California Assembly Bill AB2891 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2891INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials (Assembly Members Alejo (Chair), Gonzalez, McCarty, and Ting) FEBRUARY 29, 2016 An act to amend Sections 47104, 47105, and 47106 of the Public Resources Code, relating to hazardous waste. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2891, as introduced, Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. Household hazardous waste: guidelines. (1) Existing law authorizes public agencies to operate household hazardous waste collection facilities, as defined, and specifies conditions for the transportation of household hazardous waste. Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to prepare, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, guidelines and a state policy to guide the efforts of local agencies to provide household hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal programs pursuant to this article. This bill would require the department to additionally consult with the State Water Resources Control Board in preparing the guidelines and state policy. (2) Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in establishing guidelines on which products should be disposed of as hazardous waste, to consider specified factors. This bill would require the department to consider those factors in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the State Water Resources Control Board. (3) This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, beginning January 1, 2019, to annually update and post the guidelines referenced in paragraphs (1) and (2) on its Internet Web site. 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. Section 47104 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: 47104. The  board   department  shall prepare, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances  Control,   Control and the State Water Resources Control Board,  guidelines and a state policy to guide the efforts of local agencies to provide household hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal programs pursuant to this article. The guidelines required by this section shall allow adequate flexibility to local agencies in meeting their individual needs, to the extent that the local agency's program does not conflict with the state policy prepared pursuant to this  subdivision.   section.  SEC. 2. Section 47105 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: 47105.  (a)   The guidelines required by this article shall include  all   both of  the following elements:  (a)   (1)  Development of a model operation plan for community household hazardous waste collection, recycling, and disposal programs required to be identified pursuant to this article. The model operation plan shall include a description of proper procedures for hazardous waste handling, storage, transportation, and personnel training.  (b)   (2)  The establishment of guidelines on the generic types of household hazardous substances  which   that  should be disposed of as hazardous waste, and guidelines on the safe management of hazardous wastes generated by households  which   that  may be excluded from household hazardous waste collection programs but  which  may require some special handling.  (b) Beginning January 1, 2019, the department shall annually update and shall post on its Internet Web site the guidelines required by this article.  SEC. 3. Section 47106 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read: 47106. In establishing guidelines on which products should be disposed of as hazardous waste, the  board   department, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the State Water Resources Control Board,  shall consider such factors as toxicity, concentration of toxic ingredients in a product, and other appropriate factors. The  board   department  shall also consider the appropriateness of excluding from any listing of household hazardous wastes specific categories of household products, such as products intended for human consumption, personal hygiene products, and other categories of household products intended for general consumer use.