Planning permission has been lodged to develop a waste recovery facility in Castledermot.
Phoenix Sand Ltd is seeking permission to deposit waste soil and stone at the quarry for the purposes of back filling.
The location for the proposed 7 hectare (18 acre) site is at Graney Waste outside the village.
Kildare Co Council has eight weeks to consider the planning application.
Material will be sourced from construction, renovation and demolition sites, to back-fill and restore an existing void onsite created by past extraction of materials.
The footprint of the proposed area to back-fill is 1.84 hectares in size.
The proposed quantity of such material to be accepted and infilled would be less than 17,500 tonnes per annum and overall is expected to be approximately 100,000 tonnes throughout the operational phase of the proposed activity.
Topsoil will be screened and resold and gravel and sands will be washed and resold.
Concrete will be mixed with sand and gravel before being resold a aggregate.
Garden waste will be processed for agricultural land spreading.
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