House Bill 0915c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 2000              CS/HB 915

        By the Committee on Environmental Protection and
    Representatives Sembler and Dockery





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to solid and hazardous waste

  3         management; directing the Department of

  4         Environmental Protection to include in its

  5         annual legislative budget request funding for

  6         the Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc.,

  7         to operate and maintain a waste exchange;

  8         amending s. 403.703, F.S.; redefining the term

  9         "storage" and defining the term "hazardous

10         waste transfer facility"; providing an

11         effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  The Legislature recognizes the need for

16  statewide solid and hazardous waste management assistance to

17  Florida's private businesses, industries, and the public

18  sector, including local units of government. In order to

19  assist the Department of Environmental Protection in providing

20  solid and hazardous waste management assistance to Florida's

21  public and private sectors on a continuing basis, the

22  Legislature recognizes the need for a waste exchange as part

23  of the state's comprehensive solid waste and hazardous waste

24  management programs and designates Southern Waste Information

25  Exchange, Inc., a nonprofit Florida organization with

26  tax-exempt status under s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue

27  Code, to provide this service to Florida's private and public

28  sectors. The Department of Environmental Protection shall

29  include in its annual legislative budget request pursuant to

30  s. 216.023, Florida Statutes, funding for the Southern Waste

31  Information Exchange, Inc. The amount of the funding to be

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  1  included in the legislative budget request shall be based on

  2  the department's evaluation of the total funding demands of

  3  the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund and of the funding needs

  4  requested by the Southern Waste Information Exchange, Inc., to

  5  operate, maintain, and expand a waste exchange service and

  6  similar related services as requested by the private sector

  7  and local governments.

  8         Section 2.  Subsection (26) of section 403.703, Florida

  9  Statutes, is amended and subsection (45) is added to said

10  section, to read:

11         403.703  Definitions.--As used in this act, unless the

12  context clearly indicates otherwise, the term:

13         (26)  "Storage" means the containment or holding of a

14  hazardous waste, either on a temporary basis or for a period

15  of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of

16  such hazardous waste. For the purposes of this chapter,

17  references to the terms "storage" and "storage facilities"

18  include management or storage of hazardous waste at hazardous

19  waste transfer facilities.

20         (45)  "Hazardous waste transfer facility" means any

21  transportation-related storage facility, including loading

22  docks, parking areas, storage areas, and other similar areas

23  where manifested shipments of hazardous waste are stored or

24  held for a period of more than 24 hours but not more than 10

25  days.

26         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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