BILL NUMBER: AB 1332	CHAPTERED  10/10/99

	CHAPTER   629
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   OCTOBER 10, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   OCTOBER 5, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 8, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   SEPTEMBER 7, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   SEPTEMBER 1, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 16, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 6, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 10, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 14, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 26, 1999

   An act to add Section 25142.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to hazardous waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1332, Lowenthal.   Nonhazardous waste:  determination.
   Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control
to adopt, by regulation, criteria and guidelines for the
identification of hazardous waste and requires any waste that
conforms to a criteria adopted by the department to be managed in
accordance with the hazardous waste control laws.
   This bill would require the department to develop and implement a
comprehensive training, education, and enforcement program to
increase awareness of the requirements governing the determination on
whether a waste is hazardous and to enforce those requirements, as
specified.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 25142.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   25142.5.  The department shall develop and implement a
comprehensive training, education, and enforcement program for
generators, transporters, and facility operators, for personnel
conducting inspections for the departments, and for certified unified
program agencies.  The program shall be designed to increase
awareness of the requirements governing the determination of whether
a waste is hazardous, including, but not limited to, the requirements
governing the use of the generator's knowledge of a waste to
determine if the waste is hazardous, and to enhance the level of
enforcement of those requirements.  In implementing this program, the
department shall give priority to training, education, and
enforcement activities relating to the classification of the
particular waste streams that the department determines are the most
susceptible to misclassification, including, but not limited to, oily
water and contaminated soil.