The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s court docket dealing with an application for a permit to locate a solid waste processing facility near Hennessey is scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 27, in Oklahoma City.

However it’s unknown if it will be held that day, possibly due to the weather.

“We won’t know that until Tuesday morning,” Mike Maly told The Times & Free Press reporter.

“So do what’s safe for you,” Maly suggested to those who want to protest approval of a permit to Centennial Solids Control LLC of Hennessey owned by David Dollar of Hennessey.

Hearing Schedule/Parking

The hearings start at 8:30 a.m. in the Will Rogers Building located north of the Capitol at 2401 N. Lincoln Blvd.

“Parking is on the west side of the building,” Maly said. “Overflow parking is across the street to the north. Entry into the building is on the west side, then take elevators to the basement. We will be in Courtroom E.”

Hennessey is first on the docket, but …

“We are listed first on the docket, but that doesn’t mean we will actually be first,” Maly said Thursday afternoon. “But hopefully we won’t have a long wait.

“We will still try to get an estimated time for our hearing to avoid everyone sitting in court most of the day before our case comes up.”

Attorney Will Represent Hennessey at Hearing

Oklahoma Energy Advisors PLLC and attorney Michael S. Booze will represent both the landowners and the Town of Hennessey at the hearing.

Property owners near the proposed dump site hired Booze a few months ago and the Hennessey town trustees unanimously hired him during their December board meeting.

“I’m happy to represent everybody in one group and I have resources to help me,” Booze told the town board.

“I have an office in Oklahoma City. And then, of course, I have an office with Paul Schulte in Kingfi sher. So, it’s not like I’m going at this totally alone.”

Public Notices in Newspaper

Maly and his wife Joan were the first to sound the alarm to their neighbors about plans for the proposed waste site near their farm.

That’s because they read all the legal notices published in The Kingfisher Times & Free Press.

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have known about it because the only adjacent landowner to the property was Todd J. Vaverka, who sold David Dollar property in the center of his farmland.

That made Vaverka the only landowner who was required, by law, to be notifi ed of plans for the waste processing facility.

However, the Malys saw the public notice and landowners were able to protest the permits within the required 30 days of the publishing of the notice.

Walmart Storage Pits

Maly said in a recent WKY-TV interview about the proposed dump facility: “These storage pits will equal the size of a Walmart Supercenter!”

The dimensions of the pits are approximately 350 feet by 550 feet and 25 feet deep, according to Centennial’s engineering and site report to the Corporation Commission.

Also, the proposed commercial waste management facility is scheduled to include up to seven pits and will be located on 51.76 acres.

Oct. 1 DEQ Notice

The first public notice was published in the Oct. 1 Times & Free Press edition for the permit with the DEQ, by Sooner Solid Solutions. The CCC permit request by Centennial Solids Control LLC of Hennessey came in a later issue as part of that project.

Centennial’s public notices were in the Sept. 14 and 17 editions of the newspaper.

The state also requires for a permit to be approved by the Department of Environmental Quality and that applicant is Sooner Solid Solutions LLC.

Both LLCs show David Dollar of Hennessey as the principal owner.

DEQ Ruling Will Take a Year

The DEQ held a protest hearing Dec. 30 in Hennessey at the request of landowners near the proposed waste site.

Almost all of those who attended were against the project and most either owned nearby land or who are worried about the effects the waste site could have on their family’s water wells, ponds and livestock.

During that hearing the DEQ staff said it would be “at least one year” before a decision would be made by their division on that project.