Household hazardous waste: facilities: transportation and acceptance.

Under existing law, the Department of Toxic Substances Control generally regulates the management and handling of hazardous waste and hazardous materials. Existing law authorizes certain entities to operate household hazardous waste collection facilities, as defined, under permits issued by the department, and specifies conditions for the transportation of household hazardous waste. Existing law requires a person engaged in the transportation of hazardous waste to be registered with the department and to either have a legible copy of the paper manifest, provided by the generator, in their possession while transporting the hazardous waste or have an electronic manifest accessible during transportation. Existing law allows certain of those facilities to accept recyclable latex paint and oil-based paint, and other waste in specified amounts from a very small quantity generator (VSQG) of the waste, as defined, if the facility complies with certain requirements. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would revise and recast various requirements and conditions related to the transportation of hazardous waste and the operation of household hazardous waste collection facilities. The bill, among other things, would, to the extent consistent with federal law, allow the transporting of waste to a household hazardous waste collection facility from another household hazardous waste collection facility, as specified, with a shipping paper instead of a manifest. The bill would allow household hazardous waste to be transported in a leased vehicle. The bill also would allow, under certain circumstances, household hazardous waste to be transported to a household hazardous waste collection facility by a person who did not generate the waste. The bill would allow a household hazardous waste collection facility authorized to accept hazardous waste from a very small quantity generator to take several actions, including, but not limited to, accepting hazardous waste from a VSQG in the same area and at the same time as residential household hazardous waste and allowing the facility to accept more than 100 kilograms of hazardous waste from a VSQG at a single time as long as it accepts no more 1,200 kilograms from that VSQG in a calendar year. The bill would authorize a household hazardous waste collection facility to allow people to exit their vehicles in waste acceptance areas only under specified conditions. The bill would specify that volume limitations placed on a facility in accepting hazardous waste from a VSQG do not apply to latex and oil-based paints, as provided, and would impose other volume and weight limitations on wastes transported by public agencies under existing authority to transport, or oversee the transport of, illegally disposed of hazardous waste. The bill would also make nonsubstantive changes, including by deleting obsolete provisions, and would make clarifying and conforming changes. To the extent this bill changes the conduct that constitutes the crime of violating the hazardous waste control laws, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.