Environmental Health and Safety

Hazardous Materials Management

Report to Cal/EPA Department of Toxic Substances Control
Recommendations of the Laboratory Regulatory Reform
Task Force — 1995

Endorsement Letter

September 1, 1995

Mr. Jesse Huff,
Department of Toxic Substances Control
400 P Street, 4th Floor
P.O. Box 806
Sacramento, CA 95812-0806

Dear Mr. Huff:

I write to request that you endorse and immediately implement the recommendations made by the DTSC's Laboratory Regulatory Reform Task Force in June 1995. These recommendations are environmentally sound and utilize good common sense in providing needed flexibility in the regulation of chemicals and chemical wastes from laboratories. The Department's existing interpretation of the hazardous waste control regulations to laboratory environments has created unnecessary requirements for the on-site management of chemical wastes from laboratories by requiring burdensome administrative procedures that provide no additional benefit for the protection of public safety or the environment.

The recommendations of this task force appropriately and adequately address the primary issues of concern to the laboratory community in the area of hazardous waste regulations management. The Department's immediate incorporation and implementation of these recommendations will help to maintain the viability and vitality of the research and laboratory communities in California.

Sincerely,

cc: J. Strock
P. Wilson

James M. Strock
Secretary
California Environmental Protection Administration
555 Capitol Mall #235
Sacramento, CA 95814

Honorable Pete Wilson
Governor
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814