Bill Text: CA AB347 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Household product safety: toxic substances: testing and enforcement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-11 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Cortese. [AB347 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB347-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 347

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Introduced by Assembly Member Ting

January 31, 2023

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An act to amend Section 25244.18 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to hazardous waste.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 347, as introduced, Ting. Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act: enforcement.

The Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act requires a generator of hazardous waste every 4 years to complete and conduct a source evaluation review and plan that specifies source reduction measures that the generator will implement and to prepare a hazardous waste management performance report concerning the hazardous waste management approaches implemented by the generator. A generator is required to provide its review and plan or report to the Department of Toxic Substances Control or the unified program agency within 30 days of a request. The act requires the department or the unified program agency to provide the generator with a notice of noncompliance if it determines that the review and plan or report is incomplete. The act requires the generator to correct the deficiencies within 60 days from its receipt of that notice, except that, in response to a written request from the generator for an extension of that 60-day deadline for cause, the act authorizes the department or unified program agency to grant an extension of no more than an additional 60 days. The act authorizes civil penalties against a generator that fails to comply with these requirements.

This bill would instead limit that extension authorization to no more than an additional 30 days.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 25244.18 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

25244.18.

 (a) The department or the unified program agency may request from any generator, and the generator shall provide within 30 days from the date of the request, a copy of the generator’s review and plan or report conducted and completed pursuant to Section 25244.19 or 25244.20. The department or the unified program agency may evaluate any of those documents submitted to the department or the unified program agency to determine whether it satisfies the requirements of this article.

(b) (1) If the department or the unified program agency determines that a generator has not completed the review and plan in the manner required by Section 25244.19, or the report in the manner required by Section 25244.20, the department or the unified program agency shall provide the generator with a notice of noncompliance, specifying the deficiencies in the review and plan or report identified by the department. If the department or the unified program agency finds that the review and plan does not comply with Section 25244.19, the department or the unified program agency shall consider the review and plan to be incomplete. A generator shall file a revised review and plan or report correcting the deficiencies identified by the department or the unified program agency within 60 days from the date of the receipt of the notice. The department or the unified program agency may grant, in response to a written request from the generator, an extension of the 60-day deadline, for cause, except that the department or the unified program agency shall not grant that extension for more than an additional 60 30 days.

(2) If a generator fails to submit a revised review and plan or report complying with the requirements of this article within the required period, or if the department or unified program agency determines that a generator has failed to implement the measures included in the generator’s review and plan for reducing the generator’s hazardous waste, in accordance with Section 25244.19, the department or the unified program agency may impose civil penalties pursuant to Section 25187, in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day the violation of this article continues, notwithstanding Section 25189.2, seek an order directing compliance pursuant to Section 25181, or enter into a consent agreement or a compliance schedule with the generator.

(c) If a generator fails to implement a measure specified in the review and plan pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 25244.19, the generator shall not be deemed to be in violation of Section 25244.19 for not implementing the selected measure if the generator does both of the following:

(1) The generator finds that, upon further analysis or as a result of unexpected consequences, the selected measure is not technically feasible or economically practicable, or if the selected approach has resulted in any of the following:

(A) An increase in the generation of hazardous waste.

(B) An increase in the release of hazardous chemical contaminants to other media.

(C) Adverse impacts on product quality.

(D) A significant increase in the risk of an adverse impact to human health or the environment.

(2) The generator revises the review and plan to comply with the requirements of Section 25244.19.

(d) When taking enforcement action pursuant to this article, the department or the unified program agency shall not judge the appropriateness of any decisions or proposed measures contained in a review and plan or report, but shall only determine whether the review and plan or report is complete, prepared, and implemented in accordance with this article.

(e) In addition to the unified program agency, an appropriate local agency that has jurisdiction over a generator’s site may request from the generator, and the generator shall provide within 30 days from the date of that request, a copy of the generator’s current review and plan and report.

(f) In carrying out this article, the department shall not disseminate information determined to be a trade secret pursuant to Section 25244.23.