Title HSC, California Health & Safety Code

“Producer” means any person who generates a waste material. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 496, Sec. 1. Effective July 12, 1982.)

“RCRA hazardous waste” means all waste identified as a hazardous waste in Part 261 (commencing with Section 261.1) of Subchapter I of Chapter 1 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations and appendixes thereto. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1436, Sec. 5. Effective October 2, 198…

“Recyclable material” means a hazardous waste that is capable of being recycled, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (a) A residue. (b) A spent material, including, but not limited to, a used or spent stripping or plating solution or etchant. (c) A material that …

(a) Used or spent etchants, stripping solutions, and plating solutions are spent, contaminated, or used material for purposes of this chapter. (b) Used or spent etchants, stripping solutions, and plating solutions which meet a characteristic established by or are listed by the En…

(a) “Recycled material” means a recyclable material which has been used or reused, or reclaimed. (b) “Recycled material” does not include an intermediate manufacturing process stream. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 579, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.)

(a) “Recycling” means using, reusing, or reclaiming a recyclable material. (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), for purposes of the fees, taxes, and charges imposed pursuant to Article 7 (commencing with Section 25170), “recycling” means the collecting, transporting, storing, tra…

“Release” has the same definition as in Section 78105. (Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 72, Sec. 17. (SB 156) Effective July 2, 2024.)

(a) “Remote site” means a site operated by the generator where hazardous waste is initially collected, at which generator staff, other than security staff, is not routinely located, and that is not contiguous to a staffed site operated by the generator of the hazardous waste or t…

(a) “Retrograde material” means any hazardous material which is not to be used, sold, or distributed for use in an originally intended or prescribed manner or for an originally intended or prescribed purpose and which meets any one or more of the following criteria: (1) Has under…

“Restricted hazardous waste” includes both of the following: (a) Any hazardous waste subject to land disposal restrictions pursuant to Section 25179.6 and the regulations adopted by the department pursuant to that section. (b) Any hazardous waste which contains any of the followi…

“State operational costs” means the costs to the state of overseeing removal and remedial action, as defined in Sections 78125 and 78135, to releases of hazardous substances, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 78075 and subdivision (a) of Section 78105, if the responsible p…

“Secretary” means the Secretary for Environmental Protection. (Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 639, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.)

“Storage” means the holding of hazardous wastes, for a temporary period. (Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1632, Sec. 9.)

(a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Liquid hazardous waste” means a hazardous waste that meets the definition of free liquids, as specified in Section 66260.10 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, as that section r…

“Transportable hazardous waste treatment unit” or “transportable treatment unit” means mobile equipment which performs treatment, is transported onto a facility to perform treatment, and is not permanently stationed at a single facility. (Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1151, Sec. 1. E…

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), “treatment” means any method, technique, or process which is not otherwise excluded from the definition of treatment by this chapter and which is designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition …

“Volatile organic compound” means a compound which is a volatile organic compound according to Method No. 8240 in the Environmental Protection Agency Document No. Solid Waste 846 (1982) or any equivalent, alternative method acceptable to the department. (Added by Stats. 1985, Ch.…

(a) “Unified Program Facility” means all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land which are subject to the requirements of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 25404. (b) “Certified Unified Program Agency” or “CUPA” means the agency…

“Universal waste” means a hazardous waste identified as a universal waste in Section 66273.9 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, or as that regulation may be further amended pursuant to this chapter, or a hazardous waste designated as a universal waste pursuant to …

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), “waste” means any solid, liquid, semisolid, or contained gaseous discarded material that is not excluded by this chapter or by regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter. (b) For purposes of subdivision (a), a discarded material is any…

(a) Round 6 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is hereby established. (b) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the department shall make available the following amounts in accordance with this article: (1) One billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) in the 202…

(a) To be eligible for a round 6 base program allocation, a jurisdiction that is not a tribe must apply as part of a region and must be signatory to a round 6 regionally coordinated homelessness action plan that has been approved by the department. An update to the round 5 plan m…

(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the funds administered pursuant to this article, less the set aside funds provided for the department’s costs of administration in subdivision (c) of Section 50239, shall be made available in round 6 for implementing the program, and add…

(a) The department shall make an application for round 6 base program allocations available no later than January 31, 2025. (b) Applications shall be due no later than 180 days from the date applications are made available pursuant to subdivision (a). (c) (1) Applicants from each…

(a) The intent of round 6 is to reflect the state’s priorities to prevent and expeditiously reduce unsheltered homelessness through homelessness prevention activities, sustaining existing interim housing solutions, and permanent housing solutions, including long-term sustainabili…

(a) For the purposes of this section, the supplemental Homekey program shall be the same as the program set forth in Section 50675.1.3, except that the applicants are limited to those described in meeting the criteria set forth in subdivisions (b) and (c). (b) Tribal applicants, …

The department shall establish the Hazardous Waste Resource and Research Coordination Program, which consists of the following two components: (a) A data base containing information on known hazardous waste research being conducted within the state pursuant to Section 25131. (b) …

(a) The department shall assemble a bibliographic cross-referenced data base containing all of the following information on known hazardous waste research programs which are ongoing within the state: (1) The institution or organization sponsoring the research program. (2) The pri…

(a) The department shall establish and maintain a pool of research consultants expert in the field of hazardous waste management. The department may consult with the individual members of the pool to develop a directed approach to research in hazardous waste management. This appr…

(a) Round 7 of the Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program is hereby established. (b) Effective July 1, 2026, the sum of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000), less the amount of funding that has been transferred to Item 2240-001-0001 of the Budget Act of 2025 …

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) In enacting subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (n) of Section 50242, it is the intent of the Legislature to continue to partner with the state’s largest jurisdictions to establish and sustain the condition…

The department shall prepare, adopt and may revise when appropriate, a listing of the wastes which are determined to be hazardous, and a listing of the wastes which are determined to be extremely hazardous. When identifying such wastes the department shall consider, but not be li…

(a) The department shall develop and adopt by regulation criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes and extremely hazardous wastes. (b) The criteria and guidelines adopted by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) shall identify as hazardous waste or c…

(a) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act of 2022 that implements a proposal to review the department’s hazardous waste criteria, and as part of the department’s comprehensive evaluation of its criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous…

(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the department shall not publish a notice of a proposal to adopt, amend, or repeal regulations pursuant to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division…

(a) When classifying a waste as hazardous pursuant to the criteria in paragraph (8) of subdivision (a) of Section 66261.24 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, as that section read on January 1, 1993, the department shall incorporate the department’s decision into a…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Cannabis waste” has the same meaning as defined in Section 15000 of Title 4 of the California Code of Regulations. (2) “Plant waste” means the waste of plant material that meets the definition of “agricultura…

In any case where the department proposes to make a determination that a waste meets one or more of the criteria and guidelines for the identification of hazardous wastes adopted pursuant to Section 25141, but that it is not necessary to manage the waste as a hazardous waste beca…

Any waste which conforms to a criterion adopted pursuant to Section 25141 shall be managed in accordance with permits, orders, and regulations issued or adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter and building standards published in the State Building Standards Code relati…

The department shall develop and implement a comprehensive training, education, and enforcement program for generators, transporters, and facility operators, for personnel conducting inspections for the departments, and for certified unified program agencies. The program shall be…

(a) The department may grant a variance from one or more of the requirements of this chapter, or the regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, for the management of a hazardous waste if all of the following conditions apply: (1) One of the following conditions applies: (A) Th…

(a) Geothermal waste resulting from drilling for geothermal resources is exempt from the requirements of this chapter because the disposal of these geothermal wastes is regulated by the California regional water quality control boards. (b) (1) Wastes from the extraction, benefici…

(a) For purposes of this section, “wood waste” includes poles, crossarms, pilings, fence posts, lumber, support timbers, flume lumber, and cooling tower lumber. (b) Any wood waste, previously treated with a preservative, that has been removed from electric, gas, or telephone serv…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (h), any person who generates more than 100 kilograms of a material in any month under a claim that the material qualifies for exclusion or exemption pursuant to Section 25143.2 shall, in the first month that more than 100 kilograms of the ma…

(a) The department shall, on or before January 1, 1997, to the extent that it is consistent with the federal act and the protection of the public health, safety, and the environment, adopt regulations exempting secondary materials from this chapter. Those regulations shall be ado…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, debris that is contaminated only with crude oil or any of its fractions is exempt from regulation under this chapter if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The debris consists exclusively of wood, paper, textile materials, conc…