Hazardous materials: methamphetamine laboratories.

(1) Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to take removal actions with respect to a hazardous substance that is an illegal controlled substance, a precursor of a controlled substance, or a material intended to be used in the unlawful manufacture of controlled substances. Existing law requires the department, on or before October 1, 2008, and to the extent funding is available, to develop health-based target remediation standards for iodine, methyl iodide, and phosphine. This bill would delete the date by which the department is required to develop these standards. (2) Existing law states that property contaminated by methamphetamine laboratory activity is safe for human occupancy only if the level of methamphetamine on an indoor surface is less than, or equal to, 0.1 micrograms per 100 square centimeters. Existing law establishes additional requirements for safe human occupancy if this activity included the use of lead or mercury. This bill would increase the methamphetamine level for this purpose from 0.1 micrograms per 100 square centimeters to 1.5 micrograms per 100 square centimeters. This bill would provide that these safety provisions do not preclude the department, in consultation with the Office of Health Hazard Assessment, from adopting stricter standards than the law would otherwise require. This bill would also delete obsolete provisions of law.