| Chapter 129 |
| 2024 -- H 8071 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 06/17/2024 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT |
Introduced By: Representatives Cortvriend, Bennett, Edwards, and McGaw |
| Date Introduced: March 15, 2024 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. Section 23-19.1-6 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-19.1 entitled |
| "Hazardous Waste Management" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 23-19.1-6. Powers and duties of the director. |
| (a) The director shall adopt any plans, rules, regulations, procedures, and standards as may |
| be necessary to ensure proper, adequate, and sound hazardous waste management and to protect |
| the health and safety of the public, and the environment from the effects of improper hazardous |
| waste management. The plans, rules, regulations, procedures, and standards shall be developed by |
| the director with input and review by the affected persons and agencies including the statewide |
| planning program, the health department, and representative of the generator, transport, and |
| disposal industry as well as an environmental representative. The rules, regulations, procedures, |
| and standards as adopted by the director shall, to the maximum extent practical, be compatible with |
| the rules, regulations, procedures, and standards promulgated by the U.S. environmental protection |
| agency pursuant to §§ 3001-3006 of the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, |
| 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq. The Rhode Island department of environmental management (the |
| department) rules and regulations for the investigation and remediation of hazardous material |
| releases (250-RICR-140-30-1) shall not include any provision requiring the remediation of arsenic |
| which is naturally occurring at levels less than nineteen parts per million (19 ppm). |
| (b) The director is authorized to exercise all powers, direct and incidental, necessary to |
| carry out the purposes of this chapter, assure that the state complies with any federal hazardous |
| waste management act and retains maximum control under it, and receives all desired federal |
| grants, aid, and other benefits. |
| SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on October 1, 2024. |
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