ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

House: NREW DP 10-0-0-0 | 3rd Read 60-0-0-0

Senate: NREW DP 7-0-0-0 | 3rd Read 28-0-2-0

HB2215: hazardous waste manifest resubmittals; fees

Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19

Transmitted to the Governor

Overview

Removes ADEQ's ability to require someone who submitted an improperly completed hazardous waste shipment manifest to properly complete and resubmit it with a $20 fee.

History

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is responsible for operating a hazardous waste management program that complies with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. One component of this program involves regulating the transportation of hazardous waste, which includes requirements for submitting a paper manifest to ADEQ that identifies the quantity, composition, origin, routing and destination of hazardous waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment or storage (A.R.S. §§ 49-921 and 49-922). This manifest information ensures compliance with state and federal hazardous waste law. When an improperly completed manifest is submitted to ADEQ, the agency may return it to the preparer and require that it be properly completed and resubmitted along with a $20 fee (A.R.S. § 49-922.01).

In 2012, Congress passed the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, which required the EPA to create an electronic system for submitting hazardous waste manifests (Public Law 112-195). The e-Manifest system came online in 2018 and the EPA adopted regulations requiring facilities that receive hazardous waste to electronically submit a manifests to the system (40 Code of Federal Regulations § 265.71). In 2019, ADEQ incorporated these submission requirements into its hazardous waste rules (24 Arizona Administrative Register 3146). Consequently, all owners and operators of facilities that receive hazardous waste in Arizona use the e-Manifest system (A.A.C. R18-8-265).

Provisions

1.   Removes ADEQ's ability to require someone who submitted an improperly completed hazardous waste shipment manifest to properly complete and resubmit it with a $20 fee. (Sec. 3)

2.   Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2 and 4)☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note

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