BILL NUMBER: SB 586	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wyland

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 25101 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to hazardous waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 586, as introduced, Wyland. Hazardous waste.
   Existing law provides for the regulation of hazardous waste by the
Department of Toxic Substances Control and makes a declaration of
legislative intent regarding that regulation and maintaining
authorization to administer a state program pursuant to the federal
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976.
   This bill would delete obsolete provisions from, and make
nonsubstantive changes to, that declaration of legislative intent and
state authorization.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 25101 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   25101.  The Legislature therefore declares that:
   (a) In order to protect the public health and the environment and
to conserve natural resources, it is in the public interest to
establish regulations and incentives  which   to
 ensure that the generators of hazardous waste employ
technology and management practices for the safe handling, treatment,
recycling, and destruction of their hazardous wastes prior to
disposal. 
   (b) In order to assist the generators of hazardous waste in
meeting the responsibility for the safe disposal of hazardous waste
it is necessary to establish the Hazardous Waste Management Council.
 
   (c) 
    (b)  The Legislature further declares that  in
order  to protect the public of this state and particularly
the communities where hazardous wastes are treated and disposed 
of  , it is essential to  assure   ensure
 full compensation of all people injured or damaged by hazardous
wastes.  It is therefore necessary that the Hazardous Waste
Management Council, created pursuant to Section 25206, make
recommendations regarding a system of insurance and mechanisms
establishing liability to achieve this result, as required by
subdivision (e) of Section 25208.  
   (d) 
    (c)  It is in the best interest of the health and safety
of the people of the State of California for the state to 
obtain and  maintain authorization to administer a state
hazardous waste program in lieu of the federal program pursuant to
Section 3006 of  Public Law 94-580, as amended, the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976   the federal act
 (42 U.S.C.  Sec.  6926). Therefore, it is the intent
of the Legislature that the director shall have those powers
necessary to  secure and  maintain  interim
and  final authorization for the state hazardous waste
program pursuant to the requirements of Section 3006 of 
Public Law 94-580, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
  the federal act  (42 U.S.C.  Sec. 
6926), and to implement  such   that 
program in lieu of the federal program.