(a) (1) (A) After notification of the appropriate regional board or boards, the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission may designate a county or counties within each regional solid waste management district or counties within two (2) or more districts as a new district pursuant to the limitations of this section.

(B) New districts shall be designated for purposes that address local exigencies, needs, and other requirements of this subchapter.

(C) A district shall only be composed of whole county jurisdictions, and each district shall contain more than one (1) county unless that county has a population of:

(i)

(a) At least fifty thousand (50,000) according to the most recent federal decennial census.

(b) However, a single-county district that has been approved under this section shall not cease to be a valid district under this section if the population of the single county composing the district is determined to be less than fifty thousand (50,000) according to a federal decennial census occurring after the approval of the single-county district; or

(ii) At least twenty-five thousand (25,000) according to the most recent federal decennial census and the county is served by one (1) county sanitation authority under § 14-233-104.

(2) Commission approval of district boundaries shall be sought and obtained pursuant to administrative procedures promulgated by the commission.

(b)

(1) Counties and municipalities included in a new or revised district shall cease to be members of any other district.

(2) The term of a regional board member representing a county or municipality shall immediately expire upon the inclusion of the county or municipality within a new regional solid waste management district.

(c) After notification of the appropriate regional boards, the commission, upon the request of a county or district, may transfer a county into an existing district.