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:
  4 TLSB 5535HV 82
  5 tw/nh/5

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  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.
  1 27 LSB 5535HV 82
  1 28 tw/nh/5