Senate File 542 - Introduced



                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  COMMITTEE ON NATURAL
                                           RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

                                       (SUCCESSOR TO SF 291)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to a pharmaceutical collection and disposal pilot
  2    project.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 2511SV 82
  5 tm/gg/14

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  1  1    Section 1.  PHARMACEUTICAL COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL PILOT
  1  2 PROJECT.  Of the moneys allocated under section 455E.11,
  1  3 subsection 2, paragraph "a", subparagraph (1), subparagraph
  1  4 subdivision (c), the department shall use two hundred
  1  5 twenty=five thousand dollars for a one=year pharmaceutical
  1  6 collection and disposal pilot project beginning May 1, 2007.
  1  7 The project shall demonstrate how to properly manage and
  1  8 dispose of unused, excess, old, or seized pharmaceuticals
  1  9 through approved techniques that exclude disposal in a
  1 10 landfill and disposal to a municipal wastewater treatment
  1 11 facility.  The department shall award moneys allocated
  1 12 pursuant to this section to a public agency that operates a
  1 13 household hazardous waste regional collection center that
  1 14 serves a minimum of fifteen counties, that is licensed as a
  1 15 reverse distributor by the board of pharmacy examiners, and
  1 16 that is endorsed by the governor's office of drug control
  1 17 policy.  The department shall make the award to a public
  1 18 agency who applies in a manner and according to procedures
  1 19 required by the department.
  1 20    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE DATE.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 21 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 22                           EXPLANATION
  1 23    This bill relates to a pharmaceutical collection and
  1 24 disposal pilot project.
  1 25    The bill allows the department of natural resources to use
  1 26 $225,000 from the solid waste account of the groundwater
  1 27 protection fund for purposes of a one=year pharmaceutical
  1 28 collection and disposal pilot project beginning May 1, 2007.
  1 29 The bill provides that the pilot project shall demonstrate how
  1 30 to properly manage and dispose of unused, excess, old, or
  1 31 seized pharmaceuticals through approved techniques that
  1 32 exclude disposal in a landfill and disposal to a municipal
  1 33 wastewater treatment facility.  The bill requires the
  1 34 department to award moneys to a public agency that operates a
  1 35 household hazardous waste regional collection center that
  2  1 serves a minimum of 15 counties, that is licensed as a reverse
  2  2 distributor by the board of pharmacy examiners, and that is
  2  3 endorsed by the governor's office of drug control policy.
  2  4    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
  2  5 LSB 2511SV 82
  2  6 tm:nh/gg/14