Report Title:

Health Rules; Hazardous Waste; Prohibition of Landfill Disposal

Description:

Adds the prohibition of disposing on hazardous waste from medical facilities in landfills to the rules that the director of health may adopt regarding owners and operators of facilities for treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste. (HD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

559

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to health.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 342J-34, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

[[]§342J-34[]] Standards for treatment, storage, or disposal facilities. The director may establish, by rules, standards applicable to owners and operators of facilities for treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste, identified or listed under this chapter, including but not limited to[,] requirements regarding:

(1) Obtaining an identification number;

(2) [Inspection,] Inspecting, monitoring, submitting reports, and recordkeeping practices;

(3) Using the manifest properly;

(4) Designing, constructing, and locating of hazardous waste management facilities;

(5) Developing contingency plans to minimize unanticipated damage from treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous waste;

(6) Maintaining and operating hazardous waste management facilities;

(7) Determining qualifications as to ownership, continuity of operation, training for personnel, closure and post-closure requirements, and financial responsibility (including financial responsibility for corrective action); [and]

(8) Issuing permits for hazardous waste management facilities[.]; and

(9) Prohibiting the disposal of hazardous wastes from medical facilities in landfills."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.