Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) The department shall collect an annual fee from all metal shredding facilities that are subject to the requirements of this chapter or to the alternative management standards adopted pursuant to Section 25150.82. The department shall establish and adopt regulations necessary …

Treated metal shredder waste that is managed in accordance with the alternative management standards adopted by the department pursuant to Section 25180.82 and that is accepted by a solid waste landfill or other authorized location for disposal or for use as alternative daily cov…

(a) (1) The department shall require metal shredding facilities to do both of the following: (A) Monitor hazardous waste constituents requested by the department. (B) Report the results of the monitoring required pursuant to subparagraph (A) to the department. The facilities may …

The department may adopt varying regulations pursuant to Section 25150, other than building standards for different areas of the state depending on population density, climate, geology, types and volumes of hazardous waste generated in the area, types of waste treatment technolog…

Before adopting building standards or adopting or revising other standards and regulations for the handling, processing, storing, use, recycling, and disposal of hazardous and extremely hazardous wastes, the department shall hold at least one public hearing in Sacramento, or in a…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Unusual circumstances” means only the following: (A) The need to search for and collect the requested records from field facilities or other establishments that are separate from the office processing the req…

The offsite storage, treatment, transportation, and disposal of extremely hazardous waste is subject to the same requirements specified in this chapter that are applicable to hazardous waste and the department shall not require any special or additional permits for the offsite ha…

(a) Any person generating or managing a RCRA hazardous waste shall comply with subsection (a) of Section 3010 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 6930(a)). (b) Any person generating or managing a non-RCRA hazardous waste shall comply …

It shall be unlawful for any person to manage any hazardous waste except as provided for in this chapter or regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this chapter.

No extremely hazardous waste may be disposed of without prior processing to remove its harmful properties or as specified by the regulations of the department for the handling and disposal of the particular extremely hazardous waste.

(a) The owner or operator of every commercial offsite multiuser hazardous waste disposal facility shall develop a proposed monitoring plan, in writing, for the monitoring of the ambient air downwind and upwind from the facility. The plan shall include all of the following: (1) An…

(a) The operator of a landfill, land farm, or surface impoundment, which is used for disposing or treating hazardous waste which contains volatile organic compounds in concentrations of more than 1 percent by weight, shall do both of the following: (1) Monitor air emissions from …

The department shall develop and adopt regulations and standards to implement Article 11 (commencing with Section 25220), including, but not limited to, regulations which specify appropriate procedural requirements for the hearings conducted pursuant to that article. The departme…

Regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter may require the treatment of extremely hazardous waste at the site of production prior to any transportation, if the director determines that treatment is necessary to provide safe transportation of the extremely hazardous waste. No pr…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (f), any person generating hazardous waste, or owning or operating a facility for the treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste, shall file with the director, or the director’s designee, on a form provided by the director, or the dir…

(a) When making the quantity determinations for purposes of Section 66262.34 of Title 22 of Division 4.5 of the California Code of Regulations, as it may be amended consistent with this code, a generator shall include all hazardous waste that it has generated in any month, except…

The department shall adopt and revise when necessary regulations that will allow the state to receive and maintain authorization to administer a state hazardous waste program in lieu of the federal program pursuant to Section 6926 of the federal act. When reviewing a regulation a…

(a) The Office of Administrative Law shall deem any regulation proposed for adoption by the department to maintain authorization pursuant to Section 25159 to be a nonsubstantive change without regulatory effect for the purposes of Section 100 of Title 1 of the California Code of …

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (a) Specific state laws and regulations have been enacted to prevent leaks and hazardous waste discharges to land, such as those from underground storage tanks, surface impoundments, pits, ponds, or lagoons. (b) The …

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Toxic Injection Well Control Act of 1985.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Annulus” means the space between the outside edge of the injection tube and the well casing. (b) “State board” means the State Water Resources Control Board. (c) “Compatibility” means that waste constituents do n…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or after January 1, 1986, a person shall not discharge hazardous waste into an injection well which commences operation on or after January 1, 1986, and after January 1, 1988, a person shall not discharge hazardous waste into an …

(a) If the department or regional board determines that there is migration of hazardous waste constituents, or a threat of migration of hazardous waste constituents, from an injection well into any strata or waters of the state outside the injection zone, the department shall pro…

(a) The department shall make an inspection at least once each year of all facilities with injection wells into which hazardous waste is discharged. The owner shall tabulate the monitoring data recovered, pursuant to subdivision (c), monthly. The department shall review the data …

Any person who applies to the department for a hazardous waste facilities permit, or for the renewal or revision of a hazardous waste facilities permit, for the discharge of hazardous wastes into an injection well, including any proposed injection well, shall submit a hydrogeolog…

(a) On or before July 1, 1986, the department shall, by emergency regulation, adopt a fee schedule that assesses a fee upon any person discharging any hazardous wastes into an injection well. The department shall include in this fee schedule the fees charged for filing a hazardou…

(a) The department shall specify, for purposes of paragraph (4) of Section 25200.6, the horizontal and vertical extent of any injection zone for an injection well. The department shall cite specific information presented in the report prepared pursuant to Section 25159.18 as the …

(a) The state board, a regional board, or the department may enter and inspect a facility for determining compliance with this article, including, for this purpose, inspecting, at a reasonable time, records, files, papers, processes, and controls. (b) Nothing in this article shal…

This article shall not be construed to limit or abridge the powers and duties granted to the department pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section 78000) of Division 45 or to the state board or any regional board pursuant to Division 7 (commencing wit…

The State Oil and Gas Supervisor shall promptly report to the department and the state board any injection well regulated by the Division of Oil and Gas pursuant to Subpart F of Part 147 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations that is not in compliance with these regulatio…

(a) Any injection well used to inject contaminated groundwater that has been treated and is being reinjected into the same formation from which it was drawn for the purpose of improving the quality of the groundwater in the formation is exempt from this article if this method is …

Any action taken by the department pursuant to this article shall comply with and incorporate any waste discharge requirements issued by the state board or a regional board, and the action shall be consistent with all applicable water quality control plans adopted pursuant to Sec…

(a) In adopting or revising standards and regulations pursuant to this chapter, the department shall, insofar as practicable, make the standards and regulations conform with corresponding regulations adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the federal act. This…

Until the department adopts standards and regulations corresponding to, and equivalent to, or more stringent or extensive than, regulations adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Sections 6922 to 6926, inclusive, of Title 42 of the United States Code, the foll…

The department is authorized to carry out all hazardous waste management responsibilities imposed or authorized by the federal act, and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq.), including any subsequent amendm…

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting the furnishing of trade secret information to the Environmental Protection Agency to the extent required by law to obtain and maintain interim and final authorization to implement the state hazardous waste program in lieu …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may make available to the Environmental Protection Agency, or any other federal agency, any and all information necessary to be furnished to these agencies in order to comply with the federal act in order to obtain and ma…

(a) For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (1) “Manifest” means a shipping document originated and signed by a generator of hazardous waste that contains all of the information required by the department and that complies with all applicable federal and st…

(a) Electronic manifests that are obtained, completed, and transmitted in accordance with paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 262.20 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and used in lieu of United States Environmental Protection Agency Forms 8700-22 and 8700-22…

(a) The department shall revise the hazardous waste code identification system established in Appendix XII of Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 66261.1) of Division 4.5 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations. The revised hazardous waste code identification system sha…

(a) In lieu of the procedures prescribed by Sections 25160 and 25161, transporters and generators of hazardous waste meeting the conditions in this section may use the consolidated manifesting procedure set forth in subdivision (b) to consolidate shipments of waste streams identi…

(a) If a generator submits an incomplete or improperly completed copy of a paper manifest to the department, and the department returns the generator copy of the paper manifest to the person who submitted the manifest, the person to whom it was returned shall, within 30 days from…

An authorized representative of the generator or facility operator that is responsible for loading hazardous waste into a transport vehicle shall, prior to that loading, ensure that the driver of the transport vehicle is in possession of the appropriate class of driver’s license …

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1) “Door-to-door household hazardous waste collection program” or “household hazardous waste residential pickup service” has the same meaning as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 25218.1. (2) “Household…

(a) The department may adopt and enforce those regulations, regarding a uniform program for hazardous waste transportation, that are necessary and appropriate to achieve consistency with the findings made by the Federal Highway Administration and the federal Department of Transpo…

(a) A person shall not transport hazardous waste on the highways of this state, or deliver to a railroad or vessel hazardous waste for transport if the final destination of the transported hazardous waste is a domestic facility outside the jurisdiction of the state, unless one of…

A recyclable material that is to be exported to a foreign country is not excluded from classification as a waste pursuant to subdivision (b) or (d) of Section 25143.2, unless the requirements of Sections 25143.2 and 25143.9 are met, and the person exporting the material has compl…

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) to (f), inclusive, it is unlawful for a person to carry on, or engage in, the transportation of hazardous waste unless the person holds a valid registration issued by the department, and it is unlawful for a person to trans…

The department shall not adopt any regulations requiring a person hauling hazardous wastes, who is not in the business of hauling hazardous wastes or who is not hauling these wastes as a part of, or incidental to, any business, to obtain the registration specified in subdivision …

A person who initially collects hazardous waste at a remote site and transports that hazardous waste to a consolidation site operated by the generator and who complies with the notification requirements of subdivision (d) of Section 25110.10 shall be exempt from the manifest and …