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Committee reviews HS319 rollout: battery stewardship report delay, phased household-hazardous-waste plan, and underground tank changes
Summary
The Natural Resources & Energy Committee reviewed draft language in HS319, including a one-year extension for a battery stewardship report, a phased three-year rollout for the household hazardous waste EPR collection plan, and clarifications to underground fuel storage-tank delivery and state-tank exceptions.
Committee members reviewed multiple sections of HS319 on April 4, discussing implementation timelines and technical fixes for several stewardship and environmental-protection programs.
Staff told members the product stewardship/battery-report requirement will be met by the producer stewardship organization but that the group requested an additional year to deliver the report. The committee recorded that the organization expects to complete and provide the report and staff indicated they would allow the requested extension.
Section 3 — the household hazardous waste extended producer responsibility (EPR) program — was discussed at length. Staff described a two-phase approach: an initial,…
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