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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2024 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT | |
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Introduced By: Senator Louis P. DiPalma | |
Date Introduced: March 01, 2024 | |
Referred To: Senate Environment & Agriculture | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 23-19.1-6 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-19.1 entitled |
2 | "Hazardous Waste Management" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
3 | 23-19.1-6. Powers and duties of the director. |
4 | (a) The director shall adopt any plans, rules, regulations, procedures, and standards as may |
5 | be necessary to ensure proper, adequate, and sound hazardous waste management and to protect |
6 | the health and safety of the public, and the environment from the effects of improper hazardous |
7 | waste management. The plans, rules, regulations, procedures, and standards shall be developed by |
8 | the director with input and review by the affected persons and agencies including the statewide |
9 | planning program, the health department, and representative of the generator, transport, and |
10 | disposal industry as well as an environmental representative. The rules, regulations, procedures, |
11 | and standards as adopted by the director shall, to the maximum extent practical, be compatible with |
12 | the rules, regulations, procedures, and standards promulgated by the U.S. environmental protection |
13 | agency pursuant to §§ 3001-3006 of the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, |
14 | 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq.; provided, however, no plan, rule, regulation, procedure, or standard |
15 | promulgated by the director pursuant to this section, shall require the remediation of occurring |
16 | arsenic in soil, consistent with direct exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per |
17 | kilogram. |
18 | (b) The director is authorized to exercise all powers, direct and incidental, necessary to |
19 | carry out the purposes of this chapter, assure that the state complies with any federal hazardous |
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1 | waste management act and retains maximum control under it, and receives all desired federal |
2 | grants, aid, and other benefits. |
3 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT | |
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1 | This act would not require the remediation of occurring arsenic in the soil with direct |
2 | exposure of less than or equal to twenty (20) milligrams per kilogram. |
3 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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