BILL NUMBER: SB 1107	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kehoe

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to add Chapter 7.8 (commencing with Section 13590) to
Division 7 of the Water Code, relating to water quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1107, as introduced, Kehoe. Water quality: interceptor and trap
grease.
   Existing law regulates the transportation of inedible kitchen
grease and requires the transporters of inedible kitchen grease to be
registered and to pay specified fees. The State Water Resources
Control Board is among the principal state agencies with authority
relating to water quality.
   This bill would enact the Interceptor and Trap Grease
Transportation Act of 2010. The bill would require the board, on or
before January 1, 2012, to prepare, adopt, and implement regulations
to manage the transportation of interceptor and trap grease to
appropriate facilities for recycling, treatment, or proper disposal.
The bill would define "interceptor and trap grease" to mean grease
that is removed from a grease interceptor or grease trap.
   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.  Chapter 7.8 (commencing with Section 13590) is added to
Division 7 of the Water Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 7.8.  INTERCEPTOR AND TRAP GREASE TRANSPORTATION ACT OF
2010


   13590.  (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Interceptor and Trap Grease Transportation Act of 2010.
   (b) This chapter applies only to interceptor and trap grease.
   13590.5.  "Interceptor and trap grease" means grease that is
removed from a grease interceptor or grease trap.
   13590.10.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The improper management of grease from interceptors and traps
causes environmental, property, and public health damage. There is a
need to facilitate the development of grease control measures, to
develop statewide standards for the transportation of interceptor and
trap grease, and to integrate this program with existing state and
local efforts to keep grease out of sewer systems, storm drains, and
waters of the state.
   (b) The state board has determined that sanitary sewer overflows
or sewage spills often contain high levels of suspended solids,
pathogenic organisms, toxic pollutants, nutrients, oxygen demanding
organic compounds, oil, grease, food waste, and other pollutants.
Sanitary sewer overflows may cause a nuisance, or temporarily exceed
applicable water quality standards, when the sewage is discharged to
surface waters, including ocean waters of the state, pose a threat to
public health, adversely affect aquatic life, and impair the public
recreational use and aesthetic enjoyment of surface waters.
   (c) The state board has adopted waste discharge requirements for
cities in a uniform effort to reduce sanitary sewer overflows. These
requirements mandate that cities adopt a program to reduce fats,
oils, and grease from entering the sewer system.
   (d) The inappropriate transportation of interceptor and trap
grease has been detrimental to human health and the environment,
including posing a threat to the waters of the state. It is
imperative to ensure that transported interceptor and trap grease be
delivered to an appropriate facility for recycling, treatment, or
disposal, in order to avoid improper disposal to land, surface
waters, and sewers.
   13590.15.  (a) On or before January 1, 2012, the state board shall
prepare, adopt, and implement regulations to manage the
transportation of interceptor and trap grease to appropriate
facilities for recycling, treatment, or proper disposal.
   (b) The regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the
following:
   (1) The development and implementation of a transportation,
registration, and manifest system.
   (2) A requirement that a grease waste hauler transport interceptor
and trap grease only to a facility authorized to receive that
grease.