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FROM: Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
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April 18, 1990
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SUBJECT. LEGISLATION: AB 1430 (Eastin)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECONIlWIENDATION
Adopt a position in SUPPORT of AB 1430 by Assemblywoman Eastin
which would create the Hazardous Materials Use Reduction
Institute at the Richmond Field Station of the University of
California at Berkeley and would require the institute to conduct
research, carry out specified training and information programs
and by January 1, 1992 establish and provide for a hazardous
materials use reduction postgraduate education and research
program.
BACKGROUND:
Assemblywoman Eastin has introduced AB 1430 which, as amended
January 25, 1990, would establish a Hazardous Materials Use
Reduction Institute at the Richmond Field Station of the
University of California at Berkeley. "Hazardous materials use
reduction" is defined as in-plant changes in production processes
or raw materials that reduce, avoid, or eliminate the use of
hazardous materials, or the generation of hazardous by-products
per unit of product, so as to reduce risks to the health of
workers, consumers, or the environment, or parts of the
environment.
Hazardous materials use reduction is to be achieved through any
of the following techniques: input substitution, production
process redesign or modification, production process
modernization, improved operation and maintenance controls,
recycling, reuse or extended use of hazardous materials by using
equipment or methods which become an integral part of the
production process.�
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The bill specifies that hazardous materials use reduction does
not include promoting or requiring incineration, the transfer
from one medium of release or discharge to other media, offsite
hazardous waste recycling or any method of treating hazardous
waste at the end of the production process.
The bill establishes a Hazardous Materials Use Reduction
Institute at the Richmond Field Station of the University of
California at Berkeley. The Institute is directed to do all of
the following:
* Provide general information about and actively publicize the
advantages of and developments in hazardous materials use
reduction.
* Establish courses, seminars, updates, guidelines and other
publications, and other means of providing technical
information for hazardous materials users, including small
quantity users.
* Develop and provide undergraduate curriculum and training
for students and faculty on hazardous material use
reduction.
* By January 1, 1992 establish and provide for a hazardous
materials use reduction postgraduate education and research
program for individuals who seek degrees in this field of
specialization.
* Provide onsite technical extension services to help identify
opportunities for hazardous materials use reduction among
hazardous materials user groups and handlers.
* Sponsor pilot projects to develop and demonstrate innovative
technologies for hazardous materials use reduction.
* Provide hazardous materials use reduction training and
assistance to government employees, citizens, community
groups, workers, labor representatives and local government
boards and officials.
* Establish an intensive technology transfer, research and
technical assistance program regarding the most hazardous
materials.
* Study the social, environmental and economic costs and
benefits of hazardous materials technologies as compared to
hazardous materials use reduction practices.
* Establish a competitive grant program for research on
hazardous materials use reduction techniques and materials.
* Conduct research on alternative methods of reducing the use
of hazardous materials, including the reduction of hazardous
materials in product formulation so as to reduce household,
as well as industrial, hazards.
* Provide information on hazardous materials use reduction for
application to the preparation of use and source reduction
plans.
The bill provides that the Institute will be governed by a 13
member advisory committee, composed as specified in the bill.
This advisory committee is directed to set policies for the
Institute and allocate funds to meet the goals and purposes of
the Institute.
The Hazardous Materials Commission has recommended that the Board
of Supervisors indicate its support for AB 1430 since it provides
the necessary academic and intellectual backdrop for hazardous
waste minimization research and dove-tails with the County' s
Hazardous Waste Minimization Program.
cc: Assemblywoman Eastin
County Administrator
Health Services Director
Dr. William Walker; Director of Environmental Health
Marice Ashe, Staff to the Hazardous Materials Commission