LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 757, as amended, Pavley. Lead wheel weights.
Under existing law, the Department of Toxic Substances Control is
responsible for administering various programs to control the release
of toxic substances into the soil and groundwater. Existing law
requires, on or before January 1, 2011, the department to adopt
regulations to establish a process to identify and prioritize
chemicals or chemical ingredients in consumer products that may be
considered as being a chemical of concern, as prescribed, and to
establish a process for evaluating chemicals of concern in consumer
products, and their potential alternatives, to determine how best to
limit exposure or to reduce the level of hazard posed by a chemical
of concern. Existing law also establishes the Hazardous Waste
Control Account to be used as specified by the department, upon
appropriation by the Legislature.
This bill would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or installation in
California of a wheel weights that contain
weight that contains more than 0.1% lead. The bill would
provide for injunctive relief, as well as civil and administrative
penalties for violation of that provision, as specified. The bill
requires all civil and administrative fines collected to be deposited
in the Hazardous Waste Control Account for expenditure by the
department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement and
enforce the act.
This bill would also specify that if the department identifies an
alternative to lead contained in wheel weights as a chemical of
concern, then the lead alternative would remain subject to the
evaluation process, as prescribed, to determine how best to limit
exposure or to reduce the level of hazard posed by the lead
alternative.

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