South Carolina

S742 - Toxic Use Reduction Act -- (pending)





P2 Objective: Establish toxic use reduction as preferred means of waste

reduction.

Numeric Goal: Reduce toxic waste generated statewide by 50% by year 1999.

Assistance Offered: Technical and planning assistance offered by the state.

Reporting Requirements: Annual Report, Toxic Use Reduction Plan and Plan

Summary.

Incentives: Issuance of temporary waivers from environmental law or regulation if

toxic user proposes to comply with the law/regulation via toxic use reduction technique(s).

Funding: Creates Toxic Use Reduction Fund, consisting of fees collected from the

Toxic Use Reduction Institute, Toxic Use Fees, and penalties assessed.  Used to implement the

Act.

Contact: Mike Rowe
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental

Control
Environmental Quality Control Administration
2600 Bull Street
Columbia,

SC 29201
Phone: 803/734-5381



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Definitions


Toxic Use Reduction -- In-plant changes in production processes or raw materials

that reduce, avoid, or eliminate the use of toxic of hazardous substances or generation of

hazardous by-products a unit of product, so as to reduce risks to the health of workers,

consumers, or the environment, without shifting risks between workers, consumers, or parts of

the environment.  Toxic use reduction must be achieved through any of the following techniques:

a) input substitution; b) produce reformulation; c) production unit redesign or modification; d)

production unit modernization; e) improved operation and maintenance of become an integral

part

of the production unit of concern.  Toxic use reduction does not include nor may it in any way be

inferred to promote or require incineration, transfer from one medium of release or discharge to

other media, off-site or out-of-process waste recycling, or methods of end-of-pipe treatment of

toxic as waste.


Toxic User -- Any toxic user who owns any facility that manufactures, processes, or

otherwise uses any toxic or hazardous substance and that is classified SIC Codes 10-14, 20-40,

44-51, 72, 73, 75, and 76.

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