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HAZ MAT LEGISLATION AS OF JULY 2017

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CA AB 55 AUTHOR: Thurmond [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Materials Management: Stationary Sources

INTRODUCED: 12/05/2016

DISPOSITION: Pending

SUMMARY:

30 Requires a worker to have completed at least a certain number of hours of an

approved advanced safety training to qualify as a skilled journeyperson for the

purposes of being contracted to perform work at a stationary source. Provides

that the redacted copy of a contract for work at a stationary source is a public

record and specifies that the unredacted copy is not a public record.

STATUS:

07/11/2017 In SENATE. Read second time. To third reading.

CA AB 110 AUTHOR: Budget Cmt

TITLE: Cannabis: Medicinal and Adult Use



SUMMARY:

Requires probable cause to believe that information on identification cards

issued pursuant to the medical marijuana program is false or fraudulent to

overcome immunity from arrest for possession. Changes the definition of

volatile solvent for a prohibition on manufacturing concentrated cannabis using

a volatile solvent. Repeals the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act and

includes certain provisions in the licensing provisions of the Adult Use of

Marijuana Act. Relates to quality assurance.

STATUS:

07/20/2017 In SENATE. From third reading. To Inactive File.

CA AB 238 AUTHOR: Steinorth [R]

TITLE: Nonmedical Marijuana: Manufacturing: Volatile Solvents



SUMMARY:

Relates to licensing under the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana

Act. Prohibits a manufacturing Level 2 licensee from manufacturing marijuana

products using volatile solvents on property zoned for residential or mixed use.

STATUS:


CA AB 245 AUTHOR: Quirk [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Facilities and Enforcement



SUMMARY:

Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to hold a public meeting

for specified purposes relating to the renewal in or near the community in which

the hazardous waste facility is located. Increases administrative and civil

penalties for violations.

STATUS:

07/12/2017 In SENATE. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to

Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.


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CA AB 246 AUTHOR: Santiago [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Facilities: Emissions Monitoring



SUMMARY:

Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to assess hazardous

waste facilities to determine if fence-line or other monitoring to measure and

record emissions at those facilities is necessary or appropriate. Requires the

department, based on its findings upon completion of the assessment to adopt

regulations for fence-line monitoring at hazardous waste facilities.

STATUS:



CA AB 247 AUTHOR: Garcia [D]

TITLE: Public Health: Childhood Lead Poisoning: Task Force



SUMMARY:

Requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to convene a

Lead Advisory Task Force to review and advise regarding policies and

procedures to reduce childhood lead poisoning in the state. Requires the Task

Force to publish on the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment's

Internet Web site a recommended regulatory agenda that would identify

sources of lead and ensure that regulatory standards are protective of health in

the state.

STATUS:



CA AB 248 AUTHOR: Reyes [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Facilities: Permits



SUMMARY:

Requires, for a hazardous waste facilities permit that will expire on or before a

specified date, the owner or operator of a facility intending to extend the term

of a permit to submit a Part A and part B application for a permit before the

fixed term of the permit expires.

STATUS:


CA AB 444 AUTHOR: Ting [D]

TITLE: Medical Waste: Home-Generated Medical Waste



SUMMARY:

Authorizes the California Environmental Protection Agency to develop a

statewide program for the collection, transportation, and disposal of

home-generated medical waste.

STATUS:

06/08/2017 To SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.


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CA AB 474 AUTHOR: Garcia E [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Spent Brine Solutions



SUMMARY:

Exempts spent brine solutions that are byproducts of the treatment of

groundwater to meet California drinking water standards from Hazardous Waste

Control Law requirements if certain conditions are met. Requests surface

impoundments used for the treatment of spent brine solutions to maintain

financial assurances consistent with requirements of the Hazardous Waste

Control Law.

STATUS:

07/10/2017 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: To Suspense

File.

CA AB 509 AUTHOR: Frazier [D]

TITLE: Tire Recycling: Tire Regulatory Fee Program



SUMMARY:

Requires a waste tire generator that is a retail seller of new tires to pay a tire

regulatory fee. Requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,

prior to establishing the fee, to hold a public hearing. Repeals the Rubberized

Pavement Market Development Act and instead enacts the Tire Recycling

Incentive Program Act. Requires the department to establish an incentive

program to make payments to entities that purchase waste tire material for

incorporation in a product for sale to end users.

STATUS:


File.

CA AB 514 AUTHOR: Salas [D]

TITLE: Medical Waste: Pharmaceuticals



SUMMARY:

Amends the Medical Waste Management Act. Excepts herbal-based remedies,

homeopathic drugs, remedies, and any other product with a National Drug Code

identifying the product as "homeopathic," and cosmetics, soap, shampoo,

sunscreen, toothpaste, lip balm, antiperspirant, and saline products from the

definition of pharmaceutical under the Act.

STATUS:

07/05/2017 In SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY:

Heard, remains in Committee.

CA AB 719 AUTHOR: Fong [R]

TITLE: Underground Storage Tanks: Expedited Claim Pilot



SUMMARY:

Relates to underground storage tanks. Requires the State Water Resources

Control Board to establish the Expedited Claim Pilot Project to investigate and

implement methods to improve claim processing procedures to reduce the

overall cost for site cleanup and time to reach closure. Establishes the Expedited


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Claim Account for the implementation of the pilot program.

STATUS:

04/24/2017 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL

SAFETY AND TOXIC MATERIALS.

CA AB 746 AUTHOR: Gonzalez [D]

TITLE: Public Health: Potable Water Systems: Lead Testing



SUMMARY:

Requires a local educational agency to test for lead in the potable water system

at every school site within its jurisdiction at regular intervals. Requires parents

and students to be notified of the results if shown to have an elevated level of

lead. Requires education agencies to shut down from use any part of a potable

water system with an elevated level of lead.

STATUS:


File.

CA AB 885 AUTHOR: Rubio [D]

TITLE: Pupil Health: Drinking Water: Lead



SUMMARY:

Requires a community water system to test for the presence of lead at water

outlets used for drinking or cooking at each school, defined to include a public

elementary school, a public secondary school, a public preschool located on

public school property, and a public day care facility located on public school

property, constructed before the specified date, within the boundaries of the

community water system. relates to purchase and install certified water filters

at all school faucets and fountains.

STATUS:

05/26/2017 In ASSEMBLY Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in

committee.

CA AB 958 AUTHOR: Ting [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Materials: Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl



SUMMARY:

Includes in the Priority Product Work Plan food packaging containing

perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substances. Requires the Department of Toxic

Substances Control to begin the adoption of Green Chemistry regulations for

that food packaging, unless it makes a finding that sufficient data is not

available to conduct the priority product evaluation and regulatory process for

that food packaging.

STATUS:




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CA AB 1120 AUTHOR: Cooper [D]

TITLE: Controlled Substances: Butane



SUMMARY:

Requires a person or entity that sells any quantity of nonodorized butane to

record specified information about the transaction, including the identity of the

customer and to maintain that information for a certain period of time. Requires

the Department of Justice to create a database of butane purchases. Makes it a

crime to sell more than a certain amount of nonodorized butane to any one

customer in a certain period.

STATUS:



CA AB 1179 AUTHOR: Kalra [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Waste Facilities: Inspections



SUMMARY:

Requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations

establishing inspection frequencies for permitted hazardous waste treatment,

storage, and disposal facilities, hazardous waste generators, and hazardous

waste transporters. Requires the inspection frequency for a hazardous waste

land disposal facility and any other permitted hazardous waste treatment to be

no less than a certain frequency.

STATUS:


File.

CA AB 1197 AUTHOR: Limon [D]

TITLE: Oil Spill Contingency Plans: Spill Management



SUMMARY:

Amends Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act, which

requires owners or operators of specified facilities and owners or operators of

vessels to prepare and implement an oil spill contingency plan. Authorizes a spill

management team to apply for a classification of that SMT's response

capabilities. Requires the establishment of levels for classifying a SMT based on

a SMT's capacity to respond to spills and manage spills effectively.

STATUS:

07/05/2017 From SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY:

Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (6-0)

CA AB 1244 AUTHOR: Voepel [R]

TITLE: Consumer Product Safety: Butane Gas



SUMMARY:

Prohibits the distribution or sale of any butane gas or product containing butane

gas which does not have an odorant added.

STATUS:

03/30/2017 Re-referred to ASSEMBLY Committee on PRIVACY AND


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CONSUMER PROTECTION.

CA AB 1287 AUTHOR: Acosta [R]

TITLE: Solid Waste: Plastic Products



SUMMARY:

Extends the operation of a provision that requires a manufacturer or supplier of

plastic products making an environmental marketing claim relating to the

recycled content of a plastic food container product to maintain specified

information and documentation in written form in its records in support of that

claim, and to provide that information and documentation upon request or on

the Internet.

STATUS:

03/13/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES.

CA AB 1294 AUTHOR: Berman [D]

TITLE: Solid Waste: Plastic Products



SUMMARY:

Extends indefinitely the provision concerning recycled content market claims

relating to the recycled content of a plastic food container product to maintain

specified information and documentation in written form in its records in

support of that claim.

STATUS:

06/29/2017 In SENATE. From Consent Calendar. To third reading.

06/29/2017 In SENATE. From third reading. To Inactive File.

CA AB 1328 AUTHOR: Limon [D]

TITLE: Oil and Gas: Water Quality



SUMMARY:

Provides that, if disposition of wastewater produced from an oil or gas field

includes discharge to surface, the State Water Resources Control Board or a

regional board may require certain information to be furnished relating to all

chemicals in the discharged wastewater that could affect the quality of state

waters. Provides for certain trade secret protections. Requires information

collected to be available on the Internet Web site of the state board.

STATUS:



CA AB 1438 AUTHOR: Env Safety & Toxic Material Cmt

TITLE: State Water Resource Control Board



SUMMARY:

Amends the Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Act. Updates obsolete

references. Authorizes the state board to require an owner of a laboratory under

these provisions to provide certain information or records to the state board.

Amends the California Safe Drinking Water Act. Authorizes the state board to

suspend or revoke a permit if the state board determines that the permittee is

in violation of the act.


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STATUS:


File.


TITLE: Hazardous Materials: Reporting



SUMMARY:

Repeals provisions requiring the Department of Toxic Substances Control to

implement a procedure for electronic reporting of all hazardous waste facilities

permit modifications, to the extent of procedure is compatible with electronic

reporting. Authorizes the department require a person submitting workplan,

schedule, notice, request, application, or other document for compliance with

certain laws and regulations to submit electronic format document.

STATUS:

07/13/2017 In SENATE. From Consent Calendar. To third reading.


TITLE: Hazardous Waste: Transportation: Electronic Manifests



SUMMARY:

Authorizes manifest requirements for transporting hazardous waste, including

requirements to give, provide, send, forward, or return to another person a

copy of a manifest, to sign a manifest or manifest certification by hand, or to

keep or retain a copy of a manifest, to be satisfied through the use of the

United States Environmental Protection Agency electronic manifest (e-Manifest)

system.

STATUS:


File.

CA AB 1645 AUTHOR: Muratsuchi [D]

TITLE: Hydrogen Fluoride: Notice Of Use: Substitution



SUMMARY:

Requires a refinery that, at any time, handles, maintains, or stores more than a

specified number of gallons of fluoride, including hydrofluoric acid and modified

hydrofluoric acid, to, if possible, convert to a known, significantly less hazardous

substitute by a specified date.

STATUS:

04/17/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

AND TOXIC MATERIALS with author's amendments.

04/17/2017 In ASSEMBLY. Read second time and amended. Re-referred

to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC

MATERIALS.


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TITLE: Hazardous Materials: Risk Management Plans



SUMMARY:

Requires a unified program agency to make the risk management plan of a

petroleum refinery available to the public. Requires a UPA to develop a system

of automatic notification for residents and facilities within a certain radius and to

develop an audible alarm system and an emergency alert system for resident

and facilities in the surrounding area of the refinery.

STATUS:

06/21/2017 From SENATE Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY:

Do pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (5-1)


TITLE: Petroleum Refineries: Air Monitoring Systems



SUMMARY:

Requires a community air monitoring system to be installed before a specified

date. Requires an air district to design, develop, install, operate, and maintain

the community air monitoring system or contract with a third party. Requires an

owner or operator of a petroleum refinery to develop, install, operate, and

maintain a fence-line monitoring system. Requires the collection of real-time

data from monitoring systems and the provision of that data in a publicly

accessible format.

STATUS:



TITLE: Refineries: Inspectors



SUMMARY:

Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to increase the number

of inspectors for the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board refinery

inspector program.

STATUS:

03/16/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT.

CA AB 1687 AUTHOR: Bloom [D]

TITLE: Pesticides: Use of Anticoagulants



SUMMARY:

Amends the existing law which regulates the use of pesticides and authorizes

the Director of Pesticide Regulation to adopt regulations to govern the

possession, sale, or use of any pesticide. Expands the prohibition to include a

pesticide containing additional specified anticoagulants. Prohibits the use of a

pesticide containing one of those anticoagulants in the entire state. Expands the

exemption for agricultural activities. Imposes additional duties on county

agricultural commissioners.

STATUS:



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AND TOXIC MATERIALS with author's amendments.


to Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND TOXIC

MATERIALS.


TITLE: Business Plans: Combustible Metals


DISPOSITION: To Governor

SUMMARY:

Requires businesses that handle combustible metals or metal alloys, in specified

quantities, to establish and implement a business plan for emergency response

to a release of the material.

STATUS:

07/21/2017 *****To GOVERNOR.

CA SB 44 AUTHOR: Jackson [D]

TITLE: State Lands: Gas Well Removal and Remediation



SUMMARY:

Requires the State Lands Commission to administer a coastal hazard and legacy

oil and gas well removal and remediation program. Provides for certain funding.

Establishes reporting requirements.

STATUS:

07/10/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES: Do

pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (10-0)

CA SB 53 AUTHOR: Hueso [D]

TITLE: Natural Gas Vehicles



SUMMARY:

Authorizes a vehicle operated by an engine fueled primarily by natural gas to

exceed certain weight limits by an amount, up to a specified maximum, equal to

the difference between the weight of the vehicle attributable to the natural gas

tank and fueling system carried by that vehicle and the weight of a comparable

diesel tank and fueling system. Requires certain institutions to estimate the

damage caused by vehicles operating pursuant to this authorization.

STATUS:

05/25/2017 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in

committee.

CA SB 57 AUTHOR: Stern [D]

TITLE: Natural Gas Storage: Moratorium



SUMMARY:

Amends an existing law which requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to

continue a prohibition against a specified natural gas injection into the Aliso

Canyon natural gas storage facility. Authorizes the Governor during a state of

emergency, which may include a sudden and severe energy shortage, to

suspend any regulatory statute, or statute prescribing the procedure for conduct


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of state business, or the orders, rules, or regulations of any state agency.

STATUS:

05/30/2017 In SENATE. Urgency clause failed adoption. (24-9)

05/30/2017 In SENATE. Motion to reconsider.

05/30/2017 In SENATE. Reconsideration granted.

CA SB 139 AUTHOR: Wilk [R]

TITLE: Harmful Substances: Local Regulation



SUMMARY:

Allows a city, county, or city and county, to regulate, by ordinance, the sale of a

substance used as a recreational drug that poses a threat to human life or

health and a particular risk to minors if specified conditions are met. Allows a

city council or board of supervisors to require vendors to maintain records of

sale, make inventory available for inspection by a peace officer, and store a

substance in a secure place that cannot be accessed by minors.

STATUS:

01/26/2017 To SENATE Committee on GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE.


TITLE: State Lands: Leasing: Oil and Gas



SUMMARY:

Prohibits the State Lands Commission and the local trustees of granted public

trust lands from entering into any new lease or other conveyance. Prohibits any

lease renewal, extension, or modification that authorizes a lessee to engage in

new or additional exploration, development, or production of oil or natural gas

upon certain lands owned by the state.

STATUS:


to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS.


TITLE: Medical Waste



SUMMARY:

Adds to the Medical Waste Management Act a definition of home-generated

pharmaceutical waste as a prescription or over-the-counter human or veterinary

home-generated pharmaceutical that is waste and is derived from a household,

including, but not limited to, a multifamily residence or household.

STATUS:

05/18/2017 To ASSEMBLY Committee on ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY AND

TOXIC MATERIALS.


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CA SB 377 AUTHOR: Monning [D]

TITLE: Lead-Based Paint



SUMMARY:

Requires a firm, as defined, that performs remediation, repair, or painting

services for compensation in a residential or public building, and at least one

person employed by the firm, to have a specified certificate when lead-based

paint will be disturbed. Requires a fee for the issuance of the certificates, to be

deposited into the Lead-Related Construction Fund.

STATUS:


AND TOXIC MATERIALS: Do pass to Committee on

APPROPRIATIONS. (7-0)


TITLE: Oil and Gas Conservation



SUMMARY:

Requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor perform his or her duties in a manner

to encourage the intelligent, safe, and efficient development of oil and gas

resources. Requires the supervisor to regulate instead of supervise the drilling,

operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and the operation,

maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities attendant to

oil and gas production. Establishes the Standing Advisory Council on Oil and Gas

Extraction, composed of specified members.

STATUS:



CA SB 631 AUTHOR: Nielsen [R]

TITLE: Nitrous Oxide: Retail Sales



SUMMARY:

Prohibits any retailer of tobacco or tobacco-related products from selling,

offering, or exposing for sale nitrous oxide. Authorizes a civil penalty to be

assessed against a retailer who violates this prohibition. Requires the

suspension of the retailer's license to engage in the sale of cigarettes or tobacco

products, if the retailer possesses that license.

STATUS:


to Committee on JUDICIARY.


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CA SB 709 AUTHOR: Wiener [D]

TITLE: Oil Spill Response and Contingency Planning



SUMMARY:

Amends the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act.

Requires a study of best achievable protection of state waters from spills of

nonfloating or potentially nonfloating oils. Provides for new criteria for oil spill

contingency plans, OSRO capability ratings, and marine facility certificates of

financial responsibility.

STATUS:

05/25/2017 In SENATE Committee on APPROPRIATIONS: Held in

committee.

CA SB 724 AUTHOR: Lara [D]

TITLE: Oil and Gas: Wells and Production Facilities



SUMMARY:

Amends existing law which requires the State Oil and Gas Supervisor to

supervise the drilling, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of wells and

the operation, maintenance, and removal or abandonment of tanks and facilities

related to oil and gas production. Extends the time period to commence

operations before the notice is deemed canceled. Authorizes a city or county to

request from the supervisor a list of all idle wells.

STATUS:

07/10/2017 From ASSEMBLY Committee on NATURAL RESOURCES: Do

pass to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS. (10-0)

CA SB 774 AUTHOR: Leyva [D]

TITLE: Hazardous Substances: California Toxic Substances Board



SUMMARY:

Establishes the California Toxic Substances Board. Authorizes or requires the

Department of Toxic Substances Control to develop draft regulations. Requires

the Board to conduct monthly public hearings to consider matters relating to

hazardous waste facilities permits and sites.

STATUS:



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