Hazardous waste: transportation.

Existing law provides that a person who initially collects hazardous waste at a remote site and transports it to a consolidation site operated by a generator and who complies with certain notification requirements is exempt from specified manifest and transporter registration requirements with regard to the hazardous waste if specified conditions are met. One of those conditions is that not more than 275 gallons or 2,500 pounds, whichever is greater, of hazardous waste is transported in a single shipment, except that a generator who is a public utility, local publicly owned utility, or municipal utility district is authorized to transport in a single shipment up to 1,600 gallons of hazardous wastewater from the dewatering of one or more utility vaults, up to 500 gallons of any other liquid hazardous waste, or up to 5,000 gallons of mineral oil from a transformer, circuit breakers, or capacitors, owned by the generator, if the mineral oil does not exhibit characteristics of toxicity pursuant to a specified test. This bill would revise that condition to increase the maximum weight amount to 10,000 pounds and would increase the maximum 1,600 gallon hazardous wastewater exception for certain generators to a maximum of 5,000 gallons.