Requires that all new solid waste facilities follow mandated permitting procedures;

Reviews and, if necessary, revises or modifies all existing Solid Waste Facility Permits every five years;

Reviews landfill preliminary and final closure/post-closure maintenance plans.

Prepares and reviews environmental studies required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA);

Permits and inspects all waste collectors within the agency's jurisdiction;

Inspects each solid waste facility within its jurisdiction on a regular basis to ensure compliance with applicable regulations;

Inspects waste collection vehicles and facilities operated by waste collectors in the jurisdiction on a regular basis to ensure compliance with applicable regulations;

Provides a continuing public information source for refuse collection, complaints on disposal problems, recycling, and current trends in the solid-waste-management field;

Encourages local jurisdictions to adopt Title 20 of the Los Angeles County Code, Solid Waste Ordinance of the County of Los Angeles, if they have not already done so;

Prepares and contributes to environmental documents, as required by CEQA, to identify and mitigate potential public health or environmental impacts related to solid waste facilities or management practices;

Continues its effort to identify and investigate all closed, inactive, illegal, and abandoned landfills throughout the jurisdiction, and assigns to each site a rating based on the potential impact to human health or the environment;

Continues its effort to eliminate any facility from the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) Open Dump Inventory;

Continues its training programs to reduce the number of work-related employee accidents;

Continues the growth and development of its staff through certified training courses, conferences and exposure to state-of-the-art equipment and technology;

Provides input to various legislative bodies on draft ordinances whenever requested;

Reviews any new legislation then revises Program policy as necessary;

Performs Hazardous Waste Exclusion Inspections at the Sunshine Canyon Landfill and the Puente Hills landfill during all hours that waste is received;

Conducts Illegal Disposal Surveillance, responds to complaints of illegal disposal (dumping), takes appropriate enforcement action, and secures grant funding to clean up legacy dump sites throughout the county;

Administers a Waste Tire Enforcement Grant that inspects over 2500 tire facilities in the county, inspects waste tire haulers and processors, ensures the proper disposal of waste tires at permitted facilities, and secures funding for the removal of illegally disposed waste tires;

Conducts Public Information Meetings to inform the public of permit changes and issues at solid waste management facilities, and

Appears before the California Integrated Waste Management Board and the Local Hearing Panel to defend the actions of the program and to answer operator and  public concerns raised in regard to program enforcement actions or the lack thereof.