Current Status Bill Number:12 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19950110 Primary Sponsor:Giese All Sponsors:Giese Drafted Document Number:JIC\5020AC.95 Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Medical Affairs Committee 13 SMA Subject:Special waste disposal
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Senate 19950110 Introduced, read first time, 13 SMA
referred to Committee
Senate 19940919 Prefiled, referred to Committee 13 SMA
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TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 5-7-305 SO AS TO PROHIBIT THE DISPOSAL OF SPECIAL WASTE IN A SOLID WASTE LANDFILL OPERATED BY A MUNICIPALITY OR BY A PRIVATE ENTITY UNDER LICENSE FROM A MUNICIPALITY, AND TO DEFINE THE TERM "SPECIAL WASTE" FOR THIS PURPOSE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 5-7-305. No special wastes may be disposed at a solid waste landfill operated by a municipality or operated by a private entity under license from a municipality. Special wastes for purposes of this section are defined as any nonresidential or commercial solid wastes, other than regulated hazardous wastes, that are either difficult or dangerous to handle and require unusual management at solid waste landfills including, but not limited to:
(1) pesticide wastes;
(2) liquid wastes and bulk liquid wastes;
(3) sludges;
(4) industrial process wastes, defined as wastes generated as a direct or indirect result of the manufacture of a product or the performance of a service, including, but not limited to, spent pickling liquors, cutting oils, chemical catalysts, distillation bottoms, etching acids, equipment cleanings, point sludges, incinerator ash, core sands, metallic dust sweepings, asbestos dust, hospital wastes, and off-specification, contaminated, or recalled wholesale or retail products. Specifically excluded are uncontaminated packaging materials, uncontaminated machinery components, landscape waste, and construction or demolition debris;
(5) wastes from a pollution control process;
(6) residue or debris from the cleanup of a spill or release of chemical substances, commercial products, or wastes listed in items (1) through (5) of this section;
(7) soil, water, residue, debris, or articles that are contaminated from the cleanup of a facility or site formerly used for the generation, storage, treatment, recycling, reclamation, or disposal of wastes listed in items (1) through (6) of this section; and
(8) incinerator ash."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.