AB 2891, as introduced, Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. Household hazardous waste: guidelines.
(1) Existing law authorizes public agencies to operate household hazardous waste collection facilities, as defined, and specifies conditions for the transportation of household hazardous waste.
Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to prepare, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, guidelines and a state policy to guide the efforts of local agencies to provide household hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal programs pursuant to this article.
This bill would require the department to additionally consult with the State Water Resources Control Board in preparing the guidelines and state policy.
(2) Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in establishing guidelines on which products should be disposed of as hazardous waste, to consider specified factors.
This bill would require the department to consider those factors in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the State Water Resources Control Board.
(3) This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, beginning January 1, 2019, to annually update and post the guidelines referenced in paragraphs (1) and (2) on its Internet Web site.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 47104 of the Public Resources Code is
2amended to read:
Thebegin delete boardend deletebegin insert departmentend insert shall prepare, in consultation
4with the Department of Toxic Substancesbegin delete Control,end deletebegin insert Control and
5the State Water Resources Control Board,end insert guidelines and a state
6policy to guide the efforts of local agencies to provide household
7hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal programs
8pursuant to this article. The guidelines required by this section
9shall allow adequate flexibility to local agencies in meeting their
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individual needs, to the extent that the local agency’s program
11does not conflict with the state policy prepared pursuant to this
12begin delete subdivision.end deletebegin insert section.end insert
Section 47105 of the Public Resources Code is
14amended to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert The guidelines required by this article shall include
16begin delete allend deletebegin insert both ofend insert the following elements:
17(a)
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18begin insert(1)end insert Development of a model operation plan for community
19household hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal
20programs required to be identified pursuant to this article. The
21model operation plan shall include a description of proper
22procedures for hazardous waste handling, storage, transportation,
23and personnel training.
24(b)
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25begin insert(2)end insert The establishment of guidelines on the generic types of
26household hazardous substancesbegin delete whichend deletebegin insert thatend insert should be disposed of
27as hazardous
waste, and guidelines on the safe management of
28hazardous wastes generated by householdsbegin delete whichend deletebegin insert thatend insert may be
29excluded from household hazardous waste collection programs
30butbegin delete whichend delete may require some special handling.
P3 1(b) Beginning January 1, 2019, the department shall annually
2update and shall post on its Internet Web site the guidelines
3required by this article.
Section 47106 of the Public Resources Code is
5amended to read:
In establishing guidelines on which products should be
7disposed of as hazardous waste, thebegin delete boardend deletebegin insert department, in
8consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control and
9the State Water Resources Control Board,end insert shall consider such
10factors as toxicity, concentration of toxic ingredients in a product,
11and other appropriate factors. Thebegin delete boardend deletebegin insert departmentend insert shall also
12consider the appropriateness of excluding from any listing of
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household hazardous wastes specific categories of household
14products, such as products intended for human consumption,
15personal hygiene products, and other categories of household
16products intended for general consumer use.
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