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DTSC reports recovery in hazardous-waste fee receipts after emergency rulemaking; CBCI grants scaled back
Summary
DTSC told the budget subcommittee it identified causes of a shortfall in its new generation-and-handling hazardous-waste fee, implemented emergency regulations and increased outreach; the agency also outlined the Cleanup in Vulnerable Communities Initiative and said funding was reduced and rounds limited.
The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) briefed the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on reforms to the newly consolidated generation-and-handling hazardous waste fee and on the state's Cleanup in Vulnerable Communities Initiative (CBCI), including the Equitable Community Revitalization Grants.
Director Catherine Butler said the 2021 fee reform (SB 158) consolidated prior fee streams into a per-ton generation-and-handling fee assessed to hazardous-waste generators. When the new fee took effect, revenues came in at roughly half the level projected because many…
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