Household hazardous waste: transportation.

(1) Existing law, part of the hazardous waste control laws, authorizes a door-to-door household hazardous waste collection program or household hazardous waste residential pickup service, as defined, to transport hazardous waste from individual residences to an authorized household hazardous waste collection facility. Existing law requires any person generating hazardous waste that is transported, or submitted for transportation, for offsite handling, treatment, storage, disposal, or any combination thereof, to complete a manifest and exempts a door-to-door household hazardous waste collection program or household hazardous waste residential pickup service from having to complete a manifest if it is transporting household hazardous waste collected from individual residences for transportation to an authorized collection facility. A violation of the hazardous waste control laws is a crime. This bill would allow a registered hazardous waste transporter operating a door-to-door household hazardous waste collection program or household hazardous waste residential pickup service to instead use a specified manifesting procedure for transporting household hazardous waste, if the transporter complies with certain operating and reporting requirements. The bill would require a public agency to retain a copy of the manifest in a specified manner, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by imposing new duties upon local agencies. The bill would make these requirements inoperative on January 1, 2020. Because a violation of these requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would revise the definition of a household hazardous waste collection facility and a door-to-door household hazardous waste collection program, for purposes of the provisions regulating the household hazardous waste program, and would specify the conditions under which such a program is deemed to be a household hazardous waste collection facility. (2) Existing law requires the Secretary for Environmental Protection to implement a unified hazardous waste and hazardous materials management regulatory program. A city or local agency that meets specified requirements is authorized to apply to the secretary to implement the unified program, and every county is required to apply to the secretary to be certified to implement the unified program. This bill would additionally include, until December 31, 2019, in the unified program, an exempt transfer facility operated by a door-to-door household hazardous waste collection program, thereby creating a state-mandated local program by imposing new duties upon local agencies. (3) 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 specified reasons.