House File 2525 - Introduced
HOUSE FILE
BY COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
(SUCCESSOR TO HF 2273)
Passed House, Date Passed Senate, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the disposal and recycling of waste oil
2 filters.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 455D.13, Code 2007, is amended to read
1 2 as follows:
1 3 455D.13 LAND DISPOSAL OF WASTE OIL AND WASTE OIL FILTERS
1 4 PROHIBITED == COLLECTION AND RECYCLING.
1 5 1. A sanitary landfill shall not accept waste oil for
1 6 final disposal beginning July 1, 1990.
1 7 2. A person offering for sale or selling oil or oil
1 8 filters at retail in the state shall do the following:
1 9 a. Accept at the point of sale, waste oil and waste oil
1 10 filters from customers, or post notice of locations where a
1 11 customer may dispose of waste oil and waste oil filters.
1 12 b. Post written notice that it is unlawful to dispose of
1 13 waste oil in a sanitary landfill.
1 14 Sec. 2. Section 455D.13, Code 2007, is amended by adding
1 15 the following new subsection:
1 16 NEW SUBSECTION. 3. A business that generates used oil
1 17 filters or collects used oil filters from a person shall not
1 18 dispose of the waste oil filters in a sanitary landfill and
1 19 shall source=separate and recycle the oil filters.
1 20 EXPLANATION
1 21 This bill relates to the disposal and recycling of waste
1 22 oil filters.
1 23 The bill prohibits businesses from disposing of waste oil
1 24 filters in a sanitary landfill.
1 25 The bill requires generators and collectors of waste oil
1 26 filters to source=separate and recycle the filters.
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