BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: August 3, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
SB 423
(Bates) - As Amended August 1, 2016
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|Policy |Environmental Safety and Toxic |Vote:|7 - 0 |
|Committee: |Materials | | |
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY: This bill requires the Department of Toxic Substance
Control (DTSC) to convene a Retail Waste Working Group and
report findings and recommendations to the Legislature by June
1, 2017. Specifically, this bill:
1)Requires the task forces to be comprised of representatives of
large retailers, small retailers, district attorneys,
certified unified program agencies, nongovernment
organizations, other relevant state agencies, manufacturers,
reverse distributors, and other stakeholders.
2)Requires the task force to consider and make findings and
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recommendations on the following:
a) Regulatory and statutory requirements that may be
considered confusing or may need clarification or
specification when applied to the overall management, by
manufacturer, distributor, supplier, vendor, retail, and
reverse logistics facilities, of surplus household consumer
products including products that can be considered waste or
pharmaceutical when the waste determination is made.
b) Statutory or regulatory recommendations to facilitate
and increase the donation, liquidation, and sale of surplus
household consumer products and waste reduction
opportunities for those products and to clarify waste
management requirements to encourage the management of
surplus household consumer products, as specified.
1)Defines "surplus household consumer product" as a household
consumer product that cannot or will not be sold to a consumer
through that product's primary market.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Minor, absorbable costs.
COMMENTS:
Purpose. Since 2013, DTSC has been regularly meeting with a
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group similar to the Retail Waste Working Group specified in
this bill, as part of its efforts to better understand waste
management activities in the retail industry. This bill
proposes a slightly different scope of work to identify and
clarify statutory and regulatory requirements for products
eventually considered hazardous wastes.
Analysis Prepared by:Jennifer Galehouse / APPR. / (916)
319-2081