HB 2215
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
First Regular Session
House: NREW DP 10-0-0-0
HB2215: hazardous waste manifest resubmittals; fees
Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19
Caucus & COW
Overview
Removes ADEQ's ability to require someone who submitted an improperly completed hazardous
waste shipment manifest to properly complete and resubmit it with a $20 fee.
History
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is responsible for operating a
hazardous waste management program that complies with Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) regulations. One component of this program involves regulating the transportation of
hazardous waste, which includes requirements for submitting a paper manifest to ADEQ that
identifies the quantity, composition, origin, routing and destination of hazardous waste during its
transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment or storage (A.R.S.
§§ 49-921 and 49-922). This manifest information ensures compliance with state and federal
hazardous waste law. When an improperly completed manifest is submitted to ADEQ, the agency
may return it to the preparer and require that it be properly completed and resubmitted along with
a $20 fee (A.R.S. § 49-922.01).
In 2012, Congress passed the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, which
required the EPA to create an electronic system for submitting hazardous waste manifests (Public
Law 112-195). The e-Manifest system came online in 2018 and the EPA adopted regulations
requiring facilities that receive hazardous waste to electronically submit a manifests to the system
(40 Code of Federal Regulations § 265.71). In 2019, ADEQ incorporated these submission
requirements into its hazardous waste rules (24 Arizona Administrative Register 3146).
Consequently, all owners and operators of facilities that receive hazardous waste in Arizona use
the e-Manifest system (R18-8-265).
Provisions
1. Removes ADEQ's ability to require someone who submitted an improperly completed
hazardous waste shipment manifest to properly complete and resubmit it with a $20 fee. (Sec.
3)
2. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2 and 4)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note