CA AB 1716
Title: Hazardous wastes and materials: certified unified program agencies.
Author: Tri Ta
Summary
AB 1716, Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. Hazardous wastes and materials: certified unified program agencies. (1) Existing law, as part of the hazardous waste control laws, requires any waste identified by the Department of Toxic Substances Control as hazardous or extremely hazardous to be managed in accordance with permits, orders, and regulations issued or adopted by the department. Existing law authorizes the department to grant a variance from these requirements for certain wastes, including recyclable materials, as defined, under specified conditions. Existing law provides that a recyclable material shall be excluded from classification by the department as a waste only if the recyclable material is held in a container or tank that is labeled, marked, and placarded in accordance with department requirements, the owner or operator of the business location where the recyclable material is located has a business plan, as specified, and the recyclable material is stored and handled in accordance with all local ordinances and codes. This bill would revise the requirements for the exclusion of a recyclable material from classification by the department as a waste by requiring, among other things, that the material be held in a container, tank, containment building, or waste pile that is labeled, marked, and placarded in accordance with the department’s hazardous waste labeling, marking, and placarding requirements applicable to generators, as provided. The bill would also require that the material be managed in accordance with specified regulations.Existing law requires a person who recycles more than 100 kilograms per month of recyclable material under a claim that the material qualifies for exclusion or exemption to provide specified information in writing every 2 years to the local officer or agency authorized to enforce those provisions. Existing law also authorizes the local officer or agency to exempt a person who operates an antifreeze recycling unit or solvent distillation unit, as specified, from that requirement or to require less information from that person than existing law requires pursuant to that provision.The bill would require a person who generates more than 100 kilograms of a material in any month under the claim that the material qualifies for exemption or exclusion as a recyclable material to submit, in the first month that more than 100 kilograms of the material is generated, specified information to the statewide information management system, as provided. The bill would require a person who is not the generator, and who accumulates, manages, or recycles the recyclable material identified by the generator as exempt or excluded, to submit the information to that system. The bill would also require these persons to submit the information to the system within 60 days of the date when the generation, accumulation, management, or recycling of the material is permanently discontinued. The bill would require a person who generates, accumulates, manages, or recycles more than 100 kilograms of recyclable material in any month to resubmit the required information, as described, by July 1 of each even-numbered year. The bill would eliminate the authority of the local officer or agency to exempt a person who operates an antifreeze recycling unit or solvent distillation unit from some or all of these information requirements.A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. By expanding the scope of crimes, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law regulates the disposal of hazardous waste aerosol cans. Existing law defines an “aerosol can” to mean a container in which gas under pressure is used to aerate and dispense any material through a valve in the form of a spray or foam. Among other things, existing law requires that a container used to accumulate or transport universal waste aerosol cans, or the contents removed from a universal waste aerosol can or
Status
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
Bill Documents
CA AB 1716 - 09/11/23 - Enrolled
09/11/23 - CA AB 1716 (09/11/23 - Enrolled)
CA AB 1716 - 08/28/23 - Amended Senate
08/28/23 - CA AB 1716 (08/28/23 - Amended Senate)
CA AB 1716 - 06/07/23 - Amended Senate
06/07/23 - CA AB 1716 (06/07/23 - Amended Senate)
CA AB 1716 - 05/30/23 - Amended Senate
05/30/23 - CA AB 1716 (05/30/23 - Amended Senate)
CA AB 1716 - 04/10/23 - Amended Assembly
04/10/23 - CA AB 1716 (04/10/23 - Amended Assembly)
CA AB 1716 - 02/17/23 - Introduced
02/17/23 - CA AB 1716 (02/17/23 - Introduced)