Hazardous waste: transportation.

(1) Existing law, which is part of the hazardous waste control 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 be subject to transporter registration requirements. Existing law exempts from these requirements a person who is transporting certain types of hazardous waste and who meets other conditions under a consolidated manifest procedure, including that more than 275 gallons, or 2,500 pounds, whichever is greater, of hazardous waste is transported in any single shipment, except for, among other things, a generator who is a public utility, local publicly owned utility, or municipal utility district and transports in a single shipment up to 1,600 gallons of hazardous wastewater from the dewatering of one or more utility vaults. A violation of the hazardous waste control law is a crime. This bill would additionally exempt, from that limit for the transportation of hazardous waste in a single shipment, a generator who is a public utility, local publicly owned utility, or municipal utility district transporting up to 5,000 gallons of hazardous wastewater from the dewatering of a utility vault in an emergency situation, as defined. The bill would require a generator transporting hazardous waste pursuant to this exemption to only collect the waste from one utility vault and would prohibit the consolidation of hazardous waste from multiple sites, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime. (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.