BILL NUMBER: AB 2891	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials
(Assembly Members Alejo (Chair), Gonzalez, McCarty, and Ting)

                        FEBRUARY 29, 2016

   An act to amend Sections 47104, 47105, and 47106 of the Public
Resources Code, relating to hazardous waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 47104 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   47104.  The  board   department  shall
prepare, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances
 Control,   Control and the State Water
Resources Control Board,  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. The guidelines required by this section shall allow adequate
flexibility to local agencies in meeting their individual needs, to
the extent that the local agency's program does not conflict with the
state policy prepared pursuant to this  subdivision.
  section. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 47105 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   47105.   (a)   The guidelines required by this
article shall include  all   both of  the
following elements: 
   (a) 
    (1)  Development of a model operation plan for community
household hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal
programs required to be identified pursuant to this article. The
model operation plan shall include a description of proper procedures
for hazardous waste handling, storage, transportation, and personnel
training. 
   (b) 
    (2)  The establishment of guidelines on the generic
types of household hazardous substances  which  
that  should be disposed of as hazardous waste, and guidelines
on the safe management of hazardous wastes generated by households
 which   that  may be excluded from
household hazardous waste collection programs but  which
 may require some special handling. 
   (b) Beginning January 1, 2019, the department shall annually
update and shall post on its Internet Web site the guidelines
required by this article. 
  SEC. 3.  Section 47106 of the Public Resources Code is amended to
read:
   47106.  In establishing guidelines on which products should be
disposed of as hazardous waste, the  board  
department, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances
Control and the State Water Resources Control Board,  shall
consider such factors as toxicity, concentration of toxic ingredients
in a product, and other appropriate factors. The  board
  department  shall also consider the
appropriateness of excluding from any listing of household hazardous
wastes specific categories of household products, such as products
intended for human consumption, personal hygiene products, and other
categories of household products intended for general consumer use.