California Health and Safety Code

§ 25179.1

HSC § 25179.1 Effective Jan 1, 1996Div. 20 · Ch. 6.5 · Art. 7.7

Statute text

(a)This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Hazardous Waste Treatment Reform Act of 1995.

(b)It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this article, to adopt reasonable and realistic methods for addressing the environmental risks associated with land disposal of hazardous waste and to encourage the treatment of hazardous waste to remove or reduce hazards to human health and the environment. However, it is not the Legislature’s intent to impose hazardous waste management requirements upon hazardous waste generators and hazardous waste storage, treatment, and disposal facilities located within the state which could, if so imposed, encourage illegal disposal practices or force California generators to seek hazardous waste disposal solutions in other states or countries, thereby shifting the state’s hazardous waste treatment and disposal burdens to other jurisdictions.

(c)The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following:

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Legislative history

Repealed and added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 638, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 1996.