Hazardous waste: glass beads.

(1) Existing law, part of the hazardous waste control law, requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals or chemical ingredients in products may be identified and prioritized for consideration as being chemicals of concern and to adopt regulations to establish a process by which chemicals of concern may be evaluated. The department is prohibited from duplicating or adopting conflicting regulations for regulated product categories. A violation of the hazardous waste control law is a crime. This bill would prohibit a person from manufacturing, selling, offering for sale, or offering for promotional purposes in this state, glass beads that contain more than a specified amount of arsenic or lead, if those glass beads will be used with certain types of blasting equipment. The bill would require each container or bag of glass beads sold for surface preparation to be labeled in a specified manner. The bill would prohibit these glass beads from being considered as a product category subject to those chemicals of concern regulations. The bill would repeal these prohibitions and requirements on January 1, 2015. Since a violation of these requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.