u -rtah ctooa uu nalt
Daf-bullbullUbullu
)1 1o1 cu __ uu ta ala fn ctooa ct ca _ a
bulltlata bull tu n- ca _ tu ellfMUttfta ru elM -~
-ral-n
H tiM_ bullbull tacufatM t~ -u - _ u
tncll all af ctooa ClJ af bulltcka uMIII ta 1amp11 f~ 14 lHl (t
Ute af lU11E tl) U J_ U lHS (tiM Uta ampdiiIIampUJ cntlatbullbull
fat lampll cJM)
st tNcaatatalaf_U
60 tauu-rtlllet-rntaolafctfrk--l_Mu
U af tu u t u nut- b Vrvttll u _ trull frw atlller
fftll cuc-n witll Uc Valrlcll Uamplll _ ll cnck U tlctlln lbull
11 lfttllaat tlo bull Wlritll null r tllat bullnbullbull-bull tHen
attcaUJfaaatlllt
U - bullt tM lifuu tawltH h bullt ec-1ampamp1 tbull bull
tntbull bulln- ce ua wtU1 t Vubulltck uull
UDbullf-t111eftiMC1tytfWMampk tnull_ eft uulllbullfetHt
ftlt-rt tf tn~ lt41amp111 tftllo_r plat t1 c-w 1M WotJ tbulllttlilu
wtclltbVelwtcknulruUU
64 Vtrwidlttu111-nauJ97Jcwk
till Ultlil f- ltiMt CMl-H llllt fn1iloAottr -middot pill tl c-UI
litlltt -taettUOJt- r-k
M ntnflno till lin- 10 021 per-k
IJ ~tlJo WIamp I lltl o r YirtH If till flw01 llt~o-
f - h ulnllt II 1021 t- pet aM_ S1SM ibullbullbull
II tud dol bull_liM M lt 11tltl t1111 ctt OHR r dol
u (J_ u lPampall _ tlllnb
rauwr Ull 1111 wt1l bnt ltlAampl -middot _
lMt tiM dol nbullt a -t -nebell
Jt II dol - tf Uilul tt-l tbull la 1611 ll bulltUllol t1
lett tiM _ lltt pntlu uu __ MtiMtH MH4
latlctpetM - _ --1 tUcu diet lt wt1l __ fer UD u
u llprtl Z1 middot tl ~~middotit tlla 11-bull 18nttlol
HifOltiaUrflftMI
Jl r bull bull piUfUpll J If WJI UUIt Cftrt Otollt o UU 11
alii Mtitl tl - llltbullIU If Cio
n Ull r- Pobull t1 anciH tbt MUtl-t
JJ u u 11t nntlJ pt- u -niH tloot
lltUl-t -111 tMn U rttMr taurtn-bull n bull ent t1 iludut
witlo tu IN--_ _u 27 uu U t dHIJtl - fudolr ut -u
JS It R- h t tbt t _ flf tbt Nltlf till
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
1 n _ Hc14H II H U Mat tbull illtarhn wttll 6111 ntiP
_ bullb 11 _s~le In uQ u fU1 tiM
f l fte _ 414 tUI bullbullbullplU tM fKI 11 0 I rtf II tllb UHo
11M _ wu tM u ef 1M cn Orr
1 bull _rtMh u tiM_ UrH Uu bull ~lp u fnnrau bull4
~tiM 1U1Ity 1f U11 te c l7 wttll till Crt Odn lly Utnfbulll1bull1 wttll
till u n l bull 1f 1611 - prulampl unlia tncluo f 11111 11 it
f LUI 1114 q_ 11y l cll tn~ 111 a tncluo -u tncll U tU 1117 ef hfticll bull t n1ll 11 uu
10 t1111 1na e-t wa cndal 11 UUI a~lllty II IW bull t t
U Nbull un-c-u _ IH4 UDwtdo bull Mjer b ef
11 l -u _ _ dlampt LUl - U U nr II ~IHI l tl -u
ctdktH u bullbull u11 1 u Uitr l _ -u u
-trilofttatlampllr II UU bull ft-111 MUtt) t1 _nU 1M
~al-bull -trCIIytiiiCnOrltlll
u nt__ lbullttllac~
l l la ~ I f UU1 1 Cu Orilr tM t- 1 11
UNU u bullut laterhn wttll 1M u bullf 1611 _ 11 bull bull l u Htt
llfferU II pl-1 tiMIuo IIITfill Vtrwiampll trull f lllat II LUamp
tlllnlly II ftl tU I MjH -tel If ly
t- t b t _ 11M f- nlUtH tiM 11bull d tiM Dill t H In
c
U nr -cce11fU7 pr-tC u ampampb UITflq 1M atidpu
Vrwtclltrull fr lllal tbulltul
11 U 1 nnlt tilly 1 U ~l~h fer UU U fUl ct
II a It hna bull h4JI AJIUI 11UciP1t
pTOyenUIC fer-) a -IIMllty
If JMIJI UUa Uflldtly clti-4 tH dHlll MU
(Ja-r) llo lt15) lmiddot tlotre middotflgtdu bull htufntyen1 wtth tiM tMntte r UU
u tndbull 11laa 11 tt 11 thbull 11a11tlbull bull (111 Crt Odn Pll I perbullabullbullph
middotuJ
tt tyen1-dr 11 laurfuclllc liebull cntft4
11 la - cf laterlcreMi o hoi UU pnriiiM tlltt UU U M
bullbullntr~ u rut cw J_ u llullliH _ -u iitltnoor tc bull ntncl ef tlllll bullbullbullbull t l cu U lu leet tlllll
_ lbulln uu uutal eMu _ tacbullnM
U 0 _ U cl eM Crt Clfller JM1bull Al-Ua
JftI1IIMI
middotu tw 111111 un _ nMtUbull
fbullniiMnU ~ dM
ua Pt ellen will bull laurntltol bull I er
ampMcdbull-bullwitllcMct_ tIU
erencbpllltte_ r uuMtatttllt
Ull bull Ul bull IU Met 1ffent U -111
_lat nnopUbull n IMcd bull-middot la tM
__lactlftnlaudbullrcbull
-ldllliH fer _ _ tM -tnl
-~~Kiln kUelGH tllelo UDJI11ll
JIIJIId te f lnt elllll Y ntillt tiM
liM Mt ferdo Ia _ 1 _ _ esl1
hW1d lett uu _ uet-amp1 eMU_ f111 lann41 Y aa nelft cf tiM
bull bull tr~r~uu J
n LUI MnY bulltUiu elM cn eh DDI tile Dtnctll 1 _ elM
t- If llntlllalcllflcU tbt 1t llciiIYmiddot rdcll 1u u~
U lc _ altM all tM _ wtdo tiMo MIUtbullu If tM DDI
dol tinctn 0 1dl Saltltat dol iaulftHMI wtdl IampD 0 1 aHa -~~
tMt 11 6 0 raptl U If dol Cn Oritr -- btl pt
U 0 K t-t U ltU IampU _ llooq _ I ~-bull blaM hlill wu _ cu (lUIIC) lor
iclo all tM City 1f nriclol u u lll U k liM u LHl (btu If u
tM UIIIC I Ctrtl LIMfW) tnlo~-7 -u n cdn uHlU 11 Ill 11H
n bull la tlf u n tiM Ctnl La4U11 1 _ M-U
1 lilt llJIIC f1r-ll7 bull ~cu-pqMl 1t IU
DMI 14 IMJ bee~ -u ( -J If tM U bullt If acloo1
141MlllJIIC-tblttUcW )
JD llletlnctnefdoeDDI91t tllf-efU
U n Mn~~ter t~MrlW till en- M middot~middot _
Dat it -1laquo- tlM ----- - middotmiddot ( 1111Sillmiddot hU bull
16 INl _ YHMq hcr tD INl bull middot bull eu )
)t A hbull later --bull 1t tile Wilt-bull 1f tiM T- ef rtlo
hltlltteU _ llreuec lola Mn tbull up tlllat an- t
Jl At 0 t- bull illilt-bull _ _ pt till tlnctH tbull 111 tlllt
llJIIC u 41U Ul-1111bull If tilt nu-c 11bull the Dlncur
)4 At tk- -till 1f tile Ulte J-11 II If tillbull Dill
tfUcltl -rn-tU tile Uraun bull MdR~dlrrIL
t--lT -bullbull (Ill Ut WIIIC - etas J t -11 tl middot t-4
anedo )
]6 1M DlnUH doc DDI pttlill t1 t~ cn OHu
n 11111 t111e _ tlllq _ lor tu ttTM uclou
U fntlon J-bullUW W lltcall7 nHrM tlobull DDI lU
HHtiiiH tl tWhk~t((M~_~~~t~~~~~~~~
middot-o=_-tnw bullf_slM OfMl (1-~ t bulll t~ CMIt Orin)
H Wloampt u u bull ltf wubull -bullu tW eu Orin Wlclo bull
f1u4 ~ 1U 1PIlo Wid 1IoM 1rinM ~ dobull Cn II
_ lampenfn-bull nJubull apMi (n t- Y-bull Wilt-bull) ct bullU
bull bullJtt -nbull bullf bull1 _ eMu~ u Mu ttoa Cnbull OrHr _ sH
UUbullaloWtulr
40 ftol JDI t flncllrW 1 doltcbull
bull u M nat uc u _ c-u Ucu urcll _ -bull
a~ncack utdotiMflnt~tnUClt7bullfWMck
middot Ufnu lor uu ulr tM T- u n tu ~dp tbull M
middot n T- pt U tlf~etn bullbullbullia 11 tM USWIC u
u-1-CiUiio tu - ritlo uu fabull~Ellmiddot
J-17lllfllpampncn4)
amp7 IIMJt_l U T- uuhll7 nclMobulltutM bull H m r
Wldl U T- -~bull uk tloe U1111C u unuUn tu _ tlon tiM
CitdllnrirkbullJbullntattoabullnbulla-bullmiddot
u At slM Pnltlla _ tuln-bull bullf doa -middot th Clt bullf Vfrick
bullbull Jut Ut
ampt fttbullwubullu1Nlbullf tuanunltiaoo
so tt u1 M 1Kil1 Wt n u hc_r u un l11111 -t1bull1
n Wlclo tloe annbull-bull bullbull nlliUll7 tloe bullf th
CitlflllfrickqltHM jHtlll
Jl UatUrlJo tt tH J-ry 11 ltU UNC -tllll It tclll tile tDI
-4 ct uMlM anbullbull-bullmiddot tile HJTbull-utt ~~ tile CllJ nhalM4
SJ bull IK IIMSlat-laf=-_Tf-ttimiddot~~ tile CltJmiddot rM -at Ua1bullfMJ 1 1H -bulllii-flMliWIC _ tc a
HJriWC
S) llcltlJ in atUft Ua f- bull iadnnu tb CiJ
tt bull ta91_t_~ WtllliaU~a ltlllolillntcll~-lta bull
__uUti middot~middotiatiiai~illrUII1 (S utaa UIIIE
-tlq bull bull ))
middot middot _- dltat_
U Datu UUa lout aUatta tile f_ wtcll tllla al4 _ bulltUbullI
al ctooa eDl _ Mntn WlM tiM an-c
u ctooa nbullbullt af _ Wltcubull bullttl-_~u-~~atllh
u -rtah ctooa uu nalt
Daf-bullbullUbullu
)1 1o1 cu __ uu ta ala fn ctooa ct ca _ a
bulltlata bull tu n- ca _ tu ellfMUttfta ru elM -~
-ral-n
H tiM_ bullbull tacufatM t~ -u - _ u
tncll all af ctooa ClJ af bulltcka uMIII ta 1amp11 f~ 14 lHl (t
Ute af lU11E tl) U J_ U lHS (tiM Uta ampdiiIIampUJ cntlatbullbull
fat lampll cJM)
st tNcaatatalaf_U
60 tauu-rtlllet-rntaolafctfrk--l_Mu
U af tu u t u nut- b Vrvttll u _ trull frw atlller
fftll cuc-n witll Uc Valrlcll Uamplll _ ll cnck U tlctlln lbull
11 lfttllaat tlo bull Wlritll null r tllat bullnbullbull-bull tHen
attcaUJfaaatlllt
U - bullt tM lifuu tawltH h bullt ec-1ampamp1 tbull bull
tntbull bulln- ce ua wtU1 t Vubulltck uull
UDbullf-t111eftiMC1tytfWMampk tnull_ eft uulllbullfetHt
ftlt-rt tf tn~ lt41amp111 tftllo_r plat t1 c-w 1M WotJ tbulllttlilu
wtclltbVelwtcknulruUU
64 Vtrwidlttu111-nauJ97Jcwk
till Ultlil f- ltiMt CMl-H llllt fn1iloAottr -middot pill tl c-UI
litlltt -taettUOJt- r-k
M ntnflno till lin- 10 021 per-k
IJ ~tlJo WIamp I lltl o r YirtH If till flw01 llt~o-
f - h ulnllt II 1021 t- pet aM_ S1SM ibullbullbull
II tud dol bull_liM M lt 11tltl t1111 ctt OHR r dol
u (J_ u lPampall _ tlllnb
rauwr Ull 1111 wt1l bnt ltlAampl -middot _
lMt tiM dol nbullt a -t -nebell
Jt II dol - tf Uilul tt-l tbull la 1611 ll bulltUllol t1
lett tiM _ lltt pntlu uu __ MtiMtH MH4
latlctpetM - _ --1 tUcu diet lt wt1l __ fer UD u
u llprtl Z1 middot tl ~~middotit tlla 11-bull 18nttlol
HifOltiaUrflftMI
Jl r bull bull piUfUpll J If WJI UUIt Cftrt Otollt o UU 11
alii Mtitl tl - llltbullIU If Cio
n Ull r- Pobull t1 anciH tbt MUtl-t
JJ u u 11t nntlJ pt- u -niH tloot
lltUl-t -111 tMn U rttMr taurtn-bull n bull ent t1 iludut
witlo tu IN--_ _u 27 uu U t dHIJtl - fudolr ut -u
JS It R- h t tbt t _ flf tbt Nltlf till
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
tt tyen1-dr 11 laurfuclllc liebull cntft4
11 la - cf laterlcreMi o hoi UU pnriiiM tlltt UU U M
bullbullntr~ u rut cw J_ u llullliH _ -u iitltnoor tc bull ntncl ef tlllll bullbullbullbull t l cu U lu leet tlllll
_ lbulln uu uutal eMu _ tacbullnM
U 0 _ U cl eM Crt Clfller JM1bull Al-Ua
JftI1IIMI
middotu tw 111111 un _ nMtUbull
fbullniiMnU ~ dM
ua Pt ellen will bull laurntltol bull I er
ampMcdbull-bullwitllcMct_ tIU
erencbpllltte_ r uuMtatttllt
Ull bull Ul bull IU Met 1ffent U -111
_lat nnopUbull n IMcd bull-middot la tM
__lactlftnlaudbullrcbull
-ldllliH fer _ _ tM -tnl
-~~Kiln kUelGH tllelo UDJI11ll
JIIJIId te f lnt elllll Y ntillt tiM
liM Mt ferdo Ia _ 1 _ _ esl1
hW1d lett uu _ uet-amp1 eMU_ f111 lann41 Y aa nelft cf tiM
bull bull tr~r~uu J
n LUI MnY bulltUiu elM cn eh DDI tile Dtnctll 1 _ elM
t- If llntlllalcllflcU tbt 1t llciiIYmiddot rdcll 1u u~
U lc _ altM all tM _ wtdo tiMo MIUtbullu If tM DDI
dol tinctn 0 1dl Saltltat dol iaulftHMI wtdl IampD 0 1 aHa -~~
tMt 11 6 0 raptl U If dol Cn Oritr -- btl pt
U 0 K t-t U ltU IampU _ llooq _ I ~-bull blaM hlill wu _ cu (lUIIC) lor
iclo all tM City 1f nriclol u u lll U k liM u LHl (btu If u
tM UIIIC I Ctrtl LIMfW) tnlo~-7 -u n cdn uHlU 11 Ill 11H
n bull la tlf u n tiM Ctnl La4U11 1 _ M-U
1 lilt llJIIC f1r-ll7 bull ~cu-pqMl 1t IU
DMI 14 IMJ bee~ -u ( -J If tM U bullt If acloo1
141MlllJIIC-tblttUcW )
JD llletlnctnefdoeDDI91t tllf-efU
U n Mn~~ter t~MrlW till en- M middot~middot _
Dat it -1laquo- tlM ----- - middotmiddot ( 1111Sillmiddot hU bull
16 INl _ YHMq hcr tD INl bull middot bull eu )
)t A hbull later --bull 1t tile Wilt-bull 1f tiM T- ef rtlo
hltlltteU _ llreuec lola Mn tbull up tlllat an- t
Jl At 0 t- bull illilt-bull _ _ pt till tlnctH tbull 111 tlllt
llJIIC u 41U Ul-1111bull If tilt nu-c 11bull the Dlncur
)4 At tk- -till 1f tile Ulte J-11 II If tillbull Dill
tfUcltl -rn-tU tile Uraun bull MdR~dlrrIL
t--lT -bullbull (Ill Ut WIIIC - etas J t -11 tl middot t-4
anedo )
]6 1M DlnUH doc DDI pttlill t1 t~ cn OHu
n 11111 t111e _ tlllq _ lor tu ttTM uclou
U fntlon J-bullUW W lltcall7 nHrM tlobull DDI lU
HHtiiiH tl tWhk~t((M~_~~~t~~~~~~~~
middot-o=_-tnw bullf_slM OfMl (1-~ t bulll t~ CMIt Orin)
H Wloampt u u bull ltf wubull -bullu tW eu Orin Wlclo bull
f1u4 ~ 1U 1PIlo Wid 1IoM 1rinM ~ dobull Cn II
_ lampenfn-bull nJubull apMi (n t- Y-bull Wilt-bull) ct bullU
bull bullJtt -nbull bullf bull1 _ eMu~ u Mu ttoa Cnbull OrHr _ sH
UUbullaloWtulr
40 ftol JDI t flncllrW 1 doltcbull
bull u M nat uc u _ c-u Ucu urcll _ -bull
a~ncack utdotiMflnt~tnUClt7bullfWMck
middot Ufnu lor uu ulr tM T- u n tu ~dp tbull M
middot n T- pt U tlf~etn bullbullbullia 11 tM USWIC u
u-1-CiUiio tu - ritlo uu fabull~Ellmiddot
J-17lllfllpampncn4)
amp7 IIMJt_l U T- uuhll7 nclMobulltutM bull H m r
Wldl U T- -~bull uk tloe U1111C u unuUn tu _ tlon tiM
CitdllnrirkbullJbullntattoabullnbulla-bullmiddot
u At slM Pnltlla _ tuln-bull bullf doa -middot th Clt bullf Vfrick
bullbull Jut Ut
ampt fttbullwubullu1Nlbullf tuanunltiaoo
so tt u1 M 1Kil1 Wt n u hc_r u un l11111 -t1bull1
n Wlclo tloe annbull-bull bullbull nlliUll7 tloe bullf th
CitlflllfrickqltHM jHtlll
Jl UatUrlJo tt tH J-ry 11 ltU UNC -tllll It tclll tile tDI
-4 ct uMlM anbullbull-bullmiddot tile HJTbull-utt ~~ tile CllJ nhalM4
SJ bull IK IIMSlat-laf=-_Tf-ttimiddot~~ tile CltJmiddot rM -at Ua1bullfMJ 1 1H -bulllii-flMliWIC _ tc a
HJriWC
S) llcltlJ in atUft Ua f- bull iadnnu tb CiJ
tt bull ta91_t_~ WtllliaU~a ltlllolillntcll~-lta bull
__uUti middot~middotiatiiai~illrUII1 (S utaa UIIIE
-tlq bull bull ))
middot middot _- dltat_
U Datu UUa lout aUatta tile f_ wtcll tllla al4 _ bulltUbullI
al ctooa eDl _ Mntn WlM tiM an-c
u ctooa nbullbullt af _ Wltcubull bullttl-_~u-~~atllh
u -rtah ctooa uu nalt
Daf-bullbullUbullu
)1 1o1 cu __ uu ta ala fn ctooa ct ca _ a
bulltlata bull tu n- ca _ tu ellfMUttfta ru elM -~
-ral-n
H tiM_ bullbull tacufatM t~ -u - _ u
tncll all af ctooa ClJ af bulltcka uMIII ta 1amp11 f~ 14 lHl (t
Ute af lU11E tl) U J_ U lHS (tiM Uta ampdiiIIampUJ cntlatbullbull
fat lampll cJM)
st tNcaatatalaf_U
60 tauu-rtlllet-rntaolafctfrk--l_Mu
U af tu u t u nut- b Vrvttll u _ trull frw atlller
fftll cuc-n witll Uc Valrlcll Uamplll _ ll cnck U tlctlln lbull
11 lfttllaat tlo bull Wlritll null r tllat bullnbullbull-bull tHen
attcaUJfaaatlllt
U - bullt tM lifuu tawltH h bullt ec-1ampamp1 tbull bull
tntbull bulln- ce ua wtU1 t Vubulltck uull
UDbullf-t111eftiMC1tytfWMampk tnull_ eft uulllbullfetHt
ftlt-rt tf tn~ lt41amp111 tftllo_r plat t1 c-w 1M WotJ tbulllttlilu
wtclltbVelwtcknulruUU
64 Vtrwidlttu111-nauJ97Jcwk
till Ultlil f- ltiMt CMl-H llllt fn1iloAottr -middot pill tl c-UI
litlltt -taettUOJt- r-k
M ntnflno till lin- 10 021 per-k
IJ ~tlJo WIamp I lltl o r YirtH If till flw01 llt~o-
f - h ulnllt II 1021 t- pet aM_ S1SM ibullbullbull
II tud dol bull_liM M lt 11tltl t1111 ctt OHR r dol
u (J_ u lPampall _ tlllnb
rauwr Ull 1111 wt1l bnt ltlAampl -middot _
lMt tiM dol nbullt a -t -nebell
Jt II dol - tf Uilul tt-l tbull la 1611 ll bulltUllol t1
lett tiM _ lltt pntlu uu __ MtiMtH MH4
latlctpetM - _ --1 tUcu diet lt wt1l __ fer UD u
u llprtl Z1 middot tl ~~middotit tlla 11-bull 18nttlol
HifOltiaUrflftMI
Jl r bull bull piUfUpll J If WJI UUIt Cftrt Otollt o UU 11
alii Mtitl tl - llltbullIU If Cio
n Ull r- Pobull t1 anciH tbt MUtl-t
JJ u u 11t nntlJ pt- u -niH tloot
lltUl-t -111 tMn U rttMr taurtn-bull n bull ent t1 iludut
witlo tu IN--_ _u 27 uu U t dHIJtl - fudolr ut -u
JS It R- h t tbt t _ flf tbt Nltlf till
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
U lc _ altM all tM _ wtdo tiMo MIUtbullu If tM DDI
dol tinctn 0 1dl Saltltat dol iaulftHMI wtdl IampD 0 1 aHa -~~
tMt 11 6 0 raptl U If dol Cn Oritr -- btl pt
U 0 K t-t U ltU IampU _ llooq _ I ~-bull blaM hlill wu _ cu (lUIIC) lor
iclo all tM City 1f nriclol u u lll U k liM u LHl (btu If u
tM UIIIC I Ctrtl LIMfW) tnlo~-7 -u n cdn uHlU 11 Ill 11H
n bull la tlf u n tiM Ctnl La4U11 1 _ M-U
1 lilt llJIIC f1r-ll7 bull ~cu-pqMl 1t IU
DMI 14 IMJ bee~ -u ( -J If tM U bullt If acloo1
141MlllJIIC-tblttUcW )
JD llletlnctnefdoeDDI91t tllf-efU
U n Mn~~ter t~MrlW till en- M middot~middot _
Dat it -1laquo- tlM ----- - middotmiddot ( 1111Sillmiddot hU bull
16 INl _ YHMq hcr tD INl bull middot bull eu )
)t A hbull later --bull 1t tile Wilt-bull 1f tiM T- ef rtlo
hltlltteU _ llreuec lola Mn tbull up tlllat an- t
Jl At 0 t- bull illilt-bull _ _ pt till tlnctH tbull 111 tlllt
llJIIC u 41U Ul-1111bull If tilt nu-c 11bull the Dlncur
)4 At tk- -till 1f tile Ulte J-11 II If tillbull Dill
tfUcltl -rn-tU tile Uraun bull MdR~dlrrIL
t--lT -bullbull (Ill Ut WIIIC - etas J t -11 tl middot t-4
anedo )
]6 1M DlnUH doc DDI pttlill t1 t~ cn OHu
n 11111 t111e _ tlllq _ lor tu ttTM uclou
U fntlon J-bullUW W lltcall7 nHrM tlobull DDI lU
HHtiiiH tl tWhk~t((M~_~~~t~~~~~~~~
middot-o=_-tnw bullf_slM OfMl (1-~ t bulll t~ CMIt Orin)
H Wloampt u u bull ltf wubull -bullu tW eu Orin Wlclo bull
f1u4 ~ 1U 1PIlo Wid 1IoM 1rinM ~ dobull Cn II
_ lampenfn-bull nJubull apMi (n t- Y-bull Wilt-bull) ct bullU
bull bullJtt -nbull bullf bull1 _ eMu~ u Mu ttoa Cnbull OrHr _ sH
UUbullaloWtulr
40 ftol JDI t flncllrW 1 doltcbull
bull u M nat uc u _ c-u Ucu urcll _ -bull
a~ncack utdotiMflnt~tnUClt7bullfWMck
middot Ufnu lor uu ulr tM T- u n tu ~dp tbull M
middot n T- pt U tlf~etn bullbullbullia 11 tM USWIC u
u-1-CiUiio tu - ritlo uu fabull~Ellmiddot
J-17lllfllpampncn4)
amp7 IIMJt_l U T- uuhll7 nclMobulltutM bull H m r
Wldl U T- -~bull uk tloe U1111C u unuUn tu _ tlon tiM
CitdllnrirkbullJbullntattoabullnbulla-bullmiddot
u At slM Pnltlla _ tuln-bull bullf doa -middot th Clt bullf Vfrick
bullbull Jut Ut
ampt fttbullwubullu1Nlbullf tuanunltiaoo
so tt u1 M 1Kil1 Wt n u hc_r u un l11111 -t1bull1
n Wlclo tloe annbull-bull bullbull nlliUll7 tloe bullf th
CitlflllfrickqltHM jHtlll
Jl UatUrlJo tt tH J-ry 11 ltU UNC -tllll It tclll tile tDI
-4 ct uMlM anbullbull-bullmiddot tile HJTbull-utt ~~ tile CllJ nhalM4
SJ bull IK IIMSlat-laf=-_Tf-ttimiddot~~ tile CltJmiddot rM -at Ua1bullfMJ 1 1H -bulllii-flMliWIC _ tc a
HJriWC
S) llcltlJ in atUft Ua f- bull iadnnu tb CiJ
tt bull ta91_t_~ WtllliaU~a ltlllolillntcll~-lta bull
__uUti middot~middotiatiiai~illrUII1 (S utaa UIIIE
-tlq bull bull ))
middot middot _- dltat_
U Datu UUa lout aUatta tile f_ wtcll tllla al4 _ bulltUbullI
al ctooa eDl _ Mntn WlM tiM an-c
u ctooa nbullbullt af _ Wltcubull bullttl-_~u-~~atllh
u -rtah ctooa uu nalt
Daf-bullbullUbullu
)1 1o1 cu __ uu ta ala fn ctooa ct ca _ a
bulltlata bull tu n- ca _ tu ellfMUttfta ru elM -~
-ral-n
H tiM_ bullbull tacufatM t~ -u - _ u
tncll all af ctooa ClJ af bulltcka uMIII ta 1amp11 f~ 14 lHl (t
Ute af lU11E tl) U J_ U lHS (tiM Uta ampdiiIIampUJ cntlatbullbull
fat lampll cJM)
st tNcaatatalaf_U
60 tauu-rtlllet-rntaolafctfrk--l_Mu
U af tu u t u nut- b Vrvttll u _ trull frw atlller
fftll cuc-n witll Uc Valrlcll Uamplll _ ll cnck U tlctlln lbull
11 lfttllaat tlo bull Wlritll null r tllat bullnbullbull-bull tHen
attcaUJfaaatlllt
U - bullt tM lifuu tawltH h bullt ec-1ampamp1 tbull bull
tntbull bulln- ce ua wtU1 t Vubulltck uull
UDbullf-t111eftiMC1tytfWMampk tnull_ eft uulllbullfetHt
ftlt-rt tf tn~ lt41amp111 tftllo_r plat t1 c-w 1M WotJ tbulllttlilu
wtclltbVelwtcknulruUU
64 Vtrwidlttu111-nauJ97Jcwk
till Ultlil f- ltiMt CMl-H llllt fn1iloAottr -middot pill tl c-UI
litlltt -taettUOJt- r-k
M ntnflno till lin- 10 021 per-k
IJ ~tlJo WIamp I lltl o r YirtH If till flw01 llt~o-
f - h ulnllt II 1021 t- pet aM_ S1SM ibullbullbull
II tud dol bull_liM M lt 11tltl t1111 ctt OHR r dol
u (J_ u lPampall _ tlllnb
rauwr Ull 1111 wt1l bnt ltlAampl -middot _
lMt tiM dol nbullt a -t -nebell
Jt II dol - tf Uilul tt-l tbull la 1611 ll bulltUllol t1
lett tiM _ lltt pntlu uu __ MtiMtH MH4
latlctpetM - _ --1 tUcu diet lt wt1l __ fer UD u
u llprtl Z1 middot tl ~~middotit tlla 11-bull 18nttlol
HifOltiaUrflftMI
Jl r bull bull piUfUpll J If WJI UUIt Cftrt Otollt o UU 11
alii Mtitl tl - llltbullIU If Cio
n Ull r- Pobull t1 anciH tbt MUtl-t
JJ u u 11t nntlJ pt- u -niH tloot
lltUl-t -111 tMn U rttMr taurtn-bull n bull ent t1 iludut
witlo tu IN--_ _u 27 uu U t dHIJtl - fudolr ut -u
JS It R- h t tbt t _ flf tbt Nltlf till
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
U fntlon J-bullUW W lltcall7 nHrM tlobull DDI lU
HHtiiiH tl tWhk~t((M~_~~~t~~~~~~~~
middot-o=_-tnw bullf_slM OfMl (1-~ t bulll t~ CMIt Orin)
H Wloampt u u bull ltf wubull -bullu tW eu Orin Wlclo bull
f1u4 ~ 1U 1PIlo Wid 1IoM 1rinM ~ dobull Cn II
_ lampenfn-bull nJubull apMi (n t- Y-bull Wilt-bull) ct bullU
bull bullJtt -nbull bullf bull1 _ eMu~ u Mu ttoa Cnbull OrHr _ sH
UUbullaloWtulr
40 ftol JDI t flncllrW 1 doltcbull
bull u M nat uc u _ c-u Ucu urcll _ -bull
a~ncack utdotiMflnt~tnUClt7bullfWMck
middot Ufnu lor uu ulr tM T- u n tu ~dp tbull M
middot n T- pt U tlf~etn bullbullbullia 11 tM USWIC u
u-1-CiUiio tu - ritlo uu fabull~Ellmiddot
J-17lllfllpampncn4)
amp7 IIMJt_l U T- uuhll7 nclMobulltutM bull H m r
Wldl U T- -~bull uk tloe U1111C u unuUn tu _ tlon tiM
CitdllnrirkbullJbullntattoabullnbulla-bullmiddot
u At slM Pnltlla _ tuln-bull bullf doa -middot th Clt bullf Vfrick
bullbull Jut Ut
ampt fttbullwubullu1Nlbullf tuanunltiaoo
so tt u1 M 1Kil1 Wt n u hc_r u un l11111 -t1bull1
n Wlclo tloe annbull-bull bullbull nlliUll7 tloe bullf th
CitlflllfrickqltHM jHtlll
Jl UatUrlJo tt tH J-ry 11 ltU UNC -tllll It tclll tile tDI
-4 ct uMlM anbullbull-bullmiddot tile HJTbull-utt ~~ tile CllJ nhalM4
SJ bull IK IIMSlat-laf=-_Tf-ttimiddot~~ tile CltJmiddot rM -at Ua1bullfMJ 1 1H -bulllii-flMliWIC _ tc a
HJriWC
S) llcltlJ in atUft Ua f- bull iadnnu tb CiJ
tt bull ta91_t_~ WtllliaU~a ltlllolillntcll~-lta bull
__uUti middot~middotiatiiai~illrUII1 (S utaa UIIIE
-tlq bull bull ))
middot middot _- dltat_
U Datu UUa lout aUatta tile f_ wtcll tllla al4 _ bulltUbullI
al ctooa eDl _ Mntn WlM tiM an-c
u ctooa nbullbullt af _ Wltcubull bullttl-_~u-~~atllh
u -rtah ctooa uu nalt
Daf-bullbullUbullu
)1 1o1 cu __ uu ta ala fn ctooa ct ca _ a
bulltlata bull tu n- ca _ tu ellfMUttfta ru elM -~
-ral-n
H tiM_ bullbull tacufatM t~ -u - _ u
tncll all af ctooa ClJ af bulltcka uMIII ta 1amp11 f~ 14 lHl (t
Ute af lU11E tl) U J_ U lHS (tiM Uta ampdiiIIampUJ cntlatbullbull
fat lampll cJM)
st tNcaatatalaf_U
60 tauu-rtlllet-rntaolafctfrk--l_Mu
U af tu u t u nut- b Vrvttll u _ trull frw atlller
fftll cuc-n witll Uc Valrlcll Uamplll _ ll cnck U tlctlln lbull
11 lfttllaat tlo bull Wlritll null r tllat bullnbullbull-bull tHen
attcaUJfaaatlllt
U - bullt tM lifuu tawltH h bullt ec-1ampamp1 tbull bull
tntbull bulln- ce ua wtU1 t Vubulltck uull
UDbullf-t111eftiMC1tytfWMampk tnull_ eft uulllbullfetHt
ftlt-rt tf tn~ lt41amp111 tftllo_r plat t1 c-w 1M WotJ tbulllttlilu
wtclltbVelwtcknulruUU
64 Vtrwidlttu111-nauJ97Jcwk
till Ultlil f- ltiMt CMl-H llllt fn1iloAottr -middot pill tl c-UI
litlltt -taettUOJt- r-k
M ntnflno till lin- 10 021 per-k
IJ ~tlJo WIamp I lltl o r YirtH If till flw01 llt~o-
f - h ulnllt II 1021 t- pet aM_ S1SM ibullbullbull
II tud dol bull_liM M lt 11tltl t1111 ctt OHR r dol
u (J_ u lPampall _ tlllnb
rauwr Ull 1111 wt1l bnt ltlAampl -middot _
lMt tiM dol nbullt a -t -nebell
Jt II dol - tf Uilul tt-l tbull la 1611 ll bulltUllol t1
lett tiM _ lltt pntlu uu __ MtiMtH MH4
latlctpetM - _ --1 tUcu diet lt wt1l __ fer UD u
u llprtl Z1 middot tl ~~middotit tlla 11-bull 18nttlol
HifOltiaUrflftMI
Jl r bull bull piUfUpll J If WJI UUIt Cftrt Otollt o UU 11
alii Mtitl tl - llltbullIU If Cio
n Ull r- Pobull t1 anciH tbt MUtl-t
JJ u u 11t nntlJ pt- u -niH tloot
lltUl-t -111 tMn U rttMr taurtn-bull n bull ent t1 iludut
witlo tu IN--_ _u 27 uu U t dHIJtl - fudolr ut -u
JS It R- h t tbt t _ flf tbt Nltlf till
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
Jl UatUrlJo tt tH J-ry 11 ltU UNC -tllll It tclll tile tDI
-4 ct uMlM anbullbull-bullmiddot tile HJTbull-utt ~~ tile CllJ nhalM4
SJ bull IK IIMSlat-laf=-_Tf-ttimiddot~~ tile CltJmiddot rM -at Ua1bullfMJ 1 1H -bulllii-flMliWIC _ tc a
HJriWC
S) llcltlJ in atUft Ua f- bull iadnnu tb CiJ
tt bull ta91_t_~ WtllliaU~a ltlllolillntcll~-lta bull
__uUti middot~middotiatiiai~illrUII1 (S utaa UIIIE
-tlq bull bull ))
middot middot _- dltat_
U Datu UUa lout aUatta tile f_ wtcll tllla al4 _ bulltUbullI
al ctooa eDl _ Mntn WlM tiM an-c
u ctooa nbullbullt af _ Wltcubull bullttl-_~u-~~atllh
u -rtah ctooa uu nalt
Daf-bullbullUbullu
)1 1o1 cu __ uu ta ala fn ctooa ct ca _ a
bulltlata bull tu n- ca _ tu ellfMUttfta ru elM -~
-ral-n
H tiM_ bullbull tacufatM t~ -u - _ u
tncll all af ctooa ClJ af bulltcka uMIII ta 1amp11 f~ 14 lHl (t
Ute af lU11E tl) U J_ U lHS (tiM Uta ampdiiIIampUJ cntlatbullbull
fat lampll cJM)
st tNcaatatalaf_U
60 tauu-rtlllet-rntaolafctfrk--l_Mu
U af tu u t u nut- b Vrvttll u _ trull frw atlller
fftll cuc-n witll Uc Valrlcll Uamplll _ ll cnck U tlctlln lbull
11 lfttllaat tlo bull Wlritll null r tllat bullnbullbull-bull tHen
attcaUJfaaatlllt
U - bullt tM lifuu tawltH h bullt ec-1ampamp1 tbull bull
tntbull bulln- ce ua wtU1 t Vubulltck uull
UDbullf-t111eftiMC1tytfWMampk tnull_ eft uulllbullfetHt
ftlt-rt tf tn~ lt41amp111 tftllo_r plat t1 c-w 1M WotJ tbulllttlilu
wtclltbVelwtcknulruUU
64 Vtrwidlttu111-nauJ97Jcwk
till Ultlil f- ltiMt CMl-H llllt fn1iloAottr -middot pill tl c-UI
litlltt -taettUOJt- r-k
M ntnflno till lin- 10 021 per-k
IJ ~tlJo WIamp I lltl o r YirtH If till flw01 llt~o-
f - h ulnllt II 1021 t- pet aM_ S1SM ibullbullbull
II tud dol bull_liM M lt 11tltl t1111 ctt OHR r dol
u (J_ u lPampall _ tlllnb
rauwr Ull 1111 wt1l bnt ltlAampl -middot _
lMt tiM dol nbullt a -t -nebell
Jt II dol - tf Uilul tt-l tbull la 1611 ll bulltUllol t1
lett tiM _ lltt pntlu uu __ MtiMtH MH4
latlctpetM - _ --1 tUcu diet lt wt1l __ fer UD u
u llprtl Z1 middot tl ~~middotit tlla 11-bull 18nttlol
HifOltiaUrflftMI
Jl r bull bull piUfUpll J If WJI UUIt Cftrt Otollt o UU 11
alii Mtitl tl - llltbullIU If Cio
n Ull r- Pobull t1 anciH tbt MUtl-t
JJ u u 11t nntlJ pt- u -niH tloot
lltUl-t -111 tMn U rttMr taurtn-bull n bull ent t1 iludut
witlo tu IN--_ _u 27 uu U t dHIJtl - fudolr ut -u
JS It R- h t tbt t _ flf tbt Nltlf till
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
U - bullt tM lifuu tawltH h bullt ec-1ampamp1 tbull bull
tntbull bulln- ce ua wtU1 t Vubulltck uull
UDbullf-t111eftiMC1tytfWMampk tnull_ eft uulllbullfetHt
ftlt-rt tf tn~ lt41amp111 tftllo_r plat t1 c-w 1M WotJ tbulllttlilu
wtclltbVelwtcknulruUU
64 Vtrwidlttu111-nauJ97Jcwk
till Ultlil f- ltiMt CMl-H llllt fn1iloAottr -middot pill tl c-UI
litlltt -taettUOJt- r-k
M ntnflno till lin- 10 021 per-k
IJ ~tlJo WIamp I lltl o r YirtH If till flw01 llt~o-
f - h ulnllt II 1021 t- pet aM_ S1SM ibullbullbull
II tud dol bull_liM M lt 11tltl t1111 ctt OHR r dol
u (J_ u lPampall _ tlllnb
rauwr Ull 1111 wt1l bnt ltlAampl -middot _
lMt tiM dol nbullt a -t -nebell
Jt II dol - tf Uilul tt-l tbull la 1611 ll bulltUllol t1
lett tiM _ lltt pntlu uu __ MtiMtH MH4
latlctpetM - _ --1 tUcu diet lt wt1l __ fer UD u
u llprtl Z1 middot tl ~~middotit tlla 11-bull 18nttlol
HifOltiaUrflftMI
Jl r bull bull piUfUpll J If WJI UUIt Cftrt Otollt o UU 11
alii Mtitl tl - llltbullIU If Cio
n Ull r- Pobull t1 anciH tbt MUtl-t
JJ u u 11t nntlJ pt- u -niH tloot
lltUl-t -111 tMn U rttMr taurtn-bull n bull ent t1 iludut
witlo tu IN--_ _u 27 uu U t dHIJtl - fudolr ut -u
JS It R- h t tbt t _ flf tbt Nltlf till
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
middot u bull Mft - bullbull u- t-Mehtn
n llrrileni-iiiirRNrMt 1uu r
tlbull~---UU bullecattnu Mmiddot-middot -middot itrat ~ middotucuieHbull
71 n II pn Ut Unbullnt
u tM Cn OrMr _ u LampU I l~illt) U 17 ortt~ ito n U10 t- IM IUU MU 1t - nUt t~ll
bull bull - lut it ti 11 11Mc h ell _ et tM t- tollic~ iutlp tile
lMerf-bull wtdo UUf -u
u- _ - - tra w uu lMt cMt--uMtr~-
14 n _ -middot bullu r~u llltbulltlAampU7bull
_ 1t- fdl7 - _bullbull bullbull u
M M bull n u ate eube _ _ _ u Mtke
If hrtller _ lbullr ua- _ elM _ c-11 ef
tM _ ef tu 1ac autM IS lliMtM el -r- c-u
- J~ u ltM (f 111) eu )
N u tMn u bull7 -rc clbulln tM - t eM -r shy
c-cu bullnlqt u tc u nn
middot n lliMtM a~ cMt tile _ c-u ratNlr bullucu tiM
-- et tile Cn o-r ledUc I uarall U ac -cettbe
_ c-11 bullbullttqbull (_ ur d _ c-11 -bullUttbullmiddot tt
ltll cbullbull 104) Jbull-7 ll (f 111)- ~_ bullbull til)
lttW)
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
u~lnlrbullf lu- Lq
tt IMIIMT-- Uurfen4 U U -u riamplolll _ n tan IMudt elM _ iaurfntol LIU U cld nq
u u n uu middot u ur-u umnP uc tc - ~ot
Mclubulllf
~IIIIOIIICIIICDra1 bullcftllhal
Lcbull
s(l~-Q ao 1-Mt -bullmiddot -
1 lAm J VllICII fiM _ bullf IP4fUl I a- _ 1M _II T~ bullI ll IM ntol diU__ -wp 1 lUl-U - en _ It l If_ --IMp lafbull-tU _ lodW
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
t_lt-ibullbullrunUrtllati__UbullbullrMbullbullbulltt ricll_ bullelUent h 1M bullfftcu bullh U _g~ Mtu 1 ~Ua et tM __ Ctr Crt _ lndh llrHI -Unctl Orln llcl1lll1Jo Cllief Ltpl Ctd Dtflf-C t ampn~Ul -1-Co hrk ltrlllo tr~U-bull1 _ rl r kUUrt-bull t- uctnr u toO rru-e ltnlo _Mktlo tlMolo bull dot lfcll tf ~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
SUPERIOR COURTSTATE OF RHODE I SLAID PROVIDENCE Sc
LANDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY INC
cA No 81-4 091
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MAtiAGEMENT OF THE STATE OP RHODE ISLAND and ROBtRT L BENDICK JR i n hh capacity as Director o f the Depar tment of Environmenta l Management of the Sta t e o f Rhode I dfndJ TOWN OF NORTII SMITHFIELD Intervenor
PREHEARING MEMORANtnU1
TRAVEL AND FACTS
Though the dibullagreements betveen the parties here in are of long
duration for purpose of resolving the instant dispute only those
occurrences subsequent to entry of the courtbullbull Order of~8l
) (the Order) are of primary r elevance The partiu present dispute
concernbull the interpretation to be given certain language in the Order
aa well aa the appropriate procedure for resolving their differing
interpretations
The order endorae4 a bullconsent Order and Agreementbull (the Agreeshy
ment) which was the product of ncgotiationsbe tween Landfill and
Resource Recovery Inc tLUR) and the Department of Environmental
Management (OEM) It waa the intention of both parties by thh method
to r esolve all extant contes ted matte r s betwe~n t hem s ave an i nverse
condemnation quest i o n The fi r s t and mos t fundamen t al term of the
Agreement provided for the closure o f LRRs landfill facility by a
date certain or when it reached a specified elevation whichever
occurred first (Provision 11 of the Agreement) Without a finite
period of operations no consent agreement would have been possible
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
rt Approximltoly six months after entry of the Order LbullRR (or
) Truk Away a related corporation) aouqht permiuion from the Solid
Waite Management Corporation (SWMC to accept and depoait municipal
trash froa the City of Warvick and to receive a credit threfor toshy
ward future dumping at the SWMC facility The OEM Director in hh
capacity bullbull a Board member of the SWHC initially supported the
request Subsequently after diacuaaiona with officials of the Tovn
of North Smithfield (where LRRa landfill facility 1a located) he
was per1uaded that on balance it waa not appropriate to give special
treatment to URR (Truk Away)) and that the Tovn a concerns about
increased truck traffic and litter were legitimate In light of the
City of Warwick a expreuion of opposition to itl traah being aent
to the LbullRR facility the SWMC Board at ita February 1984 meeting
ueter11lined that LIRRs (Truk Aways) request had become moot
It vaa not until September 19 1984 that LIRR bullnotitiedbull OEM
the Court and the TOotn that it considered the denial of LIRR s request
to receive warwick a trash to receive a credit and the events l eadshy
ing to that decision to be in violation of the Orde r Said notifishy
cation dated September 18 1984 was not only belated by a pproxishy
mately six months but is hi9hly unorthodox in that it asserts a right
to unilaterally disregard the clear terms of the Order
Also in September 1984 LRR advised OEM that it intended to
pile trash at its facilitytoa height greater than the 370 feet maxishy
IDUm elevation specified in provilion tJ of the Order
In reaction to both these stated intentions by LRR OEM filed
a Petition to Adjudge in Contempt and for the Appointment of a Master
LUIR has recently filed a Response ~o DEHa Petition
r
-2shy
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
I While it h unc l ear whether L RRa No t iication constitutes
a pleading requi r ing any sort of reapf)nae Dt qenerally denies
the factual allegationa contained i n the Notification and specifishy
cally denies that there has been any interference or interrup~ion
of LbullRRa continued operations within the meaning of the Agreement
and Order
ARGUMENT AND LAW
I~
The u tte r at hearing is i n an unus ual pos t ur e Ra t he r t han
movi ng to Ulampnd that terr~ of the Orde r establis hing a final closure
date baaed on an allegation that another terr1 of the Order had been
violated URR chose rather to file a Notificationbull that it inshy
tended to unilaterally extend the date of cloaure to a date which it
alone had selected LRR no in ita Response to DEMa Petition seeks
to reverse its burden of provin9 ita allegation that the bull no intershy
ferencebull term had been violated by a erting that DDI bullomehow bears
the burden of alleging and proving the absence of interference bull
This would appear to be an obvious attempt to avoid the normal proceshy
dures for moving to uend a Court Order pursuant to R CP 60 and
to ahift the heavy burden which suc h a movant would bear in seeking
to modify a final Order Posquoui v Poaguozzi 119 R I 554 (1977)
In the ordinary case the rule is that a Conaent Orde r cannot
be changed wi thout the a ssent of both parties or in the ab1ence o f one
of the RC P 60 (b ) factass uc h a s fra ud mu t ua l mistake or c ha nged
circums t a ncu justifying relief Douglas constrdc t i on v Wholesale
~middot 119 RI 449 452 379 A2d 917 (1977) OEM acknowledges
th~t the Order herein provided an opportunity for LRR to seek reshy
lief from ita terms if there were interruption of or interference
with the continueU operation of LbullRR It is subrtittecl however that
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
middot in anmiddot other situation where relief rom a Court Order ia sought
it h the obli9ation of the party aeeking rdief to allege and carry
the burden of perauaaion that the applicable standard haa been met
DIM theh deniea that there baa been any interference or int~rruption within the mning of the Order and aubftiUthat it h LbullRRa burden to prove othervhe
It b not unreaaonable to conclude that LUR baa invented and
utilized the bullNotificationbull document not only in an attempt to ahift
the bur den o f proof but alao t o avoi d the requiremen t of RcP fiiO(b)
tha t a motion for r e l ief bull tgte u de wi th in a r ea sona ble t ime and not
ar e than one year a f ttir t he j udCJ1Mnt order or pr oceedin9 vaa
entered or taken bull It ia clea r that had LRR de layed bringing a moshy
tion for relief until September 19 1984 i~ voufd have been barred by
the one year tillle limit in RCP 60 (b) But even vere the one year
period not a bar LbullRR has unreasonably delayed seelting relief It
vas not until November 13 1984 when it filed a bullcross petitionbull abull a
~rt of its Responie that it aaked the Court for r e lief Thua LiRR
did nothing for e ight months after the laat occurrence of which it
compla ins the February decision by the SWMC to seek relief Such
a delay is unreasonable and L6RA ought to be equi tably barred and
denied any relief f or hav i ng failed to comply with a c P 60(b)
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
r= ~ ~ ~ = One of the aubatantive disput es in this proceeding concerns whether
certain occurrences cjualify ae an bullinterruption of or interference
with the continued operation of LUR or trucka going to and from L5RR bull
language found in provbion 13 of the Court Order Hore specifically
the question at iaaue ie vhether the denial by the Solid Wute Manageshy
ment Corporation of LRR a requeat that it be permitted to accept
Warwic k traah violated said provbion A resolution of the dbpute
depe nds on the int erpretation or cons t ruction to be qiven to the termbull
bullinterrupt i on bull bull inte r ferencebull and bullcontinued oper a tion bull I t ia t he
pod tion of OEM that the evenU cited by LUR do not fall vithin the
conatnintl of the above-quoted phrase
The Court need look no further tha n the Court Order itlf to
detemine what the parti intended in uaing these terms It should
Q be noted preliminarily that the language in the Court Order ia that
which DEM and LRR agreed to and which the Judge eff~tuate4 by enshy
tering an Order in conformity vith the parties agreement
It 1a fundamental that a Court firat look to the written inatrushy
ment itself to determine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary tiMianing ~1eatinghouse Broadcasting v
~middot UO A 2d 988 991 (RI 1980) Applying thil principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
wut e disposal facility bull appears in t he very tira t line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and t ha t the phrase Continued operations at the
landfill appears i n the first line of provisiontl2 of said documen t
In addition the Court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appeara elsewhere in the document and in thoseS exhibits
incorporated therein (e g operating hoursbull)
-sshy
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
CORRECTION
THE PRECEDING DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN
REMICROFILMED TO ASSURE LEGIBILITY AND
ITS IMAGE APPEARS IMMEDIATELY HEREAFTER
41250oklond -middot~80gt39
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
One of the aubatantive dhputea in thia proceedinq concerns whether
certain occurrences cjuaUfy as an interruption of or interference
with the continued operation of L6RR or trucks qoinq to and from LbullRRbull bull
lanquaqe found in providon ll of the Court Order More specifically
the question at issue ia whether the denial by the Solid waste Hanaqeshy
ment corpontion of LbullRRs request that it be permitted to accept
Warwick truh violated said provieion A resolution of the dhpute
depends on the interpretAtion or construction to be qiven to the terms
interruption bull interferencebull and bullcontinued operation bull It ia the
position o f DampM that the events c i t ed by L6RR do not fall within the
constraints of the above-quotect phrase
The Court need look no further than the coUrt Order itself to
deteraine what the parties intended in usinq theae terms It should
be noted preliminarily that the languaqe in the court Order is that
which DEH and LiRR aqreed to and which the Judge eff~tuated by enshy
tering an Order in conformity with the parties agreement
It h fundamental that a Court first look to the written ins trushy
ment itself to detemine the intention of the parties and in doing
ao to give words their ordinary meaning ~middotreatinghouae Broadcasting v
Dial Media 410 A2d 988 991 (R I 1980) Applying this principle
the Court will note that the phrase bullcontinue to operate ita solid
waste disposal facilitybull appears in the very first line of the Consent
Order and Agreement and that the phrase bullcontinued operations at the
landfill appears in the first line of proviaiont2 of said document
In addition the court will note that the term operation or somo
variant appears elsewhere in the document and in thos~s exhibits
incorporated therein (eg operatinq houn)
-sshy
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
It h in the context of these other uses th~t the language in
provision HJ should be interpreted It is obvious when so read
that the term operations refers to the mechanical and physical
activities and proceuea which are in furtherance of landfillinq at
the LRR site LRR would have the Court read the term operation
to include business relationships not only existing but prospective
The use of the term in the Consent Order and A9reement ia clearly not
so broad It refen to continued operations at the landfill to
operating ita solid waste disposal facility and ia used in sequence
with other physical tasks (final operationclosure capping and
methane recovery and removal - proviaion 2a)
The interpretation advocated by DE h consistent with Webate~a
preferred definition performance of a practical work or of something
iAwlviAv the practical application of principl or procaaa bull
Websters New collaqhta Dictionary 1979 LbullRR hu not and cannot
contend that there baa been any bullinterferencebull or bullinterruptionbull of
the activiti or processes at the landfill
FurthallDOre evan were operations bull to be read so broadly aa to
include bulineaa relationships no relationship which existed at the
time of the entry of the Order or which came into being subsequently
has bean affected The term interruptbull implies a pre-exhtinq dtushy
ation ~r status quo It b defined by Webster aa bullto atop or hinder
by breaking inbull and bullto break the uniformity or continuity of -
to bzeak in upon an action bull bull While the term interferebull is perhaps mora vaque it must be reshy
membered that it ia used here with tie word continued bull hich means
lasting or extending without interruption bull ~middot The latter word
precludes consideration of prospective relationships or expectanciea
-middotshy
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
middot At the time the Order was entered LR wao not receiving warwick
trash And at no time subsequent to the entry of the o~er clid it
ever receive Warvick trash It ia difficult to conceive of hov auch q a situation could ever be considered to btl bullcontinuing I
~ However oven auuming arguendo that any ambiguity u to tho
vorda interfete bull interrupt or continued operationbull reraaln after
looking at the Order and AgreeJnent ampa a whole and giving ~- there
ordinary ~~eanin9 it ia submitted that it vaa not the parties intent
thlta inability of LUR to obtain and deposit Warwick truh and to reshy
ceive a cred-it vould relieve URR from the moat fundamental provision
of the Court Order tt date for closure
The meaning to be qivan to the word interhre depends upon
the undaratanding of the partillbullbull determined no1 only from the vorda
of the contract but alao from the circwutances surrouncling the choice
of vords including representationbull made in the coune of neqoshy
) us v carr 608tiationa us v Attick 649 rctdld 61(
) Hill v MS Alper Son Inc U6 RI 38 41rocSgtd 8161
256 Ald 10 15 (U69) Aa the evidence at hearing vill show there
vaa no dbcuuion of the circumstancebull of vhich tbullRR presently comshy
plains or ones even remotely aimilar Rather diacuionbull concerned j the implicationbull of acta of civil dbobedience such as blocking the
road into the facility labor strikes or the institution of legal
proceedings by the Tovn or othera which would have the effect of
preventing the landfill facility from operAting for a time There
vas clearly no diacuaaion relating to the buaineabull relationships or
commercial activities of LbullRR
Another rule of constructioninterpretation instructs t~at terms
of art should be applied ao aa to give effect to their lega l meaning
-7shy
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
Greenwood v Stevenson 88 FRO 225 (USOCRI 1980) The word ) I
bulloperations bull (as vall aa bulloperatorbull) ia such a terra of art in the
solid waste mana9eMnt field It refers to the mechanical and phyai
cal proceu of conducting solid vaate management activities Por
example the s~~~ 1bull~ pursuant to which LRR conducts iU activities
provides the folloving definition
The tara bullolid waste Nna9ement facility means any plant atructure equipment real and personal property except mobile equipshyID8nt or incinerators with a capacity of le
p~(~) or~rn~u~~~i~~-rf~r posing of solid vute but not aegreqated aolid vaate bull (enrphasb a44ed) RIGL 123-189-1 (3)
Tne authority for OEM to iss~e licenaea uaes the auae verb
t~~~~i~bulllrtii~~o~r~~~ei=-~~emiddot tained froa the director The director shall have full paver to aake all rules end regulamiddot tions establiahin9 atandarda to be IDet for the iaeuance of aucb licenaee bull (emphaeia added) RI GL 123-lBtbulll
See alao RIG L 123-llt-10 which impoeea a penalty on bullany penon
vho operatebull auch a facility without obtainin9 a Ucbullnbullbullmiddot bull
Dpound41 implementin9 reCJU~a~~~bull are replete vith the term bulloperate bull
in ita varioue fonaa Rule 608 of the Rulebull and Requlationa for
Solid Waate ManageJMnt racUitiea (of vhieh the Court h requ ted to
talcbull judicial notice) December 1 uaz requirebull an applicant for bull
licenae to eubmit an middot~~ating Plan bull which containbull detailed inforshy
mation concerning twenty-five or ao aubjecta among which are
bulloperating houra bull winter operations bull bullsalvaging operationa bull and
leachate treatment operations bull
Fully ten pages almost one third of the regulations deal
specifically with Operating Regulations bull ~uld900 915 apply to
-middotshy
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
Genenl Operating StandA r ds vhile Rules 10 00 - 1017 qovern
Saniury landfill Operating StandArds bull It is clear from even a
cunory eJCAnlinAtion of the standards that the term operatebull and
iU derivAtive fonu are ud throughout in a technical n lhey
refer to tho phydcal and mechanical activities conducted at a
solid vastbull aanagement facility for the proper dhpoaition of refuse
LbullRR cannot contend that ita m~hanical or physical activities
have been either i nterrupted or interfered vith
Moreover even if t he word bulloper ations ia read in a broader
seue to include U RR s buainbullbullbull a c tivi t ies t he noun h modified by
the adjective bullcontinued When read to9e t her t he phrase bull contin~~d
o_~ra~ionabull connotes a ~e_l~~e situation at the ~ime of entry of
th~ Ord~r against vhich to assebullbull vhether the re middothaVe been a n interbull
terence At that time of the Order LbullRR wu rece ivin9 and depositing
=) approxitely 17000 to 11000 cubic yards of truh per veek At the
time that it served ita Notificationbull it had doubled the amount of
refuse vhich it vas receiving and depositing to approximately 36000
to J1 000 cubic yards per veeJc It vould be a stnnge interpretation
of the vorda interferencebull or interruptionbull and a bullconti nued opershy
ationbull Whe r e a doubling of one s activities vith presumably a comshy
menaurate increa s e in income had occurre d
Furthe rmore at the t ime that the Order vas entered LRR had n~
right nor even a n expectancy that i t would be receiving wa rwick
tr~sh State lav creates a preaWDption that all municipa l s olid waste
which cannot be disposed of within a municipalitys boundaries will be
disposed of at the Central Landfill operated by the SWMC RIGL
123-U-13 Under lthode Island Lav URR certainly had no protectible
interest in what can only be reasonably termed the merest of expectshy
-middotshy
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
ancies when it aou9ht a credit from the SWMC Rhode Island has not
1 reco9nized a tort for interference with a prospective contractual reshy
lationship Federal Auto Body Worka v Aetna casualty and Surety
RI 447 A2d 371 379 It h au99eated that Rhode I sland
t_~~Ja_ is instructive by ~~nalcgt9Y in resolvin9 the dispute herein
Moreover even if Rhode Ialand law did protect prespectiva businasa
relationshipa a party haa no right middot to recover if the alleged intershy
ferrin9 party has acted to protect its own le9itimate interests ~
at 380 citing Re1tate11ant Qd) 2m 1769 at P9bull U Here the Town
had a legitimate intereat in protecting ita citizenry from an inshy
creaae in truck traffic and the conaequent increase in air and noiee
pollution a nd ~tyof vehi cle acci denu and f r om the inevitable
increase in litter
III~
URJa recent reaponae contends that a contetrpt proceeding b
inappropriate becauae the eighteen 110nth operational period haa not
yet expi red It ia DEHa podtion that to vait until URRa atated
intention ripens into r eality would create an untenable situation i
Prom ian environmental perspective it ia neceasary that deposition
of tr~~h and the plac-nt of cover uterial during the approxiaate ly
tvo 1110ftth peri od prior to cloaure occur i n a aanne r that prevents the
middotmiddot collec tion of rainwater and conaequent ge neration of leachate to the
9roundvater Were DEM required t o vai t until LRR continued its
operationbull beyond the cloaure date it ia quite conceiva~le that i n
order to minimize pollution of the groundvater it would be compelled
to ~upport continued operationbull to properly confiqure the landfill
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
The law has recognized a partys right to k relief in anticishyr pation of a threatened or predictable braachi1 In contract law the
doctrine of bullanticipatory breachbull or bullanticipatory repudiationbull 9iv
an aggrieved party an i~~~~~~ediata ~auae of action Reatatnt Conshy
tncta 1318 The doctrine recognizes the unfairne aa of requiring a
party to wait if the other party hal made clear that it has no inshy
tention to perform ita obligations under the contract
The Courts have recoqnized a similar unfairness and approved a
civil contempt remedy when the threatened violation ia of a Court
Order bullbull vall In cOftlllenting on a contention similar to that aarted
by LbullRR herein the ~ Sbull Co~z~-~~~~~~l_~econd Circuit observed
bullAppellants final amprCJWHnt 1e that no vioshylation of the 1965 order vas proved bull Apparshyently ita premlae 1a that tMi court should have waited until appelhnt actually aold the lar9e quantity of unlicenaed tetracycline it had already arranved to illport and aell We think that on these facti ita podtion 1a inshycorrect In the face of appellant a actiona and ita threata to Pfiaer there vaa no ruaon for Judvbull Ryan to wait until the laat atep vaa taken Becauae it va not Oampvla-Edvarda haa not yet been required to pey any fine althouqh it haa been adjud9ed in civil cont-ptJ it ia on notice that if it proceeds with ite ishyproper plana to ivnore the conaent judgment it will be liable to a finbull of $5000 tor each violation Thia diapoaition of the matter
tmiddotampfmiddot~ s25J~a-~ona ~irltl1Ji bull Charles Pfhe r bull co v Davia Edwards Pharmacal pound22middot (1967) 385 P2d 5JJ 537-38
OEM baa requested that the Court appoint a maater to overbullbullbull the
operation o LiRRa londfill and to order LiM to pay the costa o
same The Court clearly haa the authocity to do o punuant to RC P
170 and RC P 153 and RIG bullL 19-14-26 Lincoln Tovn of v
Cournoyer llO R I 101 106( ) bull See alao Moore s ~
Practice 170 02 and casea cited therein and Wriqht and Hille r
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
I
~11 13022 P9middot 78 and cuu citad therein reqardinq the analogousrmiddot authority under Federal Rule of Procedure 170 Given LbullRRa etated
intention to extend itbull operationbull and the criticd iampportance of
the activitiea on eite ~lately prior to cloawe it b aubldtted
that appoint-nt of a peraon to ovenee the dally actlvltl bullbull b
varranted DEPARTHENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL HMAGEMINl and ROBERT L BENDICK JR
~~rmiddot~g~l coI 1Dept of Environaenta Kanag-nt 83 Park Strt Providence Rhode IabncS 02903 401277-2771
-12shy
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
I
Fihd 111IS
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS
PROVIDENCE Sc SUPERIOR COURT
LANDFILL i RESOURCE RSCOVRY INC
v
DEPARTMENl OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT OF THI STATE OF RHODE ULAND AND ROBERT L BENDICK JR in nis capacity u Director of the DepUtiDent of Environbullental ~naqent of the State of RhOde Ubnd1 TOWN OF hOHTH SMItHlELD Intervenor
~pound2
of lnvicouentll M1nagement bull ( bullopoundMbull) petition to adjudge
tandfill and Resource Recovery Inc tbullLiRRbull) in contempt and
for the appointment of a Master LiRR nas filed a crou
petition for declaratory relief
This present action ateras from a consent order
ag reement signed by LiRR and OtM on July 13 1983 Thtt
agcotement allowed LiRR to continue opeutions at its durap toe
(CPS)
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
0202U ( PS)
eighteen montha or until the du111p reached A certAin he ight
whichever CARll first
LbullRR btec uranced foe Truk-AwAy tush
haulinc Ucbull to dubullp Wuwick s Municipal tus h At LUtR Tile
LbullRR ciu111p is locAted in Nocth Smithfield Tcuk-AwAy aouyht
appconl foe thia unnge111ent with the Solid wute HAno~qement
Cocpout ion (bullswHCbull) The SWMC denied approval dtec strong
publlc protnt from tne Town of Noeth SMithfield tbullRR then
notified the DEH that the denhl constituted bull i ntedec ence
and that pursuant to the consent agcee111ent LioRR 1 a dump woula
s tay open until April 27 1985 The putiu then filed tteic
cupective petitions
The ~e pcented by these petitions is whether
the DEM And the Town ot Noeth lia~ithUeld inUrfeud within
the laeAninc of the con11ent order and agreement with tbullRR a
plan to process urwick Hunicipoti uash
URR bla111e11 intense lobbying by the DEM ana No rth
S111i thfield fo e Tc ukmiddot Away s hiluce to ootain SioiiIC approva l foe
oumping ttac wic k trasn at LiRR R c_ims tnat the l~nl
c onstituted 1n ter tece nce within the meaning of the agreement
Sifi~C approval u needed toe the auraHnq of
municipal tcaah at out-ofmiddottown situ RtCL 1956 (UH
Reenac tment)S 13middot 19-13 It ia the policy of tllil state foe the
SWMt to ac t foe t ne bene fi t of the people a nd mun icipl li tl~s
-2shy
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
0202U (C PSI
RI G L 1956 (1979 Rnactbulltnt) S 23-19-3 This ftlnl that
the SWMC n~uat take into account the views of a town when it
uvhva plana to dubullp another citys tush in that town middot North
S~ield and the 2M ~middot both acting through appropriate
regulatory cnannela when they ude their negative views known
to the liWMC It il the Courts opinion however that they
were not interfering with LIRBbull opmiddotnt cu
LIRR also claims that without the Warwick truh
ita duiDp could not bulluu up on timebull and that thil intectered
witn ita operations ~RR arguu that the consent agrwent
gave LIRR eighteen bullontna to reach a certain capacity The
Court dhagreea Provision nuaber 1 of the Aquement states
tnat toe dubullp can operate for eighteen 1ontha ll until a
certa1n nelCJht il reached whichever occurs tiCJt ThiS
provhion ia in the disjunctive Therefore the lapse of
eighteen bullontha alone 11 enougn to close the dump regardlus
of the aaount of trash depodtea in it
The Court finds that the DEM and Town of Nortl)
S~~lthtiela have not interfered with LIRRs opeution DENs
petit1on h C)Unted The Court finds however tnat phintit
while technically not in compliance with the Order ana
Agreement of July 13 1983 has not demonstratea any wiUul
lntention to disobey said Oroer and
nowever ~ comlence closing of it5 Landfill ana
~cease oisposin~ of trash at the Nortn Smnnhela site
LIRKs petitlOD h diDieo -3shy
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
1 STAfl OP RBODI ISLAND SOPRKt COURT PROVIDINCI SC
LAIIDPILL AND USOORCI CAI84-0Z60 RECOVERY INC
CAt85-00Z8 and vs
CAtiS-0153 DIPAR1MZH1 OP INVIRONMENTAI HANAGMINT OP ID S1A1B Or RBODI ISLAifD and ROIIRT L 1 BINDICk JR 1 in bil capacity 1
bullbull Director of the DepartMnt 1 of lnvironaental ManagaMnt of1
=s~tcaa~8~~~4 I ~ c
Intorvlt~nor SIPOLAIOK ~ ~i Landfill bull Reourca Recovery Inc and David J WibullnpRIJ
the Departllent of lnvironental llanageiMnt of the ltata f11 Iahnd and Aobert L lendict Jr in hie capacity aa Dir~middot ot the DepartMnt of hviroantal Jlanagnt of the lUte fJf abode leland and the 1ovn of Worth 1bull1tbt1al4 hereby atipulata and aret bullbull followebull
1 ftla appeal filed by LaDdfUl bull aaouca ~eooYery Inc ODd Dn14 J WUoon 1n CA 115-0021 and 15-0153 bo ODd boroby 1e withdrawn and diaaieaect vitb prejo41ca
- m-oi~--==~1ftn~~~i~~===-wTftr 3 Landfill bull aaouca aconry Inc hereby waivu forawr
ita right to diapoae of waate on ur of ita property located within the ~own of llorth laithfield 1he partiebull hereto agree that ~e waiver by tn4fill 1 leaource COftlry toe aet forth in the prece4ing aentence ahall not affeet nor ahall it bemiddot inshytroduce4 or ue4 in anr way in the procH4inga pending before the lhode leland Superior Court for Providence County under the n
i~nla~t~u~ ~CIfa~~ciniurno~f Uaited to aa ebullidence in auch procH4inga
4 It ia acknowle4ge4 that the appeal filed by the DepartshyMnt of lnviroftiHinbl Manag-ent and Robert L hndick Jr in CA tU-0367 tr011 the dechion and order of Kr Juatice A1Mi4a dated on or about May I 1914 which appeal waa filed in thh Court on or about May 9 1914 r ina viable
Llndtill Reaource RecoveryInc and David J WUaon
by 0-- k -Dean N Tefikln laq Willey LaRoy Ltd 10 Dorrance Street Providence RI 02903
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
-~fd ~ f I
DIPARIMINl OP llfVIRORIIDTAL IIAXAGDIBtn OP fBI 8fAll Or UODI IBLAlm and ROIIItr L lllfDICX Jlt in hia capacity aa Director of the Dttpartant of lnviro d ManagaMnt of the ltata aho4a bland
02101
PRIISL
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
i~j middot~ ll-i1 l -~ l l -- ~ ~1 1 1~11 1 11tn~1 ~~ tt
l T1~ ~~
l d~
-
~ 1 h
I
~ amp1i4 fffi Qlti ~r ~1i~ ~~li- ~ 11 fU-t~~~~ ~~ llh~t~ lhtt ~ ~~ ~ ~
~ ~
I ~
l
~
~
~ ~
middot ~ ~
t
~
~ ~
~ ~
~ i~
) 0
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
LtwOPncEa PAUL P BAILLARGEON INC _
RE lAHDFlU I RESOORCE RECOVERY INC NID1 lllE TQIN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD
~~tt~~~f~ ~t~1~1~ h~~~~l drfft aqufftr as dtftned by tM United Stites Geologtcat Survty and subsequent ttstfng reports tlktn both on and off the stte as wll as llvtral s~rtn Pfe9ared by consutcnu to the Town of North stthfftld
82779 Ltttlr to Dlnftl PNnttu ffOII Herbert pound Johnston 101679 Erco Ttst Anutu 32680 poundreo Test Anults 41780 Erco Tat Results 10580 Dtchton of Frank P GtrMta Adjudtcatfon Hlarfng
Offfctr of the Dtpartnt of Envtrontal Mln1v-nt102980 Aoport of lllltn I -rod 581 poundnvfro-ntl1 lllplct Assabullnt - Groundwter lntegrfty
83181 hmiddot~~j~ ~)rmiddot=~tsthtw~1~=~rsa t stte Protection A9tncy
101481 Report of Wht blln I Howard
Unfttd Stltts Gtologfcal Survey - Ava11abflfty of Ground Wtter fn the Blackstone Rfvtr ANa Rhode Island and Mlssachusetts
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
I
)
I ~
STAT OP lHODE ISLiNo AND PIOVIOEHC PLAHTATIOMS DpoundPAKTMENT OP EMVIIOHKENTU KAHAGEMENT
ADHINISTIATlVE HEARING NOTICE
Notice h hemiddotrb atven that adainbtntiva Marinabull vql ~ haW bJ t~
Dinetor of the lhoda hland Depart-nt of lnvtronaental Ka~ampl~ middott- middot9110 AJi 1
- in 10 lll of the State Houea on 27 Novnber 1979 and 29 Movbullber 1979 c~-
cerniQI Landfill l llourca Recovery Inc (L i a 1) of North 1-~hf~eld~ lboda middot
Island Theaa hrtnaa will be open to t ha public and will be coll41iCted ~D
accordance with tb Adainhtrativa Procedurebull Act Chaptal 42-35 of the lhoda
Idand General Lava
On 27 Movbullbar 1979 a heartna vUl be conducted on the quaetiOD vbether
L amp I by accapUna for dbpol van other than thoaa ldeatified 1a tu
aotlfiutiOft to the Depannt of lnvtronental Manqnt dated U Karch 1971
violated lula 4 02 of the Haaardoua Waata Otpol Pclltty lulaa AM bpalatiou
affective 21 Decbullber 1978 and lula JJ 06 of tha Haurdoua Waata Manaaat
JadUty Oparattaa Parit lulaa And aaulationa - LandfUh affective 10 lapt-r 19
In eddition a Marina will ba conducted on 27 Movbullbar 1979 on the quaatton
vbatbar tha facility of L 1 1 ahould ba directed b7 the Deparcat of hviroashy
nul Manaant to panunantly caaaa tha accaptanca and diapoul ~f haurdoua
vaataa iocludiq aeptic wtu for tha n ona acated in ttwa opinion of tba Town
Solicitor of the Town of North Sbullithfiel~ and purauaot to lecUon 23-462-10 1 of
t ha General Lawa of Rhoda laland a a aaendltd
On 29 Novaber 1979 purauant to an Order of tha Superior Court iaaued on
12 Octobu 1979 the Diretctor of cba Departent of Envirorwental Manaaat will
conduct a hearina to afford tba Town of North Sbulli~Uald tha opporttlnity tO de-onshy
atrata throuah evidentiary prantation whether any activity vbicb haa bean eonshy
due ted at the facility of L I a haa been in violation of an anviroMantal
quality atandard aa that tar h uud in Chapter lG-20 of thbull ceparfl Lawa of
~~ hJand aa aended and whether ala~h middotmiddotmiddotundard ahould be Cnforced by the
-
bull bull t
I I I
habull bull D I
rbullbull IJ -middotrrbullf g~l fbullfl
I
i
~ ~ til oc ~= =~ no
i~ e
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
--
NOnCEif-niml=shybullbull le11 clear than thla LANDFILL amp RESOURCE RECOVDY notice tt Ia due to the ADMIHISTRATIVE RECORD
of the document
middot
middot C
J
middotmiddot ~ i~ 1 l ~ ~ 1 o e ~~ ~ C)~~middot~middot ~ 5~is middot ~ ~~ o u it-1 -g middot
I ~ a ~~~~- ~t i J~ ~ ll U~c bull bull li ii ~--~ ~ ~W I jM
middot middot~ ~ bull v 1 bull ~ ~ ~_ __~ -- -middot--middot ---~ - ~ --- middot -
middotmiddotrmiddot middot ~ - ~ - I r shy
=-=- 111 I f 1 1i middotI liJI r bull 11 fi 11bull I i i ~~ bullbull t~s lisi I3l li boi~i II 1 S ---- i I_ __ 111
-middot-middot- I----w )
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
LAMDPILL 6 RESOURCE RampCOVDY ADMINISTRATIVE RICORD
fW UILJO
IIECEJPT FOR CERTIAED MAILsect~)~~~~rrmiddot ~middot~~-gt imiddot f
~ I ~ I middot middot middot middot middot1 ~ Hs I middot~~- I ~ ~ ~ -j - =~ ~~middot _ fi~JI l ~ 1d middot bull 1 I o u bull ~ middot ~ bullh Ibull Ibull 1~ bull (I] a g_ lt middot~ l 11 ~ bullbull bullI e~i 2tii I e ~-~ t ~ill middot ~~ i hH~JI 1 J
li i L bull ~ ---- i I bull iii ~ ---lti- ~ ~ middot ~~ --- bull
Si libull middot ~Sif lllnlnbull-lllu- f I middotbull ----w
( -gt
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
1
~middotmiddotmiddot
middot
bull i r
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~
--
LAlfDFILL RESOURCE RECOVERY ADMIIUSTRATIYE RECORD
rWVI~oJ JJImiddot i middot ~ i~~ro~-RECEIPFOR CERTIFIED MAIL 1 TlrltNI__in~ (~d
bull-~__liM i ~ Ra-bullbull__w _ ~ - middoto=~~ft~~~~-~
~ c~a~~~~ t- amp _ bull
0gt i ~~ _~ bull middot middot () 2 L middot ~ I I t I ~ f3 I bull= - ~ I ~~ li r-- ~iii - - ~ 1l i I J i -ii I
~_ ~ ~u middot ~ _middot fi 1 nz-1~~middot 1m1 a 8 1S ~i~l~ ~ ~ i 1 ~ middot - tbullitlflt I i
- _ f 14~ Jbull ~~ l la middothbull1bulli bull I 1
middot ~ bull ~JB ~ ~ r 1 middot --- 11 ~ ~~ ~~~ --=--=- It -~ C f(61 VOIIIpound-JW bull
Il middot- _- l~