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Prepared by: David Moore, Principal Attorney April 1, 2024
2023 Wisconsin Act 156
[2023 Senate Bill 363]
Overweight Transport of Pig Iron
Current law allows the Department of Transportation to issue a permit for the transportation of metallic
or nonmetallic scrap for the purpose of recycling or processing on a vehicle or combination of vehicles
that exceeds statutory weight or length limitations. Administrative rules define “recyclable-scrap,” for
this purpose, as “metallic or non-metallic material in waste for which there exists a commercially
demonstrated processing or manufacturing technology which uses the material as a raw material, and
which is transported for use as such a raw material.”
2023 Wisconsin Act 156 generally incorporates the administrative rule’s definition of metallic or
nonmetallic scrap into a statutory definition of this term, and also provides that the term includes pig
iron. Under the act, a permit issued for the transportation of metallic or nonmetallic scrap is not valid
on highways designated as part of the national system of interstate or defense highways, except to the
extent permitted under federal law without any loss or reduction of federal aid or any other sanction.
Effective date: March 23, 2024
For a full history of the bill, visit the Legislature’s bill history page.
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