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Hazardous Waste Fee
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Division 20. Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions
Chapter 6.5. Hazardous Waste Control (View entire chapter)
Article 1. Findings and Declarations
- 25100 Legislative findings
- 25101 Legislative declaration
- 25103 Legislative findings: public records
- 25105 Enforcement authority of state and local agencies
Article 2. Definitions
- 25110 Construction of chapter
- 25110.02 "Acutely hazardous waste"
- 25110.1 "Applicant"
- 25110.2 "Authorized local health officer"
- 25110.3 "Buffer zone" [Renumbered.]
- 25110.3 "Board"
- 25110.4 "Authorized local public officer" [Renumbered.]
- 25110.4 "Buffer zone"
- 25110.5 "Business"
- 25110.8 "Business concern"
- 25110.9 "Conditionally exempt small quantity treatment; conditionally exempt specified waste stream"
- 25110.9.1 "Conditional authorization"
- 25110.9.3 "Consolidated manifest"
- 25110.10 "Consolidation site"
- 25110.10.1 "Consolidated transporter"
- 25111 "Department"
- 25111.1 "Designated local public officer"
- 25112 "Director"
- 25112.5 "Disclosure statement"
- 25113 "Disposal"
- 25114 "Disposal site"
- 25114.5 "Environmental assessor"
- 25115 "Extremely hazardous waste"
- 25115.1 "Federal act"
- 25116 "Handling"
- 25116.5 "Hazardous" [Repealed.]
- 25116.5 "Intermediate manufacturing process stream"
- 25117 "Hazardous waste"
- 25117.1 "Hazardous waste facility"
- 25117.2 "Hazardous waste management" or "management"
- 25117.3 "Hazardous waste property" [Repealed]
- 25117.4 "Border zone property" [Repealed]
- 25117.4.1 "Local health officer"
- 25117.5 "Medical waste exemption"
- 25117.6 Wastewater and wastewater sludges; properly treated not infectious [Repealed.]
- 25117.6 "Minor violation"
- 25117.7 "Hazardous waste facility" [Renumbered.]
- 25117.8 "Natural resources"
- 25117.9 "Non-RCRA hazardous waste"
- 25117.9.1 "Notice to comply"
- 25117.10 "License"
- 25117.11 "Offsite facility"
- 25117.12 "Onsite facility"
- 25117.14 "Permit-by-rule"
- 25118 "Person"
- 25119 "Processing"
- 25120 "Producer"
- 25120.1. "Reclaimed material" [Repealed.]
- 25120.2 "RCRA hazardous waste"
- 25120.5 "Recyclable material"
- 25120.55 Used or spent etchants, etc
- 25121 "Recycled material"
- 25121.1 "Recycling"
- 25121.2 "Release"
- 25121.3 "Remote site"
- 25121.5 "Retrograde material"
- 25122 "Waste" [Renumbered.]
- 25122. "Used or reused material" [Repealed.]
- 25122.5 "Recyclable material" [Renumbered.]
- 25122.55 Used or spent etchants, etc [Renumbered.]
- 25122.6. "Small quantity producer" [Repealed.]
- 25122.7 "Restricted hazardous waste"
- 25122.8 "State operational costs"
- 25122.9 "Secretary"
- 25123 "Storage"
- 25123.3 "Liquid hazardous waste; transfer facility; storage facility"
- 25123.4 "Transportable hazardous waste treatment unit"
- 25123.5 "Treatment"
- 25123.6 "Volatile organic compound"
- 25123.7 "Unified Program Facility"
- 25123.8 "Universal waste"
- 25124 "Waste"
Article 4. Listings
- 25140 Listing of hazardous wastes
- 25141 Criteria and guidelines for identification of wastes
- 25141.1 Testing protocol of cementitious waste [Repealed.]
- 25141.1 Acute aquatic toxicity
- 25141.2 External peer review prior to publication
- 25141.5 Identification and regulation of hazardous waste; criteria and procedures
- 25141.6 Public notice of department determination
- 25142 Management
- 25142.5 Training and enforcement program
- 25143 Variance from requirements of chapter or regulations
- 25143.1 Exemption of geothermal waste
- 25143.1.5 "Wood waste"
- 25143.2 Recyclable material; waiver of chapter provisions; exemption from regulation; conditions; materials subject to chapter; enforcement action; burden of proof
- 25143.3 Spent sulfuric acid; regulations
- 25143.4 Nonhazardous waste; solid waste combustion residues [Repealed.]
- 25143.4 Pulping liquors
- 25143.5 Nonhazardous waste; emission control residues; classification; grounds; exemption from chapter; notice by operator of changes in waste in process
- 25143.6 Boards required to prepare list [Repealed.]
- 25143.6 Spent brine solutions; exemptions
- 25143.7 Waste containing asbestos; disposal
- 25143.8 Shredder waste [Repealed.]
- 25143.9 Recyclable material exclusions
- 25143.10 Recyclable material; exclusions and exemptions
- 25143.11 Secondary materials exempt
- 25143.12 Petroleum contaminated debris
- 25143.13 Silver or silver compounds
- 25143.14 Residues from equipment
- 25144 Definitions
- 25144.6 "Reusable soiled textile materials"; exemption
- 25144.7 Draining of used oil filters
- 25145 No limitation of powers
Article 4.5. State Regulation of Existing Hazardous Waste Facilities
Article 5. Standards
- 25150 Management of hazardous wastes
- 25153 Offsite storage, treatment, transportation, and disposal
- 25158 Requirements for persons generating hazardous waste
- 25158.1 Requirements when computing whether persons are required to comply with specified regulatory requirements
Article 5.5. Coordination with Federal Acts
Article 6. Transportation
- 25160 "Manifest"; reporting requirements
- 25160.1 Revision of hazardous waste code identification system
- 25160.2 Consolidated manifesting procedure
- 25160.3 Electronic manifest filing [Repealed.]
- 25160.4 Preparation of new manifest [Repealed.]
- 25160.6 Use of original manifest [Repealed.]
- 25163.3 Remote site; exemption from manifest requirements
- 25166 Registration for transportation of hazardous waste
Article 6.5. Hazardous Waste Haulers
Article 7. Treatment, Recycling, and Disposal Technology
- 25171.5 Report of effectiveness of the Wright-Polanco-Lempert Hazardous Waste Treatment Permit Reform Act of 1992 [Repealed.]
- 25173.5 Tax on offsite, multiuser facility
- 25173.6 Additional deposits to the Toxic Substances Control Account
- 25173.7 Appropriation of Toxic Substances Control Account funds
- 25174 Hazardous Waste Control Account; deposits; expenditures
- 25174.01 Hazardous Waste Facilities Account; deposits
- 25174.02 Responsibility and administration
- 25174.1 Disposal fee; liability for payment; disposition of funds
- 25174.2 Base rate; procedure for adjustment
- 25174.6 Operators; fees; maximum amount
- 25174.7 Exemptions; recovery of fees by department; department's remedies
- 25174.8 Fee Exemptions
- 25174.8.1 Fee Exemptions
- 25174.9 Non-RCRA hazardous waste generated in a remedial, removal or corrective action [Repealed.]
- 25174.9 Successor to Federal Receipts Account
- 25174.11 Exempt from fee: mining waste: nonhazardous [Repealed.]
Article 8. Enforcement
- 25187.2 Fees; oversight of the removal or remedial action
- 25189.3 Suspension or denial of permit for failure to pay fees or penalties
- 25189.4 Imposition of additional civil penalty
Article 9. Permitting of Facilities
- 25200 Issuance of permits to use and operate facilities
- 25200.05 Notification requirements for permit application
- 25200.1 Financial responsibility requirements
- 25200.1.5 Certification of hazardous waste environmental technologies
- 25200.2 Permitting process for transportable hazardous waste treatment units
- 25200.3 Conditional authorization; treatment compliance; ineligible activities; notification
- 25200.3.1 Laboratory hazardous waste
- 25200.4 Disclosure statement
- 25200.5 Interim status
- 25200.9 Granting interim status
- 25200.10 Corrective action; facility
- 25200.14 Phase I environmental assessment
- 25200.14.1 Evaluation of phase I environmental assessment
- 25200.15 Changes to structures or equipment
- 25200.16 Conversion to a grant of conditional authorization or exemption; conditions
- 25200.17 Addition of new treatment facilities under permit-by-rule; conditions
- 25200.18 Procedures for electronic reporting; compatibility [Repealed.]
- 25200.19 Bulk, packaged, or containerized unloading from offsite locations
- 25200.21 Establish criteria to issue new or modified hazardous waste facilities permits
- 25200.23 Implement programmatic reforms to improve the enforceability of the permitting program
- 25201 Necessity of permit or grant of authority
- 25201.3 Treatment of dilute aqueous waste containing metals
- 25201.4 Establishment of program in jurisdictions lacking local program
- 25201.4.1 Required notification
- 25201.5 Conditional exemption
- 25201.5.1 Hazardous waste from silver halide-based imaging products [Repealed.]
- 25201.6 Adoption of standardized hazardous waste facilities permit application
- 25201.6.1 Storage of railcar holding residual hazardous waste
- 25201.8 Dry cleaning operations
- 25201.9 Consultative services
- 25201.10 Public access to information
- 25201.12 Pollution control equipment exemption
- 25201.13 Legislative findings and declarations
- 25201.14 Exemption from permit requirement
- 25201.15 Biotechnology definitions
- 25201.16 Aerosol definitions
- 25202 Compliance with permit conditions
- 25202.9 Annual certification as to waste reduction program
- 25203 Disposal of hazardous waste at unauthorized facility
- 25204.6 Hazardous waste facility regulation and permitting consolidation program
- 25204.7 Generators exemption from fees and notification requirements
Article 9.1. Facilities and Generator Fees
- 25205.1 Definitions
- 25205.2 Facility fees; payments; deposit; variance and closure exemption
- 25205.2.1 Facility fees; schedule of rates
- 25205.3 Facility fee exemptions
- 25205.4 Facility fees; exemptions; computation of fees
- 25205.5 Generator fees; rates; exemption
- 25205.5 Generation and handling fees; rates; exemption
- 25205.5.01 Generation and handling fees; schedule of rates
- 25205.5.1 Disaster victim exemption
- 25205.5.2 Generation and handing fees; rate; exemption
- 25205.5.3 Evaluation of Exemption Claims
- 25205.5.4 Regulations
- 25205.6 Environmental fees; categories; rates
- 25205.6.1 Environmental fees; schedule of rates
- 25205.7 Application fees; facility permit; variance; certification
- 25205.8 Waste classification fees; exemption [Repealed.]
- 25205.9 Generator fee surcharge [Repealed.]
- 25205.9 Determining surplus for refunds [Repealed.]
- 25205.12 Facility fee exemption; permit-by-rule; conditional authorization
- 25205.13 Deadline for permit-by-rule fixed treatment unit facility-specific notifications
- 25205.14 Permit-by-rule; conditional authorization; conditional exemption
- 25205.15 Manifest fee
- 25205.16 Annual verification fee
- 25205.17 Disposal facility exemption
- 25205.18 Facility capacity
- 25205.19 Determination of facility size or type and changes
- 25205.20 Retroactive annual facility fee variance
- 25205.21 Maximum facility fee for government agency
- 25205.22 Imported non-RCRA hazardous waste generator/facility fee
- 25205.23 Settlement
- 25205.25 Continued Administration
Article 9.4. Banned, Unregistered, or Outdated Agricultural Wastes
- 25207 Legislative findings and declarations
- 25207.1 Definitions
- 25207.2 County collection program
- 25207.3 County survey
- 25207.4 Collection program; approval
- 25207.5 Transportation of rejected waste
- 25207.6 Transportation requirements
- 25207.7 County as operator
- 25207.8 Collection program; transportation
- 25207.9 Collection program; accidents
- 25207.10 Collection program; fee
- 25207.11 Collection program; recyclable materials
- 25207.12 Collection program; exemption from taxes and fees
- 25207.13 Collection program; manifest requirements
Article 9.6. Land Treatment Units
- 25209.1 Definitions
- 25209.2 Prohibited discharges; variances
- 25209.3 Prohibited discharges after January 1, 1990
- 25209.4 Conditions under which placement or disposal of hazardous waste prohibited
- 25209.5 Design, construction, and operation of required systems
- 25209.6 Exemptions
- 25209.7 Fees
Article 10.8. Household Hazardous Waste and Small Quantity Generator Waste
- 25218 Legislative findings and declarations
- 25218.1 Definitions
- 25218.2 Public agency requirements
- 25218.3 Conditionally exempt small quantity generators
- 25218.4 Manifest exemption
- 25218.5 Transporter weight limits and methods
- 25218.6 Fee exemptions
- 25218.7 Corrective action exemptions
- 25218.8 Hazardous waste permit requirements
- 25218.9 Due date
- 25218.10 Data base
Article 13. Management of Used Oil
- 25250.1 Definitions; "Used oil," "Board," and "Recycled oil"
- 25250.9 Used oil disposition notice
- 25250.11 Exemption from hazardous waste facility permit requirements
- 25250.12 Transfer of used oil generated during maintenance operations
- 25250.13 Requirements for short term transfers
- 25250.15 Curbside collection program; exemptions
- 25250.16 Authorization needed to recycle used oil
- 25250.18 Transport documentation
- 25250.19 Facility certification and test records
- 25250.24 Persons subject to chapter; recyclers
- 25250.28 Automated onboard oil management system