Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) The alternative management standards of this article apply only to wood waste that is all of the following: (1) A hazardous waste solely due to the presence of a preservative in or on the wood that is registered in accordance with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Roden…

(a) Treated wood waste, as described in Section 25230.2, when managed as specified in this article, is exempt from the management requirements for hazardous waste pursuant to this chapter and the management standards in Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 66262.10) to Chapter 20 …

(a) Except as authorized by this article, treated wood waste managed in accordance with the alternative management standards of this article, shall not be any of the following: (1) Burned. (2) Scavenged. (3) Commingled with other waste prior to disposal, if previously segregated.…

(a) Treated wood waste generated, accumulated, stored, or transported within California shall be clearly marked and visible for inspection. The person managing the treated wood waste shall ensure that each unit or area designated for accumulation of treated wood waste is labeled.…

(a) (1) Treated wood waste shall be maintained in a manner that prevents unauthorized access and minimizes release to the environment. (2) Unauthorized access shall be prevented by means of visual control or a physical barrier when not under the direct control of the person respo…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a treated wood waste handler is prohibited from sending or taking treated wood waste to a place other than a treated wood waste facility, or a treated wood waste approved landfill. (b) Prior to sending a shipment of treated wood waste to…

(a) A treated wood waste handler shall keep a record of each shipment of treated wood waste sent from the handler to treated wood waste facilities. The record may take the form of a log, invoice, manifest, bill of lading, shipping document, or receipt from a treated wood waste fa…

(a) In any calendar year that a treated wood waste handler generates more than 10,000 pounds of treated wood waste, the handler shall obtain or maintain an identification number within 30 days of exceeding the weight threshold. (b) In any calendar year that a treated wood waste h…

(a) Any city, county, or state agency which, as owner, lessor, or lessee, knows or has probable cause to believe that a disposal of hazardous waste which is not authorized pursuant to this chapter has occurred on, under, or into the land which the city, county, or state agency ow…

It is the intention of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to protect the public health and safety and the environment by requiring all of the following: (a) Prompt steps to remedy the unauthorized disposal of hazardous waste on public land be taken as soon as possible. (b…

Prior to, or simultaneously with, utilizing the provisions of this article, the department shall diligently pursue all feasible civil and criminal actions against the owner of the land or other party responsible for the disposal of the hazardous waste, who violates this chapter o…

If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, this holding shall not affect other provisions or applications of this article which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end, the p…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Hazardous Waste Reduction, Recycling, and Treatment Research and Demonstration Act of 1985.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the department’s duty to implement this article is contingent upon, and limited to, the availability of funding. (b) Subdivision (a) does not apply to Section 25244.4.

(a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that, whenever possible, the generation of hazardous waste is to be reduced or eliminated as expeditiously as possible, and that waste that is generated should be recycled, treated, or disposed of in a manner that minimizes any presen…

The department may issue grants to, and enter into contracts with, universities, governmental agencies, and private organizations to research and develop hazardous waste reduction, recycling, or treatment technology. These grants may be applied to personnel, equipment, and admini…

This article shall be known and may be cited as the Pollution Prevention and Hazardous Waste Source Reduction and Management Review Act.

(a) The department’s duties to implement this article are contingent upon, and limited to, the availability of funding. (b) Subdivision (a) does not eliminate a requirement of this article that is imposed upon a generator.

For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Advisory committee” means the California Pollution Prevention Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 25244.15.1. (b) “Appropriate local agency” means a county, city, or regional association that has a…

(a) The California Pollution Prevention Advisory Committee is hereby created and consists of the following members: (1) The Executive Director of the State Air Resources Board, as an ex officio member. (2) The Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board, as an e…

The department shall do both of the following: (a) Adopt a format to be used by generators for completing the review and plan required by Section 25244.19, and the report required by Section 25244.20. The format shall include at least all of the factors the generator is required …

(a) (1) The department may provide pollution prevention training and resources to CUPAs, small business development corporations, business environmental assistance centers, and other regional and local government environmental programs so that they can provide technical assistanc…

(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 …

(a) On or before September 1, 1991, and every four years thereafter, each generator shall conduct a source reduction evaluation review and plan pursuant to subdivision (b). (b) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the source reduction evaluation review and plan required by subd…

For purposes of this article, “hazardous waste reduction, recycling, and treatment technologies” mean technologies and techniques which have, as their primary purpose, the reduced generation of hazardous waste, the recycling of hazardous waste, or the conversion of hazardous wast…

(a) On or before September 1, 1991, and every four years thereafter, each generator shall prepare a hazardous waste management performance report documenting hazardous waste management approaches implemented by the generator. (b) Except as provided in subdivision (d), the hazardo…

(a) Every generator shall retain the original of the current review and plan and report, shall maintain a copy of the current review and plan and report at each site, or, for a multisite review and plan or report, at a central location, and upon request, shall make it available t…

(a) The department may, on a periodic basis, prepare and make available for public review a draft work plan for the department’s operations and activities in carrying out this article. The department shall prepare the work plan in consultation with the advisory committee and with…

(a) (1) The department shall adopt regulations to ensure that trade secrets designated by a generator in all or a portion of the review and plan or the report required by this article are utilized by the director, the department, the unified program agency, or the appropriate loc…

Every generator of hazardous waste shall submit a report to the department, at least once every two years, reporting the changes in volume and toxicity of waste achieved through waste reduction during the period for which the report is issued.

(a) The department shall establish a Hazardous Waste Technology, Research, Development, and Demonstration Program, which shall consist of all of the following elements: (1) Contracting with, and providing grants to, universities, governmental agencies, and private organizations f…

The department, in consultation with the State Water Resources Control Board, the State Air Resources Board, and the California Waste Management Board, shall do all of the following: (a) Implement a program to research, develop, and demonstrate hazardous waste reduction, recyclin…

Consistent with Article VII of the California Constitution, the department may contract for services to be performed to carry out this article, including, but not limited to, environmental control assessment, feasibility analysis, the review of project design, field management re…

Grant funding for equipment construction needed for demonstration of hazardous waste reduction, recycling, and treatment technologies shall be provided to projects selected pursuant to Section 25244.6 in four consecutive steps: (a) Step I grants shall be made to study the feasibi…

The department shall compile the results of all evaluations of projects funded by step IV grants, as specified in subdivision (d) of Section 25244.8, or the evaluations of any other project which are available to the department, and shall make them available to interested parties…

(a) The department shall adopt, and revise when appropriate, standards and regulations which shall do both of the following: (1) Specify the financial assurances to be provided by the owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility that are necessary to respond adequately to dama…

(a) (1) (A) On and before September 30, 1996, a facility or transportable treatment unit operating pursuant to a permit-by-rule is exempt from any standard or regulation requiring the provision of financial assurances for the costs of closing a treatment unit of the facility auth…

(a) Each owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility shall submit hazardous waste facility closure and postclosure plans to the department and to the California regional water quality control board for the region in which the facility is located. The plans shall contain the o…

(a) (1) The department shall request, and an owner or operator of a facility shall submit to the department for review and approval, a written cost estimate for corrective action if all of the following are met: (A) The department has identified a release or releases of a hazardo…

(a) All of the following requirements apply if a written cost estimate for corrective action is required pursuant to Section 25246.1: (1) A corrective action cost estimate shall be based on, and be no less stringent than, the ASTM International Standard E2150. (2) (A) An owner or…

(a) The department shall review each plan submitted pursuant to Section 25246 and shall approve the plan if it finds that the plan complies with the regulations adopted by the department and complies with all other applicable state and federal regulations. (b) The department shal…

The owner or operator of a facility for which closure and postclosure plans have been approved shall carry out the plans during the closure and postclosure period required by law.

On the effective date of this article, any operator subject to former Division 7.5 (commencing with Section 14000) of the Water Code shall be subject to this article.

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Management” means disposal, storage, packaging, processing, pumping, recovery, recycling, transportation, transfer, treatment, use, and reuse. (b) “Perchlorate” means all perchlorate-containing compound…

On or before July 1, 2004, the owner or operator of a perchlorate facility, located within a 5-mile radius of a public drinking water well that has been found by any state or local agency to be contaminated with perchlorate, shall submit to the Environmental Protection Agency a s…

(a) The Legislature finds that almost 100 million gallons of used oil is generated each year in the state; that this oil is a valuable petroleum resource which can be recycled; and that, in spite of this potential for recycling, significant quantities of used oil are wastefully d…

(a) As used in this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) (A) “Used oil” means all of the following: (i) Oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that has been used, and, as a result of use or as a consequence of extended storage, or…

Every registered hazardous waste hauler who transports used oil shall report to the department, on or before March 1 of each year, the following information on a form provided by the department: (a) The shipping descriptions of used oil transported during the preceding calendar y…

(a) Any person who receives used oil from consumers or other used oil generators, is exempt from hazardous waste facilities permit requirements imposed pursuant to Article 9 (commencing with Section 25200) with respect to any location at which used oil is received if all of the f…

Used oil generated during maintenance operations may be transferred from its point of generation to the maintenance person’s place of business, other than a residence, for the purpose of consolidation in a tank or container, without meeting the requirements of Sections 25160, 251…